The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-10-04
NEWS ITEMS.

The Democracy announced H. W. Longfel-
low, as a delegate to the Greeley Massachu-
sets Convention, but LOngfeIlow demUrs, sud
says he don't vote with that party, whereat
they are not happy.
The crowd Of soldiers sud sailors, at Pitts
burg was SO immense, that six mass meetings
were held at one time. Garry the news to
Horace.
The straightout Democrats have called
State Convention at Columbrs, Oct. I'd, to Sc
lect Presidential electors and appoint State
Central Committee for the ensuing year.
Near Columbus, on Tuesday molning
Thomas Dunlap, farm hand, shot and killed
a man named Carpenter, whom he suspected
of intimacy with his wife. He afterwards
beat his wife over the head with his gun, and
left her for dead. She VIII recover.
1t appears that the two men whom the
Greeleyites were most determined on beating
in Maine-Blaine and Hale-have received lar
ger maiorities than any of their associates on
the ticket, and the Republican parry poned
the largest vote in those sections of. the State
where the Liberals were supposed TO be the
strongest.
For tie past few days London dispatches
have been full of congratu 'ations over the pa
cific arrangement of the Alabama difficulties
The Right Honorable Robert Lowe, of the
British Cabinet, in late speech at Glasgow,
represented that England would readily paw
the amount awarded for the sake of Intorna-
tional amitJ. Such a statement, from such
source, counotbe butregarded as the sentiment
of the British Ministry. Mr.. Lowe condemned
the course Of Chief Justice Cockburn for re-
using to sigI the decision. The reasons uuder
which he acted gre yet to he explaine
List, the pianist, fer n love with a jewe-
ler's daughter. A Prague Journal thus de-
scribes the courSship: "One morning the jew
eler, coming to the point it'll German frank
ness, asked List: 'HOw do you like my
daughter She is e1 angel What do you
think of marriager i tb-7k so well of it that
1 have the greatest possible incl la' on to it,
what do you say to fortune of three mil
lion francsP 4 would willingly accept it,
well, we understand each other. My daugh-
ter pleases you; you please my daughter her
fortune is ready-be my son-in-lawP with
all my heaIt.'" The ma-ris ye was celebrated
the following week.
Mr.. Albert Brisbane viii soon have in
operation his pneumatic dispatch line between
the capitol and the government priutipy Office
in Washington Ci.y, by which, he claims,
packages can be transmitted at speed of near
Iy mile a minute. The tube is to be at least
two feet in diameter Gnner measurement to
be laid under Sound, and constructed Of
planks treated in boiling coal tar, OF some
| equivalent method. to insure durability, and
hooped with iron and screw clamps. It viii
have hollow sphere of two feet diameter fit
ted therein, the inventor claiming that by
using sphere instead of railway cslraige he
avoids the loss by friction and increases the
capitol and another in the printing Office, and
packages to be conveyed are placed in the hol-
low sphere, the air is then exhausted by the
fan at the other end of the tnbe, and he claims
that as soon as one six-hundredth of it is out
the atmospheric pressure at the other end viii
drive the ball and contents through the tube
On the 22d of May, 1868, Dana, editor of the
New York San, wanted to be Collector of Gus
toms at that port. He then said of Genera
Grant: ale has had Judgement in the popular
heart from s0hich neither caE'tDlny, nor clGnaOr
nor prejudice, nor faction has been able to driU
him." No one ever spoke truer words. Cal
anybody respect the fellow who penned tn,
above sentence in his bilingsgate abuse o
General Grant at the present timer The ami
mus Of this Dana is clearly set forth to th
public. The President saw through the rascal
appreciated the fact that he was a rogue not t
he trusted with national funds, and refused t
appoins him Collector. Then Dana came on
in his true character, and ever ssinoe he ha
ransacked the dictionaries to find base epithet
to amply to the man of whom, in the same ar
ticle from which the above is quoted, he sai
"no man has euer doubted has honesty, thoug
he has had almost unlimited control ouer mil
lions ofthe public money" Dana is for Gree
lev now and for another chance at the NeV
York CoIlectorship.