The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-28
NEWS ITEMS.
The Pope is again sick.

Gold closed in New York Wednesday
at 116.
The Pennsylvania miners are begin
ming to come to terms.
France will be represented at the Cen
tennial by two Commissioners.
Twenty thousand names are embraced
in the New, Orleans delinquent tax list.
Abraham Jackson, Boston lawyer,
has defaulted. He is short 500, 900
only. He is under arrest. ar4Ft.Ty
The first white child born in Paines-
vile was Eliza Paine, a daughter of
General Paine. She was born on the
9th of August, 1906, and still leads
maiden life.
Andy Johnson seems to have exhaus-
ted himself in that Senatorial TRADE,
which fell fiat and "squshy" upon pub
lin sentiment He has scarcely been
heard Of since its delivery.
| AT a reception recently held by DIR.
Bullard, of New Haven, practicing
physician in that city for the past fifty
years. 1000 persons were present at
whose birth he had professionally assist
ed.
Lieutenant John II. Clem, q. S. A.
who distinguished himself in the war as
''the drummer boy. was married on the
Oath inst, at st. Luke's Church, .Balti-
more, to Miss Anita r., daughter of
General VIM. H. French,
The Times says that all the stock jot =
bing Operations on one side or the 9th
er cannot save the Erie Railway from
passing into the hands of receiver.
The exposures of two years ago, clearly
foreshadowed that result.
Mr. Thomas Simmons, who has been
an Assistant United States District At
torney in New York since 1869, is, it is
said, TO be appointed Second Assistant
Attorney General by Judge Pierrepont
He is an East Indian by birth.
A special from Vienna says person
has been arrested in that city who was
the bearer of an anonymous letter con-
timing an offer to assassinate Bismarck
for million forins. The writer of the
Il95ter has not been discovered.
I One of the leading and most trustworthy
commercial journals of New York states
that the loan market has recently devel-
oped a very strong desire to employ
capital and that capitalists are taking
investments which they have refused
during the last twenty months
There is a Democratic paper down the
Scioto Valley which is claiming that
Uncle William is the man who captured
Ticonderoga hundred years ago, in the
name of the Great Jehovah and the Con
mental Congress. 1t is enough to dis
courage Republican editor to have the
campaign start off that way.
Talk about puzzles, but here is tough
one: Two men, A and B, bought 100
acres of land at 800 per acre. Each
paid 50, 900. A took his share off the
north side at $110 per acre, while B took
his share off the south side, at 800 per
acre. How much land did -acb get?
How can the question be provedl
The New York Committee of the
Board of Trade on Postal Affairs, having
received information from a large num-
ber of merchants and others in this city,
that their postal expenses on newspapers
and letters under the new postal law
have doubled, will next week confer
with Postmaster General Jewell upon
measures necessary for the repeal of this
obnoxious law.
The London Times contrasts the
course of the United States with that of
Great Britain in the matter of its public
debt, and regretfully acknowledges the
latter suffers by the comparison. The
United States strains every nerve to pay
off its debt; Great Britain makes weak
attempt occasionally, but ends by in