The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-07-08
NEWS ITEMS.

E1NACs
= third Atlantic Cable is talked of. but will
hardly succeed.
Peaches, not overripe were offered tor sale
in Cleveland last week.
It is suggested that Mrs. Z. c. Stanton and
Whitelaw neid kiss and be friends again
! Two girls near Carlinville, Illinois, have
taken a contract to cut fifty cords Of wood.
It is stated that Prince Pierre Bonaporte is
in San Francisco, en- TO',te for Tahiti
The receipts of revenue for the Second Ohio
district are over four hundred and seventy-six
! thousand dollars for June.
Capt Hamilton Richeson, prominent mem
Der OF the Wooster bar, died at that place on
the 18th inst, of consumption.
A man named John Vets, was run over
and killed by train on the c. c. c. q L R. r.
at Cleveland, on the 9Oth ult His head was
completely severed from his body
New Hampshire takes the premium for ear
ly marriages. The census there shows that a
woman aged thirty has a son tweuty-eight
years old.
The fence of graveyard in Pennsylvania
bears an inscription in large, white letters:
''Use Jones' bottled ale if you would keep out
of here"
The senior member of a firm in Commercial
street, Boston, on being informed OF the death
of Dickens, replied, dickens? Dickens?
Seems to me I have heard the name. Will he
be buried in Mount Auburn"
! Two steamers were racing on the Mississippi
last week, TO show how near they could come
to blowing a cargo of passengers into eternity
without doing it. They were the Lee and the
Natchez.
The poem entitled The Children, which has
been going the rounds credited to Charles
Dickens, turn out to have been written by
Charles Dickinson, a lawyer of Northern New
York.
The certificates of the Union Coal and Min
ing Company of Coshocton, with 5000, 900 cap
itaI, and of the Middleton Masonic Building
Company, with $4,000 capital were filed on
Wednesday the 29th.
The Erie, Pennsylvania Central and New
York Central and Hudson River companies
announce another general reduction in fares to
all points: st, Louis, $3.50; Louisville, $3.50;
Memphis, S3475; Cincinnati, $3.50. The
| Chicago fare is unchanged.
| A horse attached to q lager beer wagon, be-
came frightened and ran away, on Wednes-
day. 1t ran through the bridge and brought
up on the other side, with no serious injury
except proniscuous tumbling of beer kegs
and loosening of joints in the wagon.
Two immense piles of wood, comprising sew
eral hundred cords, at Busenbaok's station on
the C. II. & D. R. R., caught fire on Friday
night, June 9th, from a spark from a passing
locomotive, and burned until the entire pie
was consumed.
The Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler defends HIM
self for condemning the religion of Charles
Dickens on the ground that Dickens always
introduced the wine cup and the punch bowl
in his stories with evident appreciation, and
made frequent carricatures of the Christian
ministry.
A young man, at Millburry, in looking over
some paper rags which he had been buying,
few days since, found in the pocket of pair
he promptly returned to the man of whom he
bought the rags. This is a rare case of homes
ty and seems almost incredible, occurring as it
did in these latter days.
Among the numerous discoveries made by
a lady Of Sandusky county, whowent to Cleve-
land on Monday, to see the Fourth, was the
sad and incontrovertible fact, that financial
crisis had occurred in her pocket, during which
her purse (Which, by the way, was a new one
bought for the occasion,) with all its contents
had flown. It was abstracted by ight-fnger-
de-main.
The total receipts from the Internal revenue |
for the fiscal year ending June 3Oth, are with
in a fraction of 8S,OOO,OOO. The total re-
ceipts from customs are estimated at Sl7O,- |
OOO, 1000, and from public lands, and all other
sources, at about 100000 ,OOO.-This will make
an income for the Government of nearly |
S4OO, 600. The Sinking Fund up to yes
terday, inclusive, shows S37,655,l91 63. The |
Special Sinking Fuud shows sS9,537,776,91 or
a total of sI24, ,2O2, ,96S 81 to be deducted from
the national debt
A few days ago pious looking individual
went into den of "unfoItunates" at Detroit,
and falling on his knees, commenced praying
fervently for their souls. The women, who
did not properly appreciate this kindness, took
advantage of his position to roll him over and
bundle him out of the door. But this member
of the church-militant quickly returned in
rage, and striking out right and left, soon
t'hoored" the impenitent. He then gravely
resumed his invocation, and when he had
finished TRANQUILITY retired.
Dispatches from Rome, dated the Doth, an
nounce that the report Of an immediate vote
in the Ecumenical Council on the infallibiity
dogma, is untrue. The discussion continues.
There is report that the Pope has ordered
the Cardinals to oppose any proposition to set
aside the discussion. A committee OF Bishops
of all nations, including the Archbishops of
San Francisco, Mexico, Baltimore, Quite and
other Americans, have addressed a request to
the faithful for subscriptions in aid of the
Catholic Church at Constantinople, which
suffered so in the recent confagration
The extraordinary heat prevailing in this
country is not confined here. The last for
sign mails speak of the intense heat and
drought prevailing all over Europe. Astrono.
mers and physicists express the opinion that
the high temperature is owing to the fact that
we are now in what is called the "Sun-spot ,
period" A distinguished Scotch astronomer, I
Professor Smythe, says last winter was the /
first of a cold cycle, of which next winter, 5
md probably that of lS7l-2, will be exceeding
y severe" He expresses the opinion that c
'the actual occasion OF waves of terrestrial t
is to be found among the red !
of the sun"
It will be remembered that about the first {
# May, an account was published of the mys-
erious disappearance OF W. n. Cole clerk of t
he propeller Orontes. It was known that he J
lad in his possession, abount $500 of the
money, and it was at first believed I
hat he had been murdered and robbed. La c
er investigation satisfied all that he had ab-
conded with the money, but no clue to his =
whereabouts could be obtained. On the Both o
nst, however, he presented himselfi in Toledo, b
n company with detective and surrendered
imself to the authorities. He was sent to
all in default of bail to the amount of $1,000.
( appears that he wandered about until the
money was SPENT when he went to his home
d Wisconsin, and decided to give himself up. s.
o avoid being arrested he got detective Gal
lgher to accompany him to Toledo.
The House OF Representatives has nassed II