Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-03-27
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Strikes are said to be imminent in
New York.

Strikes are said to be imminent in
New York.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has again drawn upon the legal ten
der reserves, to meet liabilities, to
the amount of SO, 100000.
The Treasury Department has
commence to prepare for the pay
ment of bounties under the recent
law equalizipg and extending them.
1t is said that Foster took opium
on the morning of his execution and
would have died from its effects had
not the executioner fastened his
work.
A Silver City miner remarked, af-
ter attending prayer meeting few
week ago, that it "was the first time
he had heard the Word of God
handled for close on to forty year."
John Brown, of Berlin Center, is
the only inmate of the county Jail at
Youngstown. He languishes there
fifty days for violation of the State
liquor law.
1t is suggested that handsome
young girls be employed to take up
the collection at the churches. If
there is anything that will deprive a
man of his senses it is pretty girls.
Who shall say that the U. S. Sen
ate lacks humor? One of the commit
tees upon which Senator Bogy has
been placed is the Committee on
private land Claims!
Senator Pomeroy has intimated
that in the event of Caldwell's ex-
pulsion he would be elected to the
Senate, and the friends Caldwell state
that Pomeroy is using his influence
to that end.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has a COW
that hibernated for thirty-six days
beneath five feet of snow, and came
out all right with the exception Of
being frozen little about the hams
and somewhat thin in flesh.
The Medical Society of Masachu-
sets has appointed committee to
devise some scheme by which q re-
form in the matter of expert testi-
mony may be realized. Surely such
reform is everywhere greatly need
ed.
The remains of a man named Lew
is were found lying partly on the
bank and partly in the water of the
Mahoning river, near Youngstown.
The deceased was aboutthirty years
of age and resided at Harrisburg.
Pa.
There seems to be some difficulty
in the way Of getting the record of
the vote in the House of Represen-
tatives on the resolution condemn
ing the Congressional salary steal.
What's the matter? Were the yeas
ana nays not taken!
Mr.. John Livingstone, the broth
er of the African explorer, has met
with a heavy disaster, in the
destruction by fire of his business
establishment in Listowell, Canada,
recently. The same fire destroyed
a great part of the business section
of the town.
The German geographical socie
ties propose to send an expedition
to explore the western part of At
rica and supplement the discoveries
of DR.. Livingstone. A considera-
BILE sum of money has already been
raised to meet the expenses of the
undertaking.
A barber while cutting the hair
ofa rural customer, ran his scissors
against some brad substance, which
proved to be a milestone, the old
farmer said he chad missed that
milestone ever since haying time
last July, and had looked all over
ten acre field for it and now remem-
bered sticking it over his ear.
General Sherman, who will act as
Secretary of War during Belknap's
absence in Texas, believes the Mo-
doc troubles will be adjusted with
out further bloodshed. He discred
its all sensational reports concern
ing filllbustering movements on the
Rio Grande directed towards Mexi-
co.
We found majestic poem on our
desk this morning. The paper and
ink appeared to be above the aver
age. The author does not give his
name, but there is a young man pae-
ing the walk in front of this Office,
and occasionally looks up to the
window Danbury Nescs.
An Ohio man attached a medal to
an eagles neck and set him at liber
ty with much ceremony on WASH
ington's birthday. Two days later
the proud bird made descent to a
farmers sheep-pen, and his brief
career was ignominiously brought to
a close by a charge of buck-shot.
On the 1st of May the editors Of
Indiana will meet in convention at
indianapolis. Mr.. Henry Waiter
son, of the Louisville Courier Jour
nal, has been invited to deliver the
address and has modestly accepted.
Mr.. Watterson is born journalist,
and if the Indiana brethren will lis
ten carefully to what he says they
will learn something valuable.
This is the way that the editor of
the CourierJ oarnal pays off the Ken
lucky Legislature for its resolution
that he is not Emperor of Kentucky.
Having waited prtiently until the
Kentucky Legislature had wasted
three months uf its time in frivolity, |
we felt it our duty to stigmatize it,
elaborately and with proof,as an in
competent, ,lazy,and reckless body OF
political dead beats.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVICTION.
The Organic law of the State is
subject to modification every twen-
ty years. It has now been twenty
uoorc cipoa tho 1oet Ho~o%s&,k:z.1I