Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-12-26
NEWS ITEMS.

South Carolina has voted in favor Of con-
yention, undert the Reconstruction law.
Admiral Palmer, o. s. Navy. died at st.
Thomas, Dec. 7th, of yellow fever.
Louisville has had its mass meeting, rela-
ting to the rights, when abroad, of foreign
born citizens.
A new town called the Dale City is being
built in the Black Hills, thirty-6ve. miles
west of Cheyenne, on the Union Pacific Rail-
road. 1t consists, at present, of some fifteen
buildings, and Others are being erected
Gold has been discovered in the vicinity of
tie town.
"A large Conservative meeting was held in
Mobile last week, to take action toward de-
feating the new State Constitution. Resolu-
tions were passed expressing 40 determine
tion to retain inviolate the Constitution
framed by our fathers" =
The Kentucky Union State Convention will
be held at Frankfort ON the 9th of Febru-
ary. i4 ah
j. =. Perkins, q basket-maker residing near
Frankfort, Kentucky, blew his brains out
with pistol, on the 18th. No cause for the
act is known.
The College Inn building, at Bethany. West
Virginia, was burned on the 18th.
The Atlantic Telegraph Company is doing
better than it ever anticipated. The receipts
are nearly $4,000 day. They are getting
from fifteen to twenty words a minute from
their cable, whereas they had only anticipated
five.
An astonishing telegraphic feat wns per-
formed few days since. Messages wers sen,
from Houston, Texas, via New York, to Salt
Lake, without repeating. Distance. 4.236
miles.
The New Hampshire Republican conven-
tion, on the 18th, re-nominated Gov Harri
man, and recommended Gen. Grant for Presi.
dent.
A shock of an earthquake was felt on the
18th in portions of Vermont and New York.
Some Democrats are talking of Gen. Dix as
Presidential candidate.
The Ohio State Journal proposes Mr.. Mot
ley, late Minister to Austria, as candidate
for Vice President on the Republican ticket.
1t is said the President will appoint VIM.
D. Bishop, ex- Congressman from Connecticut,
Commissioner of patents.
1t is said that the President has rendered
the nomination as Minister Resident to Ecua-
dor, 10 the Honorable Thomas H. Ford, of
Ohio.
The Georgia Radicals have resolved to sup
port Judge Chase for the Presidency.
1t is believed that the Senate will reject the
House bill repeating the cotton tax, and pro-
pose, instead, reduction of the tax to one
cent per pound.
A large fire occurred at Tideout, Penn, en-
the 18th. Loss, $40, 900.
Two fires in Vicksburg on the 18th. Loss,
small.
The Treasurer Of Geauga county was
knocked down at the door of his Office, a few
days since, by an unknown assailant, and
robbed of $1,000.
A Washington dispatch to New York
paper says Senator Wade, in conversation re.
garding the famous Grant letter, marked
"private," expressed qualification at its tone
and said his sentiments were sufficient guar.
antee of his Republicanism.
1t is believed that we have now in this
country sls3,9O9,OOO more gold than We had
in 1860. Where is il?
The revenue of the Post Office Department
for the past year, was over fifteen millions
dollars.
jeff Davis and wife have gone to New Or.
leans.
A. H. Stephens has gone to New York
where he will give his views.
The California Legislature, on the Doth
elected Eugene Casserly U. s. Senator in
place OF Corness. Casserly is o democrat.
The elephant Romeo killed his keeper, il
Pennsylvania, a few days since.
Edwin Higgins, of Michigan, has been con
frmed as Secretary of Utah.
The house of VIM. Walker, in Dayton, We,
entered few nights since by burglars, and
robbed of $4,000. ,
Dickens gives two readings in Boston thi,
week, the tickets to which were sold last
Tuesday. Onehundeed and fifty people staid
in line all night, and one man brought his
mattress and blanket.
Stock dealers should remember that they
must havea license. James Depew, of Vinton
county, was arrested, few days since, and
taken to Cincinnati for trial, for violating the
Internal Revenue law, in not procuring O
license.
No satisfactory explanation has yet been
made of Colonel Parker's failure to be present
at his own wedding, an account Of which we
publish elsewhere. II is said that Gen. Grant
isgoing to have the matter investigated. The
lady. Miss sacket, is terribly distressed by
the .fascO and its attendant scandal She is
about nineteen years old, very beautiful
blonde, with brilliant eyes and brown hair.
FOREIGN.
The Cabinet. in view of the continued out.
RACES by the Feniaus, have determined to ask
Parliament to suspend the privileges of the
wrltof hdOeas corpus in England.
is reported that paper has been found
in Wolverhampton, which shows that the
Fenians in England had organized Mot 70
plunder all the armories of the militia forces
Another terrible and fatal explosion has q.
cured in England, the responsibility for
which belongs, it is believed, to Fenians.--
The Sheriff of New wcastle-on- Tyne, received
information that quantity of glycerine was
concealed in certain place, and proceeded
With squad of policemen to remove it,
while engaged in this business, it exploded
wi.n = fearful report, aud several persons were
instantly killed = -, :.
R 1t is lamentable fact that IN
some portions of the SontI, IL