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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-10-18
FASHION NOTES.

No change in gentleman fashions is
to be noted.
White scalskin is new fur which
will be much worn.
Gigantic fans are in vogue and could
easily be used for paraso!s.
Monograms on note paper have gone
completely out of fashion.
Everything is loaded with trimming,
from the slipper to the bonnet.
Tho most fashionable jewelry at pres
ent is of oxydized silver "pickcd out
with beaten gold.
The Elizabethan tufts are assuming
proportions more ponterous and awe
inspiring than ever.
The skirts of riding habits should only
he fourteen inches longer than the Or
binary drc3s-skirt.
Pumps and black silk stockings, with
scarlet cloaks, are the proper things for
gentleman $ full dress.
The blue coors with white spots, so
muc! worn during the summer, still
continue i'll favor in heavier materials.
Bodices hish at the back and square
in front ar G, ryr'e With these are
worn the Mclici OF Francis iuiilcs,
which are quito the rage now.
Buttons are worn immensely large,
OF FURNISHED or blue steel cut into an
imitation of diamonds. Undersleeve
studs of carved wood are also much in
fashion.
Bows for the hair and neck are worn
more than ever. Black gross-grain rib
bon, embroidered with wrcaths of rose
buds and daisies, is much used for this
purpose.
Watercd ribbon sashes are very pop
ular. Side sashcs lave n succession of
long loops, and two uneven ends hang
Ing from the belt on the left side, quite
far back
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-10-18

1E- The Iin,derer, the oldest jot,rn-
al i'll Vienna, established in 1909 bas
ceased to appear.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-10-18

So Registered letters are hereafter
to be transmitted in locked pouches, to
which the postmasters at distributing
stations will alone have keys.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1873-10-18

n<2y- 4 National Horticultural Society
is to be organized for the Centenns'
Exposition.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19
NEWS ITEMS.

A 'ring'' in China handles the tea
crop.
A woman at Grand Rapids, Mich,
keeps 76
The Mammoth Caye is for sale at
half a million dollars.
Corn in Illinois this season will be
only two-third crop.
England produces four times as
much wheat as Minnesota.
One hundred persons die annually
in London from starvation.
A Cow Insurance Company has
just been started in England.
Two hundred car loads of potters
ware are shipped from Akron annu-
ally.
The 3Oth Ohio Zouaves will have a
reunion at Xenia on the 25th of this
month.
Alta farmers meeting, at Indepen-
dence, Indiana, recently, 5000 per-
sons were present.
The Grangers of Wisconsin have
arranged to put a State Ticket in the
field on the 23d.
The Hemp crop of Kentucky will
be greater this year than ever before
1t needs it more.
At the Knox county fair, in Indi-
ana, there is to be spelling match,
open to the world.
The wheat crop of Oregon this
year, is the largest and best ever
known in that State.
The new Masonic Halls going up
in this country the present season
will cost $4OO0,0OO.
The pottery shops of Enoch Row
ley & Son, ct Akron, were destroy
ed by fire on the 18th.
At Rondout, N. Y, on the 18th, a
fire broke out, which destroyed prop
ertY 20 tne VaIue OF S9U,UUU.
The Gold Ring in New York has
busted, and many of the bankers en-
gagged in it will be entirely used up.
Shreveport, La, is afflicted with
the yellow fever in a most malignant
form. Thirty deaths occurred in one
day.
At the great farmers meeting, in
Iowa, on the 5th, sixty Oranges
marched in procession numbering
10000. -
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19
Murder of Gen. McCook, Secretary
ofDakota Territory.

YANKToN, D. T., September 12.-
Last night an alteration occurred
between General E. S. McCook, Sec
retary of Dakota, and P. P. Winter
NUT, banker of this city, in the
billiard parlor of the st. Charles Ho.
tel, during which Wintermut used
insulting language, Which was
promptly resented by the General
who gave Wintermut a thrashing.
The General then went to his room.
Wintermut, washing the blood from
his face, remarked to the bystanders
that McCook could whip him, but
that he (Wintermut) could shoot
him, and Immediately went five
blocks, got a pistol and returned. A
railroad meeting was in session at
the hotel at the time. Wintermut en-
tered the assembly room. McCook,
unaware of his presence, also entered
the room, when Wintermut raised,
and approaching, fired his pistol, the
shot taking effect in the left breast.
The general grappled with the as
sassin. A second shot was fred,
when Wlntermut was thrown to the
floor. During the struggle two more
shots we're fired, one of which slight
ly wounded a bystander. Only one
shot took effect, which proved fatal.
The General fingered till seven this
morning, when he expired. He was
fully conscious to the last, and died
like brave man. Wintermutisu is un-
der arrest. The city is shrouded in
gloom, and flags are flying at half
mast. At one time it was feared that
Wintermut would be lynched, but
cooler counsel prevailed. The body
is dressed in the uniform of a Gen
eral, which he wore during the war.
The coffin is draped in the United
States flag, and large concourse of
citizens will escort the body to the
depot, whence it will be for
warded by special train to his friends
in the east, accompanied by Govern
or Burbank and other distinguished
gentlemen,
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

The GRAPHIC BALLOON has proven
a great humbug. After the accident
of Wednesday, the balloon was re:
paired, and the work Of filing it with
gas preparatory to the ascent com.
menced early on Friday morning.
At four,o'clock in the afternoon, as
the filing was about completed, the
balloon swayed to the north, and rip
ped open allowing the gas to escape
to the great discomfort Of those in
the immediate vicinity of the balloon
Thus the attempt to cross the ocean
has proven a dead failure, at least
until better appliances are made use
Of Immediately on the failure of
thecotton affair, the Graphic propri-
etors offered to construct silk one
for Prof. Donaldson, and have it rea-
.dy SO he could start in October It
is said also, that parties in Philadel7
phia have offered to construct a silk
balloon for Prof. Wise, at a cost Of
$4,000, during the coming winter,
taking every precaution against fail
ure, and enabling the Professor to
make the voyage in the spring as
soon as the weather became faEora-
ble. ea0J .-isJrae 10 sgguEa
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

TIE Messenger has much to say
about our county ticket being ring
ticket. The editors of that paper
we're present at the convention which
placed the ticket in the field, and we
venture the assertion that they nev-
er we're present at a convention
where there there was 80 little at
tempt at wire pulling. In fact the
prospects ofcarrying any of the Off
ees in the county we're not SO Hatter-
ing as to induce a strife, and there
was none. The candidates were Sc
leeted with reference to their fitness
and capacity, and most of them were
nominated by acclamation and can
truly be said to have beeen the unsn-
imous choice of the convention,
which was composed largely Of dele
gates from the county, and 50 well
satisfied are the people of the eoun-
ty with the ticket, thai they wiIlroll
upa vote for It, that viii assure he
Messenger of their appreciation of
good men. a1lfbz
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

The question as to who burnt Co.
lumbia, has been agitated to such
an extent that Gen. Sherman at last
comes forward and settles the matter
beyond controversy. Wade Hamp-
ton at first insisted that it was burnt
by order of General Sherman, bat
afterwards admitted it might have
been burned by some stragglers Of
the Union army. Again he was
cornered, and being so confessed he
had issued orders to burn the cotton
left behind at Columbia, but fearing
the town might be destroyed, he af-
forwards countermanded the order.
General Sherman now closes the
case in an unanswerable paper, for
the Union side. He testifes that no
orders for burning the town were is
sued by Union officers; that the fire
was raging when he entered Colum-
bia; that a little band of adventur-
Gus Federals who got into Columbia
three-quarters of an hour before the
regular advance of the Union army,
saw Confederates ripping open cot
ton bales and setting them on fire;
and that instead of the stragglers of
Sherman's troops setting the town
on fire, with or without orders, ,strag-
glers from Wade Hampton's forces
fred the cotton which burned the
town, either with or against orders.
Beyond the positive testimony given
in the letter of General Sherman,
which we give below, there is moth
ing attainable:
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE q. ST.
Washington, Sept. IL, '73.
EDITOR CHRONICLE
Dear Sir; When you applied to
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19
county

BEN BUrsER was not to be put
down. Finding his case hopeless be
fore the Massachusetts Republican
State Convention, he tarned in and
led the opposition to himself, even to
the extent OF moving the nomination
of Washburne by acclamation, snd
the endorsement of the resolu lions
condemning himself NotwithsJsnd-
ing his apparent acquiecense in the
wishes of the people, Ben has not
withdrawn his gaze from the Cover
noT's Office, and will renew the fight
for it with more determination than
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

me some time ago for material bear
ing on the controversy Of "Who
burnt Columbia?" I gave you printed
pamphlets which / had obtained
from Judge Holt, containing all tes
timony taken in cotton cases grow
ing out of that event, and submitted
to the Mixed Commission appointed
to adjudicate these cases, under the
treaty with Great Britain. Judge
Holt could have obtained the testi-
mony of all the eight or ten thous'
and officers aud soldiers who were al
or near Columbia, when the conha
grafton occurred, but he thought he
had enough without putting the gov
ernment to the expense of bringing
more witnesses from a distance.
suppose he did not summon Colonel
Stone, who commanded the leading
brigade of the Fifteenth Corps, be-
cause he did not know where to find
him. l surely did not know his
whereabouts, until he voluntarily
published his statement.
IN my official report of the affair
published before the close of the wal
when Gen. Wade Hampton was fight
ing US, and not when, as he alleges
he was a prisoner of war, referred
incidentally to fact of which I had
knowledge, that small detachment
of the Seventeenth Corps, had pass
ed over the Congaree, had entered
Columbia, and hoisted a flag over the
new State House, in advance of the
regular entry of the Fifteenth Corps
which mad made a circuit to cross
the t'Vo branches of the Saluda and
Broad, which make the Congaree.
treated the performance of this de
tachment as somewhat irregular, but
the men who composed it now be-
come important witnesses, and l
herewith enclose copies of their writ
ten statements, together with official
reports which explain the whole af-
fair.
These witnesses go bsck to time
three-quarters of an hour before the
entry of the head of Stones brigade
and about two hours ahead of the
time personally reached the piles of
burning cotton, of which there were
many, and 1 invite your careful pc
rusal of their statements, for they
are positive they saw rebel soldiers
ripping open bales of cotton and ap-
plying fire. They also saw rebel sol-
diers plundering stores on Main St.,
which General Hampton attributed
to our men; and they further posi-
lively assert that Hampton had al
ready gone out of Columbia, so thst
he could not and did not see his men
fire. Now, Hampton ad-
mits that the cotton was rolled out
in the streets, "for the purpose Of
burning" but that he forbade the
burning lest the fire should extend
to houses, and l reiterate that no
matter what his orders were, the
men of his army, either his rear
guard or his stragglers, did apply
the fire, and that this was a sufficient
cause for all else that followed.
With great respect, Yours,
w. T. SHERMAN.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

FIRE IN CHIcAeo.-A fire broke
out in Chicago, at three o'clock yes
terday afternoon, In the lumber dis
trict near the corner Of Seventeenth
and Halsted streets, which caused
intense excitement, and threatened
for a time to repeat the calamity of
October, III. The FIRE originated
from spark blown into an open
shed used for the storage Of hay.
The total loss is estimated at from
s25O,OOo to 100000. The number
Of buildings destroyed is placed at
sixty-four, only one of which was Of
brick, the rest being wooden tene-
ments from one to three stories high.
and occupied mainly as residences
by the poorer classes. alobol
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Nor since the year before the war
has the yellow fever made such
frightful ravages as it is making this
year At Shreveport La, every
house is a hospital, and although a
place of but about A, 900 inhabinaats,
the deaths number from thirty to
forty daily. The utmost distress
and calls for aid are loud and fre-
qpent At Memphis, there is pan
ic, and people are leaving the city
on every train, to escape the sconrges
The fever is not confined to- one
quarter Of the city, as at hrstrepolt-
ee, but extends over the entire city.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

TIE Cleveland Leader bolts the
nomination Of Babcocl, for Repre-
sentative. Babcock voted against
the resolution condemning the sala.
~ grab, in the House, last spring
and for that and other reasons I'll,
Eea5er opposes him. It also oppo
ses one Farenbatch, whom it stigma
tizes as a demagogue unworthy of !
place on the ticket. It takes ths
right position. If cliques and rings
and unsc-upulous demagogues con.
troll nominations, and put on the
ticket men who are unfit for the 20.
sitions-who are no credit to the or.
ganization, then it becomes the press
to guard the peoples rights even al
the expense of party nominations
Honestupright men for Office should
be demanded by the people and the
rule should be enforced.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19
A Bad PLIGHT for a Senator.

500 a 6ao EASnL 1cT senator
In his Wayeiiy speech Senator
Thurman went out of the range Of
Legitimate discussion to make a per.
sonal attack on Senator Morton
basing the same upon the charge
that the latter gentleman had by his
vote and aotion2in the Senate favor
ed the increase in tile pay of mem
bers Of Congress, in that, he voted
against a House amendments striking
from the bill everything but the in
crease of the Presidents salary. In
the language Of Mr.. Thurman, Mr..
Morton was thus "found among the
knayes-that is among those who
voted against that amendment and
voted to keep the salary grab in the
bill" This is sufficiently distinct,
to leave no doubt as to the charge
intended to be made-that Mr.. Nor
ton favored the retention of the Con
gressional asslary grab in the bill.
Senator Morton, in his speech at
Dayton on the 11th, referred to this
matter, and placed his assailant in a
position from which he will hardly
escape. After quoting Judge Thur.
mans language, he said:
I will tell you simply the plain
history of that matter, and it will be
borne out in my statements bv the
record Of the Congressional Globe.
When the appropriation bill came
mp to the Senate from the House, it
is true that Mr.. Edmunds did make
motion to strike out the amend.
,ment tackled on it by the House, to
increase the salaries of the Judges
of the Supreme Court, the heads Of
departments, Senators and Repre-
sentatiYes in Congress, and clerks.
leaving only the increase of the sal.
airy of the president of the United
States. Senator Thurman calls that
a test vote. That amendment had
it been carried, would have prevent
ed any increase Of the salaries of tbe
Judges of the Supreme court, heads
of departments, and clerks, whom
everyone thought we're inadequalely
paid for their services. Everyone
who was in favor of increasing the
salary of the Supreme Judges, heads
Of departments, and clerks could not
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19


NEw YoRKERs are at last coming
to the aid of the farmers of the west
in the matter of cheap ttransporta-
tion. A meeting of merchants was
held at Coopers Institute on We'd
nesday night Of last week, to loo in
to the matter and to devise some re
medy. Itnow costs so much to move
a bushel of wheat from Chicago to
the East, that there is no money in
it to the speculator. Besides corn
is becoming scarce and they fear a
corn famine. The outlook is not
very favorable, however, for the city.
Short crops in Europe are creating a
demand for our breadstufs greater
than the capacity Of rail and lake to
move TO tn eseaboard, and as a eobse-
quence New York will hardly be Re.
lieved, though a reduction in the
cost Of freighting should be made
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19
VOTE for that a mendment. and there

vote for that a mendment, and there
it was not test vote. I voted no.
Immediately. as soon as the vote
was announced, l rose to my feet
and made a motion to amend to
strike out that part of the amend
ment TO the bill which would in
crease the salaries of Senators and
Representatives. / made test ques.
ton. twas a test question, and it
was the only one that was made.
spoke earnestly in favor of it. At
ter that several Senators came to me
and asked me to let the whole mat
90 to a conference committee. Twill
not say positively, but my memory
is distinct, that Senator Thurman
was among those Senators. sup
posed that the conference commit
tee would expunge,from the bill that
part which related to the increase OF
salaries of Senators and members OF
the House. Accordingly 1 rose in
my place and withdrew my amend.
ment that the bill might go to the
conference committee.
Mr.. Edmunds Immediately rose to
his feet and said 81 renew the mo-
ton ofthe Senator from Indiana, and
demand the ayes and nays" l voted
for it. for that was my idea, 1t was
lust what / wanted. I voted in IA
vor of it, and my vote is so recorded
in the Congressional Globe. Senator
Thurman was present at the time. I
say that in making this charge upon
me he was mistaken. l will give
him little advice, The next time
he makes an astault against fellow
Senator, he should be careful and
look to his facts.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19
AM ORDINANCES

To Propids fo, the Psvcsass Of InIOts go,
221, 2tO, 24l, 252 and 25s for Public
Park
SECTION l. Be it ordained BY the City Council
of the City OF Fremont, Ohio: That for the pur-
pose of concentrating the purchase of Inlots num-
Der two hundred and twenty (22O), two hundred
and twenty-one (221l, tE0 hundred ard forty (240)
two hundred and forty-one(341), two hundred and
hfry-twO (252l, two hundred and ftty-three (95S),
in the City Of Fremont, for Public Park, there
shall be issued to Louis Leppelman, or bearer, the
bonds Of the City OF Fremont in the sum of ten
thousand 100000 dollars, the principal payable at
the Banking House OF vermilye & Co, in the City
OF New York, as follows: i've hundred 900 dollars
ON the first day Of April, A. d. 1919 and 1--WE hun
dred (50Ol dollars every six months thereafter; ell
OF said bonds TO bear interest at the rate of eight
per ceDtum per sannunl, payable at said banking
house semi-annualy from the first day of October,
A. D. 1873 to be evidenced by proper coupons to
be attached TO said bonds; Froridsd That before
the issue and delivery Of said bonds the said Lep-
peInan shall be required to deliver to the Mayor a
perfect title to said real estate.
SECTION 2. The said bonds shall be issued under
the direction of the Committee on Finance, and
shall be signed by the Mayor and eOuntersigned by
the Clerk and the said bonds shall be registered in
the Book OF Bonds and orders kept by said city.
Passed, September 9, 1873.
+. j. GIEBEL, President of City Council.
Attest, +. j. GIEBEL, Jr City Clerk.
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Too 90

" !
The Messenger of last week indul-
ges in the following mean fling at
our Post-Master q a2D4 illt"
Has an officer any right to violate
the law for political purposes? We
ask this question and would like to
have Postmaster Snyder to answer
it. Hundreds Of copies of the Gin
cinnati Gazette and Times were shov-
into the post-office boxes last week
without the postage being paid. The
postmaster is goilty of an .ofense for
which he should be called to account.
The postal service has no right to
dead-head rotten campaign docu-
ments for Noyes and his crew. Let
the"detectiYe service" teach Mr.. Sny-
der his duty, +-s,5
There was no violation of law.
There were no sGazettes and Times
showed into the boxes without the
postage being paid" The postmas-
ter was not guilty OF an offence Tor
which he should be called to ac-
count" And that is all there is in
the Messengers sling. Full postage
aoas paid on every paper SO distrib-
uted, at fhe, rates provided by law,
and il the Democratic Central Com
mittee have any documents they wish
distributed in the same way, they can
have them SO distributed by paying
for them in like manner. Had the
Messenger been wise it would have
aseertained the facts, and careless of
the truth as it is, it would hardly
have yentured on so palpsble an un-
truth. ,ols. 5sfis94eg s..falf
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From every part Of the county We
hear of but one expression in regard
to our county ticket-that Of salts
faction. 1t is winning its way
among the people, and viii get such
q vote as will demonstrate that the
people are really tired of the party
hacks which have so long ruled the
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

Sunday. They complain that theil
neverending toll IS ruinous to healVn
and brings on Premature age; thal
that the customs Of all civilized
countries, and all laws human and
divine. recognize Sunday as a day Of
rest; and that the denial of it debars
from church, family and social priv
fleges; that nearly all the petitioners
have children whom they wish tt
have rightly educated, while theil
own enforced violation of the Sab
bath sets a demoralizing example
and that the best interests of the
Company, in their belief, would be
promoted by a proper observance
of the day. Right.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

Al the Democratic Senatorial
Convention, held at Clyde on Friday
last, J. H. Hudson was nominated
/. for Senator. They couldn't bleed
Alvord or entice Haynes, SO they
nominated hunter, who will find
plenty ofhunting. but no game.