The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-04-23

thirty-eight years, under sentence from
Stark County, for the murder Of q man
named Fisher.
The Indianapolis Journal states it thus:
eve defy any person TO point TO a
single act Of practical reform ever &C
complished by the Democratic party.
Its instincts are all selfish, and it's natu-
raj tendency toward corruption"
A terrible explosion and lose of life
occurred at San Francisco, on the 7th
inst It was caused by the explosion Of
giant powder in frame building ada
cent to the Hathaway Bonded Ware
house. The loss in the bonded ware
house was not less than $500, 900, and
the other buildings $25, 900.
The National banks are to be assessed
on the first of May to cover the expen-
ses of asserting and redeeming their
notes at the redemption agency. The
assessment is made at that date in con-
sequence of the retirement of General
Spinner, July 1st.
The senseless labor war in Pennsylva-
MIA throws $500, 100000, of capital out
of use, a loss of S75, 900 per day in inter
est alone; from 50, 600 to 100000 work
men unemployed lose 100000 per day
in wages alone. Such is the folly of
that useless fight for wages so disastrous
alike to both capital and labor.
DIR. Sigil, the editor of the Vaderland,
a prominent journal of Munich, has
been sentenced to three months impris-
onment for an article recently written
by him, in which he characterized Kull-
mans attack on Prince Bismarck as
comedy, prepared by the Chancellor's
friends for the purpose of reviving his
waning popularity.
There are now about $5,00O,0OO of
silver coin in the treasury, and it is es-
timated that if the premium on gold is
not 30 high as to occasion absolute loss
to the government, the Treasury will,
soon after the first of May, begin to is
sue it in place of fractional currency,
$780, 200 of which has already been
withdrawn with the intent of substituting
silver change.
On the 10Th, Mrs. E. L. Irwin, a high
" respectable young winow of Hanni-
bal, Missouri, tied clothes line around
herself and little girl, six years old, fas-
5ened the other end to stake in the
ground, then took the child in her arms
and deliberately walkedinto Bear Creek.
Both were drowned. Financial embar-
and disappointment in love is
understood to be the cause of the act.
Mark Grayson, the actor, author and
pedestrian, is about to commence walk
around the world. The entire route
covers distance of 1925 miles, and
500 days are allowed in which to make
It, the daily average being 80 miles.
The route selected necessitates 10, 1886
miles ocean travel, during which the dali
y average must be made by walking on
A $25, 900 wager is pending
on the result.
The strike between the Pittsburgh
Puddlers has come to an end after five
months duration, the employees acceed-
ing to the offer of the puddlers made
four months since, and hundreds of fur
naces will be in operation the present
week. The improvement in general bus
ness, as well as the improvement in
prices, made resumption necessity,
and the employees acceeded to the de-
mands of the workmen.
'There are some significant frcts in
with the recent Democratic
victories. For instance, General Haw-
ley gained votes in the country precincts
of his district, but was defeated by the
majorities against him in the lowest and
worst wards of Hartford, and there is no
doubt that the vote was largely fraudu-
lent. 1t is said that votes were sold in
the most unblushing openness and hun
dreds of naturalization papers were Sc
cured for the purpose.
A late dispatch from Kansas City, No.,
states that 800 Cheyenne warriors cross
ed the track of the Atchison, Topeka,
and Santa Fe Railroad on Thursday
night of last week, fifteen miles east of
Lakin. They were going north, pass
ing through the State of Kansas. A
company of troops followed them and it
was discovered that the Indians had sep
arated, and scattered over the plains.
They are undoubtedly on the war path,
and bloody work may be expected any
day.
A disastrous food occurred in the
towns of Wrentham and Norfolk, Mass.
ON the evening of the 18th, by the
breaking of the dam which restrains the
water in Whitten's Pond, the source of
Mill River The following are the losses
as far as ascertained: Whelvey's Dam,
80, 900; Elliott Mills, $4,000; Town of
Norfolk, $4,000; New York and New
England Railroads, S15, 900; City Mills,
$50, 900 to SIS, 200. A large number of
persons are thrown out of employment