The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-02-21
NEWS ITEMS.


By an explosion in coal mine, at Staffordshie
England on the 18th, forty men were killed.
A new planet of the eleventh magnitude, was
Peters of Clinton, New York
Phelps, Dodge & Co. of New York, win pay tht
United States s2El, 600 account of alleged fraudi
on the revenue, during the past five years.
The Woman's Suffrage Association of Ohio, mel
at Toledo on Tuesday. An address of welcome
was delivered by Rev. R. McCne.
Some of the 'igreat powers, y it is rumored have
notified the de facto government of Spain that they
will oppose the formation of a Federal Republic
The telegraph says the Mormons are sending
money to Washington freely to prevent Congress
sional action on the Presidents recommendations
Colfax is regarded generally as having fully vim
dicated himself. Other correspondence is promised
which, when published, will leayeno possible doubt
as to the freedom from completely with Ames
In the louisiana case, the majority of the Com.
mittee favor new election. Two minority reports
are threatened-one favoring Kellogg and Ray the
other McEnery and Mc4Iillin. A new election is
most probable.
At Seymour, Indiana, man was lately caught by
revolving shaft, and after being carried around
few thousand times was deposited on his feet with
out the slightest injury He started with full suit
of clothes, however, and when he got through re.
sembled athelete in CATERS and tightsan except
the tights. .-r-5 ...ar .4..
The Poland Credit Mobilier Committee have
made their repot, and the substance of it is rec
ommendation to expel Oaks Ames for selling and
James Brooks for buying Credit Mobilier stock
The debate upon the report has been set for next
Tuesday, and lively time may be looked for. 1t
is asserted that separate resolutions will be intro
duced for the expulsion of all the members who
had dealing with Ames.
In the death of Commander James W. Shirk,
which took place at Washington on Tuesday even
ing the naval service lost an officer of large exper-
ience and bright renown. He was native of Penn
sylvania, and died in his fortieth year. He COM
manded the iron-clad Lexington at the battles OF
Fort Henry, Pittsburg Landing, Haines' Bluff,
White River, Arkansas Post, Grand Gulf, and ran
his gun-boat past the Vicksburg batteries and as
sisted CALAMITY in the operations which resulted in
the capture of that important stronghold and the
opening of the Mississippi. he was afterward
transferred to the Tuscumbia and in the course of
his long and brilliant service in theisissippi navy
was well known TO the officers and men of the army
operating in that region.
The Richmond papers announce the arrival at
that city, on Saturday last Of the arst passenger
train from the Ohio river over the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad. For the present Richmond is the
terminus of this new route but it will soon be con-
tinued to Newport News, at the mouth of the James
river, near Hampton roads. This road may fairly
be cassed as one of the great outlets of the inland
to the sea, it now connecting the Ohio with the
tide-waters of the James at Richmond. 1t runs
through beautiful and rich country, affording an
outlet for all the country watered by the Ohio river
and its tributaries. The course of the road is the
same as that of highway surveyed by George
Washington during his early days, and which has
been in use for one hundred years. The rSilrosd
wss begun in 1896, soon after the Introduction Of
locomotives, and at the commencement Of the civil
var had two hundred miles in operation, and it will
prove in time to be the great highway of the middle
Southern States.