Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-11-24
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COMMUNICATION.
ORRvILLE. O. Nov. u, 1870

ORRyILLE, o., Nov. u, 1871.
EDITORS REPUBLICAN: Thinking that
few items selected from the general
gossi p and current news of this embryo
city might be of interest to some of your
reaGers, 1 make the following cplliDgs:
The City Fathe-s feeling lilt:e cha
gin at the small showing We made in
the census re,urps, caused by the mar
row lim;ts o: tie Incorporate territory,
have decided 10 extend the same. As it
now exists goodiy portion of our peo-
pie VINO claim TO be citizens of the vii
lage reside outside of the corporate lin
lis, thus detracting from our just claims.
The proposed extension will give Us
plenty of room to spread ourselves, and
increase our population considerably.
With the approach of the long winter
evenings comes plenty of private and
public parties at which, if We are per-
mitted to use the language of one of the
participants, The youth and the beauty
of the village" assemble. Self-praise of
personal beauty may be in good taste,
but the general public winks knowingly
and smiles audibly. The same. author
rushes madly into Print and says these
youth and beauty folks are gay and
festive" The writer's ignorance of the
general acceptation of the term "gay
and festive" is pardonable, but it is 4
wonder that some of the very modest
ones have not had him brought up to
answer 10 tie charge of SANDER.
! One of our citizens, Mr.. David Trout,
has been very successful during the past
season in flaming on small scale. He
cultivated field of corn in the bottom
land east of the village, from which, by
actual measurement, he received a yield
of one hundred and ninety-two bushels
TO the acre. On the same land he raised
po.acoes of such immense size that fly
of them would fill bushel measure.
This demonstrates the fact that the
swamp land; heretofore deemed good
for pasture only, can be made to pro-
duce largely if properly ditched and
cultivated. lis extent embraces a good
many hundred acres.
In the line of business 1 think our
merchants have not much cause for
complaint. During the past few weeks
our streeSs have been thronged almost
daily with teams bringing in apples,
grain of all kinds, and fat pockers, all of
which finds ready sale at good figures.
There has been quite a lot of thresh-
ing machines shipped over the Pitts
burgh, Fl. Wayne & Chicago Railway,
recently for Oregon, but one day last
week observed one marked "Genoa,
italy," which VIII, without doubt, be
great curiosity in chat old slow county.
Think of our enterpris:ng manufacture
ers shipping agricultural machinery to
the birth-ptace of the discoverer of our
Continent. The machinery was shipped
from Canton. In the middle of Che fif-
teenth century the citizens. of Genoa were
ignorant of the existence of Western
Continent: and even at this enlightened
day in the nineteenth centu.y these stu
pid Genoese may never have heard a
word about their young descendants
across the big pond-Orrville and Mill
ersburg. Their condition is truly pitt
able if such is the case.
The Cleveland, Mt. Vernon & Della
ware Railroad has received one hundred
and seventy-eisht of the two hundred
coal cars ordered from the shops at Ft.
Wayne, Indiana. This road is doing a
heavy coal trade which will be greatly
increased when navigation on the canal
closes.
Mr.. Hutchinson gave two lectures at
The Presbyterian church in this place,
last week, on "Jerusalem and the Holy
Land" as seen by himself. His lectures
are quite entertaining and highly in
A new time card took effect on the
Pittsburgh, Ft. Wayne & Chicago Rail-
way, yesterday. Passenger trains leave
this station as follows:
East-Express, No. 6, 6:57 a. M; Mail
No. s, 9:2O, a. M; Express No. 4, II 80
a. M; Express No. 2, 9:42 p. M. West
No. l, AS, a. m; (Mondays
excepted) Mail No. 5, 1 :52, p. m.; Ex-
press No. z, 4:4 p. M; Express No. 3,
8 :S p. m. Yours, &c.
WAYNE.