Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-12-10
NEWS ITEMS.

colonel charles Cameron, Democratic can
d;date in the First District OF Arkans-
.l.;ms his election over Roots, hePuoh0AA
candidate. by 1000 majority. after n'e W. ~
ties have been thrown out oy o0serA''
ton.
:. ....,rnt was made last Monday night
II tbe New London, Conn, National
n.nL At an alarm the robbers left, forget
ting to take a great amount Of tools, gun
powder, fuses, dc.
IT is stated that Captain W. B. Meade, Of
the United States navy, has been five weeks
in the lunatic asylum. because he opposed the
marriage of his daughter. and that efforts are
being made to legally obtain bis release.
1t is stated that Mr. Seward and several of
his friends are making preparations to visit
Europe Immediately. after Grant takes the
Presidential chair.
Jesse Thompson has been arrested at Vicks-
burg, on the charge of being the assassin OF
General Hindman, he having confessed to
negro that he did the deed; but he now de-
nies it.
A few days ago, in the eastern part of JEFF
ferson county, Kentucky, a gang of seven
ruffians violated the persons of two negro
girls, shot them dead and threw their bodies
into creek Six Of them have been arrested
and committed to Jail. -
On Friday last, man named Engelman,
living in Carlinville, H.. cut the throat of his
divorced wife, nearly seyering her head from
her body. Engleman was arrested and lodged
in Jail, but next day a mob of country peo-
pie took him from the jail and hung him.
The New York Tribune proposes an
amendment to the Constitution, that right OF
suffrage be extended all male citizens OF II
years of age, and to foreigners who have re-
sided in the country one year.
Mayor L. Stanton, of Cleveland, together
with his wife and two children, were badly
poisoned last Sunday by partaking of stew
in which diseased chicken was served up.
1t was noticed that the flesh of the fowl was
unusually dark in color. The family were
very i'll for forty eight hours, but all are now
convalescent. Many chickens around Cleve-
land are dying with diphtheria.
The aggregate popular vote for President,
this year, is an increase of more than nil
lien upon the highest total vote ever before
polled. With due allowance for the vote OF
Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia, for
the white rebels disfranchised by law, and for
the freedmen practically disfranchised by
rebel terrorism. we may estimate that there
would have been seven million votes In the
late election.
DR.. A. E. Petticolns. Superintendent OF the
Lunatic Asylum at Williamsburg, Virginia
leaned from window of the building and
dashed his brains out on the sidewalk. he
had long been sufferer from asthma. The
Richmond papers speak of him as one OF the
most distinguished physicians in Virginia.
At Milwaukee, at late hour Tuesday
night the Captain of the bark D.P Dobbins
his name not given. went on board bis vessel
and after angry words between himself snt
wife, he knocked her down, jumped upon he
and kicked her in such terrible manner thai
she gave premature birth to child, which
the monster seized and threw over board. h
then sent for doctor and disappeared. The
unfortunate woman is in a critical condition
The brute will be arrested.
A little boy, eight years of age, recently
left Cleveland, Ohio, alone, with piece ol
leather pinned to his breast, on which wert
words telling that he was bound for Kansas
CITY, Missouri, to meet b is grandfather, Viii
liam Fullerton, and also reques ting public as
sistance on the way. He arrived at Kansas
City, safe and sound, having been three d ay'
and two nights on the road.
John Fry, aged twenty, was killed at Mohe
canville, Ohio, last week, by the bursting o
fiy-wheel. One fragment flew through hi
thigh, shivering the bone in & irightful man
ner, and causing death in few hours.
The new York Sun has it. from high au
tbority. that Geo. g. Boutwell,, of Massachu
setts, will be offered the Secret aryship of tn
Treasury by Gen. Grant, and he will accep
, the position.
The Boston Journal thinks the Speaker G
the next House of Representatives should b
an Eastern man. Its principal reas on is tha
the West has got about everything else.
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins, saile'
in the steamer Iowa, for Glasgow, on the wa.
to Paris, where the cord which has SO lon
united them is to be severed.
The ten Western States give Grant ma
iority of 230.O50. in a total vote of 2244,7
Grants majority in the six New Englan
States is l53,994 Lincoln's majority in 1856
was 100, ,953.
Hon. B. F. Butler dined at the Democrat
Manhattan Club, in New York, Saturday, i
company with Senator Doolittle, both beini
the guests of Richard Schell.
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