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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
CITY Finances,

We have just commenced a new
wear in city matters. The new
Council organized Tuesday evening
We have a good board of Council
men; men of financial ability; men
who, we believe. fully understand
the needs and wants of the hour
and, withaI, possess the firmness
and decision of character to carry
into the administration OF city af
fairs those necessary needs and
wants.
Those needs and wants are econo
nv and retrenchment in public ex
penditures. We have arrived at
that point in our city financial af
fairs where it is necessary to stop
and calmly consider the surround
ings. We already have a debt
amounting, we understand, to about
Sl36,0OO. To pay the interest on
this sum it requires at least $4,000
per year. Then there are the ordi,
nary expenses of the city-for Fire
Department, for police, for gas, sala
ries, ETC., etc.-which amount to
about So, 900 per year more, making
in the aggregate some $4,000 for
necessary expenses. To meet this
we have taxes collected on the Du-
plicate, wharfage, fines. etc. The
city is allowed, for all purposes, to
levy twelve mills on each dollar
valuation. This will raise in the
nelghborhood of $4,000. Then
add wharfage, fines, ETC., say $4,000.
and we have in the aggregate S24,-
900, but $4,000 more than we need
for actual and necessary expenses
This is the most favorable show
ing, in the way of assets, that can
be made, and this carries with it
the extreme levy of twelve mills,
which yearly continued, becomes a
burden. and operates, in no small
degree, to retard the advancement
and growth of the city.
Now, if this surplus of 5000 per
year, under this extreme limit of
taxation, is to be expended in new
improvements, as it has been in
years past, where is the money to
come from to pay the debt? This is
the question that u officials must
meet and answer. Shall the debt be
paid, or shall we continue improve
ments. There are necessary repairs
every year, and these must be pro
vided for, but it seems plain to US
that the considerations we have
named n~ecessitate the duty of look
ing more after the debt, and less af-
ter improvements.
These are questions which the
new Council must meet. They are
important questions, and they
should be approached in a spirit of
fidelity to the common good, pres
ent and future.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

EThe Constitutional Conven-
ton, the past week, has been talking
about public aid to railroads. The
proposition stands not the remotest
chance Of adoption. The Conven
ton may be willing that railroads
should be built, but it opposes such
building by taxation. This is a mat
ter of which the people are just as
competent to decide as the Conven-
ton, and we think their right of
judgment should not be taken away
from them. The idea that the peo-
pie are not capable of managing their
own affairs is too common with our
Constitution makers. There is as
much sound judgment out Of the Con
ventiou as there is in it, and these
iron rules and guards against the
action of the people are simply ab
surd. Besides, they are ar insult to
the good sense and intelligence Of
the ruling class. All of these ques-
tons affecting the common veal or
woe-such as railroads, license, pro-
hibition, ETC., etc.-should be left
with the people. The people Of
Gallipolis and Gallia county, as well
as every other locality, are better
qualified to decide these, and similar
questions, for themselves, than are
the one hundred and five gentlemen,
now occupying the Spencer House,
at Cincinnati, for them. If this idea
had been prevalent in that body, it
would not have taken a year to make
q Constitution. We should have
had a few plain and simple rules and
principles as fundamental law, occu-
plying but a short time in their fran.
ing. and leaving the voter a freeman
in the sense which alone is honorable
to an American citizen.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

HAt Galesburg. ILL.,, on election
day, the temperance ladies attended
the polls, and remained all day.
The question was license or no IL
cense. The antI-license board was
elected. In the following account
of proceedings at the Third Ward
polls, u readers will recognize the
name of an old and valued friend:
At the close of the day, Mrs. Coo
ley in behalf of the ladies returned
thanks to the Judges for the kind
treatment they had received, and
Mr.. John e Frost replied In a most
effective little speech.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
~It is exneoted CHAT the Consti.

wI 1t is expected that the Consti-
tutional Convention will grapple with
the temperance question this week.
Opinions, in regard to what Its action
should be. differ, even among TEN
perance men. There is q large class
who think the true policy should be
to ignore the subject in the Constitu
ton, leaving the people free through
the Legislature, to determine the
question for themselves. Others de-
sire to have inserted in the Constitu-
ton an article binding the people
and the Legislature to the license
system. 1t is conceded, we believe,
that the idea Of putting prohibit
ton in the Constitution is out
of the question. The Constitution
makers will not consent to insert it
Public sentiment is not ready for
such an arbitrary rule. What then
shall be the policy upon this vexed
question? We believe the PROPOSE
ton of Judge West is the best dis
position the Convention a make OF
the question. 1t leaves the whole
matter in the hands Of the people.
They can prohibit, license or regu-
late. as may appear best to them.
1t gives the people of citi es. towns
and counties the right to prohibit,
upon a majority vote. and this right
cannot be taken from them by any
action of the Legislature. 10 our
system of government. where the
majority rule, the right, in this way,
to abate a great evil cannot be ques
toned, and when it is thus done.
there will be less complaint Of 1t. as
no friend Of Republican institutions
can in re 1901 oppose g policy thus
obtained. The proposition Of Judge
West ought to be acceptable to anti
temperance men, as we'll as temper
n C men. Neither class, we Judge,
desires a policy upon this subject
that is not sanction ed by a majority
public sentiment, and when any poll
cy is thus sanctioned, the opposite
side has no sound reason for COM
plant.
" hope the proposition of Judge
West will he adopted by the Conven-
ton. 1t seems to us the best and
fairest solution of the question. We
believe the people. if they have the
opportunity, will confirm such action.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
N~eighborhood News.

The saloon keepers at Ironton say
they will sell no more whisky, and
will close their saloons on Sunday
against all sales. We are march
ing on.
The Cannelton Coal company, W.
Va, has sold and contracted to de-
liver in New York $4,000 tons of
their coal. The Peytoua Co. like
wise deliver 10000 tons.
A company is being organized to
build a furnace seven miles South Of
Jackson.
The Jackson Standard says Will
liam Vaughn has sold his fine resi-
dence near Huron Furnace to A. F.
McCarley for $4,000.
George Spurrier was torn to pieces
by a railway train at Jackson last
week. A bottle of whisky wss found
near his body.
The two furnaces of the Wellslon
company are TO be completed in Aug
ust; and it is expected that four
more will be built at Wellstou, Jack
son county, this year.
The Marietta Rolling Mills rum
ming regularly.
All of the steamboats, plying on
the Muskingum river, have cls sed
their bars, and no more ~spirituous
liquors are to be had on these steam.
ers by the drink.
The Clifton Journal says that Hon.
John Hall is seriously i'll at bis resi-
dence in Pleasant Flats.
Robert S. Waddell and Jmes NJ.
Evans. who have been in California,
returned to Middleport last week.
Mason City public schools will get
$500 per year from the Peabody ed
ucational fund.
Luke Powers, the negro who sho;
Winfield S. Plummer in Meigs coun,
ty, last summer, has been found guilty
and sentenced to the ~penitentisry for
life.
A. j. Reynolds, the defaulting
Sheriff of Athens county, plead
guilty last week and was sentenced
to seven years in the penitentisry.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

EGreat efforts are being made
to secure the passage, by the Gen.
eral Assembly. of the bill introduced
in the House limiting the power OF
city Councils in the matter of pass
ing temperance ordinances. The
bill proposes to take from Councils
the power to prohibit, allowing them
only the power to- regulate. The
Columbus correspondent of the Gin
cinuati Enquirer says the bill will be-
come q law.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
In Bankruptcy.

In the District Court of the Ir,;ted
States, for the Southern District Of
Ohio.
In the matter of Franz
els L. LeClercq and No. 1900.
James A. LeClereq, In BANKRUPrcY.
B~ankrupts.
4 WARRANT in Bankruptcy has
N been issued by said Court against
the Estate of Francis l.. LeClercq and
James A. LeClercq, Of the county of
Gallia, of the State of Ohio, in said Dis
trict, adjudged Bankrupts upon the pc
titiOn of their creditors, and the pay
ment of any debts, and the delivery of
any property belonging to said Bank
rupts to them or to their use, and the
transfer Of any property by them are
forbidden by law. A meeting of the
creditors of said Bankrupts, to prove
their debts, and choose one or more As
signees of their Estate, will be held ut
a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at
Portsmouth, in said District, on
the Goth dayiOf April, A. ID. 1874,
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, at the office
of Nelson w. Evans, Esq, one of
the Registers in Bankruptcy of said
Court.
W. r. THRALL,
u. s. Marshal rs Messenger.
By JAMES CAMPBELL, Deputy.
COLLINS M HEBRON, Cincinnati, At
tOrneys.
April 8, 1S74.-2w
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

@A bill has been introduced in
the Ohio Senate to give Mayors. in
cities of the second class, the casting
vote in cases where there is a tie in
Council. This is another phase of the
temperance question. The Council of
the city of Piqua, some time since,
passed a prohibitory ordinance. At
the recent election the anti prohibition
lists elected the Mayor, and enough
Councilmen to make the new Council a
tie upon the question of repeating the
ordinance. This bill is in the inter
ests of the repeal.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

gPIKE's Opera House, Cincin
natl, was crowded last Thursday
evening with earnest men and NO.
men, called together to take action
against the license system, as applied
10 the sale of intoxicating liquors.
The principle speakers were c. W.
ROWLAND, Hon. WILL. CUMBAoK, OF
Indiana, and E. d. MANSFIELD. Mr.
ROWLAND is one of the leading bust
mes men of Cincinnati, and q Demo.
crat These considerations gave to
his utterances special interest. He
was for the speedy and eternal sup
preston of the whole saloon bust
ness, and expressed the belief that
"there are some evils in the land not
to be suppressed except by revolu-
ton, unless We give to women the
ballot"
The elements are moving.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

Subject to the easement of the rOadways
and streets, and the bed of the Railroad
as condemned; of which a plat may be
seen ut the Hardware Store of J. NJ.
KERR 81 CO., and which will be duly
recorded.
A. Tract marked A, appraised at Sc.
The said several tracts or parcels will
be sold free from and discharged of all
mortgage, judgment and vendor liens,
amt che s~-4--f~liin dine in June. 1874
which are to be satisfied out or Uho r.o,
ceeds; the taxes due and payable after
June, 1874, to be paid by the purchasers.
TERMS OF SALE:-One-third cash
down, one-third in one year, and one
third in two years from day of sale; the
deferred instruments to bear interest and
be secured by mortgage OF the premises
sold.
DAVID B. HEBARD,
HENRY w. LANGLEY,
Assignees.
April l6, lS74,-5W
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
SALE.
BANKRUPT SALE.

nURSUANT to the authority of and
order given by the District Court
of the United States for the Southern
District of Ohio, in Bankruptcy, in the
matter of William III. Langley, bank
rupt, the undersigned as his Assignees
in Bankruptcy, will offer for sale at pub
lie sale at the front door of the Court
house in GallipOlis, Ohio, on the
Esd day of May, 1874,
at one o'clock P. NJ, and then and there
sell, at not less than two-thirds the ap-
praised value of each tract, and upon
the terms below stated, the several tracts
of real estate of said Bankrupt, viz:
13. Parts of City Lots numbers one
hundred and twenty-one and one hun
bred and twenty-five, in the CITY of
GallipOlis, beginning at the east corner
of Lot Nc. 12l, at the intersection of
State street and Third street: running
thence along said State street. north 43
degrees west one hundred and twenty
three feet w inches to a stake on lot No.
one hundred and twenty-five: thence
south AZ degrees west 81 feet 4 inches to
Il stake; thence south 43 degrees east one
hundred and twenty-three feet two inch
es to said Third street, to Il stake in the
Southeast line of lot No. one hundred
and twenty-one; thence north AZ de-
grees east along said Third Street, 90
feet 4 inches to the place of beginning,
together with the buildings and ma
chinery and appurtenances thereunto
belonging. Appraised at $l4, 800 90.
1G. The tract marked Lot No. l on the
plat of the Langley farm. recorded i'm
the Recorders office of Gallia county
Ohio. as containing II hundred and
twenty-three acres and fifty-eight hun
dredths of an acre, more or less, with
the appurtenances, in Town 3, Range
II, subject to and excluding the State
Road, and the railroad bed of the g.,
McA. & c. r. r. Co., as condemned.
Appraised at $4,755. The tract, as an
entirety, will be first offered, and if no
bidders therefor, then the same will be
offered in sub-divided parts thereof, as
numbered, showing the quantities, more
or less, and the ADVERTISEMENTS, viz:
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

FThe steeple of the Presbyte-
rian Church at Ironton, inst finished,
gave in on Friday, and was momen-
tarially expected to fall. We have
not learned the result. The steeple
was about one hundred and twenty
five feet high. The immense weight
on the lower part is said to be the
cause of the break.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

@The Mayor of Dayton is a wsg.
He vas appealed to to suppress the
praying bands on the streets. He
complied, but he went farther than was
wished or intended. He made il known
that he should enforce the laws against
sellers as well as against the
Enforce the liquor laws and
there will be no occasion for the wo-
mems peculiar work.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

SThe temperance wave is not
confined to Gallipolis, or Ohio even.
The Galesburg (Ill.) Republican
Record says: ain pretty nearly all
the larger places in this and other
Western States, where municipal
elections have been held this Spring,
anti-license candidates have been
successful" To the women belongs
the credit for these victories.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

HThe Ohio Legislature has
adopted a resolution memorializing
ell members Of Congress in favor of
the payment by Congress:of the Nor.
gan raid claims.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

States for the Southern District of
Ohio.
In the matter of MOI
seS Carlyle and An
drew j.. POston, IN BANKRUPTCY,
B~ankrupts.
NOTICE is hereby given that a second
~ general meeting of the creditors of
Moses Carlyle and Andrew j. Poston,
B~ankruptS, will be held at the office of
r. l.. Nye, Register in Bankruptcy, in
the city of Marietta, Ohio, OF the 21st
day of April, A. ID. 1874, at .
o'clock A. NJ, for the purposes named
in the 9th and 2StlI Sections of the
Bankrupt Act of March ID, 1867; also
that have filed my final accounts as as
signee of the estate of said B~ankrupts,
in said Court; and that on the said day
| shall apply to said Court for the settle
ment of my said accounts, and for a dis
charge from all liability as assignee of
said Estate, i'm accordance with the pro-
visions of the twenty-eighth Section of
said act.
JACOB COUGHENOUR,
April 8, 1S74.-2w* Assignee.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
ATTACHMENTS.

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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
Hardware Stock
At AUCTION.

THE undersigned will close out the
l. Sto, k of j. N. BEARD & CO., at
Auction, commencing
Friday, April oath, 1874,
at 8 O'Clock A. NJ, and continue from
day to day until all is sold.
Among the stock is one Champion
Mower, and II Threshing Machine.
Terms Cash.
April lG, 1874. w. ii. ii. SISSON.
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

HThe democratic caucus has not
yet decided when the Legislature shall
adjourn, but it is expected to occur
next Monday. "Praise God from
whom all blessings how."
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
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Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
Bridge Notice!

NOTICE is hereby given that the
IN Commissioners of GIIlia county
will sell, at the front door of the Court
house, OIL
Wednesday, June 3d, 1874,
at 10 O'Clock A. NJ, the job of building
a Bridge across Little Kyger Greek, near
its mouth. Bidders are to furnish their
own plans. Length of span about one
hundred 900 feet.
By order of the Commissioners.
j. II. EVANS, Aud'r.
April Is, 1S74.-6w
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

FAkron Council has passed the
beer ordinance. AS this is q pretty
large town. having some $4,000 inhab
~itants, there is considerable specula-
ton as to whether or not it can be en-
forced,
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

EGov. ALLEN has appointed JOHN
G. THOMPSON, Senator from Franklin,
Railroad Commissioner. The vote Of
the Senate upon confirmation was
unanimous. The nomination is a good
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16
SHERIFF'S SALE.

The State Of Ohio, Gdllia County, SIS.
NOTICE is hereby given that | will offer for
~ sale at public auction. at the door OF the
Court House. in the city of GallipOlis, Gallia
coRnty. Ohio. on the 18th day of May, a d. 1874. ut
the hour of one O'Clock T.. NJ of said day, the
following described lands and tenements. stu
ate ia the county of Gallia. and State OF Ohio.
in the Ohio COmpany's purchase bounded and
described aS follows. to-wit: Eight acres. more
or less, of or the south end of lots Nos sos and
597, in section number thirty-three (33 town
number one H. range number fourteen Q4) the
Hannah Trace being the south line following the
meanderings of said road to the west line of
said lots: thence north with said line to an ash
tree in Little Greek bottom marked and known
by the parties; thence east across said lots to the
east boundary line to a white oak l6 inches in
diameter, marked and understood by the par
ties; thence with said line to the road, viz: the
Hannah Trace ROad-with the appurtenances
thereuntO belonging. Appraised at one hun
bred and thirty two dollars ($l32 0O@ taken as
the property OF William Rardon. on an execu-
ton in favor of IT. 4. Gillet. issued by the Court
of Common Pleas. of the county of Gallia, and
to me directed as Sheriff of said county.
Terms of sd!e-Cdsh.
Given under my hand this 18th day Of April,
q. d.. 1874.
AMOS RIPLEY, S. G. c. o.
April l6, lS74.-5w
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Auction:

At the old stand of A..
Mcintyre, on Saturday. the
18th inst, at 2 o'clock P NJ,
a lot of Furniture, Hard
ware, Saddles, &c. Terms
cash.
April 16, 1S74.-1w
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Partition Notice,

John Snider, of Vinton COUNTY, Ohio,
William Snider, Jacob Snider, Calvin
Snider, George Snider, Abraham Snide, Rachel
Spider. and Nary Cooley and John COley, her
husband. of jackson county, Ohio, wiiltake no.
tice that . petition was filed against tban on the
18th dayQf April, q. d. 1874, in the Cour Of Com
mon Pleas OF Jackson county. Ohio. " Lizzie
Hughes and james A. Hughes, her husband,
and is now pending. wherein ne said
Lizzie Hughes and James A. Hughs in the
right OF the said Lizzie Hughes, deWad parti-
s zion OF the following real estate. to-vit: The
EAST nail OF the southeast quarter of section IL,
township 8, of range IT, situate in jackson
t 4 Ohio: Also. the northwest qiarter of
sSs soutnWess quarter of section T., township Z,
OF range 10, and the south west quart,r Of the
sonsneast quarter OF section 6, township Z, of
fsnge 10 situate in Gallia county, Ohio; and
tnas, a. the next term Of said court, thesaid pc
may be made OF said premises.
Dated this l4th day of April. a. d. 1874
LIZZIE HUGHES and
JAMES A. HUGAES
her husband.
April 10, lS74.-6w
Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-04-16

Nine years ago to day
Wednesday,, ABRAHAM LINCOLN
died.
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Notice.

THE undersigned has been duly ap-
pointed Administrator of the estate
of Mary Thevenin, late of Green town.
ship, Gallia county, Ohio.
All persons indebted to the estate are
requested TO make Immediate payment,
and those having claims against the
same to present them duly authenticated
to the undersigned for allowance.
HENRY BLAZER, Admir-.
April 8, lS74.-3w.