Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1872-10-31
CAMPAIGN NOTES.

CAMPAIGN NOTES.
A Louisville paper remarks that "it is
difficult to see how the election Of Mr..
Greeley can be prevented" and calls
this keeping up courage.
1t is estimated that the German vote
in New York city is about $4,000, and
of these full 1000 are supposed to be
for Grant.
General Banks has seen great trouble.
He was failure as a soldier, he was a
terrible failure as cotton speculator,
he lost his grip on the Republicans of
his district, and now he supports Gree
ley. How certain man is to find the
bottom when he commences to the
down-hill path.
Schurz is talking man; Grant is
silent one. Schurz lost battles; Grant
won them. Yet there are skeptics who
still doubt that actions speak louder
than words.
Greeley said in February, 1861, ''1f
the slave states, the cotton states, or the
Gulf states only, choose to form an in
dependent nation, they have clear and
moral right to do so." II he, instead Of
Mr.. Lincoln, had Deen in the Presiden-
tial chair, would not the Southern Con-
federacy have become an accomplished
fact?
On the night of the 9Th inst. a mobOf
Democrats and Greeleyites destroyed
the press and type of the Straight Out
Republican, at Lake Providence, La.
RECONCILIATION" is their motto.
An unexpected turn has been given
to affairs i'm the Stokes case by the dep
osition of new witness. This depO-
nent says that he saw pistol in Fisk's
hands at the time of the killing, and
that two shots were fired Simultaneous
Iy. This evidence, it is explained, has
been withheld up to this time on ac-
count of the witness being deferred by
threats from Fisk's friends.
In 1870, Dan VOORHEES, had ], ,425 ma
jority for Congress, carrying six of the
nine counties i'm his District. In 1s72he
has been defeated by 642 majority, car
rying only two counties and those by
reduced majOrities. Daniel concludes
that selling out to Greeley does not pay.
Speaking of Ohio, the Enquirer says
'the majority on members of Congress
is the best national test" Well, then,
the Republicans have carried Indiana
by over 1000 majority. How do you
like the National test?"
Before he came Democratic candi-
date Mr.. Greeley wrote: ave have had
some experience of the Southern sol
dier in the regular service OF the army
and should be obliged to describe him
as person too avaricioas to resign and
too cowardly to fight; a person who
acts as spy in his own camp; who un-
locks the gates of his country's fortress
es to his country's foes, and then having
made all the mischief his little head can
plan or his weak hands execute, skulks
away and hides among his peers in
meanness."
r Mr.. Eaton, who is the acknowledged
leader of the Democratic party in Con-
necctiut, said at 4 Democratic meeting,
a few evenings before the October elec-
tion, that he would be frank with his
audience, and say to them that if the
States of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indi-
ana went for Grant, or two of them, Con-
necticut would go for Grant also. Mr..
Eaton never took much stock in the
Greeley movement, and he will now
probably back up his candid state
ment, and concede that Greeley has no
hope in that State.
The failure of the potato crop in Eu-
rope has brought out many curious ex-
plantations of the phenomenon, the prin-
cipal one being the great prevalence of
thunder storms. Hence it is argued
that electricity not only turns beer and
cream sour, but also rOtS potatoes. A
plausible explanation, however, is the
theory that the potato plant is injured
by the excessive soaking of the soil from
sudden thunder showers. In France,
the solution of bark, run off from tan
pits, has been used with success as .
manure for potatoes, and after failure
of several years, good crops have been
obtained by the employment of this
fertilizer.
The Pittsburg Commercial says: ''lt
is a fact of no little significance that
Gen. Hartranft carried his own county
against an opposition majority of about
500: that Buchylew ran behind his tick
ct in his county: while Lancaster, the
home of Billingfelt, gave Hartraft 5000
majority; and Bellefonte, the home of
Curtin, gave Hartraft an increased mo-
jority.
If the election in Pennsylvania was
fraudulent, it was very singular that
the Republican gains and Democratic
losses should be so uniformly disturbed
.througout the State. That's not the
way wheh bogus voting is practieed.
Dana has been begging for the New
York Collectorship for eight years. He
asked Andy johnson for it, and was re-
fused. lie asked Grant for il, and was
refused. He had Horace Greeley's
promise for it, but Horace cannot iul-
fiji. Poor Dana. His sun is obscured.
A Vermont farmer was startled while
hoeingcorn recently by seeing a rhinoce-
ros coming towards him, ,plowing fur
row like n steam plow with his horn.
The farmer at first took it for potato
bug of the new style but the arrival of
party of showmen in search Of the in
sect explained things.
An Irishman and negro who were
suffocated in well in woodford county
Ky., have met with misfortune as
peculiar rs 1t is distressing. They were
both supposed to be recovering ana
were going about attending to their
usual business, whef suddenly anu un-
accountably both became deaf anu
dumb, At the last accounts they could
neither hear nor speak.
Dog collars of black velvet, that is,an
inch wide band with a locket in front
and tide in a bow behind, are worn
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