The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-09-11
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ance, $4,000.
Moulton and Tilton are working
up their new statements. and will
have them ready for the public ere
long. The nasty mess is not yet
done with.
The Southerners are becoming
quiet under the recent sslutary or
ders of the President. They had |
not hung or shot a negro for three
whole days.
There is triangular fight in the
18th district among the Democracy.
Converse don't take his defeat kind
ly and talks of going in on the Inde
pendent Democratic platform.
In the Second District of Yer
mont. neither of the candidates for
Congress have a majority, and
new election will be held. At the
second election a plurality will elect.
And after having discovered and
made known the existence of the
rich gold fields of the Black Hills,
the army is to be employed in keep
ing all adventurers from going there.
Six of the twelve men murdered
by Texans near Coushatta were
Northern born white men, who had
been Uuion soldiers. This is push
ing the "war of races" a little too
far.
Suit is to be brought against Nc
Ilraith, tue defaulting ex-State Au-
ditor of Iowa, for the recovery of
the missing money. Governor Da-
Wis is taking active measures to have
all the parties implicated brought TO
judgment.
The Democrats of the 18th dis
trict after nearly week of voting,
and caucasing, and log rolling in
convention, after five hundred bal
lettings nominated A. j. Walling,
and disposed of Converse.
General Mcdowell, the Comman-
der of the Department of the South,
has received information of the 10.
calities under his command where
troops are needed, and is instructed
to so distribute his forces as to Sc
cure protection to all American cit
liens.
When President Grant says that
the Southern outrages "show dis
regard for law, civil rights and per-
sonal protection that ought not to
be tolerated in any civilized govern
ment," it is only his usual fashion
of speaking just the right word at
the right time.
The people of Henry County, who
are opposed to the robberies of the
treasury ring at Napoleon, have
placed in nomination an Indepen-
dent ticket composed of leading
Democrats and Republicans, and ex-
pect to carry the county at the ap-
preaching election.
The New Jersey Reverend rascal
Glendenning through his friends has
been tryingto frighten man named
Mutton into acknowledging himself
to be the father of Miss Pomeroy's
child, and Milton publishes an afi-
davit setting forth the fact of the at
tempt to make him so swear.
The great Cambria Iron Works of
! Johnstown, Pennsylvania, which
were entirely idle for about nine
months after the beginning of the
! panic, are again in full operation,
thus giving employment to nearly
three thousand workmen. The com
pany started the mills warily about
two months ago, and have gradually
brought them up to their present
capacity.
Clark and Lewis, the two men ac-
cused of robbing a poor man q few
days ago, and then tying him to a
railroad track where they expected
the cars would soon put an end to
him, are now in jail at Jefersonville,
Indiana. Their lawyer is endeavor-
| ing to secure their release on q writ
of ha5eas corpus, and the people as
sert that if the prisoners leave the
jail they will hang them to the first
tree.
Meinengen, which a cable dis
patch reports the scene of an exten-
sive confagration, is the capital Of
the duchy of SAKE Meinengen and
lies about thirty-eight miles to the
north of east of Fluda. 1t IS an old
fortified town of about seven thous-
and inhabitants, and has besides the
ducal palace and the House of As
sembly for the duchy, public schools
and wooden and linen factories. Half
of the town has been destroyed and
over seven hundred families rem
dered homeless.
The balloon Buffalo" left the ci-
ty of Cleveland on Friday last,
bound for the Northwest, and hav-
! ing on board besides Professor King,
representatives of the Leader, Her
: aid, PlGiRdealer, Boston Journal,
and Dudley A. Cozard of Cleveland.
After a twelve hours jaunt, the bal
! loon was safely landed in Wales
township, st. Clair County, Michi-
! gan, it having first, at a high alti-
tude, pushed to the northeast as far
as Erie, when dropping to the lower
! current it was carried to the north
west, thus comprising a trip up and
down the lake.
New Orleans dispatches show
! that Governor Kellogg is determined
to leave undone nothing that can
assist in securing the arrest of the
murderers oftheCoushatta prisoners
who we're killed while being taken
from the State under guard. in the
statement which accompanies the
proclamation offering five thousand
dollars each for the arrest and de
livery to justice of the murderers,
Governor Kellogg states emphati,
cally that the White Leaguers not
only occasioned the trouble, but
were the "Texans" who committed
the murderers.
The Army ofthe Cumberland-Eightt
Annual Reunion.
From the preparations going on
it is probable that the largest re