The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-01-06


ky seller at Van Vert, was viotinised in the
sum Of $3.50, few days since, BY Counter
Aeit Money Company. He ordered q quantity
and paid that amount on a box Of strap iron.
LoRA1N Co. o.-G. Henry Starr son Of
George R. Starr, of ElyriA, died Of typhoid
fever, on Tuesday of last yssk.--Ths con-
ereQationaI churches Of North and south Am !
herst, have unanimously invited Rev. Q. Bou-
worth, Of oberlin, TO become their Pastor
A stranger from Califomia, stopping with Mr.. I
Robert Anderson, at Rochester, died very sud !
denly on Saturday Dec. 24th.-A new class
Of swindlers has appeared in the vicinity Of ;
obsrlin. A couple of dashing young men,
have been making trip among the farmers,
appointing agents to sell patent roof paint.
To each one they gave an order for samples,
also duplicate, which the agents were to sign
The young men did everything with a rush.
and only showed enough of the duplicate for
the agents to sign their names to. The dupli-
Gates turn out to be prOnissary notes, and are
in the hands of parties in Cleveland, for col
lection. The swindled parties held meeting
ct oberlin, and decided to resist the payment
of the notes.--SenAtor Revels lectured in
oberlin, on last Tuesday evening.
FULTON Co, O.-The house of H. ]. Swank, :,
of Delta, was considerable injured by fire, on
Thursday of last week.-A Lodge of Good =
Templars, numbering lS0 members, has been
in Wauseon.-Zack Layton, of ,,
Morenci, Mich, but well known in the yicin- :.
lty of Wauseon, outraged the person of his =
own daughter, bright little girl of l3 years,
a short time since. The citizens were so en-
ragged, when the fact was made known, that :
ae narrowly escaped the clutches of Judge
Lynch. The officers of the law took him in =
Iharge. Layton was once highly respected,
,ut poor whisky showed him no favors, and he q,
5 now degraded sot-Eberhart Weller, a m
armer of Dover township, aged seventy years,
vas arrested on the 23d of Dec, on charge of \
ncest with his daughter: Upon examination 81
le was bound over in the sum of $500 to ap-
'ear at the next term of the Common Pleas =,
,ourt, although the evidence would hardly
eem to justify such action. N
RICHLAND Co, O.-Joseph S. Simmons, ESQ of
+ Mansfield, died,athis residence on Saturday
)ec., 24th. Ho was an old and highly esteem n
citizen.-Rev. James Rowlands pastor If Oo
be Presbyterian Church, at Mansfield, was :
resented with handsome diary and quite
I'm of money,as Christmas present from his
Lutz, a former resi-. Dl
ent of Mansfield, was killed on the P. Fl. ". er
: C. R. R., near Crestline, on Friday of last ca
eek. He was walking on the track and was u
IN over by the train. a.,
VAN WERT, O.-Msjor l. D. Clark was bad co.
: bruised, on the 23d, by by being thrown me
ON wagon.-A young girl, named Jane
IcClure, having been sedueed, gave birth to
child, which she strangled and hid in pri- o@
:, on the 27th. The dead was discovered, wo
Id the girl arrested, but the miserable wretch pu
no caused her shame, goes scot free.-A dol
.e broke out In the cellar of Mr. D. Hacke- I
rms grocery, at Van Vert, on the night of A.
e 2Sth. It was occasioned by burning fluid,
IT although threatening the destruction Of W
q building for a time, the fire was at last
noothered out before any great damage was {
swindlers were arrested at Van Bic
'ert, few days ago.-Thomas andCathar- .
e Ls Hsw, of Van Vert, celebrated their pi,
lden wedding on the 2Sth. They have II
ildren, 90 grand children and S great grand I
ildren. All the males of that large crowd rec
It one, areRepublicans. pie
SUBMIT Co. GA large egg was recently n
esented to the editor or the Beacon. When tho
oxen it was found to contain three -elks, Lar
-FredP Patterson killed seven lsSuth's hog
,ently, which, when it was dressed and the =
ad taken off, weighed $50 pounds.-The :. .I :
aeon daily has entered upon its second year.
Steel and McMahon, of Akron, have been 4
'arded the contract for building the new :. 80 :
Ie tunnel at Chicago. Price SS4l, ,0OO.-
olphe Beele, armed with butcher knife
Irted In chase of a rabbit, on the 22d, but o
pped and fell, the knife piercing his side AZ
inAicting fatal wound, from which he II
d soon after. He lived in Portage county, Grip
4 was aged 20 years.-Geo. B. Clark and gan
ie and Lucien E. Humphrey and wife cell Whe
ated their wooden wedding on Christmas e.' sen'
e., at the house of Mr.. CLARK, in Akron ~
e gold excitement occasisned by finding tbo,
d in the Nelson Ledge, has extended to the Rec
ghborhood of Akron, and even the rock and
'ut the city is supposed to contain the pre- We
us metal, but whether in paying quantities saol
not is not known yet.
HANCOCK Co., Q.-on Saturday evening Rao
c. 24th, Mrs. Bryan of Findlsy attempted
ill coal oil lamp, whsn the oil took FIRE T
bured child SO badly that it died in a 50 Il
rt tims.-A man inFindlay named MoSier ing
instantly Killed. on Friday last, By the s,
idental discharge of gun 81