The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-08-15
From our Special Correspondent.
New YoRK, August II, 1878

THE SLAUGHTER OF THE INNooENTs.
There were $50 deaths in this city during
the week ending on Saturday last-an increase
of twenty-three over the number reported for
the previous week. The death rate is accord
ingly equal to 1922 per thousand inhabitants.
But this high rate is chiefly due to the exceq-
sive mortality among the young. The total
number of deaths of children under the age of
two years last week having been $685. This is
terrible exhibit of infant mortality, but the
deduction of deaths among the children from
the general aggregate shows that the death
rate among the adults population is less than
70 In a lOOO-a result which proves that the
sanitary conditions have besn improved by
the active measures Of tho board of health No
epidemic is prevailing, and the deaths from
the diarrheal disorders common at this season
of the year are thirty less than in the preYi-
GUS week. Diligent attention to sanitary pre-
cautions, and careful regulation of diet, for
the next five or six weeks, will relieve US Of
all aPprehensions of serious disorders.
NIs-TRUsT REDIvIoUs.
The stockholders of the Brooklyn Trust
Company held public meeting the other
night, and unanimously resolved to make up
the deficiency, to restore the capital by an as
sessment of fifty per cent, and to resume bus
mess. The affairs of the company seem to be
IN better condition than was at first supposed,
and it is now apparent that the Trustees were
Gger-hasty when they announced the suspen-
sion. But it may as well be said plainly now
that the confidence of the public in the man.
sgement of banking institutions has been very
seriously shaken by the repeated revelations
of fraud among officers and carelessness among
Directors and Trustees.
sMoTHERED BY PRINTERS INK.
Few things in this world will kick up a
bigger row than when Jones, in conversation
with newspaper "interviewer" speaks his
mind freely as regards Brown. Brown, ordi-
narily, comes back at Jones in print and then
the fun gets lively. But it often happens that
the party of the second part would have done
well TO have abstained from rushing into print
A case in point is just now pointing the moral
to this kind of common sense reasoning. Mr..
Shepard Homans is just now the talk of the
town, but as everybody and his wife may not
know who the aforesaid party is and why he
should be the talk of the town, we rise to ex-
plain. Homans was formerly actuary in the
Mutual Life Company of this city, and was
discharged from that Office in 1871 under cir
cumstances which made him then the theme
for nine days gossip in the life insurance
world, inasRuch as he was dismissed for aun-
incompetency, obstinaey, i'm
practicability, and insubo rdination" string
Of powerful sdjectives half Of which ,in the war
times would have caused him to be shot In
this case he was lucky-he was only drummed
out of the service. It seems recently the
President of the Mutul Life was put under the
pump of that artIess and gentle creature
known as a newspaper reporter, and said re-
porter interviewed the President as TO the
facts connected with Homans' dismissal from
The service of the company with the result
given above. OF course the interviewer could
-SH
he blurted it out in his paper. Heretofore,
out of consideration for Homans' the matter
had been kept quiet, but as soon as the facts
took air the trouble commenced. Homans'
'card" went the rounds of the metropolitan
press, and the reply of the Mutual followed,
and the testimony adduced by the latter has
sent Homans' up higher then the Graphic
balloon viii be apt to go, and he will stay up
onger than Professor Wise will care to do.
All of which proves that when Jones has been
and has had his say about Brown
md when it happens that his story CORES
ponds with facts, the best thing Brown can
10 is, to silently stand it.
JOURNALISTIC coURTEsIKs.
In looking over a nile of old CITY paper. one