The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-06-18
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CHAMrAIeE County, O.-The Champaign
county Live Stock Association, st its sale
on The stR inst sold $4,000 worth of cat
tie, and 81, $50 worth of horses. Danie
c. Hit, hiss been appointed Postmaster o
Urbana. Mr.. Hit lost an eye in the war.
..Msjor ThOrne and Ida May, two csIebra-
ted trOtters, made their mile in 2:5s, Over
the Downing Track. on the sth.
VAN WERT COUNTY, o. Jacob Harris
horse fell with him, while passing over q
board crossing in Van Vert, recently, and
broke Mr.. H's leg : GAL Miller, for assault
and battery with intent to kin John HOnck,
and an assault and battery on William and
Henry Honck, was bound over to corut, by
Justice Glenn, in the sum Of $500, few
days since. Mr., Miller is bruiser, and in
other engagements bit off one mans nose
and another mans ear.
ERIE CoUNrE.-Ths prospect for fne
crop of grapes ia good The Register says
Sandusky city is in possession of gang OF
thieves and burglars who are ransacking the
place. :. Henry Beebe, Esq, long proprietor
of the Besbe House, Elyria, has bought the
Perry House, Put-in-B Bay -. Cap. Monk has
built and set afOat at Sandusky, already
this season, three steamers, besides finishing
the schooner Merry.
HANCOCK COUNTY, o.--The temperance
movement still continues to agitate the citi-
zens of Findlsy, and the sum Of $4,000 has
already been raised to help the cause.-.--..
Wool, to the amount of about q, 900 pounds
has already been bought in the Findlay
markets. Prices range from 3s to 42 cents
per pound, The Decoration of Soldiers
graves at Findlsy, took place on Saturday
last Seventeen narrisge license were is
sued in the county during the month of May.
The total valuation of taxable persOnable
property in the county is set down at s2.-
81 1893.
WOoD COUNTY.--The citizens of Bowling
Green are preparing for the celebration of
the coming Fourth of July. Hon. Cooper
X. Watson, of Tifin is expected to make
the Grafton. -. Considerable excitement was
occasiOned in Perrysburgh, lately, from the
fact that the County Commissioners had
commenced to tear down the Jail at that
place. Latest accounts state that warrant
had been issued for the arrest of j. W. Reid
and others for breaking through the wall of
the Jail. Reid has been arrested aud the
officers are after the others - Mr. Eberleys
boot and shoe store, at Perrysburgh, was
entered on Wednesday night and some of the
goods taken 49, Reports from different parts
Of the county show considerable damage by
the recent hail storm.
SENECA OoUNTY, o. Two men named
Lake and johnson were arrested in Tifin, on
the 4th for breaking into the house of Charles
Laubach, Of Crawford county, and stealing
from forty to fly dollars. They were COM
mitted -. Mrs. Beever, who had charge of
loom in the Tifin WoOlen Mills, while fix
ing some threads, on the Sd inst, was struck
on the head by the shuttle, which flew out
of the loom, and knocked insensible. She
is recovering For refusing to pay debt,
and for the use of abusive epithets, one
Elizabeth Grimes was before the Mayor Of
Tifiin, on the I'd and was glad to get away
by the payment of bill, fine and costs. -
On the nightof the Sd, box containing six
dozen quart fruit cans was stolen from j. F
Marquardt's store, in Tifin..-. There are
tWenty-one candidates for official honors, in
Seneca county.
WILIIAMsJOUSrr, GA West Unity
correspondent of the Bryan Press says there
is hard time cOmming for the farmer The
late rains brought wheat and clover in very
fast and kept corn back, SO much so that be-
fore the corn is half worked farmers will be
obliged to make hay. Glover is in bloom
and wheat is headed. Within three weeks
clover must be cut, and the 4th of July will
find many in the harvest fields. Many
farmers have not yet planted their corn, but
good crops have been raised from seed plant
ed on the 18th, and first rate on the 10th of
y uAOs 10 4 ICoo 0OOo uOb uEhW n V6TY
inviting picture Of the morals of Bryan. 1t
says: zone evening of last week, full in the
shade of the Hickory flagstaff on the, 'Kor.
ners, four prominent parties of this village,
Lawyer, Physician, a Manufacturer, and
Merchant, we're squatted on the sidewalk
playing Seven up Gathered around them
and blocking up the way, was crowd of big
and little un's of all sizes and compilations,
eagerly watching the game, and passing COM
meuts upon it, not in all cases unmixed with
blasphemy."
LAKE COUNTY, O.-PainesviIle offers a re-
ware of $3.50 fer the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons who set fire to the barn
of Dr.. Psrmly on the nightof May 29th.
Burglars are committing their depreciation
in va.iOus parts of the county with varying
success. The AdUertissr gives the following
case of absent miudedness: "The latest
case on record is that of a man who applied
to our Probate Office on Thursday for
license. Being asked the christian name of
his intended, he replied that he lcpe1o but
could not think. Leaving the office, he went
into the hall and there put his head through
a course Of scratching, trying to 1italize his
aged and dormant brain Che was quite old,
aud badly crippled) but in vain. Finally an
original idea ratified in his head and his de-
tsrmined to have it made out for Eliza-and
if the name was not right it could be changed.
Acting upon this sspient idea, the document
was duly made out signed and sealed, and
the to be happy man, left for the rural dis
trict, leaving his license on the desk, where
it remains to this writing. II he ever was
believer in the doctrine that true love runs
smooth, his trials and mishap will shake his
faith in that dogma"
RICHLAND COUNTY, o.. George Dackert
and Lewis GrabiIl, of Mansfield, got into a
row on Sunday morning, the 9Th inst, and
injured each other seriously. Dackert at
tempted to cut Grabill with knife, which
the latter managed to take away from him
aud with which he struck Dackert on the
head several times knocking him senseless,
and the blood flowing from him profusely.
Grabin was arrested, and the wounded man
taken care of. His injuries were not con-
sidered serious .---T The buildings for the
new paper mill, at Mansfield, have been
completed. The machinery is to be put in at
once, and the works are expected to be in