Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-12-18
News Items.

news Items.
SINGULAR AMUsEMENTs.-The old Ro-
man Emperor who offered reward to any
one who would introduce to him new
pleasure, has been outdone by the people Of
Natick, Mass, who have been irdulging in
singular if not new amusements. On
Thanksgiving day they shaved small pig,
creased him, and then lei him loose in
field, to become the prize of the first person
who, would catch him and hold him
Twelve young men were competitors, and
one of them at last succeeded in retaining
the slippery customer. Afterwards prize
was offered for the man, who while blind
folded, should wheel wheelbarrow near
est to a stake in the large field where the
sports came off. The rivalry on the oeea-
sion seems to have exceeded that of the
Olympic games. Natick is the home of
Senator Henry Wilson. 55iL
CoNsERvATvEs.-In his lecture in Gin
cinnati the other night, Wendell Philips,
who has very little respect for conservative
men," spoke of them as "men who had
hardly dared to tie their own neck cloths
without permit from the Justice of the
Peace" Prentice rather out-Herods this
definition in recent editorial, in which he
says there are some men so conservative
that ''if they had been entrusted with the
task of the creation, they would have fold
ed their arms supinely at the threshold for
fear of insulting Chaos"
SMUGGLING MILK IN THE aOR1e1SAL
PACKAGES" 1T is said that Secretary
Guthrie in his reciprocity tariff with Cana
da, made the duty on milk so high, that
the farmers on the royal borders, instead Of
milking their cows at home, and sending
their milk in cans into the States, find it
more economical to drive their cows over,
milk them on the American side, and then
drive them back again. They commute
for the toll over the bridge for avery mod
crate consideration. Sharp practice that
The Louisville Courier exhonerates the
officers of the New Albany & Salem Rail-
road Company from the charge of having
sold tickets to slaves. The rules of the
Company on this point are so strict that
free negroes not responsibly endorsed are
refused tickets. Runaway slaves, however,
sometimes procure tickets through while
men, and thus overcome the vigilance Of
the Company.
HORRIBLE BRUTAL1TY.-One of the
most brutal deeds ever heard of was perpe-
trated by shoemaker in Jesu Maria street
Havana, upon the person of mulatto, his
apprentice. The boy was talking to an
other boy, and his brute of master seized
a hot boiled egg just off the fire and thrust
it into the poor lads mouth, holding his
hand over the mouth until the poor boy
was suffocated and died.
CONSERVATISM AND PRoGREssIoN.-The
Leader, the new Roman Catholic admins
tration organ at st. Louis, alludes to the
"Progressivepo policy means Cuba, Nicaragua
New Granada and a good slice of anything
handy for orr side.''
AN AMUSING BLUNDEK.-The Cleve
land Herald says that one of the compost
tors in that office, made the following ludi-
crous blunder:
The steamer ]. P. Smith, on her passage
up the Hudson, on Wednesday afternoon,
struck sunken mast, and commenced leak
ing so that she had to be run ashore, IN
spite of TIE Depa, to prevent her sinking.
The passengers were all taken off In safety.
This 'item" intended to say ain Spuyten
DuyYil," creek running into the Hudson
TIE WoULD-BE GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS.
Richardson's popularity in his own dis
trict, may be gathered from the fact that
he ran behind his ticket nearly 1900 votes
This is the reward for assisting Douglas in
engineering through Congress the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, and indicates IN
what estimation he is held by those who
ought to know him best.
New RoUTE.-A project is on foot for
Western States and the Ocean, via the St.
Lawrence, by constructing canal across
the Michigan Peninsula, which it is said
will shorten the route by some hundreds
of miles and save much of the navigation
of the rough waters on Lake Michigan and
Huron.
WHERE THEY ARE To the question
''where are the New York Democracyw
the New York Evening Post replies with
the significant fact that of the thirty-nine
counties which gave Silas Wright majori-
ties for Governor in 1914, twenty-nine now
give majorities for Fremon. while only
seven give majorities for Buchanan, and
three for Fillmore.
SINGULAR Motive FOR MURDER
Hughes, the negro barber, who recently
murdered the female cook of a hotel IN
Lowell, Mass, is said to have been excited
to the act on account of growing angry Win
her because she accused him of having
white woman for wife.
The RESULT IN TExAs.-The Calves
Ton Negs, of the 18th says: ave find
il difficult to gather the returns from this
State. So far as heard from, the Demo-
Gratis carried every county. 1t is now be-
I;eved that Texas will give Buchanan, and
breckenridge from 10000 to $4,000.
The Portland (Me.) Advertiser, says
hat about five thousand of the citizens Of
Portland are believers in, or investigators
# Spiritualism.
Two negro men, belonging to Mn NH
aine, on Green River Ky, have been man.
and sont N Ohio