Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-02-28
News Summary and Personal

News Summary and Personal.
Lead has been discovered in Mont
gomery Co, o. The Dayton Jour
nal is disposed to be sensational
abcat it.
New York has a rumor that Bis
mark will make a tour of observa-
ton in this country next autumn.
The Richmond Dispatch asserts
tn at a French company has agreed
70 furnish capital of $4,000, 600
toward building a canal in Virginia
between the Ohio River and James
River.
Toledo was visited on Tuesday by
the NEST violent storm of wind and
rain that has ever been experienced
in that region for years.
a man named Massey, was attack.
ed by gang of ex-rebels under the
leadership of Sheriff named Davis,
at Waynsville, N. G. recently. He
was fired at forty times without being
injured, and returning the fire, in
jured man named Underwood. He
then escaped, but the Sheriff will
call out the county to take him.
Massey was engaged during the war
in passing recruits through the lines
to the Union army, and stands indict-
ed for that offense.
The House has refused to change
the income tax. 1t remains at five
per cent on all sums exceeding one
thousand dollars.
The Tennessee State Radical Con-
vention met on the 22d, at Nashville,
and renominated Brownlow fer Gov
ernor. Resolutions of the most rad
ical character were passed. A reso-
lutien approving Maj Gen. Thomas
for the next President was ADOPTED
with great enthusiasm.
The Wabash is higher than ever
known before. At Vincennes it is ten
miles wide. Farmers Loose heavily.
The Kentucky Democratic Con
ventien met at Frankfort on the ed.
The spirit of the speeches and rese-
lutions were strongly rebel. j. L.
Helm was nominated for Governor.
The N. Y. Tribune's special says
these who think the impeachment
matter will die in the Committee, will
be startled when the Committee re-
ports. Parties are in Washington
to testify to the restoration of planta-
tions seized as abandoned property,
to pardoned rebels, by President
johnson, at q time when the crops
belonged to the lessees, thus igner-
ing contracts and inficting great
losses upon Union men.
An actress, connected with one OF
the theatres, great favorite, was
complimented upen the blackness OF
her hair. "Why, it's dyed" she re-
piled, with the amiable frankness OF
the true artist. "Dyed," replied the
other speaker. "Nhy, favored as
you are. you are not twenty-five. y
NO" said the lady, "but you know
whom the gods love, dye young"
One of the subscribers of the Nc
Connelsville (O..) Herald informs
that paper that he has not eaten meat
of any kind during the past thirteen
years, has not drank tea or coffee for
sixteen years, and has not eaten but
ter for seven years. He is nearly
sixty years Of age, hard werkin 2
farmer, and looks hale aad hearty.
The Nebraska Legislature has rati-
! fed the conditions imposed by Con-
gress for admission as a State. The
vote in the House was 90 to 6. The
Senate was unanimous.
tits suggested that the Austrian
Government, which is on the verge
OF bankruptcy, will fill its empty cof-
fers by confscatlng the rich estates
of the Catholic Church in its domin-
IONS.
The London papers announce the
death of the Dowager Countess of
Jersey, famous English belle and
lady politician in the days gone by
She was nearly 81 years cid.
The n. 7. special says: at is un-
derstoed that F. P. Blair, SEN, has
gone 30 Boston, to induce Gov. An
drews to accept the position of Sec
retary of State. The visit is by the
authority ard is in the interest Of
those who favor universal suffrage
and universal amnesty.
State elections occur in three of
the New England States within the
next two months. New Hampshire
votes on the second Tuesday in
March, Connecticut en- the first Mon
day in April, and Rhode Island on
the first Wednesday Of the same
month. Governors and members of
Congress are to be elected in each.
Saml. Downing, one OF the surviv-
ing pensioners ofthe American revo-
luton. died on the 10Th, at his resi-
dence in Edinburg, Saratoga Co, N.
Y. He was born in Newburyport,
Mass, on Nov. Both, 1761, and con
sequeHtly was over I05 years old
He entered the army when but six
teen, and served until the end of the
var.
On the Goth of Sept. last, DIR. c.
". Farris, U. S. Mail Agent, was
taken from the q. S. mail steamer