Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-04-30
Fea PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
Gen. ULYSSES s. GRANT,
OF ILLINOIS.
NEWS ITEMS,

College Hill Seminary, near Cincinnati,
was destroyed by fire a few days since. Loss.
100000.
Gen. sehofeld has indefinitely postponed
the election in Virginia, for the reason that
no appropriation has been made for the ex-
penses attending it.
Intelligence reached London on the oath
that Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinborough'
who is visiting at Sydney, Australia, had
been shot at and dangerously wounded by
some person supposed to be Fenian.
1t is expected that the public debt will be-
reduced, this month, to the extent oil Ten
million dollars.
Senator Yates has written letter, ad'
dressed to the people of Illinois, acknowledg-
ing the justice of their criticism on his con-
duct, and promising repentance.
Mrs. Mira Cane was burned to death by
the explosion of an oil-can, in Orangeville,
Mahoning County, Ohio, few evenings
since.
Louisiana has undoubtedly ratified the
new Constitution and elected the Republi-
can State ticket.
Official accounts from the Indian country
confirm the statements that the Indian hos
tilities will be renewed In the Northwest this
summer.
The second trial of John 81. Surratt is
fixed for Tuesday, May IL.
Mobile has been visited bYa thunderstorm
of unusual violence, which knocked people
down in the streets. melted the hooks in
the market-house, twisted the lghtning-rod
off church, and removed an old lady's spec
tacles from her nose-all without seriously
iniuriDg any body. A large stone, weighing
thirty-six pounds, and of q variety unknown,
fell in one of the markets during the storm.
1t is supposed to be of meteoric origin.
Charles Dickens, having finished his read
ings here, has returned to England.
Colonel j. Heron Foster, senior editor and
proprietor of the Pittsburg Dispatch, died of
consumption, at his residence in Allegheny
City, on the 2lst, aged 40.
Gen. Sherman left Washington, for Fort
Laramie, on the 2lst.
In Woonsocket, Massachusetts,, few
nights since, just after John B. Burns and his
family had retired, his little son, six years of
age, cried out that something had fallen upon
and out him. On going to his bedside, Mr..
Burns found the house cat lying upon the
boys chest, with Its teeth fastened so firmly
in his throat that it had to be kicked seven
or eight times before it let loose.
1t is reported that the ruins Of a town,
canals, de-, lave been discovered in Utah,
few miles above the mouth of Salt River
The canals are from thirty five to fifty feet in
width, and the walls, which are from five to
eight feet high, have been traced ten or fif-
teen miles from the river.
The additional clerkships recently author
lied by Congress to be appointed in the
Second Auditors office, for the purpose OF
settling soldiers bounties, have all been
made, and in accordance with the directions
to give the preference to soldiers and sailors
nine-tenths of those appointed have served in
the army or navy.
1t is understood in Washington that the
State Department has dispatched Ward Il.
Lamon to Russia to obtain as long an extern
sion of time as may be necessary to get the
House to make the appropriation to pay for
Alaska.
George Benson died recently in Somerset
County, Maryland, from eating chicken which
mad died of the disease known as "chicken
cholera"
So far as heard from the majority for the
Constitution in South Carolina is $4,000.
Gov. Brownlow will soon issue proclama-
tion postponing until November the election
of Congressman.
The Union Pacific is now finished $50
miles west of Omaha.
Five prisoners escaped from the Springfield,
Ohio, Jail on the 2lst. Two of them were
confined on the charge of murder. Large re-
wards have been offered for their capture.