Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-04-15
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The Pittsburg Gazette says OF Ex-oeere
tsrv sssnton. ave are psined to learn that
the health Of the great War secrefs'y %
preesrious a 10 justify the deepest soi'eituoe
Of NJ. 6;ends His situation does not i'm
nrove a. has bees hoped, but is regarded
With increased anxiety. Hopes Of final re-
eovsrv are still eptertained, while In any
event anether issue is not to be immediately
feared. We learn also that he has recently
been baptized by the clergyman with whose
church he is united"
The total amount of funds in the Ohio
State Treasury on the last day of March wa.
S7I6,93s 90.
Three cases occurred within the last fort
night, in London, thst beggsr description
One woman, after being horribly abused, was
found dead. the next morning, on the ground
cut open, and her body filed with stones,
and coal and pieces of brick. The other two
casea were perpetrated by women. One. tax
ing advantage Of her husbands helplessness,
deliberately mutilsted him in.the most shock
ing manner, and then dug ont both his eyes.
The other. also angered at her husband,
emptied can of parsfine over him, and then
set fire to him.
Tuesday afternoon the ice above the bridge,
st st. Paul, began to give way, and becoming
gorged against the piers Of the new railroad
bridge. It carried away one pier and seriously
damaged another.
The business portion and many private
residences in the town Of Madison, Ca, wefe
destroyed by fire on Thursday night. The
loss is heavy.
st. Mary's Church, in Jersey City, had its
steepie partially demolished, all the win
dows smashed and the building shook badly
by stroke of lightning Wednesday, last
week.
Illinois has 700 Masonic lodges, and about
10000 members.
Four prisoners escaped from the Xenia
(ohio) Jail Friday night.
Nine bodies Of persons mysteriously muir
.dered were found in the streets and waters OF
New York, last week.
Gen. W. A. Nichols. Adjutant General Of
the Military Division of the Mississippi, died
in st. Louis on the sth, after an illness of two
or three weeks.
There is considerable excitement in Chey-
enne, Colorado. caused by the discovery of
gold near Grow creek, two miles from town.
A large number of claims are stAked, and
many persons believe that gold exists in pay |
ing quantities.
Gerald Eaton was hanged IN Philadelpbia
on the 9th, for the murder Of Timothy Heenan.
q. g. Twitchell, who was to have been
hanged with him. was found dead in his cell,
having committed suicide.
Extra precautions are taken in watching
the banks in Montreal in consequence OF in
formation received by the bank authorities
that an organized robbery was to be attempt
ed. Various bank agencies throughout the
country have been notified by telegraph to
place 9 double guard over their banks at
night.
London pap ers contain particulars Of the
loss of the steamer Italian, bound from
Trieste to Liverpool. She struck a sunken
rock off Cape Finistere, and went down in
ten minutes. Twenty six of the crew perished,
and three of the passengers.
A telegram from St. Paul says that on last
Tuesday night, eight miles from that city, in
Washington County, horrible tragedy was
enacted, A man named Gray killed his wife
and four children, with an ax, mangling them
in a shocking manner. He afterwards cut all
their throats. All were found lying near esch
other, in pools of blood. presenting q most
sickening spectacle. Gray is insane. He
was arrested, and is now in Jail ct st. Paul
Lieutenant ". Alexander, U. s. A, met
with sudden death, at Columbia, South Car
olina, last week. He was officer of the day,
and while going "grand rounds" sentinel
shot him by mistake. He was about twenty
two years of age.
It is said that the health of General Robert
Anderson is seriously impaired.
The Tribune now claims Connecticut as
Republican State, and says it has been efectu-
ally redeemed from Democracy. and that it
will notreturn to the enemy.
4 census just completed, of Evansville,
gives a population of 1886. The females
are 27I in excess
Strawberries are selling in New York at
$40 quart.
The health of Alexander h. Stevens, Vice
President of the late Confederate Govern
ment, is so bad that his life is now despaired
Of
The Prince Imperial of France is said to be
in very feeble health. Physicians have no
hopes Of his recovery.
The daughter of Henry c. oreveling, su-
perintendent of the st. Louis Transfer Com
pany, eloped few days since with D. W.
Tod, her fathers coachman. She is an heir
ess, eighteen years old. and quite handsome.
The steamship General Grant took fire at
twelve o'clock Thursday night, while lying
at the New Orleans wharf, and burned until
she sank.
The bodies of two human beings, which
were recently found between the walls of the
Inquisitorial Convent of San Domingo, City
of Mexico, were exhibited to the members of
the medical profession and the press at the
Mexican parlors in New York on Friday af
ternoon. The bodies are in o perfect state of
preservation, and are supposed to be those of
a Christian martyr and his child. Authentic
records in the possession Of the exhibitors
show that these martyrs were sssassinated by
the Inquisitors in 1895.
I6r In the discussion of the Ag-
ricultural College question, last
week, in the Ohio Legislature, mo-
ton was made to insert the word
swhite," so as to exclude colored
persons from the benefits Of the in
stitution, and would you believe it,
in a democratic Senate, the PROPOSE