The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-11-04
NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Moltke, has been created q Count.
Gold has been found in Meriden, Connecti-
cut.
Kurtz's fax mill near Wooster was destroyed
by fire, on the morning of the 9th. Loss
$4,000.
A battle was reported on the 2Sth between
Besancan and Mont Sillard, in which the Prus-
SLAMS were defeated with heavy loss.
The First Congregational Church, at Gene
va, was entered by thieves on tho 26th, and
$500 worth of carpet stolen therefrom.
A jewelry store, at Wellsville, Ohio, was
entered by thieves, on the night of the 25th,
and $4,000 worth of jewelry and gold watches
were stolen.
Mr.. Palmer, tariff was elected to Congress,
from Iowa, over his free trade opponent, by
larger majority than he had two years ago.
Iowa don't go free trade.
Cleveland is getting to be notorious for its
murders. Four wives have been murdered
there within month. The last murder oc-
Cured on Thursday night last, when in a
drunken carousal, Anthony Moren, beat his
wife to death. He was arrested the next day,
and is now in jail.
The body of man supposed to have been
murdered was found on the 10th inst, near
lock IA, Monterey township, Putnam county.
The murdered man is described to be about a
middle sized man, 20 years of age, with san
dy mustache and gotee on each side of his
chin. A man named Neise has been arrested
and is confined in jail to await trial on suspi-
cien of being the murderer.
His serene Holiness Plus TX, has had the
grace to issue new edict setting forth that in
consequence of the occupation of Rome and
the Papal States by the Italian government,
and the consequent uncertainty of the Pope's
future habitat, the reassembling of the ecume-
nical council is indefinitely postponed. His
first experience of the infaIlibIe state having
been the loss of all his powerful friends, the
overthrow of his temporal power, and his con-
demnation to exile within his own capital, it
is not surprising that the Holy Father should
be rather Indifferent as to when the council
reassembles Another summer of such in
fallibillity as the Pope has already experienced
would naturally satisfy any ordinary ambi-
ton.
The people of North Carolina are already
beginning to reap the fruits of electing the
Democratic ticket, and are thinking with all
its imperfections the Republican party is the
best for them. The Raleigh Standard says:
fTThe effect of the election is quite different to
what it would have been if the Republicans
had carried the State. As it is, there are signs
of reroIs,tion everywhere. The Constitution
is to be overturned. A convention is to be
called. One hundred thousand dollars will be
spent by the convention. Officers in high posi-
tons are to be impeached. Strife and discord
will be fomented, and the peace and quiet of
the Sabbath disturbed" It regrets that after
ten years of turmoil, and Just as the people are
beginning to hope for quiet and chance to
work and grow rich, fresh troubles are brought
upon them through party ambition The
Democrats are warned not to call convention
if they desire TO retain control of the State.
The people are already alarmed. They fear
the abolition ofthe homestead provision They
fear property qualification for voters and Office
holders They fear they will be taxed TO pay
for slave property. There are many other
things which they are justly alarmed at,