Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-03-25
News Items.

The late Republican victory at Chicago
was celebrated at Springfield, Ill.
At Philadelphia, Monday evening, snow
had fallen to the depth of twelve inches
The salary of Henry Ward Beecher is to
be raised to $1,000.
The next Illinois State Fair is to be held
at Centralia. The time has not vet been
fixed.
There were 1913 deaths at Chicago du-
ring the month of February, against 100
for the corresponding month last year.
Ex-Mayor Wentworth of Chicago has
presented to the city portrait of himself,
painted by Healey. His honor has an idea
of himself as tall as his person.
1t is stated that there are eight hundred
laborers in Toronto out of employment,
and town meeting has been convened,
to devise measures for their relief.
A petrifed turtle was found forty feet
from the surface, while digging well on
the premises of j. w. Rainey, in Milan
county, Texas, recently.
1t is rumored that General Calhoun is
to be sent to Arizona as Governor. He
says the climate of Kansas doesn't agree
with his health.
Henry Todd has been convicted of mur-
der, in Sullivan county, Indiana, and has
been sentenced to be hung on the I'd of
April.
The birthday of John C. Calhoun (the
18th inst. is to be celebrated at Abbeville
S. c. An address on the character of the
deceased statesman will be delivered by
Hon. A. Burt.
The Court House at Kittaning, Penn
sylvania, was burned on Wednesday last.
The books and papers were saved. Loss
$4,000, and no insurance. The fire was
caused by a defective fue.
Among the victims on the steamer
Eliza Battle was Mr.. Lewis Y. Martin, who
the Lexington Observer informs US, was
one Of the oldest and most respectable citi-
zens of Fayette.
The salary of Mayor Wentworth, of
Chicago, for the past year, amounted to
$4,000. His predecessors received $1,000.
One was treasury eater. The other was
not. That's the difference.
The Prussian government has sent cir
cular to the provincial authorities, request
ing them to state if they think it would be
useful to demand from the legislature a
law prohibiting the sale of distilled drinks
by retail.
An important branch of manufacturing
al Marseilles, France, is the production of
oil from peanuts, and, for making soap, it
is said to be preferable TO the other seed
oils. The shell is not removed, bu is crush
ed with the kernel.
CINcINNATIANs MARRIED IN Pals
At the house of the American Minister, at
Paris, Feb. II. Mr.. Minef K. Kellogg, art
ist, of Cincinnati, was married to Miss |
Celia Logan, sister of Eliza Logan, the
actress, also of Cincinnati.
F. w. Porter, the absconding treasurer
of the American Sunday School Union, was
brought back to Philadelphia on Saturday
last, upon requisition of the Governor of
Ohio. Mr.. Porter was taken into the
Court of sessions, where he entered bail in |
$4,000.
Senator Hammond, of South Carolina,
only uttered very common opinion among
slaveholding democrats" when he said |
that the white laborer at the North is as
much a slave as the black one at the South |
and worse off in condition. How do our
''hard-fisted" voters like this compliment!
The police of London have detected a
new burglars instrument of the most extra
ordinary description. 1t will cut through
ron half an inch thick, hole six inches in
iiameter, in an hour, and without making
he slightest noise or sound, or without un-
itting the tool for an immediate repetition
If the experiment.
The SLAVE TRADE.-The Delta's story
about the re-opening of the African slave
rade is not generally credited, yet the
Ticksburg Southern says it has good rea-
on for believing the statements true
Wild Africans, it asserts, have really been
imported into both Mississippi and Louis
ana.
The jury in the case of Hiram Cole, in
icted for poisoning his wife, Adelia Cole,
n the sth and 9th days of September,
s57, in Geauga Co., have failed TO agree
pom verdict, and having been out twenty
We hours, they were on the 10th inst dis
harged.
A VeTERAN.-The venerable John War ;
ick, who died at Richmond, on Saturday,
ad been printer to the Virginia Senate for
be last thirty-eight years, member of
be Masonic fraternity for forty-eight years
nd treasurer of a Lodge thirty years. i
The physical degeDeracy question has ia
en- new turn. After showing how Anne.
cans have deterirorated in physical pow
:, the London Times proves to its own
ltisfaction that Frenchmen also exhibit |
reat physical decay. This touches a SEN
tive point in the Frenchman's feelings,
nd the journals retort that the French SOL
ier has more physical endurance than the
'nglish.
THE BLIND IN PENNsYLvANIA.-The
ennsylvania Blind Asylum contains one
undred and fifty pupils. During the year
s57, thirty-five were received, and nine
en- left. A dictionary for the blind is
i'll in progress, about two hundred pages
aving been completed, being half the
ork. The value of goods manufactured
,rino the year was S11151