The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-12-08
NEWS ITEMS.

Navigation on the Hudson river, as far
south as Tivoli, closed on the lst
The Warwick House, Boston, was injured
by fire to the extent of $4,000, on the Sd.
The Governor of Kentucky recommends the
admission of negro testimony in the courts.
Connolly spent Thanksgiving Day in prison
In New York. He had his tur(n)key however
The dailies are filed with accounts of the
Grand Duke, and his Yisitings, dancings, &c.
It's reported that our government and that
of England, will soon interfere in Cuban mat
ters, in the interests of humanity.
Capt. E. Penrose Jones, Ordinance store
keeper in the arsenal at Columbus, died, on
Sunday last aged tifty-four years.
There is prospect of trouble between Ger
many and Brazil. Germany insists upon an
apology, and indemnifcation of its injured
subjects.
Harvey NaticD If South Union township,
Ross county, Will rolling barrel of vinegar
into his cellar, fell and the barrel rolled upon
him, fracturing his skull and killing him.
The Northern Ohio Poultry Show, at CIeve-
land, closed on Wednesday evening. The at
tendance was large, and the exhibition ex-
teasive, embracing all the best breeds of fowls
All the provinces in France yet occupied
by the Germans, have been declared in a state
of siege, in consequence of the frequent mur-
derous assaults made on German soldiers.
Four hundred employees of the park depart
ment in New York were discharged on Satur-
day last. The useless appendages which
Tammany forced upon New York are fast
disappearing,
1t is positively asserted from Washington
that Mr.. Cameron will not be displaced from
the head of the Foreign Relations Committee,
to make room for the restoration of Mr.. Sum-
ner. Who supposed he would beP
1t is said that the debate of the 9th in refer
ence to that portion of the message relating to
the Postal Telegraph system, is considered as
an indication that the House will authorize
the measure. The country will probably be
glad to know that.
James Gordon Bennett, jr., of the New
York Herald, has been sued for libel by two
of the Jurors in the Westfeld disaster case,
who stood out in favor of the ferry company.
The libel consists in intimating that they were
bribed. Damages laid at $4,000.
Chas. F. Garner, of Columbus, was assault
ted last week, and left in dying condition.
A former workman in the same shop with
him was suspected, and traced from one point
to another, until arrested near London, Mad
son county, Ohio, on Saturday night last The
victim of his maliciousness, fingered until
Sunday morning, when he died
About month ago, A. F. Kennedy was
convicted in the United States Court at Oleve.
land, for robbing the post Office at Tifin, but
the judge, in pity, imposed the light sentence
of a nominal fine and 20 days imprisonment.
On Tuesday evening last, the post office at
Berea was broken into and robbed of about a
hundred dollars worth ofpostage stamps, coins,
letters, ETC., and the thief being arrested proves
to be the same Kennedy, just out of prison.
Joseph Farbish and VIM. Chenawith, aged
l6 years and IS years, IN the employment OF
Richard Hill, near Little Rock, Arkansas
seized his little daughter aged years, brutal
ly outraged and then killed her, on the 26th
ult-, and then sank the body in pool, intend
ing while search was being made for the body,
to rob the house and escape. In this they
were foiled, as suspicion fell upon them, and
they were arrested. They confessed the deed
and while being taken to prison were both
] killed by the guard