Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-11-11
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NEWS ITEMS.

News from Southern Kentucky says thai
last Saturday night band Of forty mounted
REGULATORS. after stealing horses, went to the
rss;dence of NJ. J. Maddox. near Prestonville,
and demanded that he and the negroes who
work ON his farm should surrender. Mr..
Maddox replied, saying that with his
tvo sons he would defend himself. At this
the armed regulators commenced firing upon
tbe,house. After long fight the band were
dispersed, though they declared they would
return. In their fight the rsscals were com.
PEELED to leave one of their stolen horses be.
hind.
Colonel Clarke, formerly of the Thirteenth
Brooklyn Regiment, was before Commissioner
Osborn, Wednesday, charged with engraving
plates for the manufacturing of counterfeit
currency He was held in 81, 500 bail
As young lady named Eta Baney' OF
GaIva, Illinois, was sitting by the stove,
Friday morning, her clothing caught fire and
she was so badly burned that she died in two
hours.
Ths American Colonization Society's ship
Golconda cleared from Baltimore Tuesday
for Africa, with large cargo. She sails to
Savannah to take on board four hundred col
ored emigrants from the Southern States to
Africa
The Corral at Fort Harker was struck by
lightning on Wednesday and partly burned.
Sixty mules were instantly killed.
Hon. Charles A Wickliffe, Ex-Governor Of
Kentucky, and ex-Postmaster General under
President Tyler, died in Harvard County,
Maryland, at the residence of his son-in-law,
on Sunday evening last.
A child of Mrs. Rosenwing, eleven months
old, OH Hubbard street, Chicago, came to its
death Monday by pulling from chair a large
= pan filed with hot water, the unfortunate in
FAINT being scalded in most horrible man
ner.
A special from Zanzibar brings later intel
ligence from DR.. Livingstone. He was in
good health, and requested that a supply of
nautical instruments, and almanacs for 1869
and 1870 be sent him, thus indicating pur
pose TO remain in the interior some time long
er. He claims to have discovered the true
source of the Nile.
General John c. Wool is dangerously i'll at
his residence in Troy. Grave apprehensions
are felt in regard to his recovery. He is
eighty years old.
The Sunday morning train from Louisville,
for Memphis, ran over an unknown man, near
Paris, horribly mangling and killing him in
stantly.
The Convention of the Jewish Rabbins at
Philadelphia adopted resolutions favoring a
change in the martial laws, acknowledging
the woman as the equal of the man, and pro-
viding for an exchange of rings as part of
the ceremony. Also abolishing divorces by
the Church, and leaving the power of divorce
entirely to the judiciary of the States.
From late intelligence received through
Mr.. Thornton, the British Minister, it appears
that her Majesty's Government is prepared to
reduce the single rate OF postage for prepaid
letters between the United States and United
Kingdom to three pence. There is but little
doubt, therefore, of the early adoption of this
measure Of postal reform.
Thursday morning Peter Fenden was hor.
ribly scalded at the iron foundry in Pough
keepsie, N. Y..while lying under an arch,
the engineer, not knowing he was there, hav-
ing opened blow-off cock. The flesh was
literally stripped from him. He died at 6
o'clock.
During the last fiscal year about 100 900
acres of public lands were entered under the
homestead and other laws, yielding the Gov
ernment between four and five millions dol
lars.
Mr.. Welch, Postmaster at New Portage,
Summit County, and proprietor of small
store, shot and killed man named Whitney
on Thursday night while the latter was at
tempting to force an entrance into the store.
A terrible gale of wind, accompanied by
fall of sleet, visited Buffalo Friday.
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