Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-10-23
Clippings.

David Rape, Slave at Corinth, Miss,
died recently at the great age of 1T.
John R. Nelson, prominent lawyer of
Knoxville Tenn, died last week. ..
On the 23d ult., the weather was unu-
sually cold in Paris, fires being necessary
for comfort.
A man employed in the foundry of G..
w. Eddy, at Waterford, was in the act of
taking iron from the cupalo, when he slip
ped down the ash pit, one leg being exposed
to the melted iron as it was running from
the furnace, burning him dreadfully.
Mr.. William Dougherty, of Paterson, N.
j., now s3 years old, has had 81 descend
ants, IS of whom are living. He had 10
children, 55 grand children, and 80 great
grand children; children are living, Al
grand children, and 26 great grand chill
dren.
The UPPER M1ssIss1pp1.-Great interest
is felt in the Upper Mississippi river, particu-
larly by lumber merchants. A dispatch
from Dunleith says, ''the river has risen
one foot at Dunleith; trifie at St. Paul /;
it is small affair.""
UNDOUBTEDLY so.-A meeting of the
National Sunday League was held it St.
Martins Hal, London, and a resolution
adoptel that "thc music in the parks of
the metropolis, and in the towns of the
kingdom, on Sundays, has been productive
of great moral good"
The first grist mill ever erected in Penn
sylvania, is yet in existence. tits quaint
old stone building, and bears date about
1880. 1t is located on a small stream
near Germantown, and some of the origi-
nal machinery imported from England, is
still retained in the mill. aa
PUTTING ON THE WHOLE ARMoR.-Rev
T. w. Higginson, of Worcester, having
gone to Kansas, has laid aside his clerical
title, and is now hailed by the military ap-
pellation of General, he having been ap-
pointed aid to Gen. Lane, commander of
the Free State forces of that Territory.
SINGULAR Acc1DENr.--A fine child of
Mr.. John L. Van Buskirk, who went from
Eddington, in Penobscot county, was
downed in firkin of swill, which sat near
his back door, on the goth of September,
in the town of Enrol, New Hampshire.
The firkin had but about six quarts of
swill in il, and the child, which was an in
FAINT of only fourteen months, must have
fallen in head first.
A New SINGING B1RD.-An engineer of
the name of Mofatt, residing at Murlford,
caught some time ago young moorcock.
He brought it up in a cage, and now it has
reached the full maturity Of its species, and
what is certainly strange, he succeeded in
teaching it to speak. We are told it can
chatter like parrot. This is the first in
stance, we believe, on record, of grouse be-
ing capable Of speech.-Rslnaarnoch Jour
nal.
AM1ABLE.-One of the most significant
things in political way, of which we have
heard, occurred in certain school district
in our city. 1t so happens that the histo-
ry of the United States, approved by the
School Board, contains picture of Col.
Fremont. A teacher in said district found
that a portion of the class in history had
blotted out this picture, and, upon inquiry,
was informed by the children that their
parents had instructed them to make the
DETACHMENT !-Cin. Com.
New VoLTAIc BATrERY.-A voltaic bat
terry of peculiar arrangement, designed for
medicinal uses, has been contriyed by M.
Breton, constructor of Paris, and is main
tanned in state of constant moisture with
chloride of calcium. For one of the poles
there is mixture of copper filings with
saw-dust, the latter designed to separate
the metallic particles; the filings are mixed
with a solution of chloride Of colcium.-|
The other pole is mixture, in which the