The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-01-21
NEWS ITEMS.
Mississippi has adopted the iif-

teenth AmendE4ent,
Rhode Island has done likewise
The Kansas State Senate ratified
the fifteenth Amendment on Thurs
day the 18th.
The vote Of but one more State
Is required, for the adoption Of the
10th amendment.
Tho Stanton fund has reached
100000, and will probably be con
siderably increased
Jim Mace and Tom Allen are
to have prize fight on the 10th Of
April next.
Prince Bonaparte has had din
Guilty with journalists before. IN
1850 he fought a duel with one. in
1886, he killed one aud wounded
two policemen sent to arrest him.
The Congressional Temperance
Society, in Washington, has been re-
.viyed. The Vice President, and
quite a number Of congressman are
taking lively interest in its support.
The franking fraud is used by
both tue political parties to distrib-
ute letters, speeches, posters, and po-
litical documents, at The public cost.
This is all wrong. Each party
should tax itself and not the common
treasury, to carry on its warfare.
"A train on the Cleveland Mt,
Vernon and Delcware road, ran in
to a team on the &3th, at the private
crossing of the Akron Iron Com
| pany. The horses were injured so
that they had to be killed, the driv-
er, was thrown from the wagon and
considerably bruised.
A stonewall 100 feet long, and
30 feet high, in therear of the build
ings on Third St, Cincinnati, fell
on the morning of the 18th. Three
persons were severely injured by the
falling stone, The disaster was
caused by the great rain the night
previous.
"A gentleman who has Just ar
rived in New York from the Cuban
insurgent army says there are about
sixty thousand patriots in the field
two-thirds of them armed with rifles
che rest with shot guns and muskets
They have fair supply Of ammuni-
ton, but very little artillry.
"A Western paper describes tho
manner of love-making practiced a
mong some ofits readers in the fol
lowing paragraph THE young
people who were seen feeding eacI
other, dove fashion, over the gate
post the other evening, had better
be a little more tious in the future
Twenty years ago a Connecticut
man left a watch in q jewelry store tc
be cleaned and repaired, saying that
he would be in town in a day or two
and call for it. Last week a mar
called in at a jewelers. and asked
"Do you remember my leaving ;
watch with you q number of year.
since to be cleaned "Yes," repliRj
the ieweler, and ~here it is.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania
lately voted not to print the Cover
nor's Message in pamphlet form, fol
the reason that every newspaper in
the State had printed it within q
week after its official PRONUNCIATION
This was sensible as well as. .ccouo-
mical. If this wise example were
initiated by our legislators at Wash
| ington, millions of dollars would be
annually saved to the Government
A married gentleman,eve time
he met the father of his wife, com
planned to him Of the ugly temper
and disposition of his daughter. At
last, upon one occasion, becoming
weary Of the grumbling of his son-in
law, the old gentleman exclaimed:
you are right: she is an imperti-
nent jade, and if l hear any more
complaints about her, 1 will disin-
herit her. The husband made no
more complaints.
From Sadlier' sCathoHcDircctorg
we learn that there are in the Unittd
States seven provinces, with seven
arehbishops, forty-eight bishops,
three administrators of vacant sees.
and four mitred abbots. There are
nearly 200 priests, as we Judge from
a careful computation, as no sum
maries are given, There are pro
baby about two-thirds as many
churches; and religious Institutions,
colleges, converts, academies, and
hospitals in surprising numbers.
"A Bill has been introduced in
the State Legislature for the protec-
ton ofrailroad passengers by aprons,
or flexible bridges, between the plat
forms Of passenger cars, Similar
devices are in use on many leading
lines Of railway, and fatal accidents
thus prevented. Those travelling by
train who have had occasion to pass