The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-06-20

While oshets so stumpidg afothd Oh wooden
or artificial legs, os have empty sleeves to at
test their Services for the country.
Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, has is
sued decree forbidding Catholic children
from drawing books out of the public libraries
on the ground that many of them are immor-
al. As the books are all rigidly examined by
competent committees before being placed in
the library, and all immoral ones excluded, it
is likely that the Bishop is only using the
excuse about immoral books as a subterfuge.
a fish car containing thirty thousand dol
lars worth of live trout, eel, and other fish,
when on its way over the Union Pacific road,
went through bridge that spans the Elkhorn
some twenty miles from Omaha, and the fish
were lost. The tubs in which the fish were
contained were upset and the fish went into
the Elkhorn, but as that is muddy stream
it is not expected they will live and thrive.
These fish were one of the shipments of Seth
Green, who is engaged in stocking the streams
of the West with fish from the Atlantic
States.
A law of Minnesota regulates the tariff OF
railroads in that State. In a suit brought
against railroad for overcharges, the ST.
preme Court Of Minnesota sustained the con-
stitutionality of the law on the following gem
eral principles: ''The right to make and
maintain railway, and take tolls or fares is
franchise for the same reason that the right
to build an ordinary road and levy toll there
on, is, viz: that railway is but an improved
modern highway, one which it is the duty and
interest of the government to construct when
the public Interest and convenience demand
it" The case will be taken to the United
States Supreme Court
In this age of scepticism facts arc required
to inspire confidence in ths minds of tho poo
pie; but with good indorsers, they are willing
to test any article claiming extraordinary
merit. The proprietors of Halls Vegetable
Sicilian Hair Remover offer the following in
dorsemeut Of the merits claimed by them fer
their preparation, by the Pittsburg, Pa,
Christian AdUocate, viz: "The public haye
SO often been deceived by the use of worthless
preparations for the hair, that an article of
this kind, to gain their favor and secure their
patronage, must p osseSs real merit. We are
glad to assure our readers that Halls Vegeta-
BILE Sicilian Hair Renewer is meeting with
the success which its merits SO justly deserve;
and we have reliable evidence that it will
perform all that is claimed for it, in restoring
gray hair to its natural color, and as a perma-
nent dressing is unsurpassed.
A little daughter of Mrs. A. X. Train, Of
Iontogany, was kidnapped on the 9th inst.
The mother was formerly Mrs Bailey, of Lar
sing, Michigan, who, on the grounds of ex-
treme cruelty on the part of her husband, oh
tanned divorce from him about year age,
the custody of the child being awarded to her.
Sometime since she moved to Tontogany,
where she was married about three weeks ago
to DIR. A. r. Train; of the Pulta Medical COL
lege, Cincinnati On the above date the faith
er of the child made his appearance in Tonto-
gany, and made various inquiries in regard to
the facts, and then left, as no stated, for home;
but leaving the cars at Haskins, he procured a
team and drove back to the school at Tonto-
gany, whers the child was, told the teacher
that its mother wanted it, took it to his car
riage and drove off. Tho teachers suspicious
were aroused; and warrant was issued and
put into the hands of the Constable, who fol-
lowed the kidnapper as far as the Michigan
State line, where he had to give ovef the pur-
suit An effort will be made TO secure the re-
capture of the child.