The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-07-01
but " cracklins."
NEWS ITEMS.

road track at Mansfield Ohio, Tuesday night,
was run over by a locomotive.
Indiana leads the score. Her Treasurer on
Monday left for New York with checks suf-
fcient to take up the balance of the state debt.
This is the result of honest Republican admin
istration.
Near Knob Noster, in Missouri, on the 25th,
two men engaged in quarrel in wheat field,
when one named Jordon, struck the other,
named Bailey, on the back with a scythe blade
which entered his heart, causing instant
death.
Mr.. jerome Napoleon Bonaparte, the son of
Jerome, King of Westphalia, and, consequent
ly, the nephew of the first Napoleon and
cousin of Napoleon Ill, the reigning Emperor
of France, died on Friday at his residence in
Baltimore, in the sixty-ffth year OF his age.
At Toledo, on Saturday, boy named Jerry
Goatsey was drowned while bathing, and on
Sunday German named Moser, but usually
called Bosthalter, road a horse to water in
Swan Creek, near Lenk's brewery, and the
water being deep, and the horse by some sud-
den motion throwing Moser of, he was drown
ed.
The last Ravenna Demucyat mentions the
prevalence of milk fever among the COWS in
Shalersville-many animals dying with it.
We have noticed similar reports from other
sections, and loss of cows by the disease. 1t
is stated that cows affected show no signs of
sickness, frequently, till they are attacked
violently, and live but few hours after.
Hon. A. Campbell is the delegate to Eng
land from Ottowa. It is understood that his
instructions are to demand of the home gov
ernment full indemnity for damages OCCASION
ed by the late Fenian raid, and safety for the
future. England will never have a better op-
portunity to get nd of this western elephant
than the present, and if Ottawa believes she
will expend dollar in indemnifying her for
losses sustained by the Fenian raid, our hat
for it, she will find herself much mistaken.
Carroll, the convict in the Ohio Peniteutiarv
who killed Rauth, last summer, and has since
been confined in an iron cell, awaiting fhe
action of the Common Pleas Court of Frank
lin County, on an indictment for murder,
managed to cut his way out of the cell, but
was stopped by the keeper, whose revolver |
looked too threatening, and he was Obliged to |
crawl back into his cell. The keeper R. D.
Jones, has been highly commended by the |
Warden for his coolness, and intrepidity in
the escaping desperado
The rise in the price of wheat in the princi
pal grain ports on the lakes, is noticeable |
feature OF the times. The rise at Milwaukee |
was 23c in two weeks, and 4Oc above the prices
of last winter and spring. There is a triple
reason for this. The cable announced an
alliance between Egypt and Russia against
Turkey. II war should ensue, sources of
grain supply would be closed. The cable al
so announced that the French government
was buying grain in the English market.
Besides these influences, the weather, in some
parts of the grain districts, has not been pro-
pitious.
An explosion of nitro-glycerine took place
in Worcester, Mass, killing Timothy Crowan,
an Irishman, and injuring about thirty other
persons, uone of them dangerously. Twelve
houses were demolished, and many others bad
" shattered. The shock was felt all over the
city. Bells were rmg, and crockery and furni-
ture broken half mile distant. The cause
was some nitro-glycerine in a car intended for
the Hoosac Tunnel. Three cars were demo-
lished. Heavy bars of iron were thrown near
y quarter OF a mile, and the shock was dis
tinctly felt at points twenty miles distant.
The damage was estimated at one hundred and
Fifty thousand dollars
Rnmors are again busy dispensing the pres
ant cabinet and pointing out a new one 1t is
that Mr.. Fish will resign in obedi-
,nce to hint from the President that his
policy toward England and the Cuban-Span-
sh question has not been fully approved:
With this much fixed, it is, of course, easy j
o finish up the situation, and say that Mr.
fish will be offered the ministry now filled by
lr. Motley, that gentleman having shown two !
title nerve in his prosecution of the Alabama
laims. How much truth there may be in all ,
his, it is impossible at this distance to deter
nine, but the story finds credeuce in quarters
ot usually open to baseless conjectures.
MI DdNAo 4OAu1cA udIuldll0dtIOu DlIl QdNlQg i
cen laid on the table by decided majority of /
he House of Representatives, he brought in
new bill, which passed the House by strict a
arty vote. The objections which had been
lade to the first bill from Republican quar- .
,rs, are all obviated in the act Why the
'emocratic members opposed it we fail to see,
zcept on the fundamental principle of oppo- - -
ton to all punishment of rasc llities perpe- j
ated in the interest of Democracy The bill =
IMPLY defines violations of the naturalization
ws, prescrbes penalties, and gives the Unit
States courts jurisdiction over cases grow iii
g out of the act. There can be No valid OBJ Dc
ct to such law. -
The Directors OF the Lake Shore Railway
ct in New York, June 2lth, and on a careful T
of the net profits of the line for i
@ last six months declared a Half Y early 1
ividend of four per cent, payable, free of tax,
Aug. l, on the Capital of $35,OOO,OOO. The Of
It profits of the six months are said to amount ne
S2,275,O0G, equal to SIX and half per cent, TV
at the rate Of thirteen per cent. per anum. in,
he Directors have determined upon general fal
ortgage of S25,OO0,0OO, upon the sntire prop =
ty to cover all outstanding Bonds of the old
,mpany's S23,3l3,0O0 and to leave q liberal r
argin for further additions to the euuipment n
the line, should its increasing business seem
demand the outlay. sbj