Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-01-21
M,scelIaneous.

OYSTERS are $50 bushel in Lon
don and. in consequence, American
oysters are in great demand.
The time to knock at a poor mans
door is when the weather Is cold, for
then he needs an outside rapper.
The following advertisement is
printed in the Globe, at Golden, Col
orado: buffalo meat, venison, jack
ass rabbits, antelope, poultry eIc'' az
the corner market"
A cotton mill is to be cons'ruoVeu cons -,
at Janesville, Wis, with zoU loon'
and a Iaroe force. A large shoe iac-
tory at North Adams, Mass is 10 oe
removed to the same place.
Two hundred and forty-three per-
CONS nerished on the lakes last year,
s~a;nst s" 221 in 1873, and 2l9 in 1872.
The estimated damage to property
foots up $3,O31, 900, against $685.
900 in 1873.
Horace Binney, the Nestor of the
Philadelphia bar, celebrated his nine
ty-fifth birthday on Monday. He is
the only surviving alumnus of Har-
ward College who was graduated in
the last century.
A petrified fragment of what was
once a redwood tree was lately found
in Napa County, Cal. 1t is eleven
feet in diameter, and sixty feet
long, and is supposed to have been
originally 200 feet in length.
The Titusville Courier says that
the production of petroleum in Wes-
tern Pennsylvania during the year
1874 would fill a canal thirty feet
wide at the top, fifteen feet at the
bottom, seven feet deep, and over
seventy-five miles long.
In the German postal service an
order has Just been issued directing
that certain words derived from the
French, such as pOste restdnte, shall
no longer be officially used, and de-
fining what German words shall be
the equivalent of these.
The theory has been started that
since the usefulness of whales has
largely diminished through the dis
coverv of mineral oils for illumln-
ating purposes, the animals might be
domesticated, and employed for tow
ing ships.
There is said to be larger water
area in Vermont in proportion to its
size than any other State in the
Union. There are 77,315 acres COW
cred by lakes and ponds of fifty acres
or more each, and an effort is to be
made to stock them with black bass,
salmon, trout, and white fish.
In Clinton, Mass, Wednesday even
ing, as some young men were playing
with popgun at one of the boarding
houses, one David Manchester re-
ceived a charge consisting of small
dart in his left eye, and the doctors
say he will have to lose the sight of
both of his eyes.
The onion crop in Newburyport,
Mass, and its vicinity last year was
about 100000 bushels, which were
sold at an average price of 81 per
bushel. OF this amount there are in
the hands of the raisers, which have
not been disposed of, some 10000
barrels, and 3,0G6 barrels in the
hands of the buyers.
1t has been noticed that several
ships laden with English coal and
bound to Pacific ports have lately
been burned at sea, and it is supposed
that the fires were spontaneously gen
Grated. 1t is believed that an un-
usual quantity of sulphur is present
in the strata of coal from which the
latest cargoes were taken.
The lumber interest of the North
west usually employs at this season
about $4,000 men, either in cutting
logs or manufacturing them into lum-
her. Last winter the unemployed
was about 90 per cent; this winter
they will be about so per cent. Dur
ing the season Of navigation Chicago
keeps employed fleet of 300 vessels
and about 5000 men.
In Paris there are contractors who
pay the city 100000 per annum for
the privilege of sweeping the streets
perfectly clean. The work is well
done by men under the orders Of the
municipal authorities, and the con
tractors are reimbursed by the sale
of the mud and dust, which, when
manufactured into fertilizers, is said
to be worth 100000. -
Fifteen bears have been killed this
winter on the Blue Ridge between
White Gap and James River-nine
by one person and three each by two
others. An old hunter in Amherst
has killed during his life upward Of
200 bears on the Blue Ridge, and
Arch Tolley, the famous Bedford
hunter, has captured nearly as many.
He has killed two this winter.
The Austrian Post-office has issued
regulation against the employment
of envelopes on which advertisements
are printed, either on the back or the
front side. Advertising envelopes of
this sort, largely used in America,
were coming into use in Austria; but
the regulation prohibits their use on
the ground that such envelopes are
really circulars in their nature, and
therefore taxable as extra matter.
The corn crop of the United States
for 1874 is reported by the Agricul-
tural Department at slightly more
than 500, 100000 of bushels. This is
a reduction of 12O,0O0,OOO from the
corn crop of 1873, which was itself
"not good year for corn" This de-
cline in production accounts for the
high price of corn. Two crops hav-
ln0 hQan fhnC halaxl