The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-09-23
NOTES AND NEWS.

There are seven American lady
sculptors at Rome.
Hush money-The price of the
family cradle.
:. Show may be easily Purchased,
but happiness is a homemade arti
Gle.
King William was at the battle of
Waterloo, and was then eighteen
years old.
Mrs. Church Howe was lately vo-
ted for as member of Congress in
Cheyenne.
Hans Breittman, referring to Bon
aparte, wants to know we're ish dat
Parte now?"
E. D. Cramer, of Covington, Ky.
has been appointed Minister Resi-
dent at Denmark.
Minister Washburne, in private
dispatches, doubts the permanency
Of the new Republic in France.
William Cullen Bryant is the rich
est poet in the world, his last years
income being $4,000.
The actions of men are like the
index Of book; they point out
what is most remarkable in them.
The French paroled officers are
going to Africa, and exchange pla-
ces of fservice with the officers there.
If the best mans faults were
written on his forehead, it would
make him pull his hat over his
eyes,
That was a rude blast that took
clean off a Jersey quarryman's
head. His trunk was sent to his
family.
Coblentz is in the very heart of
the beauty of the Rhine, 1t is built
at the junction of the Rhine and
Moselle rivers,
On Thursday a party of about
sixty dissatisfied Mormons took
passafe at Omaha on a steamer for
st. Joseph, Missouri.
The Manistee, Michigan, Wander
pool case, will be tried in the Kala-
mazoo Circuit Court on OF about
the first of October.
A reunion of the numerous de-
scendants of Jonathan Edwards, the
great theologian, took place atStock-
bridge, Mass, on Tuesday.
John L. Taylor ex-member of
Congress from Ohio, dropped dead |
in the General Land Office at Wash
ington. His age was seventy.
The population of England at the |
close Of the seventeenth century |
was little under five millions five |
hundred thousand souls.
Drunkards are punished in Russia
by making them sweep the streets.
If that plan was adopted in Chicago, |
what clean city that would be.
Sums as large as $4,000 are said
to have been lost in Saratoga and
Long Branch gambling houses by
respectable business men this sea-
son.
The jewellers ofParis have ceased
to display there valuable goods in
show windows. The greatest part
of such have been sent to a place Of
safety.
Tobacco merchants in New Orle-
ans are staggering under 1000
hhds. for want of German purcha-
sels. The French blockade is the
matter.
Miss Leonora Katoo, lately admit
ted to the bar in st. Louis, who died
in that city on Saturday, will be
buried in Brooklyn, the residence of
her relatives.
A great ratification meeting was
held at st. Cloud, Minnesota, the
other day. The whole town turned
out to hunt the only rat ever seen
north of Minneapolis.
The Compositors' cases in the
printing houses in China
have each over six thousand com
partments for the reception of the
numerous letters of the Chinese al
Dhabet. The cases are built in the
'orm of an amphitheater, and the
stands in the middle.
Every letter he sets he selects from
he six thousand.
The ship Britannia, which struck
IN the rocks Of the coast of Brazil,
lad on board a large consignment
If Spanish dollars. In the hope of
iaving some of them a number Of
barrels were brought on deck, but
he vessel was sinking so fast that
he only hope for life was in taking
It once to the boats.
The last boat was about to push
If, when midshipman rushed back
o see if any one was still on board.
70 his surprise, there sat man on {
eek, with hatchet in his hand, with
7hich he had broken open several
f the casks, the contents Of which
e was now heaping up about him.
'What are you doing?' shouted
be youth. Escape for your life
)on't you know the ship is fast going r
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