The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-08-29
NEWS ITEMS.

A well near Saginaw Was lately
drilled through so feet of rock salt.
JEFF Davis, the former Democratic
head light, is stumping it in the
Sooth.
The study of Algebra has been
made elective in the Toledo High
School.
Fred Douglass is preparing a lee
ture on the life and times of John
Brown.
In the state of New York, every
minister and priest holds $500 free
of taxation.
The Virginia Democracy is renew
ing the "war of races" Down
with the negroes
President Grant and wife on the
22d inst, celebrated the 25th ami
versary of their marriage. No cards.
Ex-Mayor Oakley Hall declines to
join the balloon expedition to
Europe. The Tammany Balloon
EIuO bdbloilcu ullu.
Fifty dollars per week is the high
est salary paid to a newspaper man
| in Pittsburg. First-class reporters
are paid thirty dollars.
Lewis D. Campbell completes the
list of Democratic Congressman from
Ohio, every one of whom has pock-
eted the "salary swag."
A mass meeting of merchants is
to be held in New York soon, to
take measures for securing cheaper
transportation between the East and
West.
The marshes near Kalamazoo have
been on fire for nearly week, burn
ing down into the peat, At night
the light Of the fires can be seen for
miles.
The richest girl in America is Miss
Nettie Adelia Mckee, of Allegheny
city, Penna., who recently came into
possession of$2,OOO,oOO, by the death
OF her lather.
A printing press has recently been
gotten up in London, England, by
which two men and a boy can print
$4,000 perfect copies Of a paper in
one hour.
Twenty two farmers oranges in
Kansas have consolidated and agreed
to "pooP their wheat together, and
to sell or hold their entire crop as
the majority may think best.
A most destructive five occurred
on Sunday last at Belfast, Maine.
Many buildings and wharves were
burned. Loss 100000. One hund-
red and thirty families were rendered
homeless.
A reward of $1,000 is offered for
the arrest of Edward Bean, Conduc-
tor of the coal train which collided
with a passenger train on the Chica-
go and Alton Railroad on the night
Of the 18th inst.
A wealthy farmer in Washington
County, Pennsylvania, who disap-
peared mysteriously in July last was
lately found picked in a dissecting
room Of a medical college in Phila-
deIphia.
On Sunday last, not less than 12,-
600 persons attended the United
Brethren camp meeting, at Praiston,
Ind, about nine miles from Terre
Hsute. Good order was preserved
throughout.
The Democracy have secured the
services of Sam Carey, to stump the
Northern part of Ohio; but he is al
so commissioned not to make any
temperance speeches, as they do not
wish to have their candidates COM
promised.
The West Point Board of Visitors
report the military institution there
in flourishing condition, and recon-
mend that the course of instruction
be somewhat enlarged, by allowing
some time to be given to literary and
historical studies, and to exercises in
elocution.
The Toledo Commercial of August
9th, gives an interesting account of
two aeronants lost in a whirlwind. !
The facts were cleaned from a diary !
of the unfortunate men, preserved in |
a bottle, which was washed ashore. |
It occurred near Philadelphia about |
sixty years ago.
The st. Louis Republican, the |
leading Democratic paper in the
South west, says ournfully: at |
has been long, long time since we
saw Democratic Governor of Ohio,
and there is hardly a single intelli-
gent Democrat in the State who ever
expects to see one"
The New London, Ohio, Record
gives an account Of the falling of a
meteoric stone, near that place on
the 18th inst. It was heard passing
through the air by Mr.. Hotchkiss,
and struck close to where he was
standing. 1t came from a south
easterly direction, and when taken
from the ground was quite hot.
A Mr.. Lancaster of Chicago lately
returned from Europe with diamonds
valued at $4,000 obtained from the
gold fields Of South Africa. On
landing at New York the diamonds
were seized on the ground that the
owner had tried to evade paying du-
ty. He claims that there is no duty
on uncut diamonds, and has gone to
Washington to demand their restora-
ton.
A Canada forger to the amount
of $1,000 came to Toledo on Monday
last, to close a trade by which he
was to open livery stable at the
Whipple House. The police were
at the same time receiving full des-
criptions of the man by telegraph,
even in regard to his false teeth, and
IN half an hour he was arrested and
locked in a cell.
One James Jones of Millbrook,
Wayne County, was recently married
to Susan M. jackson. Two days
thereafter Mrs. Jones, from anoth-
or part of the country, made her ap-
Jearance and hadJames arrested and
put in iail to await the sitting of the