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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19
Singular Accident--An Old
Blast Explodes after Twen-
ty-Two Years Neglect.

The Lexington, Ky, Press says: The
dreadful accident of few days since
which may result in the death of two
unfortunate men, calls to mind an oc-
currence of similar character which
took place some years ago, on the Lex
ington and Harrodsburg pike. Itseems
that to construct the winding road down
the hill near the Kentucky River, blast
ing was necessary to assist in the re-
moval of the rock. On one occasion the
blast failed to explode. The workmen
avoided it for some time, and, as it was
finally determined to widen the road al
that place after it should be completed
in its length, the old blast was altogeth-
er neglected.
After lapse of twenty-one ears the
long delayed improvement was COM
menced. The old blast was forgotten
workmen set to work to drill new holes
near where the old one had been made,
Three men were thus engaged one day,
when suddenly the rocks were torn
asunder. One Gormley, standing on a
loose rock, was thrown fifty feet INTO
the air, and was saved from death only
by falling upon an elevated bank. The
other two were blown down the hill
side. None were killed, but all were
badly wounded, Gormley losing an eye.
The explosion of neglected blasts is
by no means uncommon, and some
method ought to be adopted to render
the power in such cases non-explosive,
and thus protect human life from such
terrible risks. 1t would seem to us that
some chemical preparation might be in
vented to answer the purpose we have
mentioned.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19
Greeley's Letter of Accept
ance-Revised Edition.

We call especial attention of the Gree
ley-Brown Committee on Addresses
to the People" to the following revised
letter of Father Greeley. We trust they
will not fail to sandwich it among their
pabulum which they propose to throw
out to the people who are thirsting their
knowledge:
New YORK, July 20.
"GENTLEMEN OF THE DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION: 1t is the happiest mo-
moment of my life when am informed
of my nomination to the Presidency by
such lot of thieves and black-legs as
you are. As 1 have frequently re-
marked, you hate school-houses and
where they are pretty thin you are pref
ty thick. You are propagated in sinks
of iniquity, and begotten in fostering
rum holes; therefore your appreciation
thrills my bosom with pride. 1 loathe
your communicating presence, as L said
before. You ill the jails, and Repub-
licans support them, as 1 remarked in
the Tribune of last September. As l
said on January Z, '69, every one who
choose to live by pugilism, or gambling,
with nearly every keeper of tippling
house, is politically a Democrat. A
purely selfish interest attaches the lewd,
ruffianly criminal and dangerous class
es to the Democratic party, by the in
stinct of self-preservation. Therefore
my heart throbs with delight at this
manifestation of-of-[Here his pen fal-
tered with emotion Recovering HIM
self, he proceeded: You have not elect
ed me to anything very often. Laugh
teri 1t seems to me good deal like
going home. Because as Irecentlv said
in the Tribune, point where you please to
an election district which you will pro-
nounce morally rotten-given up in
great part to debauchery and vice
whose voters subsist manly by keeping
policy offices, gambling houses grog
shops, and darker dens of infamy-and
that district will be found giving large
majority for which it styles it self the
Democratic party" There you see
yourselves, boys, as in glass. This is
a most suspicious moment. L hope Re
publicans will not doubt my sincerity
when cast myself into the embraces
of such a set of Jail birds as you are
Now then, all together move forward
earnestly for reform. =
Yours contemptuously, but devoted
ly." "HoRAcE GREELEY"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19
An Enoch Arden of Lucas
County, Ohio.

A lady recently died in Lucas county,
Ohio, says the Toledo Blade, whose hus-
band, having started to Philadelphia
with all the money he could raise, some
eighteen years ago, did not return, was
not heard from, and was finally suppos-
ed to be dead. She, however, was slow
to believe this, and not until nine years
were passed could she be induced, after
much urging on the part of family and
friends, to marry wealthy gentleman
of the neighborhood. Several years
went by, when one night her eldest son
(the only child by her first husband)
came in and reported having seen a
strange man near the house, 1t was ru-
mored, too, in the neighborhood that
stranger had been inquiring about the
lady in question, whom he spoke of by
her former name. The husband and
wife heard of these rumors, which had
been associated with the lost husbands
name; she was troubled, but her hus-
band treated the matterlightly. Three
years now passed, when the wife sud-
denly received a dispatch from New
castle, Pennsylvania, urging her to
come there at once if she would see her
rightfM husband alive. She went, in
company with the second husband, and
next day, ministered to by her, the first
husband died i'm her arms. He explain
ed how, on reaching Philadelphia so
long ago, and losing everything in the
speculation for which he visited that
city, he had embarked in West India
previously writing a letter,
which she did not receive, to his wife.
The voyage was disastrous, the vessel
was wrecked, and he only escaped with
his life. Then determining not to re-
turn home until he had retrieved his for
tune, he went as common sailor to
thence to Brazil, and so was
tossed about in the four quarters of the
globe, until he had secured reasonable |
when he started and reach
I'd home, where, on inquiry, he learned |
Of his wife's long waiting and subse-
Iuent happy marriage. He now imi-
'ated Enoch Arden, going by night to
AXE one last glimpse at his long-lost
wife, when he startled the boy, his own
son, as mentioned above. After this he |
departed, and only betrayed himself on
his death bed. By his will his property
vas divided among his wife's children.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19
Addition and Subtraction.

This game will be found very inter-
esting to croquet players, and even tC
those who don't play croquet. Eight
wickets are placed in a line, about ont
inch apart, and a post driven into the
ground in front of the two middle wick
cts; from this post convenient dis.
tance is measured off, and a ball placed
in straight direction from it, as seer
below:
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19

The player Is allowed four strikes
If his ball hits the stick, he wins ten
If it goes through the first wicket on
either side of the post, he wins eight
If the second, six; If the third, four; Ii
the fourth, two. If he fails to get
through any Of them, he subtracts five
from what he has already won.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19
THE VETERAN EXPLAINS.

j.
You ask a little too much, Cap;
don't see how We'll egree.
For the thing looks migety different
To you than it does to me-. uL
Those Jonnies fought US well. Cap.
know that-I told 'emso, rI. ftsiE
And shook their hands wheE they stacked
At the front, seven years ago.
I'll shake the hand of soldier
Who fights as he thinks Is right,
And when the war is over .t...t
Is willing TO give up the fight;
But this shake over the bloody chasm''
Means different thing, you know,
From shaking hands witna ragged "reb''
At the front, seven years ago.
We let 'em of too easy. Cap;
In this think you'll agree
That some of 'em should have said their
20 prayers T'+-' A'-''' ''
AT the foot of the gallows tree; 5-l
For we parioned the whole caboodle, ~
The leaders rs well as the men, ..
And now. see they are trying agame
To get into power again. t...I
Theyled the Democrats before the war
And they want to do It again;
God help the North withonices filed
With Davis and that sort of men!
You can't win the game without the South,
You know very well you can't,
And must count the cost of the Southern
To help you in beating Grant.
| find no fault with the times. Cap,
For money is easy and free, 3D. 81
And plenty of odd jobs going
For playe,l-out ''vet' like me; r-.-
And the country seems to prosper
The debt is fast being paid; --ls.
l don't think change Tor better
Could very well be made.
! kOw they find fault with Grant, Cap,
They say he loves horses and smokes;
But then. an angel from heaven
Wouldn't suit that sort of folks. ''t
/ have looked at the matter careful,
And find that the trouble grows -ii
From the fact that those lobby fellows
Can't lead him by the nose.
never liked Horace Greeley,
And tell you fair aud square. ....
God never made such man as he
To fill the Presidents chair; f.H
For he failed in the hour of trouble,
When things looked little dark,
And such captain as that amt fit
To handle the Onion bark. .,.-
And now it sounds mighty suspicious
To hear these fellows rant, ..... --T
Call him honest Uncle Horace
And all that sort of cant. ...f
Why, it amt hard to remember
How Greeley used TO blow,
And call them thieves and traitors,
Not dozen years ago. itf-..
There's only one thing more, Cap,
That have got to say Hr
won't help put into Office
The leaders who wore the gray; '--4I
For the graves are in between us,
OF the boys who wore the blue, -.s..--
And died in fighting those rebels,
NaxI-r- -af flrnfr a1rtnnr rxr-.N Al.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19
Billings Wit and Wisdom
KOARSE SHOT,

| kOARSE SHOT.
| Whenever WI see dOkter who alwus
travels on the jump, yu ken bet he is
looking for a job.
The bulk ov mankink are mere imita-
tors of every poor originals.
1t IL CRATE deal eazier tew be phi
losopher after man haz had warm
meal then it IL when he don't kno WHARF
he il going tew git one.
Most men lament their condishun in
life, but there are but phew, after all,
who are superior to it.
To never despair may be God-like,b but
it amt human.
Affektashun looks well in a monkey.
Trieing tew define love is like trieing
tew tell how yu kum tew brake thru
the ice; all yu kno about it liz, yu fell
in, snd got ducked.
The principal importans ov a mystery
is the mystery itself. What makes a
ghost so respectable karakter liz that
nobody ever saw one.
The pedigree that we receive from our
ancestors liz like the money we receive
from them; we are not expekted tew
live on the principle, but on the aecu-
mulashun, and transmit the principle
unimpaired.
A weak man wants az much watching
az bad one.
1t IL hard work tew define human
happiness; the real possessor ov it liz
the very one who kant define it.
Wealth is on guard against villany;
thare liz az mutch iniquity amung the
rich az amung the poor, ackording tew
their numbers.
A wise man never enjoys himself so
much nor phool so little, as when
alone.
Avarice IL az hungry az the grave.
There IL Il great deal ov virtew in this
world that IL like jewelry, more for or
nament than use.
| am satisfied that courage in men liz
more often the effekt to konstitushun
than ov principle.
About the best thing that experience
kan teach us IL tew bear misfotins and
sorrows with kompozure.
Mans necessitys are phew, but hiz
wants are endless.
There are menny people who not only
believe that this world revolves on its
axis, but they believe that they are the
axis.
Selt-made men are most alwus apt to
be leetle too proud ov the job.
think thar liz az menny old phools
in this world az there is young ones,and
thare IL this difference between them:
the young ones may outgrow their phol-
ly, but the old ones never do.
The ambishun ov men out ov 10, if
it should receive no check, would end
in their destrukshun.
A genuine aphorism IL truth done up
in small package.
A vishus old man IL n terrible sight,
dispised on earth and hated in heaven.
The avarishus man IL like the grave;
he takes all that he can lay his hands
on, and gives nothing back.
Bashfulness IL either the effck ov ig-
norance or modesty-if it IL ignorance,
edukashun changes 1t into impertinence
If it IL modesty, it will king tew
man az long az he haz one single yirtew
left.
Marrying for buty is poor spekula-
shun, for emmy man who sees yure wife
haz got just about NJ much in her az
you hav.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19

The fish in Oneida Lake, n. Y, are
dying by thousands from the bite of
little white bug which attacks them
under the scales.
American ladies in Paris are purchas-
ing all manner of pretty things in which
TO shine resplendent next winter on
Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19

Nathan house on 9TH Avenue in New
York, having stood vacant since the
murder, is now offered for sale at $780,
900.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-09-19

Nos. and daily except Sunday; Nos. and
s daily except Saturday.
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.
Church DirectOrv.
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Dentists.
T. /. PIERCE,

PRACTICAL & OPERATIVE DENTIST, UP.
Stairs opposite the Book Store. All work ex.
ecuted in the best manner, and warranted
to give satisfaction. Itf
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Deaths and Marriages gratis.
Local Notices, first insertion, 1e cents per
line: subseouent insertions cents per line.
Special Notices and Foreign Advertisements
Is per cent. additional.
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W. NJ. ROSS, M. D.,
DIR. S. WILSON,
], G. BIGHAM. NJ n

PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, ,MILLERsBURG.
Ohio Office and Residence, at South part Of
Washington Street. Itf
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Attorneys,
A. ]. BELL
J. NJ. ROBINSON,

j. M. ROBINSON,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
MILLERSBURG, o. Office over Mayer,.
store, opposite the Court House. a6tf
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Fhy0iC1an0.
w, C. STOUT. M. d.

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SUCCESSOR OF E. BARNES, NJ. D., ECLEC-
County, Ohio. Special attention given to
Chronic and Female Diseases. Consultation
free. Office hours from 9 A. NJ. to p NJ, on
Tuesdays and Saturdays. a8ms.
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Terms Of Advertising.

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Pittsburg, Fl. Wayne & Chicago R. r.
TRAINS GOING EAST.
c., r. I. & p. Railway.

No. !, Daily except Monday; Nos. 5, Z, an
2, Daily except Sunday; Nos. and 6. Daily
No. 4, Daily except Saturday and Sunday.
4. z. MYERS, Gen. Text AQent.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-11
.State News,

A colored man named Joe McFadden was
murdered in Shelbyville on the 9Th inst.
The Cincinnati Commercial Of the 9TH says
''The friends and relatives of Captain Little de-
termined to their entire satisfaction that the re-
mains in the salt barrel were not those of Capt.
Little.
Julia Hoffman was lodged in the penitentiary
last Saturday.
The Bedford Bulletin is agitating the ques-
ton whether it would not be a proper to erect
handsome monument over the remeinS OF the
first Governor of Tennessee, John Sewer, who
was buried on the banks of the Tallapoosa river
at then AMI Indian village.
Tomatoes have appeared in the Nashville
market
The steward of the Maxwell House was pre-
sented with cane by the walters last Satur-
day.
A colored man at Pulaski has forty-nine liv-
ing children.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-11
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE.

The following gentlemen compose the
National Republican Committee, appoint
ed at the Philadelphia Convention:
Alabama, George E Spencer; Arkansas,
Powell Clayton; California, q G. GOrham
Connecticut, Marshall Jewell; Florida, w
II Gleason; Georgia, q S flaming; Illi-
nois, J Y Scammon Indiana, 0 2 Morton;
Iowa. G NJ Dodge; Kansas, John A Mar
tin; Kentucky, William G. Goodloe; Lou
isiana, q Caussinall; Maine, William Is
Frye; Maryland, G G Fulton; Massachu-
setts, William Claflin; Michigan, William
A Howard; Minnesota, John l. Averill;
Mississippi, o G French; Missouri, r I
Van Horn; Nebraska, E Il Cunningham;
Nevada, James w Nye; New Hampshire,
w f Chandler; New Jersey, Alexander G
Cattell New York, Edwin d Morgan;
North Carolina, G Abott; Ohio, B r
Cowan; Oregon, James & Wilson; Penn
sylvania. William A Kemball, Rhode Is
land, William o Brayton; South Carolina,
Franklin Moses, Jr.; Tennessee, Horace
Maynard; Vermont, George Nichols; Nir-
ginia, H H Wells; West Virginia, Anson
Cross; Wisconsin, David Atwood; Arizo-
ma, John Titus; Colorado, Ed NJ McCook :;
Dakota, w H BeadIe; Montana, Lucius i
Church; New Mexico, J G Palen; Utah, A
= NOulu, w dSIlIH StOIJ II - <AhuACh' w y -
Oming, William T Jones.
The following are the officers of the
Committee
+ d Morgan, chairman VIM Z Chan
dler, secretary. Executive Committee
E ID Morgan, of New York; VIM Clafiin,
of Massachusetts; Marshall Jewell, of Con-
necticut; A G Cattell of New Jersey; Oil
yer Morton, of Indiana; VIM H Kemball,
OF Pennsylvania; } ! Scammon, of Chica-
co. B R Cowan, of Ohio; G NJ Dodge. of
Iowa; Geo Z Spencer, of Alabama: c Full
ton, of Maryland; Jno G Abbott of North
Carolina; Geo Gorham, of California; J 7
Averill, of Minnesota, and VIM A How
ard, of Michigan.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-11

der and of furnishing any contempt of his
authority, as when sitting in the court,
and no person shall be appointed under
this act as supervisor of election who is
not, at the time of this appointment, a
qualified voter of the county, parish, elec-
ton district or voting precinct for Whlch
he is appointed, and no person shall be
appoin ted deputy marshal under this act
or the act of which this is amendatory VINO
is not a qualified voter at the time OF OF his
appointment in the county, parish, dls-
tTict or precinct in which his duties are TO
be performed, and section thirteenth OF
the act of which this is an amendment
shall be construed to authorize and require
the Circuit Courts of the United States in
said section mentioned, to name and
appoint as soon as may be after the passage
of this act the county commissioners provid-
ed for in said section, in all cases in which
such appointments have not already been
made in conformity Herewith. And the
third section of the act to which this is an
amendment shall be taken and construed
to authorize each of the judges of the cir
cult courts of the United States to desig-
nate one or more Of the judges of the dis
trict courts within his circuit to discharge
the duties arising under this act, or the act
to which this is an amendment.
And the words "any person, - in section
four of the act of May 31st, 1870, shall be
held to include any officer or other person
having the powers or duties Of an official
under this act or the act to which
this is an amendment; provided, further,
that the supervisors herein provided for
shall have no power to make arrests, but
are authorized to be in the Immediate
presence of the officers holding the cleo
ton and they are hereby authorized to
witness all the proceedings, including the
of the votes and the making
of all the returns thereof, as provided
in the act to which this is an amendment,
and so much of said sum as herein apro-
priated as may be necessary for said sup
Elemental and amendatory provisions, is
hereby appropriated from and after this
act.
The last hour of the session was spent in |
getting through several miscellaneous
principally for the benefit of
clerks and employees.
The Senate amendments to House bill |
extending to Arkansas the advantages of |
the Agricultural College bill were concurr- |
ed in.
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Tho Strikes net FOrmidabIe-TOrnadO in
Ohio.

DnlOs
Cr Tor-rs June 10-PreparatiOn fol
tho oigbtpenth National Sangerfest, which
cnmmences here on Wednesday next, are
nearly com pleted. ...#
senator SchurZ and Governor Brown
will deliver speeches of welcome to the so.
cieties from abroad, attending the Sanger
fest. Franz Abt will be present.
Boston, June 10.-Delegates from the
various trade unions of this vicinity APP
pointed committee, preliminary to or
ganizing grand union.
New YORK, June 10.-ThC cigar ma
kers, wood carvers. German printers and
BARRIERS combined for a strike.
The day is clear and warm.
1t is said that three hundred women will
Join the strikers procession.
An immense crowd attended the bap-
tism, by immersion, of Miss Smiley, the
QuakercsS preacher, who will hereafter
preach as an evangelical minister.
At meeting Of piano forte manutac-
turers this morning, Steinway announced
that his factory was closed on Saturday
and would remain closed, rs the firm We're
determined to hold out against the strike.
A report was submitted showing that only
two firms. and those of minor importance.
had welded to the demands of the men.
\ committee was appointed to draft state
mcnt demonstrating to the strikers the i'm
possibility Of granting their demands.
The parade of wOrkmen to-day fell far
short of the expectations of many. Those
in the procession were malcOntents, whose
leaning towards Communism is very well
known, and large body of Communists
bearing red flags held prominent places in
the procession. The procession formed at
eleven o'clock and marched down BOwery,
hanked by police. Only about 1000 men
were in line Nothing noteworthy occur
red along the route of the procession.
Manytrades unions were aVerse to turning
out and were not represented in the de-
mOnStTatiOn.
\ dispatch from upper SanduSky, Ohio,
gives the particulars of terrible lorna
do at the village Of Quincy, Logan cOun-
ty and says two children were killed and
several persons wounded, some of whom
will die. Houses in the path Ofthe tornado
were leveled to the ground. The Methodist
andBaptist Churches were demolished and
large trees snapped off like pipe stems.
The tornado advanced through the town
of Degraft, where the terrible scene was re-
peated, and if possible the destruction of
property was greaterin several instances.
Children were caught up by the wind and
carried some distance in the air. The de- |
vastation was terrible and the people need |
relief badly.
1t is reported that two hundred indict- !
ments relatinh to whisky frauds were
drafted for the new United States Grand
Jury
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-06-11
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

fudge VIM. Yerger, of jackson, MISSISSIPPI,
is dead.
The Democrats and Liberal Republicans of
louisiana, have failed to agree upon ticket.
A terrible tornado passed over Bellcfontalne
Ohio Saturday night unrooting trees, unroofng
houses &c. Quincy, in the same State. was
nearly destroyed, and fifty persons injured. In
DeGraf, 10 or II buildings were blown down.
The Methodist Church was utterly destroyed.
A lady and two children were killed.
The Cabinet makers Of Philadelphia have
joined in the great strike.
y large meeting of worbingmen was held in
st. Louis on Sunday for forming an eight hour
league
A large number of the Democratic county
meetings in Alabama, have passed resolutions
favoring Greeley.
All England was excited yesterday over a
boat race The "Atlanters' came out twenty
lengths ahead, and all London rejoices