The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-09-18
NEWS TTHMs.

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Judge Poland has withdrawn from
the contest in the Second District
in Vermont. Dennison is the man.
Three men have been arrested at
New York for forging deeds amount
ing to 100000. Quite moderate
or New York.
VIM. W. Armstrong. of Ashland
county, was nominated for Congress
by the Republicans of the Four
teenth District.
The saw mill and cheese box fac
tory of Calvin Gilbert, at Solon, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire on the 11th.
Loss $4,000. No insurance.
Postmaster Jewell has issued or
orders to pay no clerks for services
not rendered. Good. The Treas
ury department follow will suit.
Twenty persons were killed and
fifty wounded by railroad accident
on the Great Eastern Railroad near
Norwich, England, on the 11th.-
The Peoples National Bank, of
Princeton, ILL.,, and the Centerville
National Bank, of Thurman, Ohio,
have been authorized to do business.
Capital $4,000 each.
Poor Carl Rosa, the husband of
the lamented Parepa Rosa, is sadly
broken down both in health and in
spirits by his great loss, and totally
Indifferent and spiritless.
Charles Desner, of New York has
been arrested for selling his daugh-
ter to a brothel keeper. It is said
he had previously sold two of his
daughters for the same purpose.
The Postal money order system
with Canada cannot be carried into
immediate effect, because Congress
failed to provide for the payment of
clerks necessary to carry it into eff
feet.
Thomas Shaler, dismissed Sc
cret service man, was cowhided by
Mrs. Lieut.. Skipton, at Washington
last week. She accused him of ru-
iuing her daughter. The affair Gre
ated and excitement about the treas
ury building.
Jay Cookies creditors begin to be
restive under the long delay in rem
dering a complete statement of his
financial condition, and impatient
inquiries, indicative to grave suspi-
cions, are multiplying.
The Union and Confederate Sol
diers of New Orleans met last week
and formed a society called the
'Blue and Grey" the object of which
is to cultivate better feeling among
all classes at the South. 1t is hoped
its object will be attained.
1t isn't always safe for printers to
abbreviate important words. The
following is a case in point: The
books of a Sunday school library
connected with the Batist church in
Damariscotta, are embellished with
labels bearing the following legend:
"Number-, DANA Babptist Sun
day School"
Recent news from Japan states
that the residue of the indemnity
due the United States from Japan,
nearly ten years ago, has been placed
in the keeping of Minister Bingham,
and also that this gentleman has
asked for instruction from the State
Department as to his further action
in the matter.
Since the order of the Attorney
General to the United States Mar.
shals in the South, affairs have been
somewhat quieter, yet the White
League still shows its black heart
In Brenville parish, Louisiana, Re-
publican officers have been forced tc
resign. The Coushatta whites and
negroes also still seem to feel a lit
tie unpleasant toward each other.
One of those pleasant little epi
sodes that remind one of the contin.
ued existence of Southern chivalry
happened last Saturday in Lexington
Missouri. The Deputy City Mar
shall and Deputy Sheriff met in the
streets and recollecting that little
feud existed between them, drew re
volvers and began to fire One was
killed and the other mortally woun
ded.
The safe arrival at st. Helena Of
two boat loads of the crew of the
ship Euxine, which was burned al
sea some time ago, is almost incred
ible. Eleven hundred miles in oper
boats is an unparalleled voyage, anC
the strangest part of the story is tina
neither crew saw the other during
the entire route of the terrible jour
ney, yet they arrived at st. Helen:
almost at the same time.
The reports of the Secretary o
the Treasury and Commissioner O
Internal Revenue will be. cheering
cheering documents to the cham
pions in the next Congress of cheap
er taxes. The Secretary of thC
Treasury will be able to make a mag
nifcent showing of increased re
ceipts from customs, while the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue will
present an array of facts demon
strating tie great revival of trade
and excess of business over pre-
Yious years in a mnch larger amount
of revenue than the government ha:
received from internal revenue fol
many years past
Selling berries by the foot is a new
idea, the offspring of a Milwaukee
girls brain. The young lady, who
was on a marketing expedition, de-
sired to purchase some berries where
with to add zest to her evening meal
but she wouldn't trust the fraudfu
little boxes which the grocers with
pleasing fiction call quarts" She
wanted full Scriptural measure, and
proposed to the dealer to adopt heI
shoe as the standard of quantity
Visions Of Cinderella foated through
the huckster's brain, and in a mo
ment of forgetfulness the deludeC
man accepted the proposition. Of
came the shoe, and in went the Der
ries. Box followed box, until the