The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-07-10

Inc annual cathlo8u OF tn0 HestoAA N7-
serve Normal School at Milan.shows the pres
/ ence during the past year Of III students in
the regular course, with 80 in the Teachers
Review, making a total Of l4s. Miss D. Pal
mer is the Principal. Next Germ commences
August 10th.
FindIay is q great place for swindling and
farmers must think the merchants their le-
eitimate prey to feed upon. Wool buyers
have had to pay for quantities Of salt packed
in wool as well as for tags, &c, and several
suits for damages are likely to grow out of the
transactions.
Hamilton & Co, and Henry Phillips, both
hardware dealers on Summit street Toledo,
had their stores burglarzed on Sunday night
last. Forty fine rcvolvers and $50 in money
were stolen from Hamilton & Co., and twenty
revolvers and s25 to $50 stolen from Phillips
establishment.
A party of ten persons who had been out
having day Of it on Sunday last, at Toledo,
BY reckless daring near Swan Creek, upset the
wagon on the edge of an embankment, and
were all thrown out and fell distance of
twenty feet. Several were injured but strange
" enough none were killed,
The new paper which has been promised
at Port Clinton, has been issued. It is a sew
en- column paper, neatly printed, and contains
a good selection Of matter. 1t is edited by
James Maxwell and is very
creditable paper. We hope its editor may re-
ceive full measure Of support and encour-
agement.
Hot weather is giving US benefit at pres
ent For the past week we hardly escaped
scorching one day-indeed, so intense was the
heat on Tuesday QO5 degrees in the shade)
that several men employed at outdoor occu-
pations were compelled to suspend work.
And opinion has it that the worst is yet to
come.
A young man calling himself William b.
Robinson, alias Ira Brown, is travelling
through the country representing himself to
be the agent or proprietor of pruning shears
mandatory at Batavia, Ohio. There is no
such establishment at Batavia, and Robinson
is swindler. Farmers and others should
look out for him.
at the suggestion of Hon. Charles Foster,
Prof. Baird, U. S. Fish Commissioner, has for
warded and deposited in the Ssndusky River
60 900 young shad, which had been Matched at
Castleton, New York It takes about three
days to hatch shad, and it takes four years
for them to mature, they usually gaining
about one pound year.
The dog-kiIler is located somewhere near
the Johns street school house-exact locality
not known but he scatters poison protusely
and tbs uns uspicious caninesp pass off the stage
of existence speedily. We know several in
dividuals who talk Of shot guns and revenge,
on spring chickens which are allowed to run
ad h5itum and play havoc with flower beds.
An old but spry and agile farmer pulled the
tail and wing feathers out of parcel of old
hens, and thus denuded offered them for sale
as spring chickens, in FindIay, last week. He
sold them all in ten minutes, and then drove
out Of town to allow the wrath of the pur-
chasers to subside before he again called on
them. There are tricks in all trades but ours.
We have received from the Commissioners
a copy of the "Rules and Premium List Of
the Cincinnati Exposition for 1874" The list
has been greatly enlarged, and such revisions
made as the experience of former years has
shown to be required. The Exposition will
be open from September 2nd to October Bird,
and will fully sustain its reputation as the
leading representative of American industrial
progress. -
A preacher named Welsh, in company with
a small boy, went hu-ting in Wyandot coun-
ty, on the oath ult., and after killing few
squirrels prepared to string them, The boy
went to cut a stringer, but hearing the report
| Of a gun returned and found the minister
weItering in his blood. He called assistance,
but before it reached him the man was dead.
No one knows whether the shot was accident
al or NOT, bat it is supposed the gun was acci-
dentally discharged.
The Seventh, Twenty-Ninth and One hun
dred and Third o. v I. held their reunion at
Painsville, on the grounds of Gen. ]. S. Case
ment, July 4th, and had very pleasant time
of it. The attendance was large. Gen. Gar
field delivered the Grafton, which Is highly
spoked Of. Gen. P. C. Hayes of Bryan was
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various regiments then elected their officers
for the ensuing year, and we observe that
DR.. D. H. Brinkerholf, of this city was chOs-
en- First Vice President of the lO3d regi-
ment.
The act Of Congress relating to pensions,
which has Just become a law by the Presi-
dents signature, provides for an increase of
the pensions of Soldiers and Sailors who had
been totally disabled that all persons who
are now entitled to pensions under existing
laws, and who have lost either an arm at OF
above the elbow OF a leg at or above the knee,
shall be voted in the second class and shall re-
ceive twsnty-four dollars per month, provided
that no artificial limbs or Communication there
of shall be furnished to such persons as shall
be entitled to pensions under the act This
act took effect after June 4th, 1874.
Bellevue was the seat of a sensation last
week. A young couple named J. c. Simon
ton and Julia Conger, living at Greenfield
Huron county. desired to be made one. Yet
a stern PARENT would not. But glove laughs
at locksmiths," and the lady accordingly Wis
days alter the young man came along, ant
about midnight on the 29th, livery man O
that place had a demand for carriage snC
horses to convey the same across the Michigan
: State line. Next morning the stern parien
t aforesaid arrived, but found the birds flown
e He pursued, but pursuit was vain, for the
justice of the peace had made the twain on
, flesh an hour or SO before the parents arrival
. The city Council met on Monday evenin
! but nothing transpired particularly savorin
Of public interested.
e Quite a number availed themselves of tn
), cheap rate of travel adopted on the 4th
: July, on the L. Z. 81 L. BY, many strang
g faces coming to our city, but by far the grea'
h er bulk of traffic was further up the road.
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