Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-05-09
News Summary and Personal.

The dedication of the new granite
Masonic Temple at Boston, on the
oath of June. will be performed with
imposing ceremonies. The day will
be a public holiday in the city, and
preparations will be made by the
Masons to entertain twenty five thou
sand visiting brethren. President
Johnson and Gen. Grant have accept
ed invitations, and are expected.
The Dubuque Herald states, on
the authority OF gentleman from
Minnesota, that the Governor of that
State is about to Issue a proclama-
tion urging the citizens to ship no
more wheat down the river until
after harvest, owing to its scarcity.
Ex-Mayor Munroe is in Washing
ton to lay his grievances before his
chief. The President is represented
to be very hostile to the course pur-
sued by several of the commanders
of military districts, and his Wash
ington organ has bitter article
against some of them.
The cholera is carrying off many
persons in the principal cities of Mic
aragua. In Leon one hundred deaths
occurred in one day.
Geo. W. Corliss, Brevet Major
of the Veteran Reserve Corps, and
Freedman's Bureau agent, at Pass
Christian, Miss, reports that on the
25th ult, when passing along the
street, he was assaulted by a young
fellow named McCaul, eighteen OF
twenty years of age. The Major
says he was severely bruised, had his
clothes shockingly torn, and received
besides liberal sprinkling OF opro-
biouS epithets from his assailant,
who proclaimed himself rebel, OF
words to that effect. The bruised
officer regrets to say that, with the
exception of a sword cane, he was
unarmed, and therefore, could moi
resist the brutal and unprovoked as
sault of the villain.
A great lumber of refugees are
arriving in New York from Ireland
They give very discouraging ac
counts of the state of the country
and say that the Fenian movement il
Ireland is entirely abandoned. 1t /:
said that Col. Roberts has made
speech, calling on the Fenian Broth
erhood for aid for the families of the
Irish prisoners.
Isaac Hanson and Noah Alexan
der enjoyed a bloodless duel. a
Townsend Bridge, Ky, the Other
day. Not satisfied with the result
they met ON Wednesday evening in :
store in Paris, and Alexander sho
Hanson in the foot.
A Cuban, named Garrette, wa:
burned to death at Steubenville, OIL
Tuesday. A linen coat, which HI
was wearing, took fire from gas
jet.
In a magistrates court in Savannah
the other day, there was quite an ex
citing scene, growing out of the fac
that the justice had hung upon the
wall of his office a steel engraving
illustrating the poem of the "Con
quered Banner" and bearing rep
resentation of the rebel flag. Col
Hesseltine, a lawyer interested in :
pending case, protested that h'
would not plead in a court where
that flag was displayed, and, after
sharp talk from rebel lawyers pres
ent, the Conquered Banner" wa:
turned face to the wall, and the cast
proceeded.
Capt. Jos. D. Beatie, Captain il
Weolford's cavalry during the war
was fatally stabbed by man named
Jones, near Summerset, KY, SOM
days ago.
In Deer Creek, Cass County, Ind.
on Saturday, two children of Mr.
Geo. Harness, accidentally discaarg
ed gun with which they were play
ing. One of them was killed, anC
the other wounded, it is supposed
fatally.
1t is reported that on ednesday
last, Geo. Shea, counsel for jeff
Davis, presented a petition to the U
S. Circuit Court of the District OF
Columbia, for writ Of haheas cor
pus to bring jeff Davis before the
Court of Richmond on the second
Monday Of May, and the writ wa:
granted. 1t is also reported that /
he is not released on bail, he will bt
released by the President.
A man named DeLong murdered
widow Knapp, near the village o
W, Ilington, Cuyahoga county, Ohio
on Tuesday, and arterward killed
himself. The pair had been improp
erly intimate for some time, and tho
woman obtained a loan of $500 from
DeLong, but afterwards refused tc
give him security for the money
Enraged &C this, he shot her, ant
afterwards finished his own nisera
BILE existence.
Lieut.. Rice, with a detachment ot
the Second q. S. Infantry, on Friday
night, attempted to arrest two mur
derers at Nicholasville, KY. lie was
resisted by superior force and un-
able to make the arrest. He was
wounded in three places, but moi
fatally. a soldier was also wound
ed.
Washington dispatches state thai
four of the Supreme Court Judges
favor granting injunctlons in the
Mississippi and Georgia cases. The
decision of the Court, approved by
the other five Judges, will be to dis
miss the applications, on the ground
of want of jurisdiction.
A crowd of people at Belleville, O..
on Friday, seized lot of liquors al
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