Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-03-24

an election on Aprll zotn' loA Q
ber of Congress for the Third Con-
gressional District, to fll the vacancy
caused by the resignation OF j. 5. COL
laday.
A loan will soon be put on. the mar
ket for Mexican Overland Railroad,
based on lands granted by the Mex
ican Government. Gen. Rosecrans is
interested in the movement, and ex-
poets to establish an American colony
on some of the land granted.
Governor Senter, of Tennessee, has
asked the President for troops to sup
press disorder in Tennessee. The
President will send the communica-
ton to Congress with message, Civ
ing his views on the subject.
The Cuban question is causing
much discussion in Madrid. Some
journals favor the cession of the Is
land to the United States, but the
great majority of the papers denounce
this as cowardly.
Mrs. Mary Foster, of Newark, New
Jersey, who was one of the young
girls who carried in the procession a
basket of laurel leaves at the funeral
of Washington, died on Thursday.
aged ninety-two years.
A nitro o-glycerine factory near Hack
ensack, New Jersey, was demolished
by an explosion Thursday, and four
men and boy were killed.
In Washington county, Kentucky,
on Monday last, John Sherley made a
murderous assault upon w. G. Simms
with club, fatally injuring him.
Suit has been ordered against the
sureties of Lindley, the defaulting
Treasurer of Butler county; also against
persons who are known to have ille-
gally used the public funds.
The Senate Committee on Elec-
tions have reported that General Ames
is not eligible to seat as Senator
from Mississippi.
Julian c. Verplanek, of New York
City, well-known author, politician
and philanthropist, died Friday, in his
eighty-fourth year.
st. Patriek's day was celebrated
throughout the country Thursday, by
the Irish. In New York, there were
$4,000 men in the procession.
DIR. 8. P. Townsend, of sarsapar lila
fame, died at Fellville, New Jersey, on
Tuesday.
Miss Highgate, a colored lady, it is
believed will be elected as State Ii
brarian of Mississippi.
The Franklin Bank, at Baltimore,
Friday, formally resumed redemption
of its outstanding circulation in coin.
The resignation of Colonel Daniel
Butter6eld, Brevet Major General, has
been accepted by the President.
A vigilance committee hung W. j.
Patrick, a suspected murderer, at Dia-
mond City, Montana, last Saturday
night.
Twelve thousand six hundred and
eighty seven immigrants have arrived
at New York City since January 1st.
A London letter reports that DR..
Livingstone has died of cholera, in the
interior of Africa.
A bill has passed the Pennsylvania
Legislature creating a paid Fire De-
partment in Pittsburgh.
The union of the English and Scot
tish Presbyterian bodies approaches
consummation.
Judge Charlton, of the Probate
Court of Morgan county. Alabama,
was murdered at Decatur on Thurs
day night. Just after getting out of
the cars from Nashville men fired on
him with shotgu and killed him in
stantly.
On Saturday evening a coal miner
named Patrick Landerson was killed
by deck-hand on the steamer Ben
nett, above Monongahela City. Penn
sylvania. A crowd of dranken miners
had attacked the boat, and a shot was
fred while the boat was under way.
During storm at St. Johns, n. B.,
on Friday, a portion of the bottom of
the harbor, ON the Carleton side, sunk
bodily, so that there is now twenty
feet of water, where before at low tide
there was beach.
Capt. Henry w. Smith, President Of
the st. Louis and Memphis Packet
Company, died suddenly, at st. Louis,
on Saturday evening.
Representatives of German colony
have located forty thousand acres Of
land in Omaha. The colony is on the
way thither.
The wheat in the Miami Valley is
reported having been badly injured
during the last week.
@ A bill has been introduced in
the Ohio House of Representatives,
amendatory of the Pike Law. giving to
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