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


and are happy.
The Farmers Boat Ride, under the auspic-
es Of our Agricultural Society viii take place
on the 2Oth of August. Bear it in mind farm
ers and others, and be prepared to spend a
pleasant day at the islands.
Bear in mind the opening of the Ball House
on Friday, August ID, with q supper and
dance in the evening. The attendance will un-
dOubtedly be large. Arrangements have been
made for a very pleasant occasion.
Gen. Gibson has notified the President of
our Agricultural Society that he viii be on
hand to deliver the annual address, on the
third day Of the fair, when he will tell the
farmers "a small part Of what he knows about
farming."'
Bement 81 Loveland have commenced the
publication of a Greeley paper at Sandusky.
The Sandusky Journal anticipating this
came out for that individual short time be-
fore. They will be rivals for the Democratic
Leadership, in Erie.
Near Geneva, Ohio. on the oath, handcar
on which two men, two women and boy,
were proceeding homewaTd. colhded with the
construction train, and both women were in
jursd, one Of them, a Mrs. Harper, fatally.
The rest escaped unhurt,
AT New Reigel, Seneca county, on the 23d
ult., little son of Andrew Werley, who had
climbed on an ash barrel to reach some cher
ries, Sost his balance and fell, the barrel strik-
ing him on the head, and injuriDg him so that
he died in fifteen minutes.
The laws Of Ohio require that Supervisors
of each road district shall make and put up at
the expense Of the township in their respec-
tive districts, at every road crossing, a guide
board, giving the name OF the nearest town
each way, and also the distance.
The Courier, of Findlay, has a severe article
on the management Of the c. S. & G. R. R.,
especially the Carey and Findlay Branch, be-
cause it refuses to allow train on the occa-
sion of the funeral of DR.. Ballard, although
guaranteed more than full pay for it.
Tifin Woolen Mills employs seventy-eight
hands, and is running to its full capacity, yet
cannot fill its orders rapidly enough. The
management is about to enlarge the establish
ment How about the Woolen Mills which
was to have been established on the east side?
Ayoung lady of Fairport, Lake county, who
thought her brother the handsOmest member
of the family, became detected because her fs-
ther disagreed with her, and took two ounces
of laudanLm to settle the matter, but stom-
aoh pump relieved her before the dose took
effect
It by law made the duty of Township
Trustees of each township; to appropriate fifty
dollars a year for the erection of watering
troughs along the. public highways. and it
should be the pleasure of all to see this beneh-
cent and humanitarian legal provision carried
into effect
Near Girard, Pa, last week, a woman nam
ed Williams, was assaulted by two young men
named Orrin Pearce and Charles Williams,
and dragged into the woods, where they vio-
lated her person. At least 50 she charges.
The young men were arrested, waived an ex-
animation and were bound over to court
Elijah Marshal; aged 26, was passing shin
gle machine, in the factory of Mr. Mitchell, in
Perry township, Allen county, on the 18th ult.
when the knife struck him on the shoulder and
cut cash from five to six inches deep, from
the shoulder to the groin. No medical aid
could avail, and he died in few hours.
The Grand COmmandery, knight Templars,
Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons and the
Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters of
the State of Ohio, hold their annual meeting
at Columbus on Tuesday, October lst, 1872, at
Columbus, o. The time of meeting was
changed from September 10th, on account of
the State Fair, taking place at that time.
A wealthy farmer named Swartz, residing
near Akron, was charged with committing a
rape upon a poor girl named CHRISTINA Braun,
on the llth ult. He had taken her in his bug
gy ostensibly to get place for her to work,
and having driven some distance into the
country turned into the woods. Suspecting
his purpose the girl jumped out, but he fol-
lowed, overlook her, threw her on the ground
and gagged her, and then accomplished his
brutal purpose threatening to kill her if she
made the matter known. Such is her story.
He was bound over in the sum of $1,000.
Gen. Brinkerhof, whose egotism will one
day be the death of him, after trying for years,
all the tricks of the politician to become rep
resentative man of the Republican party, in
Richland county, and the old Eigth District,
but failing every time, because no one could
appreciate him so well as himself, hired out
to the Free-traders and spent his bombast pro-
fusely, but to no purpose. He then joined the
Liberals, and now, in the hope of directing the
destinies of the Liberal-Repubican- Demo
ocratic party he has associated himself with
one Jeffries and proposes to publish Greeley
paper at Mansfield. It will prove frst-class
failure, like all his other attempts.
Our enthusiastic friends who undertook tc
shut up the hogs under the State law, did a
good work, while their zeal was warm, and fol
a while marry porker could be seen poking
his nose where his nose hadn't ought to be,
bitches looked somewhat decent, and sward
began TO cover the places where they had 80
diligently plowed in the early spring. The
crop of heas was less abundant, and person
could manage to get along few squares with
out wanting to play fox and back into the riv-
er. Dreams of brighter future began to min
gle with the realities of life to be rudely dis
PEELED by the relaxed vigilance of the pork
suppressors. One day. not long ago, "a soil.
tary7-not borseman, as prominent novelist
used to writs-hog, might have been seen is
suing from the confines of its narrow prison
that is, if any one had been on the watch, anC
cautiously, reconotering in the vicinity of Bir-
chard Avenue. Growing bolder, as no evi-
dence of molestation appeared, it proceeded
across the railroad slowly threading its way
until It reached Croghan street With feal
and trembling it advanced its snoot,-carefu
first te see that all was clear in the rear,-theI
! a foot and then another foot, and so forth
Still no danger-it began to act strangely, got
, sap on its ear" snorted defiance, took an extr;
kink in its anarrative," tried its proboscis on
5 yielding sod, and did many other singulai
things, which no hog attempted on the street
of our city for the space of several weeks
Then with squeal of exultation, it started
} off glad to spread the news to its penned up
|. companions that the "reign of terror" wa
over. Next day several others appeared, bu
didn't venture far from their late quarters, but
growing confident as days passed and no Wig
liant laid ruthless hands upon them, they con
gregate together, and now parade the streets
in droVes, and root, root, root, is the order O
: the day again. Well, it's no use to grumble
we presume. The city fathers have washed
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