Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1870-09-01
NEWS ITEMS.

1 Schools for cOlOred children
are to be established at Des Moines
Iowa.
-Winona, Mimi, has gaslight
company with a capital stock O
| $4,000.
"A lady living in Winnesheil
county, Iowa, is said to be III
years old.
The corn crop in Kansas
promises to be larger this yeal
than ever before.
There never were so many
prairie chickens in Northern Iowa
as this year.
1t IS proposed to hold peace
Jubilee at ST. Paul about the lst OF
September.
"A grizzly bear, killed by Seth
Kinman, in Humbolt county, Cali
fornia, weighed l 400 pounds.
Oregon wool sells in San Fran
cisco for twenty five centsto twenty
six cents per pound, for shipment
East.
The expense of running an
ocean steamer round trip to Europe
averages 1000 in greenbacks.
The drought in New England
during July and the first part OF
August is estimated to have cost
the people over four millions of dol
lars.
1t is estimated that the hay
crop of the Middle, Eastern and
Western States this season is worth
three hundred and fifty millions OF
dollars. .....
The Governor of Vermont says
that the French population of that
State is 15,491 persons. They all
sympathize with France in her war
with Prussia.
In the year 1928 there were
only three miles of railway in the
United States, and now there are
4S,S60 miles, and it is estimated
that the continual increase is now
about thirty miles a day.
"A highway robber, who had
committed outrageous crimes in
Arkansas, was captured, short
time since, and put to death by
drowning, being thrust bound into
a sack in which two twenty-four
pound shot had been put, and then
dropped in the middle Of the Arkan-
sas river. .
An anti-Mormon ticket was
nominated in Utah, at the recent
election for Territorial Delegate to
Congress, on a platform of 'unalter-
able opposition to polygamy," and
speeches were made in favor of the
platform, even in Salt Lake City,
where hitherto no one was deemed
safe in uttering anti Mormon senti-
ments. .
A Georgia paper says that Gen
eral Toombs recently attempted to
fog a Methodist clergyman, who
was witness against him in law
suit; but that the clergyman PROV
ing to be the more muscular Christ
ian of the two, the bystanders
thought it eXpedient to interfere in
behalf of the general, but not until
he had felt the grip of the clerical
fingers upon his throat.
Virginia boasts colored couple
of ninety-seven and ninety six years
respectively. The man is a grave
digger. -t
There is an umbrella in Ban
gor which has been in the posses
sion ofone family for fifty years.
1t was bridal gift.
1t is said that there are now
four times as many cattle in Texas
as there were before the war.
The bones of 1,200 Cinnamon
have just been sent home from San
Francisco. ........ ..... ..'
New Bedford whaling mer-
chants are again fitting out their
ships to search for oil.
1t costs q Texan $15 year to
keep out Of the militia, or State
police. r .. .-
The original Declaration of
Independence, now in the Patent
Office at Washington, is nearly
illegible from the fading of the ink.
1t is said that it costs in the
South three cents less to raise a
pound of cotton now than it did be-
fore emancipation was proclaimed.
"A gentleman at Chattanooga,
Tenn, during the cheated term"
took his afternoon maps in wash
tub suspended about midway down
his well, in place of the regular
bucket.
The cause of the great NOR
tality among the fish in Lake Onta-
rio has been discovered to be a worm,
which fastens itself near the gills,
and draws the blood from the
heart of the victim.
"A Philadelphia dog recently
proved very efficient detective by
scratching up silver mug, and so
bringing to light the hiding place
of 81 900 worth of silver ware stolen
about year ago.
"A Milwaukee German, in mov-