Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-15

-. Il costs more to send an ounce of paper
TO Ess0ps than it dees.e seadr a: barrel oi
= The Duke Of Cambridge has decided to
I. abolish the use of the earbine as cavalry
fweaponin the British army -
Georce Luscombe, Sd officer of the Amer
,icsn cI5ner ship Eagle Wing, bad been
committed at Hong Kong for trial, on the
charge of numbering Chinese.
In San Francisco there are no less than
Is dailies, 10 weeklies, and monthlies-
: In the State at large there are 25 dailies,
IS weeklies, and 1 monthly.
George D. Prentice contradicts the ru-
NOR that he was about to remove to st.
Louis, and says he will not leave theLouis-
vile Journal until his breath leaves him.
The courts of high authority in England
have. decided that a gentleman has no
right to kick his coachman! In this coun-
try it depends upon the coachman's color.
The first branch of the Baltimore CITY
Council has adopted an ordinance establish
ing better police system, and increasing
the police force to 400 men, who are to be
armed with reyolvers.
The engineers and fireman of the West
ern Railroad had presented to them $50
and $40 each, respectively, on New Years
day, as a reward for their labors in saving
fuel during the year.
About two hundred members of the
Dental profession recently assembled in
London. for the purpose of organizing
themselves into an association, to be called
the aCollege of Dentists of England"
The New Orleans Advocate of the goth
of December says Bishop Payne arrived in
that city on the 18th, and that while on
board the mail boat he was robbed of his
pocket book, containing several hundred
dollars.
The durability of the palm fibre has
been put to sundry tests, and has been
pronounced by the examining officers of
Woolwich to be infnitly superior to any
thing yet discovered for the manufacture
of sailcloth, rope-yarn, and ships cables.
The eels, oyster and seollops, by which
many poor families were supported in
Bridgeport, Conn.,, have recently been cut
off, as the people complain, by the throw
ing of refuse coal tar in the harbor by the
gas company Of that city.
A grand fight came off last Sunday on
the Allegheny river between the Pittsburg
and Allegheny boys. About three hun
dred were engaged, and the fight lasted
from sunrise to sunset. Only five or six of
the belligerent youths received severe
wounds or bruises.
1t appears that the New Orleans Custom
House, intended for magnificent pile of
granite and marble, is gradually sinking
into the swamp. 1t has subsidized l6
inches since 1851 at which rate of sub
sidence it will finally disappear from hu
man vision at about the beginning of the
22d century of our era.
The Hartford Evening Press says: "a
sign beard in certain locality of the city
has this Inomental inscription:
WHISPERS DIED HERE
"The cause of the untimely end of the
being referred to is not known. The hairs
to the estate, it is thought, cannot be very
numerous"
We clip the following from the Valley,
Nd. Register:
"An extraordinary operation was per-
formed on Mrs. Sarah Sitter, who has
been dropsical for several years. The
quantity of water drawn from the patient
amounted to eleven gallons-the water
weighed ten pounds to the gallon; amoun-
ting in all 10 one hundred and ten pounds.
The operation was performed without the
least possible pain to the patient. There
is some slight hope entertained of her re-
coyery.