The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-08
NEWS ITEMS.

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A child born in Steubenville has singular |
birth mark in a full set of teeth plainly |
visible through the gooms.
The Mills of the Wheeling Iron and Nail
Companies, were burned on the afternoon OF
Sunday last, loss 100000. Insured for 10000.
A mill for the manufacture of steel rails,
which is the largest in the world, is being erect
ed at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Its destined
working power is three hundred tons of steel
ingots per day.
On Sunday Of last week, the wife of George
Will, of Salem, fell dead whilst preparing
dinner. Her husband had stepped out about
twenty minutes before, and on his return
found her corpse.
Amachinist by the name of Poates gotaboard
the local freight at Norwalk, Friday, to 90 to
Bellevue to visit his brother As the train
was entering Monroeville, he fell back in his
seat and Immediately expired He died
sease of the heart.
A strange case is puzzling the people of
Newark. A boy was frightened by snake
few days ago, and afterward going in to bathe
while heated, came out i'll with what the doc
tors affirm is original hydrophobia, unmistaka-
bic in its character.
They say that California gentlemen worth
$4,000, recently fell in love with Columbus
lady on a street car, on account of her striking
resemblance to his deceased wife. Romantic
readers will'be pleased to learn that wedding
is to be the consequence.
Thieves broke open three freight cars in Co
lumbus on Sunday night, stealing half dozen
suits OF clothes from one of them, and leaving
no marks to give clew to their operations.
The goods in the car were consigned to Mem
phis, Vicksburg, and other Southers posnts.
George Alfred Townsend says: The differ
ence between the Baltimore and the Philadel-
phia girl is that the latter is always wanting
something to eat and the former something to
love. The Philadelphienne carries her young
man to dinner with her and sees that he is
well foddered The Baltimorienne carries
him of for stroll and looks into his eyes.
The Secretary of the Navy received con.
signment of battle flags captured by our naval
forces at Corea, with the names of the captors
some of them being presents to individual
friends. The one sent to the President is Of
blue silk with a woven representation of drag.
on, and that sent to Secretary Robson is OF
similar material and color, with winged
serpent.
The proposed new constitution of Nebraska
takes two or three steps in advance. It estab.
fishes compulsory education, a la PyuSse; give,
power to towns to prohibit the liquor traffic
and permits females to vote. If the latter
clause be adopted there will be squalline
among the log cabins that will drown the wal
whoops of the savages.
At the coming session of the Grand Lodg,
of Odd Fellows of the United States, at Chi
cago on the 10th, it is expected that forty-on,
Grand Lodges and thirty-one Grand Encamp
ments will be represented, and that there vii
also be representatives from Germany, Aus
tralia and the Sandwich Islands. Many O.
the lodges of Illinois will attend en- naasse
while unusually large numbers are expected
from Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan
The Mt. Vernon Commandery of knight
Templar of this city will leave for Baltinor,
in body on the eve of the 18th instant, to at
tend the Triennial Conclave of the Grand En-
campment OF Knights Templar of the United
States, which meets on the 10Th. The demon
stration is expected to be the most imposins
every witnessed in this country The Knights
Templar Lodges of Ohio will have the homo,
of acting as escorts to the Grand Officers
State journal.
Referring to the fact that doctor" Rosen
weig, arrested in New York for the most ter
rible of crimes, and who three or four year
ago was bartender in beer saloon in that eit7
exhibited in his Office ga diploma" which HI
had purchased for forty dollars from Phila
delphia college, the Press says: "1f such insti
ton cannot be proceeded against by the Law
officers of our city or by the medical colleges
whose reputation it is running, the people tn
most aggrieved of all, should demand that tn
next Legislature afford some remedy.
A letter from st. Petersburg says the Rus
sian government has of late evinced the great
est anxiety to complete the reorganization O
the army, and the conversions of its arma
ments Large orders for guns, mitrailleuse
and projectiles have been given in England
America and Belgium. Some orders have al
so been given to manufacturers in the Freucl
departments, but in all cases the stipulation
has been made for speedy delivery Moreove
work is carried on day and night in the arsen
ais and dock yards at st. Peterburg, Cronstad
and Nicelayeff.
One of the provisions Of the Ohio Sunda,
laws is the exemptionfrom arrest for debt OF
Sunday. And so careful has been the spirit o
Ohio legislation to extend equal privileges t
all, that it has also provided the same exemp
tion for Israelites on Saturday, their Sabbath
Do the repealcrs desire to have this Sunda,
law abolished. Does not this plain recogni.
ton by law of Sunday as different from Other
days infringe upon their liberty of conscience?
How can they consent to live sin country
which makes this Puritanical exemption o
persons from debt OF Sunday.
The insurance companies in New York com
plain that they are being swindled heavily b
the operation of law dayised by the Tam
many ring, and passed las winter The ac
of.the Legislature authorize, IN examination
into thu condition of any insurance COMPANY
by the Superintendent of Insurance whenever
in his opinion, the public interests would b
served by such an examination. The com
panies say they are compelled to pay from
5000 to $3.50 for the examination, and exami
nations are made and repeated at frequent in
tervals on the most frivolous pretexts, and ap
parently for no other purpose than to extor
these exorbitant fees.
At the capture of Detroit by the the British
in 1872 the records of the town were carried
Of. Most of them were got back again, but
for some reason three valuable books of coun-
ty records, belonging in the Office of the Reg
ister of Deeds, were not recovered. They have
been since, and now are, among the county
records of Essex county, at Sandwich, Cana.
da. Negotiations were entered into some time
since by the authorities at Washington with
| tue pIlIlSh GOfeInmenL 1OI Tie RESTORATION o.
these public documents, and recently the Sec.
retary of Safe announced that the Governor ot
the Province had been directed to issue an
order for the surrender of the books to tht
Register of Wayne county.
Mrs Isabella Beecher Hooker lets off the
widest enthusiasm over Vic. Woodruff, Hook
ep WRITES to Woodruff as follows concerning
the latter's letter accepting nomination fol
the Presidency: Il have this moment reat
your letter of acceptance, my darling queen
and it is all could ask You arr