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

A splendid new counlerielt oi Int
$50 green backs is out in New York
The only defect is the lack of but.
tons on Franklin's vest.
Joshua Sharp and Richard Taylor
two young men of Sharpsburg, Ken
lucky, quarrelled in bar-room, OF
Christmas Eve, and simultaneously
shot each other dead.
The great ship canal across the
Isthmus ofSuez is within ten months
of completion.
Wood for fuel costs, in Salt Lake
City, s18 to s25 cord, and coal sSO
to $40 tun.
Spain is about to send heavy ad-
d;tional reinforcements to Cuba.
Official vote of Oregon: Seymour,
HIPS; Grant, 1O,s6l. Seymour's
majority, 1854.
An old man named Michael Soden,
living in New Albany, died from
hemorrhage last week, resulted from
piece of meat which lodged in his
windpipe two weeks before, produc-
ing partial strangulation, and rem
dering him unable to take other than
liquid nourishment
President Johnson, it is under
stood, intends retiring all army Off
GERS over sixty-two years of age,
among whom are Adjutant General
Lorenzo Thomas, Paymaster Gen
eral Brice and Brigadier General
Philip st. George Cooke.
Mosley Clark, born in June, 1747,
died in Richmond, Va, Tuesday,
aged one hundred and twenty -one
years and six months. He was a
wagon driver during the Revolution
ary War.
A movement favorable to the an
nexation of Cuba to Mexico is said
to be.in progress in Mexico, and
meetings are said to have been held
favoring the project.
The little steamer IDgomar, bound
from Wheeling for Pittsburgh, was
sunk on the "Sisters" last Thursday.
The water is over her lower deck.
Three men named Henry Bevil,
James Parish and Wesley Parish,
were recently assassinated near Cor
don, Alabama, while walking at
night along country road to their
homes. Bevil had bad reputation,
but the others were old men and in
offensive citizens.
A fire occurred in Lynchburg,
Virginia, on the 23d, destroying the
machine shop of the Virginia and
Tennessee Railroad, involving loss
of$75, 900. Geo. Gamble and Eugene
Cassidy were killed, and three 9th
ers wounded by the falling walls.
Governor Brownlow says in his
Knoxville paper: "East Tennessee
ans will all be unit for separation.
We will accept, too, the terms. We
are ready to go empty-handed. Mid
die and West Tennessee may have
their railroads, public buildings,
turnpikes, and only their proper
tion of the State debt. East Tenn
essee will assume hers and ask no
more, leaving. to the other sections
all we have named, and the rebels,
Ku Klux, &C., thrown in."
A sleighing party, at Jackson, Pa,
Christmas, while going to an enter
tainment, endeavored to cross a pond
on which the thick ice had been cut;
the thin ice Immediately let the
sleigh through, and thirty people
are reported to have been drowned,
none but the driver escaping.
Governor Hoffman, of New York,
was inaugurated at Albany, Friday.
On Christmas night house, sit
uated five miles from Appling Court
House, the county seat of Columbia
county, Ca, and occupied by Mr..
Garrel Martin and two grown sisters,
was burned to the ground and its
three occupants consumed in the
flames.
The Wheeling and Pittsburg
packet New State was sunk at Cox's
Ripple. in the Ohio River, three
miles below Steubenville, on Thurs
day night. AS her lower deck is
seven feet under water, she will
doubtless prove total loss.
Two Wisconsin farmers, whose
fields Joined, had dispute about the
right to use certain gate, and to
settle the matter, one slew the other
with a pitchfork.
The election for Congressman in
the Second Arkansas District, Uice
Kinds, assassinated, has resulted in
the choice of Hon. J. T. Elliott, Re-
publican, of the Camden Journal.
The Democratic vote was very light.
Mrs Dishinger, aged seventy, was
roasted to death near Jasper, Dubois
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