The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-07-15
NEWS ITEMS.

The State Trial Of Mowers and Reapers was
concluded at Mansfield on the 9th.
Thirteen buildings were destroyed by fire,
at Pontiac, H., on the night of the 9Th. Loss
$4,000.
A fire at Larue, Marion county, on Friday,
destroyed property worth $4,000, on which
there was insurance to the amount of S12, 1000.
One hundred and twenty tons Of silver ore
was last week shipped to Newark, New Jer-
sey, and eighty tons to Sacramento from the
Cottonwood mines, near Salt Lake.
Persons who prefer stale bread can have
their taste gratifed by sending to Ponpeii,
where they have loaves which were bazedover
eighteen hundred years ago.
Red Cloud has reached the prairie, and now
an Indian war is imminent. The reports give
no idea of the motives for the war which seems
impending, nor whether the whole Sioux ma
ton is likely to take part in it.
VIM. Folliot, the last of the Skinner murde-
rers at Cleveland, has been arrested in Chica-
90. For this murder Lewis Davis was hung,
Thomas Mulhau is in the Penitentiary for life
John Kilfoyl for fifteen years, and Robert Nc
Kenna and John L. Butterfeld, for five years
each, and now the only remaining will pay
the penalty of his crimes.
The Currency bill, as finally agreed upon in
the Conference Committee, provides for the
withdrawal of S45,OOO,OOo of the three per
cent notes, the issue of S45,OOO,OOO additional
National Bank circulation, redistribution of
s25,OOO,OOO of National Bank capital, from the
States having more than their quota, and free
banking on a gold basis.
Mr.. jefferson Davis made q little Sunday
school speech at Memphis, the other day, COM
mencing with "Friends! there was time
when could say FelIoso Citizens" Imagine
Lucifer getting up before an audience of Ser
aphims and calculating, :FriendSt-there was
a time when I could say FelloI0-Angels"
But why couldn't Lucifer say 50 now? Be-
cause he was kicked out of the angelic fellow
shin for treason against theaven.-Xenia Torch
light.
The Madrid people are innocent. An elder
" gentleman last week had his eyes suddenly
covered in the streets by some one behind,
who playfully said, ''WhO is it? Guess:' He
went on guessing through the round of his
friends, when the playful being behind darted
off, and left the old gentleman Of Spain still
bewildered and thinking who it could be. de
found out when he got home, and missed
pocket-book with fifteen hundred francs init,
also a gold repeater and handsome chain and
seals.
The investigation of the charges against
General Howard, has resulted in his complete
exculpation Mr.. Bradley, the counsel for
Fernando Wood, who took the responsibility Of
making formal accusation, based upon the
statements so long and 50 confidently bruited
about by General Howard's enemies, early dis
covered that he had no case. After listening
to half dozen witnesses or so Of the sceeders
from the Congregational Society, in which DR..
Bovnton. and General Howard were at vari-
anoe. the prosecution was effectually abandon
ed.
From the Wheeling Intelligence of Monday,
we learn that on Friday evening last, there
was a heavy rain at Steubenville which lasted
only an hour, but in that time it flooded the
citv. filing cellars, and in some places almost
compelling families to leave their houses. One
boy named Andrew Anderson, while driving
a COW through hollow in the suburbs, at
tempted to cross a stream, and was swept of
! his feet and carried with the stream about one
mile to the river, where his body was swept
upon sand bar terribly cut and bruised An
other boy Is reported as being drowned, A
colored man, while driving two horses across a
bridge opposite the city, in Virginia, during
the storm, the bridge gave way to the pressure
of water while his horses were on it, and the
horses were drowned and the man narrowly
escaped