The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-06-07
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Railroad, and near the House of Correction.
The Cleveland Paper Company's paper mill,
recently burned at Monroe Falls, is being re-
built. Heavy foundations are already laid.
Mr. W. G. Williams, well known mer-
chant of Cleveland, was drowned on Tuesday
evening, it is thought by bathing after the
heat caused by rowing.
The Secretary of State, in replying to q let
ter from General Banks, says: "No American
citizens are imprisoned in Canada on account
of completely in the invasion of Canada"
Miss Laura Sweeney, of Xenia, who lately
prosecuted lady in Xenia for slander, and
gained verdict of 81, ZOO for the same, was
married yesterday to Mr.. Morton, of Bur-
Iington, Iowa.
Miss Ruth shaul, daughter of Peter Shaul,
of Urbana, committed suicide by taking
strychnins, on the evening of the 2sth inst.
The cause was interference with love affairs
by her parents.
| Two thousand acres of land have been leased
in Belmont county near the Noble county line,
and lead and silver mining company orga-
nized to develop the territory. Wheeling cap
italists are the originators of the enterprise.
A large portion of the village of South So
Ion, Madison county, Ohio, was destroyed by
fire late Friday night. Nine of the finest res
licences, dry goods store, grocery and other
buildings were burned. Loss $4,000; parti-
ally injured.
The Conference Committee on the tariff and
tax bill have agreed on a report. They place
whisky at seventy cents, which covers every
thing except the ten-cent stamp on the barrel
for the rectifer, and fixes uniform tax of
twenty cents on tobacco.
A detail of theNinth regiment visited Bratt-
leboro, Vermont, on Decoration Day, and
strewed flowers upon the grave of Fisk, their
late commander. 1t is an act Of grace hand
somely conceived, and will be appreciated
none the less because of the blemishes upon
the memory of the dead man.
A week or two ago the New York Herald
began to speak in rather kindly tones of the
Cincinnati nomination. The Herald is always
wide awake for popular indications, and
thought at that time there might be possibil-
ity of Greeley's success. The momentary ex-
citement is now over, however, and the Herald
says that "looking over the whole field of po-
litical movements and probabilities, the indi-
cations are that General Grant will be Presi-
dent of the United States till 1871"
Three hundred of the best citizens of Ply
mouth, Richland Co., recently assembled
around an old and dilapidated market house,
which occupied the most conspicuous position
in the city, and at a given signal, the insight
ly building was soon leveled to the ground. It
is the intention to erect on the square thus va
Gated handsome fountain, which will prove
q ''thing Of beauty" and be effeotual in reIiev-
ing the thirst of those who might otherwise
seek to quench it in a stronger fluid.
NewOrleans now claims the honor of having
given birth to the Legitimate heir to the throne
of Spain. It appears that old Ferdinand VII.
was much married man; having had no less
than four wives in succession. One of these
died in giving birth to a son, who was smug-
gled to New Orleans, where he thrived and
grew TO nineteen, when he married beautiful
Creole. The son of this welded pair has now
appeared in Europe, and claims his inherit
ance, to the great disgust of Asturias, over
whom he maintains precedence. He is famil-
iarly known as the "White Count" and the
question now arises, Who is hef
Spain is on the verge of another revolution |
because Serranno has insisted on releasing the |
captured Carlists instead of shooting them. |
The brutaities of the Cuban Generals evident
Iy fulfil the Spanish ideal of dealing with a |
revolution, while the generous elements Of, IAN |
old soldier is too much in harmony with the |
ideas of most civilized men, to suit a race on
whom their American conquests conferred |
greatness and a certain ineradicable brutality |
at the same time. Bloodthirstiness is too in. |
timately associated with priestcraft and ip-
norance to be at all likely to die out in Spain |
for some time to come.
1t is a remarkable fact Ghat the most power
full railroad corporation in the United States |
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company-has in |
charge of It's affairs a set of men who are pby-
sically at deaths very door. J. Edger Thomp- |
son, the President of the company, has gone
to Europe IN vain effort to recover his health |
which has been utterly undermined by his ar |
duous labor. His friends scarcely expect to |
see him return alive. Colonel Thomas a. |
Scott, who is acting as president,is very weak, |
and has often presided at meetings of railroad |
boards while on the sick bed. Henry ]. Lonn-
beart, the second vice-president, has lost the |
use of his faculties from oVerWork, and has |
been placed in an insane asylum. Henry W. |
Grinner, general passenger agent, has resigned |
on account of Ill health.
Our Canadian neighbors do not intend to be
without the means Of public defense, if such /
can be improvised out of her citizens The re-
port of the Minister of Militia for 1871 has lust
been published, from which it appears that |
Fenian raids have done something toward |
perfecting q militia system in Canada. Two |
artillery schools are to be established, one to |
be located at Kingston, the other at Quebec, |
both of which are to be placed under the COM
mand of officers in the royal artillery service.
At these schools it is proposed to thoroughly |
train such young men as are designed for Of |
fetal service in the militia. Two military dis |
tricts have been established, one called the |
Manitoba and the other the British Columbia,
and these two embrace the whole Of British /
North America. The nominal strength of the |
militia forces at the close of last year was 49,
l73 men, of whom 34,4l4 officers and men at
tended the last annual drill Tne whole re-
port shows the militia service to be in a strong