Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-03-19
FcR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Gen. ULYSSES S. GRANT,
OF ILLINOIS.
NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Hancock has appointed the 18th anC
18th of April for the election on the ratifca
tion Of the constitution in Louisiana
A kerosene lamp exploded in the Columbii
hotel, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Thurs
day night, and the buildI- was consumed
Some adjoining buildings were badly dam
aged.
Governor Joshua Baker, of Louisiana, has
been arrested in New Orleans. for perjury IN
taking the testosth.
The reconstruction committee have report
ed in favor of the admission of Alabama 70
representation in Congress. 1t VIII proe badly
be adopted.
They have well developed white child in
Nashville, Tenn, aged ten years, who has O
third arm growing from its back, immediate
" between the shoulders.
1t is reported that the Emperor Napoleon
visits St. Petersburg in June.
Admiral Farragut is the recipient OF very
distinguished honers at Naples.
Two soldiers of Company B, 5th United
states Cavalry, were killed in Claiborne
county, East Tennessee, on the 9Th, by the
distiliers in that region who have been re-
sisting the enforcement of the Revenue laws
The city elections in Council bluffs, Iowa
and Centralia, Illinois, resulted in the elec'
tion of the entire Republican ticket, except
one Alderman in each place.
The Pennsylvania Republican convention
instructed her delegates to the National Con-
yention, to vote for Grant and Curtin, for
Presid ent and Vice President.
" The State convention of the Republicans of
Massachusetts. held few days since. nomi
nsted Grant for President and Senator Wilson
for Vice Presi dent.
Tickets for adm ission to the impeachment
trial, at Washington, on Friday, would have
brought $40, but there were no sellers.
A correspondent of the Scientific Ameri-
can recommends onions as specific against
epidemics-not as an esculent, but sliced and
kept in sick room, where they will absorb
any atmospheric poison. They should be
replaced br fresh ones every hour. 1t is no.
ticed that in the room of smallpox patient
they will blister and decompose with great
rapidity, but will prevent the spread of the
disease.
In Hamilton, Ohio, last Friday, man de-
Iiberately threw himself before locomotive
on the railroad. Instead of falling on the
track, how ever, he fell upon the COW catcher,
which threw him completely from the track
withou infictiDg any very serious injury.
J. Ross Browne has been confirmed as Min
lister to China, and George L. Tuckerman as
Minister to Greece.
The Ohio Legislature has abolished the Of
flee of Commissioner of Statistics.
General R. K Scott, Assistant Commission
er of the Freedmen's Bureau, has been nomi-
mated for Governor of South Carolina by the
Republican Convention. The General for
merly lived in Henry county, Ohio, and en-
tered the service as Lieutenant Colonel of the
Sixty-eighth Ohio.
Ths O. s. House of Representatives ha,e
passed bill to repeal the internal revenue
tax on all manufactures.
The Hooking and Clinton county papers re-
port that the fruit buds in their respective
neigh borhoods are thus far uninjured.
II is well known in Washington that both
the President and his counsel are very much
east down at the result of their application
for forty days time. Mr.. Stanbery has ex-
pressed very frankly the opinion that John
sons chance of escape from condemnation is
not worth a1ig. An attempt, however, will
be made to show cause for further delay by
affidavits setting forth the necessity of hav-
ing present certain witnesses from distance.
There are rumors of trouble brewing in
Tennessee. 1t is known that Gen. Thorn
as has informed Gen. Grant that movement
is on foot for organizing new rebellion to
take possession of the State Government
Gen. Grant has authorized Gen. Thomas to
use all the troops he has, and call for more,
if they are needed, to thwart any movement
Of the kind.
The election for the ratification of the new
Constitution of South Carolina, and for
and State officers, will take
place on the 14th, 18th and 18th of April.
Corrected election returns of the New
Hampshire election, make Harrinan's majori-
ty $3.50; tie House of Representatives 1872
and l3s Democrats