Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-03-25
0alIipgIis Journal.
eALLIPoLIs. MARCH 25. 1869.
NEWS ITEMS.


; Tpesdav but succeeded only in cutting a
= cash in her arm before he was arrested. He
; subsequently, committed suicide in his cell
by hanging himself with his suSpenders.
Indian outrages are reported in Humboldt
county, Gal One man, while plowing his
field, was shot and killed by savages, and
his house plundered and fired, the family
barely escaping by fight. Immediate pur-
suit was made, but the Indians escaped to
the mountains.
Milwaukee dispatch says: "Captain NJ.
E. Leonard, citizen of Sparta, was waylaid
and robbed Saturday night, after being shot
three times and left for dead. His condition
is very critical
William Proteen. a respectable farmer, re-
siding near Brighton, Madison County, Illi-
nols, shot himself through the head with a
revolver, on Saturday, killing himself instant
ly. Ho cause is known for the act.
The Tallahassee (Florida) Sentinel says:
7''We are again called upon to chronicle an
other foul murder in jackson County, where
a man named James Caulette was shot dead,
while sitting on the stoop of his dwelling
washing his feet.
A laborer. named Patrick Carroll, while
working on the railroad track near the Union
Depot, in Pittsburg, last week. was struck by
an engine and instantly killed, the wheels
passing over his skull, crushing it in hor.
rible manner.
Rochester, New York, dispatch says
Allison Smith was killed on Sunday while
entering church at the head of funeral pro
cession, by q trap-door which was blown by
the wind from the belfry, crushing his skull.
There are great complaints in the vicinity
of Memphis from planters at the scarcity of
labor. Planters are offering 25 per cent. high
er rates than last year. but hands are unwil
ling TO make contracts.
A counterfeiter3 den about four miles from
st. Louis was discovered Tuesday, and some
fifteen thousand dollars in bogus City Treas
ury warrants, and lot of fifty cent. United
States fractional currency, tools. de-, found.
woman living at the place was arrested, but
no man has as yet been caught.
A terrible hail storm at Memphis, Sunday |
night, did great damage. Scarcely pane of
glass was left in the city. ShrubberY and
fences were demolished. A negro man was
found dead the next morning who had been
caught in the storm while drunk and killed |
by the hail. Many hail stones were as large |
as hens eggs.
It'll stated that General Sheridan's appoint
ment to command in Louisians is intended to |
be merely recognition of the justness Of his
former policy in the same positioR, and that
as his present rank places him second in CON-
msnd in the army he will be returned to the
Military Division of the West, in order to |
continue, if necessary his operations against
the Indians.
Five convicts at Sing Sing PRISON gagged
two of the keepers and escaped Wednesday
night. One of the keepers has since died.
The First National Bank of Rockford, Illi-
nois, has failed, and receiver been appoint
ed. The capital is only $4,000, and liabili-
ties limited
Gen. VIM. Barstow, formerly on the staff
of GeR. :Dix, died in New York, March 10th.
jeff Davis's health is better now than it
has been for years.
The disposition of members of the House
generally is TO adjourn the session of Con-
gress week hence. Senators are not so
anxious for its termination.
An accidental case of shooting occurred in
Springfield, Ohio, on the Goth. A boy named
Quill was very carelessly handling a pistol,
when it was discharged, the contents entering
the breast of boy named Bauer. The in
jury will probably prove fatal.
In Princeton, Indiana, last Monday, a
schoolmastsr named G. R. Stormont was
stabbed with a pen-knife by boy of four
teen. whom he was whipping. The stab is
in the side, between the eighth and ninth
ribs, and is not regarded as mortal.
General Sherman is going to work furious
ly. He has destroyed the Department of
Washington, consolidated regiments, ordered
officers out of town, and is carrying on gen.
orally with high hand and an outstretched
arm.
VIM. Coslet. a Welsh miner, recently CON-
mitted suicide at Tallmadge, Ohio. which so
affected his intimate friend, Evan Harris,
feeble old man of sixty five, that he drowned
himself few days ago.
small boat, containing twelve boxes OF
nitro glycerine, was discovered under wharf
ct the foot of Whitehall street, New York,
Thursday-enough, it is said, to blow the
lower portion of that city and Brooklyn to
atoms. The stuff was taken beyond the city
limits by the barbor police.
There is great excitement in Havana, and
there will, probably, be a great deal more
blood shed there, before there is an end of the
troubles in the Island.
An Irishman. in Louisville, named Gilligan,
was choked to death by small piece of meat, /,
while partaking of plate of soup, on Thnrs- .
day.
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