Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-02-18
General and PersonaI.

embarrassment ON having to take to
the penitentiary a man who had been
convicted of voting for him three
times.
A man in New Milford, Conn.,,
claims to have the idol which King
Kalakaua's ancestors worshipped, it
having been presented to him by a
returned missionary.
Samuel w. Mcdonald, of Balti-
more, who was recently acquitted of
the murder of man named Berry
Amos, is dead. He was twenty-si
years of age, and leaves an estate at
100000.
Doctor Mary Walker attempted to
make a speech at the Women's Con-
vention at Washington, but they cried
out that they did not want to hear
her. The doctor wore a purple vel
vet coat and black trousers.
The Rev. Thomas A. Jaggar, who
has just been elected bishop of a
new diocese in Ohio, was born in
New York City, and was formerly
rector of the Anthon Memorial
Church. He has been rector of the
Church of the Holy Trinity in Phila
delphia since the fall of 1870.
Miss Plummer, of Newark, who has
just been awarded verdict of S.,
900 for blighted hopes, young affec
tions, and all that sort of thing, is
described as so attractive that per-
son once seeing her "would be led to
take a second if not a third glance"
At Trevoux, in France, farmers
boy killed two young owls in a nest
near the house, and the old owls
watched around for several nights
till on the fifth night an old male owl
struck the same boy in the face, and
put one of his talons in the boys left
eye.
A farmer from the interior districts
of Michigan brought barrel of -four
to Detroit some months ago, and
shipped it with the address, "Queen
Victoria, Windsor Castle, England"
He waited long and patiently for an
autograph letter of thanks, and was
very much chagrined at learning, the
other day, that his flour had been
sold at auction, with a mass of un-
claimed goods, some time before.
1t is now nearly two years since
the death of Mr.. Greely, and this
season for the first time since that
event, his daughters, Ida and Ga
brielle, occasionally make their ap-
pearance in public. Gabrielle is still
very young, but has grown during
her years of seclusion into tall and
very beautiful girl Both have ex-
quisite complexions, lovely eyes, ripe,
scarlet lips, and sweet expression.
The most remarkable person of our
generation has just died in the poor
house at Mobile. 1t was negro wo-
man, named Seymour Putta, who was
said to have reached the age of ITO
years, and yet was not in the Revolu-
tion nor had she any acquaintance
with General Washington. Fortune
has been kinder to us than we ex-
pected. For We never indulged the
hope of living long enough to hear of
such thing.
Dallas (Tex.) Commercial: "a
chap was seen flying down the streets
of Granbury, few days ago, his
coat-tail streaming in the wind, and
Justify yelling, police, police AT
his heels was man with q huge
bowie knife, lunging at him at
fearful rate. AS the pursuer would
make a pass with the knife, the pur-
sued would yell out, police The
only policeman in the town was the
one with the bowie knife. The chap
had the police nearer than he
wished"
A correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean writes; at would hard
ly be thought that journalist who
came from Indianapolis and managed |
the Inter Ocean would develop any
particular degree of enterprise. New
ertheless, Mr.. Elijah W. Halford,
known to the Hoosiers as Iige,' is
popularity credited with having asked
pinioned criminal, who was Just
about to be turned of, if he would
be kind enough to wriggle his little
fingers while he was conscious, so that
the reporters could form some con-
ception of how long a man felt that
he was being hanged
Algernon Sidney Paddock, elected
to succeed Senator Upton, of Nebras-
ka, is a native of Lawrence county,
New York, and is about forty four
years Of age, and of Puritan ances-
try, distantly related to Gideon
Welles, General and Senator Sher-
man. He has been a resident of
Nebraska since 1856, living at Fort
Calhoun few years, then he removed
to Omaha, where he resided until last
year, removed TO Beatrice, was ap-
pointed Governor of Wyoming in
1868, but withdrew owing to no APP
preparation being made to defray ex-
penses of the Territorial Govern
ment.
THE ma1 who swallowed the fork
in Paris has found n rival there in