Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-12-23
News Items.

HUNTING WITH ARrILLERY. - Albert
Pike went out recently with Major Rector,
Indian superintendent, to assist in the pay
ment of the Indian annuities among the
tribes west of Arkansas. A correspondent
of the Fort Smith Herald, writing from
the Greek agency, describes Colonel Pixies
method of hunting the grouse or pralrie
hen: 'Knowing how wild they are, he
came prepared 10 outwit them. He hunts
with piece of artillery, and when he dis
covers flock he unlimbers, sights the gun,
and touches her off. He rarely misses
1t is very exciting to see dozen grouse
futtering with broken wings among twice
as many dead ones, and the Colonel ehas-
ing them around and catching them. His
usual charge is a pound of powder and a
quarter of a bag of turkey or swan shot,
He killed, in John Sells field, below here,
the other day, So grouse at single fire.
Major Rector, who accompanied him, thinks
he must have crippled 1000. that got off
among the cornstalks and cookie burs.
At Plymouth, Mass, few rogues fixed
up something in the shape of fire engine,
mounted it on a regular engine carriage,
attached ropes, DC, &c, and so complete
ly disguised it that. upon an alarm of fire
excited on purpose by the burning of a Tar
b,rrel, the company attached to said en-
CINE seized the counterfeit machine, drag
ged it to the place Of confagration, and did
not discover the trick until their attention
was excited by the laugh of "the crowd"
ANOTHER ACCIDENTAL SHoorING.-A
man named Luscumb, of Lynn, Mass, de-
signing TO 90 on a shooting expedition on
Monday, took down his gun, and, without
knowing it was loaded, placed the cap
tubes of the gun near a light, and commenc-
ed blowing through the barrel. One bar
rel proved to be loaded, and the flame of
the lamp caused the powder to explode,
sending the charge through his head, xii
ling him instantly.
HoRRID.-It is supposed that the girls
will, ''to man." quit going to school in
Marietta township, Marshall county, Iowa,
for the school directors have issued their
official mandate that no girls attending any
of the public schools of that district shall
,cear hoops. 1t is expected that crinoline
will EXPAND with indignation at this foray
upon fashion.
CuRIos1rY.-A man in Buffalo, New
York, wears most rare and ancient
curiosity in the shape of a vooden watch,
one hundred and fifty-six years old! 1t
was made by Casper Glatz Stetten, it Swift
zerland, in 1902. The pinions and verge
are of steel; the barrel, main, aud scope
wheels are composed of brass, and so is the
balance. The rest of the watch is entiie-
Iy of wood, including the case.
IMMENSE SHEEP MOVEMENT. = The
Santa Fe IN. N.Y. Gazette states that 1885,
600 sheep are about TO be taken from Ber-
nailo and Valentia counties, in that Terri
tory, overland to Califoria. There is also
drove of 10000 from Ohio, now at Santa
Fe, bound for the same destination.
SOME APPLEs.-Over thirteen hundred
barrels of apples have been shipped from
East Handam, Conn.,, within the last few
weeks, and in the same time, over seventy
thousand gallans of cider have been sent
off. .-t-rs a- l.lH
One of the funniest things got up in
New York lately was the excursion of an
augur association, in burlesque of the tar
get excursion.-Each man carries an auge,
instead of a gun, Calathumpian band ac-
companies them, and the exercise consists
in walking blindfold to the target and bor-
ing hole through it. Not one man in
twenty can do it, and the blunders that are
made cause great deal of sport.
A bill has passed the House of Repre-
senataves of Georgia, by vote of Sc to SO,
prohibiting the intermarriage of first cous-
ins, under severe penalty, and cutting of
the inheritance of issue.