Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-09-21

and the bull-rushes no longer are out, the
children can safely visit the country.
, Ask your neighbor who borrows your
paper to subscribe for himself and sup
port good home paper.
Call at the REPUBLICAN Office to get
your Job Work done. We have facili-
ties for doing it neatly and cheaply.
A woman in Euclaire, Wisconsin,
lately bit her husbands ear off and
then called him a slough cuss."
When Adam and Eve partook of the
tree of knowledge, did they study the
higher branches? r.
The difference between the school boy
and the clerk boy is that one stores the
mind and the other minds the stores.
Sharp business men advertise early.
The REPUBLICAN penetrates into every
nook and Granny in the county.
A man who sat upon paper of car
pet-nails said they reminded him of the
income tax.
Song of a man going to have tooth
drawn: "How happy would be with
ether"
Advertise in the REPUBLICAN and get
the worth of your money in new GUS
TONERS.
| DooolIoo& <bora Mill ba bol1oop or-
tensions on the three last days of the
Fair.
Texas has new game in cards-one
holds a revolver, the other holds the
cards. A coroner holds the inquest.
There is no use of praising the pres
ent style of ladies' dresses, for they are
puffed enough.
Court commenced on Monday MORN
ing in Millersburg, but up to Tuesday
noon, very little was done in the way
of business.
There is an editor in New Jersey who,
in addition to his editorial labors, runs
bank, an insurance Office and a grave
yard.
An Oshkosh preacher sat down on a
hornets nest which some bad boys had
secreted under the pulpit cushion. He
got up again.
Second growth raspberries this year,
judging from the notices in our ex-
changes. seems to be common phe-
nomenon.
When you come to the Fair don't for
get to call at A. Shrimplin's Boot &
Shoe Store and take look at his large
stock of goods. 1t will do you good to
see them, and selling so cheap.
The Norwich Advertiser selects the
following from "What 1 know about
farming; "Catch your butterflies late in
August. Select deer yellow ones if you
would get sweet, salable butter.
A darkey prisoner in Georgia ingeni-
ously remarked to the jailer, "Oh, look
at dat snake dar!" and ran like the
bright-eyed gazelle. Neither snake nor
prisoner has been seen since.
| Able Democratic journals are not
gushing much, if any, over Mr..
Groesbeck's great speech than over the
recent elections. And Aleck Stephens
has not yet been heard from.
All the stock has been subscribed for
building the Lake Shore and Tuscaraw-
as Railroad, from Cleveland to Denni-
son, on the Pan Handle. The whole is
to be completed within year.
Let every citizen of the county bring
something to our county fair. If every
person will contribute an article or two,
then will the exhibition be worthy of
attendance and interesting to all.
The Postmaster-General, on the Ist
instant, ordered mail service on the Ma
rietta & Caldwell, R. R., thirty five miles
and back, six times a week, after Octo-
ber lst.
A man in Galveston, the other day,
who complained. of being overheated,
effected permanent cure without the
aid of a physician, by drinking six
glasses of ice water. He was cool when
the Coroner came.
If you desire your taxes to be less, if
you desire economy in our county ex-
penses, the best way to accomplish it is
to vote for H. H. Robson. He will
make good, honest commissioner, hav-
ing all the necessary qualifications.
This is the way Notary in a neigh
boring town, who is generally in hur-
ry, administers the oath, the time re-
quired being about two seconds: sYous'
rmly swear th'st'n' nts't'fth by'you'n'
ii is'dvat's true'th' best pour'n'olege'n
b'lief-swelp you God fifty cents, please.
| A citizen of Georgia, though now on
ly eighty, has been the father of fifty
children, of whom forty are said to be
living. The father and grandfather of
this prolific Southerner are reported to
have had respectively thirty-seven and
and thirty children.
A man named David Z. Spencer, with
his family, consisting of wife and three
children, arrived in the northeast part
of Putnam county last Wednesday, who
had moved all his earthly goods and
family clear from East Tennessee, dis
tance Of five hundred miles, in ,oheel-
barroao. He was just twenty-five days
on the way.
The newspaper rumor concerning the
death of the veteran lion tanner, Herr
Dreisbach, is not correct. He is bring
ing to market, at Wooster, Ohio, larger
potatoes, tomatoes, cabbages, and better
corn and oats than any farmer in the
neighborhood. Though sixty-fve years
old he is as vigorous as most men at
forty.
Birds have a very large stock of goods
cheap. 4tf