Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1873-12-04
General News.

Tweeds pals IN rooblng the public,
were found guilty.
Trains On the Canada railroads are
detained by snow.
The Hudson is filed with floating
ice, and at Stuyvesantis frozen over.
Treasurer Spinner has been in bad
health for some time, and is not able
TO attend to his official duties. He
suffers very much from a low malarial
fever. and has had several ehills lately.
Charles T. Sherman, United States
District Judge for the Northern Dis
trict of Ohio, has resigned, to take
effect the 1st of December, and Hon
Martin Welker, formerly member OF
Congress, has been appointed.
Richard Porter, a Columbus negro,
having been refused a seat in the dress
circle of the AthenRum, knocked the
doorkeeper down and beat him badly.
For this he was arrested and ined, and
an irrepressible conflict is likely to
arise.
An official examination shows the
New York State Treasury defalcation,
through Cashier Phelps, to have been
s331,77e. 100000 of which was
stolen in August last, and the remain
der in September.
G. T. Brooks, late President of the
Merchants National Bank of Peters
burg, Va, charged with embezzling
the funds of the bank, mas been held in
$4,000 bail.
In many places near Quebec the
snow drifts are from eight to ten feet
deep, rendering the roads impossible.
The census of Baltimore, just com
plete. shows a population of 800, 1913
A Boston dispatch reports that a
number of Eastern mills are about to
resume
Abraham Lincoln was the first Presi.
dent to proclaim a national Thanks.
giving.
The members of the Pittsburgh Coal
Exchange have resolved to memorabilia
Congress on the subject of the obstruc.
ton to navigation prevented by the
railroad bridge at SteubenvilIe.
Mr. Waite. of Toledo. is talked oil
for Chief Justice.
There was a bloody end of a family
feud at Harrodsburg, KY. on the 96th.
A suit was pending, in which P. B.
Thompson, ST., was the principal on
one side, and Theo. Daviess on the
other, and each principal was attended
during the whole trial by his sons fully
armed. At the conclusion of the testi-
mony, while the lawyers were prepar
ing the instructions preparatory to
commencing the argument, a son Of
Thompson and a son of Daviess moved
toward the door They were followed
by all the others, and in a moment the
firing commenced, by which party it is
mt knnwn h-" sloLs-->re fred,
and Theodore DaViess. ST., and his son
Larue. were instantly killed. and Theo-
dore Daviess, jr was MORALLY wound
ed, and has since died. P. B. Thomp-
son, ST., and his two sons, P. B., ir.,
and }. b., jr. were slightly wounded.
Caldwell Davies escaped unhurt.
The production of butter in Ohio
during the last year was reported at
4%5.413,O66 pounds; of cheese, 81, 4O3,.
800 pounds.
There are 1877 inmates of the Girls
Industrial Home at White Sulphur
Springs, Ohio.
Hogs packed at Louisville and %vicini-
ty to date. l03. 300; same time last
year, 1914
John Johnson, a soldier of the wal
of 1919 and of the late war, died at
New Albany on Thursday, aged 7s.
For several years he had lived as a
hermit upon his pension.
Charles j. Hess, General Agent for
Ohio of the Protection Life Insurance
Company. of Chicago. has been re-
moved from his position and sued for
slI,7OO, alleged Incorporated funds
Of the Company.
John NJ. Morris, Executive Clerk of
the United States Senate, and formerly
editor of Charleston Republican, and
Washington Chronicle, died Thursday
night of consumption, in the thirty
seventh year Of his age.
Pork packing is under full Roadway
ia ~Circleville, Wilmington and other
interior town. The average price paid
hogs seems to be about $3.50 in
these places.
Cleveland has 90 school houses, e74
teachers, and over $1,000 enrolled
scholars. ,.-.
Twenty-Five ladies are pursuing a
course of study in Heidelberg College,
Tifin.
Daniel Dougherty, of Auburn town.
ship, Crawford county. died on the 10Th
nst., aged SO years.
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