Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-16
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A young lady at Humboldt, Kan
sas, has hair nine feet long.
Ohioans are denied the pleasure
of killing deer this month.
A st. Louis hotel burns corn for
fuel, and it is cheaper than coal.
The discovery of rich gold quartz
is announced at Silver Bay, Sitka.
Fisk's estate is said to be bank
rupt.
Olive Logan has money enough
to retire.
General Sheridan mourns the loss
of his favorite mule.
An exchange says that a brother
editor slipped down and broke his
scissors arm.
A citizen of Knoxville, Tenn, has
invented an improvement on the
Gatling gun, which shoots hundreds
of balls per minute from twenty bar =.
rels.
A Galveston Texas, editor screech
es for war - war to the knife
with Mexico, until a greaser is left
to breath the same air that he does.
His brother-in-law, who lives on the
border, had cow stolen-that's all.
One of the most accomplished
English art writers of the day states
that he has found the American peo
pie much more receptive of art ideas
than that of England, and that he
consequently has great hope for the
fine arts in America. #
A San Francisco paper has the
Celestial note: "Ah Sock was
snatched out of serenity yesterday
and yanked into prison on a charge
of sprinkling oil of vitrlol over a.
Chinese damsel, named Choy Choy,
who would not listen to his love
song" ...
The Prince of Wales has hit on a
funny way of showing respect to the
dead Napoleon. He requested the
postponement of all French plays
in London. If the King of Italy
were to die the Prince would prob
ably request temporary abstinence
from Bologna sausage.
The Senate of Virginia has agreed
to resolution inquiring into the
expediency or amending the code
so as to allow any person who has
been tried and fully acquitted of a
criminal charge by any court in the
State, a reasonable allowance in
money for the expense incurred by
him or her in their defense.
In an editorial on the horse dis
ease, the Congregationalist sugges-
ted that it might be well to sit at
the feet of a horse and learn nu-
manity. "Just so," says the Cali
fornia Neps Letter, sit down at the
hind feet of a mule, and if he don't
humiliate you, pull his tail and tickle
the inside of his leg with stable
forkn'
The alnmni of Princeton College,
resident in Washington, among
whom is Secretary of War Belknap,
are making preliminary arrange
ments for banquet and reception
to be given at Washington in the
course of a week or two, to which
distinguished Princeton alumni from
various parts of the country will be
invited.
In consequence of the late deep
SHOWS in Massachusetts, whole bevies
of quail are forced by hunger to
enter door and barnyards in search
of food. This is too great temp
tation to resist, and despite the sta
tutory provisions prohibiting the
killing of these toothsome birds,
between the 10Th day of December
and the 18th day of the ensuing Oc-
tober the markets are glutted with
unlawfully slaughtered quail.
The strike of coal miners in the
neighborhood of Springfield, ILL.,,
has ended in the complete discom-
future of the strikers. Alter several
weeks of idleness, they were COM
PEELED to go to work at the prices
paid before the strike. Their fami-
lies in many instances suffered, dur
ing the supension, for the necessar-
les of life, while all branches of bust.
ness in the vicinity were more or
less affected.
The census report shows that |
while most of the wealth of the coun-
try is centered in the line from Bos-
ton and Baltimore to Kansas and |
Wisconsin, the bulk of illiteracy is |
below that line. A line from Maine |
to Iowa, reaching south to New
York city and Middle Illinois, shows
advanced education in those re-
glons but in all regions where large |
numbers of colored persons are
found the exact opposite effect is
noticed.