The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-02-06


set upon by Teton Sioux Indians,
, and murdered in cold blood Lacks
confirmation but thought to be true.
, The last speech Caleb Cushing
made in Boston was at the banquet
, given to Mr.. Burlingame and the
Chinese Embassy. On that occasion
the Chinese ambassador spoke in
. broken English and Mr.. Cushing in
broken China.
At Conneautville, Pa, on the 1st,
D. D. Williams, Cashier of the First
National Bank, was surprised in the
bank by two masked men, who sprang
upon, bound and gagged him, and
then robbed the bank of $4,000 in
currency and $30,000in bonds. Mr..
W. was not discovered until the next
morning, when he was unconscious,
but recovered after being released.
At Gad's Hill, 12O miles from St
Louis, on the Iron Mountain Rail-
road, on the 31st, FIVE disguised rob
bers seized the station agent, run a
train onto side track, captured Con
ductor, engineer, fireman, mail agent
and express messenger, and then rob-
bed the train obtaining about 81
500 in money. No injury was done
to any one and when the robbers had
secured their booty they rode off in
a Southerly direction.
From a special dispatch to the
Chicago Times, from Pittsburg, we
learn that R. L. Dudley and w. R.
Wales, who were convicted some time
ago of conspiring to stop the United
States mails, were brought into Court
Saturday toreceiVe sentence. Dud-
ley was sentenced to pay a fine of
5000 and serve six years in the Wes-
tern Penitentiary. Wales was fined
$500 and sentenced to the Peniten-
tiary for five years.
There seems to be a prospect that
the sewing machine patent monopoly
may be extended by Congress, the
House Committee on Patents having
reported faVorably on that measure.
We have already given the main facts
which underlie the case. 1t is simply
an attempt of the Sewing machine
ring" which has rolled in wealth for
dozen years past, to extend its
monopoly a few years longer and
force people who need sewing ma.
chimes to pay from $50 to $50 for
machines which shonld be sold for
from $40 to $50.
The disbanding of three-forths of
our army as q useless and burden
some charge on the taxpayers of the
county will be resisted with the plea
that the officers were educated and
set apart by the Government to mil
itary service for life, and that a con-
tract therefore exists to maintain
them till they die or resign in the re-
ceipt OF pay, rations, and allowances.
The claim of an army officer upon the |
nation is certainly not better than
that of a postmaster or collector of
customs. If one of these officials
has served dozen years he does not |
dream of setting up that service as q |
title to indefinite employment.
The State Treasurer of Missouri |
has had very comfortable berth. |
which is now threatened with dis |
turbance. A bill has been introdu-
ced into the Legislature requiring
him to make a monthly report of the |
fees received by him, for what and |
by whom received; also, all premiums
and intrest on deposits of State mon
eys received by him; and it provides
that the Auditor shall charge him
with these sums and exact the pay
ment of them into the Treasury.
Heretofore these fees and premiums
have been appropriated by the
Treasurer as his official perquisites,
and thus added about $4,000 to his
yearly income, which sum it is now
proposed shall go to the State
Treasury.
The Welland Canal is becoming a
vigorous rival of the Erie for the
shipment Of grain to the Atlantic sea-
board for expectation. This canal
was opened in 1925, was purchased by
the Canadian government in I84i,
and was Immediately enlarged and
The main line is fifty-
nine miles long and has thirtv-tWo ,
locks, of cut stone. 1t is capable of
transporting 100000 tons per wear. Il
ald the tolls are about two cents per
bushel less than on the Erie Canal. !
Boston has been connected by rail {
with Montreal and expects to get a f
large share of the business of shin {
ping grain to Europe received from | /
the West through the Welland Coual. 4
by the way of Montreal. Last week $
TWO steamships, laden with wheat r
and corn received by this route sailed d
rom Boston to Liverpool. n
A wicked boy caught FREELY one
lay and stuck it with mucilage on Z
he centere of the largest lens Of the
telescope in the Washington OBJ
'ervatory The astronomer perceived r
blaze oflight, which died out at in v
ervals, and thinking he had discov- V
red most extraordinary star. he s
pronounced it "of the third magni- Il
ude of Orion" He telegraphed, at p
n expense of $4,000, all over the c.
Torld, and the astronomers gazed at 1
orion until they were wild and then c.
elegraphed back the Professor for p
1rther information. In the mean n
ime the discoverer found his star cl
ad moved eighteen billions of miles e.
4 tWenty-four hours and perceive it re
ctually had legs! But on polishing NJ
is lens he found the lightning bug! ol
then he swore terribly-worse than tr
Our army in Flanders fact they ly
card him swear away down in Alex al
ndria, seven miles away. Since to
hen he hrs been lookins for that boy;
e wishes to consult with him about s.
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