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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
Capturing a Sea Lioness.

A California paper gives description
of how a sea lioness was captured by
the very man who provided Barnum
with his stock of that ilk, and the eX-
hibition must be far more preferable to
the animals appearing in adozy state,
as part of the great moral show. A ten
ton schooner was the craft which inva-
ded the haunts of the sea lions, and
lariets were the weapons used in their
capture. The specimen obtained was n
white one, and six lassoes were tied to-
gether, and six sturdy seamen applied
their efforts to landing their powerful
prize. The programme was to tire her
out, but long time was spent in doing
it, amid the roars and believing of a
whole drove that had crowded around
with pandemonium of lament at the
intricacies in which the Helen of the
place found herself involved. She
stoutly resisted the well meant efforts
at consolation, however, and when the
whelps tearfully crowded around her
she viciOusly crunched their flesh and
bones, and then thrashed the rocks with
their bodies. She made good headway
also against all attempts to get her into
the strong cage that was constructed,
catching it in her mouth and tearing of
the planks; but at last, after an eXhaus-
tive struggle of seven hours, she was
hoisted ON board, and now awaits the
highest bidding Snowman.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
The Sentimentalist in Court.
" What is your name?"

What is your name?"
"My name is Norval on the Gram.
plan Hills" .t. n..-t
"Where did you come from?"
&c came from the happy land where
care is unknown"
Where are you lodging now?"
1 dreamt 1 dwelt in marble halls"
Where are you going tO?"
"Far over hill and dale"
"What is your occupation?"
" l played on harp of thousand
strings" a.a...
care you married ?'
"Long time ago. Polly put the ket-
tie on" l.'.'.
"When were you married" ?"
"'Twas ten O'Clock one starlight
night, ever shall remember"
"How many children have'you ?"
"There's Doll and Bet, and Moll and
Kate, and"
"Was your wife good looking?"
She was all my fancy painted her.
Did your wife treat you badly?"
cot in the Silly night"
"What possessions have you?"
sold Dog Tray"
"What do you propose to do with
him 90
"Send him to the other side of Jor-
dam"
SLOW do you propose to make liv-
ing?" .ul ....
Pull of my coat and roll up my
Sleeves .'.
The Judge could not stand any more
and accordingly shut him up for three
months. ~
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
Saving up the Potato Bugs

For several years this portion of the
country has been tormented with the
potato bug. This little pest has caused
much trouble to our farming cOmmuni-
ty, and has eaten the crops to suclFan
extent that the yield of tubers has been
greatly reduced, and the price of the
same enhanced. But "Time at last sets
all things even," and our old enemy
the potato bug, has now met foe which
in all probability will more than dis
count Paris green I'M making sad havoc
with him. The new conner is a bug
about an inch in length, in form shield
shaped, and is provided with n long bill
not unlike an upright saw. We saw, 9
day or two since, several of these new
corners OH the potato vines, and eacl
had his potato bug on his back, holding
him with his claws. and working hi,
saw or bill at such a rate that the olt
pest could stand it but short time
Long may the new bug wave!-Sdgin'
d,o Enterprise.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
A CAMPAIGN SONG.
NOTHING LIKE LEATHER.

In early days our fathers wore
Their homemade buckskin breeches,
Cut out by guess-work measurement,
With leather whangs for stitches,
And now their sons are called again
To rally meath the banner!
Borne by these men of leather-craft
The CObbler and the Tanner.
The North, and South, the East and West
Will work and sing together,
And march to glorious victory
For nothing wears like leather.
We have some jobs On mongrel pests,
And have the hands to do them; .
Our Grant will neatly carry them,
And Wilson wax it to them. a
The chopper up at ChaPpaqua
May go on with his planning; n
Well let him furnish all the bark,
But Grant will do the tanning!
The thin-skinned chaps win uppers make
The tough cid hides the neither;
The boiling. sore head crowd will do
For nothing but split leather!
The s.later Franklin" statesman, sage,
Philosopher and farmer.
Retired in cool and rural shades. .I.
As days grow long and warmer,
Can milk the gentle butternut,
That grazes round with bell on,
And pan out butter sweet, for Gratz III
To spread his watermelont
Or he seize his ready pen
In stormy rainy weather,
And tells the world how shoe pegs grow,
Or modes Of smelling leather!
To spoil so fine husbandman,
Who, perched up in the city,
Writes quires of what he never knew,
1t surely were pity. t-.tL
No, let him breed the shOrt-horn duck,
And POland-China gobbler- -l. -
Wen burden with the cares of State,
The Tanner and the CObbler! saL
The grand array of Commonwealths
They'll bind. as with tether,
That ne'er shall broken be
For nothing holds like leather!
The virtues, brains and honesty
OF Horace they poke at us,
As if the Cincinnati fraud
Made him Cincinnatus.
And while he seeks u season brief ......
or rural peace and quiet
Pure water is his only drink,
Pure dirt his only diet!
His old white hat and old white coat
Have served all kinds of weather;
But they are like his principles
They will not wear like leather!
The squad that sought old Chappaqua,
To marshal meath his pennon,
VIII be surprised to meet our flag,
And lind there is Hen. on!
That flag is borne by gallant hands,
Four million votes behind it!
Alas! where is the mongrel hope?
"Go West"-they cannot find it.
Like Grant, when in the Wilderness,
Will push" in spite of weather;
And ION this line we'll fight it OUT
There nothing is like leather. -
Then, Freedoms temple, rear it high?
And if we need u cap-stone,
Or key to bind a broken arch,
Take Henry Wilson's lap stone!
To guard it we must have man d
Who never halts or misses;
We've many soldiers tried and true
None better than Ulysses!
The Tanner and the CObbler are
The men to work together;
They'll win the field, and keep it too
For nothing holds like leather!
". Y. Standard.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
Grant and the Old Clerks.

General Grant found, on coming into
the Presidential Office, several clerks of
the different departments and bureaus
who had rendered themselves necessi-
ty in their respective offices, and had
managed through all the administra-
tions of whatever politics, to retain
their places. 1t was shrewdly done, the
process being simply to complieate mat
tiers i'm such a way that no one but them
selves could understand them. By this
means they governed the Government,
and no administration would well dis
pense with their services. Grant cut
the Gardian knot by removing them and
appointing others in their places with
instructions to simplify matters, rear
range the public records and papers, so
that any one could understand and per-
form the duties of the office. During
the first year of Grants administration
of the Government, the writer had oe-
casion to call frequently at one of the
offices from which one of these old
clerks had been removed, and found
that the men appointed had such diff
Guilty in re-arranging the records and
papers as to be compelled to send almost
every day for their predecessors to ex-
plain matter and assist in bringing or
der out of such chaos as was found
there. A confusion in public affairs
and accounts of such character as to
cover up and conceal monstrous frauds
upon the national treasury. This rub
bish was finally cleared away, every
thing properly and Systematically ar
ranged, so that frauds are now easily
detected and exposed, and one clerk can
perform the duties of the office as we'll
as another, abolishing utterly the form
er system of frauds and complications,
and now there is no delay in obtaining
information upon any subject OF public
interest. This was Grants first step in
civil service reform, and its Importance
cannot be over-estimated. He applied
to civil affairs the well-know military
maxim that "attention to details is the
secret of success" 1--WE hope Sumner
will not make this the basis of another
charge against Grant of being "a mill
tarv despot," for this maxim expresses
a truth applicable to every condition
and affairs of life, and found that it
worked well, and by its application the
government was made to almost run
itself. By attending to details in war,
Grant found it as easy TO command an
army of million men as of thousand,
the physical anatomy or members were
nothing: the perfectness of its compo-
nent parts of vital Importance, and this
system of business order simplicity he
has carried into his civil administration
of governmental affairs, with pre-emi-
nent success.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
ODDS AND ENDS.

Heaven is the place for those VIII
have failed on earth. "
Which is the best way to retain |
young lady's affections? Not to return
them.
A Detroit picture dealer says thu
hardest work he has to do is to frame
excuses.
An old bachelor wishes to have all tht
women hooped up who "burst out cry
ing"
What would pig do who wished to
build himself habitation? Tie knot
in his tail and call it pigs tie.
Beauties often die old maids. They
place such value on themselves, that
they don't find purchaser before the
market is closed.
A Wisconsin minister awoke his
slumbering charge by vehemently say
ing, 'Deacon T., wake up; the best OF
the sermon is to come"
What lady ever went out for an hour
and returning did not find that some
one whom she had particularly wished
to see, had called during her absence
When an Irish girl was asked, few
Gays ago, where her mistress was, who
nad gone 10 water-cure establishment
she replied that her ladyship had "gone
to soak"
A new process of "filling" teeth has
been discovered by progressive
9o"h east Oehtist. luis In Drlei as Iol-
iows-"Eat green corn roasted IN the
ear.
A sentimental chan in Rhode Island
intends to petition Congress. Mt its next
session. for an APPROXIMATION to imnrove
the channels of affection,so that hence
iortn tne course OF true love may run
smooth.
As proof of the fact that virls are use-
ful articles. and that the world conld
not very well uet aIono with ont them
a late writer states If as a fact If ali fine
uirls wer,. driven ont of the world in
one generation tbe bovs would ali 90
ont after them.
A woman, an infant and bottle Of
milk caused great commotion on an
Indiaha Tram tne other Gay, when IL
an bour The hottie dronned ont of the
window. the mother nnIIed tbe hell
cord. stopned the train and wanted tbe
to 90 back after tbe bahe,s
last sustenanee- He didn't 90.
A Chinaman in Weatheryille, Cali
iornia, whose life was insured Tor
large amount, was seriously hurt by
falling from wagon. There was some
doubt OF his ever getting better, and at
length one Of his friends wrote to the
insurance company, "Charley half dead,
likee half money!
Horace Greeley writes as follows on
the subject of caterniIlars. seYon NAV
assure nv Southern friends that feel
oreat concern at the renorts which reach
me of the disastrous presence of cater
nillars in that section of the country
I am NOT nrenared anthoritatiyelv to
advise what is the hest course to nnrsue
as NV tnovled oe in Sncb matters is ey,
ceedingly limited. but it seems to me
that With tbe aid of n windIass thew
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
Anything to Beat Grant.

Little Boy-Be you the drug man!
Druggist-Yes, sonny, what can do
for you?
Little boy-Dad has got 'em again!
His boots is full of 'em, and he's howl
ing like thunder, and mother sent me
over to get suthin for him quick.
Druggist-what does he want!
Little boy-Don't know, but he's yei-
lin for anything to beat Grant.--BaTd-
10 Express.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22

Danbury, Conn.,, lady was so right
ened at a spider that she kicked her
husband down stairs.
A New Orleans lady boasts that her
hair is five feet ten inches long. IL Is
grafteds
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22

Bad luck is simply man with his
hands in his pockets and a pipe in his
mouth, looking on to see how it will
come out. Good luck Is man of pluck
with his sleeves rolled up and working
to make it come out right.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
C.. r. 4. &P. Railway.

Nos. l and daily except Sunday; Nos.2 and
daily except Saturday. I
Breakfast. Dinner. I Supper.
Distance 493 miles. Trains are run by Chi
ago 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, 1872-08-22

Georgia girls use none but religious
papers for Sunday bustles.
No chains so unworthy to hold you as
those of vain regret.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-08-22
DIR. S. WILSON,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OFFICE AND
Residence, West Liberty Street, Wooster, o.
All accounts considered due as soon as servi-
ces are rendered. 3t9
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Terms Of Advertising.
q in. in.l,.coll Azcol kcoll ,.coll ,lcol p,
Deaths and Marriages gratis.

Deaths and Marriages gratis.
Local Notices, first insertion, 10 cents per
line; subsequent insertions 9 cents per line
Special Notices and Foreign Advertisements
Is per cent. additional.
Business Cards, not exceeding 5 lines, 81.
Administrators and Executors Notices 81.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-20
Saratoga Races.

SARATOGA, August l9.-The first race,
a steeple-chase, was won by LOchiel,
but was given to Tammany on account
of LOchiel not adhering to the course.
The second race was won by Frank
Hampton. Time, 2:40.
The third race-a mile and three quar-
ters, for six hundred dOllars-was won
by Louise. Time, 3;O73.
The steeple-chase was run amidst the
widest excitement that has taken place
at any similar race in America-the
hOlses running very close together
throughout, and frequently changing
places as they made the various leaps.
O'DOnnellis horse threw his rider a SOM
ersault over his head at the first water
jump, with serious injury, but continued,
and finally came home with LOchiel,
half a lengtlEahead Of LObelia, who was
one length in front of Tammany, Blind
Tom fourth, half a length behind, and
Nesuvius three lengths in the rear.
The excitement and cheers were tremen-
dous, but great disappointment was mani
tested when the judges placed TammaRy
first, Blind Tom second and Nesuvius
third, having ruled out LOchiel and LO-
bella for having made a mistake by not
going the exact course.
On the second race of one and a half
miles Hampton ran locked with Tub
man for a mile and three-eighths, when
Tubman suddenly gave way, and Frank
Hampton led over the score by a dozen
lengths
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-20
THE TABBS GROSS AFFAIR.
What is Thought of 1t in Cincinnati
He Makes Speech at COvingtOn-
All Quiet.

CINCINNATI, August 19.-The Tabbs
Gross case of yesterday has created
much talk here to-day. 1t is believed
that Gross was visited by a number OF
cOlOred citizens and warned to leave the
city, but it is also believed that his story
is exaggerated. He was a resident here
several years ago, and was very obnox-
ious to many cOlored people. 1t is sup
posed that the parties who visited him
were personal enemies. All efforts to
find out the parties to-day have been
fruitless.
The colOred men of this city have
called meeting for tomorrow evening
in behalf of free speech. They condemn
the acts of irresponsible persons
visiting him. No evidence has been de-
velOped that white men had anything
to do with the matter. Gross spoke at
COvingtOn tonight. There were but
few cOlored people present, and the
meeting was not disturbed in the least.
The police guarded Gross ON his return to
the Clinton House in COvingtOn, and a
number of the police were stationed on
the Kentucky side of the suspension
bridge with view of preventing colored
men from going over from this side.
The feeling of the masses of colored men
here is of modification that the affair
should have occurred.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-20
and G. w. Cheek from Chicot City

and G.. w. Cheek from Chicot City,
both came in with fair trips.
The G.. w. Cheek broke one of her
shafts one hundred and fifty miles below
here, which will compel her to lay up
for the present.
The Phil Allin for Friars Point, and
Belle Memphis for st. Louis, both got
off before dark with fair trips.
Mr.. Paxton NJ. Louis, formerly bar
keeper on the steamer A. j. White, was
drowned at Ironton, Ohio, last Sunday
week. His remains were taken to Gin
cinnati for burial.
The Shannon left Louisville last Sum
day with a cargo Of produce for this
port.
The City of Vicksburg, from above,
came in during the afternoon, put of
here two hundred and thirteen barrels
of -four, two hundred and ninty-eight
bales of hay, and had four hundred and
twenty-five tons for points below.
The Utah, from st. Louis, arrived at
dark, discharged three hundred and
thirty-six bales of hay here, and had
four hundred tons for the Arkansas
river.
The regular semi-weekly coast packet
A. J. White, Captain Mark Cheek leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Napoleon,
Chicot, and all way landings. She con-
meets at the mouth Of White river with
the steamer Batesville for all points on
White river. Charles Sharpe and Billy
Smither are her popular clerks.
The semi-weekly passenger steamer
st. Francis, Captain 7. r. Bowman,
leaves this evening at five o'clock for
Helena, Mariana, and all the usual way
landings. Captain William Clark is her
chief secretary.
The regular United States mail packet
ThOs. H. Allen, in command of Captain
Eugene Smith, leaves this evening at
five o'clock for Pine Bluff, Little Rock,
and all points on the Arkansas river.
Col. Pat Morrison holds forth at the
desk.
The st. Joseph, Captain Corbett, leaves
this evening at five o'clock for Cairo and
st. Louis.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-20
ENGLAND.
The Riots in Belfast, IreIand-The City
About TO be Placed Under Martial

The Riots in Belfast, IreIand-The City
About TO be Placed Under Martial
Law.
LONDON, August 19.-The riots il
Belfast are not yet thoroughly sup.
pressed. The Mayor and magistrate:
of the city have issued proclamation
warning the rioters to disperse, under
the severest penalty for a continuance
of the disorders. The arrests thus fal
are in proportion to the numbers en-.
gagged, and casualties have been re-
markably few. In the hospitals are
many victims of the riot, large mum.
Der of whom bear sword-cuts and bullet
wounds. A correspondent telegraphs
from Belfast this morning that the
fighting continued last night, and that
stones fell En the streets like hail.
Dispatcher just received from Dublin,
dated to-day, convey later news from
Belfast. RiotiRg still goes on. Fom
persons were killed in the streets this
morning. The peaceably disposed citi-
zens of Belfast are generally dissatisfied
at the want of vigor evinced by the au-
thorities in suppressing the riots. Ruff.
fans, with pistols in their hands, stalk
through the city, and whole sections are
given up to the rioters.
Arrivals from Belfast to this hour state
that shots continue to be fired in the
streets. 1t is not known that the rioter:
have congregated in large numbers al
any points.
A telegram from Lurgan, Ulster coun-
ty, on the Belfast and Ulster railroad,
says, serious disturbances are in pro
gress there, and the authorities called
out the military and are restoring order
A later telegram from Belfast says re-
ports are current that the city is about
to be placed under martial law. Some
kilograms say the military are charging
the rioters in the centre of the city.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-20
BANK ROBBERY.
The Heaviest Robbery Of the Age-0Ver
Half a Million in Money and
Bonds StOlen-Great Ex-
eitement.

BALTIMORE, August 19.-The Third
National Bank, on South street, in the
heart of the city, was burglarized last
night of hundred thousand dollars be-
longing to the bank, and unknown
amounts belonging to private parties
having boxes there. The robbery was
committed by parties who cut through
the wall from the adjoining store, which
had been occupied since June by a man
named Stabler and others, protesting to
be commission merchants. Two large
safes in the vault were cut into and
robbed. A third was not entered. 1t is
now stated that between twenty and
twenty-five depositors' boxes were
robbed, and the widest statements are
current on the street, to the effect that
the losses by depositors in money, bonds
and other securities, reach half a mil
lion.
Among the bonds certainly stolen are
S75, 900 in the city of Louisville water
loan coupon bonds.
The officers of the Third National
Bank set forth their losses by burglars
as follows: S57,0 in greenbacks
and National Bank notes, of which
eight notes are of 500 each, and
twenty-four notes of $50 each
of the Third National Bank, and
the following bonds held as collateral
securities: Northern Central Railroad,
$500; North Carolina State bonds,
Sl1 500; Marietta and Cincinnati Rail-
road bonds, $1,000; United States $40
bonds, $4,000; Western Maryland Rail-
road bonds, $1,000 The bank offers $40
900 reward for the recovery of the above
in a pro rata sum for partial recovery.
The individual losses to depositors
having boxes in the vault cannot be as
certained, so many of them are out Of
town. The total of losses will probably
amount to several hundred thousand
dollars, as it is known that several boxes
contained bonds and other securities
amounting to seventy-five thousand dol
lars. The first floor of Gettings' Bank
building, from which the entrance was
made into the bank vault, was rented on
the first of June to a man giving the
name of L. Washburne, who paid
quarters rent, six hundred and
twenty-five dollars, in advance.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-20
ARKANSAS.
The ClaytOniteS' Convention at
Little ROck-The City Full of
Dirty -WOrkers---Signs of
the Political Zodiac.
Poor Hadley--NO GubernatOrial
POrridge for Him--0VerbOard
Jim Peck---ROW Probable.

Special to the Memphis Appeal
LITTLE Rock, August 19.-The town
is all agog over the coming Convention
of the Minstrels. Delegates and wire
workers, black and white, are here from
all parts of the State. From the present
appearance the meeting will be any
thing but harmonious.
Hadley is certainly overheard, as far
as the nomination for Governor is con-
cerned, but his name is mentioned in
connection with the Lieutenant-G Gov
ernorship, a plaster for his disappoint-
ment in obtaining the first named NOM
inatiOn.
Alexander Mcdonald or Baxter will
probably get the nomination for Gov
ernor.
Two delegations of negroes are here
from ChicOt, representing Barbour and
Mason. Barbour's mob will probably
be admitted to the exclusion of MasOn's
gang.
Those who are posted say there is a
seeming probability that there will be
no negroes placed on the ticket.
a split is almost certain to occur,
though the leaders now here are doing
their best to adjust existing differences.
Associated Press Dispatch.l
LITTLE Rock, August l9.-The city is
full of delegates to the Republican Clay
ton State Convention, which meets on
Wednesday. 1t now seems certain that
Governor Hadley will be thrown over
board, and either ex-senator Mcdonald
or Judge Elisha Baxter nominated for
Governor.
General Bishop has returned from
Pope county, and made his report to the
Governor. He reports all quiet, and
opposes a declaration of martial law at
this time.