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The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-09-18
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The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-09-18
THE JOURNAL.
LOCAL MATTERS.
AGRICULTURAL AND DOMESTIC
Success to our County Fair.

Success to our County Pair.
Stand true % yonr country-ye "sons Of the soil
And rally around with the fruits of your toll;
Nor spare We an effort, by dint of your skin,
displaying your mast'ry when called on to till
Unbounded approval and prizes you'll gain,
Such as ever attend worthy compeers for fame.
Keep up by your int'rest and patronage too,
Your proud county meetings-an honor to you.
Come forward with stocl-nor your produce with
hold,
Ger the state-through the press-win your hon
or be told;
Unserving, let all in good viii take share,
No feelings unsocial your ardor impair
Together assembIe-wives sweethearts and friends
You'll all sip of pleasure which profits attends.
May young of both sexes, TO old pioneers,
Extend th,r support as they've done in past years;
Engaging with hearty goodwill to secure,
To our county and p people best sentiment pure.
In no way be backward-unite ''one and ALL
Nothing daunted respond ye to ''stern duty's call,
Good luck never fails those who ''give not the
wall"
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-09-18
NOTICE.

TOHN ZOECKLER, son of the late Casper Zoeck-
81 Ter OF the city of Fremont, Ohio, deceased, will
take notice that George Zoeckler of Wheeling,
West Virginia. did, on the 20th day of August 1874
file his petition in the Court of Common Pleas of
Sandusky county and State of Ohio, against the
said John ZOeckleT, Catharine Windler, Matthias
Windler, George ZOeckler, Amelia ZOeckler and
Louisa ZOeckler of Fremont, Ohio defendants, set
time and the said Catharine then being his wife,
gave mortgage to the said George ZOeckler, plain
tiff in said petition, the original lot "a of the
survey on the east side of the Sandusky River in
the Reservation of two miles square at the foot of
the rapids of said river, being in said city of Fre
mont and being inlot 4G3 according to the present
numbering of inlOts in said CITY, to secure the pay
ment of nine promissOry notes mentioned in said
since the giving the said mortgage the said Casper
Zoeckler has departed this life leaving the said
Catharine, his widow, and the said George Zoeck-
Ter of Fremont, John ZOcCkler, Amelia ZOeckler
Zocckler his heirs at law, that said Charles ZOeck
Ter has conveyed his interest in said mOrtgaged
premises to said Catharine, that said prOmissOry
notes remain unpaid, and that there is now due on
thereon from May 3d. 1870; s24 with interest there
on from October 29th, 1872; 1920 with interest
thereon from May Sd, 1872; S21S with interest
thereon from May Sd, 1873, and S266 with interest
notes, amounting to the sum of 81 ,044, Will hereaf
ter become due and remOin unpaid, and the prayer
of said petition is that account may be taken of
the amount due to the plaintiff on said notes and
mortgage and that said mOrtgaged premises may
be sold 10 pay the same unless said defendants paw
the sum found to be due, interest and costs by a
day TO be named by the court and for other relief
and the said John ZOeCkler is notified that he is
before the Sd Saturday after the 25th day of Sep
tember next. GEORGE ZOECKLER
by r. P. BUCKLAED, his Atty.
Fremont, Ohio, August 20, 1874. 34-40
The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-09-18
AND KIPP'S NEW ENGINE
? REMIUMs In 1873

First and Highest Premium at the Great Interna-
fioual Fair and Exposition st Buffalo, \. Y. Also
al Tue Western New York Fair, held at Rochester.
Also At Central New York Fair, held at Utica. Al
81 at the New York State Fair, held at Albany
Also at the Great Fair OF the American Institute,
held IN New York for two months during the fall
OF l5ss. Also at many Fairs In Ohio and other
States.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

HABITS OF THE ALLIGAToR.-AS Southern
naturalist has made some observations on the
habits of falligators. Among them he records
the following: "That alligators swallow their
young have had ocular demonstration in a
single case. was engaged making survey
on the banks of the Homochitto Lake, near
the Mississippi river. The day was warm and
sunny, and as halted near the margin of a
pond, nearly dried up, to pick up some shells,
started litter Of young alligators that
scampered off, yelping like puppies; and re.
treating some twenty yards, to the bank of
the Lake Homochitto, saw them reach their
refuge in the mouth of fve.foot alligator.
She evidently held open her mouth to receive
them, as, in single file, they passed in be-
yond my observation. The dam then turned
slowly round and slid down beneath the root
of an ash tree Doubtless this refuge is tenn
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

SwEAR1NG.-What pleasure can there be
in profane swearing? In almost all other
vices the devil lures with bait but the pro-
fame swearer bites naked hook. Read the
following:
1t is no mark Of gentleman to swear. The
most worthless and vile, the refuse of man
kind, the drunkard and the prostitute, swear
as we'll as the best cultivated gentlemen. The
basest and meanest of mankind swear with as
much tact and skill as the most refined and
he that wishes to degrade himself to the very
lowest level of pollution and shame should
become common swearer. Any man has
talents enough to learn to curse God and i'm
precate perdition on his fellowmen. Profane
Swearing never did any man any good. No
man is richer, wiser or happier for it. It helps
no mans education or manners, 1t Is dis
gusting to the refined, abominable to the
good, degrading to the mind, Improbable,
needless and injurious to society. Wantonly
to profane His name, to call His vengeance
is, perhaps, of all ofenses, the most awful in
the sight Of God.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17
CoURTsHIp AND NDMATRIM0NYIN GERMANY

In default of public announcement of
betrothal, people in the habit Of watching the
actors from evening to evening may tell by
one infallible sign when the happy climax is
reached AS soon as the swain begins to pay
the young lady's reckoning in addition to his
own, depend on it, they are engaged.
Up to that time the maiden's Gansebraten
has been reckoned at the close Of every even
ing with the account Of the family and paid
for by the fond parent but now the burden
has been lightened The future son-in-law
meets his sweetheart's expenses, but them
alone. Even if there be nobody else with
them but the mother, she always pays her
own BILL Night after night one may see at
the same restaurant young man pay for him.
self and his sweetheart, while the worthy mat
ron is just as regularly left to the resources Of
her own purse IF the three visit the theatre
he purchases stalls for two, while the mother
takes her place in the queue and looks out for
herself and the rule is scarcely ever broken.
If it be said, on the one hand, that the
mother, having shuHled off the responsibility
of her daughters entertainment, ought to be
satisfied with that; it may be urged, on the
other hand, that in view of the fidelity and
regularity expected of German lover, the
support of the young lady is in itself enough,
and he ought not to be asked to have the
mother superadded-at least until after the
marriage Young people, when engaged, are
expected to pass three hundred and sixty-ive
evenings a year in each others society. If
they belong to the middle or poorer classes,
this phenomenon is generally witnessed at
cheap beer houses and gardens, varied in
summer by an occasional rural excursion.
If they have a more exalted position in the
social scale, there will be facilities for enter
tanning the victim at the house Of the intend.
ed, and for beer gardens they will, now and
then, substitute concert or play. But the
full quota of evenings is always vigorously Gu
acted.
Berlin is fast outgrowing slow matrimonial
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

STEP BY SrEp.-Life is made up of little
things. He who travels over a continent
must 60 step by step. He who writes book
must do it sentence by sentence he who learns
sentence must master it fact by fact, and
principle by principle. What is the happi-
ness of our life made upof? Little courtesies,
little kindnesses, pleasant words, genial smiles,
a friendly letter, good wishes and good deeds.
One in million, once in lifetime, may do a
heroic action; but the little things that make
up our life come every day and every hour.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

EDGE TooLs.-A correspondent of the De-
troit Tribune says "If an edge tool is so
hard as to crumble grind it on dry stone
until the edge turns blue; it will then cease
to break, and the temper will generally prove
to be aboutright. Scythes and axes are some~
times too hard at the edge, but if treated in
this way will give no further trouble"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

For Bo1Ls-A SURE CURE.-Dr. Simon,
a physician of Lorraine, states that, as soon as
the characteristic eliminating point of a boil
makes it appearance, he puts in a saucer
thimbleful Of camphorated alcohol, and dip
ping the ends of his middle fingers into the
liquid, rubs the inaamed surface, especially
the middle portion, repeating the operation
eight or ten times, continuing the rubbing at
each time for about halfa minute. He then
allows the surface to dry, placing slight coat.
ing of camphorated olive oil over the affected
surface He states that one such application,
in almost all such cases, will cause boils to
disappear. The application should. be made
at morning, noon and in the evening He
AYERS that the same treatment will cure whit
lows, and all injuries of tips Of fingers. AS
soon as pain and redness appear, the finger
should be soaked for ten minutes in camphora-
ted sweet oil. The relief is said to be imme-
diate, and three applications are generally
enough to effect cure.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

s5- The champion cow Of the season turns
up in Washington county, Tennessee, having
given the Immense yield Of 2, ,O403 pounds of
milk in thirty days. The animal is an Ayr
shire breed, and the smallest amount of milk
given by her in single day was found, by ac>
curate weight, to be 81 pounds.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

Ha7- That was shrewd advice Of learned
lawyer to a pupil, "When the facts are in
your favor, but the law opposed to you, come
out strong on the facts; and when the law is
in your favor and the facts opposed to you,
come out strong on the law" "But," inquir-
ed the student, "when the law and facts are
both against me, what shall do?" "Why,
then," said the lawyer, "talk around it."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

The ORIGIN OF "GRoG."-Until the time
of Admiral Vernon, the British sailors had
their allowance of brandy or rum served up to
them unmixed with water. This plan was
found to be attended with Inconvenience on
some occasions, and the Admiral, therefore
ordered, that in the fleet he commanded; the
spirits should be mixed with water before it
was given to the men. This innovation at
first gave great ofense to the sailors, and rem
dered the commander very unpopular. The
Admiral at that time wore grogram coat
and was nick-named "Old Grog." This name
was afterward given to the mixed liquor he
compelled them to take, and it has hence uni.
versally obtained the name of grog.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

PERTINENT ADv1cE.-Young man, 60 to
work. Quit lettering about stores and sa-
looms. Earn something for yourself, and don't
sponge your living any longer because the
cold man" or the "old woman" don't see fit to
drive you out to work. And when you get a
few dollars ahead, don't 60 to saloon and
fool it away punching ivory balls over ia.
BILE with whipstocks. Be man. Show the
world you are able to earn an honest living.
Buy saw and saw wood if nothing better Of.
fers. 1t will give you sharp appetite for
your hash, and you will have the satisfaction
of knowing that you earned it honorably.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

IA How is it that girls can always tell a
married man from single one3 The fact is
indisputable. Blackwood says that the fact
of matrimony or bachelorship is written so
legibly in mans appearance thatno ingenui-
ty can conceal it. Everywhere there is some
inexplcable instinct that tells whether an in
dividual (whose name, fortune and circum-
stances are totally unknown) be or be not,
married man. Whether it is certain SUBJ
dued look, such as that which characterizes
the lions in menagerie, and distinguishes
them from the lords of the desert, we cannot
tell but the truth is so, we positively AFFIRM -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

A TERRIBLE THREAT.-Talking Of priso-
ners recalls once celebrated character known
to the oldest inhabitants and by.gone times of
Washington as old Jake Dade. He was
representative of one of the classes of old Vir-
ginia gentlemen. He called on President ly'
Ter for an office where he would have the least
to do at the highest salary. The President
appointed him Warden of the Washington
Penitentiary, preserved to history by the exc
cution of the Lincoln conspirators. Upon en-.
tering upon his official duties, after jovial
evening with the Presidents gay son, War,
den Dade had all the prisoners assembled, and
thus addressed them: "Gentlemen! A pretty
looking set of gentlemen you are! Fellow
citizens! No; cursed if you are any fellow
citizens of mine. Convicts! That's the word.
As long as am at the head Of this institu-
tion, and you do right, I'll treat you kindly;
but the first man, recollect, that misbehaves
himself, I'll turn him out, by Gad!
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

WHAT HAS BEEN AccoMpL1sHED-Such
of our readers as have lived fifty years may
be glad to know what they have accomplished
in that time. According to a French statisti-
clan, the average man has, at that age, slept
5000 days, worked $500 days, walked 800
days, amused himself 1000 days, spent 1900
days in eating, and been sick 500 days. He
has eaten $1,000 pounds of bread, $4,000
pounds of meat, 460O pounds of vegetables,
fish, etc., and drank 1000 gallons of liquids.
There are 1920 days in half a century, and
from the above statement it would seem that
man slept just oncthird of the time.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17
porary, and the young are released at their
own or the mothers pleasure the descent be-
ing but partial, in no way reaching or inter-
fering with the process of digestion"

SHEDDING ONES SKIN.-No animal is ex-
empt from the operations of the law OF des-
ouemation. Birds shed their feathers annu-
ally, serpents their skins, quadrupeds their
hair and Holsters and crabs their shells.
So it is with humanity. The skin, instead
of being thrown off annually, as with i those
referred to, is all the time wearing OF, and
therefore constantly being renewed.
The scarfskin is insensible. 1t is to the
true skin or cults veva what the rough, scaly
bark of tree is to the vitalized coat immedi-
ately under it. In the use of our hands, feet
and ordinary exercise Of the body, fragments
of skin are constantly rubbed off, so that it
may be truly said every living person is al
ways shedding that tissue.
If that process were interrupted, as it is
partially, by some who neglect to avail them
selves of the benefits of water, the pores be.
come clogged, and their utility in the preserv,,
ationlof health destroyed. Thus the actual
amount of scarfskin dropping of, and washed
of, in a year would be about equal to the
thickness and weight of thin sheep-skin.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

SATURDAY NIGHT.-What blessed things
Saturday nights are, and what would the
world do without them? Those breathing
moments in the tramping march Of life those
little twilights in the broad and garsh light OF
noon, when the pale yesterdays look beautiful
through the shadows, and faces "changed"
long ago, smile sweetly again in the hush
when one remembers "the old folks at home, /"
and the old-fashioned fire, and the old arm
chair, and the little brother that died, and the
little sister that was translated"
Saturday nights make people human; set
their hearts to beating softly as they used to,
before the world turned them into war'drums,
and Jared them with tattoos. ~
The ledger closes with clash; the IRON
doored vaults come to with bang; up 60 the
shutters with a will click goes the key in the
lock. 1t is Saturday night, and business
breathes free again. Homeward, ho! The
door that has been ajar all the week gently
closes behind him the world is shut out.
Shut out? Shut in, the rather. Here are his
treasures after all, and not in the vault, and
not in the book-save the record in the old
family Bible-and not in the bank.
Maybe you are bachelor, frosty and forty.
Then, poor fellow, Saturday nights nothing
to you, as you are nothing to anybody. Get
a wife, blue-eyed or black-eyed, but above all,
true.eyed-get little home, no matter how
little, and little sofa, just to hold two, or
two and half, and then get the two, or the
two and half in it, Of Saturday night, and
then read this paragraph by the light Of your
wife's eyes, and thank God and take courage.
The dim and dusty shops are swept up; the
hammer is thrown down, the apron is dotted,
and the laborer hastens with a light step,
homeward bound
Saturday night" feebly aurmurs the
languishing, as she turns wearily upon her
couch, "and is there another to Gomez"
Saturday night, at last| whispers the weep
er above the dying, "and it is Sunday to-
morrow, and-to.morrow
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

ALL ABour4 GoosE-A darkey was try
ing to steal gsose, but dog raised an objec-
ton, and Sambo retired. The next night he
tried it again but thunder storm intertered,
and, just as he had captured his prize, the
lightning struck him and nearly frightened
him to death. Dropping the goose, he ran
off; mpttering, peers ter me der am mighty
lot O. fuss made bout common goose"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

SAMBo's PATIENCE ExPLAINED.-I have
the story of an incident at one Of the Rich
mond hotels which made me laugh, although
all readers may not see anything funny about
it, A Boston man and two Virginians sat at
the table. The Boston man was shocked to
hear the Virginians call the colored waiter
"a black rascal" and "nigger." Surely, he
thought, the spirit of slavery is strongly upon
this people. He was careful to call the wait.
er "his FRIEND" when ordering dishes, and to
speak to him in the kindest and most polite
manner. Notwithstanding his honeyed speech
and bland manner he noticed that the waiter
brought the Virginians altogether the best
dinner. Upon reflection he ascribed it to the
terror awakened in the poor walters mind by
the rough speech and overbearing conduct of
these southerners. No doubt he thoug ht they
would shoot this miserable creature dead in
his tracks if he did not bring them just what
they wanted, and in good style. When the
Virginians left the table the sympathetic, but
rather poorly fed, Boston man fastened to get
the ear of the waiter Thirsting for evidence
of southern barbarism, as we'll as for good
cup Of coffee, he said to the waiter-"Here
were those men, who insulted you, and swore
at you and talked rough, yet you broug hit
them a much better dinner than me, who
spoke to you most kindly and politely; how
is this ?" SWELL" replied the African, as he
cast sly glance around and wiped the per-
spiration from his black forehead with the
corner of a napkin, II know these men talk
sorter rough like, but they gives me money
and you don't" The Boston man retired
with slight feeling of disgust for his colored
brother Correspondence Cincinnati CON-
7nercinL
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-09-17

NAMES OF CoUNTRIEs.--The following
countries, it is said, were originally named by
the Phenicians, the greatest commercial peo-
pie in the world. The names, in the Pheni-
clan language, signify something characteris'
tic of the places which they designate. Eu-
rope signifies country of white complexion /;
so named because the inhabitants were Of a
lighter complexion than those of Asia and
Africa. Asia signifies between, or in the mid
die, from the fact that geographers placed it
between Europe and Africa. Africa signifies
the land of corn, or ears. 1t was celebrated
for its abundance of corn and all sorts OF grain.
Siberia signifies thirsty or dry-very charac-
teristic. Spain, a country of rabbits or comics
It was once so infested with these animals that
they sued Augustus for an army to destroy
them. Italy, a country of pitch, from its
yielding great quantities of black pitch. CAL
abria, also for the same reason. Gaul, mod
ern France, signifies yellow-haired, as yellow
hair characterized its inhabitants. The Eng
lish of Caledonia is high hill. This was
rugged, mountainous province in Scotland.
Hibernia is utmost, or last habitation; for
beyond this, westward, the Phenicians never
extended their voyages. Britain, the country
of tin, great quantities being found on this
and adjacent islands. The Greeks called it
Albion, which signifies in the Phenician
tongue, either white or high mountains, from
the whiteness of its shores, or the high rocks
on the western coast. Corsica signifies a
woody place. Sardinia signifies the footsteps
of men, which it resembles. Syracuse signi-
6es bad SAVIOR, so called from the unwholesome
marsh on which it stood. Rhodes, serpents
or dragons, which it produces in abundance
Sicily, the country of grapes. Scylla, the
whirlpool of destruction. Charybdis, the
holds of destruction. Etna signifies fur
mace, or dark, or smoky.