The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-07
NEWS ITEMS.

u The Straits OF MackInaw are reported
open.
Jean Frederic de Woldeck, the great
French traveller, died onlthe 29th at the
advanced age of ITO years.
Ex-Congressman Bowen, of s. c., has
been arrested charged with the murder
of Capt. White eleven years ago.
Leighton Iron Works, at Rochester,
IN. Y, were blown down by the gale of
the Doth, and the Light House at Port
Maitland suffered a similar fate.
Washington dispatches announce that
a demand will soon be made upon Cuba
for the better treatment of American
citizens and American interests in that
country.
A wind storm which passed over por-
tions of Tennessee and Georgia, on Sat
urday evening last, did considerable
damage, blowing down steeples, carry
ing off roofs, &c.
San Francisco proposes to get its
drinking water from the Calaveras river,
about fifty miles in the interior of the
State. The cost of the scheme will be
nearly 81, 100000.
OF all the assets of the Freedmen s
Bank, the commissioners now have got
together $500, 900, which is in the United
States Treasury. That will only pay
about ten cents on the dollar to deposi-
tors.
Two negro women were found in a
small house, in Detroit, on the 2Sth,
almost chopped to pieces. The hus-
band of one of them, aged go years was
arrested on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the murder.
The Catholics of Cleveland demand
the appointments of one of theirnumberas
superintendent of Woodlawn Cemetery,
the protestant Cemetery-as the price
of their adhesion to the Democracy; and
as the Democracy have control of the
Cleveland Council, they will doubtless
get what they demand.
1t is said the executors of Cakes Ames
have discovered by his accounts that the
money he claimed to have paid to Mr..
Colfax and others was in fact used for his
own purposes at the time he was hard
pressed by his financial embarrassment.
The friends of Mr.. Colfax ought toprobe
the matter to the bottom and vindicate
his good name, if the facts are as we be-
lieve them to be- Hartford Evening
Post.
On the Goth of the present month, the
Mechlenbergers, of North Carolina, will
celebrate what is called the Centennial
of the Mechlenberg Declaration of In
dependence. The Declaration was not
known to the world until Sc years after
its asserted PRONUNCIATION, and as it is
similar in various points to Jefferson's
Declaration, it is charitable to suppose
/ that its authors were we'll versed in that
!, document.
During the gale on Thusday of last
week, at Cincinnati, a plank was blown
against William Finnigan which knock
ed him down and before he could get
up he was run over by a wagon and
killed. At Columbus chimneys were
, blown down and section of sheet iron
roof was blown from the new Union
Depot. At Cleveland, much damage
5 was done to chimneys, unfinished build
l ings, shade trees &C., and the spire oi
the First Presbyterian church was badly
damaged
At Nashville, on the Both, Joe Reed
: colored, was whipping his wife, wher
Robert Frazier, policeman attempted
to arrest him, but was shot and instantly
killed by Reed, who then attempted tc
escape, but was captured and hurried
to jail. Same night mob broke oper
the jail, rope was placed around Reeds
neck and he was taken to Suspension
: bridge and thrown over. The rope
C broke and the victim fell to the rocks, {
! distance Of 80 feet, from whence h,
! rolled into the river.
t Some years ago the Government o.
Buenos Ayres, South America, Roman
Catholic country, suppressed the differ
ent institutions of the Jusuits. Recent
, " bill was introduced by the Govern
: ment at the request of the Archbishop
! restoring to the Jesuits a certain
: amount of property. This excited tn,
. Indignation of the populace, all Roman
: Catholics, be it born in mind, who, fol
! some reason or other entertain an in
' tense hatred of the disciples of Ignatiul
e Loyola. Accordingly, they have in I
. most reprehensible manner shown theh
, opposition to Jesuitism by sacking the
1 Archbishop's palace, attacking the Jesu
its college, setting it on fire and mur
dering and wounding some Of the priests