The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-05-19
NEWS ITEMS.


shores of Lake Superior.
Cleveland is arranging for grand floral Of
fering on Decoration day.
The Postofice at Cambridge, Ohio, was
robbed, on the night of the 9Th.
Gen. Sheridan in company with Mrs. Lin
coin and Tad, arrived in New York, on
the 9th.
Jennie DrOz, who killed Mayor Fisk, in
Cleveland, recently, has been indicted for
manslaughter.
The powder mill Of the Miami Powder
Company, in Green Co., O., exploded on the
9th. No lives lost.
Gen. Noyes is thought to have the inside
track as candidate for the Republican NOM
ination for Governor.
Capital punishment has been abolised in
Mexico. They kill each other so fast that the
law was rendered unnecessary.
The Pullman car manufacturing shops, at
Detroit, were destroyed by fire, on the morn
ing of the 18th. Loss $4,000. Insured for
$4,000
The army Of the Potomac held its reunion
on the 18th in Boston. A pleasant time was
had, a number of speeches made, and poem
by Bret Harte read.
A freight train on the Erie road was run
into by another freight train, near Attica,
n. Y, on the 18th, and number Of emigrants
were killed and wounded.
The Emperor of Germany is practical
printer An his family are obliged to have
some trade. William chose to be typo, and
worked at the case three years.
The citizens Of Urbana are excited over a
supposed murder. Traces of the deed were
seen near pond, and a number of persons
are engaged in dragging it for the dead body
At Londonville, fatal accident occurred
on Saturday. As a young man named Joseph
Delmar was endeavoring to harness a horse,
it kicked him in the head, killing him instan-
tlg.
A desk at which Benjamin Franklin is said
to have learned to write was sold at auction in
Newport, R. L, the other day for ten cents.
Tfelow price is enough to make Poor Rich
ard shout for JOY from his coffin.
Pixies music hall at Cincinnati is being
changed into theater. It viii be completed
in June and viii be opened with season of
opera bouffe by Fisk's full company of French
artists. The time of opening has been fixed on
June 18th.
A man named Jancey killed another, named
Lord, near Buena Vista, on the 18th. Jancy
had been abusing his wife the night before,
when Lord interfered. The next day Jancey
met LORD, and stabbed him three times, killing
him. The murderer was arrested.
Benedict Arnold's autograph sold for two
dollars and twenty-five cents in New York
the other day, while Lafayette's brought but
one dollar and ten cents, thus adding one
more to the long list of examples of the fact
that in this world virtue is at discount and
villainy at a premium.
The prizs fight between Mace and Cobum,
which was to have come off on the I1th, proved
a bloodless encounter. The combattants eyed
each other for an hour and half, but struck
not blow; meanwhile the Canada police and
battalion Of soldiery came upon the scene
and forced the crowd to disperse.
Governor ClaHin has appointed Julia Ward
Howe and Mrs. Stevens of Cambridge as JUS
ticesSf the Peace for Suffolk county, Massa-
chusetts. The appointments await confrma-
ton by the Executive Council, and the coun-
try will then expect to see these ladies eager
to accept some of the duties of citizenship thus
rendered them and enter upon their magiste-
rial duties.
At Marengo, Iowa, young lady named
Susan Altman, who had been a victim to the
evils of the seducer, drowned herself in the
Iowa river. She formerly resided with her
parents at Wauseon, o., but was misled by
one Samuel E. Norton. Before committing
the deed she left a note addressed to her de-
stroyer, calling the vengeance of heaven upon
him, for his perfdy.
George Long, of Napoleon, O., asks infor-
nation of q man named Morris Burris. a
baker, who, some twenty years ago, took
son of Longs, then an infant, to bring up.
Burris, a few years afterwards, moved from
Delphos, and all efforts to find his whereabouts
failed. ANY information regarding Burris
would be most thankfully received, by the
father of young Long, and may be addressed
as above.
On Monday evening of last week, at Meth
odist Oh urch at Minersville, near Middleport
Ohio, young man named DeWolf only ff-
teen years of age, became engaged in a con-
troversy with Peter Hayden Just outside the
church. During the quarrel Haden struck
DeWolf, who, as soon as he recovered from
the effects of the blow, plunged his knife, with
which he was whiting into the heart of Hay
den, killing him instantly. Dewolf surrender
ed himself on Monday, and was bound over
in the sum of $4,000. DewoH was of high
ly respectable family.
The Cleveland Herald says; efforts are ma
king in Washington to obtain an investigation
into the Toledo District muddle, with view
to ascertaining how far the charges of corrup-
ton in the recent changes and attempted chan
ges Of United States officials can be substan-
tiated by facts" We know not how much
truth there may be in this report, but such a
step would seem to be eminentIy proper, and |
due to all individuals concerned, as it certainly
is to the Republican party and the appointing |
power. We know of no reason whv one |
should hesitate at the most thorough searching
investigahon,-TOleo Commercial
1t is mentioned as a curious fact that the |
Bessemer method of producing steel has been
practised in India from time immemorial, the
use Of manganese being also derived from the
same source The chief point in this method |
IS, that the metal is kept fluid from the Begin |
ming TO the end-from the time when the |
metal is first touched by the oxygen, until it is
finally cast into workable and definite shane
In the ingot mOulds. Not only is the purified |
wrought iron melted to state of extreme |
nuldity, but it retains surplus of heat sufi-
Gent to keep it liquid for considerable time
amer It has received an admixture of five to |
ten per cent, of cast iron at less than half ifs
temperature and it can still be poured in a
thin stream, and cast with facility. The
degree OF heat which the process develops.
and the simple means by which it is obtained
may well be termed marvellous.
The National Lincoln Monument now beino
erected at Oak Ridge Cemetery, near Spring
field Illinois will be completed about the drss