Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-26
In Town and Out.

| "Mr. Ge0. Scnamp, VINO was kllltu
by the cars the first OF last week, was
buried on Saturday. His body was
taken to his own farm near Holmesville
and inferred.
The Methodist Mite Society will
meet at B. c. Browns on Friday eve
ming.
The Disciple Mite Society will
meet at the house of Robert Maxwell
Friday evening.
A staying business-that of a
cooper.
An Irishman hearing that all flesh
is grass inquired if hay was beef a-la-
D,o,eed.
DIR. Diefendorf, during the last
week of his stay in Hayesville, is saId to
have sold $2,100 worth of wine made
from his own vineyard.
Our farmers will take notice by
the advertisement of A. Wolgamot in
another column, that he has some fine
oats for sale. This oats is very prof
liable to raise.
The next State Fair will be held
at Springfield, on the 18th, 26th, 9th
and 2Sth days of September.
in country graveyard in New
Jersey occurs plain stone, with this
inscription: "Julia Adams, died of thin
shoes, April IL, 1889, aged nineteen.
Ladies, beware!
The Chinese begin another cycle
of thousand years in their calendar
early in February, and those of the race
in California will devote two weeks to
festivity in celebration of the passage
from the old cycle to the new.
Mrs. Hannah Jones, of Shreve,
recently celebrated her 18th birth day.
Forty-three sons and daughters and
grand-sons, and grand-daughters were
present.
Representatives of the Baltimore,
Pittsburg & Chicago Railroad were to
meet President Garrett, of the Balti-
more G. Ohio Road, at Baltimore to-day,
Wednesday.
The man in Jail, who looked out
of the window of his cell and exclaimed,
''This is crate country is now gener-
Ill a1, TO
bounds.
Drink nothing without seeing it;
sign nothing without reading it, and be
sure that it means no more than it says.
No man ever became poor by ju-
dicious advertising.
DIR. S. Diefendorf has again re-
signed his chair as President of Ver-
million Institute. Prof. Brugh of
Pennsylvania has been chosen in his
place, and has taken charge of the In
stitution.
The Calliopean Society of Ver-
million Institution held public enter
tainment in the Chapel on Tuesday
evening.
"A gentleman at Fremont, Ohio,
had reception at his house the other
evening, and when the guests went
away, it took the host all night to wash
the tar and pick the feathers off his per-
son.
The Cleveland ladies have taken |
to the trick of asking their. husbands
for money in the presence of strangers,
and have been eminently successful SO
far.
"A revival of religion is now in
progress in Ashland, having commenced
in the prayer meetings of the Y. NJ.
c. A.
Somebody gave the Philadelphia
Mercantile Library $4,000 few days
ago. 1t couldn't have been us, as we
don't remember of giving a check for
that amount.
Mark Twain wants an armistice
proclaimed until his map of Paris is
translated into French and German and
supplied to both armies.
The Galdry pays Mark Twain
S2400 year for his memoranda.
Henry Ward Beecher's salary is
now $4,000 year. Snug little sum.
The Leavenworth Republican tells
of a skater who suddenly popped under
the ice. After noticing that the fishes
gazed at him with their green eyes and
nibbled his clothes as he swami he was
at last fortunate enough to reach sand
bar, where he braced his feet firmly,
butted hole through the ice with his
head and saved himself. The young
mans name is omitted on account of
the respectability of his family.
Some disconsolate fellow makes
nice distinction of the difference which
exists between "bitter and sweet in the
following stanza:
'Tis sweet to court,
But, OH, how bitter
To court a gal
And then not git her.
r-nation-Railroad people.
The warts over in Europe-Ifnot,
where is it?