Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-07-30
COUNTY TICKET.
NEWS ITEMS.


Hiram Morris, contractor for the building
of a new Baptist Church, in Belvidere, Hi
nois, on Tuesday afternoon. fell from the
steeple, distance of 100 feet. killing himself
Instantly. He was at the time putting up
the spire. e,el..., gr5 q
Edward Morgan, Government Inspector OF
steamboat boilers, committed suicide in st.
Louis, by shooting himself in the head. No
caused assigned for the act. as'. i..f p
A letter from Shanghai, june 6, via London,
July %, says it is reported that the crew o'
the American vessel, General Sherman, which
was wrecked in the Chinese waters, were
behesded by the natives, where they landed.
Miss Kate Keathley, the Missouri giantess,
died at her home, twenty-five miles from St
Louis, on Saturday. She weighed Sl2
pounds.
The other day Edward Williams, OF Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, swan nine miles in 15O
minutes, or two hours and half.
President johnson goes to Newport when
Congress adjourns. --s
The wife of Abel Fulsom, of Zimbrota,
Minnesota, was bitten by a rattlesnake,
few days ago. and died in a few hours. The
snake attacked her at the door of her house.
General Willard Warner, late of Ohio, has
been elected United States Senator from Ala,
bama, for the term ending in 1871.
The fifteenth Ohio Congressional District
Republican Convention met at Marietta, on
the 22d inst, and on the ninth ballot 4. ID
Moore, of Athens, was nominated for Con-
gress over several competitors. The present
Representative, Hon. T. A. Plants, declined
denomination.
R. B. Bullock was inaugurated Governor Of
Georgia on the 22d. His address was lauda-
tory of the Republican party, and condem-
natory of the Presidents policy. It says ex-
perience has proved the wisdom and justice
of conferring suffrage on, the. freedmen
Gen. Meade and staff were present at the GER
emony, wich passed off quietly. 3
The President has issued proclamation
to the effect that Alabama has ratified the
fourteenth amendment.
~ Hon. John Minor Bolts is now at Saratoga
where he has been for the last month. HI
has there been undergoing treatment fo
dropsy, and has been SO much benefited
thereby that lis the opinion of his physician
that be will, in a1few weeks, be in perfec
health again. He expects to leave in few
DAYS for Long Branch, and after sAor
stay at that place will return to his home IL
Virginia, and will take the stump for Gran
and Colfax.' ''' 7'f- 5"'-i'
Hon. VIM. Wyatt, State Senator from Lin
coin and Franklin counties. in Tennessee
was taken from his bed, on the 18th inst, b.
crowd of the Ku- Klux Democracy, despit
the entreaties of his wife and daughter
dragged from the house, and severely beatel
!, about the head with pistols. Senator Wyatt
is aman of unblemlshed character, who ha
lived in Lincoln county sixty years, o
BY direction of the President the Secretsrl
of War will, soon issue general order reeog
MIXING Militia Districts in the South. 4
number of officers now on duty in, that dis
. trict wiN be relieved and ordered to differen
posts. cs g5Ig vEs73 a Iao.Ez @
The Wheeling Iutelligencer learns tina
Mr.. John RobiRsoa, an old and highly re
spected citizen Of Monongahela county. wa
{ stung to death by bees one day last week. %
= During a severe storm at East Liverpool
Ohio, on Wednesday, james Pugh was killec
by lightning. i'i - i'' '''s.i'.'''-a = .,
In Fayette county Illinois, an epidemic il
carrying off large numbers of cattle.
The Democrats of the Seventh columbus
District of this State, held their convention
ct LAndon on Monday. and nominated Mr.
John H. Themas, of Greene County, for Con
gress. t;az-
White Chill Strawberries. price one dolla
per pound, seventeen to the pound, are sol
in San Francisco. t3
4 dispatch to New York from Savannah
George, says, Jefferson Davis will soon sal
kor Europe to be gone several months, an,
VIII be represeated in the coming trial by hi
counsel.
John ThonpSos, revolutionary soldier
1 ,&ed at Smithtown, Long Island, on Thurs
= day last, aged 1O4 years. o.,- III. ie
u In his official report to Genessl Gran
General Giflem gives the result of the iai
election in Mississippi as follows: For th
constitution, 56, ,23l :. against it, $500.