Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-04-04

or children under twelve years of
age, or to neglect or refuse to main
tain and provide for them.
The Grand Army of the Republic
an association of discharged soldiers
numbers over 1000 men in two par
ishes of Louisiana, and is extending
all over the State.
A Reconstruction meeting of
negroes and whites was held at Mont
gomery, Ala, on Monday night
Resolutions indOrsing the Military
Bill, and calling for State Conven-
ton, were adopted. Gen. Wagner
Swayne was among the speakers, as
was also two or three ex-rebel Off |
GERS. Elk Gov. Patton was one of
the Vice Presidents.
Reports from points on the river
above New Orleans, state that the
levees are giving away, and the
whole lower valley will probably be
inund dated.
A Bill has passed the New York
Assembly making eight hours legal
days work.
Most of the peach buds in the
Yerkville District, South Carolina,
were killed by the severe weather of
last week.
Theo. Clay, son of Henry Clay,
has for over thirty years heen an in
mate of the Lunatic Asylum at Lex
ington, Ky. He became insane from
disappointed affection.
Gen Sherman has issued an order
providing that two pieces of artillery
and twenty muskets, with proper
ammunition, shall be supplied to
each steamer that ascends the Mis-
souri, river above Sioux City the
coming season.
The Tennessee Conservatives in
vite the colored voters to participate
in their political meetings, and send
delegates to the State Convention
next month. The invitation, it is
stated, has been favorably received.
The President has nominated Gen.
Rosseau as Brigadier Gen. in the
regular army vice Rosecrans resign
ed.
The Augusta (Ga., Constitution
alist says the South must of necessi-
ty obey the Military Bill so long
as it has authority, but no opportu-
nifty should be abandoned to contest
its validity before the law.
The family of Ramsey Hall, in
Springfield, Mass, were attacked
with the terrible trichina disease,
after eating freely of raw ham, two
weeks age, and after an illness of
several days, daughter named Ida
died on Monday last. The mother
is still in a critical condition.
Geo. Rolf was murdered, the
other day, by maniac in Falmouth,
Maine, who washed and dressed the !
body, laid it on a buffalo robe, chop
ped off the head, put it in bucket of
water in another room, and then
went to his uncle's house apd told
him what had been done. The
neighboring people think it rather in
discreet to permit the crazy persons
to run at large.
A Cleveland dispatch saws the
house of Mr.. Heckel, at Sufiield |
Centre, o., was burned, with five of
his children, on Wednesday night.
A Washington dispatch says the
judiciary Committee of the House |
have temporarily suspended the ex
animation of the impeachment wit
nesses, but will resume their labors
about the first of May, when, whether
Congress is in session or not, all of |
its members have been notified by
the chairman to be here.
Hon. G. R. Riddle, formerly U. S.
Senator from Delaware, died in
Washington on Friday, after pro-
tracted illness.
They are talking of building a
public hall for amusements, meet |
ings, de-, in Marietta, with seats for
thousand persons, and stage
thirty eight by twenty-five feet.
john Callen with his team left
Cedar Falls, Iowa, for his home six
miles out on the prairie,- during a
severe storm last week. He lost his
way, although the track showed he
had been within sight of his own
house, and was found frozen to death
on the open prairie, three days after.
The horses were badly frozen.
Fifteen hundred freedmen have
applied to the American Colonization
Society, within eight months, to be
sent to Africa. Six hundred of them
have already embarked.
Dispatches from San Luis Potosi
report that MaximilIian, finding him
self cornered, Liberal troops being
in the front and rear of him, and his
main dependence for supplies being
on the meager crops in his neighbor-
hood, has offered to surrender. The
answer was refusal to treat with
traitors.
re The Lindell House at st. Louis
the largest in the country, took fire
at half past 8 o'clock, Saturday night
and was entirely destroyed. The
loss on the building, furniture, prop
erty of guests, and stocks of goods
in stores on the main floor is estimat
ed at oyer a million and . half
There is $4,000 of insurance on
the building, and 100000 on furni-
ture, DC. !