The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-01-26

The Market BANK OF New 4OIA
City. has been obliged TO suspend.
VIM. B. Allison has been elected
Q. S. Senator from Iowa in place Of
Senator Harlan.
Senator Morton is urging his bill
fixing the adjournment of Congress
for the second week in May next.
The chess players Of Cleveland
had meeting lately to arrange for
a Northern Ohio Chess Tournament.
A bank messenger was robbed of
$4,000 in gold certificates besides
notes and bonds, in New York, on
Saturday last.
The pews of Henry Ward Beech
er's Church rent, this year, for $780,,
900, "And the poor have the gospel
preached to them"
Tweed, the Tammany thief, went
west last week. How far he goes, or
whether he returns, are questions
difficult to answer.
The Union Pipe Foundry of Den
mis-, Long q Co., of Louisville, was
destroyed by fire on Sunday morn
ing last. Loss $4,000. Insured
for only $4,000
An insane man at Louisville,
named Thome, shot four persons on
Sunday last, two of whom will die.
He then tried to kill himself but sue
ceeded only in dangerously injuring
himself.
Rev. Osman A. Lyman, pastor of
the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian
Church, was struck with paralysis at
noon on the 18th, and died at his
residence on Friday evening the
18th. He was aged 46 years.
Nearly one hundred chickens were
used in making pie for fair at
Bridgeport, Conn, few days since.
It was the biggest chicken pie ever
built and baked in the Nutmeg State,
and required four men to move it.
Alexis has been enjoying big
hunt with the Indians under the gen.
eral direction Of Sheridan and Gus.
tar. He killed a buffalo COW, and 8
bull calf, on the 18th. The head oi
the COW was to be sent home to Rus.
sia as trophy.
At Massillon, on the night of the
2Otb, a row occurred, and stones
were thrown by the rowdies. One
of them struck an innocent locker
on, named George Hofaker, and his
death resulted. Two men were ar
rested for the murder.
The next Ohio State Fair will bC
|. held from the I'd to the 9th of Sep
tember, inclusive. The place fol
holding the same is not yet deter
mined, and will depend, among 9th
er considerations upon the amoun
o. subscription obtained from towns
competing.
A lady near st. Louis has becom,
fascinated with Alexis, and is bounC
to become his Grand Duchess. Sh
followed him from ST. Louis to Oma
ha, bound to go on the big hunt witt
3 him, but she was left behind. A
last report she was still after him.
The ex-Empress Eugenia has dis
posed of her jewels. They wer
purchased by English jewelers. 70
f8O,OOO or about 100000. AS ther
are no evidences of poverty existini
, at Chiselhurst, it is supposed tn
! amount realized is designed for ful
r tbering intrigue0 at the Court O
, France.
e Representative Cox having intro
duced a resolution condemning tn
Secretary of the Treasury for tn
manner in which he placed the ne,
] five per cent loan on the market, tn
resolution was referred to the Way
and Means Committee, who reporte
resolution exhonorating the Secrt
tary from all charges.
Two clerks in the Cleveland Pos
Office, were arrested on Wednesday
the 18th, on suspicion of being cor
cerned in the opening of letters ant
appropriating the valuable contents
!, One of them was discharged, afte
hearing, and the other bound owe
till next term Of court, in order't
afford time for further examination
There was a grand race on tn
Hudson q few days ago. An ice
boat was matched against a railwa
). train. The locomotive was power
full and and its load light, but thougl
the wind was unsteady, the boat fley