The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-02-19
NEWS ITEMS.

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THE Indian appropriation bill passed
the House on the Sth.
FIFTY thousand strangers were in
Memphis to witness the Mardi Gras
fooleries.
The new revenue bill increases the
tax on sugar, tobacco and spirits, but
matches go free.
The amount of pine lumber cut in the
Saginaw valley this winter, will be
36, 900, 900 feet less than last winter.
They have not yet discovered the
murderer or murderers of Mr. John Nc
Cormick, of Mount Vernon.
THE Baxter Steam Canal Boat Com
pany, propose toplace one hundred boats
on the Erie Canal during the coming
season.
THE first train passed through the
Hoosac tunnel, on the 9th. The time
occupied in passing through was 80
minutes.
SENATOR elect w. W. Eaton, of Con-
necticut, has been appointed to fill the
unexpired time of Senator Buckingham,
recently deceased.
DAN RICE, has filed his petition in
bankruptcy His assets are set down
at SIS, his liabilities 100000. What
a dividend his creditors will get.
THE President has nominated ex-Sen-
ator John NJ. Thayer, of Nebraska, to
be Governor of Wyoming, in place of
John A. Campbell, who is nominated
Third Assistant Secretary of StGte.
MRS. LYDIA BRADLEY was recently
elected first director of the FirstNational
Bank of Peoria, Illinois, and Miss Mary
Clark has for number of years been
cashier and manager of Clark's Bank
at Newton, Iowa.
The Senate bill amending the Adair
Law SO as to require notice before suits
can be brought for damages, passed the
House on the 10th, and the House
amendments were concurred in by the
Senate. on the 11th.
A WAR has been commenced against
the B. & o. road by the Pennsylvania
railroad company, owing to reduction
of rates By the former, and now no cars
of the B. 6S O., are allowed to run over
the lines of the Pennsylvania company.
Mrs. VIRGINIA A. MINOR, whose
right to vote had been decided adversely
by the Missouri State Court, has carried
! her case to the U. S. Supreme Court.
She claims to bea citizen and that depriv-
! ing her of the right to vote isrepugnant
to the constitution.
Or Tuesday night of last week, the
large hardware store of Whitmore, Lane,
Wolfe & Co., of Pittsburg, took fire and
before it could be suppressed the two
upper stories of the building were de.
stroyed. This Was one of the oldest
establishments in the ''Smoky city"
ACCORDING to the report made by
Gen. Sherman, 2141 persons have been
killed, in Louisiana, on account of theil
political opinions; 2115 were wounded
for like reason during the same time.
Here is a total of 1856 cases, yet the sub
committee could find no evidence OF
intimidation.
THE National Grange, at Charleston
S. c.. has adopted resolutions declaring
the, existing patent laws oppressive and
saqnesting Congress to grant no more
extensions and to amend the patent laws
so.es to allow any person to use or man
ufacture any patented articles on the
J payment Of a reasonable royalty.
CLPTAry JOHN H. Arthur, city editol
OF the Columbus Sunday News, anC
: Columbus correspondent to the Toledo
i Blade ana Commercial, died ON tn,
E night of the 9th, at his residence il
Columbus, from the effects of .hruta
assault committed on Friday by som,
unknown rmhan, who attempted rol
o him
+ Ar Old Hickory near Pike Station
I o., On Saturday night last. an Halial
= woman shot her man about the hea,
t twice, tfier he had retired to he'd un
e was asleep. After he was shOf he jump
ell up and ran two miles without an
other covering than what he had on whe
in bed He was nearly frozen, aud car
not recover. The woman is unde
arrest
II is evidence of the unusual cold tina
the Cayuga lake in New York is froze
entirely over; thing that occurs onl
at long intervals. The stages into Rom
= New York have been discontinued OWN
to the snow, and the mails ON one rout
= only reached Rome by a .cutter draw
: by two horses tandem. Forty freigl
trains were frozen in at one time on I'll
New York Central The latter part G
last week all trains on the roads lyin
:, North of the New York Central at Utic
and ROmo were abandoned CsWeg
+ and Watertown, aud Ogdensburg wer
e cut of from the rest Of the world an,
a from each other.