Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-04-09
Items of News.

DR.. Vogal, another enthusiastic explorer
of Africa, is reported to have died at the
capital of Wadia, but this report Is DOUBT
= eddy his German friends.
Annie Welch, a married woman WITH
five children. died in Troy suddenly on
Wednesday morning, from excessive lntoxi'
cation. She was woman OF every In
temperate habits.
MED. Lyman of Lawrence, Kansas,
and member of the Dread Guards, was
burnt to death on the l1th of March, while
o.leep in cabin about mile and a hall
from Lawrence.
Poor LITTLE THINe.-The infant prince
of Naples has been baptised, receiving fifty
names, among which the first were, Henna-
70 Maria Immaculate.
All people don't believe in phrenology
we know; but we never saw person who
would pick out man with the head of q
bulldog, for a kind, genial, practical phi
lanthropist.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says the track
of the Milwaukee q Mississippi Railroad
was finished within seven miles of the Mis-.
sissippi, on Saturday night last. Ten OF
twelve days more will see it finished to
Prairie du Chen.
A gentleman who passed through the
Franconia Notch, in New Hampshire, last
week, reports six miles of very fair sleigh
ing from one mile above the Notch to the
Flume House.
There has been 81 pews sold in Rev. Mr..
. Hatfeld's church, at prices ranging from
$3.50 to $500 each, the whole bringing
$4,000. Eighty-nine pews remain to be
sold, for which it is expected to be realized
$4,000 more.
The Wykof gold mines in Fauquier Co.,
Va, have been sold for $4,000, to satisfy
an execution. The whole amount, says
the Warrenton Whig, spent upon these
works, could not have been less than S5O,-
600.
The Danville Democrat states that one
day last week there was manufactured at
the Montour Rolling Mil, in that borough,
the enormous quantity of upward of 1l6
tons of Railroad iron-the largest amount
ever manufactured in one day at any estab-
lishment of the kind in the United States.
The French Emperor has now in his
stables six very fine American horses
The two horses he drives in his phaton
are American, and in France are consider
ed superior trotters.
A Mrs. Baker, of Belmont Co., was drowr-
ed at Belair, a few dayssince. She fell from
the steamboat plank into the water and
was buoyed up by her clothes, SO that she
did not sink,. but when the small boat
reached her, her face was in the water and
all attempts to resuscitate her were una
vailing.
The Rev. J. c. Lovejoy, brother of the
murdered Lovejoy, who fell at Alton few
years since, has renounced his anti-slavery
doctrines and has lately been appointed
private secretary to the new Boston Collec-
tor. Buchanan after all does not think so
badly of political priests if they only will
preach Loeofocoism.
A breach of promise case is now on trial
in Detroit, which excites much interest,"
The plaintiff is Miss Eunice c. Hall,
neice of Vincent j. Scott, Banker of De-
troit, and the defendant is Geo. W. Carne,
Brewer of same City. Damages laid at
$4,000.
Freemasonry was first known in England
in 674, and was forbidden in 1924; loler-
ated in 1909, and excommunicated by the
Pope in 1888. The charity for Freema-
sons was established in 1888. The Grand
Lodge of England was founded in l7l7;
of Ireland in 1920. Freemasons' Hall,
Great Queen street, London, was built in
l775, and opened in May, l776.