Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-12-12
NEWS ITEMS.

Mr.. Israel s. Diehl has Just returned to
New York from Asia Minor, bringing with
him one hundred and sixty Of the best Ango-
n goats, with which to introduce the breed
into this country.
"A revolving murder was committed in
Hartford, Conn. on the 5th, by burglars, the
victim being an old man of eighty-one years.
Money was the object. The two murderers
were caught
The Republicans of Alabama have noni-
mated full ticket for State officers. The
election occurs on the 9Th of February, at the
same time that ths constitution is to be sub
mitted fol. adoption.
There are now l,0l4 prisoners in the Ohio
Penitentiary. y
There were 36s deaths In New York city
last week. and l13 in Brooklyn. This is
about the usual mortality.
There is to be National Convention Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic at Philsdelphia
on the 18th of january.
The Virginia Reconstruction Convention
met on the 4th. Judge Underwood was
elected President.
The Milwaukee Sentinel svys that $50 new
buildings, costing s2.343.0OO, were erected
in that city during the past season
A great meeting was held in New York
c;tv. on the 4th, to further the interests OF
Gen. Grant to the Presidency. 1t was one OF
the most important meetings ever held IN
that city.
Colonel Capron entered upon his duties Of
Commissioner Of Agriculture on the 4th.
A traveller named Allen E. Day, Of Kan
,as citv. died suddenly at the Neil House. In
Columbus, on the 4th, Just as he was starting
for Pittsburg.
The Secretary of the Treasury has given
notice that there will be no contraction o.
legal tenders during December.
The Colorado Legislature has passed bill
removing the capital to Denver.
The cholera still continues to ravage Ha'
vana There is also a good deal of the same
disease in New Orleans, where seventeen died
from it last week.
The Mound City (Illinois) Journal places
,h. following nt the head of its columns
For President, Vice Admiral David G. Por-
ter.
South Carolina has voted in favor OF the
Convention. under the Reconstruction law.
The great China and Japan mail for New
York. which left San Francisco, overland, on
the olst ult., arrived at Omaha on the lst inst.
eleven days in transitu. In four more days
it reached New York, making in all fifteen
days from San Francisco.
Gen. Grants estimate of the amount re-
qured for the army for. the year ending June
80, 1869, is 37,5ll,5
Governor Haight, of California, was inau-
gurated on the 9Th.
The democrats of Ohio propose to abolish
the Office of School Commissioner, and hence
have not inserted it in their call for State
Convention.
The o. s. House of Representatives have
passed the bill repeating the tax on cotton, BY
the decisive vote of las to 20.
The President has submitted to the House
a list of batween three and four thousand per-
sons, lately pardoned by him. His method
of "making treason odious," is very singu'
lar one.
The Secretary of the Navy estimates the
expenses OF his department for the coming
year, at s47, 317,l83.
Brigadier General Reynolds, commanding
at Austin, Texas, has issued an address
preparatory to turning civilian prisoners ovei
to the State courts for trial.
A fire in Hamilton, Ohio, on the night o.
the 9Th, destroyed carriage manufactory and
dwelling house. Loss, about 10000.
The President rendered the Mexican mis-.
sion to Gen. McClernand, of Illinois.
Gen. Sherman is in Washington on business
connected with the Indian Commission.
The December statement of our Nationn
debt shows it to amount to the sum of S.,
sol ,2O5,75l Is.
A fire broke out in Frankfort, KY, on the
night of the 9Th, destroying property to the
amount of $4,000.
A Philadelphia dispatch says the rinder'
pest is prevailing very fatally in Baltimore
County and portions of the adjacent country
Gov. Swami, of Maryland, has dismissed
several officers and their companies from the
Maryland militia, because during the recent
parade they groaned at him and cheered Con.
gress.
The design of Il. X. Browne for monument
of Lincoln ia Union Square, New York, ha,
been accepted. 1t is simple colossal statue
on pedestal twenty feet high.
Six hundred and eighty-one emigrant'
passed through Columbus last eek, of whom
76 will remain in Ohio and So settle in Indi
ana.
There was severe gale on the lakes on the
night of the 9Th, in which several vessels
were wrecked.
A conspiracy in the New Jersey State Pris
on, at Trenton, on Saturday, resdlted in tn,
eecape of nine convicts. Eight were recap
tured after hot pursuit.
DAB. Shurtleff, the Democratic candi
date; yss chosen Mayor of Boston, Monday
receiyi5g ss333 votes, 1875 for Otis fNorcross
thepresent Republican incumbent.
Mississippi has certainly voted to hold 4
Convention. Returns have been receives
from all the counties but four, which foul
can not Alter the result.
aEt | FoREIeN.
Dispatches from India state that Bombay
and vicinity has been visited bya destructiv'
cyclone, which did great damage to houses
epps and shipping
The. Mexican Congress assembled on tb'
10Th ult-, and was quietly proceeding in thu
work of legislation at the latest advices.
City Of Mexico newspaper, reports thai
tnere is scheme on foot to capture Cuba and
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