Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-05-13
Miscellany.
Wendell Phillips never goes to church
Goods marked down-Feathers.

Wendell Phillips never goes to church.
Goods marked down-Feathers.
Charles O'Conner started as q news
boy.
An hour glass is glass of beer every
hour.
How to make crockeryware-Don't
use Ii.
The darkest horse sis just before the
Convention.
Montana sends straight Blaine dele
cation to Chicago.
Think thrice before you drink twice -
New York News.
Gosslps are the spies of life.-[Clncin-
natl Saturday Night -
Forced politeness-Bowing to neces-
sity.-lNew York Graphic. ~
Merrill, of Maine, is the latest candi-
date for the Vice Presidency.
The Nashville Banner looks upon Mr..
Tilden as very obnoxious man.
Michigan has Democratic newspaper
called the Bad Axe Backwo0dsman. :
General Butler has big boom for the
Greenback Presidential nomination.
The Christian Leader says Bob Inger-
soils lectures are "brilliant but thin"
The sugar cane crop of Louisiana Is
said to be the finest ever known.
The oats crop in Florida is pronounce
ed failure, on account of rust.
Farmers in South Florida are feast
ing on roasting ears and watermelons.
Over 200 900 head of cattle will be
driven from Texas TO Kansas this sum-
mer.
Richmond, Va. has fOrty-fiye churches,
which are attended by one in sixteen OF
the population.
Mrs. Jane Swisshelm declares that
it is high time to Christianize West
Point.
A good name is better than precious
ointment, especially on the back of a
note.
The number ofexiles to be transported
to Siberia in June and July this year is
said to be about twenty thousand.
The Citizens Bank at Paris, KY, was
entered by burglars, Saturday night
and robbed of s30,000 In money and
bonds. 1Fs
Maior-General Samuel i. IIeintzel-
man died in Washington Saturday
morning.
Nearly fifty thousand immigrants
reached New York last month, and half
as many are now on shipboard coming.
William Wilson was Georgian who
died recently and left his SO 600 estate
TO his former slaves.
Hon. George A. Brayton, for many
wears Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Rhode Island, is dead.
There appears TO be some hope for the
adjournment of Congress in month or
six weeks.
Ex-senator Oglesby of Illinois is men-
toned as Judge Keys successor as Post
master General.
The old mausolem Of Augustus Cesar
at Rome is being converted by an ar
chitect into a splendid modern theater.
Jim Blaine is ready debater. His
tunity must be very annoying t0 Mrs.
Blalne.-fNew York World.
Captain Martin Beckwith, of Lemp-
ster, New Hampshire, celebrated his
one-hundredth birthday last week. He
has lived in one house ninety-seven
years.
The Ohio State Journal complies ta-
BILE. Its figures for the first ballot al
Chicago are Grant 1856, Sherman l42
Blaine l47, uncertain 2S2.
At Saltwater, Me-. on the 2lth ult.,
Captain j. r. Blen, cavalry officer OF
the war of 1872, now eIghty-seven years
of ace. led Miss NJ. G., johnson. q bride
of sixty-five, to the altar.
Senator Conkling said In an interview
the other day that general Grant will
be nominated by the people and elected
by the people, and by great majority
"Dad, if it's so injurious to smoke,
why don't chimneys get sick and die p
The old gentleman merely replied that
he wished he had trunk strap handy.
ssNow tell me candidly, are you gull.
tyP" asked a lawyer of his client, in
the county goal. "Why, do you sup.
pose I'd be fool enough to hire you il
/ was innocent?"
s'But Freddy, how could you think oi
calling aunty stupid? Go to her imme-
diately and tell her you are sorry
Freddy goes to auntie, and says
"Auutie, [ am sorry you are SO stu.
pid."
Two South Carolinians, who have
been at law for four years for the pos
session of bull, are still at 1t. The cost;
exceed 81 900. exclusive of council fees
and the bull is dead. Its hide has been
stuffed, and is to be produced in the
Court.