Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-27
News.

The New York Police number one thou
sand eigh hundred and eighty-six men
Upward of 10000 people live in Il
miles of the Boston State House.-The
hog cholera prevails along the Wabash,
one house in Lafayette having lost l4oo
head this seasop.-Of zinc, 100000
tons are consumed annually; o. which A
900 are in Illuminated sheets.-Great
Britain spends annually for war, t52,O Oo-
600; for education, 800, o0o.-Ihe
word "~dyptheris" in Greek signifies mem
braue. and was introduced in 1927 by
Brethdnsu of Paris.-The average fall
of tbs &ississipi is 4 inches to the mile. AT
Memphis, when four feet above low water
mark. the current is three miles per hour.
Dimensions of a Chinese lady's shoe:
lsnatb. two inches and a half; breath,
wen eighths, of an inch; depth, one inch;
height Of heels, one inch.-The first
number of the Temple Bar, a new En-
glish Magazine, is to be issued this month.
Lord John Russelrs eldest son has
this year m~atriculated at the University Of
Edinburgh, where his father studied so
years ago.-Congaree, the South Caro-
lima race horse, is SO broken down as to be
prevented hereafter for racing.-Raw
oysters combine the most precious alimen-
tary qualities, never producing indigestion.
The Fair Haven, Connecticut, Gas Works
were blown down by the recent gales
Two Russian officers have been degraded
to the ranks, the first for acting as princi-
pal, the other as second in a duel-Fan-
nv. Ellsler is at Berlin attending a sick sis
ter, wife of the son of Prince Adelbert of
Prussia.-The earnings of the N. Y.
Central R. R. for 1860, will probably foot
up 100000, or S3,OOO,OOO, more than
when stock sold at 12O.-A Greek
newspaper, The British Star, published in
London, appeared recently in mourning for
Lord Dundonald.-Young De Forest, of
WATERFOWL, Conn, who so mysteriously5
disappeared from the Metropolitan Hotel,
N. Y. in 1856, has turned up at Melbourne,
Australia. He was partially deranged.
"A case in chaucery, begun in Eng
land in 1871, was decided in October.-
While en- route for Warsaw, the Austrian
Emperor was robbed of valuable papers and
a large sum o fmoney. A Capouchin Friar,
to whom The theft confessed the crime, has
restored the money; but the papers are
still missing.-Two ladies going from
Cleveland t Buffalo, Monday evening,
were robbed on the cars of S25.-A
religious corporation has been established
in Algeria, under the name of the "Plough-
ing Fathers" These monks have imposed
on themselves the task of ploughing sue
cessively and g~ratuitously all the unculti
waited portions of the soil of that colony,
which they will then make over to the
State for the use of emigrants.--The
Western Lunatic Asylum at Hopkinsville,
KY, the largest and most costly building
in the State, was burned down on the 30th
ult. All the ~lunatics were saved except
one, who was fastened in his cell near
where the fire originated.--A man in
Newark, N. T., was cleaning a gun, and
blew into the barrel to see if it was load
ed, the nipple being near a lighed candle
at the time. The. gun exploded, blowing
the mans head off. The barrel recoiled,
striking the mans mother-in-law in the
breast, and killing her. The mans wife
rushed in fell senseless across the body of
her husband.