The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-04-25

| shall, fined by the mayor, relieved Of his CsE-
eiaI character by the council and is now re-
posing on his honoEs.
A young man in MOore's carriage shop, LOT
his temper get the better of him a few days
ago, and struck shop mate, inaicting some
injury. The shop mate made information ana
an arrest, followed by binding over 70 tnS
Probate Court on charge OF assault ana DA'-
terry, was the result
Six men want boating on the Portage rlVer'
near Portage, on Sunday the l0tn, o. whom
only two could swim. The boat nileu WIN
water and began to sink, when four OF them
iurrsd for tbe shore and escaped. The other
two. nsmsd Christopher Becker and George
Myers, were drowned.
Bellevue Council il about to submit the
ouestion Of Water Works to the people of
that corporation. VIII not our new Council
do the same thing2 Provide means for pro-
lection against fire, or at least give the people
chance to say whether they are willing that
protection should be provided.
Two rascals entered tho house Of Geo. Cha
nsy at Tifin, on the leth, and attempted to
outrage his daughter, but an alarm scared the
rufians away. A man from Findlay named
Yerger, the same who went up in Grady's
balloon last summer, was arrested for the
offence, and lodged in the calabOOse.
The clerks at Elmore who had cows tail
sewed to q horses hide, and had the same sold
to Gus. Frazse, were on trial before the Pro-
bate Court Of Ottawa county recently, It ap-
pearine that the Transaction was intended ~ q
Joke, the jury returned verdict Of not guilty.
Joking sometimes makes trouble and-eOsts.
At EagleVille, Wood county, on the 18th,
two boys named Simmons and Heaton got in
to q quarrel, and Simmons used knife, cut
ting Heaton once under the left arm, the blade
penetrating to within quarter Of an inch Of
the heart, and once on the right side. Sim-
moas was arrested, and Heaton's recovery is |
regarded as doubtful.
BellsVue's big ditch has been full OF ash |
this spring for the frat time within the mem |
ory Of man, 80 says Bro. Brown, and he is one
Of the boys who owned hatchet when he was
small. The fish were large and fine, and the
water shallow, SO that hooks and lines were
dispensed with and sticks and clubs substi-
tuted The harvest was wonderful
A man who appropriated Greeley banner
from Brother Bruner of the Upper Sandusky
Union, last fall, had the good luck to get re-
Kgion during a revival at that place the past
winter. He confessed to the deed in open
class meeting, and now Bruner demands res
titution- That's rights man who would ap-
prOpriate such Gag should be obliged to re-
store.
To discontinue advertising Injuries a busi-
ness man as much as if he were to take down
his sign. It really intimates that the proprie-
tor is about to retire, and the public treat it
as such, or they may regard it as evidence
that something has gone wrong which re-
quires privacy to settle. Whatever construc-
ton is put upon it, the result is disastrous to
the house.
We don't know whether any of the Anneke
JAMS heirs reside hereabout or not, but if any
do, we hasten to announce an improvement
in their prospects. It is said those who have
been directing the litigation with "Trinity
Church" have discovered that they are also
heirs to 81, ,OOo, 900 estate in Holland, whence
their ancestor came. Don't indulge in too
much vanity on this prospect.
Squire J. K Richards, Of York township,
escaped serious injury, on the 18th.
He was getting into his wagon, when his horse
started and he was caught between the wheel
and bed, and carried some distance. The
horse then commenced kicking and Mr.. R.
was hit several times on the head and shoulder.
Just then the harness gave way, the horse got
free from the wagon, and Mr.. r. got out of
danger.
By the new postal law nothing will be al
lowed to pass through the mails free after the
30th Of June. Printers will be compelled to
pay postage on their exchanges, and subscrib-
srs to papers in their respective counties, will
be required to pay postage at the rate of five
cents per quarter. In this feature Of the Law,
there is gross inequality, not to say rank in
Justice: that the country paper that is carried
five, ten, or fifteen miles through the mails,
is taxed exactly the same amount of postage
as the city paper that is carried by post five
hundred or five thousand milesl