Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-05-20
NEWS ITEMS.

large number of letters are received at
the Auditors Office every day in reference to
the Morgan raid claims. The Governor VIII
certify claims to the Auditors office in two
or three weeks. In the meantime the Audi
TOR will decide whether he viii commence
payment at that time.
Reports received at Chicago from various
parts of the Northwest are to the effect that
the new wheat crop is in an excellent condi-
tion, and promises an abundant harvest. A
much greater breadth of land has been put
into wheat this year than ever before. If no
unforeseen disaster occurs, the crop will be un-
precedented.
The Board of Public Works are considering
the propriety of converting the Miami Canal
into chip canal.
The Connecticut House of Representatives
Tuesday ratified the 18th Amendment 20 tne
Constitution by vote Of l26 to iV4. Inc
Senate ratified il last week.
crops throughout Kansas are locking nne
iy, and promises an abundant harvest
The condition of affairs in Cuba, and the
manner in which American residents are
treated by the Spanish authorities, is such
that our Navy Department has decided to
send two or more war vessels to Admiral
HofF.
The Jewish synagogue and the Rabbi's
residence, in Quincy, Illinois, was destroyed
by FIRE on Sunday.
The Russian Government has discovered
an extensive Sclavonisn conspiracy for the
establishment of q Sclavonian Republic,
with Moscow, Warsaw, wilma and Klew for
its capitals. Many arrests have been made at
wilma and Klew.
A very fire portrait, in oil, of Governor
Thomas Corwin, has been placed in the Office
of the Governor, at Columbus.
A general order has been issued from the
Headquarters of the Army, assigning large
number of officers to duty as Indian Super
intcndents and Agents. They are all offi-
GERS who were left out of their regimental or
ganizations by consolidation of the infantry
regiments.
Two desperate characters named Wilson
and Hyatt, went into Quincy, Hickory coun-
ty, Mo, few days sgo, created a disturbance,
and fred upon a young man, wherest some
citizens became incensed, and shot Hyatt and
crushed the skull of Wilson
Mr.. Dean, for some time Deputy Warden of
the Ohio Penitentisry, will, probably, sue
ceed General Waleott as Warden of that in
stitution. General Walcott has received the
appointment of Collector of Internal Reve-
nue. for the Columbus district.
A meeting of tow-boat owners and coal
dealers of Pitts burg, on the l4th, indorsed the
action of the Ohio Legislature in passing
law prohibiting bridges over the Ohio of less
than 400 feet.
The Virginia crop prospects are reported
good. The wheat, which is the largest on
record, is said to be fine from one end of the
Valley to the other, and the anticipated yield
enormous. Tobacco is hourishing
It is stated that information has been re-
ceived in Montreal to the effect that the
Priyy Council in England is taking into con-
sideration the advisability of relinquishing
all her colonies excepting India.
Indians attacked a settlement in Wind
River Valley, on the 9th, and killed -four
men.
General James A. Wilcox has been ap-
pointed United States Commissioner for Co.
lumbus.
The municipal code of laws passed by the
late Legislature will, of itself, make larger
previous Legislature.
The Nashville Banner publishes a lengthy
correspondence between the Bishops of the
wo branches of the Methodist Church, look
ing to reunion. The conclusions arrived
at are not favorable.
The first through train from Sacramento,
with about five hundred passengers aboard,
arrived at Omaha on Saturday. The travel
west from Omaha is very heavy.
The Spanish Cortes, 1s2 to 81, has rejected
a Republican form of Government.
The President has issued proclamation
naming the 9Th of July as the time for sub
hitting the Constitution passed by the Rich
mond Convention in December, 1867. to the
voters Of Virginia, registered at the date Of
such submission, for ratification or rejection,
and submits to separate vote the disqualii-
cation and testoath clauses. The voter
is to vote ballot designated ''For the Con-
stitution," or against the Constitution %
and is allowed to cast separate vote for Or
against either or both OF the excepted pro-
visions.