The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-02
NEWS ITEMS.

Recruiting Tor the naval service
has been discontinued.
Buffalo meat is selling for four
cents a pound in Greeley, Colorado.
Kentucky is going to be in the
fashion, and have a Constitutional
Convention.
The number of vessels lost on the
lakes the past year is 1918, and their
value $4,O00,0o0.
Ex Mayor Hall has been acquitted.
Genet the last Tammary Convict es-
capped and is in Canada.
It is proposed to annex George
town to Washington, and Congress
will be asked to legislate to that end.
Charles Stilson, member of the
Cleveland bar, committed suicide on
the 9th. Financial embarrassment.
Baron Rothscbild aids, regardless
of creed, every chapel, school or
almshouse in his own neighborhood
in London.
It is a curious fact to reflect on,
that to-day the most popular Christ
mas story written in England is a
.Tew-Mr. Farjeon.
It is stated that bill will be in
troduced into Congress to tax the
income of insuranc companies, which
amounts 70 about 5000 600 GOO ner
year.
Near Maiden, Canada, recently, a
Ships Yawl fioated a shore, in the
stern of which man was seated with
an oar apparently stearing. He was
frozen stiff and evidently had been
80 for several days.
Hon. Shakespeare Caldwell, form
erfy of Louisville, made Christmas
gift of an $4,000 building to the
poor of that city for a hospital. It
is to be under the charge of the Sis
ters of Charity, but open to patients
of all denominations.
Joseph Arch makes no secret of
what his future course may be. Up
on being interviewed on his return
to England, he said: 81 intend to 90
on until I have drained the country
ofagricultural labor. When the last
ship load quits the shore, then, and
not till then, will I be satisfied to
quit"
A Pennsylvania farmer, on a train
from Philadelphia about week ago,
having occasion to make memoran-
dunn, turned to a quiet gentleman
seated behind him and asked,
"neighbor, got a pencil?" The pen
Gil was loaned at once, ard handed
back with a 'Thank you, neighbor."
The gentleman was ''neighbor' q.
S. Grant.
Information has reached Washing
ton that the United States naval and
military officers sent last summer to
report upon the Pearl river harbor,
Sandwich Islands, obtained a draft
of a treaty from that government
ceding the harbor to the United
States for a naval station, but the
proposed treaty was revoked through
British influence.
Under the new Pennsylvania
constitution the Governor is here
after to be elected for four years;
the Legislature meets only biennially
the length Of the terms of all the
Judges is increased; and that fertile
source of corruption, the October
election, is abolished-the Pennsyl-
vania election taking place in future
on the same day as the Presidential
election.
It costs twenty. four cents to send
a letter from France to the United
States, and only six to transmit one
from England to our shores. More
over, the English letter NAV weigh
fifty per cent. more than the French
one without increase of rate. The
is occasioned by the fsct
that we have no postal treaty with
France. The difficulty is avoided,
by those who have many letters to
write, by sending letters via England.