Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-29
NEWS ITEMS.

The deaths in New Orleans froI
lyellow fever to 6 P. NJ. Thursda
were nine, of whom two were Amer
leans.
The Italians took about min
thousand prisoners at Rome. Hal
were Italians and the other half fol
eigners.
Senator Pratt made q very abb
and acceptable speech to a large au
dience at the Republican wigwam il
Terre Haute yesterday.
A Berlin dispatch says Russia i
. in motion to seize the Black Sea ant
the Dardanelles. A war between
Russia and Turkey is imminent.
/ The vomito is raging terribly a
Barcelona, Spain. Seventy thous
and people have fed from the city
The disease was brought from Cuba
i In Chicago, the other day, while
some boys were playing base ball, :
lad named John O'Grady, aged
thirteen years, was struck in the pit
of the stomach by ball and almost
instantly killed. He neither spoke
nor scarcely breathed after he was
Init.
| A Havana dispatch says the vom.
ito is not raging with unusual vio-
lence for this season of the year. II
prevails, to a considerable extent
among the seamen in the harbOr,
and but slightly elsewhere. The
Board of Health and the physicians
report the cholera decreasing. The
mortality among Americans during
the summer was small, but there
were many deaths among British
seamen on coal vessels.
The male population of Iowa is
10000 in excess of the female.
The Ohio Agricultural College
will be located about one and half
miles north of Colum bus.
Ohio has trifie less than 4 mil
lion dollars in its Treasury.
Thirteen out of the nineteen Ohio
Congressman are renominated.
There are now 1,02O convicts in
the Ohio Penitentiary.
There is a man in Chillicothe who
is the father of twenty-seven living
children.
The probable Republican majority
in Delaware this fall is estimated at
twelve hundred and forty-three.
A young girl residing On a farm
in Iowa is so pretty that she re-
ceived no less than three offers of
marriage during the summer while
working in field. She wears a
bloomer costume, and has her hair
cut in regulation style.
1t is a fact not generally circula-
ted through the Democratic press,
that over half the Democratic nom
inees for Congress in Ohio this fall
are old Know Nothings. Hubbell
is one of them.
The Democracy of this State are
basing their hopes of success in the
present campaign upon the prob
ability of large prohibition vote.
They had better not draw consola-
ton from that source. Cold water
don't agree with them.
The Republican Congressional
Committee held a meeting at Wash
ington. Encouraging accounts from
all quarters of the country were re-
ceived for the prospects of Republi-
can success in the elections.
Senator Thurman denounces the
land grants to railroads in his cam
paign speeches, but fails to tell the
people that not one Senator from
Ohio or any other State recorded
his vote against the grant to the
Northern Pacific Railroad. This
grant was voted for in the House BY
twenty-five Democrats, and now
Thurman is engaged in denouncing
it. Isn't this the cream of consist
ency?
The Democratic papers in this
district are very anxious to know
why Prof. Monroe did not enter the
army at the beginning of the war.
The simple reason is that the gov
ernment needed his services else
where. Buchanan's appointees in
foreign countries had made such a
mess of our relations with other
governments that it was necessary to
send good and reliable men to heal
the difficulties. Oberlin could fur
nish just such men, and President
Lincoln wisely secured them.
A bequest made by John Adams,
some fifty years ago, has at length
realized its object in the magnificent
"Adams Academy" just completed
in Quincy, Mass.
Next year completes thousand
years since Alfred the Great, founder
of the University at Oxford, as
cended the English throne. The
English are proposing to celebrate
the occasion.
Miss Lydia Armstrong, of Grant
county, Indiana, advertises for a
husband. Money" she says, sis no
object, but he must be healthy and
willing to work"
The population of Cleveland, on
the basis of returns from all but
four wards, is 93,1OO against 3S,4 ,4S7
in 1860. Population of Toledo is 80
693, against 13,76S ten years ago.
Dayton, 3O,366, against 20,OS6 in
1860. Columbus 81 1926, an increase
since 1860 of12,7S6.
Gen. Morgan appears to be using
his Congressional frank to distribute
his speeches and other political doc
uments over the district. Is this
Legitimate use Of a Congressman's
frank? Is it for such purposes that
members of Congress are given the
franking privilege? Is this the "Re-
form" Morgan's hand organ up in
Mt. Vernon keeps grinding about?
gainesville Courier.
The Oregon Legislature last Tues
day elected j. R. Kelly United States
Senator.