The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-01-05
NHIeHBoRRooD NEWS.

SENECA Co, ,O.-The map of Tiffin is not yet
completed. New railroads and new additions
to the town causes the delay.-J.H Pitinger
of Tifin, fell and dislocated his shoulder, on
the 22d.-Two German butchers got into
dispute recently, at Tifin, as to who could eat
the most. They bet the beer, then weighed
themselves, then eat, and the successful eater
weighed l3 l-2 pounds more after dinner than
before. The Tribune fears famine in that To-
cality, and suggests butchering the hog as a
ramedy.-The Tifin Agricultural Works
publishes its exhibit of the last year, and shows
a met profit of % 10 per cent. Ten and fifteen
per cent money lenders in this locality, if they
had the pluck to go into manufacturing might
nearly double their profits, while at the same
time conferring benefit upon community.
Try it.-A fellow named Chichester, attemp-
ted to-get his supper at the Commercial House
on the 25th, and when ordered away abused
the landlord, and struck him. He got knocked
down with a chair for his folly, and landed in
the calaboose. Another chap who attempted
to assist him, was similarly served.-A. G.
Baker, of West Lodi, sold a hog recently which
weighed 725 pounds.-The boiler in the grist
mill of the Heabler Bros. at West Lodi, ex-
ploded last week. Fortunately no one was
hurt.-The roof Of Adams & Lstterhos' Sash
and Blind Factory, at Tifin, was unroofed
during the high winds on the 23d.-The Id
yertiser propos IS to pit White of the Clyde In
dependent, against the fellow who ate 13 1-1
pounds, only he suggests the kind of feed as
raw oysters White is good on raw oysters
we have heard say.-The burning out of a
chimney in Empire Block, called out the entire
fire department of Ti1in, on the 9th.
SUMMIT Co. O.-There is considerable petty
thieving in the nighborhood of Akron
Several boys, while skating on the canal, hear
Akron, on Christmas day "broke in," and one
of them came near droTning.-A bridge on
the A. & G. W. R. R., over Blackfork Creek
gave way under freight train, on the 23d
precipitating l3 cars into the creek, and max
ing total wreck of them. No one was injur-
ed.-The store of n. l.. Holstein, of Akron
was burglarized on Christmas night, and pipes
meershaums, cigars, &c, carried of.-A
black eagle was captured near Mudbrook Pond
by Isaac Roose, recently. 1t was caught in
steel trap.-On the evening of the Doth, q
frame building near the planning nIiH of Geo
Thomas g. Son. in Akron took IRE, and it was
with great difficulty the planning mill was
saved.-The high winds of Saturday the
23d, made a stir in Akron, and chimneys
lamp posts, fences, SC, &c; were leveled with
the ground, but no heavy injury was sustained
and no serious accidents occurred to individu.
ais.
DELAWARE Co., O.-J. Kuhns, of Sciotc
township, sold hog OF his raising, which
weighed $50 pounds.-A boy while ou
hunting on tho 23d, fell, and his gun dis
charged its contents into the legs of W. L
Van Deman, whose thick boots, however, pre-
vented any serious injuIy.--The Randolph
murder trial has resulted in The acquittal o
B. F. Randolph, on the ground Of insanity
and the verdict of the jury was certified t,
| the Probate Court with the view of his re
moval to the Lunatie Asylum at Dayton.
RIoHLAED Co., O.-The proprietor of tn
Shield and Banner, whose Office was destroyet
bv fire a few weeks since, has ordered neT
material, presses, SC, and the Shield will re
appear shortly as trim as ever.-The edito
of the Shiloh Times having charged tn
County Commissioners with spending $3.50,
600 on the new court house, and also stealinl
large amount, has been cited to appear be
fore the grand jury and make good his asser
tons. He will probably find it difficult t
sustain the charges, and may find it not a
especially desirable thing to create sensa
ton, without the requisite proofs Small
pox exists in Mansfield, but not to great ez
tent.-The laying of the rails from Mans
field on the Coldwater road will begin abou
the first of February, and it is expected ths
cars will be running over the road as far q
Toledo by the first Of May.
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