Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-02-04
- News.

In Baltimore a suit has been instituted
against the gas company for retailing whis-
ky without license. 1t appears that the
compny fill the metres with whisky in the
winter to prevent freezing, and the party
bringing the suit had to pay thirty cents for
it. Hence the suit. a-
The man who underwent the operation
of having his tongue cut out in the Edin-
burph Infmary, has since died. i
Rev. Mr.. Lakeman clergyman of Alb
inpton, Mass, was suddenly attacked by
insanity last week. He scattered his
clothes along the railroad track, and enter
ed friends house in Middleboro, by break
inp the windows, and was discovered In
side in raving condition and in state of
nudity. ~
Contracts have been entered into at N.
Y. for supplies of ice this season, at three
times the price paid for the article last
year.
Mr.. Hyde, of Newton, Mass, picked a
full blown butter on Friday, Jan. 18th, be-
side the road in that town.
The annual Epiphany collection for the
joint benefit Of Domestic and Foreign Mis-
sions, taken up Sunday, at the Church of
the Ascension, (N. Y, produced the hand
some sum Of four thousand four bundled
dollars. @ ~ ~ =
VIM. Smith, in Milwaukee, Wis, was
fined thirty dollars for kissing Mrs. Louisa
Brasbait, Dutch lady, weighing $50 lbs.
The deed was done on the sidewalk, in the
presence of her husband, who said, 81 vos
60 mad / could not spheak."
As Mrs. Herman was sitting at the win.
dow of her residence, white turtle-dove,
with dark ring around its neck, few in
and Lit upon her head. The next morn.
ing she received news other husbands
death, who died of heart disease, about the
time the dove made its appearance.
Arrangements have been completed fol
the establishment of large cotton factory
at Arcadia, Florida, to be carried on en-
tirely by white labor.
The planters of Louisiana are selling mo-
lasses at s4,60 per barrel, wich is but Is
cts. per gallon. Cheap sweetening is GER
tainly coming.
Mr.. Banks is the twentieth person who
has filled the Gubernatorial Chair of Mas
sachusetts during the seventy-seven years
since the adoption of the State, Constitu-
tion. i514fft5Es.
The bakers of Paris make New Years
present to the poor of 660,s06 pounds Of
bread, in the place of the presents they
have formerly made the cooks Of their Gus
toners. er7s5f s4s 10 .zzsss saz
The late John Jones, of Baltimore, manu-
mitted all his negroes by will, left &c.,
600 each to the Bible and tract Societies,
$4,000 to the Episcopal Seminary Of
Ohio, and other liberal sums to various
Episcopal charities.
A man named Ital Curtiss has lately
died in Bristol Conn, who for the last for
ty years has slept and ate his morning meal
in barns in The neghborhood, declining all
invitations, even in the coolest weather,
to do otherwise. He has left a fair prop
srty.
A merchant of Vienna, Austria has re-
Gently manufactured spiders thread into
woven tissues, the fabric is said to be star
superior to silk in beauty and delicacy."-
The thread is wound on reel, and each
spider produces about five yards month.
There are four ladies in the Utah militia
~ expedition against the Mormons. They
are Mrs. Governor Cummings, Mrs. Col
Candy, Mrs. Tyler and Mrs. Barnes. Mrs
Cummings froze one of her feet while cross
ing the mountains, from which, at last &C.
counts, she was suffering severely.
At a Calico Ball recently given at West
Cambridge, Mass, several unique styles OF
head ornaments were introduced by the Ia
dies. They were made of sprigs of myrtle,
geranium leaves, cranberries and parched
Corn, arranged together with skill and taste.
Some of those composed of myrtle and
parched corn were very pretty.
Charles Bishop 1s years old, has stolen
$4,000 in gold from his mother in Phila.
delphia, and run away, leaving her penni
less. He had short time before squan.
dered in New York 81, 500 which she sent
him to deposit in bank, and she had for
given him.
The venerable Phineas Allen, of the
Pittsield Sun, has probably been connect
ed with one paper longer than any other
editor in the country. He established the
Sun in 1900 as Democratic paper, and
still pursues "the even tenor of his way
He is over eighty years of age.