Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-08-16
News.

still to be photographed, and then perform.
ed gymnastic feats for three-fourths of an
bonr, in presence of $4,000 people.
The Rev. Mr.. Enoch Jones, of the Pres.
byterian Church, lately eloped with the
wife of one of his flock, from White coun-
ty, Maryland, having borrowed a horse Of
another of his parisbioners which he sold
and money of various others.
Blondin made second rope walking a.
Chillicothe in the evening, trundling a
wheelbarrow, and enveloped in fireworks.
His clothes caught fire and before be could
-extineuish it, his back was terribly buried.
The Wheeling Union is informed that a
man engaged in moving near Norwich,
Ohio, on the line of the Central Ohio
Railroad, attempted to kill snake with
the heel of his scyth, and in doing so, struck
the back of his neck with the pointof the
blade, seryering the head from the body.
An Arab has arrived in this country
with letters to Gev Seward, asking aid of
Americans in behalf of the Christians in
Syria.
At New Oorleaus gang of Irishmen
got into discussion as to the probability
Of some powder igniting, which becoming
damp and then dried, had formed into a
cake. One of them broke off piece, and
laying it near the cake, touched lighted
match to it, when the whole exploded,
scattering the Irishmen far and near, mang-
ling six terribly, three of whom will die.
AEnglish master, named Hopley, has
been to penal servitued for four years for
beating pupil to death, with skipping
rope and walking stick because he would
not get his lesson and was obstinate. The
beating lasted two hours.
A nurse girl in wilmington, Del, has
been detected with feeding child six
months old with pins from the pin cushion.
Six or eight large pins were dislodged from
the childs stomache, and several more
from the meuth and throat. 1t is sup
posed the nurse became tired of attending
the child, and took that means of killing it.
An Englishman won a wager of e2O
by smoking eleven pounds of strong cigars
in less than twelve hours: He did it in
nine hours and twenty minuets, smoking
in the second hour sixteen cigars.
A weman residing in Yam Hill county,
Oregon, has had thirteen children, aud lost
every one of them before the second year.
Mr.. James M. Whitney, one of the most
extensive peach-growers of western New
York, has sold the entire crop of his Or
chard at Rochester, at So per basket, the
purchaser to pick them himself from the
trees.
The following are places of note in the
county Of Hanover, Virginia: Negro Foot,
He'll Town, Pole Cat, NegatiOnburg, and
Texas.
The Syracuse Courier says that nearly
all the printers of that town are members
of the Sons of Temperance, and the few
who are out are expected to be sheperded
before long.
THE lead mines of Galena yields one
thousand pigs per day. The yield of the
present year indicates an increase of fifty
thousand pigs over last year.
Three cargoes of native Africans have
been landed in the cotton States within
a few weeks. They brought, at auction,
from three to eight hundred dollars each.
ABANDoNED.-The Paris correspondent
of the Boston Traveller says that the Rus
sian Gar has abandoned emancipation,
and that a rising of the serfs was expected.
Statistics of operations of the San Fran
cisco mint during the past year shows
total gold coinage of Sl1,90O,00O, and
over 100000 silver coinage.
The hay crop on the farms bordering on
Saco river, we are informed, will be full
two-thirds of what it was last year, and of
a great deal better quality.
The census man in New London found
a woman who gave her own age as %
years, and that of her oldest son as % ]
A thriving town.
Two men had a quarrel near Natchez,
Miss, the other day, and fired seventeen
shots without wounding each other in the
least.
An artesian well in progress at Macon,
Miss, is throwing column Of water some
fifteen feet above the surface Of the earth.
Capt. Viger, of the Nay Queen, saw it
when be was passing down the Detroit
river. We see no mention of it in the San
dusky, Toledo, Detroit or Chicago papers.
Capt. Miller, the heartless wretch, who
refused to 60 with his steamer Bay City,
TO the exploded steamer Ben Leuis, at Ca
iro, thereby causing the loss of many lives,
is meeting with the exceration he deserves.
A meeting of steamboat men and shippers
in Pittsburgh on Monday, after taking full
testimony in regard to the affair, passed
resolutions branding Captain Miller's card
ofs explanation as "palpable false" and
dsnpuncing him as meriting general scorn
AM contempt.
One of the curiosities of Missouri is the
Roaring Mountain, in Madison county. 1t
DRIVES its name from a peculiar roaring,
ssnething like the sound Of distant thun-
der, which generally lasts about fifteen
minutes. and which sounds have strange
effect wnen mingled with the bowling of
the wolves, which are still to be found in
numbers in the adjoining
forests. 1t is thought that the mountain,
or rather the whole range of mountains,
by volcanic eruptions, to which
the roar, which sounds as coming from the |