Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-06-09
NEWS ITEMS.

It is believed, II the Dill &c reoucS
internal taxes should become law, the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue will
be enabled to reduce the force of local
officers fully one-third. The idea OF
consolidating collection districts has
already been suggested.
A bill is to be reported to Congress
making Christmas. New Years, the
Fourth of July and Thanksgiving ma
tional holidays.
Mrs. Owen Franks committed sui
eide at Pekin, Illinois, on Tuesday, BY
shooting herself. She placed the muz-
zIe of the gun against her breast and
pulled the trigger with a string. Her
heart was blown to atoms. Cause.
domestic infelicity.
The vegetation is suffering severely
in the vicinity of Rochester from the
want of rain. In some sections farm
ers are plowing up their winter wheat
The Fenian losses in the late raid
were IL killed and II wounded-3
mortally.
The crop reports from Arkansas,
North Mississippi. and North Ala
bama, represent the cotton and corn as
unusually good.
A cable dispatch says the Ecumeni-
cal Council has decided that the dog
ma of Papal infallibility be proclaimed
on the 29th in honor of the Feast of
St. Peter. Extensive preparations are
being made to celebrate the event.
Within the past few days 10, 531 en-
igrarts have landed at the Castle
Garden depot. Seven hundred Scan
dinavians arrived on Thursday.
A train of twenty-three cars filed
with strawberries arrived in Chicago on
Wednesday night, over the Illinois
Central Railroad. The whole cargo
weighed over one hundred tuns.
The English police profess to have
details of formidable Fenian conspira-
cy to pillage arsenals and armies, in
cluding Woolwich.
A fire at Topeka, Kansas, on Mon
day, destroyed the Topeka House, one
of the principal hotels. The building
and furniture are almost total loss;
only partially insured.
On Wednesday morning last three
men went to the house of Daniel and
Neill Mcleod, brothers, living in tho
western portion of Cumberland Coun-
ty, North Carolina, and murdered
both. They also badly wounded the
wife, daughter and son of Neill
Mcleod. The McLeods were peacea-
BILE citizens. and highly respected by
their neighbors.
B. F. Whittemore who resigned his
eeat as Representative for the First
District of South Carolina, to escape
expulsion for selling cadetship appoint
ments has been reelected.
The volume containing the laws
passed by the last Ohio Legislature
will soon be ready. 1t is smaller than
usual.
John N. Crandall, Of Upton, Indi-
ana, hung himself in his barn Monday
night. No cause assigned for the act.
He leaves wife and three children.
Two children of Mrs. Smith, living
on Van Buren street, Brooklyn, have
died recently from the effects of wounds
by rats.
Hon. John Cramer, of Waterford,
New York, the only surviving member
of the Jefferson Electoral ticket, died
Thursday in his ninety-seventh year.
A day or two since Mrs Thomas
Fletcher, residing near Havana, Ma
son County, Illinois, and her little
daughter, were burned to death by the
explosion of kerosene lamp.
The heaviest spring storm of snow
and rain ever experienced in that
country. has just subsided in Helena,
Montana. In the Mountains snow fell
to the depth of six feet. and rain fell
throughout the Territory for five days
necessarily. The prospects for placer
mining were never more promising.
A destructive tornado swept over
Scott county, Illinois, on Saturday. 1t
covered an area of four or FIVE miles in
length, and mile wide. Fences were
demolished; wheat, corn, oats, and gar
den vegetables completely destroyed,
the largest forest trees torn up by the
roots, and orchards and vineyards
ruined. No lives were lost
R The Cincinnati Enquirer, and
other Democratic papers, speak of
Senator SHERMAN's speech on the