The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-08-15

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Iowa is threatened with a grass
hopper plague. Countless millions
are lowering over Sioux City and
vicinity, and great are the apprehen
sions lest they should settle. Should
they do SO, theresult cannot be oth
erwise than disastrous.
DR.. Dunn, U. S. Marshall, station
ed at Corinth, Miss, was assassina-
ted in bis bed on the morning Of
the 9th, by some person
who is supposed to have thrust
a gun loaded with buckshot through
the window of his bed room and dis
charged it within few feet of his
head.
The Duke of Edinburgh, the sec
ond son of Queen Victoria, has, it
appears, wooed and won the Grand
Duchess Marie, the only daughter
of the Car of Russia. The royal
pair have already been betroLhed,
and the question of their union may
therefore, be considered settled. The
marriage will be remarkable as being
the first family alliance which has
ever taken place between the royal
families of Russia and England.
The Cleveland papers show up
one Dr. Cartier, who claimed to be q
pious man. and whose pretended
zeal in the cause of religion imposed
upon many. The Young Mems
Christian Association suspected
fraud, and set Committee to inves-
tigate, the report of which sustained
their suspicious. He had incurred
debts in various places, and had in
duced a young married woman Of
Bakersville, Coshocton county, to
leave her home and reside with him
in Cleveland.
Just after Lincoln's assassination
colored woman sent to the Ptesi
dent of the Western Sanitary Com
mission five dollars, cher first earn
ings in freedom" to build monu
ment.to Mr.. Lincoln. Subscriptions
for the same purpose were afterward
received, amounting to $4,000. The
sum has since run up to $2I, ,000,and
an order has been given to Thomas
Ball, in Florence, ''for q group to be
executed in bronze, colossal size"
the models having been prepared
and approved.
A special from Pittsburg says:
The Board of Appeals appointed b,
the Commissioner of Patents, ha,
established claim of DR.. johnson,
of Allegheny City, as the original
inventor of a process for manufac
turing iron, known as the Ellerhau-
sen process. Ellerhausen visited
this country about four years ago
and obtained patent for the process.
The iron men of this city formed
stock company and agreed to pay
Ellerhausen 81, 100000 for the right
to use the process. Johnston filed
an "interference," and after a thre,
years contest the Board decided in
his favor The iron men here had
paid $250,000 before the interference
was granted.
Tom Scott, King of the Pennsyl-
yania Central has again got the lead
of Vanderbilt, having secured the
controlling stock in the N. Y. & N.
4. railroad and the Eastern Massa-
chusetts, the Eastern New Hamp
shire and the Maine Central, thus
securing an unbrOken line to Port
land, Maine. Then he has secured
smaller roads which with connecting
links will give an unbroken line from
New York to Halifax. Through
trains will be run, and passengers
for Europe can remain two days af |
the steamers leave, and by taking
this route catch their steamer al
Halifax. What will be the next |
move of Vanderbilt?
The growth and structure of the
human hair is very plainly set forth |
in pamphlet published by R. P.
Hall &c, Nashua, N. H., proprietors
Of Halls Vegetable Sicllian Hai1
Renewer, for gratujt0os distribution.
The deservedly high reputation OF
their preparation has wholly been
gained by its merits. Being free
from oil and alcohol, it has a healthy
action on the scalp, restoring gray
hair to its natural color without
lyeing it, cures itching of the scalr,
and prevents dandruf, and
will thicke n up the thin locks. Such
ire the benefits which are conferred
lpon the consumer. No one should |
leglect to give it trial.-Joauual |
md Statesman, Wilmington, Del.
"The Niles and New Lisbon Rail
Dad don't publish their time card.
md the people in that section are
making loud and sore complaints
if they miss the train
That railroad is only in the advance,
s very few railroads will publish
heir time cards after the first of
lext January. Then the people that
re interested can find out when
rains arrive and depart the best wav
hey car" ."-SteubenviHe Gazette.
"Fhe feeling that inspired the
bove quoted paragraph ought to be
haired by the press generally. II
he railroads cannot afford to pay
or being advertised, the newspapers
annot afford to advertise them for
othing, and ought to unite in ignor-
ng every road that refuses to pay in
oOno1r or ,1ooeoc G.. A., "a.