Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-08-09
News.

A woman in Milan, Erie county, Iast
week cave birth to three children. The
mother subsequently, died, but the children
are doing well.
A man named Stout, Of Lebanon, O.,
was arrested last winter for the murder of
his wife. who had disappeared. He re-
mained in jail several months, but was
fpall released for want of proof Mrs.
Stout has since come to light, having been
rusticating in Hamilton county. She as
signs bad treatment and neglect on the
part of her husband, as the cause of her
leaving and says "the reason she told no
one of her whereabouts, was to have her
children cared for, which she knew would
be done by kind community Nice peo-
pie, those Stouts.
An English hunting party consisting Of
Sir Granville Smythe, Mr. j. H. Miller and
Captain Paul, arrived at st. Paul on the
9Th inst, from the Red River of the North
They have been on hunting expedition
for the last two months on the Red and
Sbayenne rivers, and the neighborhood Of
Devils lake and have been very success
full. Among their trophies are buffalo
hides, elk, and four magnificent American
eagles.
A correspondent Of the Philadelphia
Enquirer of July 18th, writing from Ha-
vana says that one of the guests at re-
cent banquet was "Mr. Post" or, in fact,
Isaac v. Fowler of New York, 1t is said
he is studying Spanish.
The New Orleans Picayune of July
18th, says that the hottest term ever
known in that city has just been passed
through. Seven days observations at Z
A. NJ, and 9 P. NJ, had given mean of SO
Gem. At P. NJ the thermometer some
days stood at 97e in the shade.
Whilst the Rev. L. Porter, of Owasco,
N. Y, was preaching in Auburn, a couple
of boys stole his horse and rockaway,
valued at $3.50. The fugatives were cap
tured after an eight mile chase.
A old man in Sodus, N. Y. who owed
a physician thirty dollars, and was unable
to pay it has decided his body to the doc
tor, for dissection, after his decease. The
doctor has accepted the deed, and given a
receipt in full.
Coal oil is said TO be a sure destroyer of
bed bugs. Apply plentifully with small
brush or feather to the places where they
most congregate. The cure is efectual
and permanent. Gilt frames, chandeliers
DE-, rubbed lightly over with coal oil, will
not be disturbed by flies.
Some Nova-Scotian, dealer in grind
stones, has prepared specimen of his
wares for presentation to the Prince of
Wales. One side of the stone bears this
pregnant legend: "For the Prince of Wales
Our Hopeful King, 1860. On the other
side is the business card of the donor.
Morrissey is out with card in the New
York papers, denying that he was the au-
thor of the challenge to fight Heenan.-
He don't want to fight. The challenge
was supposed to be genuine by Heenan,
who accepted it with delight.
A 1one widow from Missouri recently ar
rived at Denver City, in the Kansas gold
region, having driven her OK wagon from
the Missouri river. She took her hens along,
and by selling eggs to the emigrants at IS
per dozen had accumulated considerable
money. By speculation in Hungarian
grass seed she had cleared $14, and ex-
pected by the time she reached California
to have her purse we'll filled, and be able to
begin Housekeeping with comfort. She was
fifty years old and as bright as the young
est of them.
The streams of Rhode Island are so
dry that, in some places, the manufacto-
ries have to stop work.
The number Of fremen in New York
city is 4,2S7.
The bakers of Savannah, G., continue
their strike against the law requiring them
to make good bread and give homes: weight,
and have determined to starve the people
into notification of the law. The Savan-
nah papers think the people can do with
out bakers bread as long as bakers can do
without work.
The Chicago Journal says that SER
want girl was shockingly burned on Friday
in consequence of using burning fluid to
kindle fire.
Another girl, 16 years of old, was burn
ed in the same city through the upsetting
of a camphene lamp.
An Irishman named Whalen in the town
of Scragticoke, whose relations with
girl named Casserly, had been criminal for
some months was finally married, and on
the night of their marriage he charged her
with base crimes, and in his rage ripped
open her bowels, she dying soon in intense
agony.
A man named Lewis of Somerset coun-
ty, New Jersey, quarreled at night with
is wife, and choked her, but not supposing
her dead went to sleep by her side. In
the morning discovered she was dead in the
bed he cut his own throat.
A drunkard named Horton in Chepachet,
Conn.,, came home drunk and bringing a
a fresh supply of liquor; this his wife threw
away. In the morning he was very sick,
and begged for liquor, and his daughter
finally yielding to his solitations got him,
as she supposed, a gill of rum from bot
tie, which he drank. The wife immediate
ly discovered he had drank bed bug poison
"a solution of corrosive sublimate-which
nroduced death in three hours