The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-03-06

Pitts & Cranage's saw mill at Bay
City, destroyed by fire on the 26th
was insured for $4,000. Loss3O, 900.
Twenty persons were killed and
thirty wounded by a boiler explo-
sion at Blackburn, England, on the
second.
The State Senate has assumed the
responsibility of hearing and decid-
ing the Weimer-Welsh contested
election case.
Rush R. Sloane, the distinguished
inancier of Sanduskv, is tarrying at
st. Catharines, Canada, for the bene-
fit of his health.
A joint resolution is to be intro
duced into the House declaring the
Puebla Indians, of New Mexico,
entitled to citizenship.
The bill authorizing Toledo to is
sue bonds for $120, 900 to replace the
money lost in the City Bank, passed
the Senate on the 9th.
1t is proposed to introduce bill
allowing the duties on imported
goods in American built vessels to
be paid in legal tenders.
1t is said that a western genius
has finally solved the trouble about
perpetual motion, and has been gran
ted patent on a machine that will
run itself.
The Indian appropriation bill is
two millions short of the estimates
I-$4, 100000, instead of $6,8OO,OOO
all Of which is good news to the
Treasury.
Rowland, the defaulting treasurer
of Richland county, and his bonds
men have been sued to recover the
amount the county is minus
$105,093.
An investigation of the charges
made against General Van Buren,
Commissioner to Vienna, have been
investigated, and the General has
been fully vindicated.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue replies to an interrogation
Of the Senate that two hundred and
fifty-nine distilleries have been sup
pressed within the past six months.
William A. Simmons, of Boston
was, on Friday last, confirmed bv
the Senate as Collector of Customs |
at Boston. The Boston press de-
nounces the act as a fagrant out |
rage.
The vote on the removal of the
County seat of Mahoning county
from Garfield to Youngstown, on the
26th stood 48 noes to 43 yeas. Bv a
vote on Wednesday, Youngstown
came out ahead-53 to At.
A passenger car took fire on the
Great Western (Canada) Railroad,
near London, on Saturday night last,
and eight persons were sufocated
or burned to death, before they
could be extricated from the car.
The Senate Finance Committee
have about concluded that all clerks
in government employ who handle
public money, shall be required to
give bonds. Frequent defalcations
of subordinates require such rule.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the Assistant Treasurer at
New York to sell $3,O00,OOO of gold |
for the month of March, as follows:
On the first and second Thursdays,
each 100000, and on the second
and fourth Thursdays, each $50O,00O.
On Wednesday there was large
fire in the Eastern Railroad freight
sheds, East Boston. Loss about
one hundred and twenty thousand
dollars, of which the Eastern Co.'s
loss will be about sixty thousand
dollars. The fire was caused by
the breaking of carboy of vitriol.
Santa Ana, now three quarters of
a century old, desires to come home
to Mexico and die. He has been an
exile for over twenty years, but
President Lerdo's proclamation of
universal amnesty, gives him the op-
pertunity he desires and he will |
doubtless soon be in Vera Cruz. He
is too old to interfere with the
present government.
A correspondent writes to the
Nea0 York EUening Post that he has
compiled returns from official docu-
ments showing that the total amount
expended for Intoxicating liquors in
the United States in 1870 was
81, ,487, 100000. The aggregate cost
of the flour and meal, of cotton
goods, of boots and shoes, of cloth
ing, of wooden goods, and of news
paper and job printing that year
was $905,000,000, or $5O0,OO0,OO0
less than the cost of the liquor. The.
total number of persons engaged in
the business was 100000, and the ]
of licensed saloons was
100000.
A measure of considerable impor-
tance to soldiers who served in the
late rebellion has been agreed on by
the Committee on Invalid Pensions.
Those who suffered amputation Of
the arm above the elbow shall receive
the same pension as is now paid to
soldiers whose legs were amputated
above the knee. Another provision
is that soldiers whose names have
been placed on the roll by special
act of Congress, shall receive the
same pay that is now given soldiers G
whose names have been placed on II
he roll under the regular pension S
Ict. The object is to equalize the G
pension of soldiers similarly wound
ID in the late rebellion, is