Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1869-06-10
NEWS ITEMS

A lady living in Louisville, who weighs
900 pounds. has lived for the past two months
without eating the least food The attend
ing physician can give no aid, as she suffers
neither pain nor hunger.
Major General George H. Thomas and staff
arrived in San Francisco Monday night,
seven days and ten hours, travelling time
from New York. They express themselves
we'll pleased with the management Of The
railroads. 94s 44
A disgraeeful row occurred between the
passengers aud crew of a little steamer called
the Hunter, lying at Four Nile Lane. a small
village OF. the Indiana side of the Ohio river,
few miles below Louisville. 1t was free
fight for all. One man was seriously stabbed
with q knife, and many were more or less
wounded, naa IL tis sf
The vote Of Christ Methodist Episcopal
Church Of Pittsburg, on lay delegation was
tsken Thursday, and resulted as follows: III
for and against. Great interest is felt on
the subject and full Eote'of oil the churches
is expected. rs
General Lee has expressed himself in favor
of the adoption of the expurgated constitu-
t,on of Virginia, aud the election Of Mr..
Walker, the candidate of the Conservative
Republicans for Governor
Rust has appeared in the wheat ln Vir
ginia, and the crop viii be reduced one-half,
The Fremont, Ohio, post Office was broken
into and robbed Wednesday night. The
thieves destroyed large number of letters.
The grassboppers, which last yesr oVerrsn
the southern part of Huron county, are com
ing again, it is ssid, with the prospect Of un-
mitigated destruction to every thing green.
The vote on the introduction of lay delega-
tions into the NJ E. Church, submitted to the
membership by the last General Conference
was taken in portion of the Churches in
Chicago, Tuesday, with the following result:
Clark street Church. 72 for and 3 against;
Wabash avenue Church, l34 for and ! against;
Grant Place Church, 25 for and against;
Park avenue Church, Ga for and s against
Total thus far 295 for and l3 against.
Two hundred and twenty eight tuns Of
strawberries, filing forty one cars, were re-
ceived in Chicago, during the week ending
Tuesday. They all came over the Illinois
Central Railroad, which is now running an
exclusively fruit train, and are mostly from
South Pass, Illinois, and vicinity. The fruit
is very fine this season.
Sheriff Colgrove, of Jones county, North
Carolina, was shot dead, Saturday morning,
by party of white men, concealed by the
roadside. His servant was mortally wound
ed and has since died.
Inthe month of May the Secretary of the
Treasury sold s5,OO0,0OO of gold, receiving
therefor S7,0OO,00O in currency. He also
bought during that time S3,700,O00 worth Of
bonds at premium of about 100000 in
currency.
At Pittsburg, Monday afternoon, Mrs.
Mary Fustin went up stairs to lower win
dow. and while doing So was struck by light
ming and instantly killed.
The total loss of property by the recent
tornado at Shipman, Illinois, reaches
half q million of dollars. Numerous persons
were badly injured, but none killed. About
half the buildings in the town were either
wholly or partially demolished.
At Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, on Friday
evening, house, occupied BY family named
Glib, was struck by lightning 1t passed
down the chimney to the second floor, who're
it,took an oblisue course, passing through |
tn hearth and first ceiling, and then struck
Mrs. Glib on the chin, passing down her
breast killing her almost instantly
Las. week two daughters of Neal Moore, in
Lawrence county, Kentucky, were on hill
eide, burning brush, when the elder girl
noticed that log some distance above, was
rolling toward them. She called to her little
sister to escape, but made no effort to get out
of the way herself. The log rolled on with
resistless force, and catching her, it crushed
her and broke her neck.
The Sheriff of Saline county, Kansas, re-
ports thirteen persons--men, women and
children-killed in that county by Indians,
andas many more supposed to have been
The women carried off su ffered worse than
death. Settlers in Saline county are coming
eastward for protection. A letter from that
region says: "If the Quaker agents do not
hurry up, the poor, innocent savages will de-
stroy all the frontier settlements of Kansas
and Colorado"
A breach of promise suit, in which the
damages are laid at 100000. is now in pro-
gress in the Circuit Court of Du Page county,
Illinois. Tie plaintiff is Miss Amanda j
Craig, Of Cincinnati, and the defendant is
Elisha @. spraguc, of Chicago,
A proclamation has just been signed, and I
will be duly promulgated, for the public sale
of lands embracing about 9. 100000 acres, to
take place at Denver City, Colorado, com
mencing on the 18th of September next,
There are now 756 libel suits pending
against editors or publishers in this country
The total amount of damages alleged TO be
done to theSe 1856 plaintiffs is S47 ,500,00O.
There is official authority for saying that
the rumors circulating about disagreement
between the President and Commissioner De-
lanO are wholly untrue. sd .6r
The total vote in Chicago, so far as it has
been taken, on the lay delegation question
in NJ. E Church, fOots up 500 for and Sc
against the proposition. The vote in the
Centenary Church, which has 700 members,
was very small-l6: for and 10 against
Out OF that city the Evanston Church voted
80 for and Is against; Joliet, l9 for and 90
against.
Wednesday night party disguised went
to the jail at Frankfort, North Alabama, and 4
after forcing the jailer to surrender the keys,
took cut two horse thieves, named Inrnan and I,
Anderson, carried them to the wood and
shot them.
Great excitement prevailed in the Spanish
Cortes when the telegram announcing Gen.
Dulce's resignation was read. 1t was ru-