Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-04-04
For the REPUBLICAN.
COMMUNICATION.
CINCINNATI, OHIO,
March Both, ~.


0 and house cleaning times are rapidly
approaching, so, ere we plunge into the
If horrors of either evil, we will have an
: other chat with old friends.
Brightly beamed the March sunshine
!, yesterday upon the thousands who
> threaded the fashionable promenade OF
Fourth street, and entered the elegant
: store of Lewis q Livingston. 1t was
i their opening day, and the costumes OH
exhibition were of rare elegance and
, beauty of design
: To attempt description of them is
an undertaking beyond our abilities, as
the styles are so varied, the French
: names so unpronouncable, and the cut
! of the garment so indescribable. If you,
ladies, could but see all the miserable,
puckered up panniers, puffs, ruffies,
frills, tucks, folds and muddy, untrim-
med trails that our eyesight daily be-
holds, you would feel a sense of relief
) in gazing on, and wearing plain, and
proportionately short print dress, and
feel that you looked as neat and sweet
as pink.
This is the last day of Lent, and ere
this reaches you the Easter Eggs will
all be eaten. We, of moderate purses,
are rejoicing that this holiday will so.
soon be past, as then fhe great COM
modify OF the day, eggs, will be so re-
duced in price that we can all revel in
the luxury of eggs with ham for break
fast. IN G|-I s.EHGEH TE1i /
The Presidential question is agitating
the minds of the people here. By peo-
pie refer to men. OF course we of the
feminine persuasion are, as the darkey
says, '.Of no count in dis mattah." So
far as my capacity in judging OF ment-
al merit goes, l would cast a vote i'm IA
tvor of Miss Anna f. Dickinson, who |
delivered an ahle lecture in this city |
last night, to q large and intelligent
audience, on "Working Men and DEM
agogues," as being far better qualified
to fill the Presidential seat worthily |
than some whom | hear named as |
Grants successor.
An unusual quota of horrors has
been ehronicled here within the last two
weeks. Murder, accidental shooting
with loss of life, poisoning, &c.
\ negro living near here beat his
wite's brains out with club. A man
accidentally shetland killed Willie Rosa
the celebrated trapeze performer, at the
Metropolitan Hotel. Two gentlemen
purchased Seidlitz powders at drug
store, which it seems contained poison,
as one of the young men died in few
hours after taking Il powder. The other
young man was very sick, but in con-
sequence Of having spilled part of his
powder in mixing, he escaped death.
A shocking catastrophe occurred in
the City last week. About half past
two O'Clock on Monday afternoon the
steam apparatus of Woods & Connahan's
Soap and Candle Factory on Central
Avenue exploded, resulting in the death
of four persons and the mutilation of
another. As is usual in such occur
rences, eonjectures are rife as to the
cause OF the explosion. Some attribute
it to the carelessness of the Engineer
others, to defective boilers. The pre-
vailing feeling is that carelessness was
the primary cause of the disaster. Di-
rectly back. of one of the boilers were
three men engaged in conversation
when the explosion occurred. Two of
them it struck. One, the engineer, was !
thrown back half way across the yard
on a heap of Goals. He was horribly
mangled and instantly killed. The !
other man was dashed back through
shed, and against stone wall when !
his body rebounded to the ground, an
unrecognized mass of black, bloody,
guivering flesh. His limbs were all bro
ken in pieces, parts Of his skull were
found in several places, and clots of
blood and brains were scattered around. {
The other boiler, or part of it mean
while sped onward In its course of death. !
1t was torn in two by the explosion and !
one piece twenty-five feet long and
weighing nearly three thousand pounds,
bounded up in the air, and passing over ]
the roofs of houses to the amazing dis
tance of five squares, or nearly 1000 feet,
fell with mighty crash OH Baymiller
street, tearing up powders and scat
tering them in all directions. 1t broke
in the fall, and the largest part re-
bounded from the street and fell crash
ing through an iron fence into door, {
yard where three little girls were skip q
ping rope. 1t struck and killed two
of them instantly, and mangling the /
other beyond all hopes of recovery.
was there few minutes after the oc- 6
currence, as, l live near by, and such
scene trust never to witnessagain. The
hot boiler, crushing beneath its tre- !
mendous weight two beautiful little
girls, the mangled, bleeding form of /
another who realized her sufferings, the
screams of the agonized mothers, the
tears Of sympathizers, and the almost
snperhuman efforts of strong men, who,
with scantling as levers, were endeav-
oring to raise the mass of hot iron off
the two dead bodies which were flatten- :
ed beneath, was a sight never to be for /
gotten.
The names of the little girls were '
Cora Kohl, Alice Thornton and Emma 1
FOrbus. Cora and Alice were killed, 9
Emma still survives, but with the loss |
of both her hands, a dislocated shoulder 1
and n fractured skull. My space is !
filled so Au reroir. |
< ,enettgg MARY MAC. 3