The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-10-20
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NEWS ITEMS.
On Thursday the fst women pastor. OF
Unitarian church IN the United states was
ordained in Brooklyn. The women IS MIS-
Celia Bprleioh. and there are few pastors now
nreaebinq Who bring to their Office better
qualities Of head and heart than she.
The Army Of the Cumberland viii hold its
Hstb anniversary reunion, on the 18th and /
letb of November. Gen. H. H. Barnum, Of \
~, York. viii deliver the annual address on |
ne evening Of the 18th. The following even
ing win be devoted to q banquet occasion.
The second floor of warehouse at Rich
mend, Delaware county, Ohio, gave way a few
ssFs siaoe. and q llaEgs quantity Of wheat and
oats was well mixed together. A horse, which
was on the frst floor, was terribly crushed.
A number Of workmen had left the lower
Aoor but a few minutes before the fall.
john c. Dunn, postmaster of Pittsburgh,
under the Buchanan administration, died on
the 9th inst Mr.. Dunn made his debut as Q
writer for the press, as early as 1916, when he
contributed articles to tho Chronicle. He af-
forwards became interested in the Post Of that
city, and was connected, at different times
with other Of the city papers.
On applying match to the mouth Of q bot
tle'of whisky found in the pocket Of drunken
man in Trenton few days ago, it sent out a
forked blue and red fame which at first star
tied fhe beholders. Another test proved the
compound to be the most fearfuIly and won-
derf1lly made, and composed of an acid that
would eat bar of railroad iron.
The New York Times tells US that the dett
the Democracy has fastened on New York
amounts to s1SS.66 for every man, woman and
child Of the population of that city. The enor-
of this viii be better perceived by the addition
al statement that the entire national debt
amounts to but SIS, % per head OF the entire
population of the United Slater.
The grand Duke Alexis, soon after reaching
New York, will visit Washington. He viii
remain there day or two and then return to
New York, whence he will go to Niagara Falls,
Chicago and other western cities, and to San
Francisco he has expressed a desire to see a
prairie, about which has read 50 much. He
viii again visit Washington during the session
Of Congress- 1aole .DIrh uCr
1T is reported that Horaoe Greeley has got
into q muss with Texas editor It appears
tbst iu an agricultural essay on tobacco, Mr..
Greeley asserts that fnecut willnot ripen. well
unless the tinfoil is stripped from the growing
buds early in the spring, and that plug tObac-
co ought to be knocked of the trees with clubs,
instead of being picked by hand. This, the
Texas editor says, was nonsense.
Barton Eisell, Of the firm Of Edsell q Hurl-
but, wholesale druggists, of Chicago, was found
dead at the foot of the stairs leading to his bed
chamber, on the morning of the 9th inst. He
had bullet in his head, and pistol lay near
him, but whether he committed suicide or was
killed BY burglars is not known, although the
latter is supposed to have been the case. HIS
wife was burned to death in the great fire Of
Sunday last
The Taylor Davidson bronze fountain, a
gift 1rom. Mr.. Probasco to the city Of CinciH
natl, was unveiled with due ceremony, on
Friday last, At twenty minutes past II tie
ceremony was complete and the water turned
on, and produced a fine display. Shortly after,
five tiers of seats which had not been properly
secured, fell with their loads of people. and
quite a number were injured though none "a
tally. Three persons had legs and one an
arm broken.
Il late reports are &, be believed, Queen Vic
toria's mind-whatever there may have been
of its as completely wreck as that of the
helpless Carlotta. The Queen thinks her dead
husband is always with her, and that she can
hold conversation with him. She orders the
place OF tho Prince at the table to be always
kept for him, and the attendants serve every
course before the vacant chair, as if the own
er sat in it. Every morning pair of boots
are eleansed and sat down at the door Of room
formerly tenanted by Prince Albert, and by
innumerable other signs the Queen testifes 10
her faith in her death husbands actual pres.
enoe on earth.
President Grant reached Pittsburgh, on
the 4th, and was received by delegation Of
citizens irrespective Of party. The welcoming
address was made by Judge McCandless, 10
which the President responded briefly.
The fires prevailing in the woods OF Mime
sofa have proven very destructive to property.
Several lives have been lost, a number of vii
lages destroyed, and every barn and farm house
in the track of the lire fiend has been demol-
ished. . e5lE Il
A man at Springfield, Ill, bet two ladies' a
new dress each that they cOuldent refrain
fIom talking two hours. One Of them held
out an hour and ten minutes, and the other
won the dress. They made it up on him when
the time had expired.
Burglars effected an entrance into Buer's
millinery establishment on Water street,
lClevelaDe, on Friday night last, and gathered
up very valuable lot of goods, but were
frightened of by g policeman before they
could convey the goods away.
Quiet people this way have poor idea Of
the log driving on the Western rivers. Recent
ly the ebig drive" on the Muskegon, in Michi-
gan, contained lSO,OO0,OOO feet of lumber.
This was one raft only.
Mobile boasts man who ate forty-two egls
and drank gallon of lager beer for breakfast,
ate six pounds Of beef and two loaves of bread
and drank gallon of lager for dinner.
One Of the persons hunt at Chicago for set
ting fires to buildings, was Barney Bohen, for
saloon-keeper in Cleveland, where he was
three times inflicted for arson or attempted ar
son.
The city authorities OF Coldwater have or
dered that no smoking shall be allowed in .he
streets Of the city.
Kalamazoo had the good fortune to furnish
the first car load of provisions that went into
Chicago after the fire.
Martha Welker, young English woman, in
Company with her father, climbed the famous
1Iatterborn, one of the most difiOuit-of the al
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