The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-01-29
NEWS ITEMS.

Qfanb ana Dner1Q0n.
Francis HERMAN has been elected u
S. Senator from New York.
PNoHBAoK has been returned to thi
U. S. Senate, from Louisiana.
THE bill to Establish the Superio
Court of Cleveland, has passed th'
Senate.
WILLIAM SHARON, Republican, wa
elected U. S. Senator from Nevada, OF
the 18th.
SALARY bills are plenty in this year.
Legislature, but it is doubtful if eithe
of them will pass both Houses.
THERE are twenty-seven unsafe dam
and reservoirs in Massachusetts,. Tht
loss by breakages last year reached
S179,0 900.
TIE Charity Ball, at Cleveland, OF
the night of the 14th. was an immense
success, and the sum realized for charity
quite large.
The first convention of the Episcopa
Diocese of Southern Ohio elected as it'
Bishop last week the Rev. DIR. Jaccar, oi
Philadelphia.
THE Reciprocity Treaty is practically
dead, the Congressional Committee Oh
Foreign Relations having agreed to re-
port adversely to it.
TILE Can Can has found patrons in
Cleveland, and the LEADER expresses its
vicious and demoralizing tendency, cal
ling upon the Mayor to suppress it.
On Sunday morning last the Friends
Seminary located at Mount Pleasant,
Ohio, near Steubenville, was destroyed
by fire. The loss is placed at $1,000,
with no insurance.
A BILL has been introduced into the
House, making it burglary to forcibly
enter corn-crib, chicken or poultry
house, in the night season. Chicken
thieves had better reform at once.
MIR. PorTER's report says that all is
peace in Louisiana, and then says that
the Fedral troops alone prevent the
overthrow of the State Government by
an armed organization. Queer sort of
peace, that.
The Beecher- -Tilton trial is the most
absorbing sensation in New York, at
present. Moulton was the chief attrac-
ton up till Monday, and his testimony,
with the letters T submitted, made the
case look very dark for II. w.
WHITELAw REID had to come down tC
solid hard-pan, when before.the Invest
igation Committee, and admit that bis
statements in the Tribune were based
on rumor. To add to his other griev
ances, he was twice arrested for libel OF
Governor Shepherd, and had to give
bail.
AN explosion occurred in Suthin 6
Wrenn's paper factory at NTiddletowr
Friday. A mau named VIM. Lebnel
was instantly killed, and JAS Wallace
was SO badly injured that he died in 6
few hours. A man named Ross was
mortally andseveral other persons slight
ly wounded.
SENATOR LOGAN ''made point" in his
speech in the Senate, on Wednesday,
when he said that the Democrats Of that
Chamber had denounced Sheridan more
than they ever denounced JEFF. Davis
and the whole rebellion, during the -four
years it was laundering at the Constitu-
ton of the country.
GEN. SHERIDAN reports to the Gov
ernment, as the result of his investiga-
tions in Louisiana, that over 1900 per.
sons have been murdered in that State,
on account of political opinions, since
1866. He shows how the Courts have
been closed, criminals unpunished and
taxes unpaid by reason of the White
League.
Bowlen, a member from somewhere,
has told the State Board of Agriculture,
all about 1.-THE hard times-last week.
He says its the farmers daughters, with
their pianos. silk dresses and furbeloWs.
And now let Bowlen have his head shay.
ed, and put on sackcloth and ashes, OF
keep out of the womsn's sight until they
forget him.
JUDGE HAAG, of Napoleon, is really
going to start a Democratic paper at that
place. The objection to the Northwest
grows out of the fact that the present
editors do not swill beer, and have the
audacity to wear clean shirts and go to
church. OF course, the unwashed De.
mocracy of Henry county cannot tolerate
such fastidiousness as that Bryan
Press.
THE Democratic members of the
Legislature met in caucus at Columbus,
on the 9Th and concluded not to NEEDLE
with the Adair law, as a party. They
also made strong speeches on the
Louisiana status, and appointed com,
mittee to draft resolutions to be submit
ted at an adjourned meeting, and if ap-
proved then to be adopted by the Leg