The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-09-19

made trip from St.Eouis to Toledo
last week, in ten hours; average 46
miles per hour.
The Chinese are 70 have a tri
weekly paper in San Francisco, and
have sent to China for one millior
pieces of type, to be used in printing
Germany tas taken seventeen mil
lions Of U. S. FIVE per cent. bonds
new issue. The germans know where
to make safe investments.
The award of $15,5OO,OOO on &C
count of the Alabama claims, wal
paid to our government by the Eng
lIsh Minister, on the 9th.
The GAINESVILLE Board of Educa
tion refuse to open the public SCHOOL,
to co!ored children. There are few
Deacon Pograms and Elder Gavitt:
down that way yet.
Tecumseh, the great Indian war
rior is to have a statue on Queens
town Nights, Quebec; each citizeI
of the province of Ontario contrib
one cent to pay for it.
A passenger train on the Detroi
and Milwaukee road ran into an OK
between Ada and Lowell, on the 18th
and was wrecked. Six persons wer,
killed. and a number injured.
A Mrs. Benton has been founC
who is willing to swear that she picl
ed up a pistol by the side of Fisk a
the time he was shirt, and she ha.
been retained for Stoakes.
1t is estimated that the Graph,
balloon fizzle netted the managers
at least $4,000. Barnum is repre-.
seated to be in a state of great men.
tai depression over the possible los.
of his laurels.
The Cincinnati Exposition has
thus far proven a great success. In
the first eight days nineteen thous-
and more people visited the exposi.
tion than during the same days last
year
The San Francisco Bulletin gives
the following as the composition OF
the California Legislature; Repub
licans A; Independent SO; Demo
Gratis 40. The Independents thus
hold the balance of power.
They have made an advance in
Dayton, and are experimenting with
a cornet to lead the singing in one OF
the churches. They want congrega-
tional singing, and have hit upon
this plan, thinking the cornet good
thing to follow.
On the 28th of August, near Ho-
mer, Ga, a school teacher named
Alexander, aged forty. and scholar
named Moss, aged twenty five, got in
to an alteration, then into a fight
with knives, which ended in both of
them being killed.
The tidings from the crew
of the Polaris are not satisfac-
tory. The Polaris Lad broken up in
the ice, and the crew made several
boats out of the wreck, and started
Southward, but no further trace of
them has yet been obtained.
The car-hook again occupies a
prominent place in New York cur
rent history, Two men on the front
platform of a street car quarreled.
The convenient car hook was used
by one to convince the other he was
wrong, with such good effect that the
victim will probably die.
The 100000 prize in the last
drawing of the Kentucky Library
Concert was drawn by a poor man in
an interior village in Massachusetts.
His Oldest daughter isn't very pretty
but she had over forty-three offers Of
marriage inside of Fty-eight hours.
One would have supposed a young
mems mass meeting was being held
1T the lucky mans house.
The propeller Ironsides, one of the
argest lake steamers, foundered and
sunk near Grand Haven on the 10Th,
Turing the prevalence of heavy
gale. She had nineteen passengers
md a crew of thirty, all of whom got
safely off before the vessel went
lown, but several Of the boats failed
% reach the shore and number of
persons were drowned. The bodies
If sixteen have been recovered.
The last week has been memoria-
Die as the era of three famous fights
which occurred during the war of
-S12 and 1914. The 10th of Septem
,er was the anniversary ofthe battle
If Lake Erie, in 1913, Commodore
Perry commanding. Thursday was
he anniversary of the battle of
olattsburg, in l0l4, Commodore
commanding, and of
he battle OF North Point, near Balti-
more, in 1914, by which the English
lnder General Ross were compelled
o abandon their designs on Balti-
more, and retire to their shipping.
A VOICE FROM SwEDEN.-Ameri
an Chemists and their productions
we're appreciated by the Profs. at
he celebrated University in Sweden.
dr. Sachs. Sir,-at your request, 1
lave tested Halls Vegetable and
'icilian Hair Renewer, in my prac-
ice at the "Serafmer Hospital, "and
an say it viii restore gray hair to
is original color. 1t is entirely
and is valuable remedy
o use in such cases.
PHI. MALMsTEN,
Professor of Chemistry and Medi-
inc. Stockholm, July 8. 1868
The Gen. Edward Stanton Nc
1ook, who was assassinated at Yank-
on, Dakota, by Wintermut on Fri
ay last, was one of the famous Nc |
jook family of this State. His
rother Gen. Alex. Mcdowell Nc |
'ook is of the regular army, and now
nth his regiment in Texas. There
re but three of the sons now living |
ut of a family Of seven, and four,
s well as the father died violent |
eaths. The younger brother,
,harles, fell at the battle of Bull Run
eing but eighteen years of age,
lille serving in the End Chic, as a
rivate. Gen. Robt. L. Mccook fell
y rebel guerrilla assassin in Ten
essee in 1852. while living sick in an