Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-05-02
Charles Francis Adams chance

Charles Francis Adams chance
for nomination at the Cincinnati
Convention is very slim.
The debate on the Tariff Bill was
commenced on Saturday and will
continue from day to day untilFriday
The Tribune asks "who is the
Presidents back door adviser"
Don't know, but we know who would
like to he.
Hiram Powers, the sculptor, has
lately intimated to his friends
purpose to visit his early home in
Vermont.
The completion of the fiftieth
year Of the professorship Of the
Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D., was
celebrated in Princeton,N. J. on the
oath inst.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va,
says the Liberal Republican move
ment is broken down. Nearly all
the leaders upon publication of their
names backed down.
A man in Connecticut builds car
riages made wholly of India rubber.
He is evidently practical philan-
thropist, determined to do his whole
duty towards easing the jolts of
life.
The latest advices from Spain in
dictate that the Carllsts are growing
stronger and bolder. The rallying
cry "Viva Charles Ill.," may yet
prove the death knell of Amadeus
reign.
Another explosion of fire damp
occurred at Pine Brook shaft, Friday
morning, resulting In burning five
miners, who are so badly injured
that they cannot possibly recover.
The situation of Spain becomes
serious. The Government has re-
solved to adopt the m ost rigorous
measures to suppress the insurrec-
ton. Nothing certainly is known
of the whereabouts of Carlos.
The ex-Queen of Spain, Donna
Isabella, has been defeated in the
French courts, in a suit brought by
some Paris jewellers to recover 16l,-
600 francs for trinkets she had
bought and refused to pay for.
The Terre Haute Mail is resp ms
ible lor the story that "an old lady,
living near Greencastle, aged seven
ty-two years, is the mother of a ten
days old baby" She promises,
however, not to do so any more.
Intelligence has been received
from Jackson, Michigan, that C. j.
Forepaugh was torn to pieces by an
enraged hon while in the cage put
ting them through their perform
ance on the 18th inst, at East Sag
inaw.
All the new spring dresses, says
a Washington correspondent, sent
from Paris, are made short enough
not to touch the ground. 1t will
therefore be as questionable as it
is filthy for a lady to make a street
sweeper or a dust cart of herself.
1t is now positively stated on the
best authority that Don Carlos left
Geneva in disguise on the night of
oath inst. Should he be captured
in Spain with arms in his hands, he
will be shot. He cannot have yet
reached the Spanish frontier.
Porte Crayon relates that when a
pupil of Professor Morse, and by
accident not able to pay his tuition
at the proper time, it came out that
Morse was so near starvation that
he acknowledged not to have eaten
for twenty-four hours.
A note from a gentleman who was
"snowed up" in Maine, states that
during the last storm so much snow
was blown through the keyhole of
the out side door of the house where
he was stopping that, it took two
men two days to shovel it out.
The President has stated that his
friends need give themselves no un
easiness with regard to the question
Of consequential damages, as the
administration had determined not
to abandon the position it has as
sumed, no matter what become of
the Treaty.
General Sherman when last heard
from was inspecting the Russian
Notifications. Should he tarry a
little while it is likely he will have
an opportunity of witnessing the
method of operating them. The
present enormous military prepara-
tions of the Empire mean some
thing.