The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22
NEWS ITEMS.

| boNn ulsEUNEEcl II new nACAANNs
A Cincinnati firm is going to import two
hundred Chinese cigar makers.
The Banking house Of Scott Williams, & Co.
at Columbia, S. C. was robbed Of from $4,000
to $4,000 on the 18th inst
The three candidates for the Presidency now
in the field are Daniel Pratt, George Francis
Train and Victoria c, Woodruff
The smallpox is raging so extensively at
Greenport, Long Island, that persons from
neiQhboring villages refuse to visit that town
on business.
There is offered, through theMayor Of Omaha,
land and money to the amount of $4,000 to
any party putting up up a hotel there, to cost
$50, 900.
The workman Ia the stone quarriss at the
Soldiers Home, have struck upon valuable
vein Of coal oil The discovery hHs created
quite a sensation in Dayton.
A Eortieqlturist who has Travelled all ovel
Warren county, Chic, says she peach e1oI
there viii be plentiful, if no bad luck over.
takes the fruit after this.
A frame dwelling house. at Warren, owned
and occupied By James Crelbertson, was totally
DESTROYED by fire on the 10th inst, Total losf
about 81 100. No insurance.
A fire occurred in Cincinnati. on the 18th
which destroyed the planning mill of Elias
Ester, and damaged two houses adjoining Il &
mill. The loss is about $4,000. Insured for
$4,000
james Ramsey, living between Granville
aud Henneper, Illinois, WAS arrested on the
18th, for violating his daughter, and while be-
ing conveyed to jail, ives seized by mob and
hung.
i Anew born male child was picked up, about
two miles west OF Helart, Ind, on the 18th.
The indications were that it had been thrown
from the cars. II was alive when found but
died soon after.
The safe in the Office of The county auditor
at Newport, yormillion county, Ind, was
broken open on the night of the 18th, and rot=
bed Of $4,000 in currency. No clue has been
obtained Of the burglars.
The Ohio Legislature is moving on Wash
ington. II had a grand jubilee at the close,
and tho men of the House lived over their
boyhoods days again. All the dignity they
ever hod fed from them.
The New York Wall street female brokers,
Woodruff, ClaAin & Co., are about starting a
weekly paper, to support the Woodruff for the
Presidency, and advocate woman's rights and
suffrage.
Cor,o o,a;t,,,a,,t yrae ea,,sad ~ T,,d;,u,,,,l;s
on Wednesday morning, by finding the bodies
o. two infants wrapped IN a sheet in the mill
race, near the paper MIL They had evidently
been there several days.
In the Investigation into his conduct now
progessihgat Washington, General Howard has
already shown that the money he advanced on
the Young Mems Christian Association build
ing came from his private funds.
The nurserymen in Illinois say that the cold
weather which coated the limbs and bodies Of
the trees with ice will cause heavy crop Of
fruit this year. They say the ice will kill the
bark lice and the eggs Of the apple curculico.
Mrs. Mcfarland Richardson lives in the
Richardson home near Newark n. J. No in
timacy exists between her neighbors and her
self She has the wealth she SO eagerly COW
sted the stranger or acquaintance inter
meddleth not with her life
The junction eating house and hotel, be-
longing to Capt Mass, at yincennes, Ind, was
totally destroyed by fire, on the 18th. Thelo
is about $4,000. Insured for $1,000. The
fire is supposed TO have originated from sparks
from passing train.
A fire broke out in the Poof of the infrmary
at Marion, Ohio, on "wednesday afternoon,
entirely destroying the main and out buildings
The loss Is estimated at about $1,000; partly in
sured. Everything Of importance was seeured
from the burning building.
A destructive food occurred, at St. Anthony
Minnesota, on the l4th, oceasioned by brOk-
en- tunnel. Two extensive Touring mills were
undermined, and completely destroyed To
tai loss over $4,000. Il was feared that sov-
eral other valuable mills would be swept away
The tow boat Raven exploaded her boilers,
on the night Of the l4th, Just above the little
Miami depot, at Cincinnati, and Hoated down
! 10 the foot Of Butler street, where she sunk
Twenty three persons were on board: Six OF
eight of whom were found seriously injured
the remainder are still missing.
The plan to cut off election .colonizing," by
fixing Congressional elections in all the states
on the same day, seems to have been fayorably
received in Congress. The House has p1ompt-
ly passed bill providing that such elections
shall all take place on the Tuesday following
the first Monday in November.
Jacob W. Pierce OF Boston, owner OF the
Springfield and London railroad, has signed
an agreement that in the event Of sum ofthirty
thousand dollars being subscribed by response
BILE citizens of Springfield, he viii build the
said road to Columbus by September, 1871. A
canvass is being made to secure the money.
Several fremen were badly burned, while at
the fire IN the Coal Oil tanks, which occurred
in Cleveland last week A pipe leading to one
of the tanks exploded, and the blazing ccn-
tents were thrown over a number of the fire.
men, who were on duty at that point. For
tunately, the injuries received, in no case prov
ed fatal.
sippi, below st. Louis on the 18th A letter
was found on the body signed by F f RASH
leigh, and stating that an unfaithful wife and
financial embarrasmcnts had driven him TO
commit suicide He was a resident Of Cleve-
land, and had been connected with the Editor
isl staff, of the Herald and Plain Dealer.
San Francisco was visited by another earth
quake shock on the ID inst No damage was
done to life or property, but great excitement
was occasioned, for a few moments At the
Merchants Exchange the usual stampede took
ulace. In the Board Of Brokers however. the
bulls and bears retained their seats, with de-
FAINT composuro. One lady rushed like a deer
through tho center of the street towards the
western portion OF the city.
We learn from the Pittsburg Gazette that
tbe work Of railway extension along down the
right bank of the Ohio river is bound to result
in success after time. From Benaire to
Marietta large sums nre already spent and it
is said that the whole eighty miles could be
put iu running order within a year and half
coming Another company has been oTgapi7e
fOr the extension frum Maiette to IrOntm.
Thence to Cincinnati, IN immediate aFgnAiss.
ton is contemplated.