Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-01-25

Holmes County has the shortes
delinquent land list in the State.
The amount of daylight still in
creases.
The Methodists built, on an average
four. churches {. day last year..
Presbyterian Mite Society at MI
A. Barton's, Thursday evening.
We had few days of sleighin;
since. our last issue.
The Loudonville Independent is pull
ing down heavy on the dram-sellers.
Where the Estey Cottage Organ
fails once, it is victorious ten times.
Fought men to vote" is the title o
a leader in the WomGn's Journal Of re.
cent date.
Panther at Plymouth, Richland
county-loose in the woods-been heard
to squeal.
"A talented Georgian placed the butt
of his gun in the fire while he looked
down the muzZle-and went hence.
Why is troy weight like an uncon-
sciencious person! Because it has nc
scruples.
If your sister fell into a well, why
couldn't you rescue her? Because you
couldn't be brother and a-sister too.
Figures won't lie,", won't they
Does fashionable woman's figure tell
the truth? e.-. .s-, ~
Samuel Johns, of Xenia, has gone
to Join his father in the Ohio Peniten-
tiary for fifteen years.
One hundred and fifty thousand peo-
pie gathered at the Fisk obsequies and
fifty thousand viewed the remains.
The romance of trade.-Buying on
credit, selling for cash, falling, and
paying twenty-five cents on the dollar.
Democratic newspapers are now
ridiculing Lieut.. Gov. Mueller because
he is German. What do you think of
it German Democrats?
Why does coat grow larger when
taken out of a carpet-bag? Because
when you take it out you will find it in
creases.
L. McC. Larimer was insured i'm
the Ktna Life Insurance Company in
stead of the Guardian Mutual, as stated
last week.
The Holmes Co. Republican, is out in
a bran new dress. An undisputable
proof of increasing prosperity.-Rep.
d Rep.
We understand a young man by
the name of Kesler fell down stairs a
few days ago and broke his leg. We
haven't the particulars.
The Rev. 1. Cutler has been suffer-
ing greatly for two weeks past, with
erysipelas in his face. He is recovering
slowly. J8tfty Vt
A music dealer announces in his
windows a sentimental song, "Thou
Hast Loved Me and Left Ne for 25
cents" -
Governor Hayes carries with him to
private life the best wishes of his fel-
low citizens, who feel that Ohio never
had better Governor.
"A negro girl in Selma, Ala, skips
rope with pail of water on her head,
without spilling drop. Don't try it
girls this cold weather.
-Ground-hog day-Feb. I'd. Where
is the octogenarian who declares that
he has observed the conduct Of his hog
ship on that day more than one thou
sand times?
Akron has a Farmers Anti-Tres-
pass Society. The object of the society
is to prevent the depreciation of sports
men upon the land of the farmers.
ALI persons indebted to VIM. Walk
up & Co. will please call and settle at
once, as they are very much in need of
money, and desire to settle all accounts
up to 1872. -'-l& ----at f..
Popcorn baths are said to be ex-
cellent for the complexion, making the
skin smooth as corn cob, and also re-
moving all traces of huskiness in the
voice.
Every fair in the country, next
season, will possess cheese made from
milk from the original O'Leary COW
that kicked over Chicago. In case of
her death it is proposed to write Sum-
day School edition of her life with a
moral attached to her moving tale.
We are in receipt of the public
Geo. w. Childs, of Philadelphia, Pa.
1t is amodel of neatness and typograph-
ical correctness and is furnished to the
patrons of the Ledger gratis.
Owing to the death of the proprie-
tor, the Buckeye State is offered for sale.
For information in regard to terms, any
person wishing to purchase, is referred
to Mrs. Susan B. Young, New Lisbon,
Columbiana county, Ohio.
Lamps do not talk, but they do
shine. A lighthouse sounds no drum,
it beats no gong, and yet far over the
waters its friendly spark is seen by the
mariner. So let our actions shine out
of our religion.
An exchange says a man died the
other day from habitual drunkenness.
A post mortem examination of his inter-
nal organs showed that his blood was
largely mixed with alcohol, the coroner
testified that the heart smelled as
though it had been stepped in alcohol.
-Frizzing matches are the latest in
vention among the girls, who try to see
who can do up their hair in the latest
style in the least space of time. They
start even, and the winner has the first
chance at the "big looking glass" for a
week afterward.
"A question for the mathematicians !:
When will it again occur that there will
be five Thursdays in the month of Feb
ruary, as is the case with the coming
month. Let us hear from those who
are posted.-Herdld and Union.
This will not occur again until the
year 1900.
Next holiday OH the list is ground
hog day. which comes off in February,
and will decide the weather for the bal
ance of the winter. If the weather
signal service department could only
make some amicable arrangement with
the ground hog, and a concert of ac-
ton be realized, We might be fishing by
the lst of March, and swelter in linen
clothes a month earlier than usual.
One of our subscribers, who had
stopped his paper some time since,
writes us as follows: "Please continue
to send me your paper. Send me this
weeks number. Icannot do without 1t. -
This is only one of several similar in
stances. The REPUBLICANi is necessity
in every family.
The Millersburg Republican appeared
in "stOre clothes" week before last.
Messrs. Laubach, White and Cunning
ham deserve great credit for the energy,
good taste and interest they manifest in
their publication. Success, gentlemen.
l-Shrere Mirror.