The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-10-31
NEWS ITEMS.

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Political lessons come with falling
leaves.
A good cause gets no aid from bad
arguments.
Two peach trees in Delaware this
year, yielded 1880.
Nineteen million cigars come from
New Orleans annually.
A large British force has blockad-
ed the gold coast Of Africa.
A farmer at Adrian, Mich, sold his
wool few days ago for $500.
Most men die just when they have
begun to live to some purpose.
Pine Apples, raised in England, are
said to be finer than those raised in
the tropics.
A man in Iowa was killed recently
by spider. 1t was an iron one in
the hand Of his wife.
The total demand for postal cards
has settled down to an average of
about 100000 per day.
The Society of Jesuits has been
officially notified to vacate the prem
ises now occupied by them in Rome.
John C. Henan, the noted prize
fighter, died of consumption, while on
his way to San Francisco, on the 9th
County Fairs in the South are still
said to be good deal of fast horse,
and a very little Agriculture thrown
in.
Mr.. Borges, Brazilian Consul, at
Boston, committed suicide on the
17th by shooting himself with a pis
tol.
A Canadian has discovered that
COWS like music, and that they read
lily distinguish between church and
profane music.
An attempt was made lately in
Clearfield county, Penna., to blow up
a school house, in which a Good
Templar's Lodge was in session.
A number of influential English
journals are discussing the question
whether or not typhoid fever is caus-
ed by the use of impure milk.
On the Northern Pacific Railroad
the workmen last summer wore mus.
quito nets over their faces. Once
they were SO thick they stopped saw
mill.
The Royal Horticultural Society,
Of England, recently held q Fungus
Show whichis spoken of as having
been unusually meritorious and sue
cessful.
The Union Pacific Railroad is en- !
gagged building q snow plow to be |
driven by five locomotives. They |
expect it to go through snow drifts |
twenty feet deep.
Chas. H. Phelps, Cashier in the
Treasury Department of New York, |
Eas arrested in Jersey City, on the
L4th, charged with robbing the State
Treasury 10 the amount Of 100000 !
On the 10Th inst, a slight shock
IF an earthquake was felt at Seattle, |
Washington Territory, and at four
o'clock on the same day, an eruption
rom the summit Of Mount Rainier
occurred.
A bed of coal in Saxony has been
burning for 300 years. An ingeni-
1us gardner has utilized the fact by.I
over it nursery garden, in
yhich he raises tropical plants Of
III kinds.
Grangers are prohibited from 90,
ng to law with each other, and are
lnder obligations to settle their dis
,ute by the arbitration of a iurv ofI
mutual friends. This is going to be
lard on the lawyers.
Hundreds of thousands of very
ice people have just finished brush
ng from their Sunday clothes the
lust raised at Agricultural horse
rots who would not patronize horse
acing under any consideration.
Bishop Simpson, in his address at
he dedication Of the monument to
'bilip Embury, at Cambridge, N. Y.
n the 10th, said that Methodism
eemed in some providential way to
e connected with all the races Of the
7orld.
The volcanic eruptions from the !
ummit of the crater of Kilauea. in
audwich Islands, was never more
eautiful than at present. The lava
treams, flowing out Of the old South
AXE, continue increasing, and Sc 1
ere irruptiOn is anticipated.
A terrible prairie fire swept over !
5 miles Of country in Saline and I
counties, Nebraska, on the
9Th inst. Many houses and large 7
uantities OF grain were destroyed. 3
en- school children were caught ia 3
lie flames, and six of them perish B
A number Of Kaflir chiefs in South R
frica, recently implored the British
0lonial Secretary to prevent the H.
nsed sale Of liquor, because their % %
en- could not resist the temptation b
drink. The request was refused. b
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