The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-05-24
NuWs ITEMS.


In the boat race at Philadelphia, on Mon
day, between Coulter and Corvett, Of Pitts
burg, and the Bilgin Brothers, of Philadel- |
phia, the Bilgins won.
Mrs. Barbara Smith, rendered insane by the |
loss OF child, lsaped from the roof of four
story house in Williamsburg, New York,
Thursday, and was instantly killed,
The Monitor newspaper, the Roman Cs tho
lie organ of San Francisco, editorially indOrs-
eE the Cincinnati nominations. Smiggles says
it is because they were made at mass con-
ventiOn.
Thomas Willard was assaulted at Cleveland,
on Saturday morning last, by four men, and
SO badly beaten that he died soon after of his
wounds. Noarrests were made. Willard was
intoxicated at the time of the attack.
Massachusetts, has the very sensible plan of
letting the people of each town decide the
liquor question for themselves. At the cleo
ton, recently, lO9 towns voted for prohibition,
and So for licensing the sale of ale, beer, &c.
Emigration from Germany to the United
States bids fair this year to be more extensive
than ever before. In the first three months Of
the year, thirteen thousand three hundred and
thirty-four persons left German ports for this
country.
The drought and forest fires II Southern
New York and Eastern Pennsylvania have
been very destructive. Dwellings, mills, lum-
Der, agricultural implements, and farm truck
Of every description have been destroyed 10
the amount of over million dollars.
The negroes of Poughkespsie, who invited
Greeley some time since to deliver lecture
for the benefit of their church, would not at
tend his lecture, which came off on Friday
evening, because they thought by attending
his lecture the inference might be drawn that
they favored him for President.
The Cincinnati Co51ercia1 is disappointed.
1t says: ave confess We do not see the evil
dence of mighty disruption of the Republi-
can party. The Democracy seem much more
disturbed than the Republicans by Greeley's
nomination" That is candid admission of a
fact which may be very painful to the Com
7nercsaI and Its Liberal allies.
A number Of leading capitalists are about to
construct new hsrbor on the Gulf Of Mexico,
at the mouth of the Brazos river, about thirty
five miles south of Galveston bay. The per-
sons at the head of the movement are men who
are heavily operating in eli Southern railroad
enterprises. Il is anticipated that its success
will revolutionize the commerce of the whole
State Of Texas.
The prosecution Of Jews in Roumania has
assumed such barbarous phrase that this
country is eager to unite with Italy in pro-
testing against its continuance. The time for
persecution, because of religious belief, has
passed; and if potentates will not, of them
selves, recognize the fact, it is well that those
who are more liberal and enlightened should
remind them Of it.
The statement made a few days since, 10
the effect that the President, in conversation,
has said that in case of his reelection he In
tended to make general change in the Office.
holders throughout the country, is contra.
dioted on high authority. No such oonversa-
ton has taken place. The correction was
hardly necessary, as it is absured to suppose
the President contemplates any such scheme.
Hayt has got its back up. Capt. Carpen-
Ter, of o. S. Steamer Nantucket. landed some
men and guns at Cape Haytisn, on the 9th of
April, for "howitzer practice" General Elex-
is demonstrated, considering it hostile act.
Capt. Carpenter re-embarked the guns and
men and proceeded to Port au Prince, where
the Haytian Foreign Secretary made de-
mand on the Q. S. Legation for instant repa-
ration Of the insult.
Chappaqua, where Greeley goes on SatuI-
day of each week to chop wood, is the Indian
name for Singing Waters. It is on the Har-
lem Railway in Westchester County, N. Y,
and about thirty-five miles from the city. In
dian names are generally musical, and surely
the Indian for Singing Water should be mus
ical, but Chappaqua is about as unmusical a
word as letters can form. It is improved in
its sound by being pronounced through q
coarse-toothed comb.
They are not a very healthy lot, the Royal
and Imperial ladies Of Europe. The Russian
Empress is gouty; the handsome Empress Of
Austria is consumptive; Augusta of Germany
suffers from rheumatism; Maria Pia, of Portu-
abused to be thought"fast," /" but is now coQ-
frmed invalid; the Danish Queen of Holland
is subject to Mysteries; and Queen Vic, of
England, is always getting sick, or blue ss
blazes, and running of to the Highlands when
her loving subjects and the Ministers most
need her presence in London.
There Is a curious difference of sentiment in
the South in respect to the ratification of the
nomination of Mr.. Greeley. The Greeley fe-
yer instead of covering the entire country uni
formly, breaks out in spots; some of them
rather large spots, too, for instance, the Dem.
ooratic press of South Carolina, Tennessee,
and Missouri, is almsst unanimously and sn-
Enthusiastically Tor Greeley. The Democratic
press Of Georgia, North Carolina, Mary land,
Delaware, and Louisiana, is Tor a straigh ht
Democratic ticket. That Of Virginia, Ala
bams, and Kentucky, is divided. The South
Carolinians are quite as dogmatic about the
necessity Of indorsing Greeley as they used to
be in upholding Calhoun.
There is a great diversity of opinion as TO
the construction to be given to the Homestead
law recently passed by Congress for the bene-
fit of soldiers and sailors Of the late war. The
difficulty encountered is in giving construc-
ton to the law that will render its provisions
available to the parties intended to be bene-
fited- Owing to this diversity of opinion, the
Commissioner of the General Land Office has
decided to refer the law back to Congress
with request for such constructive leglsla.
ton as will remove all uncertainty in the exc
cution Of the statute. This action is deemed
necessary, considering the Importance of the
law and the magnitude OF interests that must
arise under it.
Since April l, 1871, speculation has held
wheat in its grasp and at an advance of twen-
ty-five cents bushel. This feature is some
what remarkable, seeing tho advent Of the
California wheat harvest IS near, which Will
take place the last Of May or carly in June,
two months earlier than in the eastern States.
California has fine harvest in prospect, and
will have a large surplus for export, four times
as much as last year, adding about twenty-five
per cent to the exportable surplus of the coun-
try. 1t is believed that wheat will soon fall.
as it is not possible for the spectators to hold
the present stock and mOnopolize the coming
crop. To do so would involve pecuniary re-
spOnsibilities which no combination of men
would be willing to undertake. Besides Cali
fOrnia, the prospects are favorable in nearly
all the wheat regions