Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-10-13

An bv the name of Ross has invent
ed ouiet a novel machine for the PreVenuon
of burglary. By means of wires from each
window, the opening of any door or shut
tar. attached, is Immediately communicat-
ed to the instrument, which is placed IN
the sleeping room, the alarm is given, the
lamp lighted, and the door or window inl-
dicated simultaneously. The instrument
does not at all interfere with the every day
opening or closing of the doors, and can be
thrown off or attached at will, by the sim
pie movement Of bolt or pm.
The London Morning Post got the start
of all the other papers in publishing an ae-
count of the trip and the arrival OF the
Great Eastern at Portland. But the letter,
although dated "on board the treat East
eru." said not a word of any accident, and
il turned out that the writer had acci-
dentally missed his passage, and had ac-
cordingly invented description, in total
ignorance that any thing Of momentous
character had taken place.
A Frenchman, by the name Cambarien,
has announced bis ability and his inten-
tion of producing steel types, the durabili-
ty Of which will be beyond calculation
He has already a machine for making type,
which produces ten thousand at one stroke.
The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier says there is now a
lively movement of horses to the South
They are generally fine blooded animals,
bought in the New England market at
high figures, and are destined to grace the
stables of wealthy planters. The equine
expectation to the South is uneommonly
large tbs year.
The citizens of Lexington, Mass, are
about to build splendid monument, in
commemoration of the opening battle of
the Revolution. -
The divorce docket of the Supreme
Court now in session in Providence, R. l.,
contains eighty-three petitions for release
from matrimony. The Court appears de-
termined to keep up with the business, and
in single hour. removed the yoke from
the necks of twelve discontented couples
1t is asserted that the nurse of the young
ladies of noble English family, who rem
dered her account annually for little nurse
ry eteeteIas, among other things, put down
the modest sum of $3.50 for brandy to
sponge the children with.
NJ. Dubreuil has produced much larger
fruits than usual by moistening the surface
of the green fruit with solution of sui
phate of iron, twenty -four grains to quart
of water. This was done when the fruit
was first set, when it was half, and when
1t was three quarters grown, taking care
never to do it when the sun was shining.
1t has long been well known that this So
luton greatly stimulated absorption. So
says French paper.
A tavern keeper of Harrsburgh, Penn,
has been arrested and held to trial at the
suit of a widow whose husband had died
from the effects Of bringing TO excess at the
tavern Of the defendant. A civil suit for
damages will also be instituted.
A statement was made at late Con-
vention of the Congressional churches of
New Hampshire, that not one pastor in
the whole connection used tobacco.
A circus in Chicago was sold by the
Sheriff on Tuesday. The tent was bought
by the Young Mems Christian Association,
who intend to fit it mp for religious SER
vices.
1t is reported that Stephenson, the Gel
ebrated English engineer, received $685.
600 for the plan Of the Victoria Bridge at
Montreal.
A citizen of one of the pleasant towns
in Middlesex county, Mass, bequeathed
the sum of $500 to the silent poor of the
village.
Alady in Middletown, Conn, has recov-
cred by a law suit s35 and costs from an
i'll hammered chap who dressed himself up
as ghost and nearly frightened her 10
death.
Two circus men were drowned in Ar
kansas on the 10th. Their names are
Samuel Bennett, of New Bedford, Mass,
and George Pinkerton of Kentucky. They
were with Spaulding & Rogers.
An exchange says that Bishop Soule of
the NJ. E. Church, South, DR.. Lyman
Beecher, and Rev. Dr.. Briggs, of Cincin-
natl, are now the only survivors of the
founders of the American Bible Society in
1916.
Three Gipsey families camped near Og-
densburg last week. The authorities sus-
pected them ofthefs, searched their straps"
and found several thousand dollars in
money on them. They were ordered TO
march and they to Canada.
A Coon THING IN THE STORY LINE
Some years ago, Cincinnati paper re-
ceived and printed the first chapter of what