Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-03-18

field will be assigned to the command o' 'he
Pacific coast, vice General Hslleck.
Our new Democratic United States Sena-
tor, Mr.. Thurman, goes on two eommi''ees :,
the senste-the Judiciary Committee and
the Committee on Post Offices ana fost
Roads.
The South Carolina General Assembly
nassed the joint resolution ratifying the Fiji
teenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States on the llth.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
>Deiano, took the oath of Office on the 10th,
and entered formally upon his duties. The
retiring Commissioner, Rollins, was present
ed with "a series of complementary resolu-
tions, and made brief but happy speech in
response
The excitement in San Francisco about the
White Pines is unabated. Thousands OF
people arc going thitheiward. Fifty-six
companies have been organized in that city
since the frat of March to work the mines in
That vicinity
The Paris True Kentuckian, speaking of
the appearance of John G. 5reckinridge in
that town, says: "Ee particularly noticed
the cordial greeting between himself and
Colonel Hanson. The last time they met. at
Saltville, Colonel Hanson was badly wound
ed, and his prisoner"
On Friday as men were cutting a road
throue h snow drift near Peaeham Corners,
Vermont, they came upon the frozen bodies of
Mrs. Emmons, aged sixty years. her daugh-
ter and her grandson. The old lady had
fallen, overcome with the cold and snow,
half mile, from farmers house, through
the window of which light was shining all
night while the daughter had approached
little nearer, and the boy was within two
rods of the window. He had evidently
dragged himself some distance on his hands
aud knees
John Sandford Young shot Richard Powell.
son of Ex-Governor Powell, through the
heart, at Henderson, Kentucky. at o'clock
P. NJ, Thursday last. killing him instantly.
Both were drinking.
The Vice President expects to accompany
his wife, the last of next week, to her late
Ohio home, and will return Immediately to
preside in the Senate until the end of the ses-
sion The remainder of his family have al
ready returned to Indiana.
A drunken fellow in Linn County, Iowa.
the other day, tried to enter house wherein
were only two girls, who affrighted, fed to
the kitchen and armed themselves with an
axe, the man followed, kicked in a panel of
the door, but could not get his foot out again,
whereupon the. girls chopped it off for him.
Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania. re-
joices il probably the Oldest married couple
in the stste-Patrick Murphy and wife,
aged respectively ITO and 80 years.
1t is said that General Daniel E. Sickles
will supercede General Rosecrans as Minister
to Mexico.
Near Xenia, Henry G. Edmonson shot and
killed George Miller after he refused to "take
back'' words that he had spoken about the
former.
General Sheridan arrived in Washington
Friday
DR.. Mudd has been released from the Tor
tugas and arrived at Key West, en- route
North.
Kentucky rejects the constitutional amend
ment on suffrage
Mrs Ladd, aged one hundred and eight
years, died in Hartford Conn, March IL.
Inquiry at the War Depart ment. on Satur-
day. developed the fact t hat no order has yet
been issued reyoking the recent assignment Of
Lieutenant General Sheridan to the command
of the Department Of Louisiana. 1t is proba-
bic, however, that such an order will be is
sued, as General Sheridan is now here, and
prefers the late command Of General Sherman,
with headquarters at ST. Louis.
General Jordan, formerly Chief of Staff to
General Beauregard, recently disappeared
from Charleston, South Carolina, and it is cur
rently reported that he has sailed for Cuba to
take up arms in behalf of the insurgents.
Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky, died at
his residence IN Louisville Saturday.
Judge w. B. s. Moore, formerly United
States Senator from Maine, died at Lynch
burg, Virginia, on Tuesday last. His re-
mains are to be taken home for burial.