Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1861-06-06
VARIETIES.

A man named Glover was executed at
Greensboro, N. c., some days.ayo, for kill
ing his wife.
On the Esd Of April the weather was so
cold in Vienna that icicles were found on
the-eaves of the houses.
| The circulation of the Bank of England
is now f2o,97o,l76, and IFS whole bull
ion is fl2,sss,64s.
James 7. Pelourd shot himself in the
heart in Nalchez, Mississippi, the other day
on account of the troubles in the Country.
The bachelor has 10 look out for number
one, the married men for number two and
sometimes for number six, eight and ten.
The High Court of Errors and Appeals
of the State of Mississippi has discontinued
its sittiDgs in consequence of the war times.
Two months drilling of new troops is
considered in France long enough to bring
them into great precision Of movement.
The vintage at the Cape Of good Hope
has been very poor one, and wines have
risen.
The Secessionists don't like George D.
Prentice; they have suppressed his paper
| in all the cities of Tennessee.
Nearly nine hundred Irishmen have been
enrolled as United States yolun teers at st.
Louis, Mo.
Garibaldi has strong affection for the
United States. "That is a spot" said be,
sin which man forgets his own native land.
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says that
"Virginia's bosom is bared." She seems TO
be following the latest female fashion.
Virginia is reaping the harvest she plan
ted Prentice guesses she won't care to
put in another crop.
Soldiers should remember that in sum.
mer campaign more die from sun stroke
| than from saber-stroke.
If mems opinions could but fully assert
themselves the revolution would very soon
be revolutionized.
A Union man, on trumped-up charge
of tampering with negroes, was packed up
q box and shipped as freight to Cairo,
from Grand Glaze, last week.
The widow of Prince Danilo, of Montene-
gro, has arrived in France, attended by
suite ofvery fine looking men pic!uresquely
costumed and armed 10 the teeth.
The news Of the death of the Duchess of
Kena reached Prince Alfred at Kingston,
Jamaica, before the reception festivals were
over, and he Immediately sailed for England
in the Nile.
A feuilletonis! of the Paris press, speak
ing of the death of a French writer, d Iuoi,
says he died rich, "being millionaire in
mind, that is to say, rich in to morrows."
The crops of the Northern and Western
States are all looking admirable, so that
there is every prospect of an abundant bar
vest.
Commodore Mayo, late of the United
States Navy, died at his residence near An
napolis, Maryland, recently, at an advanced
age
Mrs. Hook, an Irish woman, was arraign
ed in Chicago, ILL.,, last week, for whipping
her husband. Probably she thought there
was no harm in batting her Hook.
The Montgomery (Ala) Congress, it is
said, has ordered that the bombs of all the
disunionists shall bear the inscription, "My
voice is for war;"
The Charleston Mercary says that "South
Carolina stands upon point of honor We
thought her honor, says Prentice, had been
Whitfield down to point.
The editor of the Texas Gazette confesses
himself impatient to see blood" We wish
says the Louisville (Ky.) Journal, some
body would hit him on the nose.
The Charleston Mercury boasts, says
Prentice, that South Carolina is fast raisiug
ships. If they shall be sunk by Uncle
Sans big guns, they will need re-rdising.
A Mr.. Wilson, who recently died in En-
gland, left about 500 to the Emperor of
China, for having been treated decently in
that country FIVE years before.
New flour from this Spring S wheat has
made its appearance in parts of South Ala
bama and Georgia. The crop is very large
and the yield fine.
A friend of General Lee reports him as
saying whether the war ended in five days
or ten years, negotiation must come. This
doesn't sound very belligerent.
The expense of burial is so great in Mem
pbis, Tenn, that some parents have recently
left the corpses Of their children exposed in
the street. |
The Athens (Tenn.) Post says that some
twenty five thousand troops, destined for
Virginia, passed over that road in the last
ten days.
DR.. Norwood, Of Christ Church (Episco-
paD, at Washington, has resigned his po-
sition rather than pray for the President, as
required by the canons of the Church.
The Chinese are daily becoming more
cordial toward the French and English.
The Princes son has invited their two en-
voys to reside in Pekin, if they wish to do so.
A Catholic school at Saints, in France,
has been suppressed by the government in
consequence tile immoraities of its priests,
and the children have been returned to their
parents by the police.
The London Herald, Lord Derby's organ,
heads an article: "Abrabam Lincoln, the
Dictator" 1t argues that by his acts he is
no longer a constitutional President, but an
autocrat.