The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-08-12
NEWS ITEMS.


cotton now than it did before emancipation
was proclaimed.
The force at the Charlestown navy yard is
now 1900, and it is reported that the number
VIII soon be increased,
Americans are returning from Europe in the
) greatest haste, and state rooms are engaged
six and eight weeks ahead.
A man named Cupp was found dead in his
bed at Lexington, Sunday. The cause of his
death is unknown.
] A small boy, son OF Samuel Jones, residing
on First street, Dayton, fell into the canal
:. Monday and was drowned.
Horace Greeley has gone from Saratoga to
I the Adirondack region, where he intends to
spend the remainder of the hot season.
Senator Revels has accepted the invitation
to deliver the address at the hoisiing OF a new
United States flag over the Louisville Marine
Hospital on the 2Oth inst.
C. H. Eckert, father of General I. T. Eek
ert, general superintendent of the eastern di-
vison of the Western Union telegraph compa-
ny, died at Piqua, Ohio, on the Sth inst.
A witness in the Milwaukee court being
asked how he knew certain parties were man
and wife, replied: "Why, dog-on-it, I've hearn
'em scold each other morn fifty times" The
evidence was considered conclusive.
The canal stable belonging to Patrick Kill
kenny in Toledo, was entirely consumed by
fire on the night of the 4th, eleven mules were
burned to death. The origin of the fire is un-
known.
A lad named Charles Zimmerman at Delta,
Fulton county, was run over by freight
train and killed, on the Sd inst Sixteen cars
passed over his body, -mangling it terribly. |
This is another warning to boys who practice |
jumping on and off cars, when in motion.
1t is estimated that 100000 persons have
settled in Texas during the last year, and the |
present population will not fall short of l,2OO-
600. Business of all kinds is active, and but |
for the bitterness of political feeling its pros
poets would be unclouded.
A letter from Pere Hyacinth, protesting |
against the declaration of the dogma of Papal |
infallibiity, has appeared and causes great
sensation. The Catholic organs attack the |
letter and its author with much bitterness
The mills Of the Columbus woolen factory |
were burned at about four o'clock on the |
morning of the 4th. Loss about $4,000; in |
surance s25,OOO. A man named Mark New |
man was instantly killed by the falling of one |
Of the walls.
A man named Thomas L. Weston was ta-
ken from Defiance and lodged in jail at Ma. |
poleon, on the 29th inst, to await trial for
outraging the person of little German girl,
only five years old. The excitement of the /
people at Defiance was SO great that he had
to be taken to Napoleon to escape from vio-
A sad fratricidal quarrel occurred near New
vile, Richland county, on Friday night last,
between two brothers by the name of Norris.
It appears that both were engaged in a field,
and being under the influence of liquor, dis
pute of words was followed by blows. One of
them, named William, struch his brother John
with billet of wood causing his death in a
few hours. William has not yet been arrested
While the French Emperor was doing all
in his power to iniure and humiliate the Uni
ted States during the great war of the Rebel
hon, there were two hundred thousand Ger
man-born citizens fighting under the flag of
the Unien, and Offering their lives for the lib
critics of America. These two facts, in them
selves, go far to explain the sympathies of the
American people with Germany in the present
wary. Y. Tribune.
The Democrats in this country appear to be
taking sides with the French in the contest be-
tween France and Prussia. That is bad for
the Democracy--but is in perfect keeping with
all the important movements ofthat party since
the commencement of its downfoll in 1860.
They have scarcely made move on the pol
itical chess board since that time, which has
not been on the wrong side.
A man named Edward Combs, of Chester
field, Fulton county, was instantly killed by
being run over by the cars, at that place, on
the Sd inst He was. crossing the track with
his team, and heard the approaching train in I
time to avoid the danger, but his horses be-
came unmanageable. The engine struck the
body of the wagon crushing it to pieces. The ]
body of Combs lodged on the cowcatcher, and {
his head was crushed in fearful manner !
The New York Tribune says that the popu-
lation OF New York city for 1870 is about the I
same as for 1S6O-Sl4,OOO, and adds: The {
death rate is a sure indication of the number !
of people. Now the whole number Of deaths !
in New York in 1856 was 23,402; in 1850 it 1
was 2,7lO; in 1861 24,S43, andin 1869, p, SOL.
This is enough to show that the resident popu-
lation OF the city has been comparatively sta
tionary; that the Gems is of 1860 was to high, t
and that the figures now coming in will great h
Iv disappoint those who look for million or Y
more of people on Manhattan Is 50 a
The Chicago Post says: "Ws- from !. =
source that an important inter- r
national wedding is to come off on the Doth a
inst. the bridegroom whereof is no less dis Il
inpuished person than Ole Bull, the famous
yioIinist The bride appointed for the occa-
yon is Miss Thorpe, daughter of the Hon J. q .
}. Thorpe, of Madison, Wisconsin, and very b
brilliant and accoplished maiden of eighteen n
Years. Miss Thorpe and her mother are now g 9
-isiting various points in Europe, including al
he house OF Mr., Bull, in Norway, where the C
luptials are to take PLACE. r
ence at their hands. r
The Republican Congressional committee
ave been calculating the effect of the colored ~
-ote upon the election in some of the old bor-
Ier slave states. In Maryland they express A
he hope that the Republicans will cary two NJ
congressional districts, those formerly repre-
ented by Governor Frank Thomas and Hen
Y Winter Davis. In Kentucky there is little Of
respect of a change in the result, although fr,
1e Republican vote will be largely augmented or
some districts. In Delaware they express u ~
,nsdence in gaining enough strength from Bo
10 colored voters to carry the state. gi
The first discovery of iron in the Lake Su- ng
sriOr region is credited to Nj. Lyman Tracy, an an
Chariestown, Mass, in lS46. The first ne
,ocimens of ore sent to Pittsburgh were pro- tn