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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19
County officials.
Church DirectOry.

NJ. f. CHURCH,
GA. HUGHES, PASTSR, SERVICE EVERY
Sabbath at 10Y o'clOckA A. NJ, and O'clock
r. NJ. Prayer Meeting Thursday evening.
EVANG. LUTHERAN CHURCH.
SERVICES EVERY OTHER sABBATH. AT
10Y O'Clock A. ~ by Rev. Isaac Cutler.
sabbath school every Sabbath morning at
O'Clock.
L. p. CHURCH,
REy.w.MG GIBSON, PASTOR. HOURS FOR
Service at IL q O'Clock, A. N. Sabbath school
at 1Ols: O'Clock, A. N. PRAYER meeting Thurs
day evenings at75s O'Clock
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
EEV. A. S. .NILHOLLAND, PASTOR. MORN
ing service at IL O'Clock. Sabbath school
l2I O'Clock. Evening service 81 O'Clock
Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at
7ls O'Clock.
DISCIPLE CHURCH,
ELDER VIM. SHARP, PASTOR HOURS
orseryice II O'Clock, a. n. sabbath school
3 O'clock Erening service * O'Clock
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at s1l
O'Clock.
GERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH
SERVICES EVERY SABBATH AT II o.
clock, A. NJ. Sunday School ut ~. J. ID. Nun
emacher, Pastor.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19

Using an orgm-worshipping
God by machinery.
The greatest width of this coun-
try from east to west is 29O0 miles.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19

A cOnceited young parson
once said: "This morning preach
ed to congregation of asses!'
Il thought of that retorted a
lady, when you called them your
beloved brethren.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19

Nos. and daily except Sunday; Nos. 2 and
3 daily except Saturday.
Breakfast. Dinner. I Supper.
Distance f93 miles. Trains are run by Chi
fago 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, 1871-10-19
Imp ortance Of Life-Insurance
to Women.

The popular French author, Ed.
mond About, when writing upon the
subject of Life Insurance, takes oc-
casion to impress upon women the
Importance of securing policies up
on their husbands lives as well as
their own. He writes:
Most intelligent women carry on
a blind war with insurance. They
dislike to have anybody think OF
the future; their sensitiveness re-
volts against the foresight of good
husbands and loving fathers.
have heard of one, as good as she
was pretty, who cried out with an
almost comical indignation: But
you are selfish, since you wish to
die before me!r'
"No, madam, no man wishes to
die; but every intelligent creature
knows that he will die sooner or Ia
ter. Your husband should precede
you, according to the natural order
The day on which he received you
from your parents hands he agreed
to protect you and aid you through
life-not only all his life, but all
yours. Every child born in your
union is also by nature dependent
upon him. He owes to you, to his
sons, to his daughters, that instru-
ment of work, that consolation of
repose, that indispensable element
of life which we call capital. Per-
nit him to pay. this debt, which is
at least as sacred as all other debts:
and even though you may have re-
solved to die, like the. wife in India,
upon the funeral pile ~of your hus-
band, remember that children are
made to survive their father. And
the father, in view Of his plunge in
to eternity, can scarcely carry with
him sweeter souvenir than the
blessings of his children"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19
sss.s-, 9as Vol. XVIII.
Hotel0.
LANCASTER HOIrSE.

DRRyILLE. o., OPPOSITE II. r. DEPOT, ].
NJ. We>toyer. proprietor. Trains going north
in the morning -top twenty minutes for
breakfast. The Doneaster House i fitted up
in first-ciass style,- and Is one OF the best
houses ON the p. r. W. & c. X. r. Country
people will find it to their interest to stop at
this house. 50y1
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19

Deaths and Marriages gratis.
Local Notices, first insertion. 10 cents per
line; subsequent insertions cents per line.
Special Notices and Foreign Advertisements
s5 per cent. additional.
business Cards, not exceeding lines. 81.
Administrators and Executors Notices 81
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19
Terms Of Advertising.

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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Phys1c1ans.

- W. 2. OIOUI, NJ. d.
SUCCESSOR OF Z. BARNES, NJ. d., ECLEC-
tic Physician and Surgeon, oxford, Holmes
county, ono; special attention given to
free. Office hours from A. NJ. to r. NJ, on
Tuesdays and Saturdays. 39m3s
..as S., P. WISE, NJ. D., --
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, MILLERS-
burg, D. Office with DIR. PomeIene 3Otf
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-19

If every one would mend one, all
! would be mended.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
Suspended from Burning Balloon.

At the close of the afternoon perform
ance of Grady's circus in Columbus on
Thursday, the 18th, Mr.. Charles Fisher
made an ascent in a huge hot-air bal
loon, or rather the balloon went up with
Fisher dangling to couple of fropes sus-
pended below. Immediately blue smoke
was seen to issue from point on the
side of the balloon, about one-third the
way up from the mouth to the top. Ex-
perienced eyes at once detected that the
balloon was on fire, but the aeronaut,all
unconscious of his danger, went on with
his frightful performance on the trapeze.
When the balloon was about 1900 feet
in the air, the flames were seen suddenly
to burst from its side, and simultaneous
ly a cry of horror went up from the
great crowd below. Many turned away
their eyes, and one woman tainted, all
expecting that Fisher would at once
meet horrible death. But whether it
was that the material of the balloon was
not very inflammable, or that the hot
air near the flame was not favorable to
combustion, certain it is that the bal
loon did not burn rapidly, and the aero
naut landed in safety upon the top of 8
slaughter-house, near the end of the
Hooking Valley bridge over the Scioto,
while the burning balloon lit in the
river, the water Of which speedily extin-
guished the flames.-Cincinnati Gazette.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
India Rubber IneXiiaustible.

The belt of land around the globe, five
hundred miles north and five hundred
miles south of the equator, abounds in
trees producing the gum of India rub
Der. They can be tapped, it is stated,
for twenty successive seasons without in
jury; and the trees stand SO close that
one man can gather the sap of eighty in
a day, each tree yielding, on an average,
three tablespoonfuls daily. Forty-three
thousand of these trees have been count
ed in tract of country thirty miles long
by eighty wide. There are in America
and Europe more than one hundred and
fifty manufacturers of Indian rubber az
ticles, employing some five hundred op-
eratives each, consuming more than ten
million pounds of gum per year, and the
business is considered to be still in its
infancy, But to whatever extent it may
increase, there will still be plenty OF
rubber to supply the demand.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
Elephants Revenge and Gratitude.

The elephant, with sort of humorous
justice, is given to return injuries or in
suits in kind. In Madagascar, an ele-
plants cornac, happening to have CO.
coa-nut in his hand, thought fit, out of
bravado, to break it on the animals
head. The elephant made no protest at
the time; but next day, passing fruit
stand, he took cocoa-nut in his trunk,
and returned the cornac's compliment SO
vigorously on the head that he killed him
on the spot.
If vindictive, the elephant is also
grateful. At Pondicherry, soldier who
treated an elephant to dram of arrack
every time he received his pay, found
himself the worse for liquor. When the
guard were about to carry him off to
prison, he took refuge under the elephant
and fell asleep. His protector would let
no one approach, and watched him care
fully all night. In the morning, after
caressing with his trunk, he dismissed
him to settle with the authorities as best
he could.
Both revenge and gratitude imply in
telligence: still more does the applica
tion of an unforeseen expedient. A train
of artillery going to Seringapatam had
to cross the shingly bed Of a river. A
man who was sitting on gun-carriage
fell; in another second the wheel would
have passed over his body. An elephant
walking by the side of the carriage saw
the danger, and instantly, without any
order from his keeper, lifted the wheel
from the ground, leaving the man unin-
iured
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
Open Windows at Night.

Very much has been written on this
subject, and written unwisely; the facts
are that whoever sleeps unoomfortably
cool will get sick. To hoist window
sky-high when the mercury is at zero is
! an absurdity.
The colder sleeping apartment is,the
more unhealthy does it become, because
cold condenses the carbonic acid formed
by the breathing Of the sleeper. 1t set
Ties near the floor and is rebreathed, and
if in a very condensed form he will die
before morning. Hence we must be
governed by circumstances; the first
thing is, you must be comfortably warm
during sleep, otherwise you are not re-
freshed, and Inflammation of the lungs
may be engendered, and life destroyed
within few days. .....
An open door and an open fireplace
are sufficient tor ordinary purposes in
cold weather. When outer windows are
opened, it is we'll to have them down at
the top two or three inches, and up at
bottom for the same space.
In miasmatic localities these are
along watercourses, beside mill ponds,
marshes, bayous river bottoms, fat lands
the first of August until severe frosts
have been noticed, to sleep with all ex-
ternal doors and windows closed, because
the cool air of sunset causes the conden-
sation OF the poisonous emanations which
were caused by the heat of the MONDAY
sun TO rise far above the earth; this con-
densation makes the air heavy at sun
down, made heavy by the greater solidi-
fication of the emanations by cold and
resting on the surface of the earth in
their more concentrated and malignant
form, they are breathed into the lungs,
and swallowed into the stomach, cor
rupting and poisoning the blood with
great rapidity. BY daylight these con-
densations are made SO compact by the
protracted GOODNESS OF the night, that
they are too near tho surface of the earth
to be breathed into the system but as
the sun begins to ascend, these heavy
condensations, miasmS, begin to rise
again to the height of several feet above
the ground, and are freely taken into
the system by every breath and swallow !;
hence the hours of sunrise and sunset are
the most unhealthful of all the hours of
the twenty-four in the localities named !;
and noontide, when the sun is hottest, is
the most healthy portion of the day, be-
cause the miasm is so much raretied that
it ascends rapidly to the upper regions.
The general lessons are, irst-avoid
exposure to the outdoor air in miasmatic
localities for the hours including sunrise
and sunset. Second. Have blazing fire
on the hearth of the family room at
those hours, to rarely and send the mi
asm upwards. Third. Take breakfast
before going out of doors in the morn
ing, and take tea before sundown then
being out after night is not injurious
Halls Journal Of Health.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
CuriOsities of Sheep.Farming in CALI
HH fOrIlia, I

The great sheep-runs of California,
like those of Australia, (says CORES
pondent), seem to be a kind of mild form
of Botany Bay for their respective moth
er countries. Old Shepherds of long ex-
perience in either country will tell you
of scores of men, with college and even
university educations, whom themselves
or their friends have banished for their
oountry'a good" and who are now gath
ering their melancholy crops of wild
oats at the same time they watch the
flocks on the hills nibble theirs. Rufus
A. Lockwood, one of the greatest and
most erratic geniuses ever seen in Cali
fornia, and whose biography has been
written by Hon. Newton Booth, Repub-
lican candidate for Governor, once herd
ed sheep in Australia, and that, too, latter
he had become known as one of the
most brilliant lawyers of San Francisco.
Mr.. Carr's overseer told me that, during
single year, he had employed a bishops
son, an editor, banker, a civil engineer,
priest, and a bookkeeper as shepherds.
Every summer day there are several hot
hours when the restless sheep are COM
PEELED, for once, to be still, when the
and you shall not unfrequently see him
reading some magazine, or, like Alexan-
der the Great, who always carried around
a piece of good literature with him, pc
rusing poems of his own composition
clipped from the village paper.
The shepherds of California as class,
are probably the most worthless, morally
and socially, the most unprincipled,
reckless and collapsed company of vaga-
bonds to be found in any civilized coun-
try, unless it be Australia. They are
the riffraff of the world; vagrant miners,
who gamble away their months wages
as soon as they draw the same runaway
sailors from ships in San Francisco, who
sell their blankets for pillow lease full
of biscuits, and then get never pinch
of grub for two days; measly, old, grog-
gy soldiers, who fall asleep under live
oak, and let the coyotes pull away
lamb. The good old Bible word "shep-
herd is not heard in California; it is
either "wool-grower," "ranchero," or
that most cumbrous and absurd sheep
raiser" and for the man who does the
work, he is "sheep- -herder." And
when man gets so low down as to be
sheep herder in California, he would
better go and dig hole in the ground,
insert his head therein, and ask some
pitying friend to cover it up. He is
lower than a Greaser, for this is the
Greasers natural business that he was
born to, and he is therefore respectable.
Greasers and vagabond sailors together
have brought the same contempt on
shepherding here that the niggers have
on all manual labor in the South.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
A Missouri Farmer Duped by Giusies.

An Olu gentleman IN FOLK county, MIS-
souri,, of considerable wealth, was some
time since made the dupe of misplaced
confidence in the following manner as
related by the Bolivar Free Press:
GA band of Gipsies appeared in the
neighborhood, remaining several weeks.
A woman belonging to the party made
the acquaintance of the old gentleman,
and communicated to him the startling
intelligence that large amount of trea-
sure was concealed on his place, and that
by obeying her instructions he could Sc
cure it. This he agreed to do. She
then informed him that he must deposit
all his money in certain place. After
the lapse Of few days the whereabouts
of the treasure would be revealed to him.
He accordingly deposited the sum of
three thousand two hundred dollars in a
hiding place known only to the Gipsy
and himself. When several days had
passed, she again appeared unto him,
stating that her incantations would not
work, and assigned as reason that he
failed to deposit all his money in the
hiding-place, as stipulated. He then
added seventy-seven dollars more to the
amount, but still the spell which was to
result in laying bare the hidden wealth
proved unsuccessful. He then agreed to
let the Gipsy take the package Of money
into her keeping, in order to facilitate
her COMPUTATIONS. She kept it several
days, then returned with the entire
amount, and they counted it over to-
gether. The Gipsy then informed him
he must, to complete the charm, secrete
the package once more, for period of
ten days; that he must not, in the mean-
time, look at or 60 near it. This was
assented to, and the package was once
more sealed up and committed to her
care. When ten days had expired he
proceeded to go to the place of deposit,
found the package as he had placed it,
but ON opening it was amazed to discov-
er that it contained nothing but scraps
of old newspapers. He sought the Gipsy
woman at her usual haunt, but the en-
tire party had folded their tents, like
the Arabs, and silently stolen away"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31

When any antidote or remedy for any
particular class of diseases obtains q
wide-spreading notoriety, it is but rea-
sonable to suppose that it must merit
the popularity it receives. 1t is within
our province to mention that DIR. j.
WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BIT
TIERS, so long and favorably known as
the safest and most reliable remedial
agent for the cure Of Liver, Kidney,
Bladder, and Glandular Diseases, Men
tai and Physical Debility, and all COM
plants emanating from corrupt state
of the blood, &C., are in great demand
So satisfied are we of the intrinsic worth
of this medicine, that we do not hesitate
to notice 1t in our columns. 1t is well
to mention that this medicine is COM
pounded of roots, herbs, and flowers of
California, and has no fiery material or
alcohol used in its preparation.
We can add no better eulogium than
the fact that we use it constantly in our
family, and each member thereof par
takes of it, when necessary, according
to directions.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
A Massacre of Butchers In India.

A Lahore paper reports shocking
outbreak of fsnaticism at Umritsur, in
the Puniaub. "For some time the Hin
docs have been agitating against the
butchers of Umritsur to obtain decree
forbidding the slaughter of cattle and
the sale of beef in the city. Their eff
forts failed, chiefly through the tirmness
of the Commissioner and the strength of
the English and Mussulman party in
the Committee. Early one morning
about one or two o'clock, a body of arm-
ed Hindoos assembled and made des-
cent upon Umritsur slaughter-house and
attacked the butchers sleeping outside.
The murderers were armed with swords
and broad-axes, and the butchers, being
unarmed and asleep, were unable to save
themselves. Four butchers were literally
hacked 70 pieces, and two others were SO
fearfully cut up that one has since died
and the others life is despaired of. The
night was very dark one, and it will
be difficult to recognize the murderers.
Accounts vary as to the sect they belong
to. From some indications found on the
scene of the massacre, it is suspected that
the murderers belong to the Nihung
sect. But another account states that
the Akalies are suspected. The Akalies
are a sort Of fanatic Sikhs, q semi-sacer-
dotal class attached to the temples. They
are the truculent-looking fellows who
wear conical hats about yard high, Gov
cred with small weapons, and those steel
cluckers or sharp rings which they can
hurl with terrible precision and effect
They are respected and considerably
feared. The Nihungs again are associ-
ated with all that are reckless and Bohe-
mian. Their name, indeed, is q common
expression In the Punjaub to represent
these qualities. The affair, as may be
anticipated, has caused some excitement
as it is expected that the matter will not
end here. Bad passions on both sides
have been aroused, and natives are al
ready whispering that other members of
the butcher fraternity have been marked
out for destruction"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
An Alpine Adventure.

Two gentlemen from Bale and three
from Glarus recently made an excursion
into the valley of Lindt, for the purpose
of ascending the Todi, OF Piz Ruslin,
1856 feet, one of the most conspicu-
Gus of the mountains in Eastern Swift
zerland. On the 25th inst, at 8 o'clock
in the morning, the party left the Grun-
horn Hut, built by the Swiss Alpine
Club, where they had passed the night,
the Fehn blowing very violently, and
reached the Glacier of Bifferten, after a
very fatiguing walk of three hours, the
Fehn making the snow SO soft that the
feet sank deep into it at each step. On
reaching very deep and wide crevasse,
which stopped their further progress,
two of the party went some way along
it to see if it grew any narrower, but
their weight caused large mass of snow
ON which they were standing to give
way. and they were both pitched head
long into the opening. Their compan-
ions, who were sufficiently near to see
the accident, were stupefied with horror
and were some time before they became
sufficiently collected to form any plan
for delivering their unfortunate friends,
IL tudy WcIo etili hiiNo, VI WuiCn tuey eu-
tertained but slight hopes, owing to the
depth to which they had fallen. On
cautiously drawing near the edge of the
precipice, however, and shouting down,
they at length heard feeble cry, which
assured them, that both at least were not
killed, and being provided with stout
cords, they Joined several together, SO as
to make rope eighty feet long, and
threw it down, but it was found to be
much too short. They then added an
other piece, sixty feet long, and on low
ering the rope once more were delighted
to find that it reached the bottom and
became frightened, assuring them that it
had been caught hold by their friends.
After more than an hours labor they
succeeded in drawing both gentlemen
from their dreadful position, who stated
that they owed their safety to the soft
ened snow which the wind had drifted
into the crevasse, enabling them to break
the violence of their fall.-1He Ssciss
Times, Aug. 5.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-08-31
OPPORTUNITY.
BY MARY N. PRESCOTT.

She leaned out from the lattice
At the budding of the morn; .' o.
The sun was on the hill-tops,
The dew was on the thorn;
The willful, climbing roses,
Above her wore q crown,
And crowned her the queen OF maidens
AS he came riding down.
He checked his horses gallop,
And fingered by the way,
Smiling and gazing upon her,
Loath to go and loath to stay:
For he thought "Since the sweet Tomorrow
Waits on my delays, -s..
Prithee why should | sorrow
For flower that blooms always.
"Where she blossoms l surely can find her,
Or ever the season takes flight,
Blushing and smiling behind her
Lattice, morning and night
Shall l squander life's early hour,
Ere the dew is dry on the May,
In reaching my hand for flower
That may be plucked any day?"
So he passed. And the sunshine passed with
him, ....l .arr.. a.
And the dew dried up on the thorn, .
And the roses dropped all their petals,
That had crowned her the queen at morn;
But once when his heart was tried,
And life of its glory seemed shorn,
He turned him again to her lattice,
But she and the roses were gone!
-Ha,per's Magasine for September.