The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-10-27

male persuasion, took the matter in her own
hands and gave him q threshing.
daring plot to burn and rob Napoleon, by
a gang of thieves who escaped from Chicago,
was discovered and the gang arrested by the
marshal last week. These gangs are scattered
about the country, and vigilence should be
exercised by every community.
Among the pleaaant bits of gossip aHoat is
the fact that at the recent Cleveland County
Fair, Tennessee, Mrs. D. I. Patterson, daugh-
ter ofex-President johnson, formerly first lady |
at the White House, took the first premium
for the best butter.
A little prospect of trouble with England |
exists, in consequence of an attempt on the
part ola British Gunboat to overtake and cap
ture schooner which had been taken from
Nova Scotia, by party of men sent from
Gloucester, Mass. American Revenue cutters
have been sent out with instructions not to al
low her to be retaken.
The great bridge at st. Louis is progressing
rapidly. The concrete or foundation for the
last pier, a small one on the Illinois side of the
river, has been laid, and the bridge company
will have no further use for the air-pumps,
voltaic armor, etc. The masonry, of which
there win be 10000 cubic yards, is about COM
pleted, and the super-structure has already
been commenced. The cast-iron plates at the
piers have been placed and prepared for the
reception of the steel tubes forming the spans.
1t will be completed in about a year.
IdaLewis, since her marriage, legally bears
the name of Wilson. She prefers and only
signs her maiden name, and through devotion
to her invalid mother, still resides at Lime
Rocks, where she achieved her fame. She has
saved the lives of eleven drowning men, and
although the fact was well known to the resi-
dents of Newport and vicinity, no recognition
of her heroism was publicly made until her
last rescue of two men in 1869. Although
possessing an unusually delicate and fragile
frame, no sea has ever proved too rough for the
daring Ida to brave.
Three propositions as amendments to the
Constitution were submitted to the people of
Rhode Island at a special election on the 10th.
Unusual interest was manifested. They were
all rejected. The first, to remove real estate
publications from foreign-born citizens, re-
ceived 1884 votes in favor to 6,S66 against it.
The second to abolish the registry tax, receiv-
| ed 3,6l4 voters in favor to 1888 against it.
The third to prohibit the appropriation of pub
lie money to sectalian schools, lacked the re-
quisite three-ffths, although it had a majority
in its favor. The above includes the returns
from the entire State except three towns.
Two or three years ago patent was OBJ
tanned by gentleman of Virginia for heating
passenger cars by electricity, the exciting pow
er to be gained from the rotation of the wheels.
Experiments of a satisfactory character were
made of this means OF producing warmth, and
it was hoped that the plan would prove emf
nently practicable. But difficulties of adjust
ment have, SO far, effectually defeated the de-
signs of the inventor, and still our railroad
companies continue to build their cars with
the demon of the stove to vitiate the atmos-
phere and occasionally to roast the passengers
The strength of the Mormon abominatior
hitherto has been the unqualified support of the
| women WIZ tld Aho NlOblAAAos IL Weo
difficult to relieve women from the evils o.
polygamy when they did not want to be be.
Heved, but rather glorified in their shame, and
chung to it as the essential feature of their re-
Iigisn. The trials Of the many-wived Saints
for adultery promise better things. Every
Jealous first wife who brings a charge against
her husbands in the pending case of Hawk
ins-aims an effective blow at polygamy. L
the women of Utah can be fairly aroused in
regard to the Mormon abomination it would
not last six months.
A religious trouble has sprung up in Jerus-
alem between the Armenians, backed by the
Governor of the city, and the Catholics, back
ed by the French Consul. The quarrel is al
most identicaIly the same as that which orr
ginated the Crimean war. The Gazette dc
France says; "The Armenians, holding the
Church of st. James of Jerusalem, refuse this
wear to open the doors of the edifce to the
Latins on the occasion of the Saints Fete-day
They will not, they affirm allow their temple
to be proclaimed by the PRONUNCIATION of the
dogma of Infallibility. The Latins, on theil
side, walled up the grotto in which the infant
Jesus was sucked; and now the Pacha and
French Consul are enjoying an unholy row
about these holy places.
The Athens Messenger says that on Thurs.
day week there occurred in that county one
of those sad and unfortunate tragedies which
occasionally startle communities by their sud.
denness and horrible surroundings On that
day, difficulty occurred between William
Silvus, an old and highly esteemed resident Of
Alexander township, and neighbor of his, a
Young man named Lester Wines, about the
division OF a corn crop grown by Mr.. Wines
on the land of Nr. Silvus. In the heat of pas
sion Silyus stabbed Wines in the throat and
neck with pocket knife, severng one Of the
main arteries and causing death in a very few
moments, Silvus was arrested, md on hear
ing in Athens was released on $1,000 bail, the
plea being that the murderous act waf COM
mitted in self-de-fense.
The Francois gives a melancholy account
of the once beautiful garden of the Tuileries,
with its well-kept paths and gay parteres:
''The late rains have so thoroughly soaked the
ground, which had already been cut up and
filed with ruts by the cannon placed there
during the Commune, that the main walk and
that around the basin are impossible. The
whole place is Uttered with fragments of bro
ken tables and chairs. The trees, which dur
ing the last reign had been constructed too
hastily replanted when the paths were raised,
are dying one after another, and are not being
replaced. Very soon there will remain but
the recollection of those masses of foliage
which gave such charm to the garden. The
statues remain in their mutilated condition,
and everything bears the appearance of inten-
| tional abandonment.