Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-02
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Durlng the SHOW SUOrm at NC"
York, Thursday, a large meteor was
seen at Hunters Point, Long Island.
Associate Judge Strickland, ,ofthe
United States Court of Utah, will
soon resign.
There were two hundred and
eighty-eight distilleries running in
Ohio the past year.
President Grant has made ar
for a thorough tour of
the South, Immediately after his
Inauguration next March. i
The Noble County Republican
says: A regular freak in corn grow
ing is shown in the cornfield
of Jacob Coen. A perfectly. formed
ear of corn has around it twenty
seven smaller ears, and all enclosed
in one husk.
Gen. Walker handed in his resig-
nation as Commissioner of Indian
Affairs Friday. His successor
will not be appointed before the re-
turn of the Secretary Of the Inter
ior.
The government is now called up
on to decide officially whether Coun-
ell Bluffs or Omaha shall be the ter
minus of the Union Pacific Rail
road. The chances are in favor of
the former place. ,.- 49,. --.r.
Spain has adopted a tolerably
sensible programme for the liberia
ton of the slaves of Porto Rico.
The government at large will pay
40 per cent. and the Colonial gov
eminent an equal amount, indemni-
ty, to the owners. 1s-' ..
1t is singular circumstance that
notwithstanding the second trial of
the Stokes case is but a repetition
of the former trial, the court-heuse
at New York is daily thronged by
auditors. Morbid curiosity, rather
than personal interest, is the mag
net. -... ..-.... - ..,4r
The Washington monument was
started in Philadelphia fifty years
ago, and is still to h.. raised. The
fund is trust for that purpose was
last year stated at $4,000. .U.i.
A burning mountain in Paxton
township, Ross county, Ohio, is the
sensational. topic now. The fire
is supposed to have originated
abont the first of October last, and
to have caught from parties burning
brush. The fire is in the interior O
the hill, which is thought TO be fill
ed with coal, petroleum and othel
inflammabfe substances. -.iy.
The fnrnaices of West Virgini.
are improving. The receipts of the
State Treasury for the year ending
October l, 1872, were $741, ,565, ,I6
and the disbursements for the same
period, 1886, ,SS1 80. The receipts
on the account of the general schoo
fund, have reached the sum of $237,
215, before. ls.
The porposal to establish
a government Department of In
dustry, having bureaus of agricul
ture, commerce and manufacture!
subordinate to it, received with ia
yor in many parts of the country
When a prominent American die
the first thing we resolve to do is t.
build him a monument, and the mex
thing-we don't. General Thomas
died in March, 1870. Subscriptions
for a monument were asked for land
we now learn that they have reach.
ed the sum of $4,570. -aa
The latest news from prominent
Southren rebels is that JEFF. Davi
is in Memphis, Joe johnson in Sa
vannah, ,Beauregsrd in New Orleans
and Mosby is to be married.
The thrice burnt-out Mr.. Barnun
is certainly unfortunate above show
men. But there is this singula
and consolatory circumstance about
his misfortunes: that not one of tn
three disasters from which he ha!
suffered has occurred during a per
formance, s....
Another railroad disaster caused
by broken rail, this time in Ken
tucky, and probably no lives lost
though several persons were injur
ed. The question whether cold al
tects railroad iron is receiving con
vincing answers in the affirmative
The Board of Education at Pater
son, N. j., has resolved that coloret
children there should attend tht
public schools on the same privilege
as whites. .--sfo. .-..
The Commission to inquire int,
the depredations of Mexicans OF
the Texas frontier expect to leay,
Washington on the 7th of Januar,
and resume their labors. Meade
one of the Commissioners, has re
signed. u ..i a,r.s.t
Another serious fire, and almos
another "horror" in New York
Fortunately no lives were lost, al
though the materials for "holo
caust" were all at hand.
The rain storm has been heav,
throughout the western coast. Th'
San Joaquin is threatening to over
flow. Several bridges on the Lub.
river are swept away, and five i'm
mense land-slides have occurred il
Oregon on the line of the Northern
Pacific railroad. Two hundred mel
will have to be employed for tive
weeks to put the track in ordel
again. Much damage was done Oh
the Columbia by breaking boom
and floating logs.
Americans in Russia-SequeI::to the Dia-
mond Robbery.
| The American diamond thieves
Davis and Saunders, who at St. Peter
burg robbed the Russian Empress
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