Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1867-02-21
News Summary and Personal.

Gen. Orland Smith Is named Tor
Governor, by the Scioto Gazette.
Hon. G. S. Williams, of Shreye-
port, formerly of Folks staff, has
been elected q. S. Senator by the
Louisiana Legislature.
A remarkable meteor has been
seen by daylight at San Francisco, and
in other parts of California. 1t exploded
in the air with loud explosion apd tre
mendous shock.
On the 1st instant, a tornado
swept across the Mississippi at Island
81, destroying houses and a large
amount of property and killing Mrs. E.
R. Nielsen. At Milliken's Bend, also,
serious injury was done, the unfinished
Catholic Church there being leveled to
the ground.
The Goth efApril will be celebrat-
ed by the Odd Fellows throughout
the country as day of special thanks
giving. The observance will be in
accordance to instructions from the
Grand Sire, and will commemorate the
preservation of the Order during the
war, and its peaceful reunion.
The extraordinary phenomenon OF the
young woman in Brooklyn who has been
in a trance for whole year, and who
for nine months has not received nour-
ishment, has attracted the wisest at
tentien among medical and scientific
men. Prof. Agassiz, determined to in
vestigate the starting affair, and is now
engaged in doing so. Up = the pres
ens time however, nothing like satisfac-
tory solution of the mystery has been
reached New York Gazette.
1t is stated that the berths on
all the steamships of the regular line
leaving the port of New York for Eu
rope up to the 1st of June, have already
been taken. The number of Americans
who propose to visit Paris and take a
run over the continent during the sum
mer is extraordinary.
The Richmond Times names Gen.
Lee for Governor, and says: "Until
he speaks we trast that no inferior
man will dare to outrage public epin-
ion in Virginia by venturing to So
licit an office which Lee may not feel
authorized to decline.
The Brownsville Ranchero relates
the following: "We overheard a
warm discussion the other day be-
tween Federal Colonel and an IN
reconstructed Confederate. In the
heat of the excitement the Cenfed.
said, l am not satisfied that we were
wrong; and, if the same issue were
presented again, should do just as
l did before. So should l do as be
fore-lick you like HI, responded
the Colonel
A Lynchburg IVA, paper, speak
ing of General Sheridan's transit
through town, says: ''He was receiv-
ed with just as much respect as he
is entitled to everywhere in the
South-which is none at all. >"
A letter from Henry A. Wise, OF
Va, was read at meeting of the
Young Mems Democratic Club, at
the Parker House, Boston, on Friday
evening.
The Minnesota House OF Repre-
sentatives on the Sth inst adopted
an amendment to the State Constitu
ton, striking out the word white by
Il unanimous vote.
There is, it is said, space OF l.
$4,000 square miles around the
North Pole which is blank on our
maps.
An Ohio Furnace Co., has sent
specimens OF its coal, iron ore, lime
stone and pig iron to the Paris Expo
sition.
Gen. Longstreet has imported a
steam plough, which has been tested
and is pronounced a success
Virginia is agitating the subject of
the appointment of q board of Com
missioners to represent her interests
at Washington.
The North Carolina Legislature
have debated the reconstruction
compromise proposed by the South
ern Governors for the last three days
without arriving at satisfactory
conclusion. The majority Of the
members seem to think that it is a
mere rehash of the Constitutional
Amendment, and opposes it fer that
reason.
The Alabama Legislature has pass
ed law naming a county in that
State Dixie
The Posts Washington special
says: The President stated yesterday
that his nominations in future would
be such as he could expect the Senate
to con firm.
% Chapman. Hosmer d Co., OF
Washington city, have obtained a
decision in q very important case in
the Court OF Claims, by which every
officer of the army will receive five
dollars per month additional for such
services, from May 1st, 1864, to
March Cd, 1865. This will involve
an additional expenditure to the
Government of about two million OF
dollars.
The " Washington Republican says
the sum of one million dollars, cash,
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