Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-11-27
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necticut who at the late election were not per-
mitted to vote, because, in accordance with
the law of that State prescribing the quail
itications for voters, they could not read nor
write. If like rule was applied all over
the Union probably no State could show
a less number of ignorant men.
The Louisville Journal in speaking OF
the disunion spasms of South Carolina,
says: ''She is an insufferable pest, and we
wish. from the bottom of our hearts, that
she could be kicked out of the Union into
the bottom of the Atlantic"
Fanny Ellsler, the once famous danseuse
is now in Paris, and her hair has turned
almost white
Lieut.. Gunnison stated that, when he
was in Utah, the three members of the
Presidency had no less than e;ghtv-two
wives between them, and that one of the
three twas called an old bachelor because
he only had bakers dozen.
1t is estimated that there are 100000
pianos in use in our country at the present
time.
The Book Of Mormon has been trans
lated into the Hawaiian language, and q
large edition printed.
Of the thirty American doctors who
served in the Russian army during the
war, about one third have died, and the
rest have returned home.
Mr.. Froelich, Professor of French in the
Troy Seminary, is supposed to be one of
the lost on the steamship Lyonnais.
An Irish woman in New York had the
supposed dead body other husband brought
home, held wake over it, and was weep
ing at the last look at the funeral, when
her hushand-alive and well-tapped her
on her shoulder. The friends fled aghast
at the apparition, but satisfying the 'wid-
ow" that he was no ghost, they despatched
tie corpse to the dead house,
y St. Louis paper says a small girl in in
Morgan county, Illinois, accidentally fell
into hog pen and was killed and partially
eaten by the hogs; the mother of the
child was so shocked at the sight as to die; :;
the next night camphene lamp exploded,
killing another child and so severely burn
ing a third as to render her life doubtful.
A young lady in Danville, N. Y, named
Mithell, was attacked by a large family
dog, and bitten in one hundred and thirty
places, leaving her in a dying condition.
Robson the English defaulting Secreta-
ry of the Crystal Palace Company, has
been convicted and sentenced to twenty
years transportation.
A Kansas correspondent of New York
Times, says that there are q number of
slaves in Lecompton, all the servants in one
hotel being slaves, and that black woman
employed by Gov. Geary is slave hired
from Col. Titus.
Rowdyism is raml ant in the ancient city
of Quebec in the ''most loyal Province in
Canada" BIackguardism, riots, brutal as
saults, stabbing affrays, DC, are said by
the Quebec papers to be frequent, and the
police 10 be corrupt and inactive. Our
Canadian friends are fond of chronicling in
prominent and denunciatory articles any
disobedience to law in our country; we
trust, however, they will not be unmindful
of their own faults.
A fire, supposed to have been the work
of an incendiarv, occurred in the village of
Vienna, G. W., on the 18th instant, AMI
burned the Methodist Capel, and the town
Hall. A reward of .f1OO has been offered
for the discovery of the incendiary.
A man named Saxton, at Port Burnwell,
had,his arm dreadfully crushed by being acci-
dentally struck by pile hammer, on the
14th inst. The limb had to be ar 1putated
to save his life.
A young man named Hogan was way
laid and brutaIly assaulted, in London, c.
W., on Sunday last. His skull was bro
ken by the blow of brickbat; but he is
likely to recover. The perpetrators of the
outrage are known, and it is said will soon
be brought to justice.
Dr. B. H. Perkins, of Cuthbert county,
Georgia, went to Americus, on the sth
inst, with $500, to pay bank debt, but
was entrapped into a gambling house and
lost it all. He then opened an artery in
his arm and bled to death. A public meet
ing was then called by the Mayor, and res
olutions adopted to rid the town of gamb-
ling houses.
At Paris, recently, the Comtesse Charles
Fitziames, in passing through room when
in full dress, stepped upon a lucifer match
lying on the floor, by which her clothes
were set on fire, and she was so badly burn
ed that she died after several weeks of Sc
we're suffering.