Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-07-15
Clippings.

The subject of Professor Agassizs leav
ing America for residence in France, Il
again started, and, after all, and IN spite o
his many former refusals, according to
statement in the London Atheneum, the
Professor may be expected to leave us fo
the purpose Of taking ''the directorship o
the Museum of Natural History of the
,Iard;u dis Plantes, at Paris. 1t appear:
to be fayorite wish of the Emperor Ma
poleon, to draw this celebrated scholar,
whose personal acquaintance he made In
Switzerland 10 Paris. Agassiz has been
offered salary of $4,000 francs, and the
immediate Senatorsbip, which brings anoth-
er 10000 francs; and at last he has con-
sented TO 90 over to Paris for verbal and
a personal negotiation"
The Richmond (Kentucky) Messenger
mentions freak of nature which is with
out parallel in the animal kingdom. 1t
is colt with but one eve. 1t was foaled
on the farm of Mr.. Elisha Roberts, in
Madison county. Theeye is considerable
larger than usual size, and in the middle of
the forehead.
Longfellow's pen-picture of the ever pre-
valent and natural inclination of the far
flower to leave father and mother, and
cleave unto q husband, is beautiful and
truthful:
Thus it is our daughters leave US,
Those we love and those who love us!
Just when they have learned to help us,
Comes youth with Haunting feathers,
With his flute of reeds, stranger
Wanders piping through the village.
}, Backons to the fairest maiden,
And she follows where he leads her,
Leaving all things for the stranger!
Frogs are now regularly quoted article
in the New York market. The last report
reads Frogs are in demand, and sell at 81
per doz They are fast becoming fayo-
rite dish, and the demand for them is be-
coming constantly greater"
Thurlow Weed says, in the Albany
Journal.
'sWilhin our recollection, Mormonism
was speck not bigger than mans hand.
The original impostor, Joe Smith, came to
the writer of this article only thirty-two
years ago, with the manuscript of his Nor
mon Bible, to be printed: He then had
but one follower, Ia respectable and veal
thy farmer of the town of Macedon,) who
offered himself as security for the printing.
But after reading few chapters, it seemed
such a jumble Of unintelligible absurdities
that we refused the work, advising Harris
not to mortgage his farm and beggar his
family. But Joe crossed over the way, to
our neighbor Elihu F. Marshall, and got
his Mormon Bible printed"
The Lawrence, Kansas, Herald of Free
dom estimates the present population Of
Kansas at 100000 and thinks it will be
10000 before the year closes. The edi-
tor does not consider it necessary to urge
reasons for voting down the Lecompton
proposition, because he has seen but three
men in favor Of accepting it in any contin-
geucy.
A few days since, gentleman in Mont
pelier, says the Watchman, received let
Ter from an unknown person, in an adjoin-
ing town, inclosing five dollar bill, say
ing that the money was due to him for a
sheep which was purloinged from his flock
a few years since. The mutton has un-
doubtcdly laid hard on his stomach ever
since.
The mint at Philadelphia has produced
a specimen of new coin of one cent de-
nomination. Fhe new cent pieces, like the
one of 1857, it is of nickel, and of the
same size, and the words 'United States of
America, with the date. Upon the reverse
is wreath, surmounted with shield, and
a bunch Of arrows entwined at the bottom,
and the words sone cent in the middle of
ii.
Mrs. Gage, in speech at the recent
feminine convention, told the story of
woman who, having secured second
spouse that "nursed the baby" &c, very
accommodatingly averred that "a husband
was the next best thing abouta house TO
the cooking stove."
Work has been commenced on the New
York Inebriate asylum at Binghamton.-
The citizens of that place have given 252
acres of land to the institution, valued at
$4,000, and the buildings will be erected
on an elevated plateau, commanding a beau
tiful view of the Sdsquehana, and Chenan-
go valleys. About s5o,ooo have been
subcribed towards the buildings, and it is
remarkable that there are no less than 500
physicians and 400 clergymen among the
subscribers.
The New YoIk Times says, it is enabled
to affirm that there is in the State Depart
ment at Washington, proof to show that
the capital of three million dollars invested
in the Slave trade produces a profit of
eighteen millions of dollars year. No
wonder that men run risks to fit out ves-
sells for this business, when they can count
upon such profits.