Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-12-31
NEWS ITEMS.

The New York Sun thinks 1t can not
- IN announcing that the Hon. E. B
Wssbburne will be President Grants See
retary of the Interior.
The vote of California indicates popula
ton of nearly 100000.
John Taylor, of Parkersburg, Virgins
while cleaning his gun, accidentally she
dead his little step daughter, aged seve
years.
The New Orleans Picsyune says that
mode of driving street railroad cars by com
pressed air has been invented and is aoou
to be tried there, which gives promise OF com
plete Success.
A Kansas City dispatch says; Gan army
cn;de inst in from the plains reports tina
R.nsas volunteers Joined Gen. Sheridan oI
the 18th inst, on his march to Fort Cobb
The general intended to eat his Christmas
dinner in Camp Supply. where Major lnmar
is ordered with large tain of supplies. l
is reported that the Indians have driven OF
all the stock belonging to Gen. Penrose'i
command. Many of his men were badly
frozen.
The Vinton, Ohio, record, of December IL
saws: "An insane woman, named Jane Ar
baugh, who has been confined in The count,
iail for some time, died last Friday morning
She appeared to be in her accustomed health
physically, the evening previous. When dis
covered, the rats had gnawed off part OF the
lower portion of her face"
The lumber regions in the northern parts
of Wisconsin are infested by mice as ii
plague of Egypt had come upon the country
They have overrun the lumber camps, and
even drove the horses and cattle from their
feed boxes, eat clothing. boots, socks and
cans. nest in the beds, DC. Every supply
team now going into the "pinerles" has
box of cats upon it.
The new nickel coins are to be one-three,
and fiYc-cent pieces-one-fourth nickel and
three fourths copper. The one-cent coin will
weigh grain and a half, and be about the
size of an old fashioned five-cent piece, while
the three and fve-cent pieces will weigh
three and five grains respectively, and viii
be about the size of the. one and two-cent
coppers now in use.
A new stock company is being formed in
Washington to furnish artificial sliding hills
for both the young and old folks. The capi-
tai to be invested is S2,500 Snow noun
tains of this kind are very popular in Rus
sia.
Colorado claims a right to be admitted as
q State, and will press the claim upon Con-
gress Immediately.
Spain has thus far sent 5000 troops to re-
inforce the army in Cuba, and declares that
she will never abandon any of her colonies.
There are more rumors of an organization
in New York to aid the Cuban insurgents
The English cruiser Nymph has captured
eight slavers off the African coast during the
past season.
1t has become fashisnable In Texas to MUIR
der revenue inspectors.
An?Allen County. Ohio, journal says:-
"On Friday last, the Auditor of Allen Coun-
ty, Major Bowling, discovered that his safe
had been robbed of ten thousand dollars, in
seven-thirty bonds. Major Bowling knew
nothing of the robbery until he received a
drop letter through the post Office, containing
the coupons, which had been cut from the
bonds. This led him to make an investiga-
tion, which disclosed the robbery. On Tues
day last, we learn that Sam. Delzell, former
clerk in the office, was arrested, charged with
the crime"
A house on the farm of Mr.. Joseph West,
near Pleasant Valley, New Y York, occupied by
the family of one of his hands named Adams,
caught fire from some unknown cause, during
the absence of both Adams and his wife, on
the afternoon of the 23d, and was entirely
consumed, together with two children, boy
and q girl, one six years old and the other
two. who had been locked up in the house
and left alone.
LIE Roy Van Pherson, aged twenty, and a
bridegroom of six weeks, fell backward on
saw in portable saw-mill near Coal Run,
Washington County, Ohio. The saw entered
his back near the spinal column, and reached
entirely through his body, mangllng his intes-
tines horribly. He died in a few hours.
At recent meeting of the stockholders of
the Blue Ridge Railroad, committee of five
was appointed to repair to Cincinnati and
Louisville in the furtherance of their enter
prise
Rev. F. s. Rising, of New York, was one
of the passengers on the steamer United
States, burned on the Ohio He has not been
heard from since the accident.
England and North Germany have con-
cluded postal treaty by which letters be-
tween the two countries will be transmitted
for three-pe and an additional article
makes arrangements for the extension of the
money-order system between the two coun-
tries
Sumner is preparing speech on finance,
in answer to Mortonis. Sumner favors
speedy resumption CT specie payments, adopt
ing in this respect the views of Horace Gree
ley.
The population of st. Louis is 202, 900, and
that of the county 227 ,2ss, an increase of
twenty-one per cent since 1864
The New York Times says editorially:-
esGreat Britain has forced down the price
of wheat in England to figure below what
will remunerate our farmers, and still pursu-
ing this object, enters upon the winter with a
stock of food below what is usual or safe for
so large population. She is now living
from hand to mouth. Our whole surplus of
food will be required by these States in Eu-
rope which were sufferers from drought
A steamboat accident, more terrible than
that which recently occurred On the Ohio
river, is reported by cable from the Medi-
terranean Archipelago, near Smyrna. Two
mail steamers collided so violently that more
than two hundred passengers are said to have
been killed by the shock.
Wahtke prsparatio2sln IN Turkey and Greece
ennfinra Son,a of the Western Powers have