Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1880-01-29
Miscellany.

German.
Private Dalzell says he will not
support Grant.
There are 10000 students in
American Colleges.
!, Paper bricks are now made in
Wisconsin. s ttA
A fatal throat and lung epidemic
is prevailing at Deadwood.
=. DR.. Hammond says people never
die of unrequitted love.
Governor Long of Massachusetts,
favors women's suffrage.
Overwork was what killed Bishop
Gilbert Haven.
The religion of some people is
as limp as a wet cloth, and about as
useful.
Methodism loses one of her hard
est fighters by the death of Bishop
Haven. u Mn HEE
Eli H. Murray, of Kentucky, has
been nominated by the President as
Governor Of Utah.
The jury in the long drawn Hay
den case are unable to agree, and
have finally been discharged.
The Mexican Government. has
ordered the Castle of Chapultepec
fitted up for the reception of Gen.
eral Grant.
A new eruption of Mt. Hecla,
is anticipated. It's last out
break was in 1S45. tf
3 The weather wise man who pre-
dicted hard winter wishes he had
never been born.
There is no happiness which will
compare with that which comes to
a man whose bills are all honestly
paid.
A great many people are anxious
to introduce new religion who
have never given the old one fair
trial.
Mr.. Edison could find a profitable
outlet for his genius by inventing an
unimpeachable election returE.
1t is understood in Washington
that the appointment of Gen. Robert
G. Schenck as Minister to Brazil
has been determined upon.
Miss Eckhardt, a farmers daugh-
ter, of State Center, Iowa, pitched
"eighty acres Of wheat from wagon
stack" and was married few hours
afterward. ~
When a lady sends a cake to a
church tea party she is mad all the
evening if some one asks for anoth
er piece of her neighbours cake and
not of hers.
The West Virginia delegates to
the Chicago Convention will be
divided between Sherman, Blaine
and Washburne.
Robert T. Lincoln, son of Presi
dent Lincoln, has been appointed
one of the three trustees of thL
Illinois Central Railway Company.
The State of Georgia has pre-
sented a bill against the Government
for $4,000, expended for common
defense in 1777.
People are apt to be very generous
with what costs nothing. Sidney
Smith once said that most men are
ready to act the Good Samaritan,
but without the oil and two-pence.
There are some men so mean that
it would take two of them to do a
generous action, as. in Illinois there
are cattle so thin that it takes two
Of them to cast a shadow. =
Edison was born near Dlgby, Nova
Scotia, his parents removing to the
United States when he was very
young. t.i Il aslf
A Vermont church annually puts
up at auction the post of sexton.
The man who offers to do the work
for the least money is the successful
bidder. C.-y. -
If you have a strong desire to
convert the heather you needn't go
out of your own street, perhaps not
out of your own house, fora good
opportu nifty.
The Wilmington (DeL } livery
Evening says that last seasons peach
crop amounted to 1881, ,233 baskets,
and that the Peninsula received for
them over 81, 100000. l.ae.
BY royal proclamation everybody
in Siam is now allowed full liberty
Of conscience and of practice as to
how he shall worship God. Until
this proclamation, converts to Chris
tianity were forced to do homage to
spirits, as well as to work on Snn-
lay. -
The total number of miles of new |
constructed in the United |
States in 1879 was 4,4O0. This is
5he greatest number of miles built in |
any one year since 1868, and is an
Increase of more than SO per cent.
over that year.
Speaking of the poverty stricken
South, the cotton crop of this year
Is estimated at 5,02O,3S7 bales, worth
1921, 100000. The value of last
years crop was about $I93, ,000, 900.
The wife of the Surgeon General
Of Germany is very skllful and
popular dentist, with large prac-
lice. She is employed by members
Of the Emperor's family.
There is a sudden cessation of
prosperity at Virginia City, New.
Mining stocks are down, work in
The mines has stopped, and the poor
are destitnte in the midst of an un-. |
cold winter.
During the year 1879 the deaths
In New Hamnsbira of nersons who |