The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1871-07-14
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ourt i in ssssion At Port Clinton.

A soda fountain exploded, in Fostoria; la
week.
1t is currently reported that Sunday was
warm day.
A pioneer meeting was held at KeniOn Q
the Fourth.
The MOhawks win attend the Fiudla
Tournament.
It's said the blackberry crop will be yer
large this year.
New potatoes are getting plenty. They d
not taste of the bug.
Com is growing rapidly, and looks as thOugl
a bouutiful crop would result.
A pleasant social dance was held at shomo'
Hail, on Tuesday evening.
A convention of the editorial fraternity o
the 9th and 9th districts Is talked Of.
The Ere companies Of Tifin viii attend th'
ID Of August celebration at Findlay.
Wheat commanded better price in Ere
mont, last week, than it did in Toledo.
A gossips tongue is an organ with a mutt
pTcity of stops. But thestops don't work.
The large posters which are out tell ali about
the Farmers Boat Ride, on the ID of August.
Peaches have made their appearance in
market They were from Southern Illinois.
A communication received from CORES
pondent at Lindsey is rather Objectionable
Gen. L R. Sherwood delivered the Fourth
Of July oration, at Tontogany, Wood county.
Clymer and Hopley of the Bucyrus Forus,
and Journal are asain pulling each others
WOOl-in print.
The Sabbath School of the Lutheran
Church held pic mic in Orchards Grove, on
Wednesday.
Crestline is to be supplied with water from
stream or spring four miles from town, with
fall of 40 feet.
The local Of the PeTTysburg Journal don't
seem to be in much favor with the local of
the Wood County Sentinel
The storm Of Sunday last was heavier east
of US than here, and at Bellevue was accom-
panied with considerable hail.
Mr.. and Mrs Parker and Miss Perry, who
were tried for theft, in the Ottawa County
Court, last week, were acquitted.
Read the Supplement furnished with this
paper. Our advertisers have crowded us so
heavily as to make one necessary.
The semi annual Convention of the Grand
Army of the Republic of Ohio viii meet in
Xenia on the 9th and 2Sth of July.
The mining horrors have extented to Mexi-
co. By fire in mine near Zacatecas, over
one hundred miners were suffocated
Reuben Long, employed at BrunsOn's saw
mill, in Hardin county, was gOred by bull,
on the lst inst, and severely injured.
People who advertise only once in three
months forget that most folks can't remem-
Der anything longer than about seven days.
Good butter-a billy goat. Some object to
It because its so strong, however. Very much
butter IS subject to the same objection.
Corn was much injured on the New Haven
Marsh, in Huron and Crawford counties, on
the nights Of the 29th and Both of June, by
frosts.
During their recent tour, the Forest Citys
of Cleveland won eleven games out of fifteen,
making 2ls runs to l2l made by their OppO-
nents.
Small boys have mania for playing circuss,
the result of which is that large number Of
them are laid up with broken bones OF dislo-
Gated joints.
The rust has badly effected the wheat in
some fields in this vicinity. We are assured
that some of the fields viii hardly pay the
expense of cutting.
Fifty cents will pay for the Journal from
now till November lst. Or seventy-five cents
will pay from now till January LIST 1872 Every
person should take it at that p1ice
The Upper sandusky Band carried of the
prize, at the Crestline celebration on the
Fourth, and the Bucyrus Hook and Ladder
Company took the prize for best running.
On the first, at raising in Auburn town
ship, Crawford county. A Grofmiller and 4.
Cory were injured by being struck by falling
timbers which had not been properly secured.
In West Virginia, on the 9TH, furious storm
ragged, and the town of Moundsyile was sub
jected to its ravages. The stoclade around
the penitentiary was blown down, and one
prisoner escaped.
Mrs. Shaffer of Bucyrus, performed the feat
of podring coal oil into the stove to assist the
fire to burn, on the 9Th. It did, ana she is un-
der the care of the doctor, having been badly
burned by the explosion which eusued.
On the 4th, Bugglea Wright, of Huron
while tying up a somewhat disabled cradle.
and drawing hard on the cord, struck his
wrist against the scythe, and cut it badly, sew
ering the cords.
A little son Of Henry Gender, foreman in
Mr.. Grabach's shoe shop, in Clyde, broke his
leg on Tuesday of last week He was sitting
upon lumber pile when the top board tipped
over upon it. The boy is about four years
old.
One of the workmen on Foster & Co.'S new
building, at Fostoria, has been helping him
self to goods but was detected the other day,
and compelled to disgorge. He had taken
goods to the amount of about two hundred
dollars.
A fierce tornado visited Iowa and Nebraska
on the 5th, and did much damage. Near
Scribner, Nebraska, train was blown from
the track and one man killed and fifteen in
iured. The same storm prevailed in Chicago,
and caused considerable damage.
The Bellevue Gazette announces another
i.neanest man" in that county. He paid sixty
cents for two quarts Of live potato bugs, and
scattered them broadcast over the patch of a
neighbor, against whom he had a grudge-
Keep that man at home, lest he contaminate
the world
The Holley Water Works work so well in
Norwalk, that the town Council has deter
mined to sell one of their engines together
with hose cart and hose, which is a strong ar
zument ia favor of the system. But strong
sr one is the fact that insurance companies
have considerably reduced the rate of risks. S
Thos. Shanks, one of the pioneers Of Hardin
county, will be lO1 years old, the 18th of the
present month He attended the pioneer
meeting in Kenton, on the 4th, and was
treated with marked respect. He enjoys good
health, and will probably live number of
years yet
During the celebration on the Fourth at
a boy threw fire cracker under a
horse. It exploded, frightened the horse
which pulled up the hitclling post and started
10 runs The post was driven into its breast,
and the horse instantly killed. Itbelonged to
Amos Armagast.
Geo. H. Chandler, of the firm Of Chandler
E Abbott. Cleveland, attempted to commit
;uicide, on Friday, the 9TH, first by using a
,istoI and then by cutting his throat with
rocket knife. He missed the jugular artery,
however. and it was thought possible he might
ecorer. although he was extremely exhausted