The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-12-15

Mrs. Witter, of North Lima, Nah
oning county, while laboring under
mental depression, attempted suicide
by cutting her throat, and so far sue
ceeded as to infict a severe wound.
Though her wound is severe, there is
a fair prospect Of her recovery.
The jewelry store of H. Cooper,
at Wellsville, was burglariously en-
tered on the night Of Nov. 25. The
thieves stole five trays OF jewelry,
gold pens, &c, but were unsuccess-
full in getting into an inner safe, af-
ter having blown open the outer one.
1t is the third time that Cooper has
been robbed.
The Bellaire Nail Works employ
125 to $50 hands, and their pay roll
is nearly $4,000 per week. 1t will be
seen therefore that this one manu-
factory causes the distribution of
about $150,000per year, among the
other trades and merchant and mar
ket people and real estate owners of
that stirring town.
Williams Simms, a playmate of
Hawthorne when a boy at Raymond,
and who ever afterward enjoyed the
firm friendship Of the great roman
Ger, recently died at Pensacola, Fla.
Mr.. Sims, who was Muletto, had
possession of the first note book or
diary of Hawthorne, portions of
which he has occasionally published
with his own "reminiscences of the
author.
There. was a grand semi-annual
fagelation at Newcastle, Delaware,
the State of judicial flogging few
days ago. One man was logged for
the third time, and said that, having
all the manhood flogged out of him,
she didn't care for anything" Eight
others were punished with twenty
lashes each, and several in addition
stood for an hour in the pillory. The
offense ofeach being petit larceny.
Lately an unknown party and two
companions in Alliance, proffered to
relieve asmall bl uise on Mr.. ShidlePs
face, by the application of a simple
medicine which they said they would
get at drug store. Mr.. S. consent
ed to the application by means of a
pocket handkerchief or towel; and
almost Immediately was overtaken
with a strangling and stupefying
sensation.
At last accounts the missing ]. H.
Marks, who was connected with the
engineer service Of the Trans Cont
mental Railroad, in Texas, had not
been found. He was last seen at the
engineers camp, somewhere north
ward of Jefferson. The following
rewards have been offered: $4,000 is
offered for his recovery, if alive;
81 900 for his body, if dead; and
$4,000 is offered, if killed, for the
apprehension of the murderer.
Henceforward regular troops will
garrison the Moro, Cabina and
Principe forts at Havana. In view
of the arrival Of reinforcements from
Spain, Valmeseda considers it lust
to relieve the volunteers from this ar
duous service. Spain will send to
Cuba this month four battalions of
troops for the regular army of Spain
besides ten thousand reinforcements
which are to follow in one year.
Senor Moreno, the new Governor of
Havana, has begun the work of sup
pressing gambling houses.
TheAshland Times saws that few
evenings since Mr.SulliYan and wife,
of Perrysville, went from home in the
evening leaving their little daughter
in the care of a German servant girl,
sixteen years old, named Sphen.
The two went to sleep upon the
lounge during the evening, with a
lighted lamp standing upon the shelf
on the opposite side of the room.
When she awokc the lamp was blaz-
ing fearfully, and the wall paper was
on fire. She attempted to extinguish
the flames, when her clothes caught
fire, and she was burned to death.
BLACK CURRANT PUDDlNG.-Stem
your fruit, but you need not top
them. Line pudding basin with a
light paste, strew sugar over it, then
put in your black currants, add more
sugar, and a teacupful of cider, or
an apple or two sliced thin; cover
with top crust, tie a cloth over it,
and boil for two hours. Never put
water with fruit puddings or pies;
lemonjuice, grape-juiee, or cider is
admissible, but water should on no