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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
He Couldn't tell a Lie.

ALI. Burnett, in one of his letters
to The People, of indianapolis, re
lates the following anecdote:
"By the by,a good story is told OIL
Ben. Butler and his notorious hon.
esty. A short time since Ben But.
Ter and Wendell Phillips had bust
ness with the President, and arm in
arm proceeded to call upon him.
The President was busy, and sent
them word he would see them pres
entity. Phillips and Butler strolled
out into the conservatory, in the
rear of the White House, thence in
to the garden. Butler and Phillips
were engaged in an animated con-
versation upon some subject. But
ler became slightly excited. I'd
ga large 'hatchet, belonging to
the gardener, was beside q tree.
Butler causually picked it up, and,
while talking, he made several deep
gashes with it into some of General
Grants favorite trees. Just at this
jnncture, the President appearing,
Butler hastily secreted it under his
coat tails.
after the compliments of the day,
the President spied for the first
time his mutilated tree, and with
tones of vehemence, inquired who
had been cutting and gashing that
tree? After a few moments pause,
Butler stepped bravely up to the
President,and took him by the hand,
saying: MIR. President, 1 cannot
tell a lie; l cannot tell a lie; Yen
dell Phillips did it,"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
TO AN ABSENT WIFE.
BY GEORGE D. PRENTICE

'Tis morn; the sea breeze seems to bring
JOY. health, and freshness on its wing;
Bright flowers, TO me all strange and new.
Are glittering in the early dew;
And perfumes rise from many a grove
As incense to the clouds that move
Like spirits DER yon welkin clear:
But am sad. thou art not here.
'Tis noon; 4 calm, unbroken sleep
Is on the blue waves of the deep;
y soft haze, like a fairy dream.
Is floating over hill and stream;
And many broad magnolia flower
Within its shadowy woodland bower
Is cleaning like lovely star:
But am sad, thou art afar.
It's eve; on earth the sunset skies
Are painting their own Eden dyes;
The stars come down, and trembling glow
Like blossoms in the waves below;
And, like some unseen sprite, the breeze
Seems lingering mid the orange trees,
Breathing in music round the spot;
But am sad, see thee not.
'Tis midnight; with soothing spell
The far tones of the ocean swell,
Soft as mothers cadence mild,
Low bending DER her sleeping child;
And on each wandering breeze are heard
The rich notes of the moeking-bird
In many wild and wondrous lay;
Bat am sad, thou art away.
sink in dreams, low, sweet, and clear;
Thy own dear voice is in my ear;
Around my check thy tresses twine,
Thy own loved hand is clasped in mine,
Thy own soft lip. to mine is press'd,
Thy head is pillowed on my breast,
o! have all my heart holds dear;
And am happy, thou art here.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
Graham Bread.

Try the following and you will
find there is no need of working
with yeast or of baking bread from
one to three hours, when made of
unbolted wheat flour:
Take one pint of sour milk, two
even tea-spoonfuls of soda; add salt
and sugar or molasses according to
taste. Stir all together, and then
work in enough -four to make a bat
ter as stiff as for drop cake. Drop
in small buttered tins or muffin rings
or bake as two loaves on common pie
pans, in a quick oven. If in loaves,
the batter should be a little sitter
and the baking slower. One or two
eggs may be added if desired, in
which case use less soda and sour
milk. One quart of -four is the
amount usually required to make
the batter of the required stiffness.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
How Little Birds Save the
Apples. ~

Reader, did you ever eat wormy
apple, at the core of which you found
a little light -colored larva or grub?
That larva Matched from a minute
egg which was layed by moth mil
Ter in the calyx or blossom end of
the young apple. These millers ap-
pear in large numbers in fruit or.
chards about the time apple trees
put on their roseate bloom. In some
instances they glue the egg to the
side of the apple, or in the cavity at
the stem end. Immediately after
the larva is hatched, it commences
boring towards the core of the fruit.
In most instances the apple will be
so much injured by the little larva,
that it will fall to the ground. Some
times the depradator bores his way
out of the fruit, and lets himself
down by means of silken cord,
which he spins while descending.
If birds of any sort are near, they
will devour these delicate tid-bits
with avidity. But if not destroyed,
such larvae crawl around until they
find a place protected from the
storms, where they weave a cocoon
around themselves. and enter the
pupd state. There are two varieties
of this moth worm, one of which re-
mains in the pupd state from mid
summer until the next spring, when
it energies from the cocoon with
wings, to deposit its eggs in the ba-
sin of the apple, while the other
passes through the various trans
formations twice during the year, so
as to be ready to destroy late fruit
as well as early. If swine or sheep
devour the fallen fruit before the
larvae leave it, the winged moth mil
Ter must appear the next season, III
at all, from some other source. III
birds consume them, of course no
millers can ever spread their wings
from crushed Larvae. There are also
several varieties of birds that are in
cessantly searching for minute grubs
and borers in the bark of fruit trees.
Eggs from which borers spring are
deposited just in the edge of the
parenchyma, the second layer of
the bark; and as soon as the min
ute borer is large enough to COM
mence operations, birds perceive
them, and take them out with their
sharp bills.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
Remarkable Surgical Opera
ton. ~ .

The Wilmington, (Del., Com.
mercial gives the subjoined par.
ticulars of an explosion in a labora-
tory in that city on Saturday after
noon, and of a remarkable surgical
Operation -neccessiated by it: Mr..
Ferris Bringhurst, one of the mem
bers of the firm of E. Bringhurst &
Co., had been announced to lecture
that evening before the Working
mems Institute, and had gone
down to the laboratory to prepare
some gas for his scientific expert
ments. He was evidently engaged
in making oxygen, using for the pur-
pose an iron retort, and had lifted
the retort off the furnace and
placed it on the brick hearth, when
itexploded with terrible force, throw
ing pieces of iron with great force,
about the room, one of which struck
Mr.. Bringhurst directly over the
left eye, completely destroying the
eye and crushing in the skull. He
was found lying entirely, ,insensible
against barrel, few feet from the
frightful wound in his head and the
whole room bearing evidence of the
terrible explosion, which had sent
pieces-o the: burst retort flying
right and left and .ibarst the glass
from, all the windows. Il Surgeons
were called and all that their skill
could do was done. He lay all Sat
urday night, Sunday, and up to
Monday, in a kind of stupor, one
half of his brain doubtless paralyzed
by the pressure of his broken skull,
but he still seemed to retain some
consciousness,and though unable to
showed that he under
stood remarks addressed to him.
On Monday noon, the surgeons re-
moved a large piece of iron from his
head. 1t was the half of an L joint
Of fone and one-quarter inch gas-pipe,
it's greatest length being two and
three-quarter inches, and its weight
three and a half ounces. Itwas COM
Dletely imbedded in the skull and
brain in such a manner that its
'ounded edge was mistaken for the
natural arch of the bone. One of
he physicians discovered it in prob
ng, and Drs: Bush, Porter and As
kew performed the operation of ex-
iracting it. 1t is astonishing that
he embedding of such a mass Of
ron in his brain did not cause in
tant death. At noon on Tuesday |
lie remained in very much the same
condition as he has been in ever
ince the accident. |,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
A Clergyman Refunds a Small
,- t.. Z Marriage Fee.

An association of Congregational
Ministers met in Oswego last week,
and the points of one unofficial re-
port made at the gathering are thus
given by the Binghamton Repu6h-
can.
A few days ago, one of the clergy
men said, young man called upon
him and asked him to officiate at
his wedding, saying that the young
woman whom he intended to marry
lived twelve miles away, but the
marriage was to be at the house of
her uncle, only four miles from the
minister's house. The brevet
groom gave a moderate fee in adj
vance, borrowed the good mans bug
gy to bring the intended bride to
the Rendezvous, and at the appointed
time the clergyman reached there,
and found all ready. But
just then the young lady concluded
she would not be married. The
groom told the minister that he
guessed he could some day induce
her to change her mind, and if so,
he should be called in. In a few
days he came around, the "gall had
come to her OATS" but he was
afraid she might retract again be-
fore he could take her to her uncle's
and to avoid all risk he had called
in a clergyman right there and made
all fast. "And now, Elder" said he,
'how about that fee 1 gave you; you
did not do the job?" The Elder in
timated that he had loaned him his
carriage gratuitously, and had put
in an appearance at the time and
place named, ,at some cost to himself,
and it was not his fault that he did
not do the job. "Wall, Elder" was
the response, in a triumphant tone,
'and so was 1 there, too, and it wasn't
my fault that you did not do the job,
and 1 want my money And he
got his money.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
An Elastic Preparation of

When a thick solution of glue
is mixed with tungstate of soda
and hydrochloric acid there is
precipitated a compound of tung-
site acid and glue, which, at from
80 deg. to 40 deg. c., is sufficient
ly elastic to admit of being drawn
out into very thin sheets. On
cooling it becomes solid and brit
tie, but when heated, it again
becomes soft and plastic. 1t ap-
pears that this material has been
successfully employed instead of
albumen in calico printing, in
order to fix the aniline colors
upon cotton; it is also used in
tanning, but the leather becomes
as hard and rigid as plank of
wood. 1t is recommended as a
lutte or cement.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30

The Missouri Legislature has dis
armed the Militia of the State by
calling in all the arms except those
in St. Louis county.
A dispatch from Rouen says that
henceforth all taxes will be payable
to the French. The Branch Bank of
France at Rouen has resumed bust
ness.
A Springfield lady left her little
boy at home to amuse himself with
matches, and when she returned
met him in the street, crying. He
said he only just made a little fire
in the bureau drawer, and q lot of
red d-shirted men came with a great
big tea-kettle and squirted water all
over the house. They saved the
cellar door.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
Farm and Household.
The Cure of Catarrh.

Take one part finely pulverized
|saltpeter, and mix with two parts
white sugar reduced to -four. This
is an effectual remedy in all stop
pages of the head, catarrh, etc. 1t
must be snufed up the nose dozen
times or more day, according to
the severity of the affection. Per-
sons frequently die from .catarrh in
the head, the disease becoming so
bad that the mucus, instead of dis
charging through the nose, as it
should do, falls down the throat and
lodges on the lungs, producing many
a sore throat, the cause of which is
not suspected, and terminating IA
tally, in many instances, in that
most dreaded of all diseases, con-
sumption. s
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
To Remove TIGHT Rings,

To remove tightly fitting rings
from a finger without pain, (says the
London Lancet) pass the end of a
portion of rather fine twine under
meath the ring, and evenly eHcircle
the finger from below upward las
whipmakers bind lashes on with
the remainder, as far as the centre
Of the finger, then unwind the string
from above downward by taking
hold of the end passed under the
ring, and it will be found that the
ring will gradually pass along the
twine toward the tip of the finger.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30

Josh Billings uttered a great truth
when he said: "He who by his biz
would rise, must either bust or ad-
vertise.
at strikes me-" began an orator.
"Then why don't you strike it back?'
shouted sailor among the audience.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30

Dove Dolby is new, popular pri-
ma donna in England. She is pro-
badly 4 turtle dove, for that is the
only kind renowned for vocal ac-
quirements.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
c., r. 4. & p. Railway.

0IOsIhIFtIfdI.IUiVV IIUO utp.4.4O OfJU
Nos. and daily except Sunday; Nos. 2 and
J daily except Saturday.
Breakfast. Dinner. ! Supper
Distance 493- miles. Trains are run by Chi
cago time.
Connects at Council Bluffs and Omaha with
Missouri River Steamers for Benton and all
Upper Missouri River Trading Posts and Un-
ion Pacific Railroad.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
NJ. E. CHURCH,
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
DISCIPLE CHURCH,

ELDER wM. SHARP, PASTOR. HOURS
for service II O'Clock, A. N. Sabbath school
O'Clock. Evening service ~ o'clock
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at ~
O'Clock.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
NOTICE.

IA to r. W. Russell and III. W. Burniss for
the services of stallion Clarion. in the spring,
summer and fall of 1870, is hereby notified that
the stock has changed hands, and said accounts
are now owned by L. j. POcock, who has the
right to collect the same.
March ID, 1871. HENRY W. EURNISS,
2lw3s FW RUSSELL
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30

Seventy persons compose the firm
of Rothschild d Co.
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Hotels.
EMPIRE HOUSE,
MiscellaneOus.
MILTON w. RROWN

AGENT FOR THE MASON & HAMLIN Or
gan: All communications addressed to him
at Millersburg, o., will receive due attention
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-03-30
Pittsburg, Ft. Wayne & Chicago r. Z.
TRAINS GOING EAST.

No. 1, Daily except Monday; Nos. s, 3, and
q Daily except Sunday; Nos. Z and 6. Daily
No. 4, Daily except Saturday and Sunday.
FIR. MYERS, Gen. Ticket 4 gent.
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p. W. BAIL,
LAND AGENT AND NOTARY PIJBLIC
Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas Aft
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
PhySic1ans.

S. p. WISE, NJ. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, MILLERS
burg, o. Office with DIR. PomeIene. soft
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containing the bills which had been handed IN bH
the 0iIicer. After curing shake from one Of tha
attaches OF the court he was silenced.
Detective MY was on MS track for long time and
finally succeeded In trapping him.
Charles Hope was seen
PICKING POCKETS IN PARK ROW a
!ust as the procession was filing before the City HalfS
lie got into the hcKest OF the crowd, and, Keeping
t nase,i IN position worked away with will De-
MN put his hand into lady's pocket whereup0n hel
stopped AMI helu the prisoners hand IN ner pocket
while he informed the lady OF the circumstance.
oh, let MN Try again aud again. said size; N
rave nothing TO lose" J
Prisoner am willing TO make an AFFIDAVIT that h
seek situation, and was to go to-day and secure
one
The Court Come mp and give such testimony. j
The prisoner detailed rambling story about ,eay-j
ing his home in the morning. but 10 was very
weak" especially TO Judge Dowlings mind
Prisoner--l hope God VIII kill me on this spot
The Court-Oh, that win do; II you do no. he<t-
tate to employ such expressions you would not hes7
tate TO commit perjury Let all the prisoners stand
forward.
THE SENTENCES.
Judge Observation-Disclosures aud Ferris, you arci
eacn sentenced TO imprisonment In the PenltentsAr
FOR six months. Lambley, the same term Is Tor you.
Burns. six months for you also
Burns--lf j could have FURNISHED certain amount,
10 the Onlcer VINO took me could have got OF.
Judge-Y0u should keep your engagements beuer-
your promising to pay TO get oil shows that you are
tentlary. Nelson, You are an Old ami serious Of
lender; six months out OF temptations way for YOU
Johnson, O retreat from the worlds cares for ak
months Tor you; and. Hope despite your solemn AMI
sacriie9i0us prOtestati0ns should not I've doing my
duty did not send you up for the same term as
tue Others,
The unfortunate members of the fraternity passed
over the bridge OF signs route for moro genial
atmosphere. Seven others were rcmanded for i0-
quiiy. +,
In consequence OF the heavy calendar the court id
not adjourn until one o'clock.
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ESSEX MARKET POLICE COURT.

Sneak Thief Capiured-He Enters "a House
ind Sccretes Himself In n Roonl-A Man
Ciubbcd to InsensibIity.
All the returns to this yesterday were heavy.
Justice Scott was on the bencn. Philip Reilly giving
his residence as Forty eighth street and Fifth avenue,
was arralgned for attempted robbery. About ten
O'Clock on Monday night Mr.. Frederick Guswciler.
Of No. $50 First avenue had locked his bedroom
door and retired to rest, when he thought he heard
some noise right beneath his bed. He Immediately
got up, set the gas llazing and, thinking he was
about 10 encounter tomcat or something OF that
sort armed himself with q Droomstlck. With this
he commenced
PoKISG UNDER THE BED.
In moment he struck something solid, but In
questionable, and, LOOKING, lie beneld two black eyes
garing out at him from beneath shaggy pair Of
eyebrows. The sneak robber. finding he was
caught, crawled our, and Mr. Guswcller, catching
him by the hair OF the head, held him with
GRIP OF STEEL.
In vain he tried to get away Ills captor was TOO
powerful for him, and kept him IN his clutches till
an officer appeared and took him into custody.
Reilly, who Is somewhat noted as thief Is dubbed
by the nickname Of philadelphia" lie Is rough,
aud, no doubt, DANCE rOus customer, and 1t may,
perhaps be well for Mr.. Gusweilcr that he was
strong enough to deal with him. The Justice COM
United HIM for trial.
Theodore Centre came INTO court with his head
wrapped up III ttlleIt, WHICH WAS I'LL UiOOuy. ZIG
told the magistrate he had been arrested b. officers
Leslie and smith OF the Seventeenth precinct aud
that they had dubbed MIN TO the extent OF
MAKING HIM INSENSIBLE.
The Justice sent for the officers, and the case viii
probably prove To be one savage clubbing, In which
the bluecoated conservatOrs of the peace sometimes
indulge.
PICKpOGKEr CASE.
James Biddle. colored youth, was trying his
hand as q pickpocket on Monday and got caught.
lie was
AMONG THE CROWD
npIQlbDrnDOl TOuDktnS
square The person hc attempted to victimze
cOmelyo0king German lady named Margaret
Kammercrg OF l37 East Fourth street. She was OUT
to see the great turnout Of her country people, and
was standing near stoop facing the square. when
she felt the prisoners hand IN her dress pocket.
She at once gave alarm. and police ollcer coming
up arrested Blddle. The accused
PROTESTED HIS INNOCENCE,
said he was waiter, and naivey declared that his
hand had slipped into the ady's pocket by the
mercst accident. The magistrate refused 10 believe
THIS ingenious statement and had the prisoner
locked up 10 answer ut the Special Sessions.
ANOTHER OF THE LIGHT FINGERED.
James Hurry, or, as he Ia Familiarity known ny his
pals, ''Snub Jimmy,n VAS detected by officer Beam
OF the Seventeenth precinct, trying TO relieve an
unknown lady IN avenue A OF her wallet, Hurry
acctcl to be an enthusiastic spectator OF the grand
German display, and was constantly running in and
out among the crowd The officer had his eye on
him, however, and nabbcd him quite Unexpectedly.
Held to answer.
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He COUR IT S.
The Metropolitan Hotel in Bankruptcy-A Rove
nue. Case-Non-P Payment Of Special Taxa
Will Case Business in the General
Sessions Decisions
UNITED STATES DISTINCT cuUar-E sASyaupTc
Tho Metropolitan Hotel.
Ralora Iuflpa Hlafchfnrd.


Before Judge Batchfcrd.
III the Matter or Aessrs. Leland, Involuntary
Observation-Disclosures concerning this case were
published In the HERALD OF Sunday. Judge Batch
ford has Just granted an order authorizing the sale
OF the furniture OF the Metropolitan Hotel, OF which
furniture the bankrupts are owners. The order
states that II A. T. Stewart, the owner OF the hotel,
VINO has mortgages on the furniture Tor
900 for half years rent due by the
bankrupts shall not, by an agreement mutually
satisfactory himself, the Marshal and the petition
ing creditors, consent TO sale on the premises,
then the Marshal shall remove the furniture ana tax
the expense OF the removal az costs in the case.
The order also states that Mr. stewart or MS agents
shall not be interlcred with In remaining upon the
premises for the purpose OF protecting them, ana
IN guarding ana keeping possession oil the property
In the hotel heretofore belonging TO Messrs. Leland
The Boston, Hartford and Eric Railroad.
The readers or the HERALD have been kept fully
posted In reference to the suit by which the above
named company has been adJudcated bankrupt. 1t
has been so adjudcated in three States-New York.
Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Two assignees
have been chosen. one OF whom Is q
resident OF Massachusetts and the other
OF Rhode Island. BY vote OF
majority OF The creditors 1t was resolve
that these assignees should be appointed to act IN
Adams Express Company, one OF the creditors OF
the Boston and Erie Railroad Company, on the
ground that the proposed nSsigneeS namcl for the
state OF New York did not reside In 1t. reference
on The point was takcn to Register Ketchum VINO
sustained the objection ana this objection was
to confirm the appointment OF the assignees IN
question.