The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-01-07
NEWS ITEMS.
Wyoming has 1000 women voters.

Wyoming has 1000 women voters.
A heavy shock of an earthquake was felt
near Quebec on the 29th inst
There are 1900 drummsrs from the North
engaged in selling goods, in the Southern
states.
Nearly a million acres OF public lands have
been taken up in Dakota, during the past
year.
The Boston invention of lighting street lamps
by electricity. has been tried in Philadelphia
and proved successful.
A Chicago Baptist is sending out sevoa
meeting-houses for Prcsbyterians, to put TO-
gether in new towns on the Pacific Railroad.
A chap looking through the window into a
telegraph Office, the other day, called to COM
paniou 10 come aud see them taate paper
collars.
A st. Lofts woman has solved tho woman
labor question in the right way. She bid for
the job of macadamizing Eighteenth street,an
got it The contract price is sIl, l,65I, and the
lady's name Mrs. Martin Rigne5.
A murder and a suicide occurred in house
Of assignation iu New York, on Sunday eve
ming last A man and woman names un-
know, who had been meeting at the house for
the past five months every Sunday, were the
parties they died without sign.
Baron Liebig is suid to have stated that there
is as much nourishment in one quart of beer
as in sixteen hundred loaves Of bread 1t was
Just the other way. There is as much nourish-
ment in one loaf Of bread as in sixteen hundred
quarts of beer.
The Secretary OF State has issued notice
that the time for presentations of claims a2uinst
fks Republic of Mexico, before the Mexican
Commission. now sitting in Washington, will
expire on the 5ist Of March next, unless good
cause for extension be shown to she Eatisfac-
ton Of the Commission.
The Catholics Of New York city begin to
fear tsst ifthe session of the EeumenicalCounci
is prolonged for ssseSal years, as now looks
probable, at the cost of S2e,eeO day, or ST.
100000 year, there viii be small chance 0f
finishing the great Fifth Avenue Cathedral
within the present century.
Boutwell, has prepared and win lay before
Congress a bill for carrying out the views
expressed IN his report. He proposes TO fund
the debt at aH interest Of not less than four
and half per cent, calling IN the FIVE
wentics and issuing instead three classes Of
bonds-the first to be paid in twenty years, the
second in twenty-five, and the third III thirty
Interest and principal payable in coin.
The Marquis FOurches, by his viii founded
prize Of 10000, for the discovery of sure
and simple means OF recognizing if death be
real or apparent. Dr. Car1iere, says the Curier
de 7 Fure, intends to claim the money for
process which he has employed for forty years.
The system consists in placing the hand, With
the fingers closed, before the flames Of the lamp
or candle. In the living person the members
are transparent and Of a pinkish color, showing
the capillary circulation andlife in full activity;
whilst IN that oI a corpse, on the contrary, al
is duh and dark. presenting Reither sign of exis
tence nor trace OF the blood es1reEt-
AT IrontOn, Ohio Tuesday eve, DIST inst,
Elizabeth Quigg shot and killed Pres. Barker
whom shs charged with being her seducer |
She Immediately gSys herself up. Her brother
John has been arrested as aA aeepmplice. Miss
Quigg says that she has wsitedfor him to make
her the only rsPsration in his power, which he
has refused doing, Hesring it rumored that
he was going 10 be married, shs determined to
compel him to do her justice, Her bFothsr
and herself met him; she asked hem what he
Intended doing; he replied "Nothing.- She
hen told him he must go with her and marry
ger at once On his refus9l to do 70 she fired
we shets, one taking effect in his breast,