Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-08-07
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There's one that can always be
found and that's fault.
A very vivid Imagination always
accompanies 8 good memory.
We see by the obituaries that all
the exemplary people are dying.
Now is the time to put your blood
in order by drinking nasty herbs.
Talking more than i've minutes
with the opposite sex is Irritation.
A Chester man caught 40 shad
in the Delaware, one day last week.
Several towns in Iowa prohibit
the sale of newspapers on Sabbath
day. 70 ..s1g - 1.st-n9,
The State debt of Connecticut has
been reduced so per cent, in six
years. ,A~@if 10 isra 80
9,Artemus Ward used to say the
best of everything was good enough
for him.
ll9 Gloucester, Mass. has accepted q
city charter by vote Of 6S2 yeas to
353 nays.
Pennsylvania lawyers are petit
ioning for the abolition of the grand
Jury system.
Chicago has a clergyman named
Sullivan who objects to have his SER
mons reported.
The Rev Bishop Simpson is re-
ported to be suffering from conges-
tive malarial fever at Long Branch.
The Spanish insurgents are
marching on Madrid. Everything
seems to indicate that the days of
the Republic are numbered.
A bare-footed Indiana girl, who
walked ten miles to hire out to hoe
corn, was admired by q widower
worth $50, 900, and the two are one
now. Isn't there a lesson in thisG
When q Teller makes his arm
around his gal, und she vas liken
dot pooty veil, dhen dot vas shkrib-
ture, on akount it wus maken habi-
ness come on some waist blaces, amt
it? mE1-- e.I dai.a --tt
That was a horrible scene In
Memphis where colored woman,
fighting with another, used an in
FAINT scarcely a year old as weapon
and hurled it about until the poor
little thing was almost dead.
An old lady in Undertook village
who has been nearly blind for twen-
ty years, has lately recovered her
sight completely and can now thread
her needle or read her Bible as easi-
ly as she could when only thirty
years old.
To reduce a mans salary because
he gets married is not to treat him
very well; yet that was done'in the
case of Bishop Morris, of Ohio,who
being so, or thereabOuts,. took to
himself young wife. He used to
get $4,000; he now gets 81 300.
The New Hampshire Agricultur-
al Association offers upward of IS,
900 in premiums at its annual fair.
A silver service is to be given to
the hansomest baby exhibited under
one year of age, the judges being
the Governor, 5 ex Governors, and
two judges.
Those Texas papers are rapidly
working ]. themselves up to white
heat. The Galveston Nescs starts
at the report that General Eseobedo
is approaching the border, and says
that should athis malicious fool ven
ture to cross his ragamuffins into
territory, he might discover the diff
ference between a white man and
a lop cared Indian mongrel.
At farmers meeting in Kansas
the other day the following pream-
BILE and resolutions were adopted in
reference to the Congressional back
paw grab "Whereas, ID. p. Lowe,
our Congressman, supported the bill;
resolved, that we demand that he re-
sign his seat in Congress, and that
his place be filed by an honest man
instead of thief" af
A correspondent in q New York
paper suggests a national boarding
house in Washington for the accom-
mediation of members of Congress,
where they could draw rations the
same as soldiers. He says rhst by
this plan their salaries could be re-
iuced to about $500 per year, and,
millions saved to the
government.
Senator Thurman, comes out in
quite lengthy and able speech ad-
the abolition of the Elec-
toral College system, and that in
stead the President and Vice Presi-
dent be elected directly by the peo-
pie. He will find many to endorse
this suggested reform ;but the troub-
le of amending the Constitution may
be more than the next Congress will
care to encounter. ,t.
/ "Lamew sighed Mrs. Partington.
''Here have been suffering the big
amies of death for three mortal
weeks. Filst l was seized with 3
phrenology in the hamshire
of the brain, which was exceeded by
the stoppage of the left ventilator
of the heart. This gave me infam-
nation of the left borax, and now /
am sike with tina chloroform morbus
There is no blessin' like that of
health, particularly when you're i'll.
A fearful combat with a mons
trous reptile took place in Peoria
recently, ,according to the Rerier. of
that city, which says:
A rural gentleman, visiting a
friend in the third ward, found in
the back yard, after dusk, an i'm
mense snake lying in the grass. He
procured an axe, and when he had
chopped the reptile into about -
dozen pieces, he discovered it to be
\ garden hose, which had not been
properly hung up in the coal shed.
Young ladies now at school, who
expect to make their living by school
advised to study the