Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-02-19
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Van pelt is making strong tenn
perance arguments.
Union county is getting ready for
Dio Lewis.
Alabama ceal is being shipped to
Cuba.
Green peas are in the San Jose
(Cal. market.
Corn is aellihg in Stanford, KY,
at So per barrel, delivered.
The number Of grape vines in So
noma county, CAL, is S,45O,0OO.
Salina, Kansas, it is estimated,
will receive 100000 bushels of
wheat during the coming season.
The yield Of hemp on Kaw River
bottoms, in Kansas, is said to aver
age one thousand pounds per acre.
A new town is being laid out two
miles south of Strasburg, in Tusca-
faWaS county.
The problem of Mahoning coun-
twill Garfield remain the coun-
ty seat, or will Youngstown sue
ceed?
Marietta has had $4,000 fire
and three hundred men were thrown
out of employment.
Hardly small town in the State
where the temperance people are not
mastering their forces.
Cardington is fighting hard for
the county seat. Her people think
there is no balm in Gilead.
The removal of the Richland coun-
ty infirmary to point nearer Mans
field is being agitated'
The farmers all over Kentucky
seem to be delighted with the pros
pect of an abundant wheat harvest.
In jackson County, Mo-, the
growing wheat is said to have been
damaged considerably by the varia-
be weather.
The aggregate coinage of the three
United Stated miLts during the past
fiscal year 32.523, $40 pieces, of the
value of $3S, ,6s9, 1888.
The Legislature of Maryland is
seeking to interfere with the sacred
rights of its citizens. A bill has
just been introduced to "prevent the
carrying of weapons while attending
places of divin; worship"
One of the most blatant rebel ed
ltors in Texas has been appointed
Superintendent of the Blind Asylum.
Very appropriate-a political blind
man to teach the physically blind.
The largest legation in Washing
ton is the Spanish, which consists
of eight members; the next is the
British, and the French legation
ranks third in point of numbers.
The Republicans of Texas are
considering a plan to divide the
State into two States-Eastern and
Western Texas, making Republi-
can and Democratic State.
A few days ago, as Tweed was sit
ting with his fellow convicts at din
ner, some of the ceiling of the room
suddenly fell. The Blackwelrs Is
land doctor looked up and jokingly
observed, "that must be some of
Garvey's plastering::" whereat Gar
vey's ring-partner smiled audibly.
An association has been formed
called the American Railway Litera-
ry Union, for the purpose OF banish-
ing improper literature from railroad
trains in this country.
A Connecticut inventor has re-
Gently perfected an apparatus for re-
cording, by means of electricity,
the music played upon an organ or
piano, so that brilliant improvisa
tions may be accurately copied and
afterwards played again from the
notes. The apparatus was recent
ly attached to the organ in the hall
in New Haven, and was successful
ly used. The mechanical means by
which the end desired is secured
are ingenious, but the principle up
on which the record of notes is made
is extremely simple. The occasion
al breaking and connecting of the
electrical current consequent upon
the toching of the several keys is
however rapidly the chang
es may be, to record the striking OF
each key or combination, and,
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