Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-03-04
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everything Is Lent.
The best crossing in the city-the
rail road crossing.
- The latest fashion in London is to
have music during dinner.
ALI women consult their mirrors;
very few listen to them.
A ton of gold makes a fraction
over half million of dollars.
A surprise party-when two bur.
glars meet at the same window.
Southwest Georgia has been con-
siderably damaged by cyclones.
Mississippi legislators will from
this time out get $400 session.
The women who do fancy work
don't fancy work.
A mare's nest should be valuable
adjunct to stock farm.
The wise man telleth his love, but
the foolish man writeth it in letter
The California Senate voted 35 tG
5 not to have chaplain:
Grant clubs and Blaine clubs are
springing up all over Illinois.
England, France and Germany
have acknowledged the independence
of Roumania.
General Tom Ewing is reported to
have made 100000 in recent
Colorado mining venture.
An Iowa man has named his
daughters Time and Tide, so they
will have to wait for no man.
The total number of petitioners
that have united in asking the Ohio
Legislature for Local Option Law
is 46,50O.
The Agricultural Society of Law.
renee county has decided to hold Q
Fair. Sept IA, Is, 16 and 18th.
Ezra R. Hare, OF Troy, N. T., has
been killed by swallowing an oat,
which lodged in his stomach and
caused fatal liberation.
Senator Edmunds is the first
choice of the Vermont Republicans
for President.
Movements of the New York
Trades Unions indicate a general
strike about April L.
Zaleski, O., wants to be incorpora.
ted and be town. 1t claims 1,200
population.
1t is said that vessel left Boston
the other day carrying 100000 gal
Ions of rum and one missionary.
The New York postofflce receipts
from stamps and box rents last week
amounted to $70,500.
A child was born at West Alexan-
der, w. Va, the other day with fully
developed teeth.
The Texas newspapers are ad-
vancing their subscription rates ON
account of the advance in the price
of paper.
Only five Fusion members of the
Maine House of Representatives are
now absent from their seats.
The Kentucky Legislature has
passed bill granting the United
States jurisdiction over Newport
Barracks.
General Grant presented the SER
wants of the palace at which he
stopped in Havana, $500.
Rowland F. Trowbridge of Michi-
gan, has been nominated for Com
missioner of Indian Affairs.
The Chinese question is almost
certain to be made an issue on the
Pacific Coast in the Presidential
election. ..---
There will be upward of thirty
colored delegates in the Methodist
General Conference. Possibly one
Of them may be elected Bishop.
Alex. H. Stephens weighed only
seventy pounds at the end of the
war, At present he weighs ninety
three.
From all parts of Tennessee COM
plants come that worms are destroy
ing the wheat crop.
"Never let a cold rum" says doc
tor. Bad advice. He wants you to
catch it, and make work for him.
The New York Herald Irish Fam
inc Fund has reached nearly a quar-
ter of million dollars.
General Grant has been invited by
the Council OF New Orleans to visit
that city on his return from Mexico.
The New York Tribune found
1,00S prominent Pennsylvania Re-
publicans to be for Blaine and PAT
for Grant.
The Nihilists have issued a procla-
nation threatening to burn the
Russian Capital on the Sd of March.
Never blow down a lamp chimney
to extlnguish the fame, for it is
quite liable to return the. compli-
ment and blow you up.
Mont Blanc is not the highest
eminence in Europe. According to
the latest measurements, the Elburz,
q mountain of the Caucasian chain,
exceeds it by more than 1900.
The Greenbackers are troubled be.
cause calls are out for two National
Conventions of their party-one in
st. Louis March 4th, and the Other
in Chicago June 9th.
Diphtheria is prevailing to an
alarming extent in Central Russia.
Over 10000 persons have died of the
disease since November.
A Sacramento paper speaks of a
Senator with halfjaunty air about
him.. Many of them do have a sort
of demijohnny air about them.
The average English umbrella is
30 heavy that person must carry it
in both hands and have no arm left