The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-06-09
NEWS ITEMS,

Congressman Bowen has been found guilty
of bigamy.
Mrs. Fair, the California murderess, has been
sentenced to be hanged.
Diplomatic relations will soon be resumed
between France and Germany.
Foster the Car-hook murderer, has been
sentenced to be hanged on the l4th of July.
Mr.. Stewards Mammoth Hotel for women,
in Fourth Avenue, New York, is nearly COM
pleted.
The Belmont Chronicle says the foxes are
so numerous in the southern part of that
county as to be very troublesome to farmers.
Four hundred additional money order Of
fees are to be erected on the first Of July.
There are about twenty-five hundred already.
The Logan Republican says the Hooking
Democrats are sorry that Vallandingham's
sentance under Order Ss was only banish-
ment.
A colored man was put on jury in Harrison
county. lately. The fact much incensed the
Democracy there, and their organ, the Sef'ti-
mel, fairly foams with anger.
The policies of the Commonwealth Insur-
ance Company, of New York, have been rein
sured in the Accidental Insurance Company
of San Francisco, for 100000.
A sailor named Robert Beers, was drowned
at Cleveland, from the propeller Champlain,
on Saturday last. He was washing off the
sides of the vessel when the platform gave
way and he fell into the river and Immediate
ly sank.
It is announced that the Prussian Govern
ment proposes to invest a large portion of the
French indemnity money in United States Sc
curities. The Germans are a prudent people
and this declaration is a high compliment to
American integrity.
A LansiDgburg (New York; mother-in-law
is trying to weep a charge of cayenne paper
from her eyes, waited there by her sons wife
through key hole used more frequantly than
was pleasant, as a medium of inspection of the
young couples affairs.
John Hamley, an Englishman, while en-
gagged in oiling the shaft of an engine, at New
burg, on the I'd inst, slipped and fell among
the machinery, and before it could be stopped
was crushed to death and his body horrible
mangled.
While the decoration of soldiers graves was
in progress in the cemetery at Binghamton
New York, some one strewed the grave Of
Rulof with beautiful flowers. It was surprise
to the company, but It was finally decided that
the occasion was not intended to do honor to
q murderer, and the flowers were removed.
Duluth already gives evidence of being a
great grain shipping city in embryo. The
Tribune of a recent date states that during the
previous week, IA car loads of wheat, amount
ing to nealy $4,000 bushels, had been received
at the elevator. It also states that -four is ar
irving at the rate of about 1000 barrels per
day. The railroad has much traffic cars, boats
running to Duluth, go both ways heavily la
dened.
Joseph Coldwell of Columbus, a wealthy
man, whose property is valued at from one
hundred to one hundred and ffty thousand
dollars, disappeared last October, and no
clue 70 him has since been obtained, except
budt d AOSbCA hAlblSA IL Cb. 1OulsJ anu 0dll6Q
at Vicksburg was received by his brother, at
Detroit, urging him to go to Columbus and
look after his property. The brother was on
the 9th inst, appointed Administrator of the
lost mans estate.
The Titusville Herald says IA few days
since, one of our well-to-do oil operators, who
has lived long and prospered, and who has a
few quarts of spot oil hand in cases of emer-
gency, received letter, written in a delicate
feminine hand, from an eastern city, in which
the fair writer said: 4 hear you are very
wealthy, and as I am on the eve of getting
married to poor but industrious young man,
I thought may be you would send me little
money. If you would send me $4,000, It
would make me perfectly happy. Our friend,
at the time he received this letter, did not
happen to have more than $4,000 in his vest
pocket, and that he was about to invest in a
large sized government bond for his boy, to pap
er his kite with; otherwise he would have COM
piled with the lady's request, and rendered her
"perfectly happy"