Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1868-07-09
NEWS ITEMS.

Gen. Candy has removed the Governors snt
Lieutenant Governors of North and Soutl
Carolina, and appointed the newly elected
officers in their stead. This will take effec
on the meeting of the State Legislature, ant
is done to facilitate the Inauguration of tn,
officers elect, which takes place when tn
Fourteenth Amendment is ratified.
The celebrated long -winded gelding JOIN
Stewart, performed the greatest ten mile time
that ever has been done, on the 30th ult.
at Riverside Park, Boston, having trotted
ten miles in % minutes and 21s seconds, the
best previous time being % minutes 81 sec.
onds.
At the Sixteenth District Republican Con
vention, held at Cambridge, July I'd, Hon
John A. Bingham was nominated for Con
gress, and Hon Isaac Welsh was nominated
for elector. Mr.. Bingham made an eloquent
and powerful speech.
A terrible storm of wind and rain passed
through Circletllle, Ohio, and vicinity last
Wednesday evening. A number of houses
were unroofed, including the depot and en-
CINE house of the Cincinnati d GAINESVILLE
Railroad Company. The steeple of the Lu-
therian Church was also blown down, and Q
number Of trees uprooted.
In the U. s. Senate, on the 2d, Hon. A. s
Welch, of Florida, appeared, was qualified
and took his seat as Senator.
On Tuesday, during a heavy thunder storm,
Rev. A. G. Shafer, pastor of the West Deer
Township United Presbyterian Church, ten
miles from Plttsburg, was instantly killed
by lightning while standing at the corner Of
his residence. The deceased was fifty years
of age, and has been pastor of the church fol
thirty years.
Miss Fanny Wright, while going home
from a neighbor's, where she had been to col
lect $500, in Chamblissburg, Virginia, on
Wednesday Of last week, was murdered and
robbed. The murderer had not been discov.
cred at last accounts.
The champion swimmer swan eight hun
dred and forty feet in four minutes andtwen-
ty seconds, at a swimming bath in New
York, on Monday evening.
1t is reported in Washington that Mr. Banks
is to be appointed Minister to Russia, if he
succeeds in persuading the House to pass the
Alaska appropriation.
The New York World is manifesting an
appreciation of the practical, recently. In a
reeent issue it says: ''If we canscarry tie
election, it makes but little difference on
what platform or with what candidates. The
duty laid upon the Democratic party is to
start change of policy by carrying this
Presidential election"
By order of the President, Gen. Mcdowell
has been relieved from command of the
Fourth Military District-Mississipp and
Arkansas-and ordered to report to the War
Department. Gen. Gillian takes the COM
mand.
The Ku-Klux Democracy in Tennessee are
still pursuing their cowardly and nefarious
work of outrage and murder In Marshall
and Maury counties they have done horrible
work.
1t is thought the wheat surplus of Cali
fornia, for export this season, will reach
three hundred and fifty thousand tuns.
VIM. H. Upson, of Summit county, is the
Republican nominee for Congress in the
Cleveland District.
1t is reported that Secretary Seward has
nearly completed negotiations for the pur-
chase of Greenland and Iceland from the
Danish Government 1t is said he is to give
five and half millions in gold for them, and
that he has already promises of sufficient
support in the Senate to secure the ratifca-
ton of the measure.
Hon. Jacob A. Amber, of Columbiana,
has been nominated for Congress by the
Republicans of the 18th Ohio District.