The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-07-31
NEWS ITEMS

NEWS ITEMS.
In Lerida, Spain, there was a tax
riot on tie 18th.
Little Mack won the 2.27 race at
Toledo, on the 10Th.
Eastern capitalists are about to
establish stock yards at Omaha.
The Boston and Athletic base ball
clubs sailed for England on the 10th
A suit has just been decided
against the Erie which involves ST.
100000.
The frontier is in a state Of excite
ment, consequent upon the unusual
activity of poor Lo!
Bristow and Spinner have quar-
relied and the cause Of difference
has been referred to Grant.
The amount of National bank bills
received at the Treasury for redemp-
ton, up till the 18th, was So, les, ,203
Chicago papers are discussing the
propriety of turning their fire de
partment over to the Board of Under
writer's.
A man named Isaaeson has been
arrested in Chicago as the incendia-
ary who caused the fire in that city,
on the 14th.
Our Consular agent at Manzanil-
10, Cuba, has been ordered away, and
obligingly he went. An explanation
is in order.
An advance of 10 per cent on
freights was decided upon at Chicago
by the agents of the different rail-
roads, last week.
Ruth Van Etten, from Auburn,
New York slipped down a, precipice
at Walkers Glen, on the 18th, and
was dashed TO pieces.
His father refused 90 buy him a
new saddle, and so John Bruner, a
lad of II, hung himself on the I4th,
in Hardin county, Ky.
The revised tariff laws are said
to be clean and satisfactory, and
importers viii hereafter be reltrved
ofthe necessity for quibbling.
Swisher, who killed young Cos
lete, at Ripley, on the night of the
4th has been caught, and now awaits
trisl for murder In the first degree.
The book publishers were in con
vention at Put-in-Bay, on Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. Their
purpose was to establish a uniform
price list.
Senator Bogy, of Missouri, was
nominated for next President, at
banquet in st. Louis, last week.
The prospect of his election is rath-
er bog-gy.
The child of a man named Ross, of
Germantown, Pa, was recently alb
Quoted, and now the abductors or
their agents are demanding $4,000
for it's return.
Applications for four millions of
the currency to be Withdrawn from
the East and distributed to the
West and South, have already been
fled with the Controller Of Curren-
Icy.
By displaced switch near Perry
station on the Richmond and Gin
cinnsti Road, on the night of the
14th, q passenger train was ditched.
But one person was seriously injur-
| ed.
The Republican National Com
mittee have issued a ten column adj
dress to the country reviewing the
Democracy for the past forty-fve
years. 1t is an able document and
we will find room for it soon.
The Hebrew congregations of the
United States perfected their Union
at their. Convention in Cleveland last
week. They decided to establish a
Theological college. The next con-
vention will be held in Buffalo.
Cable dispatches announce the
fact that French emigrants in Phil
adelphia have sent home for aid to
return to their mother country, and
that all Frenchmen who contem-
plate coming here viii take warning
by their fate.
A five days' Jury trial under the
Adair law has just been completed
at Massillon, and Mrs. S. NJ. Bah
ney has received a verdict of $4,000.
The saloon keeper was one Of the
Oldest in the city and is said to be
abundantIy able to pay.
The Pacific slopes yielded last
year, $50, ,287, ,436 in gold. Averaging
the yield for the past twenty years
at fifty millions, we get $1,000, 0,000,-
600 which, had it al been coined
would have materially incre ased the
"currency of the world"
Since his assassination was at
tempted, Prince Bismarck has been
Aooded with congratulatory tele-
:, grams expressive of joy that the at
tempt was not successful. Still no
body is quite so happy as Bismarck
himself, in that his head was not in
the place of his hand which was
struck by the assassin's bullet.
The rush Of emigration this year
is not wholly to this country,
Nearly two thousand steerage pass
engers sailed from New York last
Saturday, and more we're anxious to
go. The causes for this stampede
are tenfold. First the reduction oi
nearly so per cent. in steaemr rates
and, second, the stagnant condition
Of the labor market.
The Inhumanity and cruelty o.
: the war now being Waged in Spain
has become a recorded fact, known
: and read Of all men, but the mos