The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-01-28
NEWS ITEMS,

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braska.
Two prize fights occurred near St. Louis, on
the 25th, and two brutes were br7Itally whip
ped.
Two nophews of Gen. Pellow, wero assassi-
mated near Leighton, in North Alabama. on
the 9th, by two men in Mosques.
1t is estimated that not more than onc-tcnth
| of all the patented inventions prove valuable
to the projectors or the public.
The Sherman Currency bill will became a
law, it is thought, although it may be discus
ed of for a long time,
1t is now pretty certain that the duty on BIZ
( luminous coal will be reduced to one dollar
per ton. E
Bishop Simpson is to lecture in Toledo on
| Tuesday evening next. His subject: "The
Future of our Country"
Bochefort, the French Iberalist, has been
convicted and sentenced TO q fiDo of 3,OOOfrancs
and six months imprisonment.
Meat, infested with trichina, has been sold
in Louisville, but none of it was eaten, owing
to n timely discovery of its condition.
Margaret Bancon daughter OF Philip Bancon
who died suddenly, at Pittsburgh, few days
since, has been arrested charged with the mur-
der other father, by poisoning.
The Cheese Factory of jackson & Roper,
at Garrettsville, Portage county, Ohio, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday morning. Loss
$4,000; insured for $1,000.
President Grant on the Dist sent into the
Senate the name Of Lieutenant Governor Will
Cumback, OF Indiana, to be Minister Resident
at Portugal, rice Hon. Samuel SbeIlabarger,
resigned.
A Joint resolution will be offered in tho Ohio
General Assembly at an early day providing
for submitting an amendment to the State
Constitution, for ratification, or rejection, CIV
ing the elective franchise to woman.
Young ladies in Cincinnati, who work for a
living,,haye adopted the practice of carrying
books under their arms when they go upon
the street, to mislead young man into the be-
lief that they Go not have to work.
An enterprising journalist got into the BE-
cret session OF the Ecumenical az an Eastern
Bishop in full rig. His Latin betrayed him,
and the Papal police escorted him to prison.
The tailor that made his Bishops robe was
sent to keep him company.
The Coopers in Cleveland, were on a strike
last week. The strikers visited different COO
per shops in the city and their acts were such
as to cause the master Coopers to call upon
the police for assistance. Several of the most
boisterous got glimpse of the inner chambers
of the Jail.
great Cuban victory is confirmed, by in
formation received by the Cuban Junta, on
the 2Oth, agreeing with the report of the
Spanish General PereIlo's defeat, near Guai-
marc, on or about the lst ult. The adyices
state that he was forced to return to Puerto
Principi, after loosing 1900 men.
We have seen very many frightful state.
ments going to show the responsibility OF
intemperance for crime, but nothing equal tc
the official of Lawrence co'ty to the Secretary
of State for 1869. This report shows five
Violent and unnatural deaths-'fe1, of which
were superinduced by intemperance"
George Peabody does not leave so large a
fortune as was generally expected His Eng,
Iish property amounts TO a4OO,O0O, about 81.
100000 in our currency, and his American
estates to less than Sl,OOO,OOO That he should
have given away ten millions OF dollars, and
die worth but little over three millions, is an.
other evidence Of his magnificent generosity
The planet Venus can now be distinctly seen
with the naked eye at midday when the sky is
clear. 1t has reached its period of greatest
brilliancy and seen through the telescope
presents the appearance of a waning crescent
1t is rapidly approaching the sun, and will
reach its inferior conjunction on the 23d OF
February, when it will cease to be an evening
star. ..sI.
A young man named Martin Smith, of West
burg, Long Island, recently met with singu-
lar accident, which resulted in his death. In
J, reaching for something on high shell, in the
house, a knitting needle entered his head at
the corner of his eye, below the ball, making
not the least wound, and drawing no blood
1t occasioned him no trouble until two DAYS
after, when he was taken delirious, and died
in short time. The Physician thought the
needle must have passed through the passage
to the nose and pierced the brain.
A lady in Cleveland sent her servant Girl,
who was 4 Catholic, to the public library to
procure a book, few days ago. The girl took
the book, entitled Austin Elliot. On her way
home, she stopped at the house of her Uncle,
who espied the book, and looking through it, to
see what heretical doctrines might be found
on its pages, found the name of Jesus, which
he read aloud, at the same time thrustiug the
book into the stove, and bursting into storm
of passion, threatened violence to his neice if
he ever saw her with protestant books again.
Miss Mildly Morgan the cuttle-market re-
porter Of the New York Times, Is described
as 3S,years old, six feet four inches high. broad
shouldered, with Z" acres of ancle, and prodig.
ious sole" Notwithstanding the vast aggregate
OF bone and muscle III her composition, there
is no prediction on her part for the woman
suffaage.idea. As she expresses II, there are
ignorant yotres enough already She is an
unquestionably stupendous jewel of woman,
and attends to her reportorial duties amid the
slush and filth OF ofCommunipaw with an energy
and qualification ample for the responsible
position.
A wedding party was unceremoniously IN
terfeled with, in Allegheny city, on the 18th,
inst. A young lady, in that place, was engag-
ed to be married to Reverend, of the NJ. E.
church, in whom she, with her friends, reposed
the utmost confidence Just before the hour
appointed for the ceremony to take place, his
lordship appeared at the Hotel, but had scarce
iy made his presence known, when he was
waited upon by two officers Of the law, and
taken to Limestone to answer complaint of
broken VOWS, made by another lady The
facts which were developed, prove the rever-
end gentleman to be rascal oflong experience,
and the escape OF the young lady to whom he
was to have been married seems most proYi-
dential.
Mr.. Potter has introduced into the Senate a
bill prescribing the salaries of county treasur-
er grading their compensation according TO
the population of their respective colulties-
This bin provides for the payment Of the fol-
lowing compensation and no more, to be grad
uated according to the federal census, to Wit
In counties having less than 10000 inhabi-
tants not exceeding 800; in counties having
more than 10000 and less than 10000, not ex-
ceeding $1,000; in counties having more than
10000 and less than 10000, 81 500; in counties
having moro than 10000 and less than 10000,
! $1,000; in counties having more than 10000
and less than $1,000, sS,OOOi in counties bav-
ing more than 6o,000 and less than 100000,
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