The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-05-30

oil in pic recently, and set it in the pantry
Tho next morning two seats at the table were
vacant.
To mako balky horse go tie his ears TO-
goiher. This is said to be sure thing and
bad for the balks; and those who have that
delectabIe treasure should not neglect to try
it. We never saw a balky horse but our
thoughts reverted to the subject Oftheir affini-
ty with the mulo.
| MonroeviI.a has been infested for years by
a class Of confidence men and robbers, who
have operated upon railroad travellers, until
they have become such nuisance that the
railroad authorities have taken the matter in
hand, and placed an officer in charge Of the
depot who means business.
Royce, KoOns & Co. of this city, proprietors
Of the SiegeI Mills, arc doing good business.
They buy on IN average 5000 bushels Of
wheat per month, from teams; and their GUS
tom work amounts to about the same number
of bushels; making total of 1900 bushels of
grain ground per month, or S6,4OO per anuum-
A dozen harms have beesn burned in Butler
Co. o., during the last six months, by some
horse thieves who wero in the habit of picking
M old and worthless horses on commons,
stealing good horses from barns at night put
ting The old horses in their places, and then
setting the barn on fro and making their es-
cape with their booty.
Tho residence of Geo. +. Drake, at Monroe
vile. was entered by thieves on the night Of
the 18th, who stole therefrOm $40 of which
so was Mr.. Drake's, and the balance belong
cd 70 tho firm Of Drake 6, Green. And on the
night Of the 10Th the store Of Drake & Green,
was entered and robbed of miscellaneous arti-
oIes amounting in value TO about $40.
On Monday evening last, Mr.. Charles Voglo
of Toledo, about 80 years of age, and who has
been suffering from consumption, without
any prospect of relief, in fit of melancholy
sant his vito away on an errand, and then de-
lberateIy shot himself with six barrel revol-
yer; the ball entering just below the right
temple. The shot did not at once provo fatal.
A man in Hudson, New York, killed anoth-
er with q hetchet, and buried him; he after
wards confessed tho crime, and also that he
had buried all the school books he could find
in three school houses which he had burned;
and gave as his only reason for such conduct,
that an OWL spirit was in him and he wanted
to do something bad. The law will probably
exercise that evil spirit by choking.
Jefferson Garrotson, who resided near Van
Wort, was found on the track of the P Ft. w.
& g. R'y., near Lima dead, on the night Of
the 18th. Cries of "Helpl HelpI Murderl"
wero heard hear the spot short time before
he was found. He had been in Van Vert
during the day, and was seen with several
suspicious looking characters who are suppos-
ed to have murdered him for his money. They
were arrested.
Can't our farmers wives enter the arena
and show what they can do2 Over in Huron
county the farmers wives have-been engaged
in Iittlo contest as to who could cAurn the
most butter at q single churning. The first
one reported 36 pounds, the next 4S l-2' the
next 81, and last Of all comes Mrs. King,
who has SO fur carried of the palm, having
churned 81 pounds. Tho churn she used held
ono and half barrels.
Somebody says that the best way to deal
with the striped bug is to get toad to catch
him; but the trouble is tho toad wont stay
where you want him, unless you build little
fence around him, toad-tight. a better way
is to take four pieces Of boards u inches long
and inches wide, tackled together in the
shape Of a box, and placed firmly over each
hill, and covered with pane of glass, or mus
quito netting. Leave it over until the plants
have grown out of the reach of the bugs.
Farmers can hit two birds with one stono
by protecting their young corn crop against
tho depredations of crows and cutworms in
the following way, which is recommended by
q Pennsylvania farmer, who has tried it for
the last 20 years. As soon as tho corn is ups
OF begins to como Up, SOW broadcast four
qnarts of sheIled corn TO tho acre, evenly over
tho field. This will ontice the crows to the
field at an early hour of the day, when the
cutworms are of work; and the cutworms will
pass into the crows crops as rapidly as the
corn.
Two well-dresscd rascals on the ears of the
A. & G. w. r. R., tried TO play confidence
game upon a certain doctor in Cleveland, on
Saturday Isst. They entered a smoking car,
and got alongside of the doctor, when one Of
them complained Of having been swindied out
Of five hundred dollars by confidence man,
and tried to get sympathy. He then took out
a few business cards and defaced them, when
the other fellow commenced botting, and after
bantoring the doctor, he finally got him to
stake his gold watch valued at one hundred
and sixty dollars. The fellows took the watch
and jumped off the cars. The doctor gotout
a warrant at Newburg and started in pursuit.
After driving two miles he discovered them in
a farmers buggy, had them arrested and taken
to Cleveland. lie recovered his watch.