Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1874-05-21
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Sarsro.toed shoes are again COM
ing into fashion.
The shin building and lumber busi-
mass opens briskly in Maine this sea-
son.
An exchange remarks that sermons,
rs well as steamships, are weakened
by lengthening.
Here's progress. A Troy firm
shipped three tons of paper collars to
New Zealand last week.
Apropos of the murder mania, it is
interesting to note that Kentucky
raised 10000 tons of hemp last year.
If there ever is time when man
is justified in changing the subject
suddenly, it is when his wife asks If
he posted that letter.
A Buffalo paper announces that by
the recent burning of an ice house
there, twenty thousand tons of ice
were reduced to ashes"
What the local papers calls ''play-
full struggle on the stairs" resulted
in the death of a member of the
Louisiana Legislature by a pistol
shot.
A hint for us. In England a man
who spent all his money in a dram
shop, leaving his wife to starve to
death, has just been convicted OF
manslanghter.
Patrick" said the priest, chow
much did you steal?' "Well, I may
as well confess to your reverence fol
the whole stack, for am going after
the whole stack tonight"
Hair cutter (who has been eating
onions )-S'moil on your hair, sir
(blowing fiercely down customer
neck1? Customer = Phew! what's
that? Hair -S'moil, sir. Gus
tomer-Then 1 won't have any.
The anniversary of the battle OF
San Jacinto was celebrated by the
people of Brownsville, Texas, and
among the guests were representa-
tives of both the Texas and MeXi-
can armies who took part in the bat
tie.
The people of North Hadley, Mass,
were troubled by foul water in their
wells, and were still further troubled
by the theory of an "astrologer," ;" that
it came from a drain or seam in the
earth connecting them with ceme-
terry.
A lady in Winnipank recently left
the following note for the milkman !:
"Mr. Id pleas to put in wun qart,
and leve me sum more tikets and if
this note shud blow ava and you
kant fine it, pleas leve me the tikets
all the sam"
A Prince Edward Island paper
claims that there lives there "a vet
eran of Alma, Balaclava and Inker-
man, now in his 10th year, and still
in the possession of all his faculties" :"
The veteran of Alma, ETC., must have
been a "bold soldier boy" of 81 at
the time of the Crimean war, and
must have been a lively old chap to
go prancing up the hight at Balac-
lava.
We are reminded by the st. Louis
Globe that the next Inauguration day,
March 4, 1877, falls on Sunday, so
that the presiding officer of the Sen
ate pro TEN. will be President of the
United States from Sunday midnight
till Monday at the hour that the
President elect is sworn in. This
has occurred twice before, Monroe be-
ginning his second term Monday,
March 5, 1921, and Zachary Taylor
his term on Monday, March 5, 1S49.
A citizen of Brownsville, Texas,
employed a Mexican to transport
$4,000 in silver from Saltillo to
Brownsville. While the messenger
was still in Mexico, en- route for
Brownsville, he was set upon by des-
peradoes and severely wounded, but
he fought his way back to Browns
vile and delivered the silver to his
employer. However, on the night fol-
lowing, he entered the house where
the silver was stored, killed the own
er and stole all the silver he could
carry away.