Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-02-11
NEWS ITEMS.

Lewis Davis was hanged at 1890 P. M. on
the 4th, in the Cuyahoga County Jail, at
Cleveland, for the murder of D. P. Skinner.
of Independence, last September.
The President has directed the Attorney
General to make report in the case of DR..
Mudd. as preliminary to his PARDON
The friends of DR.. Mudd say that they
have no doubt he will soon be set at lib
erty. This belief is based upon what the
President told them
A meeting. of native Virginians was held
in Nodaway county, Virginia, which in
cluded farmers and professional men. Reso-
lutions were adopted indorsing the new
movement, deprecating further resistance to
the reconstruction acts, and resolving the
meeting into political organization, with
the name of the Republican party. This is
the first movement of the kind in the State.
The California end of the Pacific Railroad
is going down steadily at the rate of two or
three miles per day. IT is now finished to
within Isl miles of Salt Lake. The gap is
now about 240 miles,
Reports are current in Springfield and
Quincy, Illinois, that Hon j. N. Morris, of
the latter city, has been rendered the portfolio
of the Interior Department. The Illinois
State Register credits the rumor.
All. Miller, wholesale grocer on Market
street, Louisville, has suddenly disappeared,
leaving debts amounting to $4,000 unpro-
vi6ed for.
In London scarlet fever has destroyed fifteen
lives-of children chiefy-every day for the
last thirteen weeks.
VIM. Noe, second steward OF the steamer
W. A. Caldwell, was shot through the head,
and instantly killed, at Memphis on the I'd,
by Arthur Cartwright, porter on the same
boat. The difficulty grew out of their mu-
tual admiration for chambermaid. Cart
wright escaped into the city, and is not yet
captured.
The Republicans of Connecticut have NOM
mated Marshall Jewell for Governor.
A formidable insurrection has broken out in
Algiers.
A Washington special to New York says
General Grant, in conversation, has urged the
early passage by the Senate of the constitu-
tional amendment which passed the House
Saturday.
Jefferson Davis is still one of the lions in
Paris.
The Paris, Kentucky, Citizen says: "The
mule market continues unusually active and
buoyant. During the past week our streets
have been daily alive with droves after droves
of mules going Southwark. Prices are well
maintained, and our stock men have already
more than made up their losses of last sea-
son. We should judge from the extent of the
shipments from this point, that the market
here is almost depleted"
There are thirty-three daily, 300 weekly,
five semi-weekly, and twenty-fou monthly
papers published in Ohio.
The Inauguration ball will come off in the
north wing of the Treasury Building. Tick
ct, admitting a gentleman and two ladies,
$40.
President johnson is making preparations
to return to his old Greerville home por-
tion of his family left Washington for Ten
nessee Friday.
The President, Friday, nominated to the
Senate, Henry S. Watts. to be Secretary of
Legation at Vienna, vice Hay resigned.
Five horse thieves were strung up in a row
at Dyersburg, Tennessee, last Friday, by
party of Infatuated citizens.
Twelve murderers are under arrest in New
York, including two women.
General Hancock persistently refuses to
become candidate for Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, or TO interfere with the local politics of
the State, so long as he may remain in the
army.
man, near Pittsburg, thought to enliven
a languishing fire in his crate by pouring Pc
troleum on it from can containing over two
gallons. The resultwas frightful explosion
that burned him dangerously and shattered
the walls OF the house.
Late advices from Alaska state that serious
Indian troubles have occurred at Sitka. An
Indian stolea soldiers gun, and guard was
sent TO recover the property, Ehen they were
defed by the Indians, who hoisted a red flag.
General Davis prepared to lombard the place,
when the chiefs surrendered. A few days af
terward canoe full of Indians leaving the
harbor contrary to orders, the sentries fired on
them, killing and ,wounding seven.
New York city complains of weather "pos-
itively warm
General Sherman has arrived in New
Orleans, and will remain there some
time for his health. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Sherman and Colonel Dayton and wife
The insurgents in the Eastern part of Cuba
are still actively burning plantations and de
stroying private property. Malignant chol-
era has broken out In their disordered camps.
The reconstruction Committee has reported
a bill removing the legal and political disa-
bilities from between 300 and 400 persons In
the Southern States.
1t is probable that the Reconstruction
Committee will report against the admission
of Georgia under the prcsen. constitution.
Several Tennessee papers have run up Andy
Johnson's name for Governor.
Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Maine, died sud
denly at Hallowell, Saturday, of heart disease
The Deputy Sheriff of this county
is also Justice of the Peace. Does
that fact account for the introduc-
ton of Mr.. ONDERDoNK's bill to pre-
vent acting Justices of the Peace
from being Deputy Sheriff's? It
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