The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-12
NEWS ITEMS.

IN ClhclnnaGAJ anu 1Or many years publ1Shel
of the Cincinnati Price Current, died on the
4th inst.
A farmer, in Lorain county, named g. P
Hulett, was run over and killed by train on
the A. & G. W. Road, at Cleveland, on Satur.
day evening.
Rev. Thomas Callahan. living near st. Louis
was fogged by band of disguised men, on
the night of June 2Sd. The trouble origin.
ated in politics.
The penitentiary is to have a new roof and
cornice, the result of which will be the remov.
al of the last relics of the castle style of archi
lecture from that edifce.
The saloon keepers of Akron do not obey
the ordinance requiring them to close at nine
o'clock. They will probably learn what vir.
tue there is in law before they get through
with it.
John Miller, of Tuscarawas county, is the
owner of blind eve twenty-five years old
which is the mother of sixty-two lambs. She
gave birth to two lambs when one year old
and three each subsequent year until twenty.
one years of age.
Pickaway county sends about one million
bushels of corn to Eastern markets every
year, besides wheat, cattle and hogs in large
quantities; three-fourths of the utensils used
in agriculture, in this county, are shipped
| from other points.
A little child at Harrisburg, Madison coun-
ty. fell into a a tub of hot water, few days
since, and was scalded to death. Who will be
the next mother to leaye her child by tub of
scalding water while she goes into the yard or
to see neighbour We hear of about one
death per week from this cause.
A ministerial tragedy occurred at Cincin-
natl, on Sunday. Rev. Samuel Browne had
been frequently annoyed by boys stealing his
fruit, and on this day, boy named Schikk,
entered his premises after ball, when Browne
fired at him. The gun was loaded with slugs,
one of which struck him in the breast, causing
death. The minister was arrested and put
under fifty thousand dollar bonds.
A sickening tragedy occurred at Rockport,
near Cleveland, on Sunday afternoon, in
which mother killed her three children by
poison, and then cut her own throat. Mrs.
Southworth had been suffering from i'll health,
for long time, and frequent depression of
spirits. On Sunday her husband was absent
portion of the day, and on returning found
the three children lying dead, upon the parlor
floor, and their mother, with her throat cut,
lying upon the sofa, in the agonies of death.
| A letter was found in which the mother ex-
pressed herself tired of life, and could no lon
ger endure it.
Our adult readers will remember that when
the secession fever broke out in the South, the
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens opposed that vile
heresy, and delivered one of the abIest speech
es of his life in the Georgia convention in op-
position. 1t may not be known to them that
the only answer ever made to that eloquent
appeal to remain in the Union and support the
Government was the reading to the conven-
ton by Robert Tooms of an editorial written
by Horace Greeley, from the New York Tri-
5ufe, wherein the right of the South to secede
was conceded and placed on the same high
plane of conduct with that of our revolutions
ary fathers when they seeded from Great
Britain.
Bessemer steel, which is now rapidly super
ceding iron in the construction of Railroads, is
comparatively recent invention and bears
the name of the man who first invented the
manufacture of steel by the pneumatic process.
The first steel was made by this process in
1868. The theory of the decarbonization of
iron by the pneumatic process had been enter
| tanned by others, but Bessemer was the first to
put the theory into practice. The new meth
cd for manufacturing steel was introduced in
to this country in 1865. The time is not.dis-
tant when iron will be superseded, for Rail-
road tracks, by steel, as it is much more dur
able and safe. This is particularly the case in
northern latitudes, where iron rails become
brittle and unsafe by the intense cold. With
the roads thus located, steel is almost neces.
ing replaced by steel.
The organ of Mr.. Greeley is perfectly black
nowadays, in its editorial pages, with boldfact
figures intended to show that the expenses O.
certain departments of the general government
are greater now than they were few year,
ago. These figures are garbled and distorted
but still they are perhaps considered by Mr.
Greeley's organ to be ''goOd enough until afte1
election" But amid all this blackness of TYPE
put on to damage Republican administra
ton, the thought may occur to some of th'
Tribune readers why did we not have littlt
of this typographical thunder a year ago, o.
two yes rs ago, when Tammany was stealing
tens of millions annually, doubling up eacl
year both our debt and our taxes? Perhaps
was because Mr.. Greeley, being an economical
printer, wished to reserve his fonts in goot
condition for the present campaign agains
Grant. Perhaps, again, the fact that abou
SI25, 900 a year of Tammany's stealings fount
its way into the till of the Tribune corporation
had something to do with the awkward an,
omnious silence of them. At all events, tn
attitude of Tammany now must be both graf
flying to Greeley and suggestive to the pGbliC
From the official statement of the interna
revenue Office it is evident that the consump
ton of spirits in the United States is simpl
enormous. The number of distilleries at worl
is 2I5. Their daily capacity is 2l7,6S2 gallon
and their yearly 65,3O4,6O gallons. Comput
ing the voting population to be 100000, thi
would be over third of pint of spirits pc
davtfor each male adult in the United States
But as many persons dc. not drink it is safe t
estimate that every moderate drinker drink
his half pint of whisky per day, to say moth
ing of gin, brandy, wine and beer. Besides
the above estimate does not take into accoun
the quantity of spirits OF illicit manufacture
which, in spite of the utmost vigilance, lis larg
especially in the great cities and wild region
of country. The whisky dealers estimate
the entire annual product of the country hs
generally been abuut S0,OO00O9 of gallons
. The expectation is comparative limited, and
principally to France and Eastern Europe an
, Asia. From France the product comes bac
to us in the shape of brandy, some of it of poo
4 enough quality. If the production is sustaine
at its present rate, spirits will yield the go,
ernment a revenue of $4,000 per day,
t nearly $50, 100000 per annum.
5 Before His Fall.