Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-01-14
NEWS ITEMS.

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The artesian well near st. Louis, ha:
reached the depth of nearly three-quar'
tiers of a mile, and the boring is still
progressing.
Hon. John c. Weed, a member Of
the Connecticut Legislature from
Greenwich, mysteriously disappeared
Saturday night last.
The census just completed in Mem
phis, gives population OF 1887, Of
whom 23,418 are white, and 16, ,16e
oolored.
Commodore W. S. Saltcr, United
States Navy, died after lingering i'll
ness of rheumatism of the heart, ON the
Sd. He was seventy-four years O.
age.
On Friday evening last, at Franklin
Tennessee, there was grand parade o
one thousand disguised Ku Klux. They
presented grotesque appearance ant
created considerable amusement, which
seemed to be their purpose rather thai
that of hostility.
Rawly W. Hobson, deputy collector
of internal revenue in the Danville, Vir
gipia, district, is under arrest for al
legged embezzlement of $4,000, Gov
ernment funds.
The Grand Jury has dismissed the
case against Surrat, on the ground that
the Presidents amnesty proclamation
pardons him of all past treason, and all
offenses against the government.
A woman named Williams, residing
in Hampton village, Canada, in fit o.
insanity, drowned her two children ii
barrel of water, and was discovered
in the act of ending her own life by get
ting into the barrel head first.
Ex-Governor Army, of New Mexico
is en- route to Washington, with splen-
did specimens of gold from the Marene
Mines, near the boundary between New
Mexico and Colorado. One hundred
and eighty-six ounces of gold were tax
en- out in two weeks, and one hundred
ounces the next week, which assays
over s1s per ounce. Mr.. Army says:
"Remove the Indians and New Mexico
will pay the national debit
Rev. Charles Elliott, D. D., one OF
the oldest Methodists in Iowa, died in
Mount Pleasant on the 9th.
In Louisville, last Friday, Directors
and officers were elected by railroad
company that proposes to connect
Louisville with Norfolk, Virginia.s
Six frame buildings, on Federal
street, Allegheny, Pa, were burned
Friday morning.
Trains on the Central Pacific Rail-
road are running on schedule time to
Carlin, in the northeast corner of Ne
vada, six hundred miles distant from
San Francisco.
Robert Van Camp, of Belpre, Ohio,
was horribly gored to death by bull,
last week.
The Virginia State press, so far as
heard from, stands as follows on the
new movement for universal suffrage
with the hope of universal amnesty: In
favor of it, eleven Democratic papers
and against it, eight Democratic and
two Republican papers.
Colonel Tresseleau, once chief o.
General Logan's staff, died on the 9th,
in New York, of consumption.
Since the commencement of the sea.
son, over seven thousand beeyes have
been slaughtered, packed, and shipped
from the packeries below Shreveport,
on Red River. S. W. Stoner d. Co.
alone, have shipped upward of seven
thousand tierces and barrels of beef, be-
sides hides, tallow, horns, hoofs, DC.
Planters of Georgia are now entering
into contracts with freedmen for 1869.
Prices range from sos to 1925 in mon
ey and rations. About 800 is the av-
erage. The system of planting upon
shares is less popular than it was year
ago. The plan of paying men accord
ing to their worth is now adopted.
Brigadier General n, B. McLaugh-
lin, commanding the United States Cav
airy at Natchitoches, Louisiana, went
into the country, accompanied only by
an orderly, to arrest man named
Kimball, who had murdered a colored
man. On seeing the General, Kimbal
fed and was pursued. The murderer
was brought to bay, and an impromptu
duel with lreyolvers followed. After
four or five exchanges the General shot
his man dead, and is now under arres
to answer for the deed.
A most horrible tragedy was com
mitted in Clarke County, near the vii
Iage of Bonnettsville, Indiana, some
time during last week. An old man By
the name of Morgan siellings, who liY-
ed the greater portion of his time in 8
log hut off in the woods, all alone, was
foully murdered by unknown parties
Its supposed that the deed was com
rnitted on Wednesday or Tuesday
night. The body was dragged out in