Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-12-01
NEWS ITEMS.

Youngstown has 10 saloons, ana
a population of S,4OO.
Lodi Academy. Medina county,
was dedicated fews days since.
An effort is being made to have
the President revoke the commits
sion of Governor Vaughn. of Utah.
The President has finished his
message. 1t is said to be about the
same length as his first message.
The Vermont Legislature is a
model body. 1t sits only two or
three weeks every two years.
The Ninth Ohio Cavalry will hold
an annual reunion at Newark. Ohio,
ON December 23d.
The census returns as to popula-
ton are about all in. The other re-
turns are more backward.
The Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany are putting on their big snow
plows for the winter service.
One of the miseries of life is to
be beaten in an argument, and i'm
mediately afterwards to think of
some expression which would have
totally annihilated your opponent.
A little ten-year-old miss told her
mother the other day that she never
was going to marry, but meant to be
a widow, because widows dressed in
such nice black and always looked SO
happy! ..
A lady who was urged by her
friends to marry a widower, and as
an argument they spoke of his two
beautiful children. Children" re
piled the lady, "are like tooth-picks
"a person wants her own"
The shortest name on the roll of
the newly elected Legislature of
New Mexico is said to be that of
Alphonso Ferdinand Senay Garcia
Antonio Cortes Maria Gonsalvo
Diego Juarez Mestes.
Miss Sessions, of Ohio, hearing
noise at her window, rose, and dis
covered ferocious burglar. With
rare presence of mind she clapped
her hands, calculating "Scat, you
rascal" and the ruffian fed.
Gen. Stanley, [. S. A, and now
located in Dakota, presented the
University of Wooster with the
horns of Rocky Mountain sheep
and black tail deer. They are rare
specimens of their kind
General Rosecrans has been cho-
sen President of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland. Detroit
was chosen as the next place of
meeting.
They have found gas coal along
the line of the Pacific Railroad that
yields 10000 feet of gas to the ton.
Sixty members of an educational
institute in Maine recently spelled
caterpillar seventeen different ways.
A Women's Peace Convention met
in Boston. Speeches were made
against wars, and some resolutions
passed. Perhaps they will try and
bring the war among the women's
rights people to an end as kind of
beginning.
The publishers of the Cleveland
Leader gave Thanksgiving dinner
to fifty-six newsboys Thursday af-
ternoon. Mr.. Cowles, President of
the Leader Company, was present.
Addresses were made by L. Prem
tiss, Esq, and w. N. Hudson.
Thanksgiving Day was very gener-
ally observed there.
A lady in GAINESVILLE, Ohio, in
cleaning house, found a package of
two pounds of Powder, and think
ing it was lamp-black, she threw it
in the fire. Her husband thinks she
escaped, as nothing has been heard
of her since except a piece of calico
dress, which was found on an apple
tree in the orchard.
According to the census returns,
Maine has gained only ITO in popu-
latior since 1860.
The estimates of the expenses of
the Navy for the next year are eight
millions less than for the last.
VICTOR EMMANUEL TO THE POPE.