The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-10-06

Martinique recently, and over 200 cooi'
drowned.
During the past year, the government hi
saved 81 ,OO0, 600 by the discharge Of revenu
officers.
The LAYING Of the track of the Northern Pa
scific Railroad, from Portland East, commence
on Monday.
A Mrs. RIcFadden, OF Cleveland was brutal
I iy beaten by her husband, on the 26th. Sh
was rendered insensible.
A ton and half Of powder exploded a
/ Kicks powder mills, near Newbury, n. Y, ol
the 26th One man was killed.
Serious difficulties are apprehended amonl
| the MOrmOns, and number of Gentiles hav
sent their iamilies away in expectation o
trouble.
Ben. Butler has been beaten for the nomi
nation for Governor of Massachusetts. The
vote in Convention stood, Wn. B. Washburnt
GAS, Butler z64.
A man named Cook, near Norwalk, Con.
necteut, while temporarily insane, on the 2l
reclined over keg half full Of power, and
ignitiDg 1t was blown to atoms
Bruised peach leaves are said to be a GER
tam, easy, and painless cure for warts; and al
so sure agent for healing punotures OF nails
IN the foot, either Of man or beast.
A squash vine measuring 800 feet has been
discovered in the town OF Wilton, Saratoga
county. At latest advices it was still growing,
and chasing all the live stock Of OF the vicini-
ty.
A grand military festival, at the expense of
$4,000, viii be given in October at Fashion
Course, Flushing, L. L, for the benefit of the
Union Home and school for soldiers and sail
ors' orphans.
Fifty prisoners attempted to effect an escape
from Sing Sing, New York, on the ID. They
took possession Of the Propeller Hugh Battan,
but were fired on, recaptured and committed
to prison.
The Chief of the Burau Of Statistics, Mr..
Young, reports the total number of emigrants
arriving during the year ending June 30, 1871
at 32l, $50, OF which l90,42S were males, ard
1892 females.
Attorney General Pond has decided that,
under the act Of Congress OF Jan. q, 1871, SOL
diers who have resided at the Soldiers Home
one year, have the right to vote, and may not
be deprived OF that right
Joe Pentland, the famous clown, who has
been known these many years from one end
OF the country to the other, has gone mad.
The first symptoms OF his insanity were shown
while he was performing in Tennessee.
Major Samuel Sumner, of Syracuse, relative
of the distinguished General, is the American
to witness the maneuvers OF
the British army at Aldershott, where Mar
shal Moltke and Gen. Chanzy will also meet
Bismarck has an income OF more than $780,
600 per annum. He believes he was poisoned
by some unknown enemy during his recent
visit to Frankfort-on-the-M He has lost
his appetite, and has been in poor health ever
since.
Chas. Van YalkenbuTg, who was supposed to
have been killed, at the Pacific House, Efhng-
ham; Illinois, several weeks ago, and was laid
out for burial, was discovered not to be dead
after all, ana has SO far recovered as to be
about again.
Miss Julia " Doohttle, of Brooklyn, took
,hloroform to produce anesthesia, SO as to
nave some teeth drawn, on the 25th, and died
Immediately after the operation was per-
ornled. Every effort was made to resuscitate
Ter, but without effect.
i Boston man, named William Wells |
Brown, who attempted to lecture to the freed
nen Of Kentucky, near Lexington, was cap
ured by the Ku Kiux, on the 10Th, and came
lear being hanged. He succeeded, however, |
n making his escape from them.
The Stockton Herald says: During the
delivery OF her speech last night, Mrs. Laura
Dc Force Gordon said: 4 am an American
itizen and over twenty-one years Of age To |
his O crusty, and probably disgusted benedict |
ried out: you bet you are areH The effect |
vas electrial."
William Beeler, found guilty Of burning the |
abroad bridge over Wild Cat River, near |
lafayette, Ind, has been sentenced to pay a |
inc OF $4,000, and serve q ten years imprison-
nent. 1t he works out his hne under the |
state laws, at seventy-hve cents per day, 1t |
viii take him over eighty years.
Geo. A. Chase, and Frank McGraw, were |
rrested, at Washington, on the 26th charged /
With stealing the gold and silver seals from |
lumber OF treaties. Finding the detectives |
lad proofs OF their guilt, they confessed they |
lad stolen them, and had melted and sold |
hem. They viii be properly punished.
Hon. B. B. Chapman, for many years res
dent OF Elyrie, died at his resIde-l:. in Put /
n-Bay, on the 18th inst. He went INTO Ne
,raska IN l54, and assisted IN putting up the /
rst house that was erected in Omaha. He /
vas q Delegate TO Congress from Nebraska in
800. He was 80 years old last August.
A late San Francisco paper, speculating up
n the possibilities OF the Cautorma vine
fade, says that within the last month there
ave been shipments overland of ten car
mDus, OHIO, within hundred miles of the
amous Catawba vineyard, now await ship
lent.'
A panther has been preying upon sheep
M hogs, III the town OF Musheott, WIS, for
onie wseAs. The sheep anu hogs killed are
Jund with holes III their throats, from which
le blood mas evidently been sucked, as none
ever found on the ground In no instance
as the uuknowd animal eaten OF the flesh OF
IS victims.
The railroad bridge which was in progress
t construction over Nerdlgus River, Indiau
err1tory, nelg Ft. Gibson, fell on the lst inst,
lrryng with 1t a number OF workmen Two /
ere drowned, one Killed. and sixteen badly
liured, eight or ten of whom it Is thought
1ll die Those VITO could be moved were
mt to Fort Scott.
New London, Connecticut, has had a sensa-
on. The other night docton was called to
ress the wounds of q man whose name ana
yH,llty must not be known. The physician
as blindfolded and rowed to a vessel, where
e found man horribly beaten and wounded.
lie attended 10 him, was paid, was rowed
ack TO his Office.
The international money order system be-
xeen the United States and Great Britain
oes into operation on Monday. Remittances
an also be made by international money or
ers, via Switzerland, to all the principal
owns and cities OF Austria. Hungary, Spain,
.ussia, Sweden, Denmark. Norway, Turkey,
4 sece, Egypt, the East Indies and China.
A girl Of Il years located a farm in Kansas
,me three years ago. The land was perfectly
lid, and she employed no male help; but her
access has been such that, on Tuesday of last
eek she was offered for her farm a sum ten
mes the amount she paid for it. She refused
le offer, and says shat in five years more she
ill retire 10 the East, and live on the interest
her property.
A destructive fire broke out along the Wa
ash Valley Road, between New Haven, In
lana and Defiance, Ohio, which has devas-
lted the country Tor twenty-five miles The
re had ragged for forty-eight hours up to
tuesday, morning, before It could be got un-
er control. Farmers had been blowing
round their barns and houses to save them
rom destruction.
The brutal murderer Of Col Crane, at Jackson
Iiss. Col. Z. W. Verge, an ex-rebel officer
as commenced the publ alton Of a new Dem
cratic paper in Baltimore. 1t is extremely
southern III its tone, 'ookil g to the entire con-
rol OF the Democratic party by its former
southern leadert, and tA2 final wiping out of
he Constitutional amen5ments, the payment
I the cOnISusadL6 Wal NSht3 anu the payment
rom the national tr,-sury Of $4,000 900 TO
be Southern people tor their emancipated
laves.
There is a bolt from the Democratic ticket
q the Wooster judicial district. Hon. L. S.
who didn't get the Democratic no
linatlon for Judge, is running as an indepen-
ent candidate, and it is very pretty quarrel
5 it stands. In the heat of the discussion it
, amusing to notice with what vigor and pos
.iveness the split wings Of the Democracy
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