The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-10-24

has made the discovery that Napole-
on was mistaken when he said ''that
| Providence was on the side of the
| heaviest artillery" for the heaviest
artillery is at Fort Adams, and Prov
idence is on the other side.
A judge in New York has decided
that taking a meal in hotel, though
kept on the European plan, consti-
tuted man a guest within the mean
ing of the statute, and made the pro
prietors of the house responsible for
property lost by such a guest.
Several members of the London
Alpine Club did some tall climbing
in Switzerland last summer. Two
courageous fellows went where man
never before dared to go, and when
they returned to London a grand
banquet was given in their honor.
Mrs. Miller, wife of Wesley Miller,
farmer, living two miles north of
BelIefontaine, was found drowned in
a spring on the farm, October 10th.
There was only about 20 inches of
water in the spring. She was labor
ing under alteration of mind.
Nevada, with the smallest popu-
lation of any State in the Union,
has one of the most numerously at
tended and popular State prisons in
the country. There is nothing
which the young and vigorous. en-
terprise of the West will not ac-
complish.
The opponents of Chinese i'm
migration in California have appoint
ed a Convention to meet in San
Francisco, November 3, to consider
the various questions growing out
of fcneap Chinese labor, and to devise
ways aud means to arrest the tide Of
immigration from China. Governor
Booth is one of the delegates to the
Convention.
Men are walking about NewYork,
says an exchange, with pockets full
of silver taken in change. Astonish
ed conductors on street cars receive
silver quarters, ten and five cent pie
ces for fares. Silver does not now
command a premium over legal
tenders, if one wants to sell silver,
but if one wants to buy it-well, |
financiers must live.
A young son of Mr.. Foley, living |
near Schuyler, Nebraska. who was
subject to fits, on the 7th inst, du
ring a quarrel with his father and
sister, struck the latter over the head
with gun, and then tried to cut her
throat with a hatchet. He after
wards attacked his father and beat
his brains out with the butt of the
gun. He was arrested,
The Steubenville Herald and
Neaos says: 4" An effort is now being
made to locate the boundaries of old
Fort Steuben. An old well has been
discovered on High street, which was
in one corner Of the fort,
and from this, with the bearings and
measurements given in an old copy
of the original plan of the fort, the
various localities of stock houses,
&c, will be ascertained. /
The fort was built in 1887 and burn q
ed down in 1890"
New Bedford can claim the cham c
pionship in modesty. An art deal s
er, among his other goods, placed in
his window copies of antique statua-
~, such as are to be found in all the
galleries, when a criminal
prosecution was entered against
him, and the valiant marshal seized :
,he statues. The matter was taken
nto the police court and the Justice :
lecided that the exhibition of the !,
statue ofNarcissus 'manifestly tend
ID to corrupt the morals Of youth" o
Says the Cleveland Leader: cit il
S astonishing how some public men 81
manage to conceal their antecedents. +
COR instance, the legislators, clergy h
men, and members of the press of 81
)hio have now received from the d
managers of the State Reform School sa
IMITATION to the reunion, which be-
-ins by reminding the recipients that sc
ong years have elapsed since we ol
yere companions at the Reform ei
chool.'" 1t is pleasing to note the -
Of the editor of the Leatger e e
q acknowledging the corn. No 9TH :;
r editor was included in the invita- 9 :,
ion. 8.
A Mr.. Dessaner stopped at hotel a
d Indiana lately, when he was as hi
igned room with three beds in it, IA
ne of which was already occupied, al
nd was told the third would remain th
mpty. During the night, however, pl
was taken by Stranger, who arose "
arly in the morning and lit out, az
lking with him the watch, pocket pi
ook, &c, Of Mr.. Dessaner. Des- W
amer sued the landlord, and the II
Ourt held that the latter was respon- ps
-ble for the loss of his guest, in con ~ "
3quence of causing him to relax -
is vigilance, by leading him to be- fl
eve that no one but the one already M
the room should occupy it. fol
Madame Loyson, the beloved tt
)ouse of Pere Hyacinthe is a won or
erful woman. We are dumb with wi
lmiration at the energy with which be
le supports the radical doctrines of
er heretical husband. Two months shi
nee the cable informed us that th'
lie had presented the Pere with a an
IN. The English Weekly Mail, of col
ctober 4th, announces that she -.
asst week presented Pere Hyacinthe aL' aE'
ith a son, for whom the ladies' of -, I
eneva are making up a purse" ps,
nd now cable dispatch of yester- he
y announces that on Saturday she Ter
esented Pere Hyacinthe with son. \
is good so far as it goes, but what of
IL his reverence do if it keeps up? bin
On Saturday morning last, at 5 Gr'
clock the residence of Mr.. James lift
elley, near the corner of Nebraska haV
venue and Harriet Street, Toledo, mu
IS discovered to be on fire. An to
lrm was at once given and an at Peo
npt made to force a passage into 50 5
e house below, but the smoke and are
mes rendered it impossible. A Sna
ndow above was forced open, but -sd' =
account of the smoke no signs n
any one was seen in the room. ,va.
ter some delay the Fire Depart Of y
inf suIdupd tho Aor,o. ~ a.