Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-10-27
NEWS ITEMS.

Balfe, the musical composer, died
yesterday.
The Republican majority in
South Carolinia is reported at 3O,-
600.
The Chicago Republican nomin-
ates General Cox for the Presl-
dency.
Senator Cameron was stricken
with paralysis. at Baltimore, yester-
day.
The number of youth in Colum-
bus between the ages of five and
twenty-one years is 9,51S.
Cider makers say that the dry
weather in New England has affect
ed apples. and that it requires ten
bushels for barrel of cider this
year, against eight in other seasons.
A Buffalo Episcopal church re-
Gently rendered a call with salary
of s., 800 to a clergyman at Carthage,
n. Y. The said clergyman is now
getting only $500 per annum, but
he refused to leave his present
charge.
Colorado Territory, which two
years ago gave only ninety-two Re
publican majority, elected Mr.. Chat
fee, the Republican cadidate for
delegate to Congress, at the late
election, by 1892 majority-a gain of
1900.
A New York paper solemnly AYERS
that the allowance for carriages,
champagne, and boned turkey for
merly paid by the taxpayers of Jer-
sey City, for the benefit of the wa
ter commissioners, has been stop
ped.
The feeling on the temperance
question is daily becoming more de-
termined and universal. At Spring
field, Ohio, petitions, signed by the
citizens, are presented to the saloon
keepers, respectfully asking them to
desist from the sale of ardent spirits,
while pledges of total abstinence are
circulating throughout the city So
liciting signers.
Hamden, Connecticut, with pop
ulation of five thousand, has had
not less than two thousand persons
sick with the malarial fever, in one
form or another, since the 1st of
July last, or since the drought be-
gan. The epidemic was caused by
decaying vegetable matter exposed
to the action of the sun by the sub
sidence of the pond in that vicin
ity.
The Republican Congressional
Committee are receiving encourage
ing accounts from States in which
elections are to be held. They say
they did better in recent elections
than they anticipated or had reason
to expect when the canvass opened.
The committee continue to send out
documents, having dispatched six
thousand yesterday, and quite as
many to-day.
A private letter from Berlin says
it is generally understood that there
will be no assault upon Paris, and
that the bombardment will be con
fined to a few shells daily, just
enough to keep the inhabitants
alarmed. The intention is to take
the city mainly by starvation. The
Prussians which to capture Paris as
little injured as possible, both on ac
count Of its great value and the
diminished evaporation of the
French.
The Hartford Times mentions a
remarkable case of courage in the
face of death" A sick youth of
that city, who was informed by his
physician that he must surely die,
having disposed of his effects, told
his friends where he wished to be
buried, and, finally, after asking
that his body might be given to the
surgeons for scientific purposes, re-
quested that the suit of clothes in
which he was laid out might be ta-
ken off after the funeral and given
to some poor person. Fortunately,
he is now recovering, and the poor
person will not receive the curious
present.
One of the outrages perpetrated
by Tammany Hall is the continu-
ed imposition of two and a half
dollars upon each immigrant arriv-
ing at the port of New York.
This tax was originally levied to
pay the expenses of Board of
Commissioners appointed to take
care of the immigrants, protect
them from swindlers, and assist
them in prosecuting their inland
journey. A revenue of q million
of dollars is derived from these
poor immigrants, and they are
helped to stay in New York rather
than assisted out Of it. 1t is an
outrage and swindle upon the
rest of the country that the port
of New York should alone impose
a tax for the privilege of being
landed there.
Poor, guilty, wretched, drunken
Daniel Mcfarland, ragged, bruised
and bleeding, was saved from falling
into deep open cellar Tuesday after
noon, and carried to the police court
where he was incarcerated for exam
ination. The poor man, who had es-
capped hanging because of his wife's
alleged ''infidelity," tried to beg off
from this last visitation ofjustice on
the same ground. The judge could
not see that one guilty person could
be acquitted because of the guilt of
another and so held him over. A
most righteous judge.
One evenin. last week, a man by
the name of Jacob Workman, living
near New Boston, Clermont coun-
ty, Ohio, came from town beastly
drunk. After treating his wife in a
brutal manner, and driving her,
with her daughter, from the prem
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