The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-08-11
NEWS ITEMS.

lhe steam DoaC Jonn hyle ran on q rockJ !
at the mouth of the Ohio, on the night of
the 9th.
Pleasanton has been suspended, and J. w.
Douglas appointed Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, on the Sth.
Commissioner Pleasanton, has been invited
to surrender his Portfolio. He has not proved
an immense success.
The funded debt of N. Y, City and the
county reaches 6O,242, 1896. That's Democratic
management for you.
1t is estimated that 10000 persons were
present, at the National Camp Meeting, at |
Urbana, on Sunday last
A terrific storm passed over a portion of
Wisconsin, on the Sth, doing immense damage
at and in the vicinity of Oshkosh and Winnie
come.
About fifty Maryland editors were enter
tanned at Columbus, mn the Sth, by the City
Councils, and afterward started on a trip to
Put-in-Bay.
A riot between the Fenian and police force,
occurred in Dublin, on Sunday last, but was
suppressed after half an hour. The wounded
number about fifty.
The Council of Cleveland have instructed
that all stray dogs found before six o'clock in
the morning shall be shot, and have detailed
policemen for the purpose.
The male members of the BeeChsr family
are in favor of woman suffrage while the fe-
male members are opposed to it. The female
members are sensible people.
DIR. Carl Crosse, of Louisville whose brutal
treatment of his wife, few days since, occa-
stoned her death, is under arrest, but it is be-
Eeved he can not be convicted.
John H. Hunter, found guilty at Akron,
Ohio, of the murder of Mrs. Gargett, was on
Saturday last sentenced to be hung on Tues
day, the 2Ist day of November.
BY a coal oil explosion at Lafayette Center,
Medina CO., the post Office, store and residence
of Mr. o. Chapman were destroyed The loss
is not less than $1,000, but is fully covered by
insurance.
CD. Pierce, of Sparta, Morrow county, has
five acres of raspberries and four acres of
Lawton blackberries. The former have yield
ed 10000 quarts and the latter will yield
| lZ,UUU QUARTS
Terre Haute is in luck. She has struck oil
real lubricating oil, and forty barrel well
at that. A company of citizens have been the
borers who did it. Their second well, sank to
the depth of 1885 feet, was the success.
Railroad companies have commenced bow
ing to the legislative fat by putting in flexible
bridges between their cars as a precaution
against the hitherto frequent accidents that
occur from passengers and employees falling
between the couplings.
Guy W. and Charles A. Foster were arrest
ed on a charge of committing the bold Medina
robbery, which occurred on the 29th ult.
There Preliminary examination was in pro-
gress up to Wednesday of this week. They
will undoubtedly be held for trial.
Joseph Caldwell, Of Columbus, Ohio mys-
teriously disappeared year ago, and it is just
ascertained that he died in insane asylum in |
New Orleans, and was buried as pauper He |
left an estate valued at $15O,OOO, which DR..
Samuel Caldwell, of Illinois, now peaceably
possesses.
Owing to the recent European war the en-
tire stock of foreign rags is being sent to the
New York market They are admitted free
of duty, and the prices of all grades of home
and rags are usually the same, but owing to
the vast arrivals the market is overstocked and
depressed.
Cholera is showing itself badly in many
countries at present. 1t has been severe in st.
Petersburg, is now raging in Moscow and ex-
tending southwark; at Teheran, in Persia, it
is carrying off ninety lives day, and it is re-
ported to have broken out virulently in NADIA
gascar and at the French colony of Morse
JEFF Davis still refuses to rise "and explain"
the sleeping car episode in his history. The
Southern papers proclaim it a radical lie, but
Conductor Trice, being a Virginian, and, as
he says himself, as big a rebel as JEFF, main
tains that when he peeped into the section
"there they were," and he intends to stick to
it, JEFF or no JEFF. OH Jefferson.
Almost terrific locomotive explosion occurred
ton, Ohio, on the Pan Handle Railroad, near
the State line between Ohio and Indiana,
where trains on this road branch off for Chi c
cago. Three men were engaged cleaning the c
engine at the moment of the explosion, two of
whom were instantly killed, and the third was
SO seriously wounded that recovery was
thought impossible.
The Kenton Republican says; There is now
growing on the old Jno F. Henkle farm, in
Roundhead township, now owned by James
q. May, cherry tree fifty feet in height, with
branches covering an area of ground forty
eight feet across; the trunk at the butt meas
ures ten feet five inches around; the two forks
a short distance above are seven feet in cir
cumference, while the main branches from
these measure at their commencement four
feet and eight inches. 1t is of the black heart
variety, and is probably the largest tree of the
kind in the country.
The Paris rag-pickers have suffered much
by the siege and msurrection. Before the
Prussian siege they numbered sixteen thou
sand, all regularly licensed at the Prefecture
of Police. At present only two thousand can
be accounted for, and these are mostly old
men and women. Many fought heroicallY
against the Prussians, but the great majority
of the men and boys went enthusiastically in
to the Communal ranks, and were taken pris-
oners or killed. 1t is estimated that six thou
sand of these industriels were killed at the
battle of the Bievre alone; and their brigades
were in many other engagements.
A few days since the New York Tribune
stated that business man with $4,000 claim
against the New York City government, pres
ented it several times without getting his pay =
was told by the officials that if he would make
out his bill for $4,000 he could have his pay.
He did SO, receipted the bill, and got the Sl0, 7
D00. The New York World called loudly
upon the Tribune for the name of its informant.
After few days delay, for the purpose doubt 4
less of getting square denisl from the World,
The Tribune gave the name and place of bust
ness of its informant, and notified the authori-
lies that the charge could be proven. The
World will, probably, be as anxious now to
hush the matter up as it pretended to be to
have it investigated.
In speaking of the vote of the Cincinnati ;
Council to repeal the Sunday ordinance, the
Gazette says; "This vote makes no difference ]
with the duty of the Mayor. The vote has
not repealed the law. It is not likely that
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