Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-10-28

There are rumors of strong opposition %
the confirmation of Robeson as Secretary Oh
the Navy, on the ground that Pennsylvania
deserves place in the Cabinet and New
Jersey does not.
pre.;dent Grant and General Sherman, will
he rfesent at the reunion of the army OF the
Tennessee, which takes place in Louisville on
the 17th and 18th of November.
Hon. John V. Farwell, of Chicago, has
made the nine bishops of the Methodist
Church, and also himself, life members of
the Evangelical Advertising Association.
Hon. Thos. W. Harrison, Judge of the
Third Circuit of West Virginia, is urged for
the new United States Circuit udgeship for
the States of Virginia, West Virginia, and
North and South Carolina.
4 party of moantain eers discovered, some
days 400, in Southwest Colorado the bones OF
six men and foity-six horses, supposed to oe
the remsips of the party lost from Colonel
Fremont,s exploring expedition, of whom
nothing was ever heard-over twenty years
ago.
The full Official vote of Pennsylvania gives
Geary majority of 1895, and Williams, for
Judge of the Supreme Court, a majority of g.
7O3
A special from New Orleans to New York,
October 18th, says: "The New Orleans,
jackson Gulf Railroad brought to this city
an unusually large passenger train of seven
cars, each of them packed to the utmost
There were 23O through passengers; l6O Of
these we're hardy looking sons of Ohio and
West Virginia. They ere represented to have
been employed there. at fifty dollars per
month and expenses paid, as laborers to save
the sugar crop on the Teche, but they look
very much like recruits for some filibustering
expedition"
There is still considerable excitement in
Toronto over apprehended Fenian operations
and the militia and regular troops are on the
alert for any attempted surprise.
Latest estimates of the Republican majority
in Iowa place it at $4,000.
Charles Stewart, of Nashville, Tennessee,
shot and killed his wife, Wednesday, in q
drunken fit. The night previous he threat
ened to shoot one Of his children. His wife
reproved him in the morning for the threat.
and lost her life in consequence. Stewart is
in Jail.
The friends of General Butler say that, in
case Andy johnson is elected to the Senate,
from Tennessee, the former will contest with
Wilson for the seat from Massachusetts,
They claim that he can defeat Wilson, if he
tries.
Edward Barrier. of Princeville, H.. prom
inent lawyer, was found dead in field seven
miles from his home, Moaday. He is sup
posed to have died of apoplexY.
Mrs. Malache Kinney. Of Arcola, ILL.,, was
instantly burned to death, on Thursday, by
the explosion of erosene lamp.
1t was a lawyer who picked up pocket
book, at depot in Des Moines, Iowa, the 9th
er day, and shoutrd till he found the owner.
The first negro who ever offered to vote in
Vinton County, was led TO the polls, about
fifteen years ago. by Henry Reynolds, now
Democratic Auditor of that county.
Chickens by the thousand have been dy-
ing about Piqua, Ohio. They droop, refuse
to eat, and in from ten to twenty-four hours
die.
The Bank of Pomeroy, (ohio.l wound up
its business on Wednesday last.
Toledo offers cheap lot and $4,000 in
cash to an acceptable man who will build
there first class hotel, to cost not less than
$I5O.OO0.
The manufactures of metal in Cincinnati
now reach the immense value of tirenty mil
lions of dollars annually. of which the prod
ucts are largely exported South and West =
This is a department in which Cincinnati has
advantages of almost any place in the eoun-
try.
On Thursday evening week, the whole ga
BILE end down TO the first floor of q new Meth
odist Church, at St. Clairsville, Ohio, fell in
with crash. The loss will be some six
hundred dollars. Nobody hurt.
The earthquake of Friday was very severe
at Newburyport, Massachusetts,. Buildings
were shaken SO as to move the furniture in
them, but no great damage was done to the
. buildings themselves. At Waldoboro, Maine,
a seam ten feet wide was opened in the earth.
From sixty TO one hundred car loads of cat
tie pass Lawrence, Kansas, daily on the Pacific
Railroad coming East.
The water at the mouth of the Mississippi
is go low that several vessels from foreign
ports are now lying there, unable to get over
the bars.
large beds Of bituminous coal have recent
~ rbeen disssxered in the eastern part of
Rrsotinridg dge Ssnty, Kansas, in the vicinity
Of Eeosho RAPids. 1t crops out in many
places, ma is supposed to underlie many
thousand acres of land in that portion of the
country.
A school for negro preachers has been or
ganized at Lexington, Kentucky, under the
Chris tian Church