The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-08-02

FRIDAY, August 2, 1872.
TOWNAKD COUNTY MATTERS.
Readables.
Thy paper is in demand

Thy paper is in demand.
OF late there has been no lack Of rain.
In low ground, early potatoes are rOtting.
Tontogany has been made money order
Office.
The Lima Gazette has been much improved
Of late.
The new bell for the Methodist Church, at
Clyde, weighs 1904 pounds.
Judge Remsburg has returned. BE is still
single fer all that we know,
The L. E. & L. R. R. viii be completed in
so days. Prepare for a ride.
Tifin has had a case Of small pox, but it is
denied that any other cases have occurred.
Mr.. and Mrs L. Leppelman returned last
week from their trip up the st. Lawrence.
Three men attended the Greeley Ratifca-
tion meeting at Ottawa, Putnam county, on
the Doth. =
Ms. H. BurgoOn of this city, and Mrs.
-Sprague of Findlsy, started on Monday for
trip on the lakes.
Twenty acres of corn belonging to Lewis
Cass, of Portage, Wood county, was recently
u6SbIOl6N " AASs
lThe Crescent" of Tifin, are coming for
that 500 Hook and Ladder prize. We sug-
gest that they ego" for it
Mr.. and Mrs. W. W. Ross, Miss E. L. Otis
and Mr., b. NJ. Long, started for trip up the
Sc Lawrence on Wednesday.
The PainesvilIe, Wsrren and Pittsburg
Railroad Company, will build a branch road
from Pa inesville to Fairport.
The farmers Of Clinton township, Seneca
county, are purpOsing to have an excursion to
the Soldiers Home, at Dayton.
A lad named McFall, while climbing a sap
pling. near Bowling Green, on the 18th, fell
to the ground and broke his leg.
The post-ofice at Leeipsic, Putnam county,
has been abolished. Mail matter addressed to
Ieipsic, will be sent to Roanoke.
-Four miles of steel rails are being laid on the
&Ms.R. r., between olmstead Falls
and Ridgevine, as an experiment.
A little boy named HoOten, in Paulding
county, was bitten by mad dog recently, and
died soon after in the agonies Of hydrophobia
Delaware will vote, on the 2eth Of August
on the proposition to vote 100000 for the 10
cotton of the Columbus and Toledo Railroad
Garret Dupoise, aged Is years, while out
cunning, on the 18th, noar Wapokoneta, scci-
IDENTIFY shot himself. He died in about two
hours.
Louis Schell, lad eight years cid, wal
drowned in the Portage, at Oak Hsrbor, on
the 22d uIt. He had been fishing and fel
from the pier.
A son of John Fickinger, of Fostotia, while
performing on trapeze bar, fell to the ground
striking on his head and shoulders. He wa
seriously injured.
The Sheriff of Van Vert county, arrested
Thomas Bodine, at Lima, on the 22d, on
charge of setting fire to hay stack near Ii
ma, few days before.
Robert Haines, of Spring bills, Champaig
,county, in removing gun from his wagon
last week, accidentally discharged it, the lOa'
taking effect in his side.
A hunt for mad dogs was soon after institut
ed, and a den in the woods discovered i
which SO mad dogs were found. They wer
chloroformed and killed.
The residence Of DR.. Agard, of Sandusk
CITY, was entered by burglars, on the night O
the 22d. They secured $50 in money, som
valuable shirt studs and a watch.
After the fireworks exhibition, on Frida
evening next, grand bali viii be given 6
Mammoth Hall. Good music viii be furnish
ed, and a pleasant time may be expected.
Farmers near Woodville, complain {
sprouted wheat, owing to the wet weather
Those who have threshed have had goo
yisld-in some cases 80 bushels to the acre.