Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-05-01
NEWS ITEMS.
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| Smart things-mustard plasters.
hob law is rampant in some parts
of Spain. -ea.,5aoa s.sts,1
The condiment for late dinners
Ketch up. .n.is-
Popular diet among the Mormons
l-Spair-rib. ,'p{1 is sens4}-
The happy medium-A gentleman
between two ladies'. 1
Champaign county supports an
old fashioned log Jail.
Opinion is a medium between
knowledge and ignorance. 5000
If three miles make league, how
many make conference?
The most likely thing to become a
woman? I Why, little girl. l
President Grant spent last Satur-
day on his farm near St. Louis.
Why are women economical than
men? Because their seaist is small
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A couple living in Michigan not
yet thirty-one years old, have
grandchild aged nine months.
A deed twenty seven feet in length
has been filled in the office of the re-
corder of Berks Co., Penn.
A company for the propagation of
black bass has taken possession of a
pond in South Braintree, Mass.
A despotic Delaware judge fined a
lawyer one dollar for merely calling
him So bloated old rhinoceros."
Cincinnati has abont compl eted a
public library building nearly twice
as large as that of Boston.
An old lady describes a genius as
"a man what knows morn he can
find out and spills his vittles on his
clothes" l-i1l'fti'' 'a7ii-
To revenge himself on his wife,
Montreal man mutilated a costly
monument she had erected over her
first husband. 4.eF
Lightning struck telegraph pole
at Charles City, Iowa on March 18th
burned the instrument in the tele
graph office, and killed horse that
was hitched to the pole.
San Salvador has been DESTROYED
by earthquakes. Five hundred per
sons were killed and wounded and
twelve millions of dollars worth of
property destroyed.
The coal mine owners held a
meeting at Akron on Tuesday, and
voted to offer the miners ninety-five
cents from April first to October
first. and one dollar to the end of
the year. The meeting was harrno-
nious. - 1880
Washington Pa. had a general
Jail delivery. All the prisoners es-
caped.with the rest Henry Briceland
who has recently been tried and sen
senced for the murder OF James AL
lingham. Outside parties assisted in
the delivery. The prisoners have
not yet been re-captnred.
The largest catalogue of stars that
has ever been published in America
is now about to appear from the
United States Naval Observatory at
Washington. This publication has
been long expected by astronomers.
The long talked-of postal cards
will be issued on the 1st of Nav.
An opportunity will then be afford
ell to test their convenience, and the
question ofwhether they are \ nui-
sance or q blessing practically de
termined.
Miss Nellie Grant will be eight
cen years old on the 4th of July.
Out of courtesy to the Democrats,
she ought not to have been born on
that day, but such being the fact
the best thing they can do is not
to celebrate it. ...~. ss.... M
A project is on foot for meeting
of Western and Southern Congress
men at St.Louis on Monday, the 2lst
to consider questions of general and
special interest TO the Mississippi
valley. 1t is thought probable that
one hundred and fifty Congressman
will attend. "a Jao3 aHT
A veteran soldier, ninety-four
years old, who has made his home
at the National Soldiers, home,
near Dayton, for several years, was
on Friday, at his own request, gran
ted leave or absence to return to
his home in Detroit. Michigan,
where he says he wants to 90 to
die. anl q - '
The approaching l7th of June viii
be, according to Marquett's Journal,
the two hundredth anniversary of
the discovery of the Mississippi;
and in St.Louis and elsewhere ON the
line of that historic river, it is pro
posed to commemorate the event in
some suitable manner.
A GAINESVILLE special says: Rebecca
Chapman, the wife of Samuel Chap
man, one of the most distinguished
members of the Muskingum bar, this
day fled her petitions against f.
Merkle and twelve other saloon
laying her damages at $780,
900, Col. W. A. Taylor and Col. n.
A. Guile have been engaged for the
defense. Judge N. L. Granger and
Col. Munson represent the prosecu
ton. The case-is exciting great
deal of curiosity.
An indication of the enormous
growth ofrailroad traffic is found IN
the fact that at present there is ac-
tually ''car famine" the leading
roads finding it impossible TO get
theii orders for freight cars filed at
the oyererowded factories. The Buff
falo Courier says theLakeShore and
Michigan Southern have given con
tracts for three thousand additionst
cars while the New York Central Is
anxiously awaiting y reinforcement
Of fifteen hundred. The Buffalo. New
York and Philadelphia Road al,
SO wants-three hundred in addition
to its present stock, and will need
still more before the season ends.
A Green Bay Mich clerk who
had mind for logic applied it to