The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-24

company, on witch there was but
slight insurance. Other parties lost
about $4,000 worth. There were
three other alarms the same night,
one Of them being from fire in
Pratt d Whitworth's sewing machine
table factory.
Turkey and Russia are said to be
quietly preparing for war against
each other. Turkey is purchasing
cannon and pushing the construction
of railways, and Russia is rebuilding
Sebastapol, making all of the men of
the Empire liable to military duty,
and adding iron monsters to her
Black Sea fleet.
The supply of Australian tin has
had a serious effect upon the tin
market, affecting it so much in fact
that masters have been obliged to
reduce the wages of miners, and
strikes in the tin mines of Wales
have resulted. 1t lis said the price
of tin in the London market fell off
f45 in one month, and that from
March 1873 to March 1874 the price
receded from fl4S to G93 pounds,
equivalent to $275 per ton.
At New York on the 29th ult,
Louisa Germs was reported to have
died, and permit for her burial was
ISSUED. There was an insurance of
$4,000 on her life payable to DR.
Uhling to whom she was betrothed'
The insurance company suspected
something wrong had the grave
opened and the coffin taken out.
On opening it it was found to con-
tain % bricks. The undertaken was
arrested but the Doctor avoided the
police.
When Sumner visited Europe, the
first time, he took with him letters
from Judge Story. At one time he
vas invited to sit with the Lord
Chief Justice of the Kings Bench.
During the trial a point arose which
seemed novel one. The Lord Chief
Justice turned to Sumner and asked
him if there were any American de-
cisions on that point. "No, your
Lordship," he replied, "but this point
has been decided in your Lordship's
Court in such 4 case," giving him
the citation. This remarkable read
mess gave him ecIat throughout the
Kingdom.
A special to the Cincinnati Gazette
says: "The suit Of Senator Chandler
against Mr.. Buell., the correspondent
of the st. Louis Republican, for
criminal libel, is attracting much at
tention, quite Independently Of the
merits Of the case. The general be-
lief is that Buell. was misinformed,
aud the charges he made were un-
founded, but it is now proposed to
try him in a petty Police Court, t,with-
out jury, for an ofense which un-
der the law, may be punished by i'm
prisonment for several years In the
Penitentiary. This is the same court
which, in the Dana case last Sum-
.mer, claimed that it had q process
which would reach any editor in the
United States, and bring him here
for trial before Police Judge Smell
Indian Rubber, once an insight
cant article, has Of late years become
of such vast importance as to occa-
sion doubts of obtaining supplies
adequate to the demand. To show
how the trade has grown it is only
necessary to contrast the growth of
importation in three years, In 1873
the amount was 7,906,68I pounds,
while in 1873 the amount was y,
964, ,433 pounds. 1t is used in so
many different manufactures and has
in so many cases supplanted other
material that, the demand will more
rapidly increase in the future than
in the past. There are immense
forests of trees in South America,
India, Australia, and Africa, but yet
there has been great destruction Of
trees for some years past, without
any measures being taken to replant,
hence the fears that the supply must
necessarily be limited.