The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-04-26
NEWS ITEMS.


The house of George Bhelps in Avon, and
that of Mrs. Shay in LaPorte, Lorain County,
were burned down on the 18th inst. The fur
niture in both was saved.
The Ohio Iron Co., GAINESVILLE, have con-
tracted with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
to be furnished with $4,000 tons of iron ore
during the coming season.
| A young lady of Buffalo is about to sail for
Russia to fulfil marriage engagement with
NJ. Levy, the famous cornet player. She viii
be accompanied by her mother.
Mr.. J. H. Close of Belmont County, recent
| ly purchased fine Durham bull in Canada
for 500, but the animal died within two
hours after Mr.. c. got it home.
Martin V. Lyons, former citizen of Wads-
worth, Medina County, died at Columbus,
Wisconsin, recently, from swallowing two
false teeth attached to a silver plate.
A young man by the name of Friend was
arrested at Van Vert few days since and
tahen to Seville, Medina county, where
charge of burglary was made against him.
David Quaig, was killed near Crestline by
train on the 2. Ft. w. s. G. R. Ron the 1lth.
He had been intoxicated, lay down on the
track to sleep, and it was an effectual remedy.
At Lancaster they have Leap Year horse
back rides. A few days since several young
ladies invited an equal number Of young gen.
tlemen to join them in a ride Of this descrlp-
ton.
A special telegram from Jackson, Michigan,
TO the Cleveland Herald on the 18th announced
that Adam J. Fnrepaugh was torn to pieces
by an enraged lion, while performing in his
cage, on the 18th.
The residence of John Mckee, of Lords
town, Trumbull County, was entered by burg
lars, few nights since, and robbed of one
hundred and twenty-five dollars worth of
goods, consisting of furs and clothing.
O'Connor, the youth who made foolish at |
tempt upon the life of Queen Victoria, recent |
ly, has been tried, pronounced guilty, and aen-
fenced to twelve months imprisonment at |
hard labor, and to receive twenty lashes.
Gilmore has contracted for mammoth fife, |
to be used in the orchestra of his jubilee. 1t |
will be made of a saw-log, thirty feet long,and |
three or four Chicago editors will be employed /
to furnish the wind for it. This is authentic. |
Chicagos Fire Marshal has just published
his annual report, in which he says the great /
fire lasted twenty-eight hours, and destroyed |
25,OOO buildings, covering 1000 acres, and In
Aicting loss of sl9O,525,5Ol, the insurance
on which was S9O,OO0,O0e.
A true bill of indictment having been found |
against Chas. A. Dana, editor of the New York /
Sun, in the criminal action instituted by ex- |
State Treasurer Kemble, the country may rest |
assured that an honest Philadelphia Jury will |
deal with the great pirate ofAmerican journal |
ism in the manner which he deserves.
From Kankakee, Illinois, seventeen Roman |
Catholics write to PAurore that they renounce |
Catholicism. They inform Bishop Foley of |
their conversion TO the evangelical religion. |
They offer the following as their reasons for |
taking this step: l. The Romish doctrines |
that priests forgive sins; 3 That there is q |
purgatory; 8. That the sacrifice of Jesus is re-
newed in the mass 4. That the Pope is infali- |
bic; 5. That the Virgin Mary is without sin. |
These doctrins they renounce and cite in proof |
passages of Holy Writ.
The Washington Star, Gnd.) says, it is not
a pleasant thing to be amitted on the part Of |
the press that one of its members should be |
placed in such notifying position, but there
is no gainsaying the fact that Mr.. Dana, of |
the New York San, has made such complete /
breakdown in undertaking to sustain his alle-
cations against Secretary Robson, that not /
only will his own utterances hereafter be ta-
ken with a large discount for exaggeration,
but what is called independent journalism"
will receive undeseryed discredit
Reference has been made several times in
the telegraphic dispatches to reported inroads
on the Texan frontier by Mexican troops On
Tuesday dispatch was laid before the Cabi-
net, from General Sheridan, announcing the
capture on Texas soil of thirty-fve privates
and seven officers Of the Juarez government.
The privstes had been released on parole. but
the officers are under arrest subject to iustruc.
tions from Washington. The Attorney Cen
eral has been directed to correspond with the
local State authorities where the capture was
made. The Texas papers show the existence
OF COubiu6EdUlo eAClb6U6l5 III consequence OF
these Mexican raids, which are made for the
purpose Of stealing stock, and are undertaken
by order Of the Mexican military authorities
on the frontier. Congress has had its atten-
ton called TO the matter, and now that some
Of the guilty Mexican officials are in our grasp,
there is a possibility Of grave complications
between the two governments, unless Mexico
disavows the acts and removes the commander
by whose order these outrages have been COM
nitted,
The counter-eaSs under the Treaty Of Wash /
ngton were exchanged at Geneva on the 18th, !
in accordance with the terms of the treaty, ,thss i,
If Great Britain being accompanied ny a note
against the Board of Arbitration I
'aking cognizance of the indirect damages. :
But this note was entirely outside of the coun-
crease, which contained no allusion to tho t
lain for indirect damages, and the question
or the Arbitrators is whether such notification
s Of any value against the regularly presented C
ase Of the United States. The American Il