The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-11-24
NEWS ITEMS.

PArker's majority for Governor in New
Jersey is 6.O07.
Tho viaduct Railway Company Of New
York Is to be reorganiEed.
The nine hour movement in England is cro-
atiug considerable excitement
The next reunion of the Army of the Cum
; berland will be held at Dayton.
The American and Spanish Commission
will meet again on the lst of December.
Piqua has organized a car manufacturing
company with capitol stock of 100000.
Horrible outrages were perpetrated in North
Carolina last week by Tammany Ku-Klux.
The charges of election frauds in Brooklyn
are being investigated by commsttee of fifty.
Cleveland is getting to be very wicked
place, Thirty arrests on last Saturday night
1t is now said the Pope will leave Rome
when the italian Parliament meets in that
city.
The Chicago Republican has resumed the
old form in which it was published before the
fire.
A bill fur the repeal of female suffrage in
Wyoming is now before the legislature of that
State
Anthracite coal, in veins twenty-five feet
thick, has been discovered in Northern Min
nesota.
The number of voters registered in the Dis
trict of Columbia is l2,l57 whites and 9,255
blacks.
Horace H. Harrison has been appointed
United States Attorney for the middle district
of Tennessee.
A fire at Rock Falls, Illinois, on the 10th
destroyed the extensive Touring mills Of Smith
Brothers. Loss $4,000.
Richard B. Connolly has resigned the Comp
trollership of New York. Andrew Il. Green
is his successor in Office.
Ed. Thompson, a well known horse man of
Chillicothe, died on the 18th inst from an over
dose OF hydrate chloral.
The corner stone of the Temple Of Sinai,
was laid at New Orleans, amid impressive
ceremonies, on the 18th.
A ranting teetotaler of Brixham, publicly
accuses Queen Victoria of intoxication. The
charge is resented with great indignation.
One hundred and .thirty-three deaths from
small pox occurred in Philadelphia, last week
-an increase of 80 over the week previous
John H. johnson, young colored lawyer of
Missouri, has the honor to be the first black
man to be admitted to the Supreme Court of
that State.
Tweed still asserts his intention of taking
his seat in the Nav York Senate. He is q
kind Of "lsst rose of summer" of the Tam
many order.
Brick Pomeroy and Sunset Cox are the two
largest contributors to the Lee monument
fund in New York, though tho former gave
only ten dollars.
Thomas Murphy has resigned the Office of
cOllectorship OF the Port of New York. The
President has appointed Chester A. Arthurs
as his successor.
Cleveland has post-ofice middle. POST
master Allen is accused of mismanagement in
the business of the Office. OF course he denies
the accusation and rises to explain.
Norwalk has subscribed 100000, Milan
$4,000, New London $4,000, and West Sa-
lem S4O,oOU, toward the buildingof the pro-
posed Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad
The Chief Salesman of HOW'LL, Gano & Co.,
of Cincinnati, has been found guilty of embez-
cling over Sl3,0 900 from the firm. His psculs
tiOns have extended through series OF years.
} A Cleveland fire steamer, after receiving an
alarm of fire recently, lett the engine house in
twenty seconds, and had a stream of water up
on the fire in four minutes. That's business.
DR.. Hess, former manager of Crosby Opera
! House, Chicago, attempted to commit suicide
on the evening of the 18th, by shooting him
sell in the breast. Domestic infelicity was the
cause.
There Will be scarcity of old clothes in the
the country for some time, except IN Michigan
where, it is said the males have been supplied
, with enough to give them two hundred pairs
OF pants each.
An express train or the Panhandle road ran
upon a broken rall near Alexandria Roads, o.
J on the 10th inst. A fireman naDed Shay was
crushed to death between the tender and en-
gine, and the engineer badly scalded.
Texas is manng an effort to recover from
the general government 100000 alleged to
3 have been advanced Dy the State to pay volun-
teers called out before the rebellion by author-
5 ity of the United States, to defend the border
: The Grand Jury in their report upon the
> issue be ween Gov. Palmer and Mayor Mason
OF Chicago, fully indorsed the course pursued
: by the latter ID calling to his aid the services
OF General Sheridan at the time OF Chicago's
t great calamity.
] Douglass was one of the Republican candi-
dates for the Assembly, in a Democrat Dis
5 .rict in New York, and received 4,25O votes to
l 1898 for the Republican State ticket, showing
5 mat 64S Republicans refused to support him.
1 fhere is nothing discouraging in that
Z 1t is sald at Quarantine that the real cause
D OI the delay OF the Prince Alexis arrival is
e owing to the TACT that as there is Cholera in
Z Russia, it was deemed advisable to take mig
!. ratory course and visit Madeira and other
7 Southern climates before proceeding to New
s York
T A case of the most brutal and inhuman
r murder on record was perpetrated at Lynn,
1 Massachusetts, on the 18th, where husband
8 beat his wife, and then pouring kerosene over
5 her person set fire to it. She was literally
? roasted to death. The murderer was at once
r arrested.
. The black man is rapidly coming into the
/ possessions of his rights. A few weeks ago n
= colored citizen of Baltimore was elected from
!. q street car. He promptly brought the officers
, of the company into court and the court (feder-
al) has awarded verdict for damages in favor
: of the plantiff
The murlerers Of the Park family at Hen
rysville, Indiana, who were incarcerated at
Jefersonville, were taken from their prison
by vigilance committee, and severally hung,
on the night of the 10th. They confessed to
the murder, as well as to other crimes before
they were hanged.
3 Compulsory education is hencef forth to be
I the rule in London. The school board of that
city has agreed to bylaw which enacts that
''the parent of every child between FIVE and
thirteen years OF age is required to cause such
child to attend school, unless there shall be
n reasonable cause for hon-attendance"
. 1t is singular how rapidly the population OF
f ambitious cities and aspiring towns increases
g after the census has been taken. We notice
, that various cities are now announcing theiI
e present population, which on comparison
J. with census returns, shows the work of either
+ a mighty industry at home or vast emigrs-
ton from abroad.
n Mrs. Barry, of the Boston Children's Mis-
+ sion, is described as one of the most active
l. | r,,.;,4;,,, ,.,ornar in the xrorId Durirfg the