Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1859-09-29
News Items.

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Minnie bullet fired from the rife,-the for
mer being fired from smooth barrel. Al
distance of 900 yards 81 of the new balls
hit the target 10 IA of the Minnie balls; al
distance of 500 yards the proportion was
SO to IA.
A large body Of land, $4,000 acres, ly-
ing in the counties of Highland, Randolph
and Pendieton, Va, has been sold for $780,
600 TO Northern Emigration Society, who
design settling upon it.
Tue drought in Vermont is so severe
that in some of the towns the farmers Tin
defalt of grass) have fed out all their hay,
and for some time past have cut down
trees in the forest for their COWS and cattle
to browse upon.
The Pt pc is sorely afflicted with sore
leg, caused by erysipelas, which prevents
him from leaving his palace.
Iron freight cars are coming into use on
the Ohio Railroads. -Four or five have
been constructed, and have been found to
answer well. The entire car wei 5.hs only
l1,5O0 pounds, while an ordinary wooden
baggage car weighs 14,5OO to 16,5OO
pounds.
The Smithsonian Institute have received
a parcel by mail which on being opened
was found TO contain two thriving, living
specimens of the Texas horned frog. They
came all the way from Huntsville, Texas,
in the mail bag, without food or water.
The late N. A. Bowden, of Georgia, left
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars
to the Glenville College and Military In
stituie, to be applied to the payment of
professional salaries and the education of
poor boys. This is one of the largest be-
quests ever made to any one institution in
this country.
The Australian gold mines have yielded
since their discovery in 1851, near 100000,
600 ounces of the precious metal. The
shipments of gold up to June of this year,
have amounted in the aggregate to 49,
5I7, 7,692 ounces, worth about $6O,O0o,0O0.
The largest shipment was in 1856, being
100000 ounces. The yield Of the gold
fields is now considered TO be decreasing.
A Californian has broached in the .Alta
a plan OF thirty millions for the Pacific
Railroad, by a lottery of 100000 tickets
at s5 each. the prizes from million down
to twenty-five dollars TO be paid in stock.
Mr.. David Melville of Newport. R. I. is
said to have been the first person TO intro
duce the gas light into this country. In
the year 1913 he lighted his residence in
Newport, a factory in Pawtucket, and Bea
verTail Lighthouse in this way.
A slave girl drowned herself al Nash
vile, by sticking her head in a puddle of
water. The deed is supposed to have been
done in a fit of fresentmonl, because she had
been chastised.
A New-London girl at San Antonio,
Texas, keeps a bowling saloon, and offers
herself to roll with any amateur in the
country. She finds plenty who are will
ing to try their hand with her, and she
pockets the change, nerer as yet having
been beaten. She states that in six
months she cleared $4,000, which, consid
ering the times, isn't bad.
The people of Eauquier county, Va,
want the Legislature to discriminate, by
means OF taxation, against the trade of the
State with Northern cities, so as to force
Virginia merchants to revive the foreign
trade.
Mr.. G. P. Shaw, of Bostrop, Texas, COM
mitted suicide some time since, by taking
laudanum. He had b,en drinking, and
some persons had painted him all over with
green paint aud sewed him up in sack.
On awakening, and not succeeding in wash
ing the paint from his hair, mortified at his
condition he committed the fearful act.
On the 4th of October, the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mis-
sions will meet in Philadelphia.
In Maine, the Republicans have elected
80 Senators out of 81. Arostook Couty
is still in doubt. They have elected 125
out of Isl Members of the House.
A corresponds It of the Canada Chris
tian Messenger says, "a converted jew,
who not long since, secuted the idea of
CLrist's having come, and even reviled the
name of Jesus, is now pastor of flourish
ing church in Brooklin, and earnestly pro-
claims the Messianship and death of Christ
as the only ground of a sinners hope"
Mrs. William P Dana, of Perry, Me-,
has preserved and put up during the past
season, fifty-seven hundred thousand Tbs. of
raw-berries. Three tons of preserved
strawberries! Add the same quantity of
sugar and we have nearly six tons of pre-.
serves-enough to fill six or eight molas
ses hogsheads.
The Newark On. J) Mercury says that
Mr.. Fisher, of Patterson, has constructed a
steam carriage, which was tried on the
common road to Acquackauock, a few days
ago, when it went on the level fifteen miles
an hour with twelve passengers.
The Savannah Republican complains of
the great change in the climate. Oranges
will not ripen as they did once, and the
trees are often killed by the frost.
From Monroe county, N. Y, it is esti-
mated that $4,000 barrels of apples have
already been shipped this season, and that
the entire shipment will reach $4,000 bar
rels. The total apple crop of Western N.
Y, is estimated to be from 100000 to l.