Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-12-15
NEWS ITEMS.

The troubles in Alabama have
come to an end by Governor Smith
yielding the Office to Governor Lind
sey.
The Senate confirmed the nomina-
ton of W. r. Thrall as Marshal for
the Southern District of Ohio.
Ten or twelve full-blooded Indi-
ans desire to become students in
Highland University, Kansas, with
a view to enter the ministry in the
Presbyterian Church.
Why are there more marriages in
winter than in summer? Because
then men seek comforters, and the
ladies-muffs!
An obedient daughter always
makes a faithful wife. Let no man
who values his own happiness mar
ry a woman of an unfilial nature.
A Vermonter has grown a beard
more than two yards long, and there
Is immense competition among the
proprietors of the various hair in
vigorators as to who shall secure
him for exhibition.
The first order from abroad for
needles was lately sent to fish-hook
and needle company at New Haven,
Conn. Itwas for $4,000 needles, and
came from one of the largest needle
and fish hook manufacturers of
Birmingham, England.
A complete census of California
shows an increase in ten years of
1868. The increase in San Fran
cisco is 93,470, nearly 200 per cent.
A land grant to some western
railroad was among the first bills
which presented itself in the House
on Tuesday. To the credit of that
body, be it noted the scheme was
promptly tabled.
From Gen. Sherman's report to,
the Secretary of War, It seems tn at
the o army is now q y Composed of lass
olneers ana o4 20 men-total ST.
2oo-to DC reduced by the FIRST of
January next to 2,277 officers, and
o oy v -.e first of the July following to
1000 men-total 32,2s7.
During the last fiscal year the to-
tai amount of fees collected and ac-
counted for by one hundred and
eighty-tw consulates was 1884, $40.
The years salaries paid amounted
to $451, ,O5O, and the loss by ex-
change was 1884, leaving an ex-
cess of fees over salaries and losses
in exchange of $73,706.
As horticulture is the religion of
agriculture, so is rural adornment
and flowers the poetry of 'horti-
culture.
A charming Indiana girl has brok-
en- off an engagement because her
lover wouldn't sing psalm tunes.
A man in Topeka, Kansas, at re-
cent election, scratched all the
names off his ballot-paper, and in
stead wrote thereon: "For the devil
or any other man."
Mr.. Schenck authorizes the Re-
publican Committee of the Third
District to contest Campbells seat
in his name, in order to vindicate
the rightof the inmates of the Sol
diers' Home to vote. Personally,
the General says, he is averse to |
contest.
Ex-Secretary Cox denies that he
was inclined to issue a patent to
the New India Company under any
circumstances without proper in
vestigation. He says he never, by
word, nor in any manner intimated |
that the patent should be issued to
any one until such investigation was
instituted as should settle the uues-
ton of title to these lands.
Good blankets at $3.50 per pair, at
l7w3. j. MuLyASE,s.
Go to j. Mulvane's and get good
Boulevard Skirt for $2,75 17w3.
BE sure to read our large adver-
tisement in this weeks paper it will pay
you. WHITAKER &c CHILDs.
Don't fail to go to Weston's for
Christmas candies, the finest mixed can
lies ever sold in this town for 25 cents
per pound. l7w2.
Heavy shirting four-four wide at
J. Mulvane's store. 17w3
when you come to Wooster do not
all to visit the Star Clothing store.