Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-02-23
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A writer in the Buffalo Post says that
ladies do not lift their feet properly in
waking and thinks obey dare not for fear
thew would step on their own skirts and
fall on their noses.
II is estimated that the. Irish servant
girls in NewYcrk and Brooklyn. sent back
to Ireland, last yeaf, notiss rhan $780,
900. - :. = 3 = -
On the Baltimore and Ohio railroad the
speed Of, heavy freight trains was reduced
nearly 40 per cent or to 8 and 9 miles
an hour, and that Of passenger trains TO
20 and IS miles an hour. Though the
decrease in gross revenue was s272, ,9cS,oo,
the decrease in working expenses was $685.
95S 95, making the increase In net earn
ings s65O,O54 So.
At the last ball at the Tuilleries 1t was
remarked that several ladies, and among
them the Princess de Metternich, the Prln-
cess Murat and Mime. Agnado, appeared
without crinoliue, and with dresses rather
short in the waist somewhat in the style OF
those of the first Empire.
Rev. DIR. Proudfit, Emeritus Professor
of Greek and Latin at Union College, and
for many years and honored member OF
the Faculty of that institution, is dead.
1t is stated that there IS man in Bos-
ton who takes bath at one ofthe wharves
regularly every day at five o'clock A. N.
and five P. NJ When there is no ice he
dives from boat; if frozen over be places
acarpet on the ice and goes in where there
is an opening. He has done, this at times
during the winter when the thermometer
has stood eight degrees below zero. He
does it for his health.
Two elegant swords, one for Napoleon
and the other for the king Of SARDINIA, have
been bought at Rome by the subscription
of 2e,ooe persons in that city. But the
Pope forbids apublic presentation of them,
and they hang on exhibition in the artists
window, silent preachers of'Italian iade-
pendence to admiring crowds
Not less than seven hundred persons are
said to be professedly engaged in counter
feitrng money in the Stale of Ohio alone.
1t is said that out of German popu-
iation of fifty thousand in the State OF
Wisconsin, there is not an individual from
the Faderland confined ia the Peniteatia-
ry of that State.
A German astronomer, NJ. Schwabe, en-
deavors to show that certain furrow-like
strcaks observable on the surface OF the
moon, are ascribable to the eylstance ol
vegetation. These streaks appear and DIS
appear, he says, according 10 the seasons
The Gloucester News says that a cou-
pie have just been married in that town,
after a courtship of thirty years!
An eighth-blood negro named Swartz,
whittier than half the white men in Texas,
went to that State in pursuit of his bust
ness as negro minstrel. His blood was
somehow discovered, he was seized, con-
victed of being an Octoroon and sold into
slavery for six months at Galveston, in ac
cordanee with Texas law against immigra
tion of negroes. .ta.. 5
The Saganaw (Micll.) Republican says
that 100000 slaves will be shipped this
year from Saganaw river.
A suit involving title TO section Of lant
at Flint, valued at 100000, is now in liti
cation at Saginaw. Title by both partie:
is claimed from a squaw named Taw com
e-go-eua, who received it by Gen. Cass
treaty with the Chippewas in 1919. Their
are one hundred witnesses, one of them ;
squaw hundred years old.
Henry Warren of Washenaw, Mich.
lately recovered $3.50 for one of his ears
it having been bitten off by John Van Rip
per.
A young lady, Miss Stewart, of Cum
berland county, Pa, was so badly scared 1
few DAYS ago ny meeting a will-o'-thewis
that she was taken i'll upon reaching home
and in short time afterwards died from
the effects of the prostration of her nery
Gus system, superinduced by the fright.
At junior exhibition of the Uniol
School, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, the hal
being crowded, the floor settled and on
of the iron columns supporting the roo
itlls OfSI iuJuiiuS tuico POiSOhs, OuO v
whom, son of Mr.. ]. n. Chase, aged 1.
had his skull fractured.
The Saginaw (Mich.) papers claim tina
salt water stronger than any found a
Grand Rapids has been discovered at tha
place. If true it must be pery strong a
tho Grand Rapids is 100 per cent. w
suppose the Saginaw water holds salt j
chunks. a tel
Legrand Byington, a land operator ii
Iowa, lately had one hundred and nine sep
arate notices comprising nine columns ii
the Iowa Reporter, issued 10 different par
Ties, that be is going TO foreelose the mort
cages which he holds upon their lands ant
tenements. @As1%< .a -
What a Jewish Prayer Did
On the day Gov Pennington was electe
Gna,kar tha ea.cion of thas Hon a, wa