Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-06-17

Prominent yireinians say that the Wells
ticket will carry Virginia by thirty thousano
majority, and that the Democrats aon'i' sna'
defxt is sure.
The validity Of the will Of the late Captain
Iobn Blair Summons. which las been con-
tested bv his sons. James B. Summons and
W. a. Summons, after trisf Of four days in
the Campbell County Circuit Court, Of Ken
tucky, has been sustained by the verdict Of
the jury.
Ex-rebel General John @. Breckinridge is
now in St. Paul, Minnesota, looking after his
property. be having owned considerable
amount there previous to going into the re-
bellion. He is accompanied by Beriah Ma
coffin, Ex-Governor Of Kentucky.
Millard ,Demere, was burned to death in
Newport. New Hampshire, on Thursday
night. s Eas
DR.. John Doy, Of Battle Greek, Michigan.
convicted recently of abortion, died on Tues
day morning from poison which he took on
Sunday.
The New York Methodist has returns from
some forty churches, showi ng vote of 1,522
for and l67 against lay delegation.
Atameeting of the Presbytery of London
derry Sold School). held in Boston, June g.,
the basis of reunion of tbs Old and New
Schools as agreed upon at New York, was
unanimously adopted.
Last Wednesday, @. r. scruggs, brother
in-,aw of Chief Justice Williams, of Ken
tacky, entered his house at Clintonville.
Bourbon County. went up staiPs. returned in
q few moments to the parlor, and, sitting
down on asofa, told his daughter he had taken
strychnine. In twenty minutes he was
dead.
Twenty-four persons, many Of them of
known respectability, and men of wealth and
high social standing. have disappeared from
New York within the past two weeks.
Adam Evans, of Randolph County. Illi-
nois, has mare mule that at birth, this
spring. gave pint of milk at milking.
The Secretary of War has granted one years
leave of absence to Gen. Sickles, with per
mission to 60 to Europe.
Millard 0smere, while reading in bed, at
Newport, n. e., Thursday night, upset the
lamp and was burned to death.
The young corn in Cuyahoga county, O.,
was damaged by the frost the first Of last
week.
The wheat and corn crops in the interior of
Missouri have been good deal damaged by
the long continued rains.
Eighteen car loads of strawberries reached
Chicago within twenty four hours ending
yesterday afternoon. This fruit was never SO
plenty nor so cheap in that market as this
season.
Henry Brooker, German wood-sawer, six
ty-seven years old, was found dead in his bed,
at Chillicothe, last Friday morning.
A horse ran away with milk cart on Sec
ond street, Memphis, Thursday evening, and
ran over four children, killing two Of them.
A colony of japanese have purchased land
in Eldorado County, California, on which they
propose settling.
Reports made to the National Division of
the Sons of Temperance, in session at Wash
ington, show that that organization now has
1853 divisions in operation, with 96,673
members and 4G,7sl lady visitors. The re-
ceipts of the order last year were Sls6,26
"a l., 81
ments. Nearly 25, 900 members were expelled
during the year.
Last week piece of ground near the resi-
dencs of John Joshson, in Plainfield, Michi-
gan, sunk to the depth of about eighty feetcar-
rying with it several trees and stumps. The
open space is funpel-shaped, and about sew
enty feet across the top. Some of the trees
lodged about half way down, while others
went to the bottom. There is said to be con-
tinually coming up from the deep and SEEM
ingly bottomless hole distant roaring sound,
as of rushing waters.
A young man named Walker, with horse
which he was riding. was killed by lightning
last Saturday, in Washington County, Iowa.
The lightning passed through his hat, making
blue mark down his right side and came
out at the top of his boot.
Samuel Morrow, the farmer of Westmore-
land County, Pennsylvania, who murdered
his wife some days ago and escaped, as was
supposed, went into the woods and hanged
himself.
Hon. William H. Seward, accompanied by
Hon. Frederick W. Seward and lady, and
AbIah Fitch, Esq, of Auburn, New York.
are in Chicago. They have started out on
tour OF six months duration, comprising
trip to Omaha, and thence by Pacific Railroad
to San Francisco, where they propose to take
q steamer to Sitka. The party propose to
visit India and China before their return home
to Auburn.
On Tuesday evening, near Cameron, West
Virgins, two brothers, named James and
Jesse Clouston, were shearing sheep, when a
dispute arose between them concerning ts-
blecloth which James had promised to give
Jesse (as the latter claimed) on the occasion
Of his marriage, which occurred six months
ago. Finally James called Jesse liar, and
Jesse replied with blow; whereupon James
stabbed his brother with a pair of sheep
shears, and killed him instantly.
In the New York bay, Friday, the body Of
Col. Prank P. Woodall, who commanded an
lillneis regiment during the war, was found
Heating, with large scalp wound on the
head, which would indicate that he had been
robbed and then murdered.
Thomas Man, having married notorious
woman of the town at Peoria, Illinois. shot
and killed himself last Monday, to relieve his
mind of the odium.
Elias Hobbs was removing mole mound in
his garden, at Moundsville, West Virginia,
on Wednesday, when he unearthed large
number of Indian darts, Of various colors, and
some of immense size. They were lying on
edge, closely packed.