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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-11
SATURDAY NIGHT.

Placing the little hats all in row,
Ready for church on the morrow, you know
Washing wee faces and little black fists
Getting them ready and dt to be kissed ~
Putting them into clean garments and white.
That Is what mothers are doing TO night
Spying out holes In the little worn hose,
Laying by shoes that are worn through the
toes, ~
Looking over garments so faded and thin,
Who but mother knows where 20 beginf.
Changing button to make Ii look right, :
That is what mothers are doing tonight.
Calling the little ones all around her chair,
Hearing them lisp forth their soft evening
prayer, f9-.f :
Telling them stories Of Jesus of old, 80
Who loved to gather the lambs to His fold;
Watching, they listen with dreamy delight,
That Is what mothers are deing tonight. T.oa
Creeping 50 softly to take last peep, II
After the little ones all are asleep, n tftt Z
AnxiouS TO KNOW IL the children are warm
Tucking the blanket round each little form;
Kissing each little face, rosy and bright,
That is what mothers are doing tonight.
kneeiiAg down gently beside the white bed,
LoH1y and meekly she bows down her head
Praying as only mother can pray,
: God guide and keep them from going astray
God help them always to strive Tor the best:
And after this tfuincil. God give them rest:
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-11
A Little Girl Frightened to
Death. zo-

One of the saddest deaths recorded
for some time has occurred at Kutztown
in the family of Mr.. Joshua Hinterleit-
ner. His daughter Emma, a healthy,
robust and fine looking girl of thirteen,
in company with several little cousins
of hers, had about week previous gone
in search of cherries. While climbinga
tree, "old Davy Hottenstein," greedy
and grasping old fellow, the terror of
the little boys ard girls in the town,
came running toward them, threatening
to run the little girls through with
pitehfork in his hands if they would
not depart, and using other very hard
language. This frightened the little
girls terribly, and they all ran away at
full speed. One of them had no shoes
on, and hence could not run as last as
the rest. Little Emma Hinterleitner
took the shoeless girl on her back, and
started off with, her, thus causing over
exertion and over-heating, which, to-
gethesr With the fright, brought on that
disease known as St. Vitus' dance. Her
sufferings were terrible and in deserio-
able, her screams being heard at a dis
tance of several squares. She eontinu-
ed to sink about a week, when she died-
She changed color and was quite ema- ma,
ciated after death, so much so -that ner
best acquaintanees could not recognize
her. The indignation of the citizens az
first ran very high against Hottenstein,
and he, together with woman named
Manderback, have since been held 10
answer at court for the offense, the for-
mer in $500, and the latter in s2Oo pali.
What makes matters worse is the fact
that the tree from which Hottenstein
chased the children does not belong 10
him. The affair has created great
deal of hard feeling against the onend-
ing party land will not. soon be forgotten
by the people of that section.-Heoas"g
pn Ea0Le
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-11
A Domestic Tragedy and its
H p Moral.

When a woman puts three mackerels
to soak over night, in dish-pan whose
sides are eight inches high and leaves it
on the stairway she has accomplished her
mission and should go hence. This was
what a Division street woman did, Fri
day night. Filled the pan at the pump
and then left it standing on the steps OF
the stoop, while she went into the next
house to see how many buttons would
be required to 60 down the front of a
redingote. And mighty important af-
fair that was to be sure. And there was
her husband tearing through the house
in search of banker rchief, and not find
ing it, of course. And then he rushed
out into the yard, wondering where on
earth that woman could be, and started
down the steps without seeing the dish
pan,or ever dreaming that anyone could
be so idiotic as to leave it there. Of
course he stepped ON it; or, at least that
is the uppOsition,as the neighbors were
brought out by the crash that followed,
was a Mortified man, and a high dish
pan and three very demoralized maker
ell shooting across the garden and
smashing down the shrubbery. And
he was a nice sight, was that unhappy
man, when he got on his feet. There
wasn't dry rag on him, and his hair
was full Of bits of maekerel, and one of
his shoulders was out of joint, and his
coat was split the whole length of the
back, and he appeared to be out of his
head. He was carried into the house by
some of the men and laid on d,while
others went after the doctor,and sixteen
women assembled in the front room and
talked in whispers about the inscrutable
ways of Providence, and what warn
ing this was TO people who never looked
where they were going.-Danbary
Nea1s. II $50 9h- I1 l-al, al5 if
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-11

"You've something to do with the
railroad, stranger; haven't your"
al reckon l have" said Israel Es-
mayne, indifferently. "I'm switch
man." EL HGg s-1
at don't take much of your time, 1
guess?"
''It's got to be looked after just the
same though" said the tall Westerner,
as he lifted the last monster log from
the cart he was unloading to the thrift
ty pile at the north end of his house.
"What time does the way train come
by?"
"At nine O'clock -.,
"Do You suppose could go to Mel
lenville and see the lumber dealers
there, and get back to the station again
by that time?"
Israel looked reflective at the other
shore of the river.
"Well, you might" said he; "but it
would be pretty tight squeeze"
"I'm good walker" said the strang-
er, and as he spoke he drew fiat pock-
et-flask from his pocket, uncorked it
with his teeth and drank copious
draught. Israel Esmayne watched him
with eager glittering eyes, like those of
some famished wild animal that scents
blood.
''Have a drink, friend? ?'' said the
stranger, proffering the flask. Israel
Esmayne shook his head, with set teeth
and livldly pale cheek. aa
81 never drank" said he hoarsely.
"You would, guess, if you could
get such stuff as this" said the man;
"soft as oil and strong as fire. Ny ia
ther imported it. There's not much
like it in the country. Taste, If you
don't believe me-"
Israel stood for a moment, hesitating,
Then he cast an eager glance to the
right and to the left, as if half-fearful
lest some one should see him, and
grasping at the bottle-drankl
The fevered blood, mounted to his
cheek; strange sparkle into his eyes.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-11
" . Jill
A HOLLOW MoCKERY.
A Detroiter Driven Into a Log
L 10 by an Enraged Bull. =

A Detroiter named Andrew Steadnan
who buys cattle, deals In hides and oc-
casionally makes dollar by buying and
selling produce, went out to buy span
of heavy horses which were wanted by
firm in the city. Upon reaching the
farmers house he found that the man
was working with neighbor mile
away To save the distance he cut
across lots, but was warned before he
started to look out for savage bovine
which had the run of ten acre field.
Thinking of how he was going to get
that span of horses for $50 less than
their value, Steadman kept plodding
across the field, which had strip of
bushes two or three rods wide running
half way across it. There were a few
stumps and logs, one small tree, but
nothing which prevented any one from
crossing the strip. The Detroiter was
about tehsrods fromthe bushes when he
heard IA distant thunder sound" and
looked around to see from which way
the shower was coming. About thirty
rods away he beheld the old bovine
coming for him, head down, back up
and eyes blazing. Steadman was salts
fled that he was the man who wanted to
be making the gravel fly, and he went
for the bushes. He thought the bull
would stop and run around the strip,
and was startled when the old fellow
dashed through them on his trail UTTER
ing deep 'boomn' every instant.
Steadman lodged this way and that, but
the bovine tore along after him, smash
ing bushes and leaping logs, and it was
getting to be red.hot affair when the
man spied the open end of a large hol-
low log. The bull was not more than
forty feet behind, and into the log he
went, finding an orifice about twenty
feet long, land large enough to be roomy.
The bovine had seen the movement and
stopped at the log and ripped of . BUSH
ell of bark at the first DASH; Then put
ting his horns under it he gave it a roll
and Steadman spun around like dried
pea in policeman's whistle. The log
was large, but old and tender, and every
time the bull hauled back and jumped
it he covered himself with glory and
clouds of bark and dust. Sometimes he
whirled one END, and then gave the CEN
ter heave, and then he knocked foot
off the other end. Steadman swore
shrieked and plead, his eyes full of bark
and his mouth stopped up, and every
act of his life passed before him like a
vision. "W-o-o-h! whoop" beloved
the bovine as he slammed away at the
Jog, and every moment Steadman ex-
pected to see the roof cave in on him.
He was in despair when he heard the
barking Of dogs and the shouts of men,
and after few minutes the farmers
succeeded in, releasing him, but it took
a good hour to get the kinks out OF his
back and'the rotten wood from his ears
and eyes.-Detroit Free Press. q,
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-11

A grandfather was holding Master
Tom youth of five on his knees, when
the youngster suddenly asked him why
his hair was white. son." says grand
papa, 1that's because I'm so old. Why
don't you know that was in the ark:''
SIN the ark! cries Tommy, "why,
you aren't Noah, are you, grandpapas"
"Oh, no, I'm not Noah"
'Ah, then YOU'RE Shem."
''No, not Shem, either"
"Oh, then suppose you're Japhet."
~No, you haven't guessed right; I'm
not Japhet." r'ir
swell, then, grandpapa,' said the
child driven to the extremity of his Bib
lical knowledge, "you muss be one OF
the beasts"
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-09-11
A Wicked Boy--An Astrono-
mer Dreadfully Sold. .'

They say that the chief astronomer
at the Washington Observatory was
dreadfully sold a few days ago. A
wicked boy, whose Sunday School ex-,
perience seems only to have made him
more depraved, caught a freely, and
stuck it, with the aid of some mucilage,
in the centre of the largest lens in the
telescope. That night, when the as
tronomer went to work, he perceived
blaze of light apparently in the heay--
ems, and what amazed him more was
that it would give a couple of spurts
and then die out, only to burst forth in
a second or two. q He examined itcare-
fully for few moments, and then be-
gan to do sums to discover where in the
Heavens that extraordinary. star was
placed. He thought he found the 10
cality and the next morning he tele-
graphed all over the universe that he
had discovered a new and remarkable
star of the third magnitude in Orion.
In q day or two AT the astronomers in
Europe and America were studying
Orion, and they gazed at it for hours
until they were mad, and then they be-
gan to telegraph to the man in Wash
ington to know what he meant. The
discoverer took another look and found
that the new star had moved about
eighteen billion miles in twenty-four
hours, and upon examining it closely
he was alarmed to perceive that it had
legs! When he went on the dome, the
next morning, to polish up his glass, he,
found the lightning bug. People down
at Alexandria, seven miles distant,
heard part of the swearing, and they
say he infused into 1t much whole-soul-
ed sincerity and vigorous energy. The
bills for telegraph dispatches amounted
to 81, 900, and now the astronomer wants
to find the boy. He wishes to consult
with him about something.-Mls Adeier
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ly at the air, and then fell unconscious.

slHUncle, he is coming to. oh, uncle,
knew that he was not dead ~
And the soft eyes of Dorothy Beers
were the first thing Israel Esnayne saw
as his soul. came out of the world Of
shadows and oblivion, with old Jona.
than leaning on his. cane just beyond.
''Tell me, Dotty,'' he gasped. "How
was it? The-the switches?"
ait was my girl that did it, said the
old man. @She come by, and she heard
the freight a whistlin', and she sees the
switches wasn't right, nor no signal,
nor nothin'. Something's happened,r =
says my girl. "Israel's been took i'll,
or dead" says she. And there lay the
key in the middle of the track, and she
catches it up, and she unlocks the
switehes--you showed her how to do it
yourself, Esmayne, one summer after
noon-and she hangs up the white Ian
tern. And there she stands, With her
heart a beaten fit. to choke her till the
freight gets off, And sheacalls to the
brakeman, '-Set these 'ere right for the
express, y says she. ''Quick. or there
may be hundred lives lost" "Where's
the switch-tender?' sGod only
known ssys my Dotty. And so she
comes back arter me. "Unele," she
says, alliwhite and tremblin' like, scome
with me.p EWhat9 for?s says 1. "To
look for Israel, says she. 81 don't sleep
this night says my Dotty, ''till we've
found him."
"God bless her!' cried out Esmayne,
in choked voice. ssGod be thanked
for ALI his mercies.''l lll nesi-1u|
'Was it a flt?" said the old man, Gu
riously. ''How did it come on?' ?'''srel
But Israel Esmayne spoke no word
on the subject, either then or ever. He
married Dorothy. Beers In the spring,
and he has sacrediy kept his VOWS. If
he lives to be hundred years old, he
will still keep 1t. And Dotty, though
she never knew it, had redeemed him.
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Three small diamonds was recently
found on the cleanup of the Spring
Valley and Cherokee mine, Butte Coun-
ty, Cal. -
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Phy01C1an9.
DIS. POMERENE & WIS

AND SURGEONS, MIbLERs=
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Next thing, up will go the Insurance.
rates again. .a"E n1 $3.50 ~A" f
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twestwsrdl [ Nu |

Mansfield passengers bound east by trains
Nos. and IL have no change Of cars to New
York. Connections at Rayenna with the Cleve-
land and Pittsburg road; at Meadville, Union
and CORY for the Oil Regions; at Corning for
Rochester; ard at Binghampton for Albany,
Sprlngfeld " Dorchester, Boston and all points
in New England
westward bound passengers by Train No. 1
nave no change to Cincinnati, and by Train No
nave choice Of sleeping coach, making con-
nections with the Louisville Short Line Rail-
road or Mail Steamers for points in tho South
and SOUTHWEST, Also with the Ohio & Missis-
sippi or Indianapolis & St.Louis lines for points
in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and the
For further information as to time. fare and
connections. apply to the local agent. asking
for tickets via. the ATLANTIC AID GREAT
WESTERN BROAD GAUGE ROUTE.
No 'stop-overn allowed upon local tickets.
Local passengers must purchase tickets to
their first stopping place, and may then repur-
chase from that point 10 destination. Z = &
w. B. SHATTUC.
t|ePl Passenger and Ticket Ag,t,
= .I--rsr- CINCINNATI: 20.
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County Officials
6E1zroh DireStorv.a

a
M. E. CHURCH,
q. HrGHEs, PASTOR, SERVICE ESEEf ,slash
fap4siI fPapm1PaayenM "a M Meeting Thursday evening
EyANG. LUTHERAN CHURCH :.
srpvnzs EVERY OTHER sABBATH, AT
I'M csraock A. NJ. Prayer Meeting every
Tnesdsy evening. Rev. M. u. foseisons'
Pastor.
m Up. CHURCH,
prv Nm GIBSON, PASTOR. HOURS FOB
Servise at 1fK O'Clock, 4. NJ Saonatn sSnooi
- tnsl: :o'clock, A. N. Prayer meeting inurs-
dsy eysnings atzh O'CLOCK
PRESBYTERLANcHuRCH -.
REV. As. MILHoLLANDsPAsTo MOkN1 o;
ing sefTice at-11 o'clock sabbath senool
ias. O'Clock Evening service % oeiock-a -,
Prayer meeting every Wednesday evening ~
TX O'Clock =
GERMANIdJTHERAN CHUkSh
SERVICES EVERY SABBATH AT 10 o'-
clock, k,iGM. Sunday School al v D. u. Nun
emachef. PASTOR
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VIC. STOUT. III. d
j. G. BIGHAM, NJ. D.,
Attorneys.

PHYSICIAN SURGEON, ,MILLERsBURG
Ohio. Office and Residence, at South part ol
-XashiRgten Street TT
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pittsburg, y. w.yns ) chicago R. B.

r. C. HURD, President.
G. A. JONES, Superintendent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24
MEMPHIS TENN SATURDAY EVENING. MAY a. 1873

ness by moral suasion goes on at a mar
velous rate. His work commenced in
behalf Of the men alone; but he has
now begun to save the many women who,
in a great city, also fall into the vice OF
intemperance. He recently brought to-
gether in place known as Newsome' 9
circus, about fifteen hundred women and
girls who gained their living by hawking
wares through the city. Never before
we're there so mary bare-headed women
brought together in the city, and for two
hours they were kept perfectly happy by
excellent music and n fund Of appropri-
ate amusement. After that he spoke to
them upon temperance. while they lis
tened to him with patience, aud seemed
10 be much impressed.
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they all escaped, being able to climb the
precipices, aud defended themselves
with pieces Of rock. Three females who
bit and scratched those who led them
were taken. but would not go with us; so
having killed them. we hayed them, aud
conveyed the skins TO Carthage for we
did not sail any further, as provisions
began to fail. This encounter indicates,
therefore, the southernmost point on the
west coast Of Africa reached by the Car.
thaginian navigator. The size and form
OF the creature thus beheld would sug-
gest TO Hanno and his crew as Profos-
sor Owen remarks, mo other idea Of
its nature than that Of kind Of human
being; but the climbing faculty, the
hairy body and the skinning of the dead
specimens, strongly suggest that they
were great apes The fact that apes, the
closest observed resemblance to the
negro, with human stature, and with
hairy bodies, still exist on the west coast
Of Africa, renders it thighly probable that
such were the creatures which Hanno
saw captured, and called Gorillas. -
Popular Natural History.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24
THE MAsON.McCARTY DUEL.
ATrue version of that Rencontre

A True Version of that RencOntre.
As everything relating to the gentle
men engaged in the late duel is OF inter
est we copy from the Lynchburg Virgin
ian the following account OF the Mason
McCarty duel of 1919, one party to which
was an uncle to Mr.. Page McCarty;
"In the first place, neither Mason nor
McCarty were in Congress at the time
of this occurrence-the latter never was
a member. Nor was McCarty, who sub
mitted the desperate proposition to jump
off the summit Of the capitol with his
adversary or to sit with him on keg oi
powder, which, when exploded, would
send them both into eternity, the chal
lenger. The facts are briefly these;
General Mason was the challenger, and
pursued Colonel McCarty until he con
sented to meet him. They were first
cousins, and the quarrel was purely po.
litical, Mason being Democrat and
McCarty of the then Opposition party.
The latter, though a man of reckless
courage, did not want to fight his
kinsmau, but when convinced that
nothing less than blood would appeast
the wrath of Mason, submitted such prop
ositions as would, if accepted, result
fatally to both, and spare him the pain
of shedding a kinsman's blood. These
propositions being spurned, McCarty
was at length induced to yield to the
wishes of Mason, and accepted the chal
lenge to meet him with hostile weapons
He chose muskets, and demanded that
the combatants should stand but twelve
feet apart, so that the muZzles of theil
weapons would almost meet. In such a
desperate encounter both parties ex
pected, of course, to fall. McCarty wa'
saved as by miracle, the ball from Ma
sons musket striking the muzzle of hi
gun, glaAcing along the barrel and tear
inc off portion of the stock, which lac
Grated his arm severely, but produced NJ
other injury. Mason fell dead.
at is due to Colonel McCarty to say
that though he survived many years he
never Wanted the fine quality OF hii
yalor. nor behaved otherwise than as
gentleman who was deeply afflicted will
the memory of an act that he tried 6y
every means that he thought honorable
TO avoid. He was maR OF imposing
appearance, and when we saw hln
many years after this occurrence, he wa'
neither a oae-armed drunkard nor
braggart. The facts relative to this mel
ancholy event we have often heard re
cited by those conversant T.th then!
and have read an account OF the duel ~
Sabine's Notes on Duels and Dueiilng,
although that account IS not accurate
AS this duel occurred on the 9Th Of Feb
ruary. 1919, it is hardly possible tha
'long-haired plantation persons With
heavy revolvers beneath their coat tall'
steod transfxed with admiration at thu
conduct of McCarty, for reyolyers wer'
not known in those days; they were in
vented long afterwards, and we are IN
dobted to Ney England Yankee, Col
Colt, for that discovery, ghich has SINCE
been the prolific cause OF 80 @peh un
necessary bloodshed."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-05-24
rovuec,icut nIueLaws.

A correspondent from Hartford, Conn:
sends the following to the New York
Weekly:
Two hundred years ago the following
way Of administering justice was com
mon in New England:
Josiah PlainsteWe, for stealing four
baskets Of corn from the Indians, 10 re-
turn them eight baskets again, and be
fined five pounds, and hereafter to be
called Josiah, not Mr.. as he used to be,
No man to cross ferry but with an
authorized ferryman.
No man shall run on the Sabbath, OF
walk in his garden, or elsewhere, ex-
cent FeTcrently, TO and from meeting.
No woman slall kiss her child on the
Sabbath, or on fasting day.
q No minister shall keep a school.
p 10 orc shall travel, cook yictuals,
make beds, swesp hogse, cut hair or
shave on Sabbath day.
mo one shall read common prayer,
leo1 Christmas or Saints day, make
minee pies, assace, play cards, or play
on any instrument Of Music, except the
drum, trumpet or jewsharp. o.,
mo enc shall bug OF sell lands with
out the permission of the seiectmep.
Every male shall have his hair cut
round according to a cap.