The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-12-29

ployees had ceased from work, about
half an hour before the explosion or
the result would have been disast-
rous in the extreme.
At menagerie in Indianapolis a
Goness escaped from her cage, and
the chief Of police went to the top
of the center pole in five minutes.
He is reported now as saying that
ne went up there just for fun to de-
eide bet. Beside that, he. says he
didn't know the lioness was out of
her cage, and he didn't go up the
pole anyway.
This is the description Of q ter
rible infant in Fentress County, Ten
nessee: "The progeny is only three
years old, and weighs seventy-five
pounds, has as much beard as a
twenty year Old, his feet are eight
inches long, though small for one Of
his build; he is fond of the society
of girls, but the boys he detests
His voice is coarse, and his fits of
passion are terrible"
By an accident on the Cincinnati
and Indianapolis junction railroad
near Middletown, Ind, on the 22d,
caused by broken rail, NJ. B. Fien,
ner, conductor; James Hamilton
engineer; and Pat Kilkary, section
foreman of that section, were killed
The baggage man, L. Golden, had
his arm broken. Several passengers
were severely, but none fatally in.
jured.
The Forest City Nine for 1872, is
made up, and numbers among it:
members Pratt, White, Carleton
Sutton, Pabor and Allison, of the old
club, with Wolters of the Mutual,
Hastings of the Rockford, Sweasy,
Of the old 'Red Stockings" and
Holdsworth of the Eckford, to com
plete the number. 1t is a strong
club, and expects to "knock the per-
simmons.
A train on the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids and Minnesota Railroad met
with an accident, on Sunday night
last, while crossing Shell Rock river
near Rockford. The bridge gave
way, precipitating two locomotives
with their cabooses 27 feet. The
engineer on one locomotive and the
fireman on the other were killed,
Several others were killed, and q
number of others injured.
Pic Mono comforts himself for his
loss of temporal power, it is said, by
playing billiards, in which he has
grown particularly sKillful since
Rome has ceased to be an eccleciasti
cal city. Cardinal Antonelli, who is
often his adversary,is easily discoun
ted by Pic. Antonelli is reported tc
have declared that adversely so much
improves the Pope's stroke that, if ht
should be driven from the Eterna
City, he would be the best billiard
player in all Europe.
The Democracy think that one
righteous Republican will be sufici-
ent to save their rotten old party
from demolition. Hence the1r
anxiety to find one that will accept
nomination for the Presidency a
their hands. So far their efforts
have been unavailing. If less thai
ten righteous men could not havt
saved Sodom, their faith in Repub
hcanism must be strong to expect
one of that party to get them new
lease of power. No chance what
ever.
In a deserted shop in Pittsfeld
Mass, there rests on its block Ell
anvil that has done duty for more
than three hundred years. It is a:
sound to-day as it was in 1853, when
Eltweed Pomeroy, after welding for
the Stuarts the ponderous horse
shoes of the same style and pattern
that the ancestors had made during
generations for the Tudors and
Plantaganest, grew weary of taxes
without law, and work without wa
ges, and anvil in hand sailed for the
new world. A deft workman, be
throve in the settlements, and left
his anvil as an hairloom to his des.
cendants.
A tornado passed near New AL.
bany, Indiana, on the 23d. 700 feet
Of tressel-work on the Air Line Road
was broken down. A horse, buggy
snd5wo men, were taken up by the
wind and carried forty feet, but not
injured. The roof of the St. Jones
Cathedral at Indianapolis, was crush
ed by the falling of a tower, during
same storm. At Springfield, ILL.,, the
gale was equally fierce, and skat
ing rink, a rolling mill and the
Round House of the Gilman, Clint on
& Springfield R. R. Company were
destroyed. Total loss set down at
$4,000 Damage was done at Buf
falO and St. Louis by gales same
day.
Among the variety of plans sug-
gested for the funding OF the natio-
nal debt, the following proposition
of correspondent of the New York
Tribune seems to have attracted
some attention. His plan, in brief,
is, first, to have Congress pass a con-
solidated loan to run, thirty years,
interest at 8 65-1O0 per cent. per
annum, payable half yearly in gold,
the government to exchange green
backs at par for such bonds, or vice
UerSa, at the option of the holder.
Second: Banks to exchange all their
high-price bonds for the new at par,
or surrender their charter. Third
To treat gold as a commodity, and