Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-11-12
NEWS ITEMS.

A white laborer in Missouri, alter "orAins
f.r al summer for fifty cents day,
was recently turned of destitute. ne went
;nto, fbe woods. built fire and csmped out
wb;le sleeping, his eyes were burned out and
his FEET burned off. when, dragging himself
by his,hsnds oyer the grornd, he reached an
empty shsnty. where he died after about four
dsys of torture and starvation.
Professor Brooks made balloon ascension
last week at Memphis. A small dog, be-
longing to a little boy, was suspended from
parachute below the car. At an elevation
of 5000 feet the dog was detached, the para
chute collapsed. and all that was left of the
pet canine after he struck the earth was few
shreds Of dog-skin.
The total vote cast by the three States Of
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. at the oc-
tobar election, reached the enormous figure OF
I,5l2,094. The same States. at the Presiden-
tial election in 1864, cast only 1924 ,OS4 votes,
so that in four years the number has increased
ISs.0IO..
Rumor says Mayer Hoffman will resign his
present office in time for the vacancy to be
filled by the Charter election in December.
The .Government's expenses in October
amounted to $2l 1854 900.
L.G. Ridgely, prominent merchant tailor
in Baltimore, ascended to the rear roof of the
Susquehsnna Hotel, in that city, and commit
ted suicide by hurting himself to the ground,
fifty feet below. He was forty-fve years old,
andunmarried. No definite cause for the act
is known.
Ii appears that Democratic Congressman
enough are elected to give the party ninety
members of the next House. Eight seats are
to be contested.
Two thousand stand of arms belonging to
Florida, IN transit by rail, were seized by an
unknown party and destroyed. at Madison
The LOSE is 100000.
The national debt now amounts to $2,b4l,-
OO2,572, with S1I3.s73,020 in the Treasury.
Governor Reed, of Florida, has been i'm
peached of high crimes and misdemeanors in
Office He will contest the impeachment.
President johnson has announced q treaty
with Italv-term Of five years-for the sur
render of persons charged with offenses not
Political in character.
Slight earthquakes are of almost daily oc-
currsnco in California since October 2lst.-
Wednesday night at 9 o'clock, sharp shock,
lasting twelve seconds, created considerable
alarm among the people, but did no damage
to property. The shock was hesvy at San
Jose and Sacramento.
Governor Crawford, of Kansas, has resigned
and been commissioned Colonel of the new
regiment of cavalry raised by the State for
service against the Indians. The Lieutenant
Governor will act as Governor during the re-
mainder of the term.
On December /, Weston commences walk
of 5000 miles in one hundred days, exclusive
of Sundays, which reduces the allowance of
time to eighty-six working days. The march
will carry him from Bangor, Maine, to st.
Paul, Minnesota, and back by different roate
to New York City To succeed he must
make an average tramp of over fifty-eight
miles day. The purse said to have been
made up for thepedestrian is $4,000.
General Grant arrived in Washington, Sat-
urday night, on special train, by way of
Harrisburg, accompanied by Generals Smith,
Comstoek, Badean and ]. Russell Jones. He
quietly proceeded to his home, in the northern
part of the city. Sunday morning he nt-
tended at Sunderland's Church.
The Arlington, Virginia, salt works have
Just been leased for five years, by Nashville
company, at an annual rent of $31 200.
Who would have thought it? Kentucky
gave Grant q vote of $4,000, a Republican
gain of over 10000. This will give Nasby
the finishing stroke.
In view of the great election frauds in New
York City, the Rochester Chronicle exclaims,
"Let US divide the State" 1t says: "Let
the new State be called Manhattan; or, per
haps, if the New Workers like it better, Tam
many. We will not stand upon the name,
provided we can be rid OF them. 1t would be
entitled, as now, to nine Representatives in
Congress, two Senateas, and eleven votes in
the Electoral College.
Admiral Farragut arrived in New York
harbor Sunday, on his g-ship, the Frank
lin. The old sea-dog has been absent six
months, and during that time has unfurled
the American flag in all the principal Euro
pean ports.
According to latest counts, Seymour's ma
josity in New York is s,l06, and Hoffman, s
23,s30.
A Washington special says that Secretary
Seward recently sent an agent TO San Do
mIpgo to endeavor to purchase Samana.