Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1871-10-12
IN TOWN AND GIT.
Cranberries are ripe.


in Arizona and other parts of the west.
This is bad season for wagon tires
and Democrats. They get dry SO often.
Chicago has been visited by terrible
scourge-the fire fiend.
We have seldom, if ever, seen the
ground so dry and dusty it now is.
Farmers are fearful that the dry
weather will destroy the wheat crop.
Apples are from twenty-five to forty
cents bushel. z-"
Our grocery men are furnishing good
oysters now. l . 2 - p 81 --i>
Berlin township gave Adams 60 ma
jority.
The ice trade is in a very depressed
condition. pts4<.t 6. ~-,r-- irc
lMessrs. DenaldsoH,- Laylander & Co.
have Just received their new Saw Mill
and win soon have it in running order.
The fires in the West have burned
over thirty thousand square miles OF
territory.
Did the sun forget to cross the line
this fall? We have had no equinoctial
storm yet.
Winnie Ream is doing her best to get
the Rev. Theodore Tilton on bust at
her studio, 729 Broadway, New York.
A Mobile sewing woman is down sick
from sores in her mouth caused by BIZ
ting off green sewing silk.
Rarer than the phoenix, is the yir-
tuous man who will consent to lose a
good auecdote, because it's a lie.
The best charities are those which are
daily dispensed in pleasant words, and
kind deeds to all around u.s. M
If the best mans faults were written
on the forehead, it would make him pull
his hat. {ts .r..ssH Ntsf
Do not wait for change of circum-
stances, but take circumstances as they
are and make the best of them.
Methodist Mite Society will meet at
the residence of the. Rev. G. A. Hughes,
on Friday evening next. stf
Messrs. James Laylander and J.. w.
Filby are authorized to receive subscrip-
ton to the REPUBLICAN, at Shreve.
The census of Londonville has just
been taken. 1t contains 1912 persons,
an increase Of 26l in one year.
From the number of empty store
boxes on the pavement, We judge that
the dry goods market is full. = y 2
A pound of turnip seed contains three
hundred thousand two hundred and
lightweight seeds. If you don't believe
it, count them.
The late political struggle was very
bitter one. We are heartily glad it is
over, although the fight was principally
among the Democrats themselves.
Joseph Adams carried this township
by majority of fourteen. Pretty weH
done when the, majority on the State
ticket was 2l5 Democratic.
Greeley is liscoursing to Indiana far
mers on the different breeds of silk
wooled sheep, short horned potatoes,
Durham cabbage and peach blow calves.
A Kansas judge angrily dismissed
a case because the complainant, wild
ow of fifty, stated that her age was
twenty-three.
Trains going north stop twenty |
minutes for breakfast at Orrville. Pass
engers going north or east have plenty |
of time for breakfast.
September has been much the hottest |
month of the season at San Francisco. |
The heat continues unabated. Sacra-
mento River is a foot lower than ever
before known.
On Sunday last the Corner Stone of
the st. Johns Church was laid with the |
usual services. As we were not here,
we could not attend. This building |
will soon be erected as the workmen are |
pnshing it forward rapidly. i
"A young man by the name of Wilson
Harry, near Wooster, fell into the horse
power Of thrashing machine lastweek,
and had one OF his legs taken off. He
died few days after from the effects of
the injury, modification having taken |
place.
Two elergyrnen, late editors of the
Ministerial Union, a paper which ap-
Chicago, closed their valedictory article
as follows: ''Chicago is a. good place
for areligious paper, provided that three
pages serve Satan, and the other one is
mixed" -S G-@+S
Clark & Sons, of Wooster, are now
supplying that market, with some of the
incest and best Dry Goods, Fancy Goods,
Cloths, Cassimeres, Trimmings, Dress
Goods, &C., even offered to the public
and their prices are to suit their GUS
toners, which accounts for the SUBJ
stantia1 trade they are now having, and
which is on a continued increase.
One of our venerable and conscienti-
GUS old farmers recently had barrel of
cider to dispose of, and thinking Woos-
ter good market, loaded it into his
wagon and started for the city. He was
not long in finding customer, and i'm
mediately repaired to his residence with
the barrel, and as he supposed the cider.
After removing the end-gate of the
wagon, and stiffening his muscles for
good lift, the farmer grabbed the barrel.
Up it came, as light as so many slaves,
but minus the cider. He looked nom
plussed and dumb-founded. An exam-
ination proved that the barrel had rolled
over, the bung become displaced, and
the cider had leaked out long before
reaching Wooster. This should be 4
warning to others who intend bringing
cider to market Wooster Rep.