The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-09-27
THE JOURNAL
FRIDAY, September p, 1872.
TOWNAND COUNTY MATTERS.
Readables.

Come to the Fair.
Too much drunkenness last Sabbath.
Elderhin's tobacco store has a red front
White, of the Clyde Independent, is so busy.
We have been driven with job work this
week.
Make your entries for the fair SIS early a.
possible.
The sere and yellow leaf business viii soon
be good.
Col. FOrney at Mammoth Hall, Friday
evening.
The services at the Park, last Sunday, were
well attended.
Look out for our Daily Journal zach morn
ing Of the fair.
MonroevilIe viii have course of lectures
the coming winter.
Quilter's fast mule viii positively be in at
tendance at the fair
Harry Sheldon is attending the State Uni
versity at Iowa City.
Mr.. NJ. F. Hosler has built a very nice brick
residence, at Warner.
A concert troupe performs at Lindsey, Friday
evening Of this week.
Not hand organ has been heard on our
streets these many days.
Hon. John A. Bingham, win speak at Clyde,
on the third Of October.
The saloons in the Tenth District, are get
ting rich from Sloans's money.
A number Of new features will be intro
duced, during the fair this week.
John Voorhies has his handsome new brick
house, at Winters nearly finished.
Deacon Cane, Of the Findlay Courier, is ex-
| pected to be in attendance at our fair.
Grant Furgerson will feed the hungry on
the fair grounds. Call at the Dining Hall
The Office of the A, & P. Telegraph Com
pany has been furnished with new carpet
The Hon. John Hogan and Rush Sloane,
held wake in the city, on Friday night last
The fence on the north and east sides of the
park has been taken up to lower the grade of
the sidewalk.
Hugh Havens, one of the entsrprising farm
ers of Jackson, is completing cemmodious
brick farm house.
The Ball House dining room walls have
been handsomely Ornamented, by Mr.. VIM.
Souder, of New York.
A young man named Tweedney, was
drowned in the Portage River, near Oak Har-
Dor, on Saturday of last week.
We almost had present of handsome bo-
quet of apple blossoms, the other day. Such
floral offerings, in September, are rare.
Clyde Fair, last week, was quite a success,
although not up to last year. The unfavorabIe
weather of the first days interfered somewhat
Thursday, October Sd, the Jewish people
celebrate their New Year feast, and it is a
custom among them to do no business on that
day.
Front Street was musical on Monday night,
A distracted ACCORDION player, kept up gen.
eral shindy. It was boisterous also, and no
marshall.
Mr.. Jacob Wilmer, of Lindsey, while break
Ing colt, a few days since, came to some
misunderstanding with the animal, in which
demoralized buggy were the fruits of the
fracas
Gen. Gibson had g large and enthusiastic
meeting, at Bellevue, on Saturday evening
last. Richards Hall was entirely too small,
and the meeting was held in the open air.
The Republicans of York are awake, and not
much Of q Greeley-or Sloane element there.
James J. johnson, in the stamp division Of
the Assistant Treasurers Office, at New York,
is said to be a defaulter 70 the amonnt of SlS5,
600. The bonds Of the Assistant Treasurer
cover the amount, and his bondsmen viii be
held responsible for the loss
The British press is dissatisfied with the re-
suit of the Geneva arbitration, and already one
of the papers has published a bitter article
complaining that the United States buIlied the
Board of ArbitratOrs into the award,
The Medina Gazette says. Mr.. L. A Hall
was in Medina last week looking after the in-
terest of the New York and Chicago Airline.
The surveys from Chicago to New York are
said to be finished, and the company is ready
to begin work as soon as the right of way and
stock to the amount OF $4,000 per mile is secur-
ed. The line runs through Litchfeld, York,
Medina, MontvilIe and Sharon. The company
now propose, as the best and quickest way to
secure the building of the road, that the people
vote the sum required in the several townships
under the Boesel law. The value of the prop
erty in the above named townships amounts to
over three millions of dollars, and the sum re-
quired of them is sl25,OOO, which is less than
4 per cent. of the property valuation.
Major Moreau, who presented the nomination
Of the Louisville Convention to Charles O'Con.
or, says that gentleman "to our repeated solic
itatiOns has only given us the answer that he
could not prevent our running him, and thus
tacitly has given US the privilege of holding
him in the race. He said to me that in refusing
to accept the nomination and TO constitute
himself the candidate of his party he has gone
his length and, as he implies in his letter, he
can go no further. If so elected, he has given
assurance that he will serve the nation in the
capacity of President of the United States.
This is his own language 1t seems therefore
that Mr.. O'COnor simply objects to being plac-
ed in the attitude of coming before the people
as a candidate, holding that if the people desire
him for President they may vote for him, and
if elected he will serve. This is to all intents
and purposes candidacy in the usual sense.
New Front.-C. R. McCulloch has i'm
proved the interior appearance of his store,
by putting in a new glass front
Townsend.-George B. Pratt will address
the citizens of Townsend Township, at the
school house near Squire Silvs's on Tuesday
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