Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-04-22
Miscellany.

stainer.
Oregon has been carried for Til
den and Hendricks.
There is no real life but cheerful
life. 49, l--.
Discomfort is the want of self
reliance.
The April elections have used up
the Greenback party in Michigan.
The delegates from New Mexico
are for Sherman. h
Dead business men tell no tales in
the advertising columns. 80
Jupiter, like many good farmers,
now rises an hour before the sun.
Only nine counties in Texas are
without newspapers.
( An insect plague is prevailing in
some of the parishes of Louisiana.
There will be driven from Western
Texas this spring 30l, 200 head of
cattle.
The larger part of the local papers
in Massachusetts favor the nomina.
tion of Senator Edmunds.
Tilden it is reported will have a
solid delegation from Pennsylvania
in the National Convention.
The Governor has appointed Mr..
Seth E. Ellis, of Warren County,
Trustee of the Ohio State Uniyer-
sity.
In one house in Wilton, Conn.,,
reside boy, his father, grandfather,
great grandmother and great great
grandfather.
The President has nominated j.
W. Barr for the vacancy in the U. S.
District Court in Kentucky.
A boy of fifteen and a girl of
fourteen commenced life together in
Pocahontas, w. Va, last week by
getting married.
A merry heart doeth good like
medicine; but broken spirit drieth
the bones.
He is not only idle who doeth
nothing, but he is idle who might be
better. employed.
He who reigns within himself, and
rules passions, desires and fears, is
more than a king.
The Turkish farmer plows his
ground with the limb Of a tree,
reasoning that if he buys a plow his
wife will want better things in the
house.
Grant men claim Florida, but
Sherman will have almost the entire
vote of the delegation from that
State.
Let no man presume TO give ad-
vice to others that has not given
course to himself.
Unhappy is the man for whom his
own mother has not made all other
mothers venerable.
Six women more than SO years old
have registered In the Sixth Ward
of Concord, n. H., to vote at com
ing school election.
An aYowal of poverty is disgrace
to no man; to make no effort to
escape it is indeed disgraceful.
When one has no design but to
speak plain truth, he may say q
great deal in a very narrow COM
pass.
During the last year the gospel
was preached in one hundred towns
and cities in China, where it had not
previously been heard.
Drunkenness places man as much
below the level of the brutes as
reason elevates him above them.
The greatest man living may stand
in need of the meanest, as much as
the meanest does of him.
There are few occasions when
ceremony may not be easily dis
pensed with; kindness never.
Circumstances form the character;
but, like petrifying matter, they
harden while they form.
The Kentucky Legislature has
reduced the salaries of Judges of the |
Court of Appeals to $4,000, and the
Circuit Judges to 50, 400.
The sacrifice of over seven hun
dred lives could not save King
Theebaw. He is reported dead, and
to the great relief of his terrified |
subjects.
Queen Victoria sailed from Eng.
land to visit the tomb of her daugh-
ter, Princess Alice, in Germany, on
the same day that the ex Empress
Eugene sailed to visit the place in
Africa where her son fell.
The Harvard "Echo' figures out
the Presidential returns from thirty
six colleges, as follows: Blaine,
!, ,227; Grant, l, ,40S; Sherman, LOLA;
Bayard, LII; Edmunds, 3O1; Til
den, 195.
Professor Vennor says that MAY
and the first half of June will be
cold and wet, and that after that
there will be clear and very dry
weather until the end of the year.
A rich and eccentric Partisan, has
search for some new :
pleasure by establishing a private
circus for the amusement of himselfl
md his friends.
The fat men of Baltimore gave a |
,all last week, but did not dance.
They left that to the more agile.
Fhe heaviest man present weighed
80 pounds, and the weightiest
maiden 3l5 pounds.
Persuaded.
Before the train left Bay City yes {
erday morning for Detroit, a woman
Iearly six feet tall and hovipn n