The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-05-20
NEWS ITEMS.

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New York went Democratic at the recent
elections by a large majority.
Miss Kellogg is about TO make concert
tour through the United States.
The removal Of tho National Capital is
again being agitated.
Hamburg Iowa, was visited by heavy ere
on the 10th, and most of the town destroyed.
Suits against ex-collectors for auearages,
are to be brought The amount Of arreamges
is about sS,OOO,OOO
! BY order Of Secretary Bolkuap. the expenses
OF the war department have been reduced
81, ,339,973
The city ofBufalo has contracted ior the con
struction Of the Holly Water Works for that
city.
Success lies behind the door Of cxertion,
and the man who would win success must be
a constant worker.
\ patent stove iointer machine, in the shop
Of Clark, Payne Il Co, Of Cleveland barsted
on Tuesday last, killing one man and severely
iniuring another.
The town Of Henderson, North Carolina,
was nearly destroyed bo FIRE, on the 18th 1t
was the work of an incendiaIy, and the loss
?, incurred amounted to $4,000
Two osons Of Belialo have been arrested in
a New Hampshire town fordisturbing church
They talked loud, passed around bottles of
whisky, and pelted the minister with apples
The New York Legislature recently passed
a most infamous swindle called the Arcade
Railway Bill, but Gov Hoffman, although it
was essentially Democratic measure, vetoed
the bill
Upon the marriage Of one OF her compani-
ons, little girl about II years old of the same
school, said to her parents, 'Why, don't you
think Amelia is married, and she hasn't gone
through fractions YETI
E Phillips, Esq, late President Of the
Lake Shcre and Michigan Southern Railway
Company, is TO be President Of the Boston
and Albany Railroad, of which he was once
Superintendent
The death of Theodore, son OF Henry Clay,
is announced at the Lexington !unatic asylum.
Fifty years ago he was placed III that institu-
ton, and remained an inmate up to the time
of his death.
The corner stone Of a new Jewish Temple,
was laid at Columbus, on the afternoon Of the
| 18th. A large number of citizens and visitors
witnessed the ceremony, which was conduct
cd by the Masonic fraternity.
German savants record that great changes
are apparently taking place on the surface of
the planet Jupiter Recent observation seems
to confirm the theory that this planet has an
individual brilliancy OF its own quite indepen-
dent of the sun.
The confidence game was played Oh "unsus-
pecting" youth, at Cleveland OIL Friday last.
Two strangers, genteel and wealthy, and so
plausible, succeeded in borrowing from him
s., 800 on the strength OF a check for $4,000,
and then cleft him alone in his glory
The House committee on military affairs
have agreed to report bill for the equaliza-
ton OF bounties, which gives eight and one
third dollar to each soldier for every month Of
service, deducting the amount Of bounties pre-
viously received under former acts of Congress.
A Kentucky man heard sounds of agitation
proceeding from his chicken-coop, and dis
charged a musket in that direction, running a
fifteenth amendment. He viii lie acquitted
on the ground that the threatened loss of his
chickens rendered him temporarily insane.
The Fifteenth Amendment was for the first
time operative in New York on Friday last.
The col ored people were enrolled without re-
ference to property qualification. One thous-
! ,.sI -
ers were registered, and larger list was ex-
pected to be made on Saturday.
A through line of sleeping coaches between
New York city and St. Louis, to run via New
York Central Railroad, Cleveland, Crestline
and Indianapolis, is to be established on the
first of June. A through line is also to be in
augurated on the same date between Louisville
and Rochester, via Cincinnati, Crestline and
Cleveland.
The steamer War-Eagle, lying at La
Crosse, Wisconsin, was destroyed by fire on
the 10th. A barrel Of kerosene commenced
leaking, was discovered and an attempt made
to stop It, when boy passed with a lantern
the bottom of which fell out, and the boat was |
instantly in a blaze. The fire spread to the
warehouse of the Milwaukee and ST. Paul /
Railroad and the Elevator buildings, both of
which were destroyed. Four lives were lost.
John McGirk, aged nearly fifty years, was
found dead in a shanty on Bond Street,
Cleveland, on Monday last. As there were
marks on his body, and he and John Herman
had been on a spree together, Herman was
arrested, but post mortem examination
revealing the fact that he was little else than
a mass of corruption, and liable to have died
at any moment, Herman was discharged.
Cleveland turns out to be one of the most
important petroleum markets in the world.
The TitusyiIle Herald, whose authority in oil
matters no one thinks of questioning, has fig
CURED up the matter, and finds that for the
four months ending April 50th, the amount of
crude oil shipped to Cleveland was about
third of the entire product Of the oil regions,
and 10000 barrels more than was sent to New
York or Pittsburgh.
On the 10Th instant collision occurred en-
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, between a pas
senger train bound east, and a western bound
freight train, near Eureka, twenty-eight miles
west of St. Louis, by which fifteen or twenty
persons were killed, and some thirty wounded,
many OF the latter, probably, seriously if not
fatally. These terrible disasters are constant
reminder that the public needs more stringent
laws for regulating the running Of railroads
The Ohio State MUSICAL Association will
hold its second annual session in Smiths Opera
House Mansfield, Ohio, commencing on Mon
day, May 2Sd, at . o'clock P. NJ, and eontinu-
ing in session five days, under the direction of
Mr.. Solon Wilder, of Boston, Mass. In ad-
lition to home talent, the Committee have Sc
cured eminent musicians from abroad, includ-
ing Curriers' Orchestra, of Cincinnati-em-
Draciug sixteen instruments. There will be {
,ne matinee and three concerts.
Governor Senter has issued proclamation
the ratification OF the new con- t
Ititution OF Tennessee by a majority of o.
80. The convention which framed the new
instrument assembled at Nashville on the q
10Th day of January last, and completed its +
abors on the 2Sd of February. Its work
vas submitted to the people on the 26th of J
March. and is now the organic law of the a
tate. This constitution includes universal I
71ffrage as one of its provisions and is about I
he only southern constitution that does SC,
. Al nav. .,rE Of ifs citizpus