Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-04-28
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The house of Michael Pheney, Of New
London, Connecticut Was burned on Fri
day night The father of the family Was
sbsent at the time, but Nm. Phsoey sBd
her two children, sgsd respectively Eve and
three years. perished 10 The 6ames.
On the anniversary Of the birth-dsy of the
Prince Imperial Of France, their Majesty
gase sum Of one hundred francs to each
child born en- the same day. and whose po-
sitio,s may render such gift needful.
| "A clerk ia the Rothschild's 5 house al Par
is has been arrested on charge Of having
embezzled the sum of 100000 :francs.-
While being examined in the effics OF the
Commissary of Police, be contrired to stab
himself with knife in two places, and now
lies in hopeless condition.
Charles H. CaIdecott, the son Of an
English official at the Cape of Good Hope,
and who claims to have the fellow traveller
of Dr.. Livingstone, has been arrested in
Chicago for robbing dry goods store in
which be had been for a week or two en-
ployed as ciork.
HEsRY WARD BEEcHER's NEW CHURCH.
The Trustees, of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, advertise for plans and estimates
with premiums of $500, $3.50 and 500
for their new mammoth church. The
church is to have capacity to seat 5000
people.
A German woman, named Saal, has been
arrested, in Chicago, for attempting to kill
her husband, by first stupefying him with
opium, and then suffering the gas 10 escape
from the burners in the room in which he
lay. The odor of the gas attracted the
neighbors to the premises, fortunately in
time 70 save the sleeperis life. : 90
SpUReEoN CoMING.-The London Morn
ing Star of March 2stb, says there is every
probability that Mr.. Spnrgeon (notwith-
standing he has once declined to do so,)
will visit America during the coming sum-
mer. He is to lay the foundation of his
new Tabernacle in May, and as it will re-
quire year to complete it, he will, it is
thought, take advantage of that interval
to cross the Atlantic.
A Russian merchant of Berdiansk an
nounces the sale in bis warehouse at Odes-
sa, Nicolaieff, and Sebastopol, of 45l 900
pounds, or 1851 tons of iron, and cast iron,
coming from projectilss picked up in the
Crimea after the war. This will give an
idea of the prodigious consumption of
shot and shell in the siege of Sebastopol.
The Marquis of Waterfold, appear equal
ly famous as fast man and mighty hun
ter, was killed, on the 29th uIt., by fall
from his horse while hunting in Ireland.
During visit to this country about TWEEN
ty years since, he was arrested in New
York for disorderly conduct, confined in
the watch-house all Eight, and next morn
ing reprimanded and invited to dinner by |
the Mayor.
Miss DR.. Harriet K. Hunt, of Boston,
has commenced to preach the Gospel
She has already oficiated at Athol, West |
minister, and Stoneham, Mass. The Bos-
ton papers do not state to what denomina
tion she belongs, but there is no doubt,
from her annual remonstrance against tax
alton without demonstration, that she is a
good Protestant.
The NEXT CANE CRor.-The Baton
Rouge Advertiser hears complaints among
the planters, of great damage to their seed
cane by the wet weather during the winter.
The eyes have rotted badly in the stubble,
as well as plant cane. If the accounts are
as bad as represented, it thinks we may
look out for very short crop this year, as
it has heard planters put down half a crop
as the highest figure that can possibly be
reached. sss ---zs
At Port Clinton, Ohio, on Saturday last,
q man named Peter Perry, fell from ca
noe and was drowned. Upon hearing of
her husbands death, Mrs. P. swooned, and
falling upon an iron kettle, inflicted very
severe wound upon the forehead. In the
same place, upon the same day, decayed |
tree fell upon German boy, who was dig |
ging at its roots, frac:uring his skull and
killing him Instantly.
At Havana, at last accounts, says the
Journal of Commerce, an order for exact
ing stamp tax on account books, promul-
gated by the Governor General, was excl
ling strong feeling of dissatisfaction
By this order, every leaf of every blank
book for business purposes mnst be stamp
ed; otherwise, no claim of indebtedness,
based upon accounts is collectable. For
each of the first and last leaves, SS are ex-
acted and for every other leaf, So.
A CANADIAN PENAL CoLoNY.-The Ca
madam Parliament have before them pro-
ject for the establishment of a penal colo
ny somwhere along the Northeastern coast
of Lake Superior. The valley along the
river Meehipieotod, taking its rise in the
Missiabee and other large lakes, at the dis
tance of about 100 miles in an air line from
the shores of Lake Superior, is regarded
as an eligible locality for the proposed col
ony.
There has just died, at the age Of 1o7
years, in the Isle of Antigone sea of Mar
mora,) a retired patriarch of Constantine
pie, named Konstanties. He was born in
l752, and was the son of goldsmith in
the Lamar, educated at the cost of Cathe-
rine II. of Russia, at Kiev, subsequently,
head of the convent on Mount Sinai, where
he harbored Gen. Bonapsrte, next meirop-
olitan of Alexandra, and, on the murder
of the Byzantine patriarch at the Greek in
surrection, elected head. of the Greek
Church. He has left many learned works