The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-06-16
NEWS ITEMS.

The Academy of Music, at Akron, was dedi-
Gated on Monday evening last.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectured at Paines-
vile on the evening of the 9th.
The Paris Commune consisted of one hun
dred and six members, all but four of whom
have persisted.
Hurlburt & Dodge's planning mill, at Cleve-
land, was destroyed by fire on the night of the
llth. Loss $4,000.
John Dabaus, of Piqua, shot and killed his
wife, on the 18th, then shot and killed him
self Domestic troubles were the cause.
Jack Ryan, of Dubuque, and Tom Lee, OF
Montana, INDUCED in a prize fight near Sioux
City, on the 18th Lee was the winner, Ryan
being badly wOrsted.
On Sunday next the Germans viii have a
triumphal procession in Berlin, in honor of
the results of the late war. On the same
day, the French will have a grand review of
their armies in Paris.
The President has finally decided to make o
trip to the Pacific coast the middle of August
in company with Senator Nye. He will visit
Salt Lake City, Nevada, California, and prob
ably viii go to Portland, Oregon, in revenue
cutter.
Toledo Is troubled with incendiaries. On
Friday last the dwelling of Mr. Wilcox, corner
of Jefferson and Eleventh Streets, and the
barn Of Mr.. Young on Fourteenth, were de-
stroyed by fire, under circumstances rendering
it certain that they were set on fire.
Rev. A. B. Way, formerly pastor of Christ's
Church, at Alliance has been found to be
forger to the extent of $4,000. The forged pa
per was against his best friends. The evidence
against him is said to be strong, and the grand
jury has found true bill against him
Money has been loaned in the New York
market at 2 per cent, during the last week,
on government collaterals Some of the New
York papers state that loans on call have been
made without any interest. Legal tenders in
creased during the week Sunday Herald
S2,7OO,OOO, while loans increased only $3.50, 900.
At Massillon, Ohio, on Decoration Day, the
Firemen left the procession because a colored
delegation occupied position before them.
The Stark county Republican says the profane
commentary of a colored man standing near,
was exceedingly apt: "Dey wernt so d-d par
ticular about our being in de front few years
ago." That's so.
A young wife in New York gave birth the
other day to twins, boy and girl, both of
whom were endowed with full sets of beauti-
full teeth. The incident has excited a great
deal of interest in the medical faculty, but the
mother has resolutely refused to make show
of her babies for the doctors. There are other
cases of SIMILAR kind on record, but they are
very rare.
There being no election of LieutenantGover
nor at the last election in Rhode Island, ow-
ing to third cadidate having been run on
what was called the fish-trap issue, ballot
was taken in joint convention of the Legis-
lature, on the 3Oth ult., and Pardon W.
Stevens, Republican candidate, present in
cumbent, was elected, receiving 62 votes to 81
of Charles R. Cutler, Democratic candidate.
1t has been discovered that potato bugs are
not healthy food for sheep. A gentleman lost
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a piece of ground where the bugs destroyed
potatoes last year. He does not know wheth-
er they were poisoned by eating the eggs and
the young bugs or by the bites of old ones.
He found several OF the bugs on one sheep
which was ailing, On removing his flock to
another field, the ailing ones speedily recov-
cred and he lost no more.
The city of Buenos Ayres, capital of the Ar
gentine Confederation, in South America, is
reaping all the horrors of dread pestilence |
The yellow fever is raging violently, the peo-
pie are flying to the mountains, and trade and
industry are paralyzed. In this great emer-
gency the United States is as usual the first
nation to be called on for assistance, and a |
movement to alleviate the want and suffering
existing in our South American sister Repub-
ic has already been started.
Suicide prevails as an evidemc in Cleve-
and, and anther name has been added to the
ong list John Kurth blowed his brains out,
1n Sunday last, while the family was at
church. The Cleveland Leader describing the
lcene says: The son-in-law and daughter re-
.urned home at twelve O'Clock, and on enter
ng the house an awful spectacle met their
yaze. The father lay before them dead, his
lead horribly disfgured and torn to pieces, and j