Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-02-24
NEWS ITEMS.

Gold was 11S2 on Saturday. This
ia the lowest Foint it has reached since
September, 1862.
The Ways and Means Committee
has determined that ii is advisable to
reduce the revenue to the extent OF
$40. 600. OOO-but it is not yet given
ont upon what source of the revenue
the reduction will be made. ------=--
A picture,frame manufacturer nam
ed voorhees,, a prominent business
man and politician of Brooklyn, was
shot and killed in a saloon in that city,
on Sunday night, by a stranger nam ed
Chambers. So great was the indigna-
ton of the people that the Thirteenth
REGIMENT of militia was called out to
prevent the prisoner being lynched.
There is likely to be trouble with
Brigham Young about collecting the
taxes. He refused to make returns,
and the Assessor assessed them, and
now Brigham threatens to oppose the
collection. The Revenue Bureau at
Washington has asked General sher-
man if he will furnish troops to enforce
their collection, and he says he will.
Secretary Boutwell, is opposed to
any present reduction Of the Internal
Revenue tax, though he thinks such a
measure would be advisable as soon as
$500, 600, 900 or s6Oo,O 100000 of the
debt shall have been funded.
The Southerners who went to Bra
zil to settle at the close of the war have
sent petition to the Government to
send ship to bring them home The
bearer of the petition says they are IN
a very destitute condition.
The boiler in B. c. Taylor's agricul-
tural works, at Dayton, exploded
Thursday, demolishing the south half
of the building, killing five men and
wounding a number Of others.
Among the nominations confirmed,
Friday, was that of Mahlon Chance, of
Ohio, to be Consul at Nassau.
The boiler in the Union Railway
Compauy's works, St. Louis, exploded,
Thursday, killing four persons and
wounding half dozen others.
The jail at salina, Kansas, was burn
ed on the I6th inst A desperate who
was confined therein was roasted TO
death. He had refused TO give his
name.
A plot is said to have been discover
ed to assassinate the French Emperor
and the Prince Imperial.
Nebraska has ratified the Fifteenth h
Amendment.
]. Wesley Harper, another of the
members of the well known publishing
house of Harper Brothers, is dead.
Twenty thousand valentines passed
through the mails in New York City
on Monday.
Thomas Warren, who lives three
miles from Topeka, Kansas, was one
hundred years old on the 10th inst.
The President does not think we can
fund the public debt this year at par
for four and half per cent.
Admiral Farragut is dangerously i'll.
A malignant form of typhus fever is
raging in Erie, Penn.
Texas has ratified the Fifteenth
Amendment.
Over six thousand emigrants have ar
rived in New York since January.
Commodore Stephen Champlain, the
last surviving commander of the battle
of Lake Erie, on whose vessel the first
and last gun was fired, died in Buffalo
Sunday.
The 11th inst, was fearfully cold
day on the plains of the Northwest,
and the most tempestuous experienced
this winter. A number of persons in
the vicinity of Fort Abercombie per-
ished in the storm.
Two thousand dollars worth of
counterfeit nickels, were seized in
Brooklyn, on Saturday.