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

In Nebraska the weather has been very cold
for the last few weeks, injuring the corn crop.
The New York Elevated Railway is in sue
csssful operation, though the patronage is
light.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett, of Urbana, O., were
badly poisoned, while in the woods a few days
since, by handling the poison oak.
The Democratic members of the New
Hampshire Legislature have nominated Henry
Bringham for United States Senator.
In Buffalo, the buildings of the Young Mems
Christian Association have been draped with
mourning in respect to the memory of
Dickens.
Amos Keefer a noted bully, was instantly
killed at Little Rock, Arkansas, on Tuesday,
by blow from young man whom he had
assaulted.
Mrs NJ N Cole Of Sidney, Ohio, has accept
ed the invitation to deliver the Grafton at Up
per Sandusky at the aremen's tournament on
the Fourth of July.
Horace Greeleys health is improving, and
he will be at his post in few days. He was
removed on Friday from the Hoffman House
to his residence at Chnppaqua.
A Wisconsin boy tried to ride on farm
roller, few days ago, but instead the roller
rode on him. He was spread out so they had
to bury him in a sugar pam
In England, crop prospects are not very
encouraging. Wheat looks well, but pototoes
will not be half crop. Hay will be Door
yield, while oats, barley, ETC., are meager
The only prisoner in the Nantucket iail
notifies the authorities that if they don't fix
up that jail SO the sheep can't get in to bother
him, he will be blowed if he will stav in
there.
a New York paper speaks of General
o'Neil as a descendant of Nilus, the son of
Nihil" The Fenian leader did not do his an
cestors much credit, for Mill Fit, and o,NsiI
didn't
At wedding at Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where
chewing gum is the only amusement, the bride
and groom, to show their implicit faith in each
other, put their arms around each Others
waist and swapped cuds of gum. No cards,
The Wisconsin State Temperance Society
held its annual meeting in Milwaukee on
Tuesday, and voted to hold mass Convention
in the same city on the Sth of September, to
consider the advisability of organizing tenn
perance political party.
Illinois has one mile of railroad to every
fourteen square miles of territory. France
has one to every twenty-six, Great Britain one
to every nine, the United States one to every
eighty-one. Illinois has one mile of railroad
to every 754 inhabitants
The first returns Under the new census
were received on Friday by General Walker.
They are of the Fourteenth Ward of Cincin-
natl, sent in by Assistant Marshal W. D.
Dempster, who took LAO names, and did his
work in three days and half, to the entire
satisfaction of the Superintendent
The reception given by the ladies of the |
Episcopal Church, at Columbus, on Friday |
night, at Governor Hayess residence, to the
delegates to the Episcopal Convention, was a
very fine affair. The grounds and residence |
were handsomely Illuminated, and the crowd |
in attendance was very large.
On Monday last, at Sandusky City, Frank |
Huben and John Fitzpatrick guarreled, and |
during the quarrel Fitzpatrick drew a pistol
and fired at Huben. The ball entered HUI
ben's chest, penetrating the lung and lodging |
in his right side, inficting wound supposed |
to be mortal.
at circus performance in Liberty, No., |
on Wednesday, Professor White entered the |
den of lions, and was quickly very glad to be
hauled out again. One of the lions, it seems
had conceived dislike to White, and at once
made for him, crushed one of his arms, bit a |
piece out of his side, and altogether grieved |
him very much.
Major William S. Morse, corporation con-
tractor of Washington, made wager with
Mr.. E. B. Hughes, OF the Navy Yard to effect |
that if Bowen was not reelected Mayor of
Washington he would crawl on his belly from
the City Hall 70 Georgetown, distance of
three miles. Having lost the wager, he act
tually undertook and accomplished the fact
A dispatch from Charleston, South Carolina,
announces the death of the eminent novelist
William Gilmore Simms, in the sixty-fourth
year of his age. He was the auther of eye
masee," "The Partisan" and several other
works that had great run of popularity in
their day. His works, ike the Leather-stock-
ing stories, were connected. For many years
Mr. Simms has furnished but little for the
press.
The Fenians of Buffalo have determined TO
keep up their organization and push theif OBJ
ject with more vigor and concerted action
The plan now is for each circle to retain its
funds and place the same on interest until
such time as the whole Brotherhood through
out the United States shall adopt plan of
action and agree upon suitable leaders. The
money is then to be transferred to headquar-
ters, and move made Immediately.
The car shops of Kansas Pacific railroad at /
Wyandotte, Kansas, were destroyed by fire
Thursday night the 4th, together with three
passenger coaches, three fat cars, one box and |
one stock car, belonging to the Chicago, Bur-
hngton and Quincy railroad, and about fifty |
thousand feet of walnut and oak lumber were /
also burned. The loss to the company is fifty
thousand dollars; the insurance is small. The
mechanics working in the shop lost all their
tools.
boy baby at Dayton has two distinct noses
side by side, and quite perfect 1t is little |
over six months old, is healthy, and takes
nourishment with heartiness. Its double nose
does not seen to discommode it in the least |
When that boy becomes a man, imagine the
pleasure he might take in fragrant flower
GARDEN And then, think Of his emotions as
scavsnger! Still further, consider the satisfac-
ton which an enemy might derive from pull
ing those noses'