Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-05-21
Items ofNews.

CURIOUS lNvENTIoE.-One OF the most
curious in its way is new and selfcloseing
water faucet. It is not injured by heat or
cold and prevents all leakages or overfiows.
Il has been pointedly and wittily said of
Charles Kingsiy that his idea of a Chris
tiau is a man who fears God, and can walk
a thousand miles in a thousand hours.
Four men were drowned on Ottawa on
Thursday last. A bark canoe in which
they were going down the rapids, capsized.
Two men in the canoe escaped.
A letter from Hamburger ofthe 18th ult.,
says That on the day before, upwards of A.
600 emigrants were collected at that port to
embark for the United States. They gen.
erly came from Holstein and Mecklenburg,
and the mountainous districts of Central
Germany.
An infant three and a half years old,
with a beard, has been sent 10 Jail, with his
exhibitors, in Albany. They desecrated the
Sabbath by an exhibition Of the child for
money. In Louisville, K, the bearded wo-
man is in Jail for larceny.
The Ellicottville Republican says that
nearly or quite half a cord of human bones
were discovered under a pine stump a few
miles south of that village, BY some labor
ers while grubbing the stump, measuring
four feet in diameter. Physicians and 9TH
ers are now examining q large number of
them.
kidnapping children for circus training
has. been detected in St. Louis. A scamp
named John Perry, connected with q circus
lately exhibiting in that city has been ARES
ted and committed to prison for Kidnap-
ping several children for the purpose of
training them for actors -Four of the chill
dren secreted by him have been recovered,
one boy and three girls from six to eleven
years of age.
The Dayton Journal says that the best
way to bring down the price of beef cattle
is to raise them.
The Albany Argus estimates the Maple
Sugar crop of New York this spring, at 20,
100000 lbs, and the value at s2,5 900.
1t puts down the whole yield of the United
States at s,00o,0 900 lbs, nearly one half
the cane crop of Louisiana last year. The
total value Of the maple crop is placed at
&c. $685. o0.
Col. John H. Young Of Champaign
county, is spoken of in the Democrat papers
as q candidate for the Supreme Court.
Ex-senator Foote, of Mississippi, who is
now in California, and who has been for
the last two or three years Unidentified with
the American party, has quit the lodges
and gone back to the Democrats.
The Massachusetts, Senate on Tuesday
last, by a vote of II to IA, refused to pass
a bill requireing q residence of fourteen
years in this country, before they can vote.
REBELL1oS.-The congregation at Lew
es, Del, have refused to receive the minis
ter sent them by the Philadelphia Confer
cnce of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and have addressed a letter to that effect 10
Bishop Scott. At Berlin they refused to
allow their appointee TO go into the parson
age, and he returned to his former home.
Mrs. Stowe recently had a long interview
with the Pope. 1t is to be hoped that
neither party will be suspected of adopting
the peculiar views of the other, inasmuch
as the Pope wouli not like to be called a n
Abolitionist, nor Mrs. Stowe a Romanist.
The number of fires in Cincinnati during
the twelve months ending Alril 18th,
was LOG; false alarms Z. Loss by fires 1854,
500. Insurance on same S157,4e9. For
a city of two hundred thousand people,
this is q remarkable statement.
The New York papers contain the adj
dress delivered on Tuesday evening by Rev.
Mr.. Bellows of the Unitarian Church in that
city in defense of theatrical amusements.
The Address occupies eight close columns of
the Tribune, and is brilliant and able.-
About two thousand persons were present.
many of whom were connected with the
stage.