The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-12-01
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0OOlS ga JOeIAdAlSIS carry feVOlVerS.
The Chicago fire cracked flag
stones eight inches thick.
Chicago thieves steal the money
boxes of the One-hOrse street cars.
England drinks five hundred mill.
ions worth of liquors every year.
An Alabama man has the first
Confederate treasury note issued.
The grand KimbalI House at At
lanta is to be sold for a debt of
100000.
The potato bugs ofIlIinois went
into winter quarters last Saturday
afternoon.
Over seven thousand Me.bodist
churches have been built in Ameri.
ca this year.
Florida hopes next year to ba
able to supply the whole country
with bananas.
The New York Globe denies that
it is dead, and wants other papers tn
deny it.
Toledo wants Uncle Sam to
dredge out the Maumee Greek.
Tweed has sold his $4,000 inter.
est est IN the Washington Patriot for
Two wholesale merchants at Hart
ford are having law suit about tbir-
ty cents. '
Mrs. Joaquin Miller is about to
undertake the publication of her DO.
ems.
Pet pigs, instead of poodles. are
trained to follow Indianapolis ladies
about.
English people grOwl when thew
have to pay six cents to see a negro
minstrel troupe.
Darwin is right in his theories
louisville has an animal which
smiles and laughs.
An Indiana editor saws. awa
leave tomorrow for the county hoo
show and hope to take the prize"
1t is the fashion in the best society
OF Strasborg 10 pretend not to IN.
derstand German.
Ihey haul In the fish on the upper
Nile by windlasses, using live geese
for bait traveller bearing witness
thereto.
A New Yorker has invented
brick machine which runs by com
pressed air, the same as George
train runs.
Dime novel writer's now kill their
characters by kerosene explosions
as no remains of the victims can
thus be found.
The surveyor General of Califcr-
MIA has published ninety pages of
why the people oft6at eoun-
try need not fear earthquakes.
A man has been convicted at Nor
ristow0, Pa, of stealing a danger
lamp from the front of a locomotive
whilst the locomotive was in motion.
An ingenious Kentucky prisoner
sat fire to the jail, and leisurelv
slipped away while the population
were engaged in subduing the flames.
Five civil Fighters escaped from
the Barlow, Georgia. jail, and the in
telligent local paper says, neither
the jailOr nor the prisoners are to
blame"
A young convert down in Maine
demonstrated the force Of habit bv
remarking in conference meeting
that some of the proceedings were
not according to Hoyle."
A loving wife in Danbury, COM
necticut, on the decease of her hus-
band, sent the following thrilling
to distant friend: '.Dear
John is dead. Loss fully covered
by insurance"
The Missouri Republican queries.
where is Boss Tweed to goY' AS
this paper is not addicted to pro-
family we decline to answer the cues.
tion.-TopekG Record.
Mrs. Frances Bartlett de Oviedo,
the bride of the famous diamond
wedding in New York, several years
ago, contributed 500 to the Chica-
go relief subscription taken up in
Havana.
A Port Clinton editor publishes
the names of doctors who have abad
Iuck'' with their patients. The doc
tors are only waiting for that editor
to get sick a little. His paper will
be for sale.
On his death bed a distinguished
lumorist requested that no one
might be invited to his funeral.
Because" said the dying wag, sit
s a clVlllCy can never repay"
A Hartford editor having twitted
IN editor in a neighboring city of
being bald, subsequently apologized,
md explained that, ''as long as
ian fold his ears over the top of his
head he doesn't need any hair any
now"
At Painesville gas wells, discoT-
cred during the present year, are the
constant theme of ofconversation. Two
wells have been bored-one on the
farm ofC. G. Jennings, and the other
on the Seminary grounds, and both
ere Welding a constant and abundant
susDly of gas. The well at the Sem
inary, which is located on the oppo-
site end of the town, and over a mile
from easements well, has just proved
successful, and the professors and
scholars are very iubilant about it.