Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-12-11
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1t is estimated that there are zoo. 600
pianos in use in our country at the present
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One thousand bushels Of hickory nuts
were shipped from Toledo the 26th and
9th Of last month. 1T a--F .
Edward Dunn was choked to death in Sy-
racuse by piece of meat, when engaged.
IN eating supper. .s5e1d aa11 s-se1Ls-c14
3 Barnum has gone to England with little
Cordelia Howard-the original stage Eva
AS her business man. -.
1t is stated that the proposed City. HallinI
New York will cost that city not less than
eight millions of dollars. .,.r.-.- s,..---sf..r,
The narrowest part of the Atlantic IS
more than two miles deep. In other parts
it is one and half miles.
The marriages in Boston for this year
fall short of last year 600, and this too is
leap year. What were the girls about?
No less than s36,s4O pounds of quick.
silver were exported from California during
the six months ending July lst. e
Captain Hallett, of West Newton, Mass,
was badly poisoned by the drinking of wa
ter which came distance of sixty feet
through lead pipe. ~ 20 p : - = :
The Masonic fraternity are about erect
ing a temple in the city of New York,
which shall excel every building of the.
kind in the United States. Ii .ss.5sso a5a
10 The loss of life from snake bites IN
Scinde, India, has become so serious, that
Government has taken measures for the de-
struction of these reptiles. .AIzso -
Samuel Swartout, whose heavy defalca-
tions as Collector of New Y York gave being.
to the new word "Swartouting," recently
died in that city. '' 80 - -
A gentleman in Mobile while cleaning.
his revolver put it into his mouth to blow,
through it, when barrel discharged send
ing ball into his head. -
AN ovarian 'tumor weighing one hun
dred and five pounds was extracted from 4
woman inzRiply, Brown Co. Dunlap suc-i
cessfully performed the operation. r 70 tsb
The Countess Fitz James, while walking
in her park, near Paris, trod upon lucifer
match, which, igniting, set fire to her dress,
causing her death in few days.
Tie La Grunge (Mo.) Bulletin Of. the
9th ult. estimates the number Of hogs that
will be packed in that town. this winter at
$4,000. Contracts have been made at So,
TO S. per cwt. l--a-,.r - ~
The leaders of fashion in Paris are get
ing tired of hoops and extended crinoline.-i
By way of bringing down the great circum-
ferences gradually, however, they are be-
ginning to fatten the hips ssia 5-rlsi zaf
The Lexington (Va.) Gazette states
that the Natural Bridge property in Rock
bridge county, including the hotel and one,
hundred acres OF. land around it, has been
sold to Mr.. Sheffield for $1,000 .ss.s4 N1e
I 1t will be gratif fying to. the consumers of
sugar, to know that while the crop in Lou
isiana is short. Cuba has produced very
large one.ao-isTEzs7 gz-sa-s ssa T.a-i .a9i-ssit
We seeit stated that Leahy, the misera-a
bic devilwho pretended torenounce Roman
ism, and who, the last we heard of him,
was in prison in Wisconsin, has now re-
nounced Professionalism and gone back to
the Romanists. 3 Estii ? otAO
A short time since, at Antwerp, child
was stified in a cradle by cat coming
into the room and laying across the
ehild's face. The parents slept in the
same room but did not discover the sad
circumstance until morning. & a -
At injecting of the Massachusetts, His,
torical Society, a few. evenings since,
chair was presented, made from oak timber
taken from the house Washington lived in,
when be was inaugurated President of the,
United States. Josiah Quincy, the only
member of theEsociety, who knew Wash
ington occupied the chair for, the evening
"A St. Louis paper says small girl in
Morgan county, Illinois, accidentally feIintoI
b hog pen and was killed and parcially eat-i
IN by the hogs; the mother of the child
was so shocked at the sight as to die; oand
lhe next night camphene lamp exploded, y
kiiihng another child and so severely burn
ing a. third as to render her life doubtful. sN
Last summer, some citizens of Warren
county, Illinois, donated thousand BUSH
els of corn to the "Heme for the Friend
less" in New York City. The Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Rail Road Co.
yet it down free of cost at Chicago; and :
there the American Transportation Com
pany took it up, and set it down free of
.harge iu New York city, being equivalent
20 a eift of $4OO. h1t sa 7'5 ,siil5f2O =
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