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The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03
LEGAL NOTICE.

WE, the undersigned, duly authorized agents Z
w act in behalf of the petitioners for the pur
poses hereinafter mentioned, hereby give notice
that on the 9Th day OF March, 1874, petition wal
presented to the Commissioners Of sandushJ
County, Ohio, at their regular session. in pursuance
of the statute in such cases made and provided
asking Tor the incorporation for special purpose.
OF the unincorporated Village of Lindsey and ada
cent territory, which is in substance as follows "a
wit: That the interest Of the citizens, and the
present condition Of the school and school facilities
and OF the streets, alleys and roads within said
village and territory hereinafter described require
thst said village and territory should be ncorpor-
ated TOR special purposes, to wit: For special
school and road purposes, which territory and VII
lage Is described as follows, TO wit: Commencing
at the southeast corner of the west half OF the nor
east quarter Of section eleven Q1), township (B)
range fourteen C4); thence north the distance Of
one and three-fOurths q "a miles to the northeast
corner of the southwest quarter of the Southeast
quarter of section thirty-ve $50, township six Ol
range fourteen Q4); thence west the distance Of
one and one-fOurth 40 miles to the northwest
corner Of the southwest quarter Of he
southeast quarter Of section thirty four (94l
township six (6), range fourteen Qq: thence
south me Instance OF one and three-fourths
40 miles 70 the southwest corner Of the north
east quarter Of section ten q0), township five (5)
range fourteen O4): thence east the distance Of
one and one-fourth 40 miles to the southeast
corner Of the west half of the northeast onarer f
section eleven li, township five (5, range fourteen
Q4), the place Of beginning; which territory in
clndes within its boundaries the said village of
Lindsey map Of said territory is attached to
and fled with said petition.
The prayer Of said petition is that said village
and territory be Incorporated for school and road
purposes IN the name Of 'The Incorporated Village
of Lindsey and that snch proceedings NAV Be
had for said purposes Of incorporation as are au-
thorized and directed by the statute in such case
made and provided.
The said petition win be for hearing on the 11th
day Of May, A d. 1874, at the AUDITORS Office In
the Court House, in the City of Fremont, County
of Sandusky and State of Ohio at o'clock of said
day. VIM. BOYER,
j. V. BEERY,
March 9th, 1874. JOEL BURKETT.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

Xenia has nominated a full tenn
perance ticket for the spring election
and all the business men of the town
close their stores for one hour dur
ing the day to attend church and
pray for its success.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03
THE JOURNAL.
The Ladies' Battle Call.
BY GEORGE BuBrEIeu.

BY GEORGE BURLEIGH.
Ho! brothers, dash the bottle
That pleases but TO kill,
And on with US to throttle
The demon of the still
The monster that is rushing
Through mingled tears and wrath,
All ancient glory crushing
Along his horrid path.
In cottage and in palace,
Alike to high and low,
He pours his burning chalice
With bitter dregs of woe.
He tramples down unsparing
The fields of Golden Grain,
Till feshless famine, staring,
Afrights his withered train.
Even in the temple stalking
Right proudly he hath trOd,
With impious daring mocl1ing
The holy name of God.
The altar-stone is CORY
With blood-drops of his slain,-
The Christians cup of glory
Hath caught the crimson stain.
Then on, and crush forever
The fiend of bowl and flask;
With hearts on fire, wen never
Turn backward from the task,
TIL rings the loud ''hosanna!"
From all our warriors brave,
As cur victorious banner
Is planted DER his grave.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03
|. M. KEELER'S AGENCY.
AGENCY ASSETS $S5,0OO,OOO
IMPERIAL
FIRElNSURANCE COMPANY
LONDON, ENGLAND.
STATE OF ONO, IssUnAEoE DEPARTMENT I

COLUMBUS, January 3Oth, 1874.
nv HEREAs The Imperial Fire Insurance Com
wv pany, located at London in the United King
dom Of Great Britain and Ireland, foreign Fire
Insurance Company, is possessed of st least the
amount Of actual capital required Of similar COM
panies formed under the provisions Of the act en-
utlec San act to regulate Insurance Companies do
ing an Insurance business in the State Of Ohio, -
passed April 27th 1872, and the acts amendatory
thereof and supplementary thereto, and has depOs-
tted with the Superintendent Of Insurance OF the
State Of Ohio, in trust for the benefit and security
Of its policy holders residing in the State OF Ohio,
sum notles that one hundred thousand dollars in
stocks and securities required and allowed by said
acts, and has fled in this Office certified copy Of
It's Charter or Deed of Settlement, and detailed
statement Of its assets and liabilities and evidences
Of Investments, and otherwise complied with all
the acquisitions OF the said acts, which are appca-
bic TO foreign Fire Insurance Companies, partner
ships and associations:
Now, therefore, In pursuance of 'aw, I, William
F. Church, Superintendent of Insurance Of the
State of Ohio, do hereby certify, that said
company is authorized to transact its appropriate
business Of Fire Insurance in this State, In &C
cordance with law, during the current year. The
condition and business OF said Company, Dec 5lst,
1879, as shown by statement Of Home office made
70 this Department, is as follows:
Amount of actual paid up capital e 100000
Aggregate amount Of available as
Aggregate amount of Liabilities, lex
oept eapital) including reinsur-
year in | - -. ~ 7Os,443 Il
Amount Of expenditures for the pre-
ceding year in ncssh-------..---.-- 769,03s y 5
The condition and business Of the United States or
American Branch, December 3lst, 1873, Is shown
by statement, as follows:
Aggregate amount of available assets
IN the United States es.....-.-......-.S 904 496 G.
Aggregate amount of liabilities in the
United States, including reinsurance $4,000 Il
Amount of income for the preceding
wear in cash In the Uned States. -. IA, ,s57 81
Amount OF expenditures for the pre-
ceding year in cash in The United
States ,29G, sos g.
In witness whereof, I have hereuntO
J subscribed my name, and caused the
I SAL Seal of my Office to be affixed, the
~ day and year above written.
". T. CHURCH, Superintendent.
Business Solicited,
ISAAC NJ KELLER, Agt, Fremont,
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03
10 TIE AFFLLorEn
ELECTIoN NOTICE,

NhE qualified voters Of Fremont are here
Il oy notified to meet on Monday, the sixth
day OF april, 1874, betwesn the hours Of pre-
gcribed By law, stthe following places, to wit :
II the First Ward, at Krdler's Shop; Second
Ward. ). r heihs Store; Third Ward, VIM.
elect one member Of the Council and one As
ssssor 1or each Ward
E. F. DICKINSON, Mayor
Fremont, o., March 25, 1874. I3w2
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

A destructive fire occurred in
Wooster, on Monday last. Loss in
the neighborhood of 100000, with
an insurance of about $4,000.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

Hon. o. B. Hart, Governor of Flor
ida, died at Jacksonville on the 18th.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

Judge Dent, a brother of Mrs.
Grant, died at Washington, on the
22d inst.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03
Notice TO GnnfracfnrS.

CyEALFD Proposals viii be received np to six
O'Clock P. n. of the 18th day OF April, 1874, for
the building of School House in sub-district num-
Der thirteen Of Ballvine Township sandusky COun-
IL, Ohio. Plans and specifications can be seen at
the ofacs Of the Township Clerk in BaIlvile town
ship. By order Of the Boards Of Education.
5s-is G. REYNOLDS, Township Clerk.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

Nashville had 100000 fire on
the 18th.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03
STATE OF ONO, INSURANCE DEPART

STAIE OF OHIO, INSURANCE DEPART
- MENT,
COLUMBUS, February 12, 1874.
WHEREAS, The Railway PasBens
gers Assurance Company, located
at Hartford in the State of Connecticut has fled
IN thls Oflce a sworn statement, by the proper
officers, showing its condition and business and
mas complied in al respects, with the laws of the
state, relating to Fire Insurance Companies.
Now, THEREFORE. In pursuance of law I vii
liam +. Church, Superintendent of Insurance Of
the State Of Ohio, do hereby certify that said Conn
pany is authorized to transact its appropriafe bus
iness Of Fire Insurance in this State in accordance
with law, during the current year. The Condition
and business of said Company at the date Of si1ch
statement NDec. 81 1851 Is SHOWN as follows:
Aggregate amount of available assets s45s on 6s
Aggregate amount of liabilities, Except
capital,) including Reinsurance. 5000 90
Net assets. SSss,27s IS
Amount of actual paid mp capital. 100000 90
Surplus ................. sQ8,q7s s.
Amount of income for the preceding
year, In cash. aEh.......................S S179,8O8 20
amount Of expenditures for the pre-
eeaing year, In cash. sh............-.. 1B6.O0l 81
~ In WITNESS WHEREOF, have here
: SEAL. unto subscribed my name, and cauBed
the Seal Of nv once 10 be sfIixed-
ne DAY sud year above written.
VIZ CHURCH. Superintendent.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

$13s, ,O5s G.
GEORGE W. GURsT,
Auditor of sandusky Co., o.
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

Business Cards, YiIis pg Cards, Wedding Cards,
Invitation cAI de, or any yaristyof
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-04-03

At Eaton, prominent saloonist
sold out at auction. It was a jolly
time for bidders.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
Treating the Wrong Disease.

Many times Women call upon their family
physicians, one with dyspepsia another with
palpitation, another with trouble of the breast,
another with pain here and there, and in this
way they all present alike to themselves and
their easy-going and Indifferent doctors,
separate and distinct diseases, for which he
prescribes his pills and potions assuming them
to be such, when, in reality, they are all
symptoms caused by some uterine disorder ;
and while they are thus only able perhaps to
palliate for time, they are ignorant OF the
cause, and encourage their practice until large
bills are made, when the suffering patients are
no better in the end, but probably worse for
the delay, treatment and other complications
made, and which proper medicine directed to
the cause would have entirely removed, there
by instituting health and comfort instead Of
prolonged misery.
From Miss Lorinda E. st. Clair, Shade, Athens
Co., o., Oct. 18th, 1872
CDR. r. V. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Your
Favorite Prescription is working almost like
a miracle on me, l am better already that 1
have been for over two years.
From Ella A. Schafer, GAINESVILLE, Ind, Aug.
8, 1872:
CDR. PIERcE--I received the medicine you
sent me and regan using it Immediately. As a
result Of the treatment feel better than I
have for three years..
Frem Mrs. John X. Hamilin, Odell ILL.,, March
10, 1872:
"DR. PIERcR-The Favorite Prescription has
done me good, which l am very thankful for. ~
Com.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
The Bliss of Marriage.

Time whirls us along the downhill
path of life with the velocity of loco
motive but we have one comfort-we
can make love on the road. What the
negro preacher said of Satan may be
said Of love Where he finds a weaker
place dere he creeps in." There is a
warm corner even in the coolest heart |;
and somebody, if that somebody can
only be found, was made expressly to
fill it. Thousands of both sexes live
and die unmarried simply for want of a
proper introduction to one another.
What an absurdity There is not q
woman or man of any age who might
not find suitable partner by using the
proper means. The fact is, that affec-
tion is snaothered, choked down. sub
dued, and paralyzed by the forms and
cenventionalities of this etiquettish
world. "Society" attaches ball and
chain to the natural feelings of the
heart. The fair girl with her bosom
running over with the purest love for a
worthy object must take as much pains
to conceal the fact as if it we're deadly
sin, and Heaven had not implanted
within our bosoms the tender spark and
bade us to love and be loved" Is
this natural? No, it is artificial. Why
should innumerable marriages be pre-
vented by chilling rules and penalties ?
Nature is modest, but she is not a
starched up prude. Look at the birds.
There are no old bachelors and old
maids among them. The hearts that
futter under their feather Jackets follow
the instinct of love, and they take to
billing and cooling without the slightest
idea that courtship should be formal
affair. Why should there be forlorn
bachelors and disappointed old maids,
and lonely widows and widowers among
the unfeathered any more than the
feathered bipeds? Oceans of happi-
ness are lost to both sexes every year,
simply because parties who wish to be
married are not permitted by etiquette
to make the fact known. These unfor-
tunates might very properly say to the
happy married folks, as the frogs said
to the boys who were pelting them with
stones, "This may be fun for you, but
tits death to us. "-HebreU Leader.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
CALIFORNIA; Biggest Nugget.

How much we owe to California |
Her precious metals have enriched
thousands of our fellow citizens, and
have proved the main stay of America
in times of national pecuniary embar-
rassment. Her mining industries have
given employment to myriads of me-
chanlcs and laborers. She is the land
of promise to the fortune seeker. But
the Golden State has lately sent us O
new treasure. Her last nugget is DIR.
Walkers California Vinegar Bitters.
The health-giving principles contained
in this curative are more precious
boon than gold. In all affections of the
liver and stomach, remittent and in
termittent feveIs, rheumatism, and pull
monary diseases, it may be relied upon.
AS blood depurent and invigorant it
is unequaled, purifying the circulation
and infusing new vigor into the debili-
tated frame. It conquers that most
unyielding of all complaints-dyspep-
sia, and we know of no other remedy
that can accomplish this. Its entire
freedom from alcoholic spirit, which
retards and neutralizes the effect of any
medicine, and which forms the basis of
many of the pseudo bitters and tonice,
doubly enhances its value to the sick
The papers of the United States vie
with one another in doing honor to DR..
Walker. We, too, add our voice, and
say all honor to the man whose science
and skill have enabled him to draw
from the vegetable kingdom such a
balsam for human suffering.-COml.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
The Comet Scare.

Apropos Of the comet, story is re-
lated in regard to the dread with which
comets We're regarded $50 years ago. A
renowned astrologer predicted that a
comet would appear on Wednesday, Oc.
tober IA, 1712, and that the world would
be destroyed by fire on the Friday fol-
lowing. His reputation was high, and
the comet appeared. A number of per-
sons got into boats and barges on the
Thames, thinking the water the safest
place. South Sea and India stock fell.
A captain OF a Dutch ship threw all his
powder into the river, that the ship
might not be endangered. At noon,
after the comet had appeared, it is said
that more than a hundred clergymen
were ferried over to Lambeth to re-
quest that the proper prayers might be
prepared, there being gnone in the Church
service. People believed that the day
of judgment was at hand, and some
acted on that belief, sure that some
temporary evil was to be expected.
There was a prodigious run on the
bank, and Sir Gilbert Heathcote, at that
time the head director, issued orders to
all the fire offices in London, requesting
them to keep a good look out, and have
a particular eye upon the Bank of Eng
land.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
A Colorado Romance.

Somebody, says the Denver NeOs,
has revived the stories told by James
Bridger, who is, next to Kit Carson, the
pioneer trapper of all that section Of
the country. One of his fayorite
stories was that in the year 1880 he
was wintering in Salt Lake Valley,
when it began to snow, and continued
seventy successive days, till depth OF
seventy feet was obtained. The coun-
try at that time abounded in buffalo
and other large game, all of which per-
ished iu the snow. The lakes and riv-
ers the following spring were so full of
dead game, preserved in good condi-
tion in the cold, that he was able to
stow up large stock of meat for the
next winters supply, using the brine
of Salt Lake for the purpose. He con-
cluded this tale by declaring that since
that storm no buffalo had ever been
seen west of the Rocky Mountains. He
was also fond of declaring that
" Bridger's Butte" table mountain
named after him, had steered
around to the north since he first saw
it, and that he had told General John
son SO, who, after consulting his text
books, acknowledged that he was
right.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
Two Rich Men,

New YORK correspondent OF the
Cincinnati Gazette writes "The chief
holder of personal estate in this city
is Commodore Vanderbilt, who is esti-
mated at $40, 900, the largest part
OF which is in railway property. He
owns enough of the Coe large river
and New Haven roads to be director
in each, and he also owns the control
ling interest in the Central, Hudson,
and Lake Shore, besides his stock in
Ohio and Mississippi, and other i'm
portant roads. It was said of George
Peabody that he made almost the en-
tire bulk of his enormous wealth after
his fiftieth year. I think stronger
statement can be made of the Commo-
dore, for he made the largest part of
his money since he was sixty-that is,
with the last score of years. I sup
pose that when the war broke out he
was not worth five millions. The in
cessant and enormous increase of rail-
road values and the colossal extent of
his operations have brought an increase
so stupendous as to remind us of the
old stories of Oriental magic. The
only instance in which real and per-
sonal estate is combined almost equally
IN the vast possessions OF one individ-
ual is found in A. T. Stewart. He
owns enough in each of these shapes
of wealth to make a dozen men rich.
In point of real estate he has two
great dry goods establishments on
Broadway; also the Metropolitan
Hotel, and the former Unitarian church.
Add to these the Baptist church in
AmIty street, now used as the stables
of his business teams, the Depeau row,
in Bleecker street, and above all, his
Fifth avenue palace, which cost ST.
100000. In personal estate is his stock
in trade, capital and bills receivable,
which must be $4,000, 900, and also a
large quantity of bank stock. In this
manner Stewart Yields both classes of
property. He has differed entirely
from Vanderbilt in this point. The
latter has invested almost solely in rail
way stocks, while the former has
eschewed this form of property in a
very peculiar manner. He has strong
affinity for those things which pertain
to trade and to this alone. 1t is said
his estates can not be less than $780,
OOO,OOO."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
The Suicidal Mania.

Says the New York Tribune A few
words of advice to people contemplating
suicide. In the first place-don't. In
the second place, if you insist upon it,
take yourself off with as little display
and as much regard for other peoples
feelings as possible. Don't write cruel
and mawkish letters which can only
wiring the hearts of those you leave be-
hind you. Remember that it is not at
all an honorable or O heroic thing to
take your own life, and that while
it may require certain degree of ami
NAL courage, it is courage of the baser
sort. Dismiss from Your mind all an
ticipation of the sensation your exit is
to create and the talk there will be
about it in the newspapers. You will
not be here to witness the commotiou
you make, if there is any, and in the
land where you stand g chance of going
there are no newspapers. If you per-
sist in going about, tired of life and
complaining that nobody loves you,
your best way of managing the final
catastrophe will be to make it appear
that somebody got desperate at your
nonsense and drowned you in self
defense, or disposed of you in some
way with any convenient fire-arm. If
you are sincere in your wish to ford the
Styx, this will accomplish your purpose,
and the effect on the public mind will
be much healthier than If you had paid
epistolary farewells to all the world and
shuf1ed off after the stereotyped
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-10
An Unsuccessful Life.

John W. Fitch, who committed sui
eide in New York, was q man OF a vast
experience, and was we'll known in all
the principal cities of the Union. He
was an intimate friend of the Hon.
Simon Cameron, Col. Thomas A. Scott,
j. Edgar Thompson, and many of the
political magnates of Pennsylvania and
New York. He was born in Victor,
Ontario county, N. Y, in 1917, and
when thirteen years of age was appren-
ticed to bookbinder. After learning
his trade he went to Harrisburg, and
there became the State bookbinder
He purchased livery stable in that
city, and was noted for having the best
horses in Pennsylvania. he had q
superior knowledge of horsehesh, and
gained national reputation as horse
man. He purchased horses for Van
Amburgh, Lent, and other showmen,
and it is said had no equal in the Sc
lection OF first-class animals. He made
q fortune in the livery stable business,
and in 1S48 went to Philadelphia.
There his fortune began to dwindle
away. He purchased line of stages
which he managed for two years, but
lost money rapidly. In 1852 at the
Portage bridge celebration, he and
Messrs. Lanman and Waters were
given the contract to construct rail-
road from Niagara Falls to Lewiston.
They completed the road, but in the
enterprise Fitch became bankrupt. Af-
ter the contract was taken the Buffalo
and Niagara Falls Railroad was CONSOLE
dated with the New York Central and
there was some difficulty about the pay
ment for the construction of the road
which Fitch and his partners had con-
tracted to build. He brought suit
against the company and wasted thou
sands of dollars in useless litigation.
In 1859 he and Seymour and Gaffney
constructed the Washington water
works, laid all the mains, and built the
distributing reservoir at Georgetown,
and Fitch again found himself out OF
pocket. From 1860 up to the past year
he was not in business. Once in q
while he engaged in small speculations,
and was invariably unsuccessful. He
had numerous claims against corpora
tions and individuals, and hoped to
realize something from them. There
were many who thought that for
tune would turn for him, but at length
they began to shun him. He lost his
friends one by one and life became a
burden to HIM. He had wife but no
children, and lived in scantily furnished
apartments in Fifty-third street. I'm
able to borrow any money he resolved
to drown himself, and he did. His
relatives, of whom they are very few,
knew nothing of his straitened circum-
stances, as he never appealed to them
for assistance.