Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-05

! Souo aiioSou ihiofndiity was utNcI Seu-
fenced.
A severe fire occurred in Toledo on the
night of the II instant, destroying MINI
Der of clearinghouse, taverns and dwell
ings, on the corner of Water and Oak
streets. The Forest City Hotel Railroad
House, fremont House, New England
House, and Clinton Huuse, were burned.
SINGULAR Ace1DENT.-The mother of
Edwin Root, of Geneseo, while crossing
the floor of her room, on Tuesday of last
week, suddenly fell, having broken one of
her legs at the thigh, while in the act of
walking. She is about 80 years of age
and viii probably die in consequence of the
Two lads were at play in a steam mill
at Lyons, Michigan, lately. One of them,
Francis Densmore, was caught by his cloth
ing in the machinery and drawn in between
the cog wheels, by which he was literally
crushed to atoms, not a bone in his body
or limbs remaining unbroken. m
A new dodge is now being practicedup-
on the Philadelphians, by sharpers, after
this style. A gentleman pulls the door
bell and asks for a Mr.. A., who of course
is not in-tells the lady that he owes Mr..
A. one dollar and half-gives counter
felt five dollar bill, and gets three dollars
and fifty cents ofgood money in change.
A dog in Pawtucket was noticed the
other night to be making frequent trips
back and forth between certain barn and
some other part of the village. A closer
watch showed that he was stealing hens
catching them in his mouth by the neck,
and carrying them to where his masterwas
in waiting. He had evidently been trained
to IT,
The Hartford ladies, interested in Kan.
SIS got together, in ten days time, four
barrels ofclothing and two boxes of boots
and shoes, valued at about 5000. -
A gentleman in Boston recently bought
a barrel of flour which on weighing was
found to fall short 25 fbs Another bar
rel bought at period before this, was found
to contain large paving stone. Z
A German woman has been imposing
upon Ter ignorant countrymen in Philadel-
phia, by passing herself off as "a relative
of the Supreme Being" and agreeing to.
send the souls of departed friends to
Heaven on the receipt of five dollars for
each soul. .-.--..-t nj sy--
The banking capital of New York is
now over ninety-six million dollars, and
has more than doubled in the last six years.
Rents in Boston have risen, in the last
eight years, one third higher than they
were previously. Notwithstanding that
1,4OO houses have been built in that city
alone, without taking in the surrounding.
towns, it is a very difficult thing, the pa
pers say, to hire house, even at the high
rates demanded. .--,.gf --.I s.raf fr-ea.;
Illinois is the second State in the num-
Der of enrolled withdrawing 1920,
and New York 337, 1925.
A Brooklyn lady of respectable family
and only two months married, Wednesday
morning, in paroxysm of insanity, -escap-
ed from her husbands watch, went to the
privy, stripped herself, and leaping into the
vault met horrible death. 7ar.
The Manchester (N. W Mirror says,
that there is now on exhibition in that city
man So years old, six feet three inches
high, who weighs only ss9 pounds. When
he was IS years old he weighed $50. He
is mere framework, skin and bones, and
great curiosity. He was born and
brought up in West Geffstown, few miles
from Manchester. .tl,-
An honest Irishman, at Charlestown,
Mass, picked up wallet lost by Issac Os-
good, containing $4,000, and returned il to its
owner. He was rewarded with present of
$500. 4 '
The surgeon who made post mortem
examination of the body of Ann Durham,
aged 26 years, at Leeds, England, found
the waist exceedingly small, the lungs
much congested, the heart much larger
than natural, and the cavities full Of blood.
He considered death to have arisen from
smallness of the chest, caused by tight Ia.
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