Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-01-28
NEWS ITEMS.

Kentucky Legislature 70 remove 'he
Capitol to Louisville.
Gen. Breckenridge, in letter to g
friend at Georgetown KY, says his
engagements are such that he can moi
name the time when he will return tc
Kentucky.
Monday night George Woodell, {
farmer living in Claremont, N. H., wa;
murdered, and Mrs. Woodall terribly
cut by their nephew, VIM. Kenny, who
lived with them. The deed was perpe-
trated with an axe. Kenny was ar
rested.
A committee of twenty-five promi-
nent citizens of New Orleans has been
appointed to canvass for testimonial
fund for the family of the late Gen.
Rosseau.s
An old lady seventy years of age,
named Hillery, living five miles west Of
Warsaw, Indiana, while in supposed
state of sonambulism, Monday night,
fell down stairs and broke her neck.
The family had not yet retired, but be-
fore they could get to her she had ex-
pired.
There is a report that ex-Queen 1sa-
bella. of Spain, wants to abdicate in ia
,vor of her son. the Prince of Asturia,
with Espartero for Regent during his
minority.
On Saturday nightone hundred arm
ed men from Plum Greek, Fremont
county, Iowa, broke into the Jail in Sid
ney, took out Jackson and Norton, who
murdered Holloway at dance in his
hotel on Thursday, and hung them, to
a tree over mile distant from town.
A letter is published from General
Burnside declining to be a candidate
for Governor of Rhode Island.
The Utah Legislature has adopted a
memorial to Congress, asking for the
early admission of Utah as a State.
The population of Baltimore, accord
ing to the report of the Census Com
missioners, is 352, 1856. Of these 303,-
761 are whites, and 48,375 colored, of
both sexes and all ages.
The Ku-Klux are so troublesome in
Gibson county, Tennessee, that it is
probable the Governor will send militia
to that section of the State to protect
the much prosecuted freedmen.
Young Sears, the richest boy in
America, who has been attending
school at South Williamstown, Massa-
chusetts, was, it is said, killed on Sat
urday while coasting, having slid
against rock by which his brains were
dashed out.
The United States Grand Jury, in
San Francisco, has found over three
hundred indictments for naturalization
frauds.
Hon. F. NJ. Wright, late Auditor of
State, died on the 18th, at Urbana.
The Coroner of st. Louis reports
thirty-two murders and homicides,
and thirty suicides committed in that
city during last year, and five deaths
occasioned by coal oil explosions.
The number of deaths in New York
city, in 1868, was 25, ,459, and in Brook
lyn, 9,o15.
A Washington special says the Pres
ident will soon grant pardon to DIR.
Mudd.
In 1864, DR.. Walton, of Upton coun-
ty, Tennessee, was killed by a man
named Yarbro. The latter was shot
dead by Sherif's deputy named
Smith. In 1865 Smith was killed by
DR.. Martin, C. S. A., and in the fall of
1866 Martin was sent to his long home,
by Capt. Irwin, who, in turn, was
killed by man named Burnett, acting
in self-defense. A few days ago Bur-
nett was killed by Irwin's father and
brother, and so, for the present, ends
this remarkable record of bloody vio-
lence.
Hays City, Kansas, is excited over
nocturnal raid of the military, last week,
resulting in the breaking up of a grand
ball and the arrest of fifty-one '.peace-
able citizens The order of the
Commandant Colonel Nelson was to
every person found up after
9 P. NJ. The citizens hung three ne
gro soldiers recently, and seem to be
courting collision with the military
garrison.
The Livestock Insurance Companies,
of Hartford, Connecticut, find their
losses exceed their receipts, and willis
sue no more policies. They cannot
contend against nature and fraud at the
same time, or, as they express it, no
rate high enough to cover the moral
hazard" of this class of insurance can
be obtained. Thus the final expert
ment of insuring live stock in the Uni
ted States comes to an end.
Mr.. John Wilbrecht, farmer resid-
ing Eve miles west of the village of
Rome, Oneida county, and his son and
two daughters, all adults, have died
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