The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-11-13
NEWS ITEMS.

A soup house will soon be opened
in Cleveland.
The SANDER suit of Tilton eta7
have been continued.
The woman have recommended
the crusade at Washington G. H.
Ten thousand acres of woodland,
in Connecticut, are engulfed in
flames.
Col. James Barr, of the Pittsburg
Post is spoken of as a Democratic
Candidate for o. S. Senator from
Pennsylvania.
The Union Furniture Factory, at
Batesville, Indiana, was destroyed
by fire on Saturday evening last,
Loss nearly 100000.
Mrs Steiren, of Milwaukee pois-
oned her boy, aged IL, on the 9th,
and then committed suicide by
jumping into cistern.
Van Pelt has opened a saloon at
Wilmington. Ohio, and ordered his
beer from the Gambrinus Stock
Company of Cincinnati.
Troubles continue in Louisiana,
and yet the committee of seventy
have asked the President to remove
the troops from that city.
A fire at the Reform farm, near
Lancaster, on Saturday night, de-
stroyed the broom factory. Two of
the inmates made a narrow escape.
The Third Assistant Postmaster
General estimates that $I,0OO,OOO
worth Of postage stamps are washed
regummed and used over each year.
Three tramps set fire to a barn
near Ashtabula, on Sunday morning.
1t contained 12O tons of hay and
several hundred bushels of corn.
Loss about $4,000.
A Nashville paper says that the
Aetna Life Insurance Company is
"out" nearly $4,000 on account of
accurate pistol practice in Tennessee,
within the last fifteen months.
St. Joe, a small oil town in Butler
county, Pennsylvania, was destroyed
by fire on Monday last. Twenty
five dwellings, two drug stores, and
severallivery stables were consumed.
The Western Reserve proposes to
send to the Centennial Exposition a
mammoth cheese, weighing $4,000
ia tons 1t will be 11x13 feet in
size, and will be carried to Philadel-
phia on a car made for that express
purpose.
Dick Nolan, desperate who had
outraged white woman near Deco
la, Arkansas, was arrested, and while
being taken to Jail on Friday night
last, attempted to escape. The crowd
that followed them fired upon him,
riddling him with bullets.
Turkey is complaining ofAustria
violating treaty obligations, by ma
king commercial arrangements with
ROumania with out first obtaining
Eer permission to do so. Prussia
and Russia stand by Austria, and
laugh at the Turk.
Gov. Allen is undoubtedly the IA
vOred candidate of the Ohio Democ-
racy for the Presidency. AS the
party in the State is said to be so
anxious for imitation, it is singular
that they should chose a man who
never said a word on the question
one way or the other.
According to a Pittsbarg newspa-
per the gray squirrels in the Allie
ghany Valley are engaged in a gen
eral migration. They draw their re-
cruits from all points, and may be
seen daily swimming the river in
large numbers and pursuing an
easterly course. Old farmers say
that such migration has not taken
place before since 1856, and regard
it as the forerunner of an extremely
severe winter.
Prof. Alexander Murray, the State
GeolOgist of Newfoundland, has re-
Gently been engaged in exploring
hitherto unknown section of his
country. The result is he had dis
covered belt of land, covered with
noble forests of pine, birch and
spruce, and capable of supporting a
population of 100000 people. In
'ertility he thinks the soil unsurpass-
ID by any part of Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick or Canada.
The Mennonites have purchased
me hundred Thousand acres of land |
n Kansas, extendidg a distance of |
fifty miles between the Cottonwood |
md Little Arkansas Rivers, with
he town of Halstead for its trading
centre. The Topeka Commonwealth
Which announces their purchase, says
hat in addition to the original col
my of sixty-five villages from
southern Russia, the Mennonite
are pouring in from other
)arts of the country with great ra-
,1dity, and already long trains of
household goods and agricultural
are on the way, and tenn
'orary houses are dotting the wild
,rairie in every direction throughout
he Mennonite district.
Dispatches OF the 9th inst, make
he announcement that the Pope is
0 begin the long expected campaign
or the recovery of his lost temporal
over. The first move will consist
f a great International Congress to
e held in London where the doctrine
f Papal Infallibility will be boldly
sserted; where the Pope's right to
ne exercise of temporal as well as
piritual authority will be emphati,
ally declared, where it will be pro-
laimed as the bounden duty of all
atholics to acknowledge the su-
remacy of the Church of Rome.
he determination to hold this Con
ress is the result of positive and
irect instructions from the Vatican.
will consist of the highest digni-
!ries of the church and present to
le world the strange spectacle of
rilliant array of learning and talent,
nited for the sole purpose of erect a
g barrier of superstition and 5
gotry against the progress of mod St
n civilization. O.
On the night of November ID, at n
t. Paul, Minnesota, a bloody muir \