Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-07-08
NEWS ITEMS.

AT hichmond, virginia, Friday, as bndge
leading from the city to an island in the river
was covered with persons crossing to partici-
pate in barbecue, the structure broke and
the crowd of people were precipitated into
the water Three men were killed and
large number wounded.
Hon. John Russell Of Urbana, has been
nominated for the State Senate by the Repub-
lican Convention for the District comprising
CLARK, Champaign and Madison Counties.
The soldiers monument on the battlefield
of Gettysburg was unvaIled, July lst, with
imposing ceremonies, participated in by Ma
jor General Meade. Secretary Rawlins, Sena-
tor Morton, Henry Ward Beecher, and other
distinguished citizens.
General Robeson, Secretary of the Navy,
was serenaded in Camden, New Jersey,
Thursday night. Resolutions eulogizing
him for his honored services to the State were
passed at mass meeting held at the Court
House previous to the serenade.
Two thous and head of Texas cattle arrived
at Ellsworth, Kansas, Wednesday. Drovers
report SO, 900 head now north of Arkansas
river en- route to that point for sale and ship
ment It is estimated that 20 600 head will
come there this season. The stock yard there
Is completed, and it is the best In the State.
1t is now considered certain that the Big
Sandy, Elizabethtown and Paducah road will
be pushed forward to completion.
The Democrats of Maine have nominated
General Smith, of Wateryille, for Governor.
A notorious horse thief was found hung
three miles from Shawnee, Kansas, on Sun
day last.
Monday. Julia Gibbs and Ella Woodson,
both colored. jealousy being the ause, fought
duel in Richmond, Va, with clubs, seconds
being present. Ella was so badly injured
that she died on the field.
The rebellion in Guatemala has been sup
pressed.
Mrs. Shugart is now on trial in Butler, Pa,
for poisoning her husband last fall. Her
children testify to having bought arsenic for
her. Arsenic was found in the remains of
her husband, and it is probable she will be
convicted.
John Gooce, boy of l2 years, deliberately
drew pistol and shot John Crayer boy of
nine. Wednesday night, on Twelfth street,
Chicago. The charge lodged in Craver's
throat, and he is in precarious condition.
Three distinct shocks of an earthquake
were felt at Cairo, July I'd, the severest known
there since l84l. Similar shocks occurred at
various points in the Southwest
Woodstock, Vermont, was visited by
hail storm on Sunday last. Some of the
hail stones were five to eight inc hes in cir
conference. Much damage was done to
gardens and windows, So much glass was
broken that there is not enough left in town
to repair the damage.
A Washington rumor is circulating to the
effect thet General Sickles is authorized to
open negotiations with Spain for the acquisi-
tion of Cuba.
The steamship Wilmington will leave New
York, for st. Louis, IN few days, having
direct, and return with cargo of grain.
Governor Harvey, of Kansas, reports the
number of whites killed in the recent raids
of the Indians on the borders at thirty
Agent Hosg puts the number at twenty. The
surveying parties have all come in, and will
not resume operations at present. The In
dians, are not combined, but act independent
ly, in small squads, taking few risks. The
Governor wants more troops, or authority to
raise regiment of volunteers.
An explosion took place at Dupont's pow
der mills Thursday. Two men were killed.
Thomas D. Carr, who was last week found
guilty of numbering a girl who refused to
marry him, at Harveysburg, in Clsrmont
County, has been sentenced to be hung on
the Goth of August.
A dead beat, very seedy, who gave his
name as General John Reagan, late Post
master General of the Southern Confederacy,
was before the Mayor of Columbus, Wednes-
day, on charge of "drunk and disorderly."
revolt among the prisoners at Sing Sing,
New York, occurred Wednesday. Some of
them seized sloop at the dock, and attempt
ed to escape, but were recsptured.
A fearful tornado passed over Memphis,
Wednesday, doing much damage to build
ings. crops, DC. No lives were lost.
Fx-President johnson thinks that Senter
will be elected Governor of Tennessee, that
the Democrats will carry the Legislature, and
that his chances for succeeding Fowler as
Senator are good
A woman named Nellie Smith, sixty five
years old, committed suicide at Gratiot, Mus
kingum County, on Tuesday.
SAdvices from all parts of Indiana, Michi-
gan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota,
give very favorable accounts of the condition
of the crops.
1t is reported from East Tennessee that
Stokes has challenged Senter to duel, and
that the latter accepts. Stokes wants to fight
after the election, but Senter is anxious to
have the affair come off at once.
George Peabody has added million dollars
in railroad and other bonds, mostly Southern,
to the Peabody Educational Fund, so-called,
and 1884 900 in Florida six per cent. bonds
and overdue coupons.
The number of emigrants who passed
through Columbus the past year, was 5,75I,
including 9s2 Mormons, destined for Salt
Lake City.
While some citizens of Des Moines, Iowa,
were celebrating the National Anniversary,
on Saturday, an anvil, which was being used
as cannon, exploded, killing outright two
men and two horses, mortally wounding two
nen' and injuriEg humber of others.
Aeltlzen of San Francisco is experimenting
with an aerial steamer. In a late trial the
steamer aseended to an altitude of seventy
nve feet, and was operafed With ..,.