The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-05-26
NEWS ITEMS.


Hon. J. NJ. Ashley has received an appoint
ment as Commissioner to run the boundary
lines Of Western Territories.
The trial of Jennie Droz, who shot Major
Fisk, on the l4th of February, has been set foi
the 9th of June, at Cleveland. She has been
released on bail of $4,000, and her father ac.
cepted on the bond.
James Gordon Bennett, the old proprietor Of
the N. 7. Herald, recently made over that es-
tablishment to his son. The property and
good viii were set down at 100000. He is
now in his 18th year.
The L. S. Nitro Glycerine Co., of Painesvile,
are the inventors of process for rendering
Nitro-G -Glycerine non-explosive, by the simple
admixture of common salt. The salt is at once
removed by solution in water.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati COnls'er-
cial writes In Southern and interior Ohio the
wheat crop is looking the best that has been
known for years, but for the past two weeks
has been at stand still in growth.
The Office of the Adams Express Company,
at Columbus was robbed of between $4,000
and $4,000, on Tuesday night of last week.
The clerks, it seems, were chloroformed, and
the safe keys obtained and money abstracted
from the safe while they were in stupor.
Stephen Kirk and Salmon Wall, young men
who have had some misunderstanding con-
cerning young lady both were interested in
met at church near Jones' station, not far
from Cincinnati, on Sunday night, and an en-
counter followed which ended in Kinks dang
erously stabbing Wall.
The pumps at the Cleveland lake tunnel
were stopped Saturday night, and the water
allowed to fill it again, it having been deter
mined to abandon work from the shore end
for the present. A strong force will be i'm
mediately set to work upon the crib shaft
and the excavation VIII progress shoreward.
County offices in Hamilton County are pro-
ftable. A committee was recently appointed
By the Court of Common Pleas in Cincinnati
to examine the proceedings of the Commits
sioners, and they have just made g report.
They found that during the past two years the
Treasurer received S97, 1868 for his services, the
Probate Judge 100000 and the Auditor $780,
II9.
What is the matter with the public build
ings in Virginia? It was only last fall that the
country was horrifed with the details of the
terrible courthouse disaster at Richmond, and
now fifteen or twenty students have narrowly
escaped death by the fall of porch of the
Military Institute at Lexington. As it was,
several were severely injured. A few more
such accidents as these, and Virginians will
become very wary about entering their public
edifces.
A man in Massachusetts, who has been
troubled with tickling and soreness in his
throat, lately astonished himself and friends
by caughing up an upper set of false teeth
which he swallowed in his sleep year before,
of which fact he was ignorant up to the time
of the discovery e the missing articles. This
reminds US of tie Dutchman, who thought
there must be some "gravels, or some leetle
dings in his boot, No II, found ju it pair of
cast iron candle suffers.
New York making it a misdemeanor to jump
upon railroad trains, whether passenger or
freight, punishable with fine of not less than
five dollars, and, in case of refusal to pay
fine, with imprisonment. In the western
part of Pennsylvania, about a year ago, an en-
gineer gave a youngster a sound and well
deserved cutting for persisting in thus endau-
gering his life after repeated warnings. The
boys father prosecuted the engineer, and sue
ceeded in having him fined. When, about six
weeks after-ward, the lad had both of his legs
taken off by falling under y train, the sympa-
thy bestowed upon the afflicted parents was
not excessive.
Buffalo is amusing itself over the perform
ances of remarkable Artesian well. 1t was
bored as a test of the question whether natural
gas existed there as at Erie. In this respect
the well has proved a surprising success, yield
ing as it does each day, forty thousand feet Of
gas of such excellent quality as to require no
purifying, and having double the ilIumina-
ting power of ordinary coal gas. Besides gas,
the well yields at different points in its depth,
mineral water similar to that of the Mineral
springs, in Central New York, and still FUR
.her down there has gushed out a strong spout
of water so intensly salt as to show conclusive
y that the drill has pierced the genuine salt
rock. The proprietor thinks he has good
hing, and still keeps boring in the hope of fin
ling some other product. In any other city
han Buffalo gas, salt and congress water
would be considered enough for one well.