The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-10-17

country in the MayhoWer, IN iozV'
On Wednesday morning last the hitchin
poles on Front street were lined with sleep,
looking fellows chattering election news lii
50 many swallows on telegraph wire.
Rev. E. Y. Warner. who for the past two
three years has preached at Bellevue, is no
Presiding Elder of the Sandusky District, an
ha1 taken up his residence in Norwalk.
A new Literary Society was organized
Tifin lately. Their first subject for discussio
is, "Do the professions offer greater induce
ments to young men than mercantile lifeY"
The Commissioners of Erie county desire t
sell $4,000 worth OF Erie county bOnds,issue
l. in aid Of the county building fund, in denomi
l. nations ofSIOO to $500, three years to run, s
!" per cent.
Mr. J. I. Martin, Of Tim, now in the en-
I ploy Of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa F
Railroad company, lately took two car load
/ of Kansas products to the Chicago Industria
Association.
The Farmers Savings Bank, at Lima, close,
its doors on the Sth inst, and made an assign
= ment 1t is believed however, that the asset
exceed the liabilities, and that depositors vii
be paid in full.
The banks of Sandnsky City are paying
; their depositors 10 per cent in currency ant
90 per cent. in drafts on New York. Tn,
NorWalk banks pay promptly, in currency
all demands made upon them.
A curiosity in literature in the shape Of a
farthing newspaper has been started in Lon.
don, ''for the purpose of supplying every rural
hamlet with daily newspaper, favorable to
christianity and good government"
The officers of the First National Bank of
Gallon adopted the following resolution
q Resolved, That we hereby pledge ourselves,
individually and collectively, to pay all dc
posits made, or hereafter to be made"
The Business Manager for the Melville
Bonham combination passed through our
town yesterday. We hope he will not slight
this city, for the Professors. reputation for
ability to entertain his audiences is unsur-
passed.
Some Sandusky men have invented ma.
chine to dress fish. 1t goes by steam, and be-
heads, opens and dresses the fish with the
thoroughness of hand work at the rate Of
ninety fish per minnie, requiring only boy
to feed.
The Hancock County Fair, two weeks ago,
was grand success. There was a magnif-
cent show of blooded stock, splendid e1hi-
bition by home manufacturers, and lively
time at the races; I2,OOO persons were present
the third day
Mr.. William Richardson, of THIN, is con-
sidered the best and most rapid shoemaker
in the world. With foot power he has put
the soles on ,S04 pairs of shoes in four eoassc-
utive days working only ten hours day. He
challenges the world.
The editor of the Crawford County Forum
says of the Presbyterian Synod lately held at
Bucyrus, /" Taken altogether, this is one of
the finest looking, best educated and most
earnestly Jealous bodies of christian ministers
that has ever convened in Ohio.
Mr. John Ernst, of Tifin, while engaged in
blasting rock in the Second Ward Sewer, on
the Sd inst, was seriously injured by the acei-
dental discharge of blast, by which he was
blown six feet, his face badly lacerated, and
his thigh broken. He is recovering slowly.
The Farmers Club of Perry Township,
Riehland county, held their annual pie mic on
the 9th ult large number were present
and great interest was manifested. They
had excellent speeches, music by glee club,
bountiful dinner aud graphic" balloon
ascension in the evening.
DIR. Beilharz continues to administer to the
wants of those suffering from decayed teeth,
and has lately added to his appliances for so
doing. He is doing Ronrishing business, a |
sure evidence that his work gives satisfaction.
Do not neglect your teeth if you wish comfort, |
but call on the doctor at his Office over the
post-offiee.
A tall slim man, with dark clothes and long, |
black whiskers, stole into the room Of widow |
Swihart, of Fostoria, on the evening of the Sd |
inst, and threw wet cloth over her mouth |
with a string attached to each end Her
struggles to get free caused the children to |
scream, which alarmed the villain and he left, |
leaving the cloth in her possession.
Mr.. George Benham, of Republic Seneca |
county, who had been paying his addresses to |
young lady Of that village, and was to be
married in a few weeks, committed suicide on |
Saturday last by shooting himself with
double barrelIed shot gun, because his "gal
went back on him" In his left vest pocket
were found some affecting lines TO be put on
his tombstone.
Rev H. L. Canfeld, of the UniveTsalist |
Church, at Norwalk, who recently removed |
from Peru, was thevietim of a very agreeable
surprise, lately, in the shape of donation
from his new charge. Two of his rooms were |
nicely carpeted, new stove put up, an ele-
giant set of chamber furniture costing Sl25 |
placed in one room, and one of the finest par
lor organs in the country put into the other.
On the 18th inst, Mrs. Sartor, of Van Vert,
tied little child, aged about two months, in |
a chair, and then went out to witness a circus
parade. On her return she found that a spark |
from the stove had set fire 20 the wrappings
about the ohild's feet and that it was burned
in a horrible manner. The feet wero COM
pleiely roasted. while the skin was com
pleteIy burned from the legs and the thighs
The little sufferer died the same day.
A man in Bellevue. few months ago. sup.
posing he had caught burglar in his house |
seized cane and with rapid blows demolished
his Wife's flower pots and three gallon jar of |
pickles. The noise awakened boy up stairs,
who, stumbling in the dark, split bushel of
hickory nuts down stairs, and the wife having |
struck light and found what had happened,
wrenched the cane from the old gentleman
and belaborsd him as rapidly as he had the
supposed burglar. 1t is ons ofBroWn's stories. |
at the elections in Cleveland on Tuesday |
more than thirty different varieties of tickets |
were voted. Among them were the three reg
ular tickets. the Workingn0n's Democrat, Re-
publican. and Independent tickets, the Prohi- |
bition, the straight Independent and the
Third Party tickets; besides splits on every
candidate from Senators to Justices OF the |
Peace. There was so much scratching that |
the polling clerks were driven almost to dis
pair when IT came to counting out returns. |
Parties and principles went for little; the vote
was on men.
On Wednesday the oath ult., while two
gentleman were fishing on the north end of |
Kelly's Island one Of them had his line broken |
of by a large fish, which carried of about two
feet Of his string, 10 which was attached The
hook, heavy sinker, etc. The next day Mr. |
Bennett, one Of the men who witnessed the |
above, went fishing on the south side of the |
island, fully I've miles from where the hook |
was lost, when he caught the same fish with |