Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-07-30
Clippings.

A number of members of a Matbod;st
congregation in Indianapolis have With.
drawn from it because the old fashion of
seating males and females on seperate seats
has been abandoned.
Gen. Ward B. Burnett, of New York, il
said to be the man upon whom is to be con-
ferred Gen. Jaeson's gold snuff box.
Mr.. Eddy writes to the Land Office that
he sold all of the Iowa Indian trust lands,
for which he has received, in all money
amounting to about $380,O00.
A man should never be ashamed to own
that he has been in the wrong, which is
but saying in other words that be is wiser
to-day than he was yesterday.
The Cincinnate Gazette concludes an ar
tlele on the crops with the following re-
marks, which, if true, indicate full meas
ure OF prosterity for the West:
"lf our hypothesis of full average crop
should turn out true, we think the surplus-
es OF the West will be from eighty to an
hundred million of dollars better than in
1856. There is full demand for tbese
and our railroads furnish ready and cbean
outlet to all markets."
| A skeleton has been found on the White
Mountains, supposed to be that of Benin,
min Chandler, of Wilmington, Delaware
who was lost last fall. On the BODY was
found gold watch and about 800 in gold
and bills. A son of the deceased had been
engaged in searching the mountain for his
father the present summer.
We learn that as M. Theodore Chapman
of Sheridan, was unloading hay in his barn
on Monday, the stale of the fork broke
while he was lifting, in consequence of
which he fell backwards of the load, strik-
inc his head upon the round of ladder,
and breaking bis neck. He was about 80
years Of age.
The Louisville Journal never said a
keener thing than whe it said this:
''The Roman Forum is now cow market;
the Tarpeian Rrock cabbage garden, and
the palace of the Caesars rope walk, and
Ashland the residence of Jane B. Clay"
Nicholas Longwortb, the winter, of Gin
cinnai, was brought before justice, and
held TO bail in five hundred dollars, to an
swer charge of refusing to permit d. Hi
ram Cox, inspection of LIQUORS, to analyze
his sparkling Catawba.
The Massachusetts, Medical Society Of
fers prize of four hundred dollars for the
best dissertation on the following theme:
'.To what affection of the lungs does Bron-
chitis give origin?" The dissertation must
be sent, post paid, to Benz. E. Botting,
Roxbury, on or before April Is, 1s4s.
In England the Electric and Information
al Telegraph Company have organized their
establishments in such a manner that mon
ey deposited with the company will be ad-
vised by telegraph order, and be paid out
to the parties named in the order.
On the Fourth of July the Editor of the
Milledgeville (Ga.) Recorder had in his
hands drum that was beaten at the bat
ties of Saratoga Cowpens, and Eutaw
Springs. The Savannah Volunteer Guards
are the possessors of this relic.
CRYSTAL PALACE IN C1NcINNATI.-A
crystal palace is about to be erectrd at Gin
cinnati, on Vine, above Fourth street, for
the mechanics institute fair, to be opened
on the 10th of September. The work of
construction will be commenced next week.
The palace will have front of sixty feet,
and will run back two hundred feet; mean
height fifteen feet. The front will be of
Gothic architecture.
A shopkeeper in Vienna lately put up in
his window a notice, declaring that "the
proprietor of the establishment wished to
enter into the marriage state with a we'll
conducted young woman or widow
"Since then," some of the local journals
state, ''it is quite inconceivable what
number of women of every age enter the
shop to make purchases, but the would-be
Benedict has not yet made his choice.