The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-09-01
NEWS ITEMS.
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The Yellow fever has made its appearance
at Charleston, S. G.
The population of the United States has
been officially declared to be SS,555,sSS.
The Anneks Jams heirs are going for the
Trinity property again, having discovered fur
ther evidence of their right to it.
Mrs. Colburn,after lengthy examination in
the Bufenbarger poisoning case, at London,
Madison county, was honorably discharged on
the 25th.
The troubles in France continue, and there
is but little hope of permanent government
there. Theirs had written his resignation,
but afterwards withdrew il.
The report made by Mr.. David A. Wells in
1869, as special commissioner of the revenue,
has been translated into French by order of the
national assembly at Versailles.
A military expedition is fitting out at st.
Paul. Minnesota, to accompany the engineers
OF the Northern Pacific Railroad while
locating their line through Western Dokota
and EIstern Montana
Ben. Butler made speech in Massachusetts,
the other day, which was bitterly abusive, and
was the occasion of war of words during
the meeting, which threatened at times to be-
come warmer work
There will be a large attendance at the Put
in-Bay Regatta, on the 9Th and 7th inst.
Yachts will be present from Montreal, Tor
onto, and other points in Canada, as well as
from the American Lake cities.
Charles Scribner the well known publisher,
died of typhoid fever at Luzerne Switzerland,
on Saturday of last week. Those conversant
with literary matters will learn of the death
of Mr.. Scribner with feelings of deep regret.
The steamship Lodona, was wrecked, of
St. Augustine, Florida, and became total
wreck She sailed from New York, on the
18th ult. Twenty of the crew were lost The
vessel was an iron one, and valued at S2O0,O
Judge W. W. Boardman, an eminent citi-
zen of New Haven, Connecticut, died at his
residence on Sunday last. He was man
prominently known being connected during
his life with many of the public institutions of
the state.
A new honor has been heaped upon Bret
Harte. A new house of entertainment for
man and beast at Cohoes, New York, was in
augurated Monday as the Bret Harte House.
the walls being gorgeous in frescoes from the
New York artist Brookes, illustrating the true
and affecting story of The Heather Chinee.
Brigham Young was asked not long since
which of his sons was at West Point. Brig.
scratched his head moment and said that if
memory served him it was the one that killed
the Gentle along in '63 for selling peanuts to
Mormon without license, but he couldn't
remember his name. "And yet he is not hap
py."
Brooks, of the New York Express, is aston
ished at what he sees in Japan. He says:
"There are no people, only millions and mil
| lions of human beings that we at home call
people, No Maine Yankee, on first entering
the Hub of the Universe BOSTON,, ever stared
more than do, pumped" more than do, or
is learning more than 1 am"
Mrs Stowe has just offered this tribute to
American scenery and American travel "a
party of well dressed people, floating up
North river of bright spring day, is about
as ideal picture of travel as can be desired.
In point of natural scenery the Rhine is moth
ing compared with the Hudson, and our Amer
lean steamboats, certainly are as far ahead of
anything that ever appeared on the Rhine as
Aladdin's palace is ahead of an ordinary dwell
ing"
The question now agitating France is
whether Thiers has written his resignation
and is prepared to submit it at an early mo-
ment. The interist excited by this point
seems as profound as that created by the out
break OF the last war, the defeat of Napoleon,
the rise of the Commune, or the fall of the
same; and in this purely personal matter all
recent French history is apparently forgotten.
It does not argue the stability of Republican
government that the presence or absence of
one of its members threatens revolution.
New Hampshire has enacted a compulsory
education law. It directs that every parent
or guardian shall send his child to school
twelve weeks in the year, six weeks Of the
schooling to be continuous under penalty Of 9