Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-06-24
NEWS ITEMS.

At Mossup, Rhode Island, last Monday .
Frenchmsn named De Vane got his arm DC.
tween the crank of a hand-car and cover Oh
the gearing that drives it, and the arm ~As
pulled entirely from its socket
The wheat harvest has commenced IN
Southern Illinois. The grain is good and the
yield large
The wife of Rev. J. B. Smith was drowned
Wednesday morning in Poplar creek, near
Turner Junction, Illinois. She was taken
suddenly ill while crossing the stream in
buggy with her husband, and fell into the
water. her husband jumped in to save her.
but got entangled in the lines and could not
do it.
Intelligence has been received at the
Internal Rsvenus Office Of the existence OF
9 large number Of illicit distilleries in Lee
county, Virginia, on the Kentucky border
and of combination among them to resist
the laws. Commissioner Delano has takeh
measures to enforce the revenue laws there
and compel the payment of taxes, even ii it
should be necessary to call on the military
for aid.
The Military Commission in the case Of
Yerger, the murderer Of Colonel Crane, at
Jackson, Miss, is progressing slowly.
Near Lims, Ohio. great deal Of the wheat
has lodged. and being very rank, will not rise
again; Corn has, in many instances, been
re-planted, the rains having rotted much of
it.
John NJ. Moriarty, President Of the Irish
Republican Association of Pennsylvsnis, has
issued another address. He assures readers
that the country can net recede from the posi-
tion taken by Mr.. Sumner. The Irish Con-
vention at Chicago will declare in favor of
protection, of universal suffrage, and war with
England.
A terrific rain storm visited Western North
Carolina, Sunday night, which caused de-
structive freshets throughout Iredell and
Davy counties. The damage is estimated at
$500, 900. No lives lost.
Henry j. Raymond, of the New York
Times, died very suddenly, Friday morning,
at five o'clock.
The grape crop On the Lake Shore is said
to be very promising.
Two boys in Lincoln County, Missouri,
last week, eat wild parsnips, ignorantly, and
one of them, crazed by the poison, run into
river and was drowned.
. The wheat is now being harvested IN North
ern Georgia, and will surpass in quality and
quantity any previous crop for many years.
On Tuesday last q young man named T.
w. Dsvids, in Fayette County, came across
sonic wild parsnips while he was replanting
corn in his field. He died in half an hour
after eating of them.
Colonel William B. Thomas, of Philadel-
phis, is an Independent reform candidate for
Governor of Pennsylvania.
Several deaths from sunstroke, in New
York, are reported.
John Clay, who shot William L. Hsines,
near Lancaster, last week, was indicted for
murder, at Lancaster, on Monday, and ad-
mitted to bail for appearance at the next term
of court.
An unknown man, aged about forty years.
committed suicide, Thursday evening, by
jumping off the Temperanceville ferryboat,
at Pittsburg, while in motion.
Major General Halleck, the new commander
of the Division of the South, arrived in
Louisville from San Francisco on Wednes-
day, accompanied by his staff.
Wednesday afternoon three ladies, names
not yet ascertained, while riding in carriage,
were thrown into mill pond, just beyond the
city line of Rochester, New York, and
drowned.
OF. Presbery has been appointed Super
visor Of. Internal Revenue for the district en-
bracing the States of Virginia and West Vir-
ginia in place of Thomas r. Laird. resigned.