Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-03-17
NEWS ITEMS.

About 1890 Thursday afternoon
three men in buggy drove up to the
Farmers and Mechanics Bank in Bir-
mingham, near Pittsburg. Two Of
the men entered the bank, one of whom
knocked down the cashier, who was
the only employe of the bank present,
while the other went behind the cour-
ter and seized all the money on the
desk, amounting to $4,000, placed
the money in basket and ran off. A
crowd collected and pursued them,
catching two of the men and securing
the money.
General Breckenridge, in criminal
argument at Lexington, denounced the
men who belonged to the Ku-Klux as
either idiots or villains, and asserted
that he was free from any fear of them,
and would readily respond to sum
mons from the Sheriff as one of posse
consitatus TO arrest and bring these
men to justice.
The President, while walking with
his son on Pennsylvania avenue on
Thursday, was met by lunatic named
Terrence Cassidy, who used abusive
language and threatened to kill him.
Cassidy was arrested and sent to the
Government Insane Asylum.
The Governor of Minnesota has We
toed the Woman's Suffrage bill, on the
ground that it is to be submitted to a
vote of the women Of the State who are
not legal voters, and that the project is
unnecessary.
Often Verhoff, well known COM
mission merchant of Louisville, died
Thursday, of injuries received few
days since by falling through the hatch
ola barge at Cairo.
The Constitutional Amendment en-
franchising rebels, and extending the
suffrage to negroes, passed the Mis-
souri, House Thursday by vote of 81
to 81. 1t had already passed the Sen
ate.
Governor Holden, of North Caro-
lima, has declared the county of Ala
mana in insurrection owing to recent
outrages in that county.
M. H. Tranbell, lithographer, has
been arrested in Philadelphia, charged
with engraving counterfeit brewers
stamps. Forty thousand dollars worth
of plates and stamps have been cap
tured.
During 1869 more emigrants landed
in New York than during any year
since 1854. $4,000 passengers land
ed, of whom $1,000 were Germans,
$1,000 Irish, and 10000 English.
The Mechanics Bank of St. Louis
has resumed specie payment. 1t has
circulation of $4,000.
The President has signed the draft
of proclamation announcing the rati-
fication of the 18th Amendment.
1t is reported Queen Victoria has
offered the title of Baron 10 Charles
Dickens.
Seward has gone to his home at Au-
burn and will stay there for while.
and then make tour Of the principal
cities of the West.
Cox, Republican, has been re-elect-
ed Mayor of Camden, N. j., by sixty
nine majority.
Troops are to be sent to Tennessee
to aid in the enforcement of United
States laws.
The Waverly National Bank, at
Waverly, New York, was entered by
burglars on Saturday night. The
vault and safe were blown open and
robbed of most of the contents. The
amount stolen is unascertained.
So far this session 800 bills have
been introduced into Congress. Its
expected the session will last till July
first.
The boiler of a portable engine ex-
ploded in Milton township. Wayne
county, Ohio, on Saturday, almost in
stantly killing seven men.
A woman named Mrs. Mary ]. Lens
ford was brutally murdered at Mans
field, Ohio, early Saturday morning.
immigration to Kansas this season is
Over five hundred
immigrants arrived at Lawrence last
week.
Governor Holden, of North Carolina,
has applied to the President for troops
to suppress disturbances in that State.
R A monster petition was pre-
sented in the lower House of the
Ohio Legislature, on Friday, t,centy-
ttco feet in Ienoth. askinp The GeneraI