Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-13
Items-Fact and Fancy.

1tems-Fact and Fancy.
The Marquis of Westminster is the
richest man in Great Britain. He has an
annual income of about 81 100000,
1t is not permitted by law for a parent
to bury an ~unbabtised child in England
with religious ceremonies.
A woman in Baltimore committed sui.
eide because one of her daughters had
married a poor but honest young lar
An Iowa paper, which has kept a record,
states that next to railroad and steamboat
accidents, more people have been killed and
manned this year by harvesting machines
than BY any other cause.
Green corn, beans, radishes, and the
early vegetables, are in market from the
second crop at Brownsville, Texas
The commission given to Governor Cod
dington by Cromwell, in the year 1850,
has recently been found in Rhode Island
The manufacture of coal oil in Arkan.
sas is likely to become an extensive branch
of manufacture. The coal there is well
adapted to the manufacture of oil.
Garibaldi has intimated that bis battles
done, be would return to bis island home
in the Mediterranean for the winter, and
make a descent on Hungary in the Spring
The value of the hop crop of the Uni.
ted States this year is estimated at 4,OOO,-
0o0-nearly all in Otsego, ONEIDA and
Madison counties, New York.
It seems that they are having a fnan-
cial crisis in Russia also, at the presnt time,
which was partially relieved by shipments
of produce. The Government finances are
said to be in a very bad way.
At Dallas, Texas, a gentleman has made
a wine from the juice of the Sorgho cane,
which good judges pronounce to be "rich,
generous, and nutritious" and highly pro-
motive of digestion.
The popular amusement of garroting has
commenced again in New York, quite a
number of cases having occurred there
lately.
The growing wheat of Kentucky is said
to be looking unusually fine, and promises
an extraordinary crop, if n misfortune be-
falls it between this and harvest.
Two brakemen of the New York Gen.
trail railrod were killed last week, while on
top of cars-tbe one by falling off, the
other being knocked of.
The Prince of Wales reporter of the
London Times calls St. Louis the .city OF
bad hats!"
1t is stated that a man in Montreal. who
held the right for making paper out of
straw, has sold out for 100000.
George w. Mutt. of Manchester, N. H.,
proposes to try titles with Tom Thumb,
for the championship of light weights"
The new candidate is l6 years old 20 inches
high, and weighs 244 pounds.
We have the authority of Professor
Agassiz for the assertion that a grasshop-
per's organs of hearing are in his legs.
Garribaldi has requested an English COM
munity in Naples to accept as a national
gift, a small spotof ground required for
the erection of a Protestant church.
It is stated that the health of Mrs. FIRE.
mont has not improved 10 her mountain
home in California, and that she has been
obliged to remove to a residence near San
Francisco, where the air is less keen.
John M. Baker, of GAINESVILLE, Baker
county, Ky, is seven feet eight inches tall,
and is only % years aid.
The First Methodist Episcopal Church
in America was erected in 1860. There
are now $4,000.
Paris possesses, at present, sos newpa-
pers, the most ancient of which dates from
the year 1865. For.y-twc, which treats
of politics and national economy, have to
deposit a security in the hands of the Gov
erhment.
A Chimes Baptist Church has been or
gained at Sacramento, California,
Hood called Charles Lamb a back-biter,
because be alwas preferred the back of a
chicken.
There are now about $4,000 pigs of lead
awaiting shipment in Galena, and an ave.
rage of 1900 arriving daily.
A Portuguese giant, represented to be
upwards of eight feet high, has arrived at
Madrid, and is about to be exhibited.
A beggar recently received permission
to sleep in a barn on the road between
Albany and Troy, and during the night
loaded wagon with six barrels of pota-
toes, and Harvesting a horse before the
vehicle, made off with his plumber.
W. D. Wood, of St Joseph, having ia
ken offense at an article in the Elwood,
*. IT, Free Press, challenged the editor,
II. D. Hunt. The latter declined, and the
former has posted the editor, who says be
will defend himself whenever attacked.
AT New Orleans, the other day, an ele-
gantly appearing woman name unknown)
who had abandoned her friends in New
York to lead a life of crime, was shot
down in the streets of New Orleans BY
one Martin Porter, with whom she had
been on close terms, but whom she had
deserted for more wealthy s~uitors. He fin
ished the business by shooting himself on
the spot.
Is il any wonder that a certain lady took
. severe cold under the following circum-
stances? After sitting an hour in her
parlor, where the temperature was at 70
degrees, she waited upon a friend to the