The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-05-16
NEWS ITEMS.

White Fish are said to be unusually abund-
ant this Spring.
Chief Justice Chase was buried in Washing
ton on Monday last
Buffalo Bill and Texas Jack propose to go
and fight the Modocs.
Strikes are very common in New York, and
more are threatened every day.
A new Atlantic cable is about 10 be laid
between this country and France.
Hon. S. S. Cox, on the 2Oth ult., returned
$4,Sl2 his back pay, to the U. S. Treasury.
The cotton crop in Texas is said to be re-
markably fine, and win give good average
yield.
Tributes of respect for the memory of Chief
Justice Chase were manifested throughout
the country.
There was heavy snow storm in Northern
Canada on the l4th, which accounts for the
cool weather here.
A father and two sons in Iowa married
three sisters of another family. OF what re-
lation are their children?
The Fourteenth Annual Convention OF the
| OhAO ADbNNC hoNDDtAtlA DCuOOl OulOu Will DO
held in Akron on June llth and 18th.
The Congressional conference of the south
ern and western members of Congress Is being
| held in st. Louis this week. The members
will visit New Orleans.
On the 7th DR.. Chapins congregation in
New York, presented him with $4,000. 1t
was the 2jth anniversary of his assuming pas
toral charge of the church.
Eight dead bodies have been found under
house near Parsons, Kansas, occupied until
several weeks ago by family named Bender.
Every effort is being made to arrest the guilty
ones
Sam Shellabarger will keep his back pay, as
he don't want to put the stamp of dishonesty
ON those who voted for the back-pay bill, by
refusing to accept his part of the swag. His
political grave is dug.
The late Chief Justice Chase left a will,
naming Gov. H. ID. Cooke sole executor No
invenory has been made of his estate, which,
after few bequssts, is to be divided between
his children, Mrs Spragne aud Mrs.. Hoyt
The Supreme Court General Term granted
writ of error in the case OF Edward 5.
Stokes, upon stipulation by the dafense, to
take the ease at once to the Court of Appsals
now in session, bsfors five Supreme Conrt
Judges.
The number Of troops now operating against
the Modors is stated TO be twenty officers and
four hundred and eighty men. Gen. Davis, it
is said, found the men much demoralized, and
had to resort to many devices to arouse their
enthusiasm.
In San Francisco lately, a Newfoundland
dog saved the life of family of children, that
ReTe attacked by crazy woman. who tried
to kill them frat with an sx. and then By
throwing stones. The dog kept her at hay
until relief came.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Monday night
some unknown person penetrated the sleeping
apartment 0r family named MaFshine and
shot snd killed Mrs. Marshine, aged 90, tbs
mother Of six children. Marshins is strongly
suspected the murderer.
By an imperial edict the Russian Govern
ment requires the Mennonitea to pay tithes TO
the Greek Church, and to bear arms and fight
as other citizens, or leave the country. They
number 10000 and their agents are looking
up location for them in Southern Kansa.
or Texas.
The foreclosure sale of William A. Tweed'l
Broadway property, by direction of the ref
cree, at the suit of Henry Cram, took plaes
on the 18th inst. The sale, including fiv'
lots, numbered 922, 924, 926, 928, $50, brought
$751; It's regarded as a good price. Tn,
attendance was large.
Here is nut for geologists, chronologistl
and other ologists to crack. A black Walnu
log was found in a vein of coal in Illininois
the other day, five hundred feet below thu
slrfacs and two hundred and fifty feet from
the mouth of the shaft. How it came there
and how long it has been getting there, ar,
questions more easily ssksd than answered.