Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-06-11
NEWS ITEMS.

Gov. Baker, after visit to Southwestern
Indiana, states that the utmost good feeling
prevails among Republicans over the nomi
nation of Grant and Colfax.
The crop accounts from all sections of GeOr
gis are favorable.
The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
has reported against the confirmation OF >
s. Cox as Minister to Austria. and Genera
Mcclellan as Minister to England
James Edwards and Abe Cox quarrelet
near Kingston, Tennessee, the other day
when Cox split Edwards head open with a,
AZ. The murderer escaped.
The Republican Convention of the Sixtl
Ohio Congressional District, held at Whining
ton, on the 4th inst, nominated john A
Smith, of Highland county, for congress ol
the fifth ballot.
A new York dispatch says that Genera
Mcclellan has written letter favering tn
nomination of Mr.. Chase by the Democrats
and expressing an unwillingness to be can
didnte himself
In Akron, Ohio, last Thursday, little sor
of George q. Bien, two years and half old
died from suffocation, caused by q bean lodg
ing in the windpipe.
Mrs. Charlotte Kautz, wife of Genera
Kautz, and daughter of Ex-Governor Tod, o.
Ohio, died at Columbus, Mississippi-whert
her husband is stationed-a dsy or two ago.
In the newly-elected Senate of North Car
olina there are thirty-eight Republicans and
twelve Conservatives; in the House, eighty
Republicans to forty Conservatives.
The wheat hervest is commencing in Mid
die Tennessee. The yield will be large and
excellent in quality.
Jerome Ward was killed by the fall Of
some rock in mine in which he was en-
ployed, at Wheeling, on Wednesday.
The State Department is in receipt of in
telligence that Dennis O'Connor. the last i'm
prisoned American citizen in ireland, has
been released, and is on his way to the Uni
ted States.
A dispatch from Malone, New York, says
that Fenian fairs are to be gotten up at St
Albans, Vermont, for the purpose of covering
up the collection of men for the coming raid
into Canada. A large number of arms are
rapidly arriving on the border, and promi-
nent Fenians say that within the present
month they will have large force and trm
footing in the Dominion. Two car loads Of
small arms arrived at ChateaugaY -Four Cor
ners on the Sd, and the invasion is expected
to take place by way of Burke and Chateau
gay.
A dispatch from Gold Hill, State of Nevn-
da, announces the election of the entire Re-
publican ticket and local officers by forty to
fifty majority.
General Hooker and wife are on their return
tothis country, both in poor health.
General James s. Negley has been nomina-
ted for Congress by the Republicans of Al
legheny County, Pennsylvania.
The election in Oregon, on the first of
June, resulted in Democratic triumph. A
Democratic Congressman was elected by over
1000 majority.
According to arrangements of the Board
of Trustees, the remains of Hon. Stephen A.
Douglas have been transferred from their first
resting place to the mausoleum. A large
number of citizens and strangers were pres
ent.
The Senate has rejected the nomination of
Hon. Henry Stanbery as Attorney General.
Gen. Stoneman takes command at Rich
mond, in place of Gen. Schofeld made Secre-
tary of War.