Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-03-19
Items ofNews.

The Inauguration Ball did not pay ex-
penses into three thousand dollars.
The trial of the Rev. /. S. Kalloch, for
adultery, has commenced az haS' 0a'n-
bridge, Massachusetts.
There have lately been admitted to
fI;-a,d College. Philadelphia, sixty orph-
ans The College numbers 400 pupils.
A man and his wife in Bangor sickened
.f rar;oloid, caught from letter sent by
relstiye in whose family it was Raging.
A fatal distemper among horses is pre-
vsiling at New Bedford. Several valuable
animals have been attacked and died.
Ameeting has been held in Charlestown,
Mass, to consider the subject of overtax-
ing children's brains by the present method
of education.
1t is estimated that at least 1000 men
will leave New Hampshire the present sea-
son for tht West, among them an unusu-
ally large portion of mechanics.
An idea of the amount of letter writing
in the United States may be inferred by
the number of postage stamps sold, which
during the last year, was one hundred and
fifty millions.
An Albany editor says that he didn't
see why his place was not washen away
during the recent food there, unless 1t was
because there was such o heavy mortgage
ON it.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune SAYS that, at the last
hour, Judge Grier Joined the Southern
Judges in their decision on the Dred Scott
case. The contrary had been reported.
A return train of empty passenger cars
were run into the river on the New jersey
Road, at the Hackensack drawbridge, I'M
der similar circumstances with the Norwalk
catastrophe. As there were no passengers,
no lives were lost.
A boy in Rochester fell into mill race,
and was. sucked under an arch a hundred
feet long, and some feet under the surface
of the water. He boiled up to the surface
at the other end, caught hold of post and
was rescued all right
In Manchester, England, they are appre-
hensive of a cotton famine. The consump-
ton of cotton is proceeding with so much
more rapidity than the growth, that with
the present limited supply prices are GER
tain to come to point which will arrest
trade.
Two young ladies, hailing from Spring
field, Mass. ha,e lately been creating a
sensatinn at Cardenas, Cuba. They were
dressed in the '.bloomer" style. They gave
the name of Miss Josephine and Clara
Garter. One has recently turned out to be
ayoung man.
At the last Court ball, the jewels of the
Empress Eugene were estimated at four
millions of francs, and the flounces of Allen
cons lace which covered the lilac satin robe
of her Majesty cost six hundred thousand
the dress and jewels thus amounting to
almost million of dollars.
THE POPULATION oE THE WoRLD.-Ac-
cording to the American Almanac for 1857,
the most reliable estimates of the popula-
tion Of the globe are as follows: Africa
lOO,OoO,O00; America 57,675,sS2; Asia
and Islands e26,OO0,ooo; Australia and
Islands l,24s,ooo; Europe 263,5l7,e2l;
Polynesia 2,5Oo,ooO. 50
The skeleton of the celebrated horse
Black Hawk has been donated by its own
er, David Hill, to the "Boston Veterinary
College" II has been prepared and artic-
ulated by DR.. Dodd, of that city, and will
be ready for inspection in the course of a
few weeks. Mr.. Hills donation is one Of
the greatest value to that infant college,
and will interest vetrinary students and
horsemen in general. So