Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-02-26
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warded with the Consulate at Liverpool.
Navigation has been resumed on the
James River (Va.) Canal
The Rappabannock River (Va.) is open
and very high.
Ex-Goveruor Hammond, of South Car
olina, is spoken of as the successor to Pres
ton S. Brooks, in Congress.
Tits said that Governor Corwin and
Hooking Hunter have been retained by the
Canal Contractors 70 defend their contracts.
The Connersville, Indiana, Times, COM
plains of the number of tippling and gam
bling houses in that town.
That was dreadful old man who would
rather tell Lie on six mouths credit than
the truth for cash!
A Householder, describing a used up
horse said be looked Gas if he had been ed
iting daily newspaper
The Catholics of Montreal are about to
erect a Cathedral.. Surprising in splendor
any church edi6ce on the Western cont
nent.
The bill giving $780, 900 to the Mobile
and Ohio railroad has been passed by the
Mississippi Legislature, and has received
the signature Of the Governor.
Amendments to the Criminal Code of
Mississippi have passed the Senate to pro-
hibit billiard playing, and TO prohibit labor
on the Sabbath.
H Mr.. Cory, who, seems to have taken
pride in Cavaulting clear of the traces
of the party, who, through simple charity
elected him, &c. Cimciaanoti Eaquirer.
Many of the farmers of Ohio and Indi-
ana are making extensive preparations for
manufacturing Maple Sugar and Molasses
this season. 1t will pay at present prices.
Prices in Omaha City, (Nebraska) ac-
cording to accounts, have been "set up
pretty steep" already. Board is said to be
ten dollars per week, and three thousand
dollars piece is asked for lots in town.
The keeper of the county Jail at Del
hi, Delaware county, Iowa, was murdered
In his bed on the 9Th ult. His brains
were beaten out with an axe, which was
found standing by his bedside
The corner stone Of the monument to
Henry Clay, at LEXINGTON, is to be laid on
the 18th Of April next, Mr.. Clay's birth
day, if the Committee can get through
their labors in time.
The WnghtviIIe (Pa.) Star states that
the President elect footed" that part.'of his
journey to Lancaster, on his return from
Washington on Tuesday. He ought to
sfoot" some of the ofice-hnnters from
Wheatiand."
The noted Morgan horse, known as
Champion Black Hawk, formerly owned by
Messrs. Lasdd, of Richmond, Ohio, and
lately by Messs. NeHeary, Of Mt Healthy
near that city, has recently been sold to a
party in Illinois for 81 900.
The monster Christmas pie, for which
ST. Johns College, Cambridge, England,
is famous, wighed this year upwards of so
pounds, and itscontents consisted of grouse,
pheasants, tarkies, geese, and various other
inhabitants of The earth and air.
A good many papers have lately been
sold by recording, very unsuspectingly, the
murder of John E. Kake, descendant of
the well known chief, Cornplanter, by be-
ing burned to cinder, before a fire. 1t
was clear case of orerdone "Johnne-
cake" Z s
A young bride riding ont with her happy
husband in Montreal, Canada, few days
since, was frozen to death by her husbands
side. Physicians testify that her death was
caused by frost on the brain, from the ex-
posure of the top of the head to the cold.
She wore fashionable bonnet.
The citizens of Madison, Wisconsin,
were greatly alarmed the other evening by
the discovery that hungry, half starved
wolf was prowling about the streets of that
city, seeking whom to devour" Nobody
was hurt, though many were badly fright
ened.
Robert Hall, while suffering a temporary
loss of reason, was visited in the madhouse
BY person who, in a wining tone, asked,
sWhat brought you here, Mr.. Hall pr
Touching his brow Significantly with his
finger, Hall replied, @What will never bring
you here, sir,-too much brains"
The Louisville Level of the Ohio Canal,
Niagara Lock to the Roscoe aqueduct, has,
during much of the past season, been short
of water, in consequence, it is said, of the
management of a saw mill, said to be own
ed by jacob Blaekensderfer, the 'Oommis-
sioner.
NJ. James B. Clay's fine Duchess bull,
Royal Duke, died of disease of the heart,
near Lexington, last week. He was
thought by theibest judges to be one of the
finest animals Of his spicies ever brought to
Kentucky, and is quite as great loss 10
the breeding community as he is to Mr..
Clay.
George W. Watson, the proprietor of
Concert Hall, Philadelphia, committed sn-
icide on Sunday morning, by cutting his
j. throat with razor at barber shop. He
has been insane for more than year and
patient at the Pennsylvania Hospital. He
had gone to the BARRIERS accompanied by
his keeper.
The editor of the Enquirer perfectly un-
derstands the character of his party, and isa
scholar who never fails to use language cor
rectly. He speaks Of the Democracy as a
party that works in traces. Why does
he not specify whether it is horse, ass or
mule g-Louisville Journal.
We presume it is Jennet.
An omnibus bill has been presented to
the Legislature of PENNSYLVANIA. embracing