Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-04-24
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More snow in Iowa and Kans.
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W9iyis a tailorshop like barn
yard5 Because it generally has a
goose it. sra G
Ex Boss Tweed is in Chicago. Tie
Times of that city suggest that a
new Court House is shortly to be
built.
James Lick, of San Francisco, has
given the California College of Sci
ence $150.000 worth of land for
College buildings. A good Lick.
The Vanderbilt is to be the name
of the Methodist University soon to
be organized in Tennessee the fund
of $500, 900 donated by Commodore
Vanderbilt.
| A Postoffice has been established
at jamestown, Virginia, last week,
for the first time, although James
town was the first place permanent
Fly settled on this continent.
Ohio stands first in the list of
wheat producing States, with g.
992, ,157 bushels. Senca stand at
the head of the wheat column of
counties in the State. @
General Sherman's handsome and
modest daughter is in Rome crush
ing the Italian hearts by the score.
More than one ducal crown has been
laid at her feet, but not accepted.
Out of forty girls at a boarding
school none of them could tell how
long George Washington was presi
dent, but they knew to a cent the
cost of any kind of hustle in the
market.
Dutch Heinrichs, the bond theft,
is busy at the tombs, now -adays, ex-
ereising himself on the insanity
dodge. He has achieved such sue
cess now he can keep people awake
all night. z s..1
A foolish effort is being made
among some would-be fashionable
ladies to revive the blonde fashion.
Dyes are not used, but fine and in
furious powder known as "blonde
dust" is.
The estimated receipts from inter-
nal revenues for the current fiscal
year, were $74.OO0,OOO. The receipts
to April 1st had been $S3,OOO,OOO,
with three months of the year yet to
hear from.
The Legislature of Newfoundland
has assented to the provisions ofthe
Treaty of Washington affecting that
colony, which relate to the rights of
British and American fishermen
along the Atlantic coast.
The Potomac fisheries are more
important than generally appreciat-
ed. The annual catch is greater
than the Newfoundland, cod fisher
les. The fishing season for shad
and herring is not at its height.
Commodore Vanderbilt has recent
ly purchased the southwest corner
of Third avenue and Forty second
street, for 100000, where he in
tends to erect a large marble build
ing, to be known as the Grand Cen
tral Bank aEI
Governor Smith of Georgia has
issued invitations to the Governors
OF Western and Southern States to
meet him at Atlanta, on the. Goth of
May, to confer concerning the
scheme to connect the Tennessee
river with Savannah. -A
Mr.. Jay, our Minister at Vienna,
has taken the initiative step in a
movement for an international con-
gress to assemble at Vienna during
the time of exhibition, to devise gen
eral principles for an international
code upon the right of patentees.
The Boston Five Cents Savings
Bank has accounts open with 62,-
S42 depositors, and the amount stan
ding to their credit is $10,7S6,573
10. This illustrates the utility of
looking after the pennies and per-
mitting the pounds to take care of
themselves.
That's a pretty joke on the Eng
lish detective sent over in the for
gerry case, that his pocket should be
picked of watch and wallet They
say in France that the English de-
tectives are great bunglers, and
know as much about the fine art of
the profession as blacksmith does
about matchmaking.
The arrangement and supervision
of two very important departments
Of the Vienna Exposition, the Edu-
cational and the Commercial, have
been put in the hands Of citizens
Of the United States, who will also
assist in the exhibition of civil en-
gineering, public works, architec-
ture, and farm houses.
The Derrcik perpetrated cruel
joke on the thirsty ones of OIL City
on the first of April. That being
the day of the charter election, it
announced that by q special permit
from the Mayor, a certain drinking
shebang would be kept open The
thirsty ones rallied to the front on
ly to find that they bad been badly
sold. IH-t a9i.sH
Now that the Irish University
bill is out of the way there is said
to be every prospect Of long and
dull session of the British Parliment
1t is believed that the importance
of the University bill was overesti-
mated, as Mr.. Gladsone's populari-
ty or personal power does not seem
to have been lessoned by his recent
defeat. ...f...i -.......l
Lieutenant Governor Mueller was
mortified on examining the official
vote OF the election of Cuyahoga
county in the Herald, to find that
he was figured up as polling the
lightest vote of the successful candi-
dates on the Republican ticket,when
the fact is that he ran some 600
votes ahead of Mr.. Amos Townsend.
The man VINO sells the lease of
the corner of Broadway and Fulton
streets to the New York Ereaing
Post for $3.50, 600 was an oysterman,
working in New York bay seventeen
years ago. Getting a little money,