The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-05-17
NEWS ITEMS.


The new Masonic Hall, at Mt. Vernon is to
be dedicated on the oath.
The Methodist Book Concern Frauds are |
again attracting attention.
. By an explosion of fire damps, in colEsry |
gAngwsy, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the 1lth,
three men were killed and one bsdly injured. |
Four hundred and fifty thousand dollars
were lost by the destruction OF Wallace &
Schoonmakers Sugar refinery, at Brooklyn on
the 10th.
The lead works Of Fahnestock, HorttIe &
SWartz, at Pittsburg, were destroyed by fire
on Sunday last, involving loss OF half mil
lion dollars.
Senator Morton denounces as a cansrd the
report started to the effect that he was or
would be candidate for nomination before
the Philadelphia Convention He is for Grant
frat, last and all the time
Somerset, Pa, was visited by dsstruc-
tive fire, on the 10th inst. The enirs business
portion OF the place was laid in ashes. The
loss is estimated at $l,O75,OOO, and over fifty
families, were rendered homeless.
A learned Aiohigandsr, Prof. Watson, of
the Ann Arbor Observatory, reports the dis
OOvery, in the constellation of Ophincus, of
another planet hitherto unknown, which he
says shines like star of the eleventh nag
nitute.
The miners at Calumet, Hecia and School
craft mines, in Michigan, are on on strike,
and riot being apprehended, a company Of
troops were sent thither from near Detroit on
the 18th, to quell any disorder. The situation
was reported as alarming.
A few weeks age Horace Greslsy said "The
Cincinnati Convention may prove faseo or
name the next President" A "fasoo" is
ridiculous failure, a sort of an absurd fixing
out. That's it exactly. Horacs hit upon the
right word that time.-BIads.
c. H. Phelps, jeweIer in New York, hear
ing thieves engaged in robbing his premises,
on the 10th, attempted to frighteu them of,
| when he was shot by one Of the robbers and
fatally injured. No trace Of the robbers, ex-
cept hat which one of them left behind him.
France appears to be in a fsirer way to
stable government than sver before. The Re-
] PUBIC is WOIh4uH we'll anu tAAO PSOBAO DS6A-A
to realize it; and Bismsrk himself seems TO be
well satisfied Us he has notified the government
that Germany Is prepared to negotiate for the
withdrawal of her troops from France.
President Grant, i'll removing Casey, his
brother-in-la1, from the Collectorship at New
Orleans, did SO not because Of dishonesty, or
any kindred reason, but because the Congress
sional Committee found he was meddling with
local politics. in 20 doing the President has
shown Independence, candor and honesty, as
well Es good judgment.
During the late lameuted Liberal Conven-
ton. while Curriers' band playing the "Ais-
erere," from "Il Trovatore," one Of tho Score
taries sent note to the leader, saying: "This
amt a funeral, play US something lively"
Prof. Currier glanced at the note, and wrote
on the back, "You are an ass" sent it back to
the astonished Secretary, and went on with
his music.
The Senate passed Summers Amnesty Bill
on Monday The only exceptions made by it
are Senators and Representatives in the
XXXVI, and XXXVIIth Congress, officers in
the Judicial, Military, and Naval Service Of
the United States, heads of Departments, and
Foreign Ministers. This Is quite full and yet
it does not fully come up to the views Of Pres
| ident Grant, as expressed in his last message.
Belmont has made some of the Democrats
mad. The Cincinnati Enquirer denounces
his location of the National Democratic Con-
vention at Baltimore as piece of juggling,
and the Terre Hauts Journal suggests that he
be invited to retire from the position of Chair
man Of the National Executive Committee
and take his appropriate place behind the
three balls which ornament his pawnbrokers S
shop.
The freight steamer Rotary, off Old Point
Comfort, Va, exploded her boilers on the
10th, killing the engineer, his wife, child and
sister-in-law. Several of the crew were badly
sealded. The tug Compound, exploded her
boiler, in Buffalo harbor, on the 10Th One
man severely scalded. Three boilers exploded
in the iron works of James Wood, Sons & Co
at Pittsburg on the 10th. Charles Merchant
fireman was instantly killed.
The World has fully taken its position
| aP9lDSL OCLlDCAuOy tfuOpbAAAt5 h44O O2CoADJ
ticket. 1t says: "Greeley's selection was en-.
tirely unexpected by the Democracy. Other
wise nothing would have been said looking t.
cooperation" The nomination of Greeley i
considers a much greater schism in the Re
publican party than had been hoped for, ant
if the Democracy drive the wedge skillfully
they will disrupt the Republican party anC
elect thir own candidates.
If the reported withdrawal of England from
the Geneva Conference should prove true, We
doubt very much if the people of this country
will indulge in any serious demonstrations O.
grief thereat. The repeated failures during
the past seven years, to settle the pending diff
hculty by diplomacy, eaused the Treaty O.
Washington TO be looked upon, on this side o
the water, with grave doubt While thert
!, was universal hope that it would lead to {
: satisfactory and final settlement, very few
were sanguine enough to predict so. Its fail
ure, therefore, will be looked upon more as
matter Of course, than a surprise,
The order of the United States Government
directing fifteen iron-clads to be prepared i'm
mediately for sea duty, and the proposition il
the House of Representatives to build ten new
iron ships, is regarded as significant in consid
Grafton of our national relations with Spain
A report prevails that Minister Sickles is t.
withdraw from Madrid, leaving the legation
in charge OF the secretary as charge d'affar.
that peremptory demand viii be made fol
the release of DIR. Houard, and that MorC
Castle, which commands the approach to Ha-
= vana, is being strengthened with number O
fifteen-inoh guns.
An unkind newspaper man calls Greeley tht
nGreat American Co-operator." Ho cooper
, ated with the South to dissolve the Union
with the rebels, to win Bull Run; with Lin.
coin to take Richmond; with Chase, to beat
Lincoln; with JEFF Davis, to escape punish.
ment; with Tammany, to save Oakley Hall
with American manufacturers, to secure pro-
lection; with free traders, to ruin American
manufactures; with Trumbull, against the
Republicans. He is now cooperating with
tbs Democrats to beat Grant, and by July will
probably be cooperating with Grant to beat
the Democrats. "Great is Greeley,of the Tri-
bune"
Lake Erie is now from eighteen inches to
two feet below its usual stage, which will seri-
ously impede navigation. A report from Syr-
aeuse states that without an unusual fall OF
rain between this and the middle OF July, there
is great danger that navigation on the Cayuga