Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-06-23


reached 81 degrees. Several cases o
sun.stroke were reported.
A terrific hail storm, accompanied b,
thunder and lightning. passed owe
Troy, New York, Monday noon. /
did great damage in the country t.
fruit, DC. A similar storm is reported
at Albany and Binghampton.
On Monday, at Oshkosh, Wis
consin, hue in the boiler of Paine d
Co.'S saw-mill exploded, tearing por'
ton of the mill in pieces. and scalding
Gilbert Gilmore, fireman, SO badly
that he died in two hours.
The Irish Times says Dickens lef
100000.
The Mechanics Bank of Louisville
was robbed about five o'clock Friday
afternoon. Two robbers seized the
cashier, who was alone, and, after rem
dering him insensible with chloroform,
robbed the bank of 100000.
Fifty Indians attacked Spring Sta
ton, thirteen miles west of Kit Carson,
Colorado, on Tuesday, and were driven
off by the guard, with loss of three
killed and several wounded. No white
men were hurt.
Breadstuffs are advancing in Paris
at an alarming rate in consequence of
the drought.
Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte died at
Baltimore Friday morning, aged sixty
FIVE.
Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island.
and Senator Cragin, of New Hamp-
shire, were Tuesday re elected.
One Joseph H. Henriques was held
to bail. in Philadelphia, Thursday, be-
ing charged with false Imprisonment of
an insane brother, who alleged that he
had been confined in a room in the
house for seventeen years.
Henry Cress, a butcher by trade,
committed suicide last week, in Louis
vile, by hanging himself in his'stable
loft. He had been i'll some time with
disease of the brain. He leaves
wife and three children. He had an
insurance of $4,000 on his life in the
Etna Life Insurance Company.
The crop reports received from two
thirds of the counties of Iowa, all give
glowing accounts of crops of all kinds.
A Memphis dispatch says the con-
tinued rains of the past week have al
most ruined the cotton crop. The
planters are very despOndent.
The bill creating Department of
Justice has passed both Houses of Con-
gress. The Attorney General is to be
the head, with Solicitor General and
two assistants. The law officers of the
other departments are transferred to
this one, and all the law business Of
the Government is to be transacted by
it. The employment of special coun-
sci by the Government is prohibited
Governor Walker, of Virginia, has
signed the bill Incorporating the At
lantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad.
A passenger train on the Union Pa
ci6c Railroad ran into party of
mounted Indians, while rounding
curve near Ogallalah. Several shots
were fired by the Indians, but no one
on the train was hurt. Several horses
were killed. Cavalry are in pursuit
of the Indians.
At Delavan, Tazewell County, Illi-
nois, on Thursday, Mrs. Sue Hall, wife
of Orlando Hall, committed suicide by
cutting her throat with a razor. She
was highly respected and had been
married but one year. She left note
for her husband simply saying, "Good
bye, husband"
Late advices from Japan state that
an earthquake occurred at Yokohama
on tie 18th ult., with slight damage
The alarm was the most violent since
1855. 1t is reported that several vii
lagos in the neighborhood of Vres are
destroyed. The great volcano of osa-
ma, in the Province of Sincha, quiet
for four centuries, is in violent erup-
ton, accompanied with shaking of the
earth. The people are terrified and
the villages in the vicinity are de-
stroyed. The Captain of the bark
Benefactress reports an active crater in
the sea two hundred miles from Yoko-
hama; some portions of it are above
the sea. The water is boiling and a
cloud issuing.
H The great fight this fall will be
for members of Congress. In Ohio
the delegation now stands. thirteen