Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-11-01
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have occurred in the town of Frost, in Bad
Ak county, Wisconsin,. Two children,
aged nine and eleven, we're diging ginseng,
and came in contact with bear of large
size, which seized the younger and mangied
It in shocking manner; when the father,
hearing, the screams of the child, came to
its rescue, and found the elder, a girl, COM
batting with the furious beast like noble
champion. He succeeded in driving the
bear away, and proceeded on his way
home, the bear following for some distance,
not willing to depart without bis anticipa-
ted booty.-A young Partisan, who had
been imprisoned in Clioby for debt, gained
bis release by the following ruse: By the
laws of the country, the creditors of the
unfortunate debtor are obliged to pay thirty
francs month for his support while in con-
finement, and SO long as each payment is
regularly made, the prisoner may lie In
jail The person referred to caused letter
to be sent to each of the contributing
creditors, giving notice of his death. They
at once ceased paying his board, and the
prison door few open.-Mr. Russell
Wood, of Holyoke, Mass, while coming
down mountain with load of wood, fell
of, and was SO paralyzed as to be unable
to move, and was so,,obliged to remain un-
der the wagon wheels from three O'Clock in
the afternoon till eleven in the evening,
when be was fouHd and rescued by his
alarmed and searching family. His horses
had stood still for eight hours, although so
impatient to be gone that they had paved
deep holes in the ground beneath them
If they had moved Mr.. Wood must have
been KILLED "A citizen of Berlin Prus-
sia, man in comfortable circumstances, is
periodically attacked with desire 10 knock
off hats. He afterwards makes up the loss
TO the astonished victim of this strange
fancy by the payment of three thalers.-
According TO the calculation of his family,
in the past year he has been obliged to
make good the loss of two hundred and
sixty.seven hats. AT recent musical fes-
tival ffiy-three hats were sacrificed to this
curious frenzy and for the evenings enter
tainment he paid one hundred and fifty
nine thalers.-Thoms Richard, and old
and esteemed merchant of Philadelphia,
died suddenly on Friday, at the moment
when his friends were about celebrating
his golden wedding and the marriage of
his daughter. He was in his eighty first
year and quite firm, and was somewhat ex-
cited in anticipation of the days festivities.
"A woman in Detroit stepped out of
doors few minutes, leaving two children
alone in the house. During her absense
one of the children caught its clothes on fire,
from candle, and was burned to death.
"A southern merchant went into a
mandatory in Newark, N. j., last week,
to buy some goods, and finding the pro-
prietor to be Republican, talked SO abu-
sively that he was ordered 10 leave. The
next day he returned, declaring that he
knew the proprietor to be an honest man,
made his purchases, and parted on the best
of te.ms.-Andrew b. Hutchinson, a
sonof Jesse Hutchinson, of Milford, N. H.,
and brother of the well known Hutchin-
son singers, died at the Lunatic Asylum,
nj South Boston, of chronic insanity, on
Saturday. He was ffty-two yeas of age, !
and for many years was grocer upon
Broad street.-Isham S. Bolt, cf Lau-
rencevile, S. c., had become so much har-
rassed by fear of negro insurrection, that
be blew his brains out with shot gun, on
the 10th. The more usual plan, in case
of ofanxeity like this, is to hang pedar.-I
At San Francisco, Rosalie Durand, while
singing the '.Last Rose of Summer" was
hissed off the stage by some Italians in the
gallery. Upon being recalled, she was
again missed and, hiding her face in her
handkerchief, burst into tears. This was
too much for the Americans, who vacated
the parquette, and soon swept the gallery
Of the critical Italians, tunbling them
down the stairs with great violence
A horrible accident occurred Thursday
morning at Port Griffith, between Pittson
and Wikebsarre, at the Pennsylvania Coal
Company's Works, near Scranton, Pa, A
car containing twelve miners, starting for
the mine down a slope of 1900 feet, when
about half way, the rope broke and the
car was precipitated 10 the bottom. Eight
men were instantly killed, two are not ex-
pected TO live. The balance were saved
by jumping from the car.-An idiot at
Salzburg, Germany, being very fearless,
an experiment was made to test his cour-
age, BY setting him to watch over a pre-
tended corpse put which was in reality a
living person enveloped, and as it proved,
unfortunately confined in shroud. As
The supposed corpse began to move, the id
iot told it to lie still, and being disobeyed,
seized a hatchet and cut off first one of the
feet, and in spite of opposition, the head
of the helpless imposter, after which he
calmly resumed bis watching. The
London Commercial Record states that
the Great Eastern steamship is so shaken
up and weakened that she is unseawortby.
The Oldest postmaster in the United
States, and who has never been out of of.
fee since his appointment in 1905, is John
Billings, at Trenton, Oneida county, N. Y.
AIRS. Sickles, wife of the Hon. Daniel |
E. Siekles, who has been living in strict re-
tirement since the reconciliation between
her husband and herself few days ago
presented Mr.. Sickles with pledge of that
reconciliation The: Wheeling hteli-
gencer says: We saw yesterday mild
manuered little woman, about twenty-five |
years of age, hauling through the streets
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