Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-02-04

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Col. Dayton, with their families, have
gone to New Orleans.
The Legislative Committee on the 10
cation of the Agricultural College, have
reported in favor of Urbana.
On Friday, Freeman Harris was
torn asunder in saw-mill, near Des
Moines, Iowa.
Seward denies the story that there
are any negotiations for the transfer
of Cuba pending.
Ex-Governor Pickens died in Edge
field, South Carolina, on the 25th.
In his speech before the Wisconsin
Legislature, Matt. H. Carpenter, Uni
ted States Senator elect, pledged that
he would retain his position no longer
than his course was approved by those
who elected him.
Mrs. Clark, of Barnesville, Belmont
county, Ohio, has just discovered that
her husband, who has been missing
for twenty-three years, was killed in
one of the battles of the Mexican war.
General Dix, in banquet speech at
Paris, stated that the cause of Greece
was that of liberty, and that she had
the sympathy of this country.
Russian troops are reported moving
toward Odessa and other points on the
Black Sea, and the Government is ac
cumulating large quantity of railway
iron for completing the line between
Moscow and Odessa during the COM
ing summer. All vessels of the Baltic
feet are to be ready to move when the
ice breaks up.
DR.. Edison B. Olds, of Lancaster,
Ohio, died very suddenly on Sunday
evening, the Gath, about 10 O'Clock, of
disease of the heart. He had been in
his usual health during the day, and
died while sitting in his chair.
The Xenia (ohio) Gazette publishes
an extended obituary of Mrs. Nancy
Maxwell White, nee Robinson, who
died, recently, in Vermilion county,
Illinois, aged one hundred and eight
She was born near Wheeling in 1761.
On Monday morning, just before
daylight, two horse-thieves, named
John Fox and Sam W. Taylor were ia
ken from the custody of Esquire Law
renee, near Poplar Corner, Tenn, ia
ken to the woods, and shot to death by
a party of masked men.
A son of HI. A. Scales, Nashua,
Chickasaw county, Iowa, swallowed a
pin, which stuck in his throat, worked
through the back of the neck, and at
the end of ten days pierced the spinal
nerve and caused death
At the Wheeling municipal election,
on the 26th, the entire "Citizen Reform
Ticket" was elected by handsome ma
jorities. Republicans and Democrats
united in voting for the best men, with
out respect to politics.
At Falmouth, Maine, last week, a
man named SWEET was cutting trees,
when the ak glanced and buried itself
in the body of a lad named Marston,
killing him almost instantly. They
were alone, and SWEET, horror struck,
went into convulsions. He was found
writhing in the snow, and the dead
body of the lad near by, the liver pro-
truding from the wound.
Two boys living near Meridian, Mis-
sissippi, aged respectively ten and thir-
teen, while out rabbit-hunting, recent
ly felled tree so awkwardly, that the
arm of the elder was caught, mangled,
and hopelessly imprisoned between the
stump and the PROSTATE trunk. He
told his companion to chop off the cap
tured member, which was done with
one blow of the ak. The boys staunch-
ed the blood as best they could, and
both walked home.
ct Jackson Court House, Ohio, last
Friday night, VIM. S. Martin and his
wife intended to go out calling. Acci-
dentally the lamp was thrown from the
stand and broken. Mrs. Martin had
on silk dress, and Immediately it was
in flames. She had presence of mind
to throw herself upon the carpet and
throw blanket over her, by which the
flames were smothered.
On Thursday, as an engine was
coming west on the Baltimore d Ohio
Railroad, when near Glover's Gap, she
exploded her boiler, instantly killing
the engineer, William Lennon, and
badly injuring the fireman.
An oil farm in Meigs county, Ohio,
which was once sold for SIC, 900, was
knocked down at Sherif's sale recently
for $3.50.
On Tuesday nighta body of disguis-
ed men, some twenty in number, enter
ed Harrodsburg, KY, and proceeding
to the hotel, aroused the ar-keeper
and inquired fer man named Speers,
the stage-driyer between Harrodsburg
and Nicholasville. They made the
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