The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-12-25

per month, and provides for the sale OF
the present authorized issue of bonds tC
buy gold with which to redeem the lega
tenders.
4 ANOTHER terrible disaster seems have
befallen the luckless Pacific Mail Steam
ships Company in the lossof the Steam
er Japan, which, according ro atelegran
from the United States Consul at Hong
Kong, dated on Saturday, was burneda
sea near that port with fearful loss o
life. This is the sixth disaster that hai
befallen the steamers of that line within
twoyears.
Bill fixing the weight of coal at 2, ,00(
pounds per ton, with penalty for viola
tions has passed the Legislature. Also,
the bill to organize the State militia in
to National Guard. Oren's bill to fl
the fees of county officers, is likely tC
become a law. It fixes compensation
according to population, and is a reduc
ton of about twenty-five per cent. Oh
present salaries.
RAILROAD Commissioner Wolcot in his
last report says that the Railroads Of
Ohio moved 26, $50, ,562 tons of freight
in 1873, of which 19, ,394, ,9S2 tons, or 70.
per cent. were local freight. This fact
lends point to the information carefully
CLEANED by Commercial reporter, dis,
closing that local freight rates have not
fallen a particle during the war between
the lines on the through tariffs.
THERE is a queer railroad trouble In
Indiana. A road being in debt for
50, 500 worth of unpaid taxes the sheriff
of the town where they are due is trying
to attach a locomotive. The law does
not allow him to take the locomotive of
IA mail train, and now the freight trains
do not stop at that town, but run slowly
through, all hands deriding the sheriff,
who sees no way to secure his locomo-
tive.
In the House on Monday, a bill was
introduced requiring Probate Judges to
appoint inspectors whose duty it shall
be to inspect domestic liquors. The bill
forbids the use of drugs in manufactur-
ing liquors and the sale of uninspected
liquors The fees of the inspectors are
to be paid by the manufacturers. The
violation Of the act is to be prosecuted
10y the Prosecuting Attorney, and fines
are to be divided between the Common
School Find and theinfor1ners.
Ok Saturday, in the House, petitions
were presented from citizens of Huron
and Erie counties asking aid for the
Kansas and Nebraska sufferers. Oren
introduced SbiI to publish the delin-
quent tax list in one paper of each polit-
ical complexion in each county. a res
olution was offered to instruct Ohio
Senators and Representatives to oppose
all propositions to restore the franking
priviledge. In the Senate Corwin's bill
to provide for the appointment of as
sistant prosecuting attorneys, during the.
illness or inability of the prosecutor, was
passed. ..ll-. ,.s
The sub-iudiciary committee, have re-
ported to the full committee in favor of
the civil rights bill SO as to-
omit the mixed school provisions and re-
qure merely that equally good educa7
tional facilities shall be provided for
both races. That the. penalty of five
dollars fine be omitted, leaving
the pecunia1y punishmentfor the viola
ton of any provision of the bill % con
sist in liabilities In five hundred dollars
damages at the suit Of any individual
denied equality of accommodation, &c.
There was a general discussion but no
50 different were the views
of the committee.
A sTATIoNKEEPER near London re-
ceived one day box of very mysterious
addressed to him in his
official character. Opening it he found
a healthy infant. It was not his fancy to
rear other peoples children and he
thrust it aside, the porter taking pity on
the infant, and, with the consent of the
agent, determined to adopt it. When
the child was lifted from its crib, eight
hundred pounds sterling was found in
the box. The station-master Immediately
became interested in the little one, but
the humane porter declared that he was
too late. The moral is obvious.
Littell'S Living Age.
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