Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1873-12-11
Nei~hbOrhOOd News.

NeighbOrhOOd News.
The State Treasury of West Vir
ginia is empty. A few weeks agothe
State borrowed sl7, 900, and now the
demand is for more. This is ademo-
cratic State.
Kanawha county sent five men to
the penitentiary during the recent
term of its court.
The Federal court convenes at
Charleston, w. Va. Dec. 10th.
A public instalistio of the OH
ces of the Masonic Lodge at Wilkes
vile will he hell on the evening Of
the eth. After installation, ad-
dress. music, supper, DC.
There were 1876 buildings put up
in Columbus since April lst.
The gram total of the indebted
ness of Ohio, State and local, is
s28, 909, l85. There has been a de-
crease in the State debt, during the
year, of S4O7, 544, and an increase
in local debts of S2,552.237.
DR.. A. L, NORTON. of Gallia Fur
mace. has been quite sick at his home
in Portsmouth with lung fever and
pleurisy. He is now improving.
The jackson jackson county,
haffhhPaces in that place are still in
blast. Not much money is being
paid, but laboring men can earn a
good living, as the furnace stores sell
goods at a fair price.
Mrs. Matte McClelland Brown,
editor of the Alliance Monitor, has
been elected Grand Worthy Chief
Templar of Ohio. Thus the princi-
pal temperance organization of the
State is headed and led by 8 woman.
On Friday, while Joseph Joyce. q
farmer living near Phillipsburg, Jet
ferson county, was in the act of shoot
ing a dog, the rife was prematurely
discharged, the ball striking and al.
most instantly killing his only son,
about fourteen years of age.
The ancaster Eagle says that Mr..
NJ. Hickle, of that county, has a
yearling colt out Of Tattler, a Nor
gan horse, which weighs lilo pounds,
is sixteen hands one inch high, is a
fine stopper, black as a crow. and ex.
hibits signs of being a good trotter.
John Ref, ST., an old resident of
ChillicOthe, died in that city On Mon.
day last.
The son of Mr.. De Grei, of Iron
ton, was among those who suffered
death on the Virginius.
The Wheeling mills are running on
fill time, and paying cash to labor
ers.
Our mills, says the Ironton Journal,
are now idle, with the prospect be-
fore them Of remaining so for months.
The trouble seems to be on the score
Of wages.
The Jury in the WeIs murder case,
in C%hillicothe, were unable to agree.
.eis is at large on bail.
The Pomeroy Jail has twenty one
inmates.
Charles Burrell. of Pomeroy, has
been found guilty of attempting to
,om nit a rape on his own daughter.
The news of a shocking coal mine
accident comes to us from Harrison.
lille, says the Pomeroy Telegraph.
in Saturday last, Mr.. Hiram Clay, a
of Mr.. Perry Riggs, while
working in a coal bank, was instant
y killed by the falling OF an i'm
nense body of slate upon him. His
.ge was about 80. He leaves q wife
nd several children.
The Coroner's jury in the poison
ng cas- of Robert Gllaman, st Pom +.
roy, have found Mrs. Qllaman guilty .
{ administering stryehnine to the /
eceased, causing his death. {
Quite a large feet of coal boats
rent out of Kanawha on the recent /.
ise, destined for various points be-
Nv.
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ROne year ago hogs sold in Gin s
innali at SO 70 to 50 s5; on Satur- o
az eales were made at 81 go to SIS 90. q
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