Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-06-28
News.

A Mr.. John Usher, of Franklin, Maine,
has disappeared, and no trace of him can
be found. He left letter saying that he
could remain home no longer, as they all
had the cattle disease-pleuro pneumonia
from using the milk from cows exposed
to the disease, and he had gone to the
woods to die.-The Lewisburg, Va,
paper says man who had lived there for
four years, and supposed by every body to
be white man, and was married to white
woman, has been claimed as aslave and
captured. He has voted constantly, and as
sociated with white men. This would have
been good incident in Summers speech
on the barbarism of slavery.-A Mrs.
Neshing. of New York, commited suicide
by throwing herselffrom the Harlem bridge,
because her husbad would not leave of the
use of tobacce.-A Mrs. Rhodes,
white woman, of Fayetteville, N, c., who
had a few days previously elobed with
mulatto, was found murdered
Georgia delegates to the Charleston Con-
vention, who refused to secede, were hung in
efigy in Burke county, Ga, each being Ia
belled Georgia Traitor.--The cattle dis
ease has broken out among sheep in Wash
ington county, Pennsylvania, carrying off
forty from the flock belonging toone man.
-Thos. K. Brace, of Hartford, Conn.,,
the only President of the Etna Insurance
Company, died oh the 18th, at the age of
81 years.-A new trail has been refused
in the case of Effie C. Carstang VS.. Henry
Shaw. This probably ends the case and
finishes poor Efie, who is saddled with
the enormous costs.-A terrible murder
was committed on the oath ult., in Travis
county, Texas. The site of the murder
was at place bearing the appropriate
name of "Slaughter Creek" Three men
named Charles S. Harvey, M. A. De Loach
and VIM. H. Jones, having four horses and
large sum of money with which to pur-
chase stock, were overtaken by gang at
that point, murdered aud robbed. Their
bodies were shockingly mutilated. As yet
no traces of the murderers have been found.
The Perrysburg Journal thinks that
the recent murder of the little girl at Mau-
NEE City was committed by an old for
tune teller and her neice, she having "pre-
dicted" it some days before the commission
of the deed.-Mr. Burns, respectable
business man of Steuben county N. Y,
went to New York with about $4,000 to
pay note las week. He has not been
heard of since, but his carpet sack, cut
open and bloody, has been found on the
dock at Jersey City.-The New Orleans
Bee tells story of a young woman fNew
York, who, in freak of girlish folly, adver-
tised for husband. Ry this indiscretion
she was brought,,into intimacy with rascal
who seduced her, took her to New Orleans,
and there cast her of: She was stopped
in an attempt to commit suicide. The
pretented name of the seducer was Henry
Brown, but the girl is of opinion, from
letters she has received, that his real name
is Henry R. H. Collins, and that he is
either from Buffalo, N. Y, or has been
staying there some time. He represented
10 her that he had formerly been engaged
in some patent right business, and owned
an interest in several patents.-Some
thieves in Philadelphia, under pretence of
being census takers, obtain all information
necessary from certain families, and make
use of the information to rob the house.
The imports into this country from China
since 1921 have been 1851, ,l40,O96, and
the exports to China s97, 7,91bs6o.