The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-06-30
NEWS ITEMS.

G.. w, Fox, OF RaYenna, mad SloO taken
from him in Cleveland, on Monday night, by
desperadoes.
Pennsylvanians are discussing the project
of two-foot railroads, and they are likely to
come into favor.
A skeleton measuring seven feet has been
unearthed from one of the Indian mounds in
Hooking county.
The peach crop of Ross County, it is esti-
mated, will realize $4,000 to the farmers of
that locality this year.
The latest new departure is movement TO |
confer the suffrage upon boys. Mark Twain
intends to lecture upon the subject the coming
season.
Ninety-one indicted persons were on Thurs
day arraigned before the Criminal Court in
Chicago. The rest of the population are still
at large.
The Ohio Editorial Convention will meet in
Cleveland on the 7th of July. As the meeting
was appointed for business, full attendance
is desired.
1t is thought Congressman Bowen will be
pardoned, the Attorney General having prom
ised to give the papers in the case due con-
sideraton.
An unknown man, lying by the track of
the railroad, near Piqua, was struck by the
pilot of passing locomotive, on the 26th,
and injured so that he died
Gen. Forest was before the Ku Klux inves-
vestigating committee on the 9th, and re-
presented all lovely in Tennessee. He said
the committee treated him with courtesy.
On the lst of October next, it is said the
seat of the government for Italy, will be trans
ferred to the city of Rome, yet it is believed
by many that the removal will not take place.
Mrs. Greiner, widow of the late Governor
Greiner, received one thousand dollars from
the Odd-FelloWs' Benevolent Association, of
which the Governor was member at the
time of his death.
On Sunday afternoon Cleveland boy of
four years and a girl OF three ran away to-
gether, but their enraged parents succeeded, by
the aid Of the police, in aPprehending them
before they had found parson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse R. Grants golden we'd
ding was celebrated at Mr.. Ccrbin's residence
in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on Saturday. The
President and family, members of the Cabinet
and many eminent persons were present.
A negro preacher at Pine Bluff, Arkansas,
while addressing his congregation, recently,
was stricken dead by lightning. and as his re-
mains were being carried to the grave day
OF twoAfter, another bolt shivered his coffin
to atoms.
The new town in Florida recently settled
by N. Day and others from Mansfield and
vicinity, has been named Daytonia. The
Post-office Department has Just established
post-ofice there by the same name, and Loonis
G. Day appointed Postmaster. The full ad-
dress is Daytouia, Volusia county, Florida.
Two old ladies, residing in Toledo, sisters
named Mrs. Cannon and Mrs. Galloway, Iv-
ing entirely alone, ato greens on Sunday last
for dinner, and soon after were affected with
symptoms of poisoning. 1t appears they had
gathered the greens themselves, but mistaking
some poisonous plant for the ones they were
gathering, gathered it also. Mrs Cannon died
from the effects on Monday evening.
Commissioner Hastings has succeeded in
breaking up a gang of counterfeiters, and in
capturing the "shovers," with the aid of sew
eral of the best detectives in the service
James Monroe Bissell of Alliance; VIM. H.
Bair, of Bucyrus; Andrew Jaskson Bair, of
Van Vert John T. Hickman, Christopher C.
Brady and Geo. W. Showen, of Marion; Geo.
Fedick, OF Decatur, Ind; Mathew A Royd,
of New Cumberland, Ohio; Sam. Rivers, Hen
~ Homer, Geo. Warren, and other well known
rascals have been arrested and a large amount
of counterfeit money obtained Showen
''squealed" on his eonfederates and gave vaIu-
able information
Frankfort, Perry County, H., is greatly ex-
cited upon the subject of witchcraft, and we
may see repetition of the Old Salem davs
out there. Two girls, apparently sane and be-
comingly modest during the day, at evening
time become excited and uncomfortable, and
run violently in a nothern direction to house
inhabited by an old lady, whom they claim
has bewitched them for telling something she
forbade them. They mount to the roof of the
house and dance upon the comb and on the
caves with perfect ease, and gyrate in highly
artistic acrobatic order The citizens of the
town are satisfied it is pure withcraft or dew
iItry, and they can't exactly tell which, but
agree that the girls are well-behaved in the
day time
The people are yet scarcely aware of the
practical usefulness of the Government system
Of storm Signals. They were instituted chief
y for the purpose of protecting our Lake COM
merce, yet their beneficial results, it is now
apparent, will be so great that when fully per
fected the shipping interests will not be bene-
fitted more than the farming interests by the
information which it will afford. Already
this fact is being developed in localities where
farmers can obtain morning papers in time to
direct their labors for the day. A farmer near
Buffalo, in recent conversation with the ed
itor of the Express, stated that since the pub
licatiOns of the weather reports first began. he
has given careful attention to them; that he
has thoroughly tested the almost unfaiIiua
correctness of the forecast of weather which is
deduced from them, and that now he is gov
erned by their prophetic dictation entirely in
planning his farm work and laying out his un-
dertakings SO far as the weather has to do them.
He consults the weather dispatches as an ora
Gle, every morning, ut the first opening of his
paper, and unhesitstingly takes from it his
cue for the next twenty-four or forty-eight
hours. He says that he is never misled, and
that what he saves and gains in the man
agement of his business, by foreknowledge
with approximate accuracy of the chan ges of
weather and the coming of storms, is worth to
him great many times the cost of the news
paper which furnishes it.