The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-03-19
NEWS ITEMS.

WV AAbh AAs1Ns
II The Brooklyn jury is said to be con
sidering the propriety of arranging fo
, q centennial celebration q a-1'1
An expedition numbering one thou
sand men viii leave Sioux City for th,
Black Hills, early in April.
Instructions have been issued to assess
ors and collectors of internal revenue tC
strictly enforce the new revenue law.
During a severe hail storm at Corinth
Miss, ON the 14th, four persons were
killed and number of others severely
injured.
Villainy has eliminated at Wausau,
Wis, where some brute, whose name is
not given, outraged little girl not four
years old.
TheDaVis House, at Gloucester, Mass
was destroyed by fire on the 18th. Two
boarders and two employees were burn
ed to death. 4
One Of the four infants who recently
came into the world at birth in Bait.
more died on the 9Th inst. The others
are reported to be thriving,
/ At Columbus, on the 11th, q conven-
ton of those favoring recognition of
God, in the Constitution, was held.
Lengthy resolutions were the result.
Up to the 11th the enabling act for
Wood county had not been engrossed or
signed, and it is thought the intention
was to prevent a vote on the matter at
the spring election.
Eli Orozier, an ancient citizen of Del
aware, swore thirty-one yearsago to wear
the hat he then wore until Henry Clay
should sit in the Presidential chair. The
venerable beaver still crowns his wrinkled
brow. ~
A special from McConnellsville, Ohio,
says that during the storm Monday
morning the lightning demolished the
cupola OF the Universalist Church at
that place, hurling heavy timbers a dis
tance of 200 feet.
On Saturday morning last, oil was
struck at the depth of 654 feet, on the
farm of Daniel Beatty, near Warren,
Penna, The oil was forced up by the
gas to the height of the derrick A new
oil territory is thus added.
Among the latest curiosities exhibited
in Paris is dwarf elephant which has
recently arrived from India. The ami
NAL is nineteen years old, and only thir-
ty-nine inches high. He is intelligent,
and performs many tricks.
1t is asserted that geese live as long
as the period of time allotted by the
Psalmist to man, and in evidence a goose
is quoted which was recently exhibited
at a poultry fair at Elmira, New. York,
alleged to be seventy-two years old.
Through the revelations of Arthur N. !
Page, in jail at Columbus. fifty thousand
dollars in bonds have been recovered.
They are a part of the one hundred thou
sand dollars stolen from L, Lowndes, of
Clarksburg, w. Va. in February last.
The Columbus depot isthe largest in
the State. 1t is not as long as the
Cleveland depot by four feet, but is wi
der by fifteen or twenty feet, and has
seven tracks. against five in Cleveland.
The building and grounds cost over
$40, 900.
Near Rushville, Ind, boiler in a
saw mill exploded on the 10th, killing
the engineer, and boy aged 70 years,
and injuring severely three other per
sons. A piece of the boiler struck
house 200 yards distant, and nearly de-
stroyed it.
DIR. H. W. Libby, practitioner well
known in some portions Of Ohio, and
formerly an inmate of the Penitentiary
for abortion, has Just been bound for
trial for another offense Of thesame sort,
in which case the woman, living near
Cleveland, died last week.
Still further encouraging news from
the Black Hills. -Four more miners have
arrived-this time at Cheyenno--with
pockets full Of rocks" and represent
the gold digging to be '1ovely." One
hundred dollars day can be readily re.
hlized dy an energetic worker.
Mr. Neffs bill to encourage railroad
companies to erect and sustain alarms
and signalsa at all street and road CROSS
lings. The carelessness in this country
with regard to railroads has always been
Ia subject Of remark and criticism by
Europeans who have travelled in Amer
lea. ana with iusEce, as the MANY deaths
ffon railway idente will prove Tbe
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