The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-03-20
NEWS ITEMS.

S1st.
Iceland is about to celebrate it,
millenial anniversary.
On Sunday last Beecher prSnounc.
ed a eulogy upon Sumner.
Clevelanders are interested in
gold mine property in Dahlonega
Georgia.
j Five saloons have re-opened at
Washington Court House, and much
excitement has resulted.
The English people don't under
stand the women's movement, and
couldn't tolerate it if they did.
General John Tyler, son of ex-
President Tyler, has been licensed
as a preacher by a Methodist Con-
ference in Florida.
The succession to the Massachu-
sets senatorshlp is thought to lie
between Dawes and Hoar. The cleo
ton will take place on the oath.
The Constitutional Convention
costs the State eight hundred dollars
per day, as per statement of the com
mittee appointed to investigate the
matter.
The Republicans of Indiana have
called State Convention to be held
at Indianapolis Monday, June 18th,
to nominate candidates, for State Of
ficers.
There is a couple at Rome, New
York, named Ackley, who have been
married 68 years; the husband is
102 years old, and the wife sc, and
the eld est son 65.
1t has been shown in a case in
Minnesota that two men can start a
bank on ten dollars capital, take in
money and run away with $4,000
in thirteen months time.
Resolutions of respect for the
memory of Senator Sumner were
introduced into the Virginia Legis-
lature, but were tabled. Virginia
has Omething yet to learn.
Chicago is shipping spoiled meat
inte the market. Some packers kill
ed more than they could cure, pack
ed it, and faulty or depraved in
spector permitted it to go to market.
Mississippi Courts have decided
that marriages between whites and
blacks are legal. Children of such
parents having bought suit for prop
erty amounting to 100000, have
been awarded the property.
George Lavine, a Frenchman liv-
ing about five miles from Toledo, |
drove his team off the high bank |
next the Cherry Street bridge on the
East Side, on Monday evening, and |
was instantly killed, by the fall, his |
neck being broken.
Since Mr.. Dawes has confessed to |
8 little error of $29,OO0,00O in his
calculations Of Government flnan-
ces, there has been engendered a
suspicion in the minds of the people
that there may possibly be some
other triAing errors in his state
nente.
THE anti-Butler men of Massachu-
'etts, charge that he has the admin
stration under his foot and is run
ling things in Massachusetts, to suit
his liking. Politicians are digging
up their tomahawks and sharpening
heir scalping knives for the little
'racas that will come off this year.
The Democratic Caucus at Col
INDUS are in a snarl over the re-dis-
ricting matter, and have appointed
new Committee, consisting of Sen
tor John G. Thompson, Newman
md Seltz and Messrs. Hagg, Brun-
Ter, Mccoy, and speaker Converse,
Who were instructed to darft a new
ill to be reported to an adjourned
Meeting of the caucus.
The Chicago Post says: "One of
he saddest features of the death and !
uneral ceremonies of Senator Sum
er is his utter loneliness. Not a I
elative was at his death-bed to
oothe the agony of the last mo- t
lents, no kin followed his corpse on t
IS last journey. His sister, his only
wing relative, was thousands cf L
liles away; so that the last sad rites c
} the great Senator were conduct :,
/ by friends" n
On Friday last, Hon. Edmund d
NTH, delegate to the Constitution IL
Convention from Shelby county, =,
Il dead at his boarding house in
Incinnati, in an apoplectic fit. On p'
lturday, the remains were taken to ~ ~
dney for burial, under the direction OF
a Committee Of the Convention OF
of Messrs. Dorsey, of tr Sg
iami; Blose, of Clark; Hunt, of en-
amilton: Steadman, Of Lucas; Van Lib
llkenburg, of Sandusky; Rickley, an
Franklin; Pond, of Morgan; and tel
II, of Ashland. pr