Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1870-02-10
NEWS ITEMS;

scoundrels; and how the citizens turned
out en- masse and dressed the trees
with salve and rags, and how the trees
bore marvellous crop of peaches
Soon after their burden had been gath
cred, they were girdled again, anc
Mr.. Green in despair thought be mus
have some enemy in the neighbOrhood
and sold his farm and moved away
Mr.. Hunter, ChicagOan, bought it,
and, few days ago, the orchard was
again outraged The people are terri
blv excited over it and are making ex-
traordinary efforts to detect the de-
spoilers.
An oficisl statement shows the
Fcumenical Council consists of 76O
members, the number having been
somewhat thinned by death and defec-
ton.
Letters received in Washington from
Alaska show there is great suffering
and starvation among the inhabitants.
The military have been obliged to issue
rations.
AT Toledo, on Monday, Philip Stein
meiz was sentenced to be hanged on
April | for the murder of August
Heck, in June, 1868. A quarrel about
a small matter resulted in Steinmetz
going to Heck's house one night, alarm
ing the inmates, and shooting Heck
dead as he &sood at the window
Steinmetz listened stoically to the re-
marks of the Judge; but his wife, who
sat near wept eonyulsively and wrnng
her hands.
At Yazo City, Mississippi, one day
last week, Benjamin Roach was killed
by his brother David. The Vicksburg
Times says of the tragedy: "The
brothers had no quarrel or difficulty as
far as known. With two or three
friends they had dined together, and
Mr.. Benjamin Roach and the gentle
men had gone into another room and
were smoking, when Mr.. David Roach
entered from the dining room, and the
first intimation OF the bloody scene to
be enacted before their eyes was the
discharge of the pistol. TIE slain man
scarcely moved when shot. The pipe
dropped from his mouth, his head fell
upon his bosom, and he was dead"
George Treseneter, wife and two
children, while floating down the Ohio
E River ON a raft, near Louisville, were
upset during the gale of Wednesday
night, and all drowned except an al
most grown boy, who succeeded in
reaching The shore by clinging to
piece of lumber Treseneter was going
To- Mississippi 10 embark in business.
Elijah Whaley. a middle aged English
man, keeping the Whaley house, in
Macon, Mo-, was shot dead on the
26th ult., by a saloon keeper named
Cal. Summers. Whaley was drunk
and made threatening visit to Sum-
ners' whisky den.
The horribly mangled bodies of two
unknown men were found Wednesday
morning, on the track of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railroad, near So
lon, Ohio Several successive trains
had ground them into horrible mass. |
The bodies were taken to Cleveland.
The Funding Bill, reported n he |
Senate on Thursday, meets grsht
favor in Wall street, whsf L IRE
garded as the most prac oil nisasure
yet presented for the rec INSTRUCTION of
The national finances.
Judge Winans has introduced bill
into the House TO divide Ohio into
three Judicial Districts.
All work has stopped in the Brook
lyn Navy Yard, and all vessels arriving
in February will be put out of COM
mission.
At the close Of school exhibition
at Wytheville, Virginia, on the e9th
ult.. pupil named Wesley Hines was
stabbed and killed by another school
boy, named Charles ". Graves. The
weapon WAS pen-knite.
Mormon missionaries are engaged in
promulgating their peculiar doctrine in
Freepori, Hampstead, Rockville, River
head, and Medford, L. l. They say
they have made many converts.
Latest accounts from Cuba set down
the loss of General Pueblo, in his fight
with General Jordan, at 1000. He
barely escaped entire destruction.
There is another report of the death
of Doctor Livingstone.
Since the assembling of the Ecumen-
ical Council, seven of its members have
died, and four left Rome.
There are 145 boys and 1l5 girls in
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Column
bus. q
The mean temperature of last month
in Philadelphia was Al degrees, show
ing it 10 have been the mildest January
since 1915.
Eriday WIS ihe cnldest Of the sea-