Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-11-12
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"When man is to lazy to work." says
Sam Silck, she paints his name over the
ooor and calls it tavern or grocery, and
makes the whole neighborhood as lazy as
himself"
The Boston Post estimates the entire
wealth of the United States, as an estate.
at $22,000,oOo,OOO. This includessreal.
personal property, stock, gold and Silver,
bullion-every thing.
A whistling match between two, 'ebo-
nies" took place in Harrisburg last week.
They commenced at half past seven and
whistled until ffteeR minutes before ten,
when one of them "gin in"
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, IN 1874
Wing candidate for Vice President, now
President of Rutgers College, was mar
ried on the 10th of Oct, to Miss Harriet
Pompelly, of Oswego, N. Y.
An advertisement in some of the daily
papers tells how to live an hundred years
by drinking q certain manufacture of old
wheat whisky. A more likely way would
be to drink no whisky at all.
Queen Victoria's Grown weighs three
lbs, three ounces and five pennyweights,
Troy. 1t contains 3093 jewels, one of
which, a ruby, was worn in the helmet of
Henry ", at the battle of Agineourt.
The average number of bushels of wheat
raised in the United States Is l04, 799, ,230,
and the bushels of Indian corn, 591, ,5S6,-
05S.
The Hudson Bay Company's possessions
are to be ceded to Canada, except the In
dian territory, asd the extensive tract
known as Ruport's land.
Attilla Burlingame, farmer of Cort-
land county, New York, says that wheat
can be prevented from spoihng in bins, If
one dry brick is put in with it for every
five bushels.
NJ. Kossuth, on a recent visit to Sssath-
aven, was met by procession Of 1000
people, who went two miles and half out
of town, with bands and banners, to receive
him.
The Providence and Worcester railroad
is a model corporation. It has not one
dollar of floating debt, and has now on de-
posit, drawing interest, sum sufficiently
large to make respectable dividend next
january.
The Mobile Asreury cautions the public
in regard to feeding stock with the Chi
nese Sagaf Cane. It says the blades and
stocks are good forage, but the seeds are
deadly poison. A fine horse died near Mo-
bile few dsys since from eating them.-
A caution to farmers raising the cane.
The lumber season in Michigan has been
unusually propitious. 1t is estimated that
5O,O0O,OO0 feet of logs, kept back last sea
son by the drouth, have been got out in
addition to very liberal amount IN cur
rent operations. Chicago is now the larg-
est market for Michigan lumber, and Al
bany is next.
An attempt will soon be made to navi-
gate the Kansas River by steamboat to
greater distance from its mouth than has
yet been accomplished. For this purpose,
a steamboat has been constructed, drawing
only seven inches of water, which it is ex-
pected will be able to run the greater part
of the year.
In 1887, gold was worth premium in
New York of fourteen per cent. To the
high rates which then prevailed, the Banks
have been much indebted for the sharpness
of the late run. The runners have, how
ever, been sorely disappointed, for specie is
now worth about one per cent. premium
hardly enough to pay for standing several
hours to obtain it.
A d,eadful scene of crime and debauch-
cry occurred at Yorkville, Canada, few
days since. The Coroner was called to
hold an inquest on the bodies of one Ed
ward O'Conner and wife, in hovel in the
town. The man and the woman had been
dead for some time, and on further searcn,
the body of a newborn child was discover
ed on shelf. Twowoneh who had acted
as midwife and nurse to the mother during
labor, were found after some difficulty, and
were imprisoned on charge of MAN.
slaughter, in causing the death of the child.
The man and his wife and these two VIC
men appeer to have had drunken orgie.
1t is testified that six pints of whisky were
consumed by the four in few hours
OConner was once respectable man, but
his wife was drunkard, and he fell into
her ways. Two orphan children are left,
who were placed in the Asylum.