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

In VenaRgO, Penn, they train girls for tn 9
Tfemale minstrel business"
The debt of New Orleans is $4,000, 900,
which is enormous for a city of less than two
hundred thousand inhabitants.
D. c. Mclaughlin, editor of thsMurfreesboro
Monitor, Tennessee, was shot to death by one
Robert Cuttles recently. Both were soldiers in
the rebel army.
An Arkansas boy of fourteen, shot and
killed his brothers bride, in Gelt county, last
week. After he was arrested he said his
father instigated the deed.
! Mr.. John Bell Crockett, grandson of Davy
Crockett, was found murdered on his trading
boat, at Brady's Landing, five miles above
Memphis, on the Arkansas shore, on the 29th.
| Fort Avron has been captured by the Prus-
slams, and it is now reported that Forts Rosney
and Nogent have been dismantled If that is
the case, Paris may be in the hands of its
enemies within few days.
Col. J. W. Forney has sold the Washington
Chronicle to ]. NJ. Morris, who will hence
forth become its editor and publisher: Col.
Forney viii give his entire attention now to
his other paper, the Philadelphia Press
DIR. E. Nichols and W. E. Nichols, brothers,
living at Alcorn, Mississippi. had difficulty
on the 2Sd, when brother-in-law named
Shope interfered, and was shot dead by W. E.
Nichols, who was arrested.
A dashing young fellow, who for long time
had served as the trusted coachman of fami-
ly in Boston, recently absconded, with $4,000
in diamonds and other jewelry. He was ar
rested soon after, and the property recovered.
The floor of new brick block, on Ontaria
street, Cleveland, fell to the cellar on Thurs
day Of last week, destroying from six to eight
thousand dollars worth Of dried and preserved
fruits, which were in the store room on the
first floor. No person was injured.
A Sedalia business firm has commenced a
suit against the authorities of that city to re-
cover SS1, 400 for losses sustained tn rough the
burning of a brewery. The claim is based
upon the insuficiency or inactivity of the Fire
Department.
All the hotels at Rutland, Vermont, have
shut up because the town authorities prose-
outed them for violation Of the law in selling
liquor to railway travellers. The railway
company now keeps sleeping cars there for
the Use of wayfarers.
The temporary Senator from Missouri, D.
F. Jewett, Is a native of Maine, but his whole
public life has been spent In Missouri. He is
an able lawyer, was member of thS LeGisla-
turs in 1868, and in that year managed the
impeachment and removal OF Judge Moody Of
the Circuit Court.
Donn Piatt, commenting on recent Con-
grsssional rascalities, says that night or two
ago Pennsylvania Democratic Congressman
was turned out OF hotel in Washington for
beating his wife. Dom says he is a Democrats
"born in the faith and married in the faithf
for he is the son-in-law of Pennsylvanian's
most prominent official"
A Afightful accident occurred on the Missis-
sippi and Tennessee Railroad on the Sd, while
crossing a.bTidge in Non Connah bottom, five
miles from Memphis. A second class car, in
which were number of negoes, was dashed
over an embarkment, by the breaking of an
axle, and burned up, most of the negroes per-
ishing in the flames.
The Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad Com
pany are putting on all the cars and engines
used in their passenger trains patent brakes,
similar to those used on the Pennsylvania
Central Railway, set by means of hot air, and
regulated by the engineer. It is said that a
train can be stopped within three hundred
feet when these brakes are in use. Their gem
eral introductionas matter Of economy and
safety Is looked for,