Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-07-30
NEWS ITEMS.

NEWS ITEMS.
Saratoga water made Yale sick.
Can't somebody get some marrow
out of that Bowen?
The vegetable that young ladies
love is, tO-mate-oh.
The grasshoppers would make
good Chicago soup.
Mr.. Hale's sickness will not pre-
vent his return to Congress.
Morrissey gives splendid dinners
at Saratoga-game for dessert.
The N. Y. Nail thinks balloons
are cheap-made for ascent.
The government is reducing its
laboring force all over the country.
The Elmira horse cars wait for
the lady passengers to make calls.
In Daviess county, Indiana, no
rain of any account has fallen for
one hundred days. -st'
About twenty more 81, 800 clerks
are to be discharged from the Treas
ury on the first of next month.
A man in Kentucky named Slaugh-
ter made another man the victim of
a cLarade on his name.
Newspaper excitements are now
comparatively scarce, and the way Of
the miscellaneous sensation hunter
is hard.
fhe price current for girls for
wives in Armenian villages is quot
ed at $40 and $50. according to age
and quality. 800 -i. aAt
II William Allen or his son-in-law
does not "rise up" soon, it will be
taken for granted that they mean to
let Ohio go by default.
The Comptroller of Currency has
authorized the organization of the
First National Bank of Kasson,
MINI, with a capitIl of 100000.
1t is reported that John Jay, Min
lister to Austria, and at present re-
siding in Vienna, will resign before
long, because his family want him
to. f4 s.,- .Firfl
Arc the Southern people smitten
with madness? The ferocious man
ner in which they fight against the
inevitable, is unaccountable on any
other hypothesis. Jaia @fff.
The new Steamboat law imposes a
fine offive hundred dollars upon ev
cry steamboat owner who neglects
to have the regulations hung up in
his boat when running.
The more that is testified concern
ing the Scandal, the more the trne
state of affairs seems as if viewed
through the wrong end Of an opera
glass. 9t
1t is expected that a Cabinet meet
ing will be held to-day, with *lew
of considering the appointment of
q successor to- Marshall Jewett as
Minister to St. Petersburg.
An encouraging sign of the time.
Throughout the country the watch
manufactury, which was greatly de-
pressed, ,manifests considerable signs
of revival. 80 y taa
'Baekwoods fable for enthusiastic
Democrats: 81 allow l had a right
smart chance of kotching that ba' ar,
if 1 hadn't been up a tree a-loOken
for him when he cum that way"
Names are things" but in Dem
ocratic estimation they are a mere
cloak to hide .men' g. -insincerity, as
witness the resolutions passed by
the Indiana Democracy, on We'd
nesday.
The foreign insurance companies
having agencies in Chicago never
will lose any more money in that eli
ty. Some are withdrawing altOgeth-
er and others have raised theirrates
fifty per cent. "Burnt children, No..
The Alabama Claims Commission
have organized and elected officers
Of court, and adjourned till October
1st. Clerks will remain at work get
ting things in readiness for the
Commission. 's'-- ..f.. a5k
The Controller of the Currency
reports nothing done towards redis-
'tributing the currency. The fifty
four millions have not been called
for and no draft will be made upon
the overplus in Eastern banks until
this amount is gone. 'l
Two of the Methodist bodies Of
Canada have agreed upon a basis of
union. The first general conference
of the unitetl body will meet in To-
ronto in September. The united
Church will number about one hun
dred thousand. '''
First a water slide in Nevada and
now we learn of a terrible land slide
in Spain. Rocks and earth fe.l so
suddenly upon village below that
few of the Inhabitants escaped, and
over two hundred dead bodies have
been dug out. '"''' "a g s.lyQ /
Twenty or thirty people have
been washed to death in Nevada.
A fearful mountain torrent moved
their houses and destroyed the town |
of Eureka. Fire. and water though |
personal enemies, seem united in
their war against men and cities.
is Ira Brown, who victimized so
many farmers in Medina county by
his patent pruning shears, visited
Medina last week and soon had oc-
casion to examine the interior Of
the county jail. Four warrants were
procured against him and he was
charged with procuring signatures
to notes under false pretenses.
Two hundred millions of dollars
worth of wheat and corn were ex-
ported from the United States dur
ing the twoiyears ending on the 30th
lay of June last. o-'a- U.u@ -
30 Admiral Sir William Wiseman,
Of the British Navy, died recently at