Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-04-21
Brevities.

and win soon be extended to Stin-
: sons tunnel.
The new Victor No. 3 is receiving
her cabin at Ironton.
Mules, carts and wheelbarrows
are going up the Kanawha in abund-
anee, for use in building the railroad.
There are twelve thousand varie
: ties of roses.
Medina, Ohio, was visited by q
very destructive fire on Friday last.
: Every business block in the town
was destroyed but two. The city
f had no engines, and the efforts of
the people with buckets were una
vailing.
Two prisoners, named Burt and
John Riley, escaped Jail at Vance
| burg on Friday night last. The
former is charged with the murder
of Moses Logan, and the latter with
stealing.
The new depot at Hamden, on the
NJ. Il G. r. r., has been completed.
1t is sixty feet in length, neat and
convenient.
Rev. A. J. Buell, late pastor OF the
Baptist Church. at Jackson, has re
moved to Portsmouth.
Frank Hardy will be hung at West
Union on the 9th of May.
They have elected an anti-hog
council at Ironton.
! Strawberries are announced at the
Cincinnati restaurants.
The Ashland Ky. J Fair Associa-
tion will hold their exhibition earlier
this year than formerly, viz: the
30th and 3lst of August and the 1st
and I'd of September.
Portsmouth polled 1858 votes at
the late election.
PETER KINNEY and others, of
Portsmouth, will soon establish in |
that city new bank, to be called /
the "Bank of Portsmo nth" Ii is in /
corporated under statute Of Ohio /
authorizing Free Banking" /
S. R. Bowen, of Vinton county, /
lost his dwelling house by fire re
Gently, together with a greater por-
tion of its contents.
Washington county Jail is empty.
A small steamer is TO be built at
Marietta for the Red River trade:
Marietta wharfage receipts for the
year, s5,S77.
HENRY BoHL, of Marietta, has been
elected Great Sachem of the Red
Men of Ohio.
Burglars have visited nuiaber of
houses in Harmer, recently.
A Michigan man having swapped
horse for wife, 4 bachelor friend
remarked that there must have been
something wrong about the horse or
he would not have fooled it away in
that manner.
Judge Paine, OF Cleveland, has de-
cided that debt made for intoxicat
ing liquors sold, to be re- sold at re
tail, can not be collected by the laws
of Ohio.
The Pioneers of Washington coun-
ty celebrated the S2d anniversary of
the settlement of Marietta, at that
place, April 7th.
Jonathan Bedford, of Meigs conn
ty, received a kick from a vicious
horse recently, from the effects of
which he is not expected to recover,
Information has been received at
Washington from 327 Gas Compan-
les from all portions of the country
showing the average price of gas to
be LAP per thousand feet on the 1st
of January, 1870. vl4s}.
The balloon ascension man, with
De Haven's Circus, at Portsmouth,
landed in the Ohio river. He came
out all right.
Henry Wilson, Mayor of lronton,
and one ofits oldest citizens, died in
that city on the 18th of paralysis.
The School Superintendent of
Pomeroy was attacked and severely
beaten recently, by the father of one
of the pupils, for an alleged improp
er punishment of his son.
Some 1900 saw logs came out of
Elk river, into the Kanawha. on the
recent rise.>
Mrs. Gardner, wife Of Mr. Thomas
Gardner, died at her residence in
Rome township, Lawrence county,
on the 9th, aged Il years. Mrs.
Gardner was one of the oldest resi-
dents of Lawrence county. She had
been married over so years, and the
golden wedding was celebrated about
year since. aE
The Journal says there is an unu-
sual amount of sickness in Ironton
at this time.
In the upper end Of Mason county,
w Va last week. q man by the