The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-09-04
the convention adjourned with three
cheers. W. H. GIBSON, Chm'n.
E. C. CUR, Sec'y.
NEWS IrEMs.

In order to keep up prices, the
owners of anthracite coal mines
have suspended operations, thereby
throwing 10000 poor men out Of
employment.
The Fort Wayne (Ind) Seminal
of Thursday containes a Washing
ton special announcing that Secre-
tary Bristow will soon resign his
position in the Cabinet and that
Hon. Hugh Mccullough will be call
ed upon to succeed him. The cause
assigned for the resignation is that
Mr.. Bristow has all he can do to dis
charge his duties as executor of a
large estate to which his wife has
recently fallen heir.
A clergy man in New Jersy, of &C
knowledged merit and unsupported
probity, allowed his eyes to rest too
greedily upon the person Of a win
some girl who worshipped before
his pulpit. While eloquently point
ing out the beauties of the gospel,
as shown in the life Of the blame.
less; while wildly picturing the
grandure of the future life of those
who needed the teachings of the
gospel after the grosser part should
melt away and the spirit take its
place amid the glories of the New
Jerusalem, his eyes lustfully rested
on his victim. In brief, he encom-
passed her virtue with immoral lies
and she gave up body and soul to
the direction of her spiritual guide.
For months they lived in intimacy,
drinking stolen water and eating the
bread of secrecy, and when nature
told the tale for them, the girl in
agony revealed the name of her
guardian devil. The victim now
lies in the cemetary, her seducer is a
cursed outcast
The Chicago Inter Ocean, which
has been kept posted with early
news from Clusters Black Hill ex-
pedition, says the rumors of gold in
profusion being found in those re-
regions are fully confirmed. SIT
says the people of Bismarck are al
ready preparing to make rush for
the new Eldorado, and these will
only be the advance guard ofsn in
vasion resembling in magnitued that
which amazed the world in the early
days of California." But it also
says: "The Black Hills are the sa-
cred land of the Sioux, made SO by
tradition and by the rude law of the
tribe. So earnest has been their Sc
clusion on the part of the Indians |
that the absolute prohibition Of en-
trance to all white men was made |
the first condition of the Laramie |
Treaty, concluded in the year 1868"
That indicates the price that must
be paid for the opening of the coun-
try to gold-seekers-a bloody Indian
accounts for the apprehen-
sion with which the farming settlers
Of the frontier saw the departure Of
Clusters expedition.
An illicit distiller in East Ten.
1essee. in order to escape the visits
If revenue detectives, placed his
till in a gorge of the mountain, and
'uilt up log hut, over what proved
% be a rattlesnak's den, and one
light recently while he was speep-
Dg, the hut was filed with snakes,
md the man stung to death. Some
lays later his neighbors alarmed at
lis absence, went to the gorge, burst
pen the door and found his dead
'ody surrounded by the snakes.
Is they could not recover the body
great danger, they closed
be door, and set fire to the hut
urning up the body and the snakes
Ogether. The distillers name was
ones. Take it altogether it is one
f the strongest snake stories We
ave ever read.