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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29
FIRE.-On Sunday morning lasi

FIRE.-On Sunday morning last
ssmoke was observed issuing from the
windows of the room occupied by the
Sons of Temperance, in Mrs: Maxon's
large brick building. on Second street,
and an alarm being given, our citizens
rushed to the spot Just in time to pre-
vent the most destructive confagration
probably that has ever befallen our
town. The Sons of Temperance met
in their hall Saturday night, end when
She ianitor left the fire in the stove had
nearly died ont, bat during the night
FIRE comm dnicated to the floor near the
stove, by some means, and when dis
covered hole was burnt through the
foor and joists sufficiently large for the
hall stove to fall through to the second
floor. Four joists were burnt through
on the third floor and large hole burnt
through the floor in the room immedi-
ately beneath. Happily it was discov-
cred Just in time to save the property.
When the cry for water was raised
many an eye was turned to the public
pumps, but the rusty pump-handles,
sticking high in air. denoted the inefi-
cheney of our present Board of Trus-
tees to provide for the public good.
Our citizens scattered in every direction
in search of water, and by tie timely
discovery of hogshead nearly full at
Gates blacksmith shop, and cistern
on Mrs. Maxon's premises, one-third at
least of our town was saved from des-
truction.
The engines were brought out but
not used, it being necessary to put them
to soak before using, and at such time
It is dangerous to tarry.
Now you that oppose improvements,
examine our fire apparatus, and deter
mine in your mind whether it can be
effective in time of need, in its present
condition, or even at all relied upon.
Our present Board of Trustees have
been as negligent in this matter as they
have in furnishing water to supply the
engines in case of accident by fire. But
those old low-water logs had TO be re-
moved at the corporations expense,
and who knows but the Advance was
wrecked upon the very log that was
sent adrift. We are in favor of impro-
wing rivers and harbors, but not at the
corporations expense. Elect an I'm
provement Board and the fire apparatus
viii be putin good working order, pub.
lie wells will be dug where needed, and
everything for the safety Of property
and convenience Of our citizens will be
attended to.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

DALLEY's GENUINE Pam ExrRACroR.-Its
friends are the Million-and Intelligent
Its enemies, the ignorant-the bIgoted-the
selfish-and the criminal counterfeiter
The honest and unsuspecting are imposed
on by the latter, who ca'iously endangers the
lives of the con6ding, for The mere sake Of
paltry gainl | leave it to discerning and
impartial public to decide, what punishment
the wretch deserves, who could inhict pain
and suffering, and hazard the life Of fellow
creature, for the mere sake Of benefting his
own pocket.
DALLEY's GENUINE EXTRACTOR will subdue
the pain and inflammation from the severest
burns or scalds, in from one to twenty minutes
and that it will heal the wounds without
scars; and effectually cure Fever Sores-Piles
Salt Rheum--Inhammatory Rheumatism
Sore and Inhamed Eyes-Cuts-Woun
Bruises-0ld and Inveterate Sores-Scald
Head-Corns and Bunions-Erysipelas
Sprains-Swellings- Ion s-Chilblains-
Bites of Insects-Swelled and Broken Breast
Sore Nipples-Eruptions- all other in
hammatory and cutaneous diseases, where the
parts affected can be reached.
Don't be ineredulous about the many diseases
named, to. be cured by only one thing-butre-
fleet, that the few, but positive properties
which the Daley Salve alone contains, and as
heretofore enumerated-one TO four-ean reach
not alone the afore mentioned diseases, but
many more not enumerated.
G. V. CLIcKENER & Co., Proprietors, New
York. BAILEY MAGUEr, Agents for Gallipo-
lis, Ohio.
Feb. %. ls55.-ly
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

CoRPoRArEoE ELEcrIoN-IMPRovE-
xssrs.-on Monday next the question
rs to be decided by the voters Of Cali
| polls township, whether the age OF i'm
provement dates from the present, or
is STAYED off to some period in the dark
future, the exact time of which would
puzzle a legal gentleman of the "Qua-
her City, to detsrnise. We are a pc
culiar people. and one of our great Pc
culiarities heretofore has been to oppose
necessary Improvements. AS evidence
of this, two years since an effort was
made by the Trustees to enclose and
beautify the Public Square. Lumber
was purchased, workmen engaged, and
every thing allowed to be put in readi-
ness, at considerable expense. when an
'injunctien was fled against the right to
enclose our public grounds. The mat
ter took a regular course to the highest
court in the State, where it was decided
that the Trustees haze the right to en-
close the Square, the first and. only suit
the corporation has ever gained. Pen
ding this suit, the lumber procured for
enclosing the Square, was sold at con-
siderable sacrifice, by the present Board
of Trustees we believe, a member OF
which was party to the injunction
suit, and various heavy expenditures
to the corporation resulted from this in
junction. If any of our citizens doubt
the cause of the present opposition to
the proposed Improvements, from GER
tain quarter, we can dispel those doubts.
The secret is this-where an injunction
is fled against such proceeding, the
party filing it become personally liable
for the damage that may occur by such
injunction, if it is not sustained. In
this instance the Supreme Court decided
against the injunction, and as matter
of course those who filed it have to foot
the damages; and as many of our citi-
zens look at the proposed improvements
in a pecuniary light, we can assure them
the tax for this purpose will be the
smallest fraction, whether these inyunc-
tiOnists are made to pay or not.
The natural position of this town is
superior to any on the Ohio river, ard
yet we have purse-proud individuals
among us who are Numerically op
posed to the genius of man being exer-
cised, to render it one of the prettiest
places in the country. View the Pub
lie Square in its present condition, with
its ruts and bitches, and roads through
it, turning to every point of the COM
pass, then picture to yourself what a
beautiful spot it might be rendered by
the judicious outlay of few dollars.
To bring it more wildly to your mind
we here present diagram of the Square
in its present unimproved and muddy
state. Look at it, you non-improve-
ment old fogies, who have held the
check-reigns of our town IN your hands
for the past quarter of a century:
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

ELoPING WITH A MANS WIFE-EH-
COUNTER OF THE HUSBAND AND PARA
MoUR.-On' On'Saturday night last couple
arrived at Dunkirk in the cars, and stop
ped at the American Hotel, where they
passed as man and wife. Yesterday
morning the true husband of the wo-
man arrived in pursuit, and requested
to be shown their room. Being direct
ed to it, he burst in, and presenting q
loaded double -barreled pistol at the gay
Lothario, attempted to discharge it, bui
failed. The scuffle being heard by
others, assistance arrived, and the
weapon was taken from him. He was
taken before Justice and examined ir
the afternoon, and in the interim of the
trial, while standing in the doorway, he
leveled another pistol, which he hat
procured subsequent to the first attemp
at the destroyer of his peace, and dis
charged it. The ball missed his in
tended victim, but the injured husband
supposing it had proved effectual, de
clared that both were now ruined, apC
said he was satisfied. Subsequently h,
appeared convulsed, and avowed tina
he had taken poison, but whether thi
was actually the case is not determined
Both parties are from the State o
Pennsylvania.-FrsdOnia ~ y Cen
son, March 19.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

~ The Sunday times truly says
that young men seldom make business
acquaintance of value by social inter
course. Hundreds of men may like
you as companion who would not trust
you for a moment with business of i'm
portance. In the legal profession this
is peculiarly so. A young man can on.
ly hope for success in it by slow and
plodding effort, and by establishing q
character among business men, for in
tegrity, punctuality, and energy. Al
most any young man of respectable
abilities, who is willing to work, study,
and wait patiently, will eventually sue
ceed. But he must not expect business
at all times to come to him. He must
make himself acquainted with men. and
show by his activity, that be is deter
mined to succeed, and to be worthy Of
all the confidence that may be reposed
in him. With such a capital as this to
commence with, a young man is rich if
he has not dollar in the world. The
character he sustains is his great wealth,
and is Of more value than piles of Cali
fornia gold.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29
SHAKE NO MORE.
RINGS REMEDY

For Fever and Ague, Bilious Remittent and In
termittent Ferers, and al their kindred dis
easee.
There was time when Fever and Ague and
Bilious Remittent Fever were considered
endemics-the special seourges Of particular
regions and localities. They seem of late
years to have escaped beyond their old bOunda-
ries. They PROSTATE the population of old
settlements as well as new; they reach the
hilltop as well as sweep the marsh and the
forest; they prevail in northern cities as well as
on the deltas Of southern rivers, and in the
swamps of the Southwest. Medical skill
seems to pit itself against them in vain
They triumph over all its stereotyped drugs;
they fasten themselves upon whole districts;
they appear to become even hereditary.
But at length Science, Research, and Ex-
pertinent have perfected the means Of repres-
sing, checking and exterminating these dire
diseases A preparation which has been
tested during six years Of private practice,
and modified from time to time during that
period, until susceptible of nofurther improve
ment, is now ushered before the public under
the name Of RNG's REMEDY, as a positive and
inyariable cure for Fever and Ague, Bilious
Remittent Fever, and all maladies which come
properly under the head of remittents and m
termittents The proprietor Of this great
medicine wishes it to bo understood that he
introduces II as an ISFALLIBLE SPECIFIC. and
guarantees its uniform success This is bold
assumption, but It is founded on the observa-
ton Of years, and the equally unqualified
declarations Of every patient-and the aggre-
gate amounts to some ethousands-who have re-
sorted to it. The sufferer who may try the
Remedy" viii not have to wait long for .
confirmation of these statements. The mirror
will reflect day BY day a less saIlow and ghast-
ly face, as the supply Of the medicine is d.
minished; strength, appetite, spirits viii re-
turn; the duration Of the ehills and subse-
quent heats will decrease at each recurrence,
until these symptoms cease; and before q
month. and in some cases before week -
over. the convalescent will be in q condInon 70
resume the duties of active life. "There Is no
sucb word as faiI' with RING's RE1HDY. The
effect is as invariable as it is salutary:
what householder, what traveller, then, can
.s..5 ~ baaltb be valuable, to be without
a. ssfsouard arainst a class of diseases so
..-tS ;,,o-ssIv nreyslent as Intermittent and Re-
.4:..e,,t Fevers. To the western pioneer and
.ia .;,v resident il is alike Indispensable; and
- ,sLen occasionally during the warm season
n viii be found an admirable preventive Of all
endemics and epidemics prOdaced BY an inn
Pc For sale by BAILEY & MAsurr, GalHpOlis,
Ohio.
January !, lss5.-3m
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

ticket, so that II short time We caz
boast of the hsndsomest ss wen as
|hsalthiest place on the Ohio river. Let
no stranger be deferred from entering
BY the hog-waHow in front ef our town.
Look at Ircnton what she has be-
come. Less than six years ago we ad-
vertised the lots for sale that now em-
brace the city of Iroatea, and at pre-
sent she more than doubles the popula-
ton of Gallipolis. which IS the second
Oldest town on the Ohio river. What
has produced this? We need not tell
you, for you are as familiar with the
causes that have operated to bring i,
aboutas we are. Take the active, en-
ergetic business men Of Ironten. and
place them in Gallipolis, and in SIX
years, with what nature has done for us,
our town and population will be increas-
ed ten-fold. Where there is iCH there
is ,cay.. Our citizens have lacked that
sciU for quarter of century, and the
latter will be of little benefit without the
former. And taking this view of the
matter, win you not agree with us in
putting the rM aside, and say Gallipo-
lis SHALL go ahead in the work OF
Improvements, the 0Ae-ntan power to
the contrary notwithstanding. If such
is your determination, go to the polls
next Monday and present solid front
to the old fogies that oppose improve
ments. Those composing the improve
ment ticket will be good, responsible
men. and let every Improvement man
exert himself to carry it. 1t is a mat
ter that interests every property holder
in Gallipolis township, and they are the
ones that should take the greatest inter-
est in its favor. There must be start
ing point for these Improvements, and
we think the Public Square the most
suitable. We are as strenuously op-
posed to extravaganza as any old fogy
in town, but the necessary improve
ments we are determined to hare. What
say you, Improvement men. We must
have the pumps in good repair for the
accommodation of our country friends.
and not subject them to the annoyance
of entering the premises of private citi-
zens to procure water for their stock.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29
E The Cincinnati Commercial ha
the following in its river news:

On Saturday last, about noon. the
sparks from the chimney of the steamer
Fawn set FIRE to barn, stored with hay
and grain, on the farm of Mr.. Butler,
on the Indiana shore, short distance
below Cloverport. Capt. Brickell dis
covered the FIRE, and Immediately landed
the Ohio, and with his crew and pas
sengers, after several hours hard labor,
succeeded in extinguishing the flames
and saving the principal portion of the
grain and the dwelling adjoining
Capt. Brickell is always willing to lend a
hand in the hour Of need.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

KossUTH ON CuBA.-The New York
Times of Monday contains long letter
from Kossuth IN relation to Cuba, and
the United States. He takes the ground
that there is large Republican party
in Spain, and if the United States had
actively taken part with the Republicans
in the Revolution of 1854 IN Spain, a
Republican Government would have
been established in that country, and
Cuba would have become ours by vol
untary action on their part. He re-
CARDS the idea of purchasing the Island
from the mother country as preposterous
and absurd. If an attempt to sieze the
Island by force were made, Spain
would abolish slavery and declare the
negroes free, which would embarrass
the question of American action in the
United States, and would cause England
and France to take part with Spain to
defend her rights.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

ANOTHER ASTONISHING CURE.-Highly spprO-
priated as STABLER'S AN0DYNE CHER
RY EXPECToRANT is, wherever known,
too much praise cannot be bestowed upon q
medicine which viii accomplish such cures as
that of A. G. McCarty, of West View, Rich
mond county, Va, who had. for the third time.
an abcess to break in the right lobe Of his
lungs, causing great discharge of phlegm,
with dreadful cough, pains in the breast and
sides, sick stomach, &C., in short, every symp-
tom indicated speedy death from COnsump-
tion; yet these terrible symptoms were amel-
iOrated, and at length entirely cured by the use
of this valuable medicine. After such cures,
no wonder that physicians invariably recon-
mend it, and also the DIARRHGA CORDIAL,
which is equally efficient for those painful
diseases of the Bowels, Diarrhea, &c. Price
of each, only so cents per bottle, or six bottles
for 81 so. See descriptive pamphlets, to be
had gratis Of the agents.
E.S. SrABLxR & Co., proprietors, wholesale
Druggists, Baltimore. Sold by ]. 4 P. A.
sANNS. Gallipolis; John D. Park, Cncinna-
ii; ]. H. Patterson a Co., Wheeling; R. E. Sell
lers, Pittsburgh, wholesale.
March %, ls55.-4w
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER.-The pas
senger train on the Michigan Southern
Road, going West, about three o'clock,
on Saturday morning, when short dis.
tance from White Pigeon, encountered
a drove of cattle on the track, and killed
fourteen of them. This occurred on an
embankment, which is from twenty to
twenty-five feet high. Fortunately the
train was not thrown from the track.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

THE VOYAGE OF THE DEcATUR.-
Lieutenant Drake, of the United States
ship Decatur, gives an account Of her
recent voyage, which shows that the
long absence of the ship was occasioned
by being confined in Magellan's Straits
for eighty-three days:
We were obliged to fight our way
through the Stats of Magellan inch by
inch; nothing but our captain being q
little game cock took US through. He
asked me one night what l thought.
answered that English, French, and
American ships of war had tried and
failed, and I for one would go through
on half rations rather than put back
and during the conversation he though
or tried to make me think that he would
fail. 1 told him he would fail to make
me believe that we could not go through
The captain then said he was trying my
game-he had heard said l would never
say "die." After my watch was out
he wished to see me in his cabin, where
we had some further conversation. II
sum up this short letter, we were in tht
Straits eighty-three days, with but tel
days good weather, the rest nothing bu
gales of wind, with torrents of rain
hail, and snow. Take it full and by,
think it was the dustiest travelling
have ever seen.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

Now are you not ashamed of your
past conduct, and will you not favor
improvements for the future? And
while'contemplating the natural splen-
dors of this cow-pasture, we respectful,
ly draw your attention to the following
rough diagram of the proposed improve
ments. Picture to yourself rows o.
trees where ciphers are inserted, and q
neat and durable fence where the en-.
closing lines are drawn, and you have
them:
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

R A most singular robbery took
place at Dunkirk yesterday. A gentle
man by the name of Field, said to be-
long to The city of New York, arrived
at Dunkirk on Thursday evening, and
took lodgings at the Loder House. On
Friday morning he went into the bar
ber's shop to get shaved. and took his
seat in the chair for that purpose. This
is all he remembers about it, till the ex-
piration of half an hour, when he re-
covered his consciousness and found
himself robbed of about 3 200, mostly
of Chemung Canal Bank notes. The
name of the barber is Hall. He has
fed Chloroform is supposed to have
been the agency which the rascal used.
Buff. CON-, March 12.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29
HWe were again assailed last wee

@We were again assailed last week
by the editor Of the Jackson Standard,
in his peculiar style of lying, and hyena-
like, even resorted to the grave for mate
rial to aid French in carrying out his
impositions on the Government and the
citizens of this town. Having exhaus.
ted himself on the living he attacks with
falsehood the dead, with the hope that
no defence can be raised from that quar-
ter. But we can inform this cowardly
villain, that outside the columns Of a
newspaper we stand between such an
imals and the dead. "The man who
bonorably offends, we meet in honora-
bic fght-the cur that sneakingly at
tempts to tear our heels deserves ours
chastisement"-a kick. Thou stigma
tized coward-thou more than assassin
go, coil closely beneath the shade Of
some deep, dark evergreen, that may
'perpetuate pusilanimity and bastard.
ness, and seek in thy loneliness and sol.
itude beneath its branches, some good
reflector, that thou mayst behold thai
which would lend beauty even to thy
distorted features, The first Uush o.
shame. Go, crouching coward, with
out the semblauce of a man. You
"Mean white curd of asses milk"
we leave you to the bounty of Frencl
and the moral portion of the citizens o
Jackson.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

GAMBLISG OVER A DEAD CAR
Heavy bets were made on Change yes
terday in regard to the death of Nicho-
las, with the odds on the side of those
who believed the report. In one case,
says the New York Herald, cotton
operator bet $1,000 that he was moi
dead; and afterward sold 1900 bales
of cotton at the advance, in order to
hedge in the eyentful result of his bet.
We also heard of other bets, varying
from $500 to $500. Those who dis
credited the report, if disposed to bet,
generally offered to stake $50 against
500 that the Emperor was dead:
Albany AtGs, l5th tusf.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29
~There was six feet water at Pitts
burgh on Saturday evening and falling.

~At recent meeting of the Pres
byterian church of this town, there be-
ing a pretty full attendance, the church
voted with much unanimity to take
measures to become connected with the
Presbytery of Athens. This church is
not large, there being only about sixty
members; but it is believed that their
circumstances and prospects were never
more encouraging than at the present
time.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

CocK-FIaHfING AT PIrrsBURGH.-R
H. Bumpus was arrested at Pittsburgh
for keeping a cockpit. On Monday
last he plead guilty, and was fined s14,
the highest penalty of the law. The
Pittsburgh Gazette gives a sad picture
of the state of morals in that city. II
says:
"Men who hold high position in
society, who rent costly pews in aristo-
cratic churches, and have young and in
teresting families, men who hold office
from the people and under the general
government, and men who have ac-
quired notoriety as thief catcbers, and
who are sworn to upheld the law, visited
this den regularly, and contributed by
their presence and contributions, to sup
port brutal amusement"
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

S We are requested to state that
the Rev. Mr.. HovEY, a Universalist
minister, will preach at the Court House,
next Sabbath, at half past 10 o'clock A.
NJ, and in the afternoon or evening.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-03-29

poLD SORES, ULCERS, and all srup-
tious and diseases arising from an impure or
depraved state Of the blood. See the exsraOr-
binary cure Of Mr.. VIM. g. HarwoOd. highly
respectable citizen Of Richmond. Va, by Car
ter's Spanish Mixture. BE had ulcers and
sores Of the worst description, and finally gOt
so bad, he was unable to walk, except on
crutches. A few bottles Of Carter's SPANISH
Mixture, the great blood purifier, cured hin. az
it has cured hundreds Of others who have suf-
fered with rheumatism, bad effects Of mercury,
and pains and ulcers Of the bones and joints
DSee advertisement.
March %. lS55.-4w