Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-01-07

| 1865 The total loss by fire in this
country during the last thirteen
years is placed at s339, sos, 900,
/ Henry P. Baldwin, of Detroit,
Governor elect of Michigan, took the
oath of office at Lansing, Friday.
| The Legislature convenes there to-
day.
| The first blast furnace in Chicago
commenced operations Saturday. 1t
is known as the Chicago Iron Com
pany. and is located four miles from
4 the center of the city. When'fairly
started it will be able to manufacture
about twenty tuns of pig iron daily.
i One of the boldest outrages on
i record was the attack in East Twelfth
street, New York, at seven o'clock
on Thursday morning, by two row.
dies on Mr.. Charles M. Rogers, a
clearinghouse keeper, while he was
sweeping the sidewalk in front of his
door. They first robbed him and
then stabbed him, inficting wound
in the abdomen, which will probably
prove fatal.
Virginia is moving toward law and
order, and wants reconstruction.
The result of recent conference of
leading men of the State, at Rich
mond, was the appointment of
committee of nine to visit Washing
ton and ''secure universal suffrage,
coupled with universal amnesty"
This is accepting the situation.
The New York Board of Excise
has followed the lead of the World,
in having made careful chemical
analysis of the liquors sold in that
city as Bourbon" whisky, and the
result is published for the benefit of
whom it may concern. Out ofthirty-
eight specimens subjected to test,
only two were found pure. The in
gredients of which most of this Hfine
old whisky" is composed are as fol-,
lows: Fusil oil, rancid lamp oil,
green tea, prusic acid, winter green
and strychnine. The commodities
sold as brandy and gin were found
to be made up of compounds equally
vile.
Three of the finest farms in the
Kentucky Blue Grass region have
been purchased by Ohioans. The
"Model Farm" of the late Thos.
Smarr, near Georgetown, containing
500 acres, sold at S12O per acre to
John Kilgour, of Cincinnati. John
l.. Hickman's farm of $50 acres, near
Paris, was purchased by L. Andrews,
of Cincinnati, at S137 per acre, but,
since his suicide, has been occupied
by Hon. A. c. Myers, formerly a
member ofCongress, ,ofPennsylvania.
"Castleton," the country seat of the
late Richard Higgins, near Lexing-
ton, containing 552 acres, was sold
to Mr.. Inskip, of Xenia, Ohio, for
gill per acre.
A matrimonial faur pas is report
ed from Quincy, Illinois. The
youthful wife of a prominent citizen,
becoming jealous of her husbands
preference for the servant girl, sent
the latter away for one night and
occupied her room. Shortly before
midnight, as she supposed, her hus-
band entered. Soon afterward, re-
solved to surprise him, she struck a
light, and discovered that her sleep
ing partner was her husbands coach
man.
1t was reported in Memphis, on Sun
day night, that the militia at Marion,
Arkansas, had taken five prisoners con-
fined in Jail, tried them by drum-head
court martial, carried them to the
woods, and shot them to death. The
names of DIR. McKinzie and John
Thorpe, two well known citizens, alone
are given. The report caused consid-
cradle excitement, and further news
from that quarter is looked for with
painful interest.