The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-05-13

: On Friday night an unknowR man was
found drowned in the Ohio river a short dis
tance below North Bend Indiana, and on
Sunday another was found on the Kentucky
shore, a short distance below Cincinnati
An accidental explosion of nitro glyeerine
occurred in tho Midland Railway tunnel,
near Huntsboro, New York, on tho 9Th inst.
A workman was blown three hundred feet
into tho air and torn to pieces.
A week ago, 1900 pounds Of strawberries
arrived in San Francisco market, and wero
sold at from % to 30 cents box, and even
then they were spoken Of as '.kept back by
the cold weather" Santa Clara Yelly is the
strawberry bed of California
Mice got into the desk in John Deimer's
meat shop, at Napoleon, g few days ago set
fire to a match and tho match TO some Dapers.
and but for the timely discovery which follow
ed might have laid another portion Of that en-
terprising town in ashes.
Mr.. Edward Ridgeway, OF Liverpool. Medi-
ua County, has had five cows and one horse
poisoned for him, recently. About q year aqo
he hunted down a notorious horse thief named
HopwoOd, and had him convicted. II Is
thought Hopwood's friends did the poisoning.
The Richmond Capitol was built. it is STAT |
ed, in the days Of the Revolution. The tim
bers had become warped, decayed and pull
verised by age, so that the weight of three
hundred people was too much for their endur- /
ance, and all Richmond moulus the result.
It is rumored that an investigation has
been ordered, from Washington, in the Office
of Michael Scanlon, Assessor, and his man
agement in the affairs of the Third Internal
Revenue District, which is said to be con-
Quoted in violation OF orders.
A Obstructive hail storm visited Philadel-
phia on the Sth inst. For nearly thirty min
utes there was a continuous fall OF hail stones.
from the size Of a pea to six and seven inches
in circumference. Severed thousand dollars
worth OF property was destroyed.
The insurrection which lately broke ont at
Filadelia, in southern of Italy. was con-
fined to that immediate locality and was by no
means formidable. The latest newsannounces
the dispersion of the insurgents by the govern
ment army without serious difficulty.
An attempt was made few evenings aao
to garrote Colonel James Fisk, Jr., but inst
as the villain threw his hand around fbe
Coionel's neck his servant, gigantic neoro.
who was a few PAGES in the rear Of Prince
Erie, seized the garroter and hurled him into
the street.
Tennis extensive bamboo paper mills. at
Bloomfield, New Jersey, were DESTROYED by
fire on Wednesday night, together with all the
machinery. Loss, 100000; mostly insured.
A boiler and revolving cylinder in the mills
exploded, throwing fragments in every direo-
ton, and seriously injuring man several
hundred feet distant
number Of Boston men will start on tbe
23d of May on an excursion to San Francisco.
An equal number Of ladies viii accompany
them. Capital to the amount of s5O,OOOO0O
viii be represented, and all the arranqements
are to be on the most elaborate scale. Nine
cars, fitted up with restaurants, sofas, beds.
billiard tables, &c, havebeen built expressly
for the occasion.
A proposition to change the weight of the
silver coinage, except the whole dollar, IS
imbodied in bill introduced by Mr.. Mercur
in the House Of Representatives. It provides
that ffty-cent pieces shall be coined weighing
l6S grains, and twenty-fve-cent pieces of
weight. The fneness to be
the same vs the present coin.
The Cincinnati Ga-etts says: "a beautiful
custom has recently sprung up among the in
fants Of this metropolis OF plunging headIong
from the windows in the upper stories of the
parental dOmiciles into the streets. A bov
four years old performed this feat successfully
last Saturday, from the second story of a house
on Elm street, near Findlay, and alighted un-
hurt. When she who bore him rushed fran
tically to the spot where he struck, with
broom, to sweep up the remains of her little
darling, the young rascal Is reported to have
placed his tumb upon his nose and caused his
chubby fingers to gyrate rapidly, at the same
time exclaiming, in the language of the gentle
man frOm Massachusetts,, 'Shoo, hyl don't
bodder me-