Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-01-08
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II is said there is evidence in his owl
hand writing to convict Cornelius Hughe.
of attempting to induce a slave of Col
VIM. Minor, hired by Mr.. Gearey, in Alex
andra county, Va, to run away. Mr..
Hughes is from Connecticut. If convicted
his punishment will be confinement in ths
States prison not less than two or NOR
than five years.
A Joint Stock Company has been formed
in Havana for the purpose of extracting az
oil from species Of soap stone.
A woman claiming to be a witch, ha.
appeared in Sacramento. She pretends te
attract persons to her by burning candle
which has been used at awake. While
the tapers is burning she fixes her mind up
on the person she desires to see, and he is
compelled to direct his steps towards hel
dwelling.
1t is estimated that the love letters
dropped in the post office at Lowell average
over fifteen hundred daily. The factory
girls are unanimous in their opposition te
''single blessedness." --.---
| 1t is said that there are about seventeen
thousand criminal depredators at large in
London, who are known to the police.
Ejectments have been issued by the At
torney General Of New York against Will
liam B. Astor and other tenants of Trini-
ty Church, for the purpose of testing the
title of the State to the "King's Farm"
A portion of the church choir in the
Presbyterian Church of Greenbush, re-
Gently objected to the congregation taking
part in the singing as they got out of time.
The Church has decided that the congre-
cation may sing.
On the 4th of September, the American
consular flag was unfurled for the first time
in the mystical empire of Japan, Mr.. Harris
havingi been receievd rs consul of the
United States at Simoda. A Buddhist
temple is assigned for his residence
The Dutch government has presented the
japanese government with paddle wheel
steamer.
John Doyan, aged "A, was found frozen
to death near his wood pile, at Avon, Me-, a
few days since. He was the father of the
noted aHelen Jewetr," who was murdered
in New York many years ago.
The Pittsfeld (Mass.) Eagle says: "a
few weeks since two children Of one of our
physicians were attacked with scarlatina,
and during their illness had four pets a
couple of kittens. Both the kittens subse-
quently had all the symptoms ofscarlatina,
one of them dying, the other narrowly es-
Gaping. A canary bird whose cage hung
in the room also died with all the symp-
toms of the same disease"
The post of Chief Justice of Utah has
been rendered to William Williams, of
Keokuk, lowe. He balances in his mind
between accepting and declining this office
of doubtful comfort.
An exchange paper says: 1--WE saw on
Saturday some apples of good size and fla
vor, and flesh blood-red, although the skin
was bright yellow, showing no trace of
the red underneath, which surprised every
one who cut into the fruit. These apples
came from Battle Creek, Michigan. The
tree is said to be productive, and we'll wor-
thy of cultivation.
A subterranean river has been struck by
persons engaged in boring an Artesian well
in Henderson, KY, from which jet DIVA
ter is forced up through the bore and
thrown to The height of fifty feet above the
surface of the ground. sx<-- 80
Last week daring attempt was made
by cook woman named Martha, the prop
erty of Mr. Samuel F. Norment, of Tay-
lor's Ferry, King William: county, Va, to
poison her master and family. A child,
and her master, Mr.. Norment, were taken
very ii, but by prompt treatment recovered.
The girl was arrested, and poison, COM
posed of pounded jamestown weed and
glass, was found upon her.
The Boston Bee states that few days
since suit were entered to recover $1,000
damages from the manager of the How
ard Atheneum, for ejecting two negroes
the previous evening. It is the intention
of the complaints to test the question of
Color III us ItlaIioH ~ pl.iceS VI puoHc
and particularly those concern
ing the drama. if.rt 5r
Recently gentleman of New Smyrna,
Florida. arrived at Charleston, S. c., with |
10000 oranges, which he disposed of $40 |
per thousand. These oranges were raised
by his own labor, unassisted by any one,
and from an orchard of trees only four
years old. ....
In Cook County, ILL.,, last week John c.
Bell recovered fifteen thousand five hun
dred dollars from the Galena and Chicago |
Union Railroad Company, for injuries re-
ceived by collision between his wagon
and their train at public crossing, in ap-
which their engineerneglected to