The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-01-12

OOfSiAOi poAlOI' 4u0 peOpl6 VI
New Orleans as well as of the State,
are growing intensely excited over
the condition of affairs, and it is pro-
bable a coalition will be formed for
the purpose of wrestling the power
from the hands of the rulers who are
now disgracing the State.
Coshocton is to have National
Bank.
The debt of Massachusetts is $29,-
6SO,S64.
Hall has temporarily withdrawn
from the Office of Mayor.
Governor Washburne, of Massa-
chusetts, was inaugurated on Friday
last.
Four Chicago aldermen have been
indicted for bribery by the grand
jury.
Gen. II. w. Halleck died at his
residence in Louisville, on the even
ing ofthe 9Th.
Trenton, New Jersey claims the
largest circular saw in the world.
Itis twenty-five feet.
The Excelsior Agricultural Works
at Miamisburgh, Ohio, were destroy
ing by fire last week.
Cutler & Savage's saw mill at
Spring Lake, Michigan, cut 10000
600 feet of lumber last year.
A fire occurred at Saline, Kansas,
on Sunday, December Path, destroy
ed from from 100000 to $4,000
worth of property, on which there
was but small insurance.
The Illinois StateFair will be held
at Ottawa, beginning on the 10th of
September, 1872. and the Indiana
State Fair will be held at Indianapo-
lis, from the 3Oth, day of September
to the 4th day of October, 1872.
Between Ogden and Cheyenne, on
the Pacific R. R., the trains which
left Ogden December 2lst, 22d, 2Sd
and 25th, were blockaded till Jan.
eth The snow drifts have been
immense, and trains are continually
impeded.
A Fort Wayne, Indiana, woman
has discovered that the marriage
ceremony with her husband, with
whom she has lived fourteen years,
was illegally performed, and has
commenced suit against him for pay
for services rendered as an employe
ofhis house during the entire period.
The coal miners at Nelsoville, be-
ing on a strike, a row occurred among
them on Saturday last, in which
great deal Of shooting occurred, but
no serious causalties, although one
man received a bullet in his hat.
a number of the rioters yere arrested
and placed in the Athens county
Jail.
Every newsdealer in Syracuse,
New York. has been indicted and
summoned to appear for trial for
"exposing for sale and selling OBJ
scene pictorial papers. This is a
step in the right direction, and it is
to be regretted that a similar policy |
is not adopted everywhere in refer
ence to the vending of indecent lit
erature.
They have had a case of Trichina
Spiralis in Cleveland. Charles Mar
thens, GAL Superior street, died from
the disease, as an inquest on Tues
day last determined. Minute par
ticles of his flesh subjected to a mi
croscopic examination exhibited
many of the trichina. The wife of
Marthens and two children are very
low from same disease, but may re-
cover.
a destructive fire occurred at Ii
tusviIle, Pennsylvania, Sunday af-
ternoon, about 1 o'clock. Twenty
buildings in the heart Of the city
were destroyed. The principal
buildings burned are the Sherman
House, Petroleum Hall and CONNER
cial Block. Loss 100000; insurance
about $4,000. The Assistant City
Engineer fell from a ladder, fractur-
ing both knee pans.
DR.. Merriman Cole, aged 73, was
brutally murdered in Baltimore on
Saturday evening last, in his office,
sc North Exter street, in the heart
of the city. There were thirteen
wounds about his head and face and
his skull was crushed in in three
places, evidently with a hammer.
He was found dead by his daughter
when she went to call him to supper.
No trace of the murderer could be
found.
The mines of Lake Superior yield
ed 16,076 tons of copper in 1871. as
against 1878 tons in 1870. Better
than this, nearly every mine that
has been legitimately operated dur
ing the past year has earned hand
some sum over all expenses, while
in one Instance-that of the Calu-
met and Hecla-the profits have
been enormous. This encouraging
condition is due to a change in tar
iff made a year or two ago.. as
measure Of protection.
Howard, the negro, charged with
outraging the little girl Ochs, at
Rochester. New York. and in regard