The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-15
NEWS ITEMS.

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The general appropriation bill passed the
House on the 9th.
Commissioner Delano has forbidden the pub
ication of income returns,
Otterbein University, recently destroyed at
Westerville, is to be located at Dayton.
james Mills, formerly Of the Pittsburg Post,
took charge of the Ohio Statesman on the 9lst
ult
The amended Soldiers Orphans Home bill,
passed the Senate on the 9th, and was sent to
the House for concurrence.
Brick Pomeroy's Democrat, of March 9lst,
has an article urging the assassination of the
President.
A fire at Three Rivers Canada, on Sunday
night, burned mills, machine shops and lum-
Der to the amount of s25O,OOO.
General Steedman, ,of Toledo, delivered u eulo-
gy upon the life and character Of Gen Thom-
as, at Whites Hall on Monday evening last.
S. y. Pike proposes to build an immense
Hotel and Opera House, at Cincinnati. But
Cincnnstians do not appear disposed 10 assist
much.
The colored men were not allowed to vote
in Connecticut. The registry law prevented,
inasmuch as the proclamation was issued at
so late date.
Boston some time since, instituted a number
of public baths, with the most salutary results
New York in now being agitated upon the
same subject.
The Empress Eugenie is constantly prey
to great terror on account of the anonymous
letters which she receives in regard to a plot
said to exist for the purpose of poisoning her
son, the Prince Imperial.
Commissioner Delano recently received a
package containing whisky stamps of the val
ue of S465.5O, which the sender stated he had
stolen from the Collector of the Second Ohio
District
There are rumors Of disagreement among
the agents Of the principle railroad lines from
the Eastward, and probable reduction Of
freight and passenger rates during the summer
months
A fire at Muskegon, Michigan, on the 9Th,
inst destroyed the dry goods stock of Mr. H.
Donahoe d Co., valued at $4,000, and insured
$4,000 The owners of the building lost
about $4,000. Insurance $4,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder, of Allegheny town
ship, Armstrong county Penn, one hundred
and six years of age, died very suddenly while
dressing Her maiden name was Painter, and
she was born near Carlisle
In Circleyille, Ohio, on Monday, the Demo
cratic judges persistently refused to allow Co
lored men to-vote in all the wards save one,
the South. About 100 of such presented
themselves at the polls of the other three
wards.
Bedford county Penn, is prolific in highly
perfumed animals called "skunks." One man
in St. Clair township drew on the treasury Of
the county for premiums on the scalps Of one
hundred and sixteen of these sweet scented
creatures.
The name Of Eyre seems to be unfortunate
in modern Britishhistory. Governor Eyre, Of
Jamaica, will ever be odious for procuring the
legal murder of Carbon. Captain Eyre, of the
Bombay, Will stand as monster through all
time for his inhuman conduct towsrd the
Oneida.
Mrs. solomon Haley, Of Springfield, O., is
dangerously i'll with the hydrophobia Her
husband died of the same disease on the 2Sd
ult., from the effects Of a bite received I'VE
years ago, 1t is supposed that the wife, in her
constant attendance upon her husband, re-
ceived some of the virus into her veins, in
handling the bed-clothes.
Canton knows, how do it, They are agitat-
ing for a Pittsburg, Canton and Chicago rail-
way. Canton wants to draw the trade of those
two villages. Thereupon they hold meet
ing, and one firm-Aultman IL Co.-heads the
subscription With 100000. About a quarter
of a million was subscribed at the meeting
Advices from Barcelona, Spain, state that,
troubles have broken out there, with renewed
violence. The rioters, have thrown up barri.
Gales a short distance out OF the city, and af-
fairs assume threatening aspect. The captain
General has notiled the government that he is
not strong enough to attack them, and is
awaiting reinfoTcements.
Forty-two years ago, a young girl, now the
wife OF Joseph Bechtal, OF Ashland, Ohio, says
an exchange, while eating fish, got in her
throat bone an inch long and about the thick
ness of an ordinary sewing needle. She refus-
ed to submit to surgical o. Grafton for its ex-
traction and the bone remained in her throat
until Wednesday of last week, when in fit
of coughing, it became loOsened and few out
of her mouth.
A till disseminating the treednen's Bureau
passed the House last week. The bounty
and hospital work is transferred to the War
Department, and the educational work to the
Bureau Of Education of the Interior Depart
ment. All funds now remaining in the TTea-
surv to the credit Of the Freedmen's Bureau
and all property intrusted to the Commissioner
for its benefit are also transferred to the Bu-
reau OF Education. The bill provides, further,
that all buildings, constructed or repaired, in
whole OF in part, by the Freedmens Bureau,
and now held by municipal or State authors
ties, societies. corporate bodies or trustees, for
educatiqpal purposes, or funds arising from
their rental or sale, shall be forever applied to
and used for such purpose, and said bodies
and institutions must report yeaFly to the Blu.
yeRu Of Education,