The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-07-05
NEWS ITEMS.

NTT66loy NlblJou lno DOSLOu uDlACO OA bhO OAs
1t is affirmed that Greeley will be nominated
on the first ballot.
The Orangemen OF New York city will Gel
ebrate on the 18th inst
The Chicago Times is still for war. 1t does
not and cannot 60 Greeley.
Philip Kneiss, aged AZ, was found dead in
his bed, on the 26th, at Cleveland.
The Irish National Band arrived at Boston
on Saturday to take part in the Jubilee.
A second destructive fire visited Akron, on
the lst inst, involving loss of S25, 900.
Freeborn Potter, of East Toledo, accidental
" shot and killed himself, on Monday last.
Koerner the nominee of the Dolly Vardens
for Governor of Illinois, is Republican back
slider.
The New York Strikers have mostly re-
sumed work. The ten hour rule is being re-
sumed.
The Mountain Block, at Akron, was burned
on the morning of the 2Sth ult. Loss $4,000.
partially insured.
Over 100000 tanks of oil changed hands at
TItusville on Saturday, involving nearly two
millions Of dollars.
The trotting horse, Joe Elliott, on the 2sth,
made mile in 2:l5 IL, beating the famous
Dexter's time IL second.
The New Orleans Picayuae favors the nom
ination of William Cullen Bryant for Presi-
dent, by the Baltimore Convention.
An additional accommodation train has
been put on the L. S. & NJ. S. R. R., east of
Cleveland 1t runs from Cleveland to Erie
and return.
Jim Ashley, the prospective Dolly Warden
candidate for Congress, in the Toledo district,
addressed Greeley & Brown Club in that
city, on the evening of the 2Sth.
A woman named Campbell of Cincinnati
was fatally poisoned by tasting detection of
Woodbine leaves prepared for her sick daugh-
ter. The daughter did not take any.
A Delaware Democratic paper admits that
the nomination OF Greeley at Baltimore twill
be heavy blow to the prospects of carrying
Delaware for the Democratic ticket.
The acting Secretary OF the Treasury has
directed the assistant treasurer at New York,
to purchase Sl,OOO,OOO in bonds on each
Wednesday, and sell Sl,OOO,OOO in gold on
each Thursday during the month of July.
The New York Times, after carefully can
vassing the political probabilities, publishes
to show that two hundred and thirty-nine
electoral votes will probably be cast for Grant
and Wilson, sixty-nine for the opposition and
ffty-eight doubtful.
The Evansville, Ind, Courier relates that
while Mile. Celestine, the tight rope perfor-
mer, was exhibiting at Shawnetown, Ill,
recently, the rope parted and she fell to
the ground, distance of nearly fifty feet, and
was so badly injured that she could not re-
cover.
General Cox is closing his faith in human
nature" As he sadly shook the dust off his
feet at the little Free Trade Conference and
departed once again, he wearily remarked;
al have signed calls now for five different con-
ysntions and conferences, and won't sign
any more"
Two Hibernians were passing stable that
had rooster on it for a weather-vane, when
one addressed the other thus "Pat, what's the
reason they don't put hen up there instead
OF a roosterY" "An sure" replied Pat, ''that's
aisy enough; don't you see that it would be in
convanient to go for the eggs"
Among the visitors on Saturday last to
Chappaqua was the notorious George W.
Sanders, one of the parties to the Greeley Nj
agara Falls negotiation during the war. San
ders, of course, is an enthusiastic Chappaquack
as he should be, for every rebel who wished to
be let alone goes in for Greeley.
In a recent interview Peter Cooper said of
Horace Greeley: "Greely, oh no! with
laugh cannot go Greeley. Poor, dear old
Horace; good man as ever lived, but not fit |
to administer government; bless you, no; be- |
ieves in everybody and every new idea; it's /
a mistake putting him forward"
A Washington telegram says Henry A.Wise |
of Virginia, announces that under no circum- /
stances will he support Greeley, and that if |
the latter is nominated at Baltimore he intends /
to give his influence to the Grant ticket. His |
friends think it certain that he will take the
stump for the Republican nominees.
f1On. OdVlu LAWS, mas OeCuu6u inc hdDOT
Reform nomination for Presidency. 1t took
him from February % to June "a to make up
his mind to this act of grace. The wonder of
the public now is, not that Davis should with
draw, but whether or not he really at any time
did think, he had a chance of election.
This is to put in the Democratic pipe to be
smoked at leisure, and Ben Wade furnishes
the weed: "By adopting Mr.. Greeley as their
standard bearer, the Democrats deliberately
they are honest-thaG the poorest,
weakest, most vascillating and uncertain Re-
publican, is an improvement on anything to be
found in their own party"
The acting Secretary of the Treasury has
called in 81, 800 900 of three per cent temporary
loan certificates, dated from August 1st 10
September 1st, 1865, as follows: $4,000 each of
al the outstanding numbers between 1857 and
/, 3,s49, inclusive, and $4,000 each Of all the
outstanding numbers between 4, l5l and 1856
inclusive. Interest will cease August 81, 1872,
IN the above certificates.
A Clevelander, named Bennett, keeper of
he Newburg House, corner Eagle street and
Broadway, assaulted his wife, on the 26th ult,
With a rolling pin, striking her several heavy ;
flows. He then went into the kitchen of the
.ouse, and taking a butcher knife cut his |