The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-07-23
NEWS ITEMS.

The Louisville journal thinks the cleo
ton this fall will be the last that Kentucky
will ever engage in with negro suffrage ex-
cluded.
A couple in Savannah met for the frst time
on Friday, cOurted on Saturday. and married
on Monday. The groom is seventy five and
the bride fifteen.
About twenty citizens of WapakOneta,
Illinois, went out on Sunday week and
gratuitously cut harvest patches for widows
who had no one to do their work.
On Saturday night, a boy at Dayton,
while carelessly playing with gun, shot
his sister little girl of five years, carrying
away part of her head and causing death
Immediately.
The women of England have "struck for
liberty" They have commenced a series
of woman suffrage meetings in London,
which are to be addressed by many eminent
men who favor this political change.
A Mr.. Vaine, al Watkins Falls, 0herokes
Nation, plowed up keg containing 5000
in Spanish and American coin on his farm
the other day.
A boy named Calvin Gorter, while angling
in the canal at Oincinnatli, few days since,
got what he thought very promising bite.
He cautiously drew in his line, when he
found on the hook a small tin box, which he
opened and found to contain $50 in silver,
$40 in greenbacks and two gold rings worth
about $40 each.
A large number of the fairer sex are as
sisting in the harvest fields in Indiana this
year. The extremely large crops, threaten
ing weather and scarcity of male labor
rendered it necessary that they should do So.
1t is noteworthy that the excessive rainy
weather which has prevailed here, has also
been experienced in England where the
spring has been unusually wet, according to
recent advices.
The Cleveland Publishing and Steam
LithograhiDg Company, located in Cleve-
land, organized for the purpose of engaging
10 the publishing busines, has filed its ar
ticles of Incorporation with the Seer etary oi
State. Capital, $lOO 600, in shares of $IOO
each. The corpOratOrs are s. T. FiersOn,
S. ]. Hobbs, o. B. Perdew, and A. T,
Brimsmade.
General VIM. Steadmsn, of Portage cOun-
| ty who was appointed US. Consul al
Santiago de Cuba, by President Grant, died
at that place, on the 9th inst, short time
after his arrival there. Gen. Steadman had
served several terms in the General Assem-.
bly, of Ohio, and four years in the army
He was faithful, conscientious citizen anC
legislator, and most gallant soldier.
At La Porte, Illinois, three little boys
each about eight years old, while playing
near the railroad track, thought II would b,
highly amusing to see which could lie will
his head nearest to the rail when the train
came along. On the approach Of the trail
down they went. Two of them came out al
right but the third was scalped.
At La Grange, in Stewart county, nea
Fort Donaldson. Tenn, on the 9th, maj
named Grimmet beat out the eyes Of Dr
Scarborough with his fist binding him 70
life. The officers that attempted to ares
him for the crime were both shot by Grimme
and fatally wounded. The desperate the
made his escape.
There will be grand temperance dem
onstration at Urbsns, Ohio, on Thursday
July 18th, in connection Fith the State Con
Yention of the Temperance Alliance. Ad
dresses will be delivered by Hon. Neal Dow
and DR.. P. R. Lees, of England. On tn
afternoon Of Thursday 5 picnic VIII tax
place on the Fair Grounds. Delegates o
arriving are requested to report to Rev. !
A. P. McGaw, when places win be assigne
them.
A sad affair has occurred in Cambri
twenty miles from Mspksto, MINI. DaVi
Griffith and wife were absent from hom
leaving two boys, six and nine years, an
two little girls, one and three years of sg
The boys set ere to straw stack, which I
alarmed them that taking their little sists
, they fed to the woods. Seeing their faith.
| coming, and fearing punishment, they le
the little giris near . small pool of wat
and ran away. About dark the bodies
the little girls were found in the pool ne
which they bad been left, drowned. tt
father vas in the habit of Furnishing b
. children so severely that it was with gre
effort that the boys could be induced TO p
turn home after they were found.
A circplar has been sent by General Cant
to each Of those recently elected to d
: Virginia legislature, inquiring if they CT
r subscribe to the oath commonly called Z
> iriron clad OATH" 1t is found that quoru
can be obtained Of such persons, he W
convene the legislature soon for the PurPo
, Of ratifying the Fifteenth sH1cpdPept to d
$ constitution, and Of elscting United Stat
Z senator's, after which the process Of recul
struction viii be fairly inAugurated. II
not intimatsd what will be done If the On
run cannot be obtained,