Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-16

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The municiple election Richmond, Va
on Thursday, resulted in the success OF lhe
Wing and American ticket
said a man named Jesse Fairbanks,
residing in WATERFOWL, killed a kaif' SKIN,
ned it. tanned the hide, and manufactures
nair Of boots from it, which be wore the
day succeeding.
Az The last Utah Agricultural Far,
Rr;abam Young took the first prize OF
Of sa5 for the best stud horse, and for the
best bull.
There. was a large seal captured IN the
Hudson River, near West point, a few
DAYS ago. 1t measured four feet in length.
1t was shot by Mr.. Ward, who sent the
skin to Newburg for. exhibition.
The attempt to make paper out of bass
wood has not proved sufficiently successful
TO warrant its manufacture.
The Washington correspondent of the
Exeter IN. H.) News Letter says that
Gen. Pierce has saved one half his Presi-
dental salary.
The Lodon Medical Times notices a
case of poisoning at Tully, Ireland, from
having eaten salt Mackelal. A father
mother, and three daughters were the vic
tins. The verdict of the Coroner's jury
was, "Died by the visitation of God, after
eating some horse mackeral, which was not
properly cured" a:
A Washington letter writer says that ].
C. Breckenridge, Vice President, has made
100000 land speculation in Wisconsin.
There is said to be two hundred appli-
cants for every Territorial appointment in
the gift of the Administration.
The land spectators have invaded
Southern Illinois, and are buying up all
they can get hold Of.
1t is thought that the late cold weather
has caused some injury to the growing cot
ton and sugar crops in Louisiana.
President Buchanan has lost another rel
alive in the decease of Miss Lane, a niece.
She died at Lexington Ky.
The measles have ragged and still contin-
lie to rage to such an extent among the
volunteers & Florida, as to make them In
competent to perform good military duty.
The jury in the Kalloch adultery trial
lately tried q Cambridge, Mass, not being
able to agree as to a verdict were discharg-
ed yesterday. They stood, eight for ac-
quittal, and four for conviction.
The dwelling house of Mr.. Grimshaw,
near Cape Vincent, N. Y, was destroyed
by fire early on Saturday morning, and
MI. Grimshaw, wife, and six children per-
ished in the flames.
Scarcely one person in fifty is sensible
at the point of death-the patient very
rarely seeming conscious; and the pain is
pronounced by observing physicians to be
evidently kerry ineonsiderable. That's
great talk. But what pain is there in go
ing to sleep2
Eyeiine Gilmore, a beautiful danseuse III
a New Orleans Theater, was returning to
her residence late Thursday evening, when
she was seized by three ~rufians who car
ried her into a dark alley way, gagged and
pinioned her; and there successfully viola
ted her person
The Louisville Democrat says that ]. B.
Stewart, Esq, q lawyer in hat city, has
received $4,000 for his services in secu-
ring the Reedside claim for the govern
ment. The suit was compromised by gov
ernment paying $4,000, of which Mr..
Stewart gets ono halt.
A Waterman in Boston, the other morr-
ing, early, saw a woman in the streets
travelling rapidly, but perfectly mud. She
said she was going TO He'll, and devils
were after her. She was laboring under
delirium trenens, and the Waterman, throw
ing his o7ercoat over her. and putting his
rubbers on her feet, took her nearly perish
ed, to the station house.
The Boston Medical World states that
there are not far from twenty female ply
%sicians in that city, several of whom are in
excellent business.
Judge Goodenow, the Oldest member of
the Supreme Bench of Maine, has given
an opinion in answer to the State Senate,
that colored persons are still voters in
Maine, in spite of the bred Scott decision
OF the U. ). judges.
Wallace Ferguson of Albany, challenges
any man to walk with him from Albany to
'Whitesboro. on tile road over which the
Taylor and Dalton horses trotted, for from
500 to $500 a side.
A statue of Enone, the work Of Miss
Hosmer, of WATERFOWL, now in Rome has,
been presented to the Mercantile Library of
St. Louis by Mr.. Wagner Grow. i
N. de la Roquet, the eminent geographer
and late Vice President of the GEOGRAPHY
cal Society of Paris, has contributed 1000
francs to Lady Franklin's private expedi-
ton, about to be fitted out.
There is a long, sharp steamer of a
thousand tons burden and two hundred
feet in length, preparing in New York for
the ChInese waters,.to assist in towing
junks. She is to be armed, and it it calcu-
lated will outsail anything in those seas.
NOVEL ENrERPRIsE.-A correspondent
of the Charleston News, writing from