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

Dispatches from Cuba intimate
.he probable loss overheard between
,his country and Sautisgo de Cuba
Of Ralph Keeler, who went out as
for the New York
Tribune. BIr. Keeler, it will be re-
mem 0ered, is Northern Ohio man,
and has made good reputation for
himself as s, magazinist and news
paper correspondent. It is to he
hoped the report of his loss is un-
founded.
There seems to be trouble brewing
in Mississippi. The State election
of last November has always been
considered illegal by the faction op-
posed to General Ames. and Gov
ernor Powers, the present Incumbent,
threatens to refuse to hand over the
Chair to his successor. 1t
is also said that as majority ofthe
Supreme Court sustain this view,
Governor Powers intends to recog-
nize the old legislature in January,
and arrest the men elected last month
as conspirators ifthey should try to
organize.
Italy has finally concluded to
adopt the PrussIan system of com
pulsory education. The law that
has been introduced for this purpose
in the Italisn Legislature provides
that all parents and guardians who
do not send their children or wards
TO private schools, or furnish them
education at home, shall be COM
PEELED to send them after their sixth
year, to the public schools, and that
each city, town or district, shall be
required TO build the necessary
school-houses within three years
from the passage of the law.
A dispatch from Portland, Oregon,
announces the completion, on the
18th inst, of the Pacific division of
the Northern Pacific Railroad. This
important section of road extends
from Kalama, on the Columbia river,
nearly due north to Tacoma, the
main terminus of the Northern Pac-
ifc road on Puget Sound. Over it
the trade of Portland and all the
towns Of Northern Oregon and the
upper Columbia valley will hereafter
have access to the sea, instead of
passing through the difficult navi-
CATION of the lower Columbia.
While the people of this country
require q larger amount of currency,
per capita, than those Of any other
nation for the transaction Of bus
mess, we have an average of from
one-forth to one third less than those
of England, France, or Germany.
Assuming that the people of those
countries have only an adequate
amount Of currency to meet their
wants, it must be admitted that the
people of the United States have but
about one-half enough currency to
meet the demands of trade; and yet
there are persons playing the role of
statesman who advocate a still far
ther contraction of our currency.
When Congress is not in session
comes the heyday of rumor. Fifty
six young and talented men sent to
Washington for the express purpose
Of sending home news, are not likely
to sit and chaw the end of their pen
cils for two whole weeks without
writing something. One of them
records that 80 rumor prevailed and
is generally credited, that Secretary
Richardson is to be appointed
United States Minister at the Court
of st James, in place Of General
Schenck, who will return home, and
on his arrival be placed at the head
ofthe Treasury Department" We do
not assume of course that this is not
true. 1t may be or it may not, but
the fact that it simply prevailed" as
a rumor in Newspaper Row one
night is no reliable indication one
way or another.
A German statistician gives the
following dates as the periods in
which certain usages were adopted
in the Roman Catholic Church: Holy
water was introduced in A. D. 120,
and penances instituted in 157. In
348 monks came into fashion, follow
ed in 391 by the Latin Mass, and in
$50 by extreme JUNCTION. Purgatory
was Introduced in 593, and in 715
came the invocation of the Virgin
Mary and the Saints. kissing the
Pope's toe was instituted in 500, and
in 993 Saints were first canonized.
Bells we're rung in 1000, and ten
years later priestly celibacy vas or
dained. Four years afterward in
dulgences were proposed and dis
pensatiens granted in 1900, the ele-
vation of the host dating from the
same year. The Inquisition was es-
tablished in 1904, and confessions in
1915. Then came the Immaculate
Conception in 1850, and that of In
fallibility in 1870.