Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-10-24
News Summary and Personal.

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Government detectives have made
the discoyery--rather more interest.
ing than satisfactory = that the
counterfeit seyen-thirties were print.
ed in Philadelphia; and that over one
thousand of the bonds, $1,000 each,
were disposed of. One of the
counterfeiters is said to be already
in custody.
Madam Tinkham, rope walker
attached to Maginley & Carrolrs
circus, while making an outside as
cension at Franklin, KY, last Wed
nesday, fell distance of twenty feet,
and was seriously injured.
Sharswood's majority for Judge OF
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is
officially reported st 1902. The
other side proposes to contest the
election.
The q. S. authorities have seized
the Quaker City Oil Refinery, at
Pittsburg. The evidence, it is re-
ported, shows more sales by the frm,
of free oil, twice over, than tax paid
to the Government.
A telegram from Auburn, N. Y,
says Mr.. Seward is still there, dining,
wining, smoking and telling stories
with some of the political fossils of
the State. He has not pious spirit
of resignation, and will not resign
his seat in tn Cabinet.
Advices received from New Or
leans state that the vote on Conven-
tion will be $4,000 majority in favor
of it. Only $4,000 was expected.
Mrs. Carroll Ware, of Boston, was
burned to death, Thursday, in Bos-
ton. The accident resulted from
the explosion of a can of Benzine,
with which she was cleaning furni-
ture.
1t is reported that the Fenians
have 4, 1000 stand of arms at Potsdam
Canada, and a lot of saddles. A
raid just before election time is an
ticipated.
A bee-tree was cut down last Sat,
urday, inside the city limits of Pom.
eroy, o. The tree was a chestnut.
oak, about two feet in diameter, and
yielded bountiful supply of luscious
honey. The bees took possession of
it about year ago.
The Chicago Journal, of Thursday
says: "The dry weather continues in
this region. Wells and cisterns with
water in them are becoming scarcer
every day in the rural Districts
Cattle can find scarcely enough of
pasture to keep them from starving
in some localities. We hear of
dairymen and farmers being obliged
to sell off their live stock, owing to
the premature exhaustion of the
grass crop"
A man named Cooper has been
arrested in Brooklyn for passing
counterfeit National Bank netes.-
Col. Wood, Chief of the Secret
Service Division of the Treasury
Department, identifies him as one OF
the men he has been searching for,
suspected of connection. with the
counterfeiting of the 730 bonds. 1t
has been ascertained that Philadel-
phia was the headquarters of the
bond counterfeiters.
Colonels Murphy, Butterfeld, and
Tracy have been taken prisoners by
the Cheyenne Indians, and are now
held as hostages until the delivery
Of the amnesty goods stored at Fort
Larnard.
The Secretary of War has ordered
the creation of new military depot
at Jetfersonville, Ind, and for the
last few days the Quartermaster's De-
partment has been very busy ship
ping to that point large lots of army
material.
A dispatch from Medicine Lodge
Creek, dated the 18th. says the IL
dian business progresses finely, and
there is good prospect that treaty
will be made and lasting peace es-
A council will commence
Saturday, the 10Th inst, lasting four
Or five days. From seven to ten
thousand Indians will be present.
Gen. Grant, on Saturday, declined |
20 reinstate q dismissed War De-
oartment Clerk, on the application
IF Montgomery Blair, who thereup
IN impertiently intimated that the
'efusal was based upon partisan feel
ngs. The General emphatically de-
lied that politics had anything to do
With the appointment or the dis
:harge of clerks in the department.