The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-06-18
NEWS ITEMS.

Hon. William Allen, of GreenFille, Ohio
is favorably mentioned as a candidate for
Attorney General, at the Republican State
Convention, at Columbus, on the 23d inst.
Fifteen Thousand dollars year will pass
for pretty loud call to preacher, even in
these days of liberal salaries; but DR.. Storrs,
of Brooklyn, formerly of Cincinnati, refused
to listen to such call from a Boston church
lately. i1sss o' oE7 hla
The cable dispatches bring news of hor-
rible massacre by the Maori tribe in New
Zealand, in which three entire English fam
lies and forty friendly natives were merci-
lessly butchered, and their homes plundered
and burned.
A young man named Eli Weidman, was
sitting on the doorstep Of his fathers house,
at Canton, Ohio, on Tuesday evening, listen
ing to music on the opposite side of the
street, when he suddenly fell back and was
dead. Z
The Secretary Of the Navy has ordered
the sale Of three more war vessels, which are
no longer needed. This is we'll Let the
Treasury get The benefit Of whatever they
viii sell for, and henceforth be free from sup
porting larger naval force than our absolute
necessities demand.
Chilli follows the lead of Peru in recogniz-
ing the belligerent rights of Cuba, and both
governments will appeal to the United
States government for permission to with
draw the Peruvian pledge not to use the
recently purchased monitors against the
Spanisrds until their arrival in Peruvian.
waters.
An experiment was lately made at the
Theatre de la MOnnaie, at Brussels, of the
application of a substanes intended to render
tissues, wood, cOrdsge, scenes, &C., incom-
bustible, andWas fully successful. The ex-
perimenter walked along in close contact
with the fOotlight, and placed pieces of mus
lin, linen, string, and other inaammable SUBJ
stances, previously prepared, on the lamp
glasses. Not one of them was burned.
The notorious Molly Trussell, who was
sentenced to Imprisonment for life by
Chicago court for numbering her parsmour
in Chicago, few years since, but subse-
quently pardoned because she had sex
perienced a change of heart" has turned up
in San Francisco, where she has twice been
before the police court for assault with
bowie knife, and is now under arrest for be-
l..
ing prOcuress.
After all, the triumph for religious freedom
in the Spanish oortes was not so decided as
has been supposed. The article of the con
stitutiOn as finally adopted has this clause !:
"The nation binds itself to maintain the
worship and the ministers of the Catholic
Church." Liberty of worship for other
sects is guaranteed; but the Roman Catholic
is still to be the State reiigion-and an astute
hierarchy VIII not be slow to improve this
advantage. 'os ls rz'id sE>I
A young man named Charles Nicholas,
had the whole top of his head kicked of, by
horse, at Brooklyn, near Cleveland, on
Wednesday evening. The horse was turned
loose, with halter On, and, after it had roll
ed to its satisfaction, and was about to rise,
Nicholas advanced to take hold of the halter,
when the horse in a playful mood, first
reared, and then turned and kicked with
both hind feet producing the effect stated.
A steam generating apparatus for fire-en.
gines, which, II is asserted, keeps the water
in the boiler constantly hot, at an expense Of
seven cents day, has recently been tested
} by The chief engineer of the Newark IN. j. }
FIRE department. AT The trial an alarm was
communicated by the telegraph, the horses
we're attached, pdlhe steam engine was run
out short dis'aUee. In four and quarter
minutes from the time the alarm had been
given steam was generated and tine stream
of water was playing. tot
] The Elmira Gazette says that recent sx-
perimeDts on the Erie Railroad have demons
trated the utility Of newly applied power
1 for stopping trains. T be compressed air
brake places the entire train under the sole
control of the engineer, who is able to bring
his train to full stop within distance of
six hundred feet while going at the rate of
twenty-fv miles an hour. The services of
brakemen are not required; the engine
driver performs the whole service by simple
manipulation of the mechauiHp Of Che smr
! mOEphsIic apparatus