Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-10-27
News.


new trick for stealing the silver from the
Restaurants One operator goes in, calls
for what he wants, and while there be fas-
tens spoons or,forks with wax to the under
side of the table. After be has gone out,
confederate comes in and pockets the ar
ticies with impunily.
| A young man, 90 years of age, was re-
| Gently released from the Debtors Prison
IN London, after an imprisonment of two
wears, who since he became of age, has
spent a fortune Of two hundred aud fifty
thousand dollars, and incurred debts to a
larger amount. One item of his expenses
was fifty thousand dollars for interest
alone.
In England, lately, man while yawn-
ing, dislocated his jaw, SO that he could
not shut his mouth, and was obliged to
proceed with it IN that condition for two
miles in order to have it repaired.
A citizen Of Philadelphia has now on
exhibition in that city the autographs of
John Milton and his wife, which he recent
" purchased in England for two hundred
and fifteen dollars.
There lately died in Bombay, Parsee
merchant, Sir Jamsetjee Jejrebhoy, the
first native of hindostan who was elevated
to the rank of baronet, whose will has been
proved in the Supreme Court of Bombay,
and sworn under eighty-ive acs of rupees
($42, 100000 in our money!
Clement Marsh, Esq, son of Joseph
w. Marsh, of Greenland, N. H., has ex-
pended $4,000 in paving the debts of his
father, who died fifteen years ago. The
Portsmouth Journal says this is "a shin
ing example Of magnauimity and fIial re-
spect.
In case at Worcester, the Supreme
Court of Massachusetts have decided that
where conf Dental communication between
client and counsel is overheard by third
person, such person my testify thereto
Communications tc counsel are only so far
privileged that the counsel cannot be per-
mitted to testify to them.
An Illinois court has recognized the le
gal character of the Jewish Sabbath, which
begins at three o'clock P. NJ on Friday, and
lasts for twenty-four hours. How many
Sabbaths have wei More :han are OBJ
served certainly.
The Chicago Democrat says Sickles
case, all but the shooting, trnnspired in
that city ON wednesday last. The parties
move in high life, and the names are not
given.
The potato rot is making sad havoc in
several neighborhoods in Camden. Glou-
cester and Salem counties, n. J.
Some Gipsies recently, who had been
lettering about the house of Mr.. Thomas
Holmes, near Brentsvil!e, Prince William
county, IVA ii is said, persuaded him to
look into the case of watch in vi ich was
chloroform, and. whilst he was laborlng un-
der the effects of the inhalation, took from
him the key of his bureau and stole there
from a thousand dollars in gold, with which
they deeamped.
Mr.. Theodore S. Fay, the United States
Minister to Switzerland, is calling the at
tention of the Swiss government to the
state of the Jews in that country: it seems
to BE- geneHlly deplo-able.
There aro few inventions which have
given rise in so short a time to so many
patents as the crinoline. 1t. came into
rogue only four years ago, and already one
hundred patents have been taken out in
France.
The English papers report singular
marriage which recently took place-the
bride being 80, and the bridegroom, her
fourteenth husband, % years younger.
Mr.. Green West, of Amherst, Me-, had
his leg broken below the knee several years
ago. On Monday last, an OK kicked him
on the spot of the old fracture. He faint
ed Immediately, and, although receiving
no other injury, died in few minutes.
A daugh,es of Mrs. Perse, widow of
Schenectady, went for ride into the coun-
try. On returning home she ran up stains,
when on coming down again she tripped,
fell, fractured her skull and broke her neck.
Death ensued in short time. The young
lady was soon TO have been married.
James Price, white man, received 80
Iashes to the last Wythe County (Va.)
Court, for petty larceny.
The Bishop of London has closed the Pu-
seyite Church where the congregation have
recently been SO riotous-
A moral debating society "out West" is
engaged in discussion on the following
ouestion-If husband deserts his wife,
which is the most abandoned, the man or
the woman?
An English missionary, now in suma-
ira, lately wrote home that he ''had the
melancholy satisfaction of examining the
oven in which his pre- decessor was cooked"
There is man in Connecticut who has
such hatred for everything apperlainlng
TO monarchy that be won't wear crown
to his hat. He is no doubt free drinker.
Eg A bolder or a worse man, than