The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-05-31
NEWS ITEMS.
The internationl boat race will take place
on the Thames, on the 10th of June.

resort near Painesville will open this week..
Circlevills is about to purchase ten acres Of
ground to be used as nuisance burial place.
On the 2lst an unknown German threw
himself from the bridge at Cincinnati, and
was drowned.
Three ships arrived at New York last week
on which small pox ragged among the passen-
gers. The vessels were detained at quarran-
tine.
New jersey Republicans have followed the
lead of the other states, and at their State Con-
vsntion few days age, declared in favor of
General Grant for President.
There are nearly three hundred Republican
papers published in New Yorlz, but of all these
only fOur expouse the cause of Greeley. What
hold he has upon the people.
The Louisville Cotsrier-JogHaI thinks the |
Baltimore Convention will concur in the ac-
ton of the Cincinnati Convention and that the |
contest will be Grant or Greeley
1t is estimated that blast furnace can be |
set afOot, in Newark, at cost of Sl5OOOO. |
The sum OF slS6,5OO has already been sub
scribed, leaving but s1O,5OO to be raised.
The business portion of the village of Hayes
vile, eight miles south of Ashland, was des-
troyed by fire Friday night. The fire origina-
ted in the drug store of S. K. Black. Loss
estimated at $4,000; light insurance.
The Senate on Wednesday passed the House
amnesty bill by the decisive vote of thirty
eight yeas to two nays. The bill was signed
by the President the same day in the after
noon, and is now in full force and effect as the
law of the land.
Revs. Thomas Bowman, VIM. L. Harris,
Randolph S. Foster, Isaac W. Wiley, Stephen
N. Merrill, Edward G. Andrews, Gilbert
Haven, Jesse T. Peck, were elected Bishops,
by the Methodist General Conference. The
Office is life tenure.
A IRE occurred at Ithaca, New Y ork, on the
oath, and steamer was placed on a bridge
across Fall Creek. When the fire wSs nearly
out, the bridge fell, carrying the engine and
about two hundred people with it. The fall
was about twenty feet. Fifteen persons were
severely injured.
Hon. r. w. Clarke, of Clermont County,
died at his residence in Batavia, on the 23d
inst. Mr.. Clarke served two terms as Repre-
sentative in Congress, was Third Auditor of
the Treasury and afterward Supervisor of
the Southern District of Ohio, which Office he
resigned in consequence of failing health. He
was so years old.
The Frenchman whose body was cut into
inch pieces, sewed in a sack and droYned in
the Seine, and was pronounced suicide, has
been outdons by German in East Saginaw,
Michigan, named Boese, who cut his wife with
a hatchet, stabbed himself fatally, drowned
himself in well, crawled out again and finally
murdered himself with the same hatchet with
which he had killed his wife.
| G. Tyler, notorious counterfeiter from Fl.
Wayne, Ind, was tracked by q. S. detectives
to WeIlsville, Ohio, and discovered on the riv-
er bank on the 23d inst He fired at one of
the officers, the ball passing through his coat
The other officer then fired at him, the ball
lodging in his hand, when he jumped IN the
river and was drowned. An aecomplice, who
was with him, fed to the hills. Tyler left his
coat on the bank, and in it were found S1,IO0
in counterfeit $50 bills.
Speaker Blaine was last week treated by hi 5
constituents of the third Maine district to the
deserved compliment Of q denomination to
Congress from that district. There Is no more
able nor useful man in Congress than Mr..
Blaine, and we should be sorry to see him
leave the House, unless it should be for a
higher seat in the Senate or for a still higher
executive position. The more men like Blaine
we have In Congress the stronger and more
respected will the Republicans of that body
be.
On Friday in New York, Gardner, an Ala
bamian, brother-in-law of Vanderbilt, display
ed his chivalry in the shooting line by putting
pistol balls into an officer and into citizen,
and on Saturday night at Marylander, SON OF
, Ex-Governor Lowe of that state, exhibited his
chivalry by shooting three men. Young Lowe
escaped but was finally arrested. This same
young shootist shot colored man last Febru.
ary, and he used the same pistol on both occa-
sions. Lowe is twenty-five years old and i.
employed in banking house in New York
A little wholesome State Prison discipline
would be of service to these "bIooded" gentle
men.
The Troy Times in commenting upon tbs
two prominent candidates for the Presidency
compares them IN this manner Grant is no
in the habit of running wild after speculative
crotchets. Greeley is peculiarly given to sucl
follies. Grant is practical. Greeley is theo
retical. Grant is tolerant. Greeley is intol
Grant. Grant trusts absolutely those whom
he knows to be trustworthy. Greeley is beinl
victimized by sharpers. Grant is reserved
; Greeley is taIkative. Grant is resolute Gree
3 ley is vascillating. Grant reflects before h,
g acts Greeley is moved by impulse. Gran
+ is modest in the expression of his opinions
Greeley deems everybody fool who does no
7 accept his frequent vagaries as the products e
: a profound philosophy.
= The people will approve Congress for carry
: ing out the Presidents earnest recommends
a tons in regard to amnesty. By the act who
Q has passed both Houses and been sigued b
the President, all political disabilities impose
q by the third section of the Fourteenth Amend
msnt to the Constitution of the United State
, are removed from all persons whomsoever, ez
. cept Senators and Representatives of tn
Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seVenth Congresses
officers in the Judicial, military, and naval sci
vice; heads of departments, and foreign minis
ters. Persons included in these exceptions ar
n simply excluded from holding officers of emol
i ument or public trust, but not prevented fror
= exercising the right of suff rage.
l. A bill is now pending in the Senate of tn
n United States, looking to the establishment c
. industrial schools for the orphans of soldier
It and sailors. 1t is of the simplest possible forr
and is confined to creating "body polite an
I corporate" with power to hold property ant
IS transact business. Gen. A. E. Burnside is tn
!, leading incorporation; the other names are un
: familiar. The work is an excellent one, an
as it does not involve the slightest expense
b the country it ought to pass. Indeed th
o country could do no more just and prope
Z Z thing than to aid pecuniarily an enterpris'
], rightly guarded and conducted, which woul
10 give an honorable means of earning a ivel
% hood to any soldiers children.
d The free traders are giving practical tur
is to their chagrin and resentment at being sol
. !; out by the Greeley nomination at Cincinnati
! A call is out in the New York papers for
il free trade meeting in Steinway Hall, on th
= 3Oth inst, at which William G. Bryant wi
preside and addresses will be delivered by Da
vid A. Wells, Edward Atkinson and othe
=, champion free traders on the political situa
ton. The meeting evidently means Treason
% to Greeley 1t is intended to organize fre