Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-05-13

t;ons since 1913.
Tom Thumb is thirty-eight years
old. but very small for ais age.
T, all England, Ireland and Scot
land there are only LIT daily papers.
There are said to be fifty-seven
women editing newspapers in this
country.
A Providence r. /. J firm has COM
pleted $4O0 rife for King Kalakaua.
The coal fields of Colorado are
larger than the whole area OF New
England.
Great Britain has but $50, ,526 acres
IN orcbards Illinois alone has twice
as many.
Two million fish were Matched last
wear by the government at the Mich
igan State Fishery.
Brigham Young has been e-elected
Prophet, Seer, Revelator, and Presi-
dent of the Mormon community.
Board at all the summer resort ho-
tells will be materially cheaper than
last year, and well may we rejoice.
Mr.. Caperon, the Senator from
West Virginia, is described as look
ing like the pictures of Old Father
Time.
The latest addition to the umbrella
is pane of glass, inserted in the
front breadth, through which the
holder can see his way.
'.Excess of duty" in defending his
client, is an offense for which coun-
Gil of lawyers at Vienna have re-
solved to prosecute one of their mem
bers.
The last Boston spelling match was
bothered with such words as cerisas,
ptsymagogtachygraph, giaour, tael,
eyot, fichus, euchamy, and demonl-
acal.
There are hundreds of warehouses
in the best part of New York city
without tenants, and thousands of
houses are occupied by people who
cannot pay their landlords.
Two or three dozen of the Boston
doctors have been investigating the
boy murderer, Jesse Pomeroy, and, as
a result, have united in petition to
the Governor to hang him.
Frank Walworth, the parricide, is
having fits and other complaints, and
the subject of pardon for him is
again attracting attention. His moth
er is daily visitor to her unfortunate
son.
An oak tree near Arensberg, in
Prussia, more than a thousand years
old, is about to be cut down by its
owner because of the inconvenience
suffered from the numerous visits of
strangers to the place.
Ex-senator Revels, of Mississippi,
the first colored citizen admitted to
the United States Senate, has become
a Doctor of Divinity, and is an ac-
tive preacher Of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church of that State.
Ledochowski, Archbishop Cardinal
of Posen, will be banished from Ger
man soil as soon as his Imprisonment
is over. Such is the will of the man |
of Berlin, as unchangeable as the
laws of the Medes and Persians.
VIM H. Nevies, of London, accused
of stealing $4,000 from his employ
ers, started out strange countries fer
to see; and a detective who went af
ter him captured him last week in
Brooklyn, after an 5000 mile pur-
suit.
The Titusville Courier says that
the production of petroleum in West
ern Pennsylvania during the year
1874 would fill canal thirty feet
wide at the top, fifteen feet at the bot
tom, seven feet deep, and over seven
ty-fve miles long.
An important company has been
formed in England to import live cat
tie from Texas to that country, with
capital of E5,000,000. They will
take 1,500 at load, and load the re-
turning ships with emigrants at low
rates of fare.
The Interior Department is ad-
vised that the Sioux Indians will take
$1,OO0,000 and relinquish their title
90 lands in the Black Hills. A dele
cation of these Indians will shortly
visit Washington. A very cheap
purchase this will be, if consum-
mated
A petition was presented to the
Massachusetts Legislature last week
asking that the sentence of ban
ishment against Roger Williams,
passed in 1886, be revoked. AS he
has been dead about 200 years, it is
not likely that he takes very per-
sonal interest in the success of the
appeal.
IT has often been remarked that