The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-10-18
NEWS ITEMS.

bellevue commences It's Lecture course IN
November.
The First Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati
is looking eastward for pastor.
Mrs Eliza w. Furguson, a sister of Fanny
Fern, died in Columbus last month.
Mrs. Lois Miller, revolutionary widow, is
said to be living at New Manchester, one hun
dred and nine years old.
A well is being put down in Bellev De with
the intention of tapping the underground Nv
er for water works purposes.
Mr.. George Gauff, resident of Norwalk,
O., since 1923, dropped dead at the depot in
that place, on Tuesday last
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America, in session at Cleveland, yesterday
elected Rev. James McDevit President, with
other officers.
Circlsville has an Enoch Arden. This fellow
didn't look into the window, however, and go
of to pine away in secret, and perish with a
broken heart. He means business, and says
he'll ''make it hot for 'em."
Ex-Governor Magofin, of Kentucky, has
discovered ana possessed himself of an island
of l,2OO acres in Lake Superior, not far from
bayfield,, which the land-grabbers have unac-
countably overlooked for twenty years.
Sportsmen have doubtless kept the fact in
mind that on and after the 10Th day of Octo-
ber, quail, wild turkeys, pheasants and grouse
may be killed. The time granting this priv
iIege will expire on the first of February.
After all the bowling of the Greeleyocracy
about fraudulent registration aud repeating in
Philadelphia at the late election, it turns out
that the total vote was S,O77 less than the vote
for Mayor iu 1868. The vote was the fairest
had for years.
A prominent Ohio paper, in speaking Of the
return to that city of widow lady, says: "Mrs.
- and her whole family have returned to
the city" Now, if said widow is marriagable
widow, that reference to the "whole family"
was uncalled for.
The people of Hartland, Huron county, vot-
ed against aiding the Wheeling and Lake
Erie Railroad to the amount of S25,0OO a few
days ago. The people of CIarksield treated
the proposition to aid the Chicago and New
York Air Line to the same amount, in the
same way.
The sponge trade off the Gulf coast of Flor
ida is rapidly assuming large proportions.
Twenty-eight vessels have lately been engaged
in the business,and are reported as having been
very successful The sponge banks will be
made source of revenue to the State one OF
these days.
r,Lo C1,,,aroI SnrarInteDd dent NJ the Micbiooy,
Central Railway has forbidden the sale of whis-
key, ale, beer, or other Intoxicating liquor,
along the line of that road in any of the eating
houses attached to the road. This action was
induced by the frequency with which accidents
and mishaps occurred through the use of intox-
icating liquors.
Gen. Hartranft has given the Pennsylvania
Treasury plunderers due notice. Inalate speech
he says that as candidate for Office, his lips
have been sealed, but now, as guardian of
the people, he will show that those who have
been his most bitter caluminiators, are the very
men who have plundered the Treasury. 1t is
easy to see why such men should desire the de-
feat of General Hartranft, and never were more
disreputable or desperate measures restored to.
Many Liberal organ might learn decency
from the old Democratic Richmond Enquirer,
which says: The pi.vate life of the President
has been very rudely assailed- We have ab-
stained from any soch beastly assaults, for we
have too high a respect for the Office, and we
are too good an American to believe the Am
erican people would have such q man ae he has
been represented in certain quarters to be in
that high position. The Southern people have
political and not personal objections to Gen.
Grant"
H. G. has been interviewed on the subject
of the October elections. He says with deli
cious uneonsciousness, that "the defeat in
Pennsylvania and Ohio has invigorated the
Liberals throughout the country" and that
the reform movement will continue to be
strengthened by the remaining elections. H.
G. is "more logical than he knew If small
beat like the October elections can ''invieorate
the Liberals throughout the country" no man
can accurately predict the amount of energy
to be developed by the big beat in November.
W. Sanderson, clerk of the Lac La Belle
says; ave left Milwaukee at nine O'Clock
Sunday night, having on board nineteen full
passengers and two children, with crew Of
thirty-two men,all told. About midnight, when
about twenty-five miles off Racine, and the
sea running heavily, we shipped a heavy sea
amidships, which put out the fires and stopped
the engines. It was blowing hard from the
uorth, and when the vessel lost headway, the
wind swung her around and a heavy sea
strained open seams, through which the water
rushed with such a force that in spite of all
the efforts of the crew it gained rapidly upon
US, and about $50 A. NJ it became evident
that the steamer would go down. There were
i've boats in all, two life boats, yawl and two
small boats. We got all the people into these
boats, with the exception of five or SIX men,
who refused to leave the vessel, and who, /
think, were drowned. When she went down
I had in my boat seven persons Wetter,
NJ Warner and wife, Robert Fogy, Louis
} ochstein, Rebecca Campbell and myself. We
landed six miles south of Racine at six o'clock
this evening (MOnday), being over twelve