The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1872-08-30
NEWS ITEMS.

Missouri is now regarded as sure toIcast if
electoral vote for Grant.
A Democratic Grant Club in Desmoiues
Iowa, numbers $40 votes.
Warren, Ohio, has 81 Democrats who will
vote for Grant and Wilson.
John Meyers, a German porter of Colunbu:
committed suicide on the 18th.
Mario, the great italian tenor, is to make a
short professional tour in this country.
Every Congressional District in Indiana will
be represented at the Louisville Convention.
mad man named Flanagan murdered
his wife in New York on Thursday
night of last week.
The destruction by fire of Bayrey's hat fac
tory at Amesburry Ferry, Mass, on the 18th
involves loss of 100000.
On Friday of last week there was tremen-
dous Grant q Wilson meeting at Oil City, Pa.
The procession was over a mile long.
The Woolen Mills at EImira New York.
valued at sl5O,OOO were destroyed on the 10th.
There was an insurance for $4,000.
The straight out Democrats of Detroit met
on the 10th, and nominated county ticket.
They also appointed delegates to Louisville.
| Andy johnson has been nominated as q cam
didate for Congress from the state at large, by
those Tennesseans who denounce conventions
At Champaign, Ill, on the oath, fire broke
out on Saturday last, which destroyed proper
ty to the amount af 100000. The fire origi-
mated in q Touring mill.
Congress, at its last session passed law au-
thorizing the issue of postal cards, but no ap-
preparation was made to carry the law into
effect, so that it will have to await the action
of the next session.
On the night of the 10th, the owners of a
trading boat, with their wives and children,
were murdered by outlaws, and their bodies
| thrown into the river. The murder occurred
near Memphis, Tenn.
Banton Duncan claims straight out DEM
ocratic vote of $4,000 in the country, which
will oblige the weak-kneed to come back and
elect OConnor, who has consented to be a
candidate for President.
Sumner is sick abed. He is now a Senator
without constituents, and he feels their loss
terribly. And well he may. Lucifer may
have regretted his fall when he began to ex-
perience the effect Of it.
Matilda Fletcher addressed large Repuh-
Iican meeting at London, Ohio, on the 25th,
and her vindication of Gen. Grant was power
full, as also her handling of Sumner, Schurz,
Trumbell, Greeley, sc.
The rhinoceros with Wagner & Cos show,
while being exhibited at Red Bend, H., re-
Gently, broke loose, killed two men, broke
things generally and made it unhealthy to be
around. The little freak cost the managers
So, 600.
General Schuyler Hamilton, who has been
reported among the "Greely recruits, "has writ
ten letter to General Butler, in which he de-
clares that he supports Grant rather than
Greeley. He was on General Buffers staff
during the war.
Fifty-eight thousand letters reached the
Dead Letter Office last year, having no county
or state direction, and 10000 with no direc-
tions at all. The entire number received there
was 100000, of which 100000 were not
stamped. They contained $4,000.
Lizzie Lindsey, young woman from Maui
NEE City, who had been seduced by Cleve-
land clerk, had been living as his mistress
there, committed suicide, on Friday of last
week by shooting herself. She was aged 20
years and is spoken Of as very handsome.
The Buffalo Express announces three
cases of fgenuine cholera in that city during the
ef ruack Thia chn1,1d a1, 81
Health and citizens generally to make use of
such precautionary measures as prudence NAV
dictate to guard against this terrible pestilence.
Mr.. Greeley continues his talks and travels,
to the terror of his friends, who beseech him
to DO anything but expose himself too often to
the attacks of the Republicans. The good
Doctor, who has not had holiday for many
years, seems resolved to make the most of it.
It has gone the rounds that Judge Sherman,
of Cleveland, brother of the General and Sen
ator, is for Greeley. The Judge writes Gov
ernor Noyes that he is one of the strongest
Grant men in Ohio, and would take an active |
part in the campaign but for his position on |
the bench.
The straight Democrats appear to be gain |
ing every day in strength and organization.
Thirty-one states are already provided with a |
full representation in the Louisville Convent |
ion, and many leading Democrats east and
west who at first favored the Greeley move /
ment, are pronouncing for new nomination
Isaac Banta, wealthy farmer living near
MonroevilIe, Ohio, had a pole raising on the
I4th. About 1000 persons were present,
speeches were made and a general good time
resulted. j. d. Eaton of Peru, and Capt.
Skilton of Monroeville superintended the rails
ing of the pole, which was mounted with a
Grant and Wilson flag.
At Waverly, Pike county, Ohio, the Demo-
Gratis who support Greeley show their regard
for eolOred people by raising mob and driving
them out of the village. A colored barber, a
very respectable man, settled there recently,
opened shop, and was just prepared for bus
mess, when a few Democratic reughs event
through" his shop, and the barber was compel
led to flee for his life. This is the class Of men
that Sumner wants the cOlored people to vote
for.
The Akron Beacon says one of the air shafts
of the Brewster Brothers coal mine, near that
city, at the cotton of which was small furn-
ace, caught fire Saturday, and for a while
burned terribly. As soon as the ascending
smoke and fire were seen by the women and
children in the neighborhood, scene of in
describable confusion ookplace. Women were
so loud as to be heard for great
distance around, their cries being caused by
the fear of another Atwater horror. The men
not answering to the first call increased the
alarm, and it was not until their appearance
above ground that quiet was restored. The
fire caught from the furnace, which was un-
usually hot at the time.
Peru has been the scene of revolution and
carnage. Thomas Gutierrez, late minister of /
war, headed a revolution, backed by the sold
iery, and seizing President Balta, threw him
in prison. The soldiery then deserted Quit
errez, and his brother Sylvester was shot. An
other brother then murdered President Balta |
in revenge. Soon after, the two Gutierrez
brothers were seized and murdered, and the /
dead bodies of the three brothers were drawn |
to the cathedral spire, and let fall from hight
of 100 feet. The bodies were then saturated |
with kerosene oil and burned. Pardo, the |
newly elected President reached Lima on the |
9th ult., and was enthusiastically received. |
The rebellion is regarded as suppressed, but
was fearful while it ragged.
Greeleyism will only need about one more
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