Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1856-09-25
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Camphor' chloroform and lard, are said
to be efficient antidotes for stryehnine.
The New York Central R r ,aee;nts
for August, were about $4,000.
Alf Burnett Esq, poet wit and editor.
has left for Kansas.
While the sheriff and his assistants Il
few days since, at Fort Des Moines, were
enjoying themselves at show, some scamp
unlocked the prison bars and released the
inmates.
John Neurath, proprietor of the Cooper
House, at Dayton, was shot at and severe
ly stabbed, by set of drunken rowdies
from Cincinnati, on Wednesday night.
Several of our cotemporaries state that
the election in California was to be held
on the Sd inst. This is an error, the State
election this year in California will be
held on the 4th of November.
Rumor has it that Hon. C. P. ViIlers a
brother of the Earl of Clarendon, has been
appointed Minister to the United States,
but no mention is made of it by the Eng
lish papers.
A boat race is to take place between the
boatmen of New York and st. Johns, N.
B., on the st. Charles river, near Boston,
on the 3Oth inst. The prize is $4,000.
A few days ago, in street affray at
Tarborough, N. c., Mr.. E. Cromwell, pro-
prietor of the Edgecomb House, was shot
and dangerously wounded by A. S. El-
lison.
The receipts of wheat at Chicago, are
now about $4,000 bushels per day, and
the total receipts of all kinds of grain
amounts to one million bushels per week.
Lorenzo B. Sheppard, of New York, an
eminent lawyer and Democratic politician,
and holding the office of Corporation At
torney, died suddenly yesterday morning
while taking bath.
The stock of pork in the New Orleans
inspection warehouse on the lst instant,
was 1852 barrels, against 16,S75 at the
corresponding period in 1855, 7,106- in
1854, and 29,91O in 1853.
The Austrian army of occupation have
been lately applying the law of the state
of seige very vigorously in the Romagun,
and fourteen persons have been shot by
them in Bologna and the immediate en-
virons.
AT the raising of Buchanan pole in
Buffalo, Tuesday week, a man named Tray
er was killed, and another seriously injur-
ed. The pole fell by reason of the break
ing of some ropes before it was up to the
perpendicular.
Hail stones as large as walnuts fell at
Rochester, N. Y, on Wednesday week.
The Chinese tea crop, it is said, viii be
a full average one.
The Evening Express is the title of a
new Fillmore paper just started at Spring
field, Mass.
The Brooksville Tunnel, on the Virgin
ia Central Railroad, 800 feet in length,
has been finished.
The negro who killed Francis W. Sher-
idan, in Highland, Va, has been senten-
ced to be hung on the 9th instant.
The cotton factory of January & Wood,
Maysville, KY, was partially destroyed by
fire one evening last week. Loss un-
known. -
Pittsburg coal is selling at Louisville at
24@25 cents. The stock of all kinds Is
reduced to one hundred thousand bushels.
A man named Goulden, resident of
GAINESVILLE, was killed at Bellair, on the
G. o. R. R., on Wednesday night, by a
collision between two trains
Ohio is in the market for loan of
s2,4O0,OO0 at T. cent, stock redeema-
BILE in 1856. The funded debt of the
State is $13,25O,OOO.
On the Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne and Chi
cago Railroad, there remain.forty miles to
be completed, to connect Pittsburgh and
Laporte, which will be completed in o.
tober.