The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-05-02

The telegraph was called into reqrIi-
sition, but the police not responding
with alacrity, the men were not cap
tnred. At last reports they remain.
at large.
NEWS ITEMS.
Civil War is again apprehended in
France.
The Legislature has passed Ia q
prohibiting faro and keno. En-
force it.
Arcvision Of the list of Constitu-
tional Delegates gives So Republi-
cans and 81 opposition. %
Alval French, his wife aud five
children, have died near Fostoria
since last fall. The fatality is re-
markable.
At Portland, Me-, Michael Sulli-
van was struck by John Warren a
blow with his fistiand killed on the
25th. Warren WAS So years old and
Sullivan. GO. Isres
Sleighs still run from Turin, in
Lewis County, New York, to Lyons
Falls, carrying passengers. Snow
in portions Of Lewis County is three
feet deep. .o
The State ticket this year will com
prise a Governor, Lieutenant Cover
nor, two Supreme Judges, Treasurer
of State, Comptroller of Treasury,
Attorney General and member Of
Board OF Public Works.
A cannon weighing 1850 pounds
has been presented by Emperor
William to the Lutheran Church at
Titusyille, Pa. The cannon WAS
captured at Sedan, and is to be cast
into hell It has arrived at New
York. ylH
The cheap beer riot in the city Of
Frankfort was serious affair. The
brewers refused to lower the price
of beer; the people reyolted; several
breWeries we're destroyed; the sold
iery were called out, and nine OF the
rioters were killed and forty were
wounded. 54-
The Pittsburg Commercial claims
to have learned from authentic
sources, that an important statement
will soon be made public at Wash.
ington, regarding a gigantic scheme
said to be already nearly matured, to
obtain control of the entire trans
portation traffic in the United States.
1t is cruel to deprive the liberals
of an opportunity to howl about the
Government squandering the peo-
pies money, but truth compels the
announcement that the expenses of
the clerks who go to Europe with
bonds, are paid by the syndicate, and
it does not cost the Covenant q
farthing.
All! this history is bad thing
for our own side sometimes. A man
with a memory now recalls the fact
that some years ago Capt. Wright
ofthe United States army, did invite
party of Modocs to feast, and
then treacherously massacred them
when they were as powerless to de-
fend themselves as were the Peace
Commissioners in the Lava Beds.
But then those were poor ignorant,
unknown red men and not major
generals and doctors of divinity.
That makes a difference.
Says the Iron Trade CTrcular, a
leading organ Of the British manu-
featuring interests: "The ascendanee
of the Protectionist party in the
United States continues to operate
most favorably for the manufactur-
ing interests there, and it is no
wonder that, under its benignant
auspices, the enterprise in this direc-
ton is swelling to colossal proper
tions. The whole subject is one de-
manding the serious attention ofI
our manufactures" This is cour-
teously submitted to Free Traders
as an aid in the solution of their
problem: "Does esprotection pay?"
Fremont's pet project has gained
a strong point. On Tuesday the
United States Supreme Court rend-
cred an important decision in case
No. sc, E. J. Davis, Governor of
Texas, appellant, vs.. John A. Gray,
Receiver, affirming the decree OF the
Circuit Court of Texas, that the
Memphis and El Paso Railroad is |
entitled to eight million acres of
public land granted to the road pri-
or to the loan by the State of Texas
to aid in its construction. The |
Court holds that the grant did not
collapse owing To the war, which |
prevented the company from build |
ing the road as prescribed by the |
charter This land now goes to the
Texas Pacific Road, of which Thomas |
A. Scott is the President, as assignee
of all the rights and privileges of
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