The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-11-22
NEWS ITEMS.

w MIST nome travellers are embarrassed by |
the lack of horses a good many travellers |
abroad fnd themselves more seriously embar-
rassed by another difficulty. The failure Of |
Bowles & Co., the American bankers in Paris, |
leaves a good many American wanderers in |
Europe in strapped" condition, unable to |
proceed on their tour and in doubt as to get
ting home sgain. American Consuls may pre-.
pare for calls from impecunious tourists whose
funds have given out because Of tie "faiIure |
Of their Paris banker" .s.r-s
About one hundred French communists held |
meeting in New York City on Tuesday |
night, at which fund were subscribed for the |
widoEs and orphans of the Communists who |
fell in the late struggle. It was stated that
the widows and orphans are suffering terribly |
at Paris and .BellyiIle from hunger and cold. |
The money subscribed, with fund collected
by similar organization in Newark, will be
forwarded shortly to the sufferers It is pro-
posed 10 hold public meeting in Cooper In
stitute next month, and ask Wendell Philips
to preside.
The President has pardOned Appleton Oak
Smith, who was taken to Fort Warren, in
1861, it being alleged that as ship agent in
New York, he had aided in fitting out vessels
engaged in the slave trade. From the fort he
was transferred to the Boston jail, and while
legal proceedings were pending escaped. and
ever since has been fugitive. About year
ago, paper was signed by large number of
gentlement, asking the President to pardon
him, accompanied by document tending to
show his innocence of the crime.
As from small acorns great oaks do grow,
50 it is that from most triAing causes wide
spread calamities are oftentimes derived. One
account of the Boston fire traces its origin to
an oYerheated Furnaces in the basement of q
building on the corner of Kingston and Sum-
mer streets. This of itself might have been
insufficient to produce conhagration, but as
there happened to be an elevator way above
the furnace the draught therefrom famed the
heat into blaze, which very soon commune
Gated to the floors above, and the rest is sad
and fearful history.
A Chicago dispatch says a sensation has
been created among grain men there by the
publication of the fact that when, in August
last, in order to test the alleged discrepancy
in the quantity Of grain actually in store in
the elevators in the city, and the elevator re-
ceipts in circulation, the measurement of the
grain in store was ordered. The proprietor of
one of the elevators had false bottoms put in
number of their bins, only few feet from the
top, and covered them with grain, and they
were then measured as full, making a difference
of many thousand bushels.
There is to be another "corner" in gold in
New York, the telegraph tells us, about the
Ist of December Jay Gould is at the head of
the bull ring, and the intention is to lock up
SlO,OOOOOO, and wiring big margin out of i'm
porters. Ii the bulls are wise, they will keep
out of that corner; for the great bear of the
treasury department msy-and probably will
knock their horns of with single blow of
his potent paw. He is able to .'see" that little
ter millions and 'go forty better" and has
proved himself very uncomfortable person
to grspple with in a corner.
A recent strong delegation OF Pennsylvania
politicians, demanding the appointment of
their favorite as Postmaster of Philadelphia,
perhaps afforded as strong test Of the Presi-
dents capacity to resist personal appeals in
the discharge of his Official duties as could
well be presented. The fact that be did resist
all this influence and adhered rigidly to the
principles Of civil service reform, speaks vol
umes in his favor. It shows him to be an hon
est officer, and not political trimmer. The
people discover in this act purpose to abide
faithfully by the pledges made before his cleo
ton, and they rejoice at this evidence that
their confidence was not misplaced.
The design for a fire extinguisher, which
will answer The demands of the day and pro-
vide the means of supplying water at any
hight, has been invented by Captain Barrett
of the Navy. It consists of horizontal per-
forated pipe, whsch is to be placed at the sum
NIT Of fbe roof of buildings, ana which con-
meets with the supply pipe Of the establish
ment Under the cOrnies there is receiver
pipe to which, to which the water from the
roof flows, and which Is emptied against the
side of the building. By closing doors and
windows, the building can, be flooded. The
invention is adapted to houses whose hight
is beyond the reach of fire engine streams
Since the successful completion of the Pa
cifc railroad, the Mont Gents tunnel, and the
suez canal, no engineering project seems toe
audaeious or wholly impracticable. The pro.
, ject for opening communication between the
Atlantic and Pacific by ship canal across
Central America or the Isthmus of Darien, il
revived with more energy. Another for a ca.
nal across the Isthmus Of Florida, to accom-
modate the trade of the Gulf coast and cities
is under discussion and advisement Another
looks to opening new channel for the Missis.
sippi BY cutting through the alluvial Delta
from point on the river near Fort st. Phillip
and entering the Gulfof Mexico about. four
T. miles south of Isle Gu BretOn..
Here is fresh anecdote about Dickens
Somewhere about the middle of the serial pub
Ication of 'David COpper6eld,' happening tc
be out of writing paper he sailed forth on,
morning to get fresh supply at the station
er's to begin work upon his next number. He
stood aside moment at the threshold to al.
low lady to pass in before him. As he en-.
tered he overheared the lady asking for the
new green number. When it was handed tc
her she said, "Oh, have read this; 1 want the
next one Listening 10 this unrecognized.' ,
Mr.. Dickens afterward said, ''sud remember
ing that not word Of the number she wa,
asking for was yet written, for the first ani
only time in my life felt trightenedP'
Telegrams state that underwriters set then
faces against risks on buildings and stocks un
+ der Mansard roofs. This we sto be expected
t as soon as the palpable absurdity of putting
: this wooden shell on top of substantial build
ing had been illustrated by the fate which wa
| clearlv sure. as soon as hot fire struck ihi