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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
RESUMPTION OF SPECIE PAYMENT.
The Cleveland Herald, speaking

The Cleveland Herald, speaking
of the doings of Congress, says:
Senator Sherman has introduced,
from the Senate Finance Committee,
a bill for the resumption of specie
payments on. the first Of January
next. On and after that date legal
tenders are to be redeemed, on pre-
sentation at the Treasury in sums
of one thousand dollars or multi
Piles of that sum, either with gold
coin, or at the option of the Gov
ernment, with five per cent. gold
bonds running ten years. Mr.. Sher-
man advocated the bill in a long
speech. The proposition and the
argument in support of it will pro-
woke sharp discussion in the Senate
and out of it. Senator Sherman's s
views will undoubtedly receive sup
port from a considerable class, but
our own conviction that the best
way to resume specie payments is
to 'hasten slowly" in that direction,
has not been shaken by Mr.. Sher-
mans arguments. Nor do we think
the time of the year chosen for the
proposed resumption to be the best
Mid-winter brings more pressing fl
nancial demands than mid summer,
it being the heaviest tax-paying sea,
son and a general settling up time
Our objections to Senator Sherman 8
plan is therefore two-fold; it pro
poses the wrong year, and the wrong
time of the year.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
THE LATEST DODGE.

1t is said that the latest dodge of
the Petroleumites, who have signally
failed to organize monopoly combl-
nations that would stick, is to set
fire to storehouses containing large
quantities of the product. In this
way one handsome lot of about SIX
thousand barrels was put on the
market recently. Old Dame Nature
however, resents all these interfer-
ences with her productive functions,
and the more the dealers combine,
and monopolize, and burn, the more
of the oleaglnous wealth she pours
out. The production of crude oil
is to-day greater than at any time
since the traffic in the article lost
its wildcat. speculative character.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
SINGULAR MORTALITY IN A FAMILY.

The Rev. DR.. Amasa Converse, ed
itor of the Louisville ( KY. and
Richmond (Va.) Christian Observer
and formerly of Philadelphia, died
at Louisville on the 9th of Decem-
Der last, after four days illness.
The intelligence of his death reach
ed a relative of his in Philadelphia,
on the 10th, and she communicated
it by letter to another relative, Gov
ernor Converse, Of Vermont, then
at Woodstock, in that State, on the
same day. The letter reached him
on the 18th, on which day his wife,
who was standing by his side, after
reading the letter, suddenly fell dead
on the floor, no previous indication
of disease having been given. The
Governors niece, Miss Luna E. Ed
son, who had lived for many years
in his house, was absent at the time,
being on a visit at Burlington, VT.
A telegraphic dispatch was sent to
the lady whom she was visiting, so
that the news might be broken to
her gently; but, although this was
done in the kindest manner, the
young lady was SO overcome by the
shock that she became unable to
swallow anything or to sleep. She
conld not start for Woodstock that
evening, as the last train had depar-
ted; but next morning the lady es.
corted Miss Edison by rail, to Wood.
stock, the latter taking a violent
chill on the road. Miss Edison, on
her arrival at her uncle's, was just
able to kiss the lifeless features oi
her aunt and retire to bed, where
she lay, gradually sinking, until the
9th of December, when she died
Her mother, sister to Mrs. Converse
and had long lived with her, worr
out with watching and grief, there
upon took to her bed. and died OF
the first of January. And thus Gov
ernor Converse, who is universally
beloved and respected, has been be
reaved of his entire family. He ha
no children. He was elected Gov
ernor of Vermont by Republican
majority Of $4,000.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23

Fifty thousand foreigners hunt
gold in Africa.
New York is agitated over an I'M
pending coal corner.
Baltimore sends out $S,00QOO0,
worth of oysters annually.
Scanned DEATH is what they call
coal oil in Brooklyn.
The Legislative embroglio IN Ala :
bama still continues.
Geo. Henriques, late Vice Presi-
dent of the New York Stock EX-
change, died on Sunday morning.
Prince Napoleon authorizes the
statement that he will abstain from
all intrigues either in his own be-
half or for Napoleon ~. When his
right as French citizen are recog-
nized he will adhere to the repub-
lie.
The epizootic has just reached
Cheyenne. 1t took long time to
get there but, Notwithstanding the
difficulties of the journey, seems to
have accomplished successfully, and
is now fairly settled down to bust
ness in that city.
Senator Mortoh's speech in Con
gress on one of the proposed changes
in our method of electing President
clearly exposed how useless ant
cumbrous, even dangerous,our pres
ent electoral system has become
Though leaving the selection O
remedial means to the Committee OF
Election, Mr.. Morton evidently pre-
fers that the Presidential vote shal
continue to be by the States.
The prospect OF another gigantic
strike in England, or,rather,in Vale
involving some 10000 colliers,is i'm
minent. 1t would be full of disast
er to the iron trade of Great Britain
and of terrible suffering to the work
ingmen. If long continued it will
afford the Eastern coal corner an ex
cellent opportunity to unload.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
SINGULAR PHENOMENA IN OHIo-lS
1T AV0LCAN0?

Three miles from Bainbridge,
Ross county, is located a hill OF
considerable altitude, known as
:Copperas Mountain" Out of the
mountain issues q constant stream
of smoke, while on its summit and
general surface the vegetation has
withered and died, until the whole
hill presents barren, sterile and
desolate aspect, blasted as if by a
whirlwind of fire. The ground on
the hill is so uncomfortably hot
that it is almost impossible for a
barefooted person to walk there.
1t is believed by persons who have
visited and inspected this lusus ma
turae, that the entire interior of the
hill is a mass of ignited combustible
matter, and that the fire is and has
been spreading, To account for this
strange phenomena is that on or
about the first day of October the
party to whom the land belongs was
burning brush on the hillside, and
the flames communicated to infam-
mable matter,probably crude oil, coal
or other combustible substances,
contained in the geological forma-
ton of the hill, and that the hill be-
ing full of such matter, the fire grad
ually gained headway until the in
terror has become mass of molten
metal. The quenching Of the fire
is of course, impossible from its sit
uation, and how long it will burn
and when, if ever, the fire will reach
point where it can be controlled
can only be conjectured. At pres
ent there is no danger to be appre
hended to property in the vicinity
but there is no telling what shape
the things may eventually take
and there are not wanting those
whose imaginative disposition leat
them to predict that this is but the
beginning of what may turn out t.
be a young Volcano CircterM'
Herald.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
Notice Teachers.

n1HE BOARD OF EXAMINERS of Holmes
County, o., will hold Examinations of
Teachers for the ensuing year, in Room No. Z,
of Union School Building, at Millersburg, on
SATURDAY.,
MARCH 1st, 18th and Goth;
APRIL 1ath and 96th;
MAY 10Th and 9th;
AUGUST 3oth;
SEPTEMBER 18th and 9th;
OCTOBER 18th and 25th;
NOVEMBER Ssh and ed;
wEINSBURG, September Goth;
NASHVILLE, October 4th;
NAPOLEON, October 18th.
In addition to the above, examinations will
be held in Weinsburg, September 9TH; Nash
vile. Sept. 21st; Napoleon, Oct. 18th.
Rsy. These Examinations will open at ~
O'Clock, \. NJ, and close at 8 O'Clock L. M The
class will not he open for admission OF appli-
cants after 10 o'clock. The Board has done
away with the practice of ante-dating certih-
Gates. No one is fully competent to engage n
school till after obtaining certificate from the
Board of School Examiners. 1t is required by
the terms of the school law, that every teacher
must he qualified to teach Orthrography, ,kead-
ing, Writing, Arithmetic, Geography and Eng
lish Grammar, and possesses an adequate
knowledge of Theory and Practice OF Teach
No attention will be given TO applicants for
private examinations. Testimonials OF goou
moral character, signed by at least TWO respon-
sible persons. will be required of each candl-
date. These testimonials must be placed in q
stamped envelope, unscaled, and addressed
with the name and post-oflice of the candidate
and presented on the day of examination, Ger
tilcates will he of four grades, to-wit: SIN
Months, Twelve Months, Eighteen Months,
twenty -four Months. Certificates of Six
Months being very low grade and trial certiil-
cate, may he issued second time to the same
applicant, if circumstances require. A Zee OF
81 cents is required of every candidate In ad-
vance of examination.
BY order of the Board,
LEWIS A. BEEBOUT, CLERK.
Jan. '12-s3tf.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23

There are some thinge worse to
bear in life than corns.
Vermont's maple-sugar pays her
better than fieeey wool.
The United States raised 259, ,4S0,
600, pounds of tobacco last year.
The first piano ever made IN the
United States was made at Philadel-
phia.
Nine acres ofFlori da swamp have
produced $4,000 in oranges this
season.
Tne Orleanlsts are again intrigu-
ing for the French throne. The ca
BILE however, also sends word ofcon-
fident predictions of the empire.
Another melancholy victim of to
bacco is reported. He lives near
Dayton, is eighty two years old, and
has just celebrated his fifty-third
wedding anniversary. He chews
vigorously and has never been sick n
day in his life.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
KING ALLEN,

The new King ad interim of the
Sandwich Islands is Maine Yankee,
Elisha II. Allen by name. He first
went to the islands as an America II
Consul. afterwards was elected Chief
Justice and presided with dignity
Who ever thought that a genuine
live Yankee would live to be King
of the Gamble islands? Wonders
will never cease. We congratulate
this scion of Uncle Samuel--kine
Allen I. all the way from Maine.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
VOL. VII. 1873.
OLD AND NEW
The Peoples Magazine.

The enlarged resources placed in the hands
of the OLD AND NEW, by the public and by
the proprietors, enable them to announce
volume of wider interest than they have ever
published.
Mrs. Greenough's Story, 'Pythonia.' and Mr..
Hale's Story, Ups and Downs will be con-
tinued and completed in this volume.
A series of Short Stories by Miss Meredith,
Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Whitney, Miss Iale, Mr. Per-
kins, Mr., Loring, and others, has been engag-
ed. Mr.. Martineau's Series will be continued
in papers on The Church and Its Exclusive
thority,' &c.
The series of articles on Political Science, by
gentlemen of recognized ability, will comprise
papers on Railroads. Servants or Masters; The
Ballot in England; Land; The Law of Mari
time Jurisdiction; The Indian Question; The
Suffrage of Women; Equal Taxation; Tariffs
and Protection; What the new Administration
must DO; Labor and Wages Question.
The subjects of critical interest in Natural
History and Philosophy will be Illustrated by
different gentlemen eminent in their lines OF
research. We shall soon have the pleasure OF
printing papers, among others. by Prof. Les
ley. Mr.. Dali, DIR. Kellogg, DIR. Gray and Pres
Ident Hill. The Examiner is not confined to
the review of the publications of Il few houses,
important issues from the French, German
and English press. Us well as our own.
The Record of Progress describes the sub
stantial advance which the world has made, in
whatever direction or in whatever region, with
special reference to improvements in domestic
life which may be attempted in America.
The magazine will be under the editorial
charge of Edward +. Hale, who will have wi
der assistance than heretofore in the manage
ment of its journal Department.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
EFFEcTso OF COLD WEATHER.

One of the effects of the severe
cold weather in the Northwest is to
freeze what is termed the "sink
watering places for cat
tle-and the consequence ls,farmers
are obliged to melt snow for their
horses and cattle. Any body who
has been raised in ''snowy" coun-
try, and has melted snow to get soft
water to wash with, can appreciate
the labor necessary to furnish that
kind of drink to stock upon wes-
tern farm.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
BOUNTY LANDS.
Bills Giving 100 Acres to all Soldiers or
the Late War.

The following Bounty Land Bill
has passed the House and is now
Before the Senate.
SECTION l. That every private
soldier, musician, and officer who
served in the army of the United
States during the late war for ninety
days, and was honorably discharg-
ed, including troops mustered into
the service of the United States by
virtue of the third section of an act
entitled "An act making appropria-
tions for the defenses of Washing
ton. and for other purposes" "approv-
ed February IL, 1862, and every sea-
man,marine, and officer,or other per-
son who served in the navy of the
United States or in the marine corps
during the late war for ninety days
and who was honorably discharged,
and the widow of any such soldier,
musician, seaman or officer, or II
there be no such widow his orphan
children under twenty-one years OF
age. shall be entitled to enter quan
tity of public lands, not mineral not
exceeding 16O acres, which shall be
composed of continuous tracts, ac-
cording to legal subdivisions, inclu-
ding alterate reserved sections oil
public lands along the line of any
railroad, or other public work, OIL
other land subject to entry under the
homestead laws of the United States
and receive a certificate of such en-
try without the payment of any
Government fees.
| SEC. 2. That such entry shall bt
made in the name of the person en-
titled as above to make the same il
person or by agent, under such reg
ulations as the Secretary of the In
terror shall prescribe, and the paten
for lands so entered shall be ISSUED
only to such soldier, musician, sea
man, or officer, or to his widow o.
orphan children, provided for in
the first section of this act, but NJ
sale of such land or any interest
therein, or the power Of attorney au
thorizlng such sales or other con
tract or agreement, in any wise af
feeting or concerning any such liant
made, executed,o or entered into prio
to the issuing of the patent there
for and the actual delivery of tn
, same to the person to whom issue'
shall be of any effect whatever, bu
shall be made null and void.
SEc.3. That the Secretary Of th
! Interior shall prescribe rules. an
regulations to carry the several pro
visions of this act into effect.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
OHIO IN 1872.
Extension Of City Limits-companies
incorporated Changes in the Laws
Needed

The annual report Of Hon. Isaac
r. Sherwood, Secretary of State,
contains much interesting and val
liable statistical tables. During the
year,'papers were filed legalizing the
annexation of territoryto GAINESVILLE,
Sandusky, Akron, Steubenville, Chill
licothe, and Cleveland. Territory
was also annexed to fourteen villa
ges. and thirteen new villages were
Incorporated. There has been a
large increase of business during the
year in the lire of corporate COM
panies. Charters have been issued
to 400 new companies with an ag
gregate capital stock of $lSS,2 ,2O9,,
$50. These charters are divided
among various industries, as fol-
lows: To incorporate manufactur-
ing companies 135, with a capital
stock of $17, ,554, 900, to incorporate
railroad companies 81, capital s69,-
400, 900; to incorporate mining COM
panies 81, capital, $23,SsO,OOO; to
incorporate building and loan asso-
Citations, 50, capital, SIS 1000;
amend certificates of building and
loan associations, 10; to incorporate
street railroad companies, IA, capi-
tai, 81 ,43O, 900; to incorporate turn
pike companies, 6, capital, $127, $50;
supplementary certificate to same, l;
to incorporate printing and publish
ing companies, II, capital, $4,000;
to incorporate insurance companies,
3, capital, 100000; miscellaneous
corporations, 55. Total capital in
volved in the above corporations
$13S. .2O6,S6 Seventy certificates
were filed of an increase of capital
stock in the sum of 1864, ,0S0, and
to reduce the stock in the sum ot
$I,62O,O00; which, added to the
above, would make the total capita
of companies incorporated in Ohio
for the past year the enormous sun
of SI42,450,96 Four hundred and
ffty-s certificates of all kinds were
filed during the year, which is an in
crease of seventy over last year.
The Secretary recommends com
plete revision of the laws relative tt
. Incorporated companies, and says az
! they stand at present they are loose
complex and mischievous. He als(
,, recommends that an amendment bt
/. made to the law for canvassing th'
vote for President and Vice Presi
dent; also for an appropriation TO
,, an additional clerk and an increas'
: of the salary Of the Secretary o
State.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
A STUPENDoUS FORCE.

The Secretary of State in his
highly interesting report, says, ''by
the accepted methods of calculation
there are twenty-three thousand mil
lions tons of available coal in Ohio"
Twenty- three thousand million tons.
Who can comprehend the stupend-
Gus force locked up in such
mountain of coal? Four tons of
coal in steam engine will evolve as
much mechanical power as an ordi-
nary man can exert in working eight
hours day for twenty years: or
one ton of coal has in 1t the power
of fifteen hundred men for one day.
Get out your states! Twenty-three
tn )usand million multiplied by fif-
ten hundred and how much have
you? Estimating the able bodied
men of the whole globe at two hun
dred and thirty millions, and the
force stored up in Ohio coal is equal
in producing artificial labor-power
to the manual labor of the whole
world for three hundred years. Ol
in still stronger light if such car
be. Estimating the able-bodied mel
of Ohio at seven hundred thousand
they would have to work one hun
dred and twenty-five thousand years
to evolve as much mechanical pow
er IS is locked up in the twenty
three thousand million tons of coal
of which we have been speaking
doctor Elder, in his able work OF
Questions of the Day." says, by
the aid of this "adjuvant," Europe
and America are doing annually
twice as much as the whole working
force of the world could do without
lit. Then again, by the Intervention
of machinery, this force is doubled
and trebled and multiplied, unit
the mind fails to grasp faint con
ception even, of the adjuvants hu
man ingenuity employ to enhanc'
its mastery of matter. But if tn
force stored up in the Ohio coal. i
SO nearly inconceivable, what shal
we say of velocityP Richard Garsed
of Frankford, Pa, manufactures II
every day, of ten hours, thirty-thre
, thousand miles of cotton thread
obtaining from seven tons of co;
the necessary power and velocity
Supposing it possible for such
quantity to be manufactured by han
| it would require the labor of seUent
} thousand Uomen to accomplish i
That is what few bushels do wit
spindles. See next what few tor
can do for wheels and aXles?
: 1865, trains on thirteen thousan
i two hundred and eighty nine mil'
of England's railroads, carried
number of passengers equal to OIL
= quarter the population OF the glol
two hundred and fifty millions
y yes, carried one hundred and for
millions tons weight of men an
u things, one hundred and thirty m
ii lions of miles-a distance equal
9 that from the earth to the sun al
= half way back again. In short,
there was only place for the whee
to run. we could find the power
.e keep up interplanetary intercours
q l-commercial and social-wlth t
.r whole solar system, for thousal
II years, and still have enough ''bla
: diamond to boil our.dinners wit
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
ACHIEVEMENT OF SCIENCE

The process of the TRANSMISSION OF
blood from the veins Of healthy
into those of a diseased person is
certainly remarkable achievement
of medical science, more especially
as it seems that the result is the
Improvement of the patient. There
have been reports Of several such
successful operations lately,but the
most marvellous one of all is that IN
which the blood of lamb was sub
stituted for that of a human being.
1t was performed by a learned pro-
fessor at Naples without the inter
vention of any mechanical force.
His patient was lady thirty years
of age, dying from anaemia, caused,
by frequent hemorrhage. The doc
tor determined to set aside the theo-
nv of injection, and to attempt the
TRANSMISSION direct from the carotid
artery ola young lamb, depending
upon the pulsations of the lmpelllng
force. The lambs carotid artery
was connected with a vein in the
arm of the patient by means OF a
gutta- -percha tube, provided at the
connecting extremities with small
glass tubes to fit the incisions made
respectively in vein and artery.
The blood of a lamb was. selected
because of, the minuteness OF Its
globules, which were expected to
penetrate into the delicate cappllla
nv veins, on which the disease oi
anaemia has a severe contracting
Influence. The record of the case
goes on to show its success, and de
scribes the minute details of the
operation, which was conducted Will
remarkable care and aforeGnouSnG
1t further says that the patient, i'm
medlately succeeding the operation
became very tranquil, fell into a re-
freshing sleep, and has since given
evidence of continuous improvement
The bold experimenter was Signor
Giuseppe Albini, Professor of Ply
siology in the University of Naples
We mention the case as being th'
most interesting of the kind, and as
, openings new field for physiologic
al experiments in the treatment o
| certain diseases.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
CURIOUS.

The landing of the valuable cargo
of the Edgar Stuart on the coast OF
Cuba, reported some days ago, is
confirmed by the officers of thai
steamer, who have arrived at Key
West. The Spanish Government
it may be remarked, has two small
detachments, numbering about two
hundred each, of soldiers on theil
way to the Island. The curiosity oi
this business is that we never heal
of any of these detachments sailing
for home. Strange, isn't it?
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
A Yale Co llepc student didn't

A Yale Co llege student didn't
want any office, but simply wanted
to see what the civil service eNami-
nation was like. He was satisfied
before he got through.
The last individual to pull a gun
toward im,through the bush, muz-
zlc foremost, was Edward Hide,near
San Antonio, Texas. Result as u.s.
ual-a hide full of shot.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1873-01-23
OHIO.

Ohio has held her position as
third State in the Union ever since
1910. when for the first time she got
ahead of the old lady Virginia her
mother-Ohio does not get as large
a share of the westward-bound pop
ulation as she will after time. 1t
is with emigrants as it with people
going into a street car-some will
drop down near the door, and some
never stop till they get to the other
end. 1t is only after the ends are
crowded that the middle begins fill
up closely.