The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-06-17


Cornell University is about TO send scien-
tific expedition to Brazil, the party to consist
of "the most promising young men" at Cornell
and to be under the leadership Of Prof. Hartt,
who has twice visited tho country with Prof.
Agassiz. Their operations will be in the
Amazonian Valley and on the coast southward
! TO Bahia. The aid of the Brazilian authorities
has been generously extended, and many
friends along the BRAZILIAN coast are ready to
do all in their power to help it.
A lady in Auburn had for some time been
suffering from a painful abscess at the base of
the spinal column, accompanied by a swelling
half the size of an ordinary teacup, discharg-
ing freely and causing much suffering. On u
recent occasion her physician, while dressing
it, discovered small point just protruding
from the surface, and ON applying the forceps
extracted common pin, which had been
swallowed by the patient unconsciously, and
the removal of which leaves her in a state of
rapid recovery.
East Liverpool, Ohio, on Saturday noon ex-
perienced a very destructive haiIstorm. Near
ly all the windows fronting south and west
were demolished. 1t is feared that the crops
are ruined. Numbers OF sheep and hogs are
reported killed. Many of the roofs are riddled
The hail fell to the deI tn of four or five inches
The ncw Presbyterian Church is one of the
greatest sufferers, nearly all of their beautiful
stained glass windows being broken. Some
of the stones were seven inches in circumfer-
enee.
A quarantine war has commenced between
Brooklyn and New York. Some vessels which
had been allowed by the quarantine authori-
ties to proceed to the Atlantic docks in Brook
lyn, were allowed by DR.. Cochran, Brooklyn
Health officer, 70 proceed to the piers further
up East river. The quarantine men in the
steamer attempted to tow off the vessel, where
upon their hawser was cut by the order of Dr.
Cochran, and the new Yorkers retired from
the conflict. Brooklyn merchants and work
ingmen seem to side with the DOCTOR and are
determined to fight the matter out.
1t is stated that the President has organ
zed and is about to inaugurate a commercial
policy which will tend to bring to the United
States the vast trade OF the Spanish American
States which now principally goes to Euro
pean ports. His design is to carry out the
following suggestion in his annual message:
81 have already felt that the most intimate
relations should be cultivated between the re-
public of the United States, and all independ-
ent nations on this continent. 1t may be well
worth considering whether new treaties be-
tween the United States, and them may not
be proftably entered into to secure more in
innate relations, friendly, commercial and
otherwise"
Florida is proud of the possession of a
youth who can handle snakes, scorpions and
centipedes with perfect impunity. He makes
pets and play-fellows of the larger kind of
rattlesnakes, twisting them around him, and
dallying with their. .forked tongues or twelve
rattles. He actually carried scorpions in his
bosom, and wasps and hornets in his sleeves
and pockets, without receiving bite or sting.
In the loneliness of the grove or forest, or in
any secluded place infested with snakes, he
can, by few talismanic words, call around
him any number of snakes, whom he can
charm into perfect obedience to all his man
dates. He can pick them up and lay them
down at any given place, and at his bidding
they will remain there until his return after
an absence sometimes of hours. He can take
a rat or a mouse and so manipulate it-so put
that inexplicable tyrant spell upon it-that it
at once becomes mute suppliant for favor,
is qulescent, and may be tumbled about at
pleasure. The young magician AYERS that
this miraculous power is given him by spirits,
whether good or evil he knows not.