The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-12-26

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resolution into Congress, requiring
the Finance Committee to kinquirel !
into the expediency of abolishng the
Office of Commissioner of Internal
Revenue and all officials and under
him.
The defaleation ofDavid A. Gage,
the Chicago Treasurer, is now as
certained to amount to 1852, ,703.23,
exclusive of deposits in suspended
banks amounting to $l30,000, making
a total deficit of $4S2,703 23-little
less than half million of dollars.
A snuf-taking burglar while
robbing a bank in Columbus took a
ninch and sneezed. 1t proved the |
most unfortunate sneeze he ever
snoze. 1t led to his detection and |
now he is pegging shoes in the pen
itentiarv. Shutting is bad habit,
anyway.
There was q nice cautious, lonely |
old lady in Hopedale, Conn, who
kent a 1000 bond and $1,000 IN
hank notes in her house because she
conldn't trus. the bank. She hasn't
the money now, though. Man come
with pistol and carried away the
treasure.
We see it stated that the Directors
ofthe Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern Railway have authorized a sec
ond mortgage for $25, 100000, which,
when placed, will make the total deoV
of the road $1O0,O00,0OO. Only 81
100000 of the new bonds Will De
issued Immediately.
Prussia can also claim to be stead
ily reducing her debt. Atthe end OF
this year it will be $S49, lot, ,333,or
$79, ,536, ,938 reduced during the year.
OF the whole debt, $149,934,3S5 are
invested in Railroads, leaving the
actual debt only $1S0.22l, ,94S, an
average of $S for each inhsbitant.
j. C. Gillespie, Cashier Of the
Freight Department of the Michigan
Southern Railway, has proven a de-
faulter in the sum of from 100000
to $4,000, which he invested in mill
properity. The company, it is said,
will allow him to run his mill and
pay back the money eut of his prof
its.
More frauds have been discovered
IN Rroozlvn This time it is the
| Coroner who has charged for in
quests never held, and also 623 bo-
gus small pox cases in the past three
years. Besides this the Charity Com
mission is charged with squander-
ing funds and paying double prices
for purchases.
Jay Cooke & Co., at the time Of
their failure, held mutilated currency
belonging to other banks, forwarded
for redemption, to the amount of
nearly one million of dollars. The
House Committee on Banking and
Currency have asked Jay Cooke d
Co. to forward this currency to the
Treasury for redemption
The defaulting Republican Treas
urer Of Clarke county has been tried,
convicted and sent to the penitentia-
ry, In Democratic Fairfield county,
little has yet been done looking to
the conviction of Democratic defaul-
ters, and in Democratic Butler coun-
ty, where every officer is shown to
be a defaulter, not an arrest has
been made.
One of the indirect results of the
internal disturbances OF Spain has
been the prostration of the business
of cork manufacturers in London.
Their supplies of cork come from
that part of Spain held by the Carl
lists, and the war haveing put stop
to expectations of cork, London
manufacturers have been deprived Of
the raw material used in their bus
mess.
The Dayton Postmaster has got in
to trouble. A special agent was sent
to examine into matters and reports
all of the charges true, but that a
clerk named Leedman is the guilty
party. The postmaster had his mis-
tress' name on his payroll, and also
the name Of his brother; he also had
taken receipts in blank, and filed
them out with larger amounts than
he paid out. Let him be executed.
A country postmaster, in making
requisition on the department at
Washington for three thousand
postal cards, apologies for the un-
usually large number ordered by
saying, "You may think that this
amount of postal cards that I send
for is a great (our Office being small J
but I will explain it to you. We
want them to advertise for a man
that was our town treasurer and
absconded."
Treasury officials find fault with
the artistic appearance of the new
trade dollar. The female figure up
on it may be type oft women Of
the period as to physical proportions,
but is not symmetrical develop
ment. The shoulders are as narrow
as those of child. and the figure,
seated upon a bale of cotton, is very
much like a rail. The first Comp
troller, who is a naughty man, says
"the bale of cotton is the wrong place.
The negro Hood, who brutally
murdered his little step-son near
this city several months since, says
the Cleveland Leader ofSaturday was
yesterday convicted ofmurder in the
| first degree in the criminal court be-
fore Judge Paine. The verdict will
be recognized as righteous one and
one which in these days of slip-shod
justice is subject for congratulation
The murder was premeditated, cold
blooded and without a palliating cir
cumstance, and the prisoners guilt
was beyond question. The only
possible defence was a plea Of in
sanity which was in this instance
made in vain. The insanity plea for
every murder Of unexplainable
motive and unusual atrocity has be-
come altogether too common, and it
needed Just such a verdict as this at
the present time to put a rebuke up
on that kind Of daWdling with crime.
The State Grangers of Illinois and
Iowa held conventions last week.