The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-02-26
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Fire, whore it should not be, is fear
full thing at any season of the year, un-
less they who fraudulently start It lie
excepted; and to even them it may lead
to dreadful results, especially when they
shall have been arrested for arson. But
to have ones dwelling on fire ct the
dead Of a night in winter, and be driven
by the flames whose destructive celebrity
gives you time barely to escape, while
you see your earthly all-the necessa-
lries, luxuries and precious things of
life-wrapped in gloating sheets of lurid
deVouring elements and rapidly disap-
pearing from your longing gaze, is most
terrible, unless they be well insured
In the court house at Toledo, circum-
stances were 80 favorable to matrimony.
that the premises earned the reputation
of modern Gretna Green. With a
Probate Judge or his lady assistant to
issue the license; rolicking, clerical
youths Of either sex in the several de-
partments ''to stand up" and a min
lister of the Gospel in one of the Offices
to tie the nuptial knot, we might with
perfect propriety quote Gentle Annie's
''What's to hinderl" 1t was as easy to
launch into the ''sea of calms and Sc
quals, under such circumstances, as to
''fall off log" But the outcome was
not always so pleasant In one certain
instance many of the parties ''came sud
denly to grief" A Frenchman eloping
with the daughter of his employer,
reached the court house and was
'spliced to his flame" just in time to
get away before n stern officer appeared
on the scene. On his return the hus-
band was arrested and his wife locked
, up at home. She was only "sweet six
teen. Her youthful spouse went to
the penitentiary three years for perjury;
! ! all who participated in the unlawful
) wedding were threatened with prosecu-
ton, though they were finally let off on
spending a day in giving their deposi-
tion. The best of it however is the
promise of the constant wife that she
would wait for her husband, if need be,
twenty years.
This has been with us a peculiar win
ter. Though cold enough, we have had
but little snow and less sleighing, par
ticularly in the city. But as oompen-
sation we have had an abundance of ice
and quite smart sprinkling of falls and
broken limbs. Our ice-dealers have
had a crystal harvest and our surgeons
greenback rewards. If we have to pay
a dollar per hundred for lee next sum
mer, either let the dealers be fed on
''chips and whetstones" till they "sse
how it is themselves" or let Senator
Potter from the Toledo, District crowd
a bill through the Legislature TO abolish
the torrid season. Wonder if Platt,
League and Hurd would lobby such an
Act. 1t may be useless TO rob surgeons
of their patients and fees, and it may be
useless to suggest any cheap and con-
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fractures from slipping on the ice; but
when seeing the suffering and hearing
the swearing thus caused, ones bowels
Of compassion was stirred within him,
and he naturally speaks without regard
to consequences. If it would not be
deemed impertinent- nt-thanks are not ex-
pectsd-ve would give advice similar to
that professed by the lamented General
of the Liberal movement. He said.
"Young man, buy clean shirt and 90
West, " and we would say, everybody,
be sensible and wear rubbers." Now
please do not lacerate our foeliggs by
exclaiming, "Begone, old humbug I
That's too thin Those who advocate
cold water for every ailment, including
delirium tremendous, have been met
with just such services. And yet, manya
little cold has been neglected until it ran
into the diptheria or the consumption.
Say not word, brother esculapious-I
have not hung out my shingle.
This is a droll world. Money is its
God, and so far as gaining public favor
is concerned, one may as well be beg
gar as in moderate circumstances.
Somebody has said it is no disgrace to
be poor, but it is mighty inconvenisnt.
He would have been much nearer the
truth, had he reversed his saying and
written, it is inconvenient to be poor
and mighty disgrace. The difference
between theory and fact is world wide.
The young and inexperienced arc gov
erned by the former till sad experience
opens their eyes, and then all the fine
spun theories are cast to tho winds and
business is conducted on the everybody
for himself and the Lord pity the hind
most principle. But how the poor inno-
cents are maltreated and ovar-reaohed
and skinned and hewn and deprived of
their self-sllficiency and confidence in
humanity, before they learn the bitter
yet useful lesson. Yielding up our
beautiful but bassless moralizings, is