Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-02-29
IN TOWN AND OUT.

A new species of sapsucker-the
man who taps the sugar camp.
Buy all you can at home. It's the
surest way to build up the town and
make business good.
One hundred and thirty-six death:
from smallpox in Philadelphia last
week.
MIR. VIM. Lemon, of Benton, died
suddenly on Thursday evening, of sink
ing chills. TF
"A Convention to frame State Con-
stitution, and to apply for admission OF
Utah as State, met in Salt Lake.
1t is better to be poor than igno-
rant.-Two dollars will pay for the Re-
PUBLICAN for one year.
When you can't think of what your
wife told you to get, get hair-pins.
They are always handy in house.
w. r. Hubbell, a cigar manufac-
turer at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, was arrested
for removing large number of cigars
without stamping.
The jury in the ease of r. J. Bright,
Indiana State Printer, ON trial for per-
jury, returned a verdict of not guilty,
on Saturday.
Capt. L. Henning, of Elizabeth, N.
j., was accidentally shot by his son,
aged eleven years, on Friday. His
wounds are thought to be fatal.
Send in your Sale Bills and we will
| m tttr i-f.a atn
and give you Il local notice free of
charge.
If there are great blessings upon
earth, surely good health is one. Really
no person is able to describe its great
ness, until once losing it.
The first ground was broken to-
ward the erection of the "First Nation
al Banks new building ON the corner
opposite the Court House, on Tuesday
morning.
This is how they account for a
HBrick" being a ''good fellow" A
brick is deep red; deep-re(a)d man
is good man; hence ''brick" becomes
a good man or "good fellow
See to it that our own mechanics
and producers get the benefit of all your
purchases, and thereby build up and
protect our own industries in preference
to all others.
The invigorating game of ''umble
de peg is not much in vogue at present.
The children don't seem to relish sitting
around on the green grass plots, and
playing with knife. sf
"A cotemporary wonders how a
Democrat can love female who per-
sists in wearing tight corsets and thin
shoes, when he knows they break down
the constitution.
The Miltonsburg, Ohio, boy who
sold chestnuts enough to buy his moth
er sewing machine, would it is said,
make a good Sunday School book if it
handn't been for his hooking the chest
nuts.
How curiously are snow flakes
shaped. Many of them are exact rep
resentations of wheels in a watch.
while others are still more wonderful.
Truly the mysteries of nature are beau-
tiful to behold.
On the night of the 22nd some of
the boys around town took it into their
head to be very noisy. How well they
succeeded, many of our citizens can
testify by being greatly annoyed by the
rumpus. Such things should not be
permitted.
The Lake Erie, Wooster and Mus
kingum Valley Railroad is progressing
so far as preliminary matters are con-
cerned. A quiet but determined inter-
est is being manifested along the route.
Books will be opened for receiving
stock at Welker & Downing's office
Wooster. on Friday, March 23d.
"A great question among farmers
is to decide which is the fore and back
end of wind mill or threshing ma
chine. They have been at it ever since |
these machines are in use, and they are
just as far from the decision to-day as |
ever. Could not some one givea cor
rect answer so as to ease the minds of
the disputing farmers?
The story is told of a negro who
prayed earnestly that he and his colored |
brethren might be preserved from what |
he called their @upsettin' SINS" "Brud- |
der" said one of his friends at the close
OF the meeting, "you amt got de hang
OBJ dat ar word. It's besettin', not up
settin'." "Brudder," replied the other,
''if dat's so it's so. But was prayin'
de Lord to save us from de sin oh in
toxication, an if dat amt an upeettin'
sin | dunno what am."-
1t is time for the "Bugmaster Gem
eral of the State to tell us whether the
"curculio" has gone through the plum
crop for. this season. This delay is not |
right. The potato bugman has issued
his annual message, the peach crop has
been blasted, and now we want the
curculio and weevil business fixed up
so as to know whether we had better
devour our canned plums and eat full
rations of bread, or be Saving of
them.
"A story is told of man in Con-
necticut who fell from the roof of a
fiye-stois building to the sidewalk, but,
as he struck on the >thick soles of his
rubber shoes, he bounced back within a
quarter of an inch of the roof, and so
continued to bounce, the distance de-
creasing by only a quarter of an inch
at each journey. He subsisted on hash
lncl0Sed III rubber balls, which he man.
aged to catch on the bound, and at the
end of month was stopped and re-
stored to his family.
OLD PREJUDICEs ARE DYING Our
New facts are killing them.- The'idea
that invalids weakened by disease can
be relieved by prostrating them with
destructive drugs, is no longer enter
tanned except by monomaniacs. Ever
since the introduction of DIR. Walkers
Vinegar Bitters it has been obvious that
their regulating and invigorating prop
critics are all-sufficient for the cure of
chronic indigestion, rheumatism, con-
diarrh9a, nervous affections,
and malarious fevers, and they are now
the standard remedy for these COM
plants in every section of the Union.
Learning to Write.
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