The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-04-12
NEWS ITEMS.

nate time and place for the assembling of
their National Convention.
Ira Rose, engineer on a freight train, on the
Air Line Division Of the L. S. J0 NJ. S. Rail-
way, fell upon the track, on the Middle
Grounds at Toledo, on Monday night last, and
his body was cut in two by passing cars. He
resided in Elkhart, Ind
There has been great freshet in Southern
Ohio, involving immense loss. At Cincinnati
much damage was done, and l25 coal barges
were torn from their moorings, and carried
down the river or wrecked. 1t is thought a
million bushels coal has been lost.
On the lst of March, 1869, the National
debt amounted to s2,491, ,S99, ,9O4; and April
1st, 1872, to S2,l74,374, ,29S; showing a reduc-
ton of S3l7,O25,7O6 The annual interest
March l, 1869, was sl26, 1886, $50; and April l, |
1872, $lO5,9O4,99S a reduction of |
s2O,4S4,552.
The coal miners of the Mahoning Valley are |
on strike. They were offered an advance of
ten cents per ton, but refused to accept, and |
the manufacturers propose to allow their
works to be idle, rather than concede more.
Later-The miners have since compromised
for thirty days on the proposed ten cents ad-
vance.
From China and Japan to San Francisco
comes another most valuable cargo, consisting
of teas, silk and general merchandise, fer dis
tribution in the United States and Canada,
British North America having commenced to
patronize the Transit through the United
States The winter weather just passed was
of unusual severity on the coats of the Asiatic
empires.
The Hillsdaie, Mich, Standard is disposed
to crow. Hear it: "HiIlsdaIe County is still
the Banner Republican County of this State.
Of about 22O township and city officers elected
in this county on the lst inst, the Democracy
elected one Mayor, one Treasurer, and one
Constable. Total 3-or one in 70. There is
not Democratic township or ward in the
county"
The New York Tribune fully avows its pur-
pose to support the Cincinnati Convention, but
ntimates that it will give no expression what
ever on the tariff. 1t also intimates that the
Convention may merely advise the Phlladel-
phia Convention what to door it may nom
mate candidates, or may do nothing at all.
All which is rather equivocal, as an intima-
ton of purpose in regard to great political
movement
The acquisition Of the Navigator Islands by
our government, is said to be one of the best
strikes yet made. They lie in the South Pa
cifc Ocean, contain $3.50 square miles of ter
ritory, and $1,000 inhabitants The Islands
are rich in possessing a climate heaIthful and
vigorous. soil rich and productive, spontane-
GUS fruits, and choicest vegetables, without
any wild animals or poisonous reptiles. 1t is
delightful land.
| A proposition is now before Congress- to mr.
chase for $4,000 torpedo machine. the in
vention of an officer of the navy, which, it is
claimed. will create q complete revolution in
naval warfare. The inventor proposes to be
able to send out two miles at sea a small tor
pedo boat, keep it under perfect control by
electricity, and when under the enemy's vessel
explode the torpedo. The inventor asks that
a board of naval officers shall test and decide
upon its merits.
The attention of the Commissioner of In
ternal Revenue has been called to the fact that
many cigar manufacturers and dealers in Phil
adelphia and elsewhere are in the habit of COW
ering the cautionary notice on their cigar box
es with imitation importers labels, thus pre-
venting the reading of the precautionary no.
tice, and giving the impression that the cigars
are imported ones. The commissioner directs
that revenue officials shall arrest these offen-
ders and seize all cigars thus labeled.
Two hundred and seventy-two miners were
killed and 622 wounded in the PENNSYLVANIA
anthracite coal region last year, making 900
widows and 500 or 900 orphans. The Scranton
Republican says that about one-third of the
whole number of the killed met their death on
account of neglect of operators to make second
openings to their mines. Another third were
killed by the explosion of gases, which would
have been averted, if the law requiring every
mine to be examined by an experienced miner
with-a safety-lamp, before the workmen enter
it, had been complied with.
singular case of speedy retribution is
recorded in the Louisville Commercial. Among
the ruins of the Jacksonville Car Works was
found body which, it is believed, was that of
the incendiary to whom the destruction of the
building must be attributed. He entered the
structure through small aperture, which af-
forded just space enough to admit him. On
reaching the middle of the building he started
his fire, which, famed by the high wind. was
too quick for him, and, blinded by the dense
smoke, he struggled forward, and, while CROP
ing his way about, was smothered. His re-
mains were hardly capable of Identification,
but he is supposed to be a man discharged
from employment by the company several
weeks ago.
The Missouri Democrat says another chance
for the howlers! Miss Nellie Grant, the Presi
cents daughter, is going to Europe, in COM
pany with Mrs. Borie, wife of the ex-Secretary
of the Navy. The question arises whether
this can be done under the Constitute and
laws of the country Presidents
daughter may go abroad, and if so, how much?
We do not see how Mr.. Schurz can do less
SAnA manu- opSSOu dOOuG ~ OI now LQ6 New
York World and the Missouri Republican can
fail to write strong appeals to the people on
the subject. They can easily demonstrate the
danger which besets civil liberty under such
state of affairs. Will our contemporaries
please line out the howl, and will brothers
Schurz and Sumner please start the tune?
Sooner than was thought possible by the
most ardent friends of the Union the South is
beginning to recognize and freely acknowl-
edge the great and good qualities of the mar
tyr President, Lincoln. So ultra Southern
authority as the Richmond Dispatck, saws
fthat Mr.. Lincoln's death inflicted greater
injury upon the Southern States than upon
the Northern" and then declares it to be its
opinion "that there is now general and sin
cere respect for Lincoln's memory throughout
the South" Certainly there deserves to be,
for Abraham Lincoln desired nothing so much
as the welfare Of the whole country, and,
though he liked not slavery, he entertained
not even the shadow of a prejudice against the
unfortunate section of our common country
which was blighted by its existence.
a New Small Pox Theory.
A German physician has lately started the
theory that the fearful disease known as small
pox originates from an excess of albuminous
matter In the blood, and that this is to be pre-