Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-03-04
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eALLIpoLIs. MARCH 4. 1869.
NEWS ITEMS.

1,h, Fekerson died on Tuesday, in hock-
land County, New York, OF nyuioP-o
having been bitten about month ago
senator Salisbury fell from a carriage in
ws.b;ngtou Sunday. and broke his leg.
g. Tbomas date of the 18th inst. states
that the people there still hope for snnexa-
t;on to the United States.
Some of the prominent friends of Gen.
Grant propose to erect an equestrian stetue sf
him in the southern portico of the Treasury
Department.
Hereafter elections will only be held annu-
ally in Indiana.
A wouan was found dead in room in Jersey
City, Wednesday. having been locked IN Ano
starved to death By herhusbsnd
John H. Bell, of Middletown, and David
W. Reeve, of wawayanda, Orange county
MY, prominent Democratic politicians,
have been taken to Washington by the Ser
peant. Arms of the House, for refusal TO an
swer questions of the New York Election
Committee.
Last week two brothers named Luten and
man named Dlbble started to walk across
the prairie from Carroll Station, Iowa. We'd
nesday morning the elder Luten and Dibble
were found frozen dead, and young Luten SC
badly frozen that his feet and hands will
have TO be amputated.
About four hundred militia have been SEM
to Giles county, Tennessee, in which msrtIa
law has been declared. Giles lis the county
In which the Ku. Kux Klan was originated.
Harry Chamberlin, aged not quite fifteen
committed suicide in Akron, Ohio, last Tues
day, by hanging himself to rafter with
skate-strap. The boys father blew out his
brains five years ago, and nothing but heredi-
tary mania can be assigned as cause for the
act of the boy.
The Tribune says: at being known that
Mr. Rollins would positively withdraw from
the Office of Internal Revenue Commissioner
the friends of Mr.. Delano suggested and re
commended him to General Grant for the
place. Mr.. Delano had a long consultation
with General Grant, during which it is un
derstood, the office was offered him, and thai
he signifed his intention to accept"
Numerous applications for Office under th'
New Administration ere daily received at thu
headquarters OF the amy, and also recon
mendation of the appointment of friends
No attention is paid to any such papers.
The County Treasurer's cafe, at Minneap
oils, Minnesota, was robbed of fifteen hundred
dollars in money and lot of checks, las
week.
The fall of show in Canada this winter, 81
far, has exceeded any previous snowfall fo
twenty years past. by thirty-eight inches
Nearly ten feet has fallen at Montreal during
the winter.
Lieut. John j. Small and Capt. J. G. Scott
both in the Union service during the late war
have committed suicide in San Francisco this
week.
The New York Herald's Washington specia
says General Grant, in conversation with Sen
ator Poole, of North Carolina, expressed him
self as particularly anxious for substantial re
construction in the South. North Carolini
and Alabama, he said, were among the bes
reconstructed States Of all, and when the res
were as safely and pleasantly back in tn
Union, he thought ours would be the happies
country on the globe.
The Tuscarawas Chronicle says it is &c
quainted with an old lady who is the mother
of forty-one children-every one OF whom Ii
legitimrte child, and still the mother i
hearty and hale.
Henry A. Swift. Ex-Governor of Minnesota
died in st. Paul, Thursday.
A colored woman, in SteubenviIle, the 9th
er day gave birth to four children, who are al
living and healthy.
Dispatches from Cuba claim another vic
tory for the regulars, and speak of the deter
mination of the home government to suppress
the rebellion at any price.
The Nevada Assembly has reconsidered tn
vote rejecting female suffrage, adopted tn
amendment, and then reseinded its action
striking out the word "white" from the con
stitution.