Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-01-21
NEWS ITEMS.

week of 81, ,OOO.
The Nevada Legislature has re-
elected William NJ. Stewart United
States Senator,
The New York Tribune supports
Marshall o. Roberts for United
States Senator.
The st. Paul Pioneer says Senator
Ramsay is sure of reelection.
A six feet vein of superior coal
has been discovered on the line Of
the Denver & Pacific Railroad.
Senator Ramsay has been renomi
mated by the Republican caucus o.
the Minnesota Legislature.
The Great Eastern is now taking
on board the new cable, Franco
American, that is to be laid next
summer.
James Walker committed suicide
last week." near Rogersville> juno
ton, East Tennessee, by blowing out
his brains with a pistol.
Some workmen excavating eel
lar in Peoria last week, unearthed a
crock containing over. 81 900 nlarge
gold coins.
A boy in Kellogsville, Michigan,
whose nose was made to bleed dur
ing playful scuffie, died in a few
hours from the uncomfortable hem
orrhage.
1t appears to be understood in
Washington. that the Cubans.insur-
rectionists are gaining ground rap
idly, and stand fair chance of Sc
curing the islands independence.
Attorney General Evarts has is
sued circular of instructions to
United States District Attorneys,
directing that all suits for the crime
oftrcason be discontinued.
Charles Westmoreland, bearer of
the Electoral vote of California, died
ofsmallpox, at Panama, December
23d.
The Radical caucus at Jefferson
City, nominated General Schurz for
the Senate, on the first ballot; Schurz
60, Loan 40.
Col. G.. A. Forsyth, who distin-
guished himself in an Indian engage
ment in Kansas, in September last,
has been brevetted Brigadier Gener-
al for gallant conduct on that occa-
sion.
Hon. FL. ID. Washburn, of the
present Congress, from Indiana, is
announced as candidate for Ser
geant-at-Arms of the House of Rep
resentatives, for the Forty first Con-
gress.
The steamship Gulf City was
wrecked off Point Lookout on her
passage to New York from Calves
ton, on the 18th. 1t is supposed
that twenty-five souls perished.
A man died in Washington from
"glanders. He had driven a horse
suffering from this disease, and the
physicians, after a post naortem exam
ination, and several scientific expe-
riments, have decided that he caught
it from the horse.
At Naperville, Illionis, Chauncey
Bailey discovering his wife in crimi-
nal intercourse with James A Laird,
shot Laird, killing him instantly.
Bailey Immediately gave himself up,
but is allowed his freedom. The
public sentiment of the village is
strongly in his favor.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald recently had conversation
with Gen. Frank Blair, in Washing
ton. The General still holds to his
expressed opinion that Gen. Grant
will make a Dictator or Emperor of
himself before he leaves the White
House.
A band of Ku-Klux made raid
into Livingston, Overton county,
Tennessee, on the night of December
80, What particular object they
had is not known, but they left after
sharp conflict with party of col
ored men, forgetting to carry with
them a half dozen horses and their
shrouds.
The steamer Glide, bound from
New Orleans to Red River, when at
College Point, in the Mississippi
River, on the 18th, exploded boiler
and burned to the waters edge,..and
is total loss. A number of the off
GERS, crew and passengers, are miss
ing, and others badly scalded.
The Columbus Journalsays, "'Fid,
dler Bill or, as he stamps his Con-
gressional frank, William Mungen,
M. c. has sued John Markle, of
Hancock county, for saying he stole
5000. He places his damages at
$4,000. 1t is due his reputation as
a Congressman to show that he did
not take SO small an amount, unless
it was all the man had"
The grand jury of Licking County
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