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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
Circumstances. OF the Assassination Of
Gen. Prim.

The Cleveland Herald's special
correspondent at Madrid writing on
the 29th of December, in regard to
the assassination of Gen. Prim,
says: was at the opera when the
news first reached us. The curtain
fell on the first act, when, as the
audience stolled through the lobbies,
a government messenger rushed in
with hot haste, inquiring for some
high official. Instantly, as by mag
ic, the cry went forth all over the
the house, "Prim has been shot,
Prim has been assassinatedw How
the news was first uttered aloud;
how, with electric rapidity, it ran
over the pit, boxes, gallery and sa-
looms it is impossible to say; but
the effect was tremendous. Decid-
ing to go to the fountain head for
news 1 fastened to the war Office.
There was a crowd of carriages at
the entrance of the ornamental
grounds surrounding the palace of
war,and a throng of idlers obstruct-
ing the sidewalks and doorways in
spite of the thick snow. As 1 went
up the stair case the guard, which
had been instantly doubled,
sorrowfully pointed out the reddish
blotches ON the balustrades; the
generals blood, he whispered. The
generals adjutant gave me the first
connected story. He witnessed the
scene, having occupied front seat
in the carriage. His own version
Of the affair is as follows: Prim
and two aids as usual left the cortes
at the close of the debate in the af-
ternoon at half past seven and en-
tering the carriage drove rapidly by
the shortest way from the cortes TO
the war Office. The streets were de-
serted at the point where the Gale
del Turel debouches into the Alcalla,
the broadcast street in the city.
Through a narrow passage the two
hired cabs were drawn and obstruct-
ed the way. This is so common an
event, however, that it would scarce
ly attract notice, but Lieutenant
Mayo, my informant, dropped his
glass in the door of the carriage
nearest him and looked out just in
time to see two men, who were car
rying guns under their long cloaks,
advancing from the shadow of the
cabs. He had barely time to cry
out, "Stoop, general, they are going
to fire." when the muzzles of two
old-fashioned traducers or blunder-
buses were dashed into the carriage
through the windows on either hand,
shivering the glass to atoms, ,and the
contents were discharged point
blank at the occupants of the back
seat, who must have been undistin-
guishable in the darkness. The
next moment the assassins darted
back, lnder cover of the cabs, and so
around into the Alcalla, where they
mounted two horses that were tied
to tree, and in an instant were be-
yond pursuit because of the snow
and darkness.
The coachmen dashed the horses
forward against a number of cabs,
upsetting one,and drove in hot haste
to the war office, where the wounded
men alighted, Prim simply remark
ing to sentinel, 81 am wounded,
| hut not much"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19

All settlers on the Miami Indian
reservation. Kansas, are to be re-
moved at once. They number from
three to four thousand.
Philadelphia is the fourth in rank
among the cities of the civilized
world, and contains about one hun
dred and ten thousand dwelling
houses, or about forty thousand
more than New York. So says the
Day.
If talking about It will do, the
new Senator from Mich, Ferry,will
be married to a daughter of Senator
Chandler, by the correspondents,
Advices from China to Dec. 3lst,
received by the British Foreign Of
lce,represent everything as quiet.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
CONGRESSIONAL.
Jan. II.

oesh'
Mr. Hooper, from the Committee
of Ways and Means. reported back
the Senate bill authorizing an in
crease of five per cent. funding
bonds to s5O0,0OO, 900, interest pay
able quarterly, with amendments
leaving the payment of interest
quarterly to the discretion of the
Secretary of the Treasury, and pro-
viding that the total amount of
funding bonds shall not be increas-
ed. The amendments were agreed
to and the bill passed.
Mr.. Dawes introduced a bill to
establish the salaries of officers of
the treasury department. Referred
to the Committee ON Appropria
tions.
The House then, at 7:40 o'clock,
went into Committee of the Whole,
Mr.. Scofield in the chair, and re-
sumed consideration of the Legis-
lative, Executive and Judicial Ap-
preparation bill. The appropriations
for the departments of Agriculture
and Education gave rise to a pro-
tracted discussion on the subject of
education.
Jan. ID.
The House, at l 40 P. NJ, went
into Committee of the Whole, Mr..
Scofield in the chair, and resumed
consideration of the legislative, ex-
ecutiye and judicial appropriation
bill.
Mr.. Armstrong moved to make
the salary of the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States SIC, 500 instead of Sc, ,500,and
of each associate justice SIC, 900 in
stead of $4,000.
Mr.. Hale moved to make the sal
ary Of Chief Justice $500 and
those of associates or retired justices
$4,000.
Mr.. Ella inquired whether this
was the proper time to enter on the
system of increasing salaries, when
all branches of busines were depress-
ed d,and when the people were already
overtaXed. AS to the necessity
of such an increase on account of
an increase i'll the cost of living, the
reverse was the fact.
Mr.. Jenckes supported the amend
ment offered by Mr.. Armstrong,
contending that an upright Judge
was the poor mans counsel, and
therefore it was to the interest of
the taxpayers to have the Judges
literally compensated.
Mr.. Butler, of Mass, said he
would vote for the larger sum pro-
posed, and argued that in proper
ton to the wealth and prices of the
country at the two periods, the first
salary fixed for the Judges was
much more liberal than that now
proposed.
Mr.. Armstrong, accepted the
amendment offered by Mr.. Hale in
stead of his own.
The amendment was adopted fix
ing the salary of the Chief Justice
at SIS, 500, and associates and retired
Justices at $4,000 each.
The committee then rose, leaving
two pages of the bill unfinished, ,and
the House, at half-past three o'clock.
adjourned.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19

Jefferson Davis has accepted an
invitation to deliver q lecture in
Cincinnati this winter.
Gen. NJ. D. Leggett, of GAINESVILLE,
who has been appointed Commits
sioner of Patents, used to teach
school in Akron.
The Senate, confirmed Porter as
Admiral BY vote of 80 to 10.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
SAN DOMINGO COMMISSIONERS.

The Senate concurred in the
House amendment to the San Do
mingo bill, which thus became a law
Wednesday. Ex-senator Wade,
President White, of Cornell Uni
versity, and Samuel S. Howe were
appointed the Commissioners to visit
the Island. 1t is thought that they
can report by the middle Of next
month. Hon. Allen C. Burton acts
as Secretary.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19

Henry Afford Dean, of Canter-
bury, Eng, died suddenly in the
sixty-first year of his age.
Another colliery explosion has oc-
Cured in Straffordshire, Eng, by
which twenty persons were killed.
The Senate, confirmed the nomi-
nation of NJ. D. Leggett, of Ohio,
to be Commissioner of Patents.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
The Howe Sewing Machine.

We should judge from the number
manufactured and sold week, in the
United States, that this machine was the
most reliable for all kinds of sewing now
in use. Twenty-four hundred week
are sent out to the public. Notwith-
standing this large number the demand
for them is such, that the company have
been compelled to enlarge their Factory,
and when completed will turn out 500
machines per day. l7tf,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
REDUCTION OF EXPENSES.

Congress is continuing its reduc-
ton of expenses by lessenlng the
paid publication of the laws. 1t was
resolved in committee on appropri-
alton bills, on Thursday, SO to 81,
to publish the laws in but two papers
of any state or territory; but a
substitute was afterward adopted
repeating all laws requiring publ
cation, and appropriating $4,000 to
publishing in pamphlet form.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
ANOTHER REDUCTION OF DEBT.

The official statement makes tie
reduction of the National debt du-
ring the month Of December two
and quarter million dollars. This
is less than heretofore, but the re-
duction of income taxes, &c, makes
the difference. The present rate is
twenty-seven millions per year, and
the result will show it still larger
than that even. The country has
cause for congratulation at this re-
suit of Gen. Grants administration.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
What a Republican Administration Has
Done for the People in One Year.

I
The annual report of Gen. Spin.
ner the Treasurer of the United
States shows what Grants admins
tration has done. We present our
readers some interesting facts as
follows:
The report shows that the army
has cost $3.50 1926 less in 1870,
than it cost in 1869.
1t shows that the Internal Reve-
nue. Department has cost $12,6Sl,-
405 less in 1870 than in 1859.
1t shows that the Treasury De
partment has cost $4.01S,S ,S09.02 in
1870 than in 1869.
1t shows that the Interior Depart
ment has cost $3,95O,6SI.66 less in
1870 than in 1869.
1t shows that $j33,3s0 less has
been paid in quarter salaries in 1870
than in 1869.
The total savings of the year in
these divisions of the expenditure OF
the Government is $27, ,159.0S9.99.
On the other hand the Navy De-
partment has cost $553, ,469.50 more
in 1870 than in 1869; the Treasury
Interior $470, 0,665.0S more; foreign
intercourse, 1896, ,253.O4 more; and
customs, 1914, 4,605.17 more-making
81, ,342,9S2.70 of increased expense
to be be deducted from. the above
savings, leaving 24,s16,O99.20 as
the next reduction of the expendi-
lures of the Government, other than
in the payment of the National
debt.
Toward the reduction of the pub
lie debt, Treasurer Spinner's state
ment shows that $135, $50, ,605. .19
more was paid in 1870 than in 1869.
The receipts from customs were
| $13, 500, ,294.04 greater, and the re-
ceipts from miscellaneous sources
we're $4,O33, 3,371.40 more.
The comparison, or rather the con-
trast, between the last two fiscal
years, stands as follows:
Increased receipts, $4S,263,321;
decreased expenditures, ,$27, ,159, ,0S0;
total, $75.322, ,402. Decreased re-
ceipts. $4, ,345, ,3S9; increased expen-
ditures, $2,342,Os2; total, $685.
3S2, being a clear gain by larger
collections and reduced expendi.
lures of $6S, ,734,020.
General Spinner,in commenting on
these facts, says:
SIN order to give a clearer view
to such persons as are not in the
habit of thinking of money by mill.
ions of dollars, of the great saving
that has been made to the Treasury
of the United States in the fiscal
year over the one preceding it, the
statement is here made that, after de
Quoting fiity-two Sundays and foul
legal holidays from the 365 days
leaving 300 executive days in the
year-a saving of $6s,734,020 was
made; that the average saving on
the working days of the fiscal year
that closed with June 30th, 1870
over those Of the year preceding,
was over $224,240 per day, being
over So, ,26S per hour, over $154 per
minute, being more than equal to
the extra dropping of 50 so into the
Golfers of the treasury every second
of the time. These facts sufficient
ly explained how the Administra-
tion, by thorough action and econom-
ical course, was enabled to purchase
so large an amount of the stocks OF
the United States for the sinking
funds"
Did any Government in the world
ever make so satisfactory an exhibit
as this of good work done in the
way of reform and economy? If so,
we should like to have the paraelel
cited to us.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
FARMERS
Look to Your Interest !

T have small lot OF Norway Oats which Of
l. fer for safe. Also lot Of White Surprise
oats. Both varieties purchased in New York
City two years ago, and find them the most
profitable kind to raise. The Norway Is course
and stiff, In straw, stands up wei on strong
land, stools better than any other variety, re-
quires from one to one and a half bushels seed
per acre, can be cut when straw is green,
bound right up and thrcshed wet, without
wrapping In the machine. The straw makes
better feed than any other kind Of straw.
The surprise Oats Is about as stin In the
straw IS the common small oats, and about as
early. Both varieties yield from afty to one
hundred bushels per acre. Both varieties
weigh about forty pounds to the bnshet. Can
and see the oats at " ats & Sheets, 4doors west
Of Commercial Block. These gentlemen are
my agents for the sale Of the above mentioned
oats.
a-na A. wOLGANOT.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
A CARD,

Clergyman while residing in South Amer
lea as a missionary, discovered a safe and SIM
Pile remedy for the cure OF Nervous Weakness.
Early Decay, Diseases OF the Urinary and
Seminal Organs, and the whole train of disor-
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Great numbers have been cured by this noble
remedy. Prompted by a desire to benefit the
afflicted and unfortunate, soiH. send the recipe
for preparing and using this medicine, in a
sealed envelope, to any one who needs it, Free
of Charge. Address JOSEPH L. INMAN, Sta
tion D. Bible House, New York City.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
House and Lot for Sale at a Bargain

House and Lot for Sale at Bargain
A new frame dwelling with four
rooms, out kitchen, lot well improved,
with all necessary conveniences, To-
Gated in the northeast part of Wooster,
can be bought on good terms. For par
ticulars, call at this office or address, H.
G. White, Millersburg, o.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
Ns.hpa! How iss!, Bag Restored,

Just published. a new edition of DR..
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The celebrated author, in this admirable c.
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matter what his condition may he, may cure
himself chsRply, privately and radically.-
This lecture should he in the hands Of every
youty and every man in the land.
Sent, under seal. In plain envelope, to any
address, post paid, on receipt of cents or two
post stamps. Also, DIR. Culverwell's Marriage
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Address the publishers,
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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19

tits a remarkable fact that the
first name drawn from the jury box
in Stoughton, Mass, for the trial OF
Moran, the murderer, was that Of
Minot c. Packard his victim.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19
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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19

l will close out my stock of mems and
boys Hats at cost-consistlng of
Ten doz. Children's Fancy Hats.
Ten Boys Hats.
Fifteen doz. Mems Tur and Wool
Hats. lSws.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-01-19

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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-19

Contrary to the expectations of the
many admirers of the legitimate drama,
there was not full house last night at Ma
sonic Hall to welcome with deserved praise
the inaugural evening of the great Edwin
Forests engagement in this city. While
there is much that is powerful, beautifully
impressive and most natural In Forests
Damon, as presented last evening, which
goes to make up the grand ensemble Of a
mighty actor, yet the lack Of stage room,
scenic effect, and fullness and strength Of
company, prvented him from displaying his
full power, and detracted somewhat from
the impression which would otherwise have
been made by the performance. The
memory of his splendidiy grand achieve
ments in the past renders his present effort 5
the source Of greater expectation and
brighter anticipations. His acting can never
perhaps receive that peerless lustre which
once wreathed his every PRESERVATION and
now gives a magic charm to his name. In
many parts of his Damon he is terrible, be-
cause the utterance of virtues in human
nature So strong and intimately woven with
opposing passions is truly sublime. We
thought him indeed monarch of tragedy
when he mounted the scaffold of death and
there sneers as one far too noble in heart
and elevated in principle to fear the coward
ly crowd that press around him.
Mrs. B. McCauley as CGtanthe, was well
received and frequently encored. In ges-
ture, movement and position she does well,
and often rises in tears and womanly sym
patty to an astonishing elevation of pathos.
Miss Hannah Z. Bailey as Hermon, was q
noble woman whose plaintive appeal 70
Damon, seemed to wake the saddest dirge
that love had ever played to duty. Her
expression, especially that Of wonder, fear
and Spurious doubt" was in harmony with
the highest excellencies and purest type OF
female grace. Mr.. McCauley as Pythias, went
beyond what We were prepared TO expect,
and had manliness, power and penetration.
Whitney, johnson, Church, Radcliffe, Nor
timer and Grierson rendered their respective
characters with happy advantage that well
merited applause. Tonight Forrest pre-
sents his RicheIieu, and from the dramatic
excellence Of the troupe witnessed last nigh;
we have every reason to believe he will re-
ceive proper support from the variou:
members. Those who have not witnessed
this great character of Forrest should avail
themselves of the opportunity this evening
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-12-19

The people Of Davidson county vote to-
morrow as to whether or not the stock Of
the county in the Edgefeld and Kentucky
Railroad shall be transferred to the Ameri-
can Transfer Company, according to the
terms proposed to the County Court. The
friends Of the proposed trade hope to see
big vote in its favor, numerically strong
enough to authorize the transfer without
any more delay or ceremony. There
is no very active opposition against the
proposition, while a great many citizens
neither know or care great deal about the
nature CT the trade. From present appear
ances, there is scarcely any doubt but what
the transfer viii be authorized. In this
election occasion tomorrow the people of
the city will also be called on to say whether
or not there shall be new Msrkethouse or
no Markethouse at all within the authority
Of the municipal government. The latter
question is considerably discussed among
our citizens, but at present writing we
have no information sufficiently extensive
or reliable TO enable conjecture as to the re-
suit. If the people say no market, all
right should they say 'sNew Markethouse, y
then so be it, and let their wishes so ex-
pressed be promptly needed by the city
authorities, and the work of constructing
the new Markethouse commenced as soon
as possible.