Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-07-26
News.

he was an escaped slave, anQ tDe ledf
being recaptured and returned to bondag
so worked upon him as TO lead 10 the trag
ical result. He had been wandering free
man for some veaas.
A man having been arrested in Cincin
nati for drunkenness, his wife drove her COW
to the police station and rendered it a.
bail.
A stout fellow, six feet two inches high
got swindled in Peter Funk auction room
in New York on a watch. 1t was only
$40, but be shut the door of the room
took off his coat, and after thrashing hal
dozen swindlers, recovered the spondulic;
and retired.
Four Judges of the Court of Queen:
Bench, three of them Canadian French and
Roman Catholics, and Justice Aylwin. ;
Protestant of English extraction, were
hearing case in Quebec, when the pro
ceedings were suddenly stopped by Jus tict
Aylwin loudly demanding who hung &
large picture of the Pope in the most con-
spicuous part of the hall! Receiving nc
answer, he broke up the Court and left the
hall.
Dr.. Holland (Timothy Titcomb) is get
ting out new work entitled "Mrs. Gilbert:
Career" According to report, it will con-
tain some sharp hits on the prevailing rov-
elites of opinion on female education and
development.
The following very lucid letter is the
production of japanese Tommy" "1Net
ropoltaa Hotel, New York22 June, 1860
Dear Sirs-I am much oblige TO you the
history head some paper and the letter
with it whole my head examination.
shall take it to Japan and esteemed much,
doctor Kawasake is also much pleased have
been receive it. 1 am truly your friend,
TATEIsH ONoJEIRo-(Tommy."
Lykins county, Kansas, was visited BY
a severe tornado on the Sth inst. at A.
NJ. At OSsawaLomie and vicinity houses
were unroofed and much damage done.
The house of Abraham Holiday, two
miles from Ossawatomie, was blown TO
pieces and Mrs. Holiday killed. At Indi-
annapolis several buildings were destroyed.
At Stanton D. W. o. Baker and two chill
dren were killed. Rumors were prevalent
OF further disasters in the vicinity.
A young Mississippi widow is said to
have spent at single dry goods house
in Memphis, Tennessee, last year, for the
adornment of her person, s3,s25. She
must be very anxious to supply the place
left vacant by tie dear departed.
Boston desires TO secure the National
Agricultural Fair this year, and is about to
raise $4,000 for the purpose of defraying
expenses and offering premiums. The con-
test for the Fair will be between Boston
and Cincinnati.
The Maccoupin county Jail at Catliu-
vile, in this State, was destroyed by fire
on Thursday last, and a negro horse-thief,
its only inmate, who, it is thought, set the
fire, perished in the flames. Loss to the
county about $4,000.
A boy, Charles Byers, while carrying
locusts in his hat, in Wetzel county, Vir-
ginia, recently was stung on the head, and
died from the effects of the injury.
A voracious brute of dog attacked a
little boy recently, in Buffalo, and at one
full bite almost took The little fellows nose
off The dog was instantly killed by some
bysianders, the least that could be done
under the circumstances.
The Columbus (Ohio) State Journal
SAYS the artesian well that is being dug in
that city is now twenty flour hundred and
thirty feet deep, the deepest well in the
world, but at yet throwing up no stream
of water or exhibiting any signs Of the
same.
In ten years from 1850 to 1860, the
city of Memphis has increased in popula-
ton from $3.50 to $1,000.
Gov Willard of Ind. last week pardon
ed man out of the state prison, who show
ed his penitence by proceeding instantly to
punish the men that sent him there, ma
king deadly assault for which be will
have to go back again. He was in before
for 81 years.
Kesiah Gambler, girl of seventeen, liv-
ing with her widowed mother in Cincinna-
ii, had lately been receiving the addresses
of Young man whom her mother dis
liked. Last Sunday evening week he
called at the house, and was met at the
door by Mrs. Gambler, who refused to
grant him admission, and, ordering him
away, forbade him ever entering her home
again. TIE girl burst into tears, retired to
her room, swallowed about an ounce of
laudanum, and was soon oblivious of all
the troubles of life.
An insane man in Ogle, Illinois, attack
ed clergyman as he was leaving the pull
pit, and beat him severely. As the luna
lie smashed the clergyman's nose he told
the people if they wanted to "see salvation
flow look!"
Several cattle on swampy farm in the
vicinity of Rochester, N. Y, have been
strangled by snakes.
A farmer living on the line of the Great
Western Railway near Coburg, &c. W.
strayed on to the line in state Of intoxica-
ton last Saturday night The express
train coming along cut him into small
pieces, which were strewed along the track.
A German girl on Saturday went mo
the parlor of respectable house in De-
troit, where she was not known and pro-
ceeded to take off her bonnet, and make
herself at home. The lady of the house