Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-08-12
NEWS ITEMS.

n tctter HULL q pfkiLAlincut cisizcu Va Aeu
nessee, states that the chsnceso Ex- President
johnson for being returned to the United
States Senate, are suchess to place his elec-
ton almost beyond doubt. His only promi
nent opponent is Bsilie Peyton, who, the wri.
ter asserts, will be bought off. A majority
of the members elect, of the new Legislature.
are said to be pledged to johnson.
Mrs. DIR. Hobbs, ,Sof Boston, was shot dead
on Tuesday evening in her psrior, in the
presence of ber husband and child, by Thos.
L. White, of Tennessee, 8 patient. White
was arrested. a
Heavy shipments of fruit pass over the Pa
cifc Railroad daily, from California, for the
Eastern markets. =, ,g-s
Ten of the steamer Dubuque rioters have
been held on q charge Of murder. Three
others were held for further hearing.
Both the sons of Senator Brownlow who
were candidates for the Legislature in Ten
nessee have been defeated. '-
-Four hundred and fifty Mormon emigrants
passed through Omaha on Tuesday, for Salt
Lake. They were principally Danes.
Heavy and continued rains are working IN
jury to the crops in Georgia. -lu-, ~- -.
A man named F. Lawber, living near Can
ton, Missouri attempted to swim across a
creek, with his little boy upon his back, a
day or two ago, and both were drowned. A
man named Rovers attempted to save them,
and he too was drowRed sir-- er-~s-5
The Attorney General declares that VIII
liams County, heretofore united with Paul
ding and Defiance in Legislative District,
is entitled to separate Representative. '9uT
.. The Trustees of the Central Ohio Iuhatic
Asylum have accepted the plans for the same
furnished by Captain Levi T. Schoield, of
Cleveland. Bids for the construction of the
building will be immediately advertised for.
Parties in st. Louis are erecting works for
smelling the silver ores of Colorado, as it is
believed that city will become the chief point
for carrying on that work. One thousand
tuns of ore viii soon be received there daily.
A Peoples ticket. in opposition to the reg
ular Republican ticket, has been nominated
in Morgan County, with Luther Timberlake
for Representative. The Democrats will
make no nominations. .- q, -.asf.
The Democrats of Franklin and Pickaway
Districts have nominated A. g. Hibbs for the
State Senate The nomination gives great
dissatisfaction. The Convention adjourned
in the midst of great uproar.
Senator Sherman will speak at Canton, on
the evening Of the 14th: u '',-'- .-l-'-r'
Henry Lee, James NJ. Sewell and s. Sew
ell were drowned. on Thursday, at Baltimore,
by the upsetting of aloop. Eleven others
were saved. $500.
Senter's majority for Governor of Tennessee
will not fall short of $4,000. ~
The Democrats in Washington claim that
their party has carried the election in Ala.
hams. E<V .EE .s- .5C2i 1E IL
g 1t is said that Cuban expedition Of two
hundred and fifty men, which sailed from the
Florida Coast, on the 4th, has arrived at its
destination, and sent back courier, with
news of its safety -- g.
General Barlow has seized eight Of the ff !
teen boats building at New York for the
Spanish Government, and gave directions for
the seizure of the remainder. Reports as to
the cause for the seizure are'confictlng, One
report says that it was, made by the Marshal
under general commission to secure stheen-
forcement Of the neutrality laws and on the
ground that the boats were TO be used against
Peru. Another repOrtis to the effect that it
was made under direct orders from Washing
ton dictated by a change inthe Governments
Cuban policy; and this is supplemented by
the assuraness that the Government will,
within three DAYS, recognize the Gnbans as
belligerents. | ic $50 .izii; ~