Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-07-23
State News.


town hall.
The establishment Of. an academy
at Ironton is proposed.
The Xenia beer ordinance has been
judicially decided to be valid.
Hon. Thomas j. Orr, formerly of
Bucyrus, and ex-State Senator, is
dead.
The Dayton City Council has post
poned the Sunday liquor ordinance
until December.
The Akron Chain Works, L. Chev-
rier, proprietor, has suspended.
Amount of liabilities not stated.
The Third Ohio District has now
but two distilleries in operation
both in Montgomery county.
Guernsey county produced 1905
500 bushels of coal and $4,000 bush
els of salt during the year 1873.
Charles Fisher, who shot and
wounded Coslett, sr., and killed Cos
lett, at Ripley, July 4, has been ar
rested and indicted.
Robert Hamblin, of Logan, mas
been appointed Stewart of the Athens
ASYLUM, subject to the Governors s
approval.
Two supposed horse thieves, call
ing themselves Augustus and Viii
| liam West, were arrested Tuesday at
Middletown.
Col. Robert Stevenson, Treasurer
of Green county, was seriously injur-
ed Saturday by being thrown from
his buggy.
Fourteen cases of smallpox and
two deaths from the disease are re-
ported in Washington township,
Richland county.
The Town Council of Washington,
Fayette county, has repealed the beer,
ale and porter ordinance. A new sa-
loon has been already opened.
The right of way has been obtain
ed for a street railway at Bellaire,
sufficient stock has been taken tC
build it, and ground will be broken
August L.
The Cherry Valley Iron company
of Leetonia, Columbiana county, has
suspended operations in its coal
mines at Washingtonville for the
present.
During the month of June the
manufacture and sale of beer in
GAINESVILLE decreased "a per cent,
and the wholesale whisky trade for
the same period Al per cent.
The same old snake has been seen
at Fosters Crossing, Warren county,
Ohio. 1t is said to be fifty feet long,
with a head like an alligator, and
covered with immense scales.
The Coshocton Iron and Steel
Works were sold at assignee's sale
recently for $57, 900, which is about
half the appraisement value. The
works were bought by number of
citizens of the town.
Opening an old file of the SciOto
Gazette, which we edited May 7, 1850,
we find under the married head, a
notice of the nuptials at Georgetown
College, d. c., of VIM. Tecumseh
Sherman, of the United States army,
and Ellen B., eldest daughter of the
Hon. Thomas Ewing. That was before
"Cump' was made General, or had
been mentioned rs an eligible candi-
date for President of the United
States?-IHe Stll,cdter Vdlley Ga
zette.
Mr.. Jay Terrell, of Sheffield, whose
researches in the shale rock on the
lake shore, resulted in the discovery
of the remains of the remarkable fOs-
sill fish, called in honor of the dis
coverer, '.Dinichthys Terrell" has
sold it to Prof Newbury, of COlum
bia College, for "enough to buy 8
small farm" as he expresses it. II
is one of the rarest curiosities o
modern discovery, and was sought fol
by several scientific gentlemen. Mr.
Terrell will still continue his re
searches, and may discover still
greater wonders.-ElyriG Democrat
TOMATOES were first used in this
country as an edible in the year 1919
by the late Hon. Bailey Bartlett, o
Haverhill, but they did not come into
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