Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-02-08

The singing school in HOlmesvillt
is getting along finely. Mr.. Johnston
has several schools in the county.
Why are your eyes like friends
separated by distant climes? They
correspond but never meet.
1t may sound like 4 paradox, vel
the breaking of both wings of an army
is sure way to make it fly.
John Duncan, sr. fell on last Friday
and broke two of his ribs loose from his
back. He slipped off "a log while chop
ping wood.
An unlucky person on being asked
what he cleared on q certain specula-
ton answered, Nothing but my pock-
ets."
AT Evansville, Indiana, the Ohio
River is closed solid, and people were
crossing Oh the ice on Tuesday of last
week.
While smoking your meat with
chips and sawdust, put on the fire few
red peppers. The fumes will prevent
all insects from attacking your hams.
Every farmer in this County should
take the Agricultural Commonwealth,
only 81, 80 per year. Address +. G. Nc
Cauley, u est Salem, Ohio.
The old AIillerites and Second Ad-
ventists are at it again. They have ar
ranged for closing up all sublunary
things during the year of 1873.
"A Western editor says that if the
proper way of spelling tho is Though, +"
and bO, "beau," the proper way of
spelling potato must be "poughteigh-
teau."
AT GAINESVILLE, Ohio, on Wednesday,
the Muskingum Valley Railway freight
depot was burned. Very little freig ght
was in it. The fire originated from a
defective flue.
Be sure to go to the Book Store if you
want a first-rate Cigar or Fine Cut
Chewing Tobacco. They make it point
to keep the best and they succeed. So
good judges say. 1w
Weddings are not so numerous rs
the season and its opportunities would
indicate. The girls rush things too
much, and frighten the timid young
boys who prefer long eourtships.
-Sportsmen will bear in mind that it
is against the law to shoot robins now,
and trapping cockroaches with ''fig-
ure four will not be allowed until af-
ter the first of April.
Any person desirous of knowing
the population of any State, County, or
City (of 5000 inhabitants and upward)
Of the United States, may find inform
alton in the Tribune Almanac for 1872.
Presbyterian Mite Society, Thurs
day evening, at Mr.. F. Shattuck's. The
officers of the society request full at
tendance on that evening. Let every
one keep this in mind.
For Lamp Chimneys, Lamp Oil,
Lamps of all kinds, 90 to the Book
Store. They always keep the fullest
stock, and don't sell oil that they are
afraid to use. 1w
The person who left his horse tied
to the hitching in front of Wholf, Uhl-
er & Cos. store, in the storm the other
night, from seven in the evening till
eight O'Clock the next morning, deserves
to be served thus himself.
Any hard steel tool, says the Bos-
ton Journal of Chemistry, will cut glass
with facility when kept freely wet with
camphor dissolved in turpentine. The
ragged edge of glass may also be thus
smoothed with flat file.
The physicians Of Mansfield went
to the public schools one day not long
since and vaceinnated every scholar
who had not been vaccinnatede They
found quite number who had thus
been neglected.
The weather in Oregon is very cold.
The Northern Pacific surveying party
under Captain Maxwell have abandoned
work i'm Bend Orelle county, and ar
rived at Wallawalla after great hard
ships and the loss of several animals.
Holmes county, Ohio, has not lost a
single citizen by death in ten years. Is
it possible ?-E5. We are at loss how
to explain this, unless those who have
died have all been such as the poet
speaks of in the lines:
''They are not lost, but gone before
1t is rrlmored that Fred. the Hard
ware man made visit to Edinburg,
Wayne county, on special business, and
that he has robbed that place of one of
its fairest daughters. Whether the re-
port is exactly correct or not we will
not say.
"A young fellow named Meacham
played the trick, in Alliance, few days
since, of pretending to be clerk at the
Center House, and induced gentleman
to confide 1925 to him to be deposited
there. He deposited old paper instead.
His father bailed him for $500 and he
sloped.
"A young man named Henry Show
mong, while working in the stone
quarry, at Massillon was almost in
stantly killed on Saturday. 1t seems he
was rolling large stone down hill,
when he slipped and fell, the stone roll
ing over his head, causing death
in few minutes. lie leaves a
wife and one child.
The Cleveland, Mt. Vernon and
Delaware Railroad is progressing rapid
ly. Rails are laid from Mt. Vernon to
the west bank of the river at Gambler,
and large force of men are engaged in
building Il bridge at the latter point.
The road-bed is ready for the rails sew
eral miles east of Gambler, and track
laying will go on at the rate of half Il
mile a day.
Ralipious nanoui in afiouc of tho World