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Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
MASSACHUSETTS SENATOR.

The belief is gaining ground
that Dawes will be the next SEN
ator from Massachusetts,. Of the
numerous aspirants named there
is probably none better fitted to
occupy the place. He has long
and valuable experience as a leg
islatsr, possesses an intimate ac-
quaintance with national affairs,
and is conspicuously committed
to economy in the management
of the finances point of chief
importance now; and destined to
so continue, perhaps for years to
come.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
DIDN'T DO IT,

Notices were sent to some of
the Cincinnati clergymen Satur-
day that on Sunday morning
bands would be stationed outside
the church doors to interfere with
their irregular business of preach
ing" and thus give them an idea
of the saloon-keepers' feelings
during the visits Of the praying
bands. The churches were open
ed and the preachers preached
but the bands didn't come. They
thought better of it.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
President Grant and the Wine LIsI.

Olivia, the lively lady cores
pondent of the Philadelphi;
Press, tells the following O
President Grant:
You will remember that during hi.
last trip to the White Mountains the
patriots of the Profile House were NOV.
ed to give him a big dinner. They
feared the wine demonstration would
not be long and strong enough, and
therefore sent for several new brands
They made an imposing appearance
upon the bill of fare, which the waiter
offered to Grant with an engaging
flourish, and then awaited the result
with the serenely solemn aspect of his
class. The President read it attentive
ly and then laid it down. "What will
you rake?" inquired the Attendant
"You may bring me-" returned Grant,
ga plate of roast beef, with potatoes
and tomato sauce, and cup Of strong
cofiee." After this was disposed of the
guardian angel of the table approached,
and calling the Presidents attention to
the wines, said: "What can 1 bring
you!" ~ have touch of dyspepsia,
and will take glass of lemonade, a
little tart" was the second astounding
reply of his Excellency. Whether the
lemonade was "tart" enough for the
President or not, it was so start" that
the very sight of it puckered both
walters and dinners to such degree
that the word wine was not heard
again at that table. If you don't be-
lieve me ask Henry Ward Beecher, who
was at the table.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
SERVED HIM RIGHT.

Served him right. The Wash
ingten correspondent of a Demo
cratic paper in Michigan who re-
Gently published a false accusa-
ton against a Senator of the Uni
ted States, to the effect that he
had lately appeared in the Sen
ate Chamber in a beastly state of
iHtoxication, and was taken by a
fellow Senator to the room of
the Committee on Finance,where
he lay upon the sofa until the ef-
fects of his debauch had passed
away, has been expelled from
the Senate reporters gallery; nor
would it be at all amiss if some
half-a-dozen, more or less, of his
kidney, were hereafter debarred
the privileges of which, by their
wholesale ISLANDERS and false
hoods, they have proved them
selves unworthy.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
HOW HE YIELDED.
What Mr.. N. J. Stanley Thinks of the
Liquor Business.

What Mr.. M. ]. Stanley Thinks of th
Liquor Business.
On Thursday evening last, /:
Temperance Mass Meeting wa,
held at the Presbyterian Churcl
in this place, Col. M. J. Stanley
of Ashland, agent for the whole
sale liquor establishment O
James A. Clark & Co., of Louis
vile, KY, was present and being
called out took the platform and
made some remarks. Among
others he said:
suppose l am enc whom you NAV
call the head centre of the liquor traffic
l am wholesale liquor agent. AS such
l cannot say 1 am meeting with my
usual success. l don't think that rep.
resent quite an honorable cause, and
feel tonight much like the general who
said: "We meet the enemy, and zoe are
theirs" have concluded that the
cause you represent is more justifiable
than the cause which 1 represent. i
acknowledge defeat, and 1 wish you
success. l have money invested in the
liquor interest, and would like to get
it out.
l never spoke before in any meeting
in my life-not even to relate my expe-
rience.
1 pledge my word on the honor of a
gentlemen, 50 help me heaven, never to
take an order again for a barrel of
whisky in Ohio.
This speech and pledge was received
with much applausc.-Kenton Repubh-
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
ITEMS.
"House-hunting" is again in ord

"House-hunting' is again in order.
Bonner has sold the New York
Ledger for ten thousand dollars. 1t was
4 horse.
There are about two hundred pro-
tessional painters at New York.
An unprecedented influx of North
erners is reported from Florida.
The prospect for modification of the
Bankrupt law does not seem very good.
The temperance excitement is in
creasing daily at Fort Wayne.
The retail whisky trade of Gallipolis
has been virtually stopped.
Jupiter is now so near the moon, that
his satellites can be distinctly seen with
common house telescope.
The evil that men do lives after them.
Over three hundred young Nirginians
bear the name of Robert Z. Lee.
The Winter campaign of the thieving
fraternity appears to be progressing in
and about New York with uncommon
vigor.
Twenty-Five thousand 'rifle-cartrid-
ges" have been sent from Cincinnati to
the Indian frontier They were put up
in pint TASKS.
An English clergyman has been un-
frocked because of his tendency to the
humorous. This. however, need not
create any general alarm among our
own clergy.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention
on Saturday passed resolutions of res
pect to the memory of Edward Smith,
of Shelby, deceased, and followed his
body to the depot in procession.
The Chicago ministers are petitioning
that street cars may not be run on Sun
days. Their object is to give conduc-
tors and drivers leisure in which they
may be brought under religious infiu-
ence.
st. Louis papers say that rail freights
eastward are perfectly. demoralized ;
any figure within reason will now be
accepted for through freight in round
lots. As a consequence, wheat and corn
shippers are improving the time to push
| their stun forward.
The following curious advertisement
recently appeared in an English relig-
ious journal: "Wanted, secondhand
set of Commandments. Old fashioned
ones painted on wood will do"
The Catholic Church is taking anoth-
er tilt at Free Masonry. The Arch
bishop of Malines having nothing else
to occupy his time, has excommunica-
ted all the Masons in Belgium, and re-
minds his flock that six Popes have
pronounced the andthenG n,dranatho
against the order. The Independence
Beige complacently remarks that Free
Masonry has done pretty well, notwith>
standing.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCES,

An extraordinary circumstance
in the history of this country oc.
ours on the death of MI. Fillmore.
Never before since the admins
tration of Jefferson has it happen
ed that only one person was alive
except the incumbent, who had
filed the Presidential office. An,
drew johnson is now the only ex
President living; and even he
was not elected to that office, but
came to it as Vice President on
the assassination of Mr.. Lincoln.
While the younger Adams was
President the elder Adams, JEFF
ferson, Madison and Monroe were
living. When Buchanan was
elected Van Buren, Tyler, Pierce
and Fillmore were alive. When
Lincoln was inaugurated Van
Buren, Tyler, Pierce, Fillmore land
Buchanan were Irving. Within
the past thirty seven years seven
Presidents have been elected be-
sides Grant. 1t is an extraordi-
nary fact that not one of the sew
en- is now alive.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
CENTENNIAL AND mILLeNNIAL.

Here we are worrying over the
method of celebrating our centen-
nial a couple of years hence
whilst another ceontry is making
preparations for celebrating its
miEennial the present year. The
United States is but a great lub-
berly overgrown boy in his teens
in comparison with the sober old
gradfather warming his toes in
the boiling springs of the frozen
north. Iceland was nine hund-
red years old when the United
States was yet struggling in the
womb of time.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
GOLD MEDAL.

The gold medal that Congress
voted to Mr.. George F. Robinson,
who saved Secretary Stewards
life when the latter was attacked
by the assassin Payne, is now on
exhibition at Washington. 1t is
of solid gold, three inches in di
ameter and three-eights of an
inch in thickness. On one side
is a picture of the recipient, with
wreaths of laurel and oak entwin.
ed above his head, and the fol
lowing words around the edge
HTo George F. Robinson, award
ed by the Congress of tie United
States, March 1, 1871 for his hero
ic conduct on the 14th day O
April, 1865, in saving the life o.
the Hon. VIM. n. Seward, the
Secretary of State of the United
States" On the reverse side is
a representation of Mr.. Seward
lying on his sick couch, with Rob
inson and Payne in a struggle
beside it.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
WHAT SHALL THEY DO?

The English Tories are about
as much at loss to know what
to do with their recent elevation
to the control of affairs in Eng
land as are the Democratic re-
surrectionists in Ohio. They
have, for the first time since 1S46
secured sufficient majority to
really mark out a definite foreign
policy. The condition Of the
army and the finances does not
warrant a war policy, besides
there is no country upon which
it would be popular or safe to
make raid, and to follow out a
peace policy does not please
them, because that was adopted
by Mr.. Gladstone's adninistra-
ton. The Tories begin to think
that they have drawn q white
elephant in getting the govern
ment on their hands. s14 is 'ii
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
ILLINOIS ON DIVORCES.

The Illinois Legislature has
put an end to the practice of OBJ
tainlng divorces by secret pro
cess. Henceforward testimony
in each case will, under the new
statute, have to be taken in open
Court. Besides preventing fraud
this measure. will deter many
from seeking separation who
though willing to pour their trib.
ulations into the ear of a Com
missioner in his private office
would have scruples about testi
flying before an average Court
House audience.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
GOVERNMENT RETRENcHMENT

The erroneous statements made
by Mr.. Daves,relative to the ex-
penditures of the Government,
still do service in the Democratic
press, as against the administra-
ton of President Grant. Oh
course it is rather too much to
expect that they will reclify the
wrong they have perpetrated, but
it is but fair to state that not on.
ly did Mr.. Dawes admit his errol
but Mr.. Garfield fully explained
and illustrated it. He states that
the appropriations of the last fis-
cal year were $30,O00,0OO less
than those of 1866. What is still
more striking is his positive state
ment that there has been a regu-
lar uninterrupted decrease every
year. We have been told that
the expenditures were increasing
and the assertion has been so bold
and persistent that many have
believed it. But charge the de-
ficiencies to'the years to which
they belong-that is,to the years
in which the expenses were in
curred-and the result is a de-
crease, from year to year.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
The Drunkard's Will.

l, the undersigned, John Jones, be-
ginning to be enfeebled in body, and
fearing l may soon be palsied in mind,
and having entered on that course of
intemperance from which 1 have NOT
resolution to flee, do make and publish
this my last will and testament. Hay-
ing been made in the image of nv
Creator, capable of rational endowment.
OF imparting happiness to others, /
know my accountability; yet such is
my fondness for sensual qualification.
and my utter indisposition to resist
temptation, that give myself up en-
tirely to intemperance and its associate
vices, and make the following bequests:
My property 1 give to dissipation.
knowing it will soon fall into the hands
of those who furnish me with ardent
spirits. My reputation, already totter-
ing on sandy foundation, / give to
destruction. s'To my beloved wife.
who has cheered me thus far through
life, d! give shame, poverty, sorrow and
broken heart. To each of my children
l bequeath my example, and the inher-
itance of the shame of their fathers
character. Finally, 1 give my body to
disease, misery and early dissolution.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
Needs no Comment.

The Superintendent of the
New York State Inebriate Asy.
lum, says he has received many
letters from liquor sellers o.
which the following, of very re
cent date, is a specimen. II
needs no comment:
81 am poor young man, and some
five months ago l found 1 was killing
myself by using strong drink. I was
then, as am now, engaged in the liq-
uor business. / thought ought to &c
somewhere where could not get liq-
uor. Unbeknown to my family OF
friends 1 went to the asylum, and re-
mained two months, till my means
were exhausted. Finding cannot stay
in this business and keep from drink
ing, 1 am anxious to go back to the
asylum, stay while, and when 1 leave
there go into some other business. But
as said before, am poor, with wife
to take care of. But 1 do not want to
stay here and kill myself. Please let
me know the most favorable terms up-
on which you will admit me. 1 want
to get the taste and habit of rum out of
me. am IN no fit condition to write,
but Doctor, for Gods sake take pity on
me. l would willingly work OF do
anything for my board. Now, Doctor,
do as good as you can by me, and send
me an answer Immediately.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
Falling off in Revenue Receipts.

The internal revenue receipts
thus far this month show a consid
cradle falling off. The Commission
er of internal Revenue accounts for
the reduction by the placing on the
market of large quantities of liquor
bought up by spectators at the
time the Secretary Of the Treasury
recommended an increased tax up
On spirits. AS all doubts of this
tax being imposed have by this
time been removed, the spirits thus
far boarded by spectators are of
fered for sale, and the withdrawal
of spirits from bonded ware houses
on which tax is collected has ten
porarily ceased.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
Entry Of the Duke Of Edinburgh and Hi:
Bride to London.

LONDON, March 12.-The entry int
London of the Duke of Edinburgh ant
his bride, the Grand Duchess Marie
took place to-day. The display wa!
grand and imposing, and notwithstand
ing snow storm prevailed, the street.
were packed with immense crowds O
people to witness the pageant.
The procession started from the Pad.
dington station about noon, passing
through Oxford and Regent streets te
Buckingham Palace, where the roya
party were formerly received.
The whole route was gaily decorated
with bunting and a warm welcome ex.
tended by the people to her Royal
Highness.
The Queen accompanied the process
sion in state. The city will be splen-
didly Illuminated tonight. Ten thous-
and soldiers lined the route of process
sion.
The Grand Duchess Marie received a
perfect ovation from the people along
the whole line of the procession.
Her appearance along the route was
greeted with cheer after cheer, to
which she responded with slight bows.
She was dressed with purple velvet
cloak, trimmed with fur, and her
head adorned with beautiful white
bonnet.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
At WITS END.

eDistrict of Columbia invss-
tigation does not appear to be
panning out lucratvely for the
memorialists. There are already
indications that those who have
attacked the local government al
Washington, and, indirectly, the
administration, which is respon-
slble for the appointment of the
inculpated officers, are already at
their wits end to find anything
substantial to support the char
ges which have been SO long,and
are so deliberately made. a-ai
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
REDlsTRicTING.

The gerrymanderers at Colum-
bus are getting discouraged over
the redistricting business. The
White bill, has been agreed up
on by the Democratic caucus at
ter a vigorous application Of the
party lash, but it is pretty GER
tain that there will be a revsl,
when the bill comes to a vote
There has been such a painfu
lack Of anything like Leadership
on the part Of the Democrats il
both Houses at Columbus thil
winter, that those best informed
concede the sure defeat Of thu
measure.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
MORE TROUBLE IN THE BEER CAMP

Whilst the women are fighting
beer and other liquor traffic, there
is trouble in the beer camp
among its own defenders. In
Chicago the beer-drinkers, and
beer-sellers, and beer-brewers,
form three different interests,and
just now a triangular fight is go
ing ON. The brewers want more
money for their beer; the drink
ers want wore beer for their
money. The saloon-keepers op-
pose the brewers on the one hand
and the drinkers on the other
They say the brewers is swind.
ling them by putting less beer in
the barrels, and the drinker COM
plains that the saleon-keeper is
making his glasses smaller. 1t is
hard.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
FEMALE SUFFRAGE.

The Ohio Constitutional Con
vsntion has rejected a PROPOSE
ton to submit female suffrage te
a separate vote Of the people by
a large majority. Rhode Island
and Iowa are considering the
separate submission of a question
by their Legislatures, and the
prospects are that it will be sub
mitted to the popular vote of
those States, not however, with
much hope of its carrying, but to
get rid of the subject.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
FALLING OFF.

There is a marked falling of
in the German emigration to this
country. The number of emf
grants who landed at New Yorl
from the first of last January W
to the beginning of the present
month, was 2,067, against 5,14t
for the corresponding period o
last year, showing a decrease O
3,079. This notable falling off il
ascabed to two principal causes
TIE panic which swept over oul
country last fall, and brought de
rangement and depression of the
labor market in its train; and the
large advance of wages in Ger.
many, and thereby improved con
dition ofthe laboring class. While
the first cause is only a tempor.
ary one, which wiz disappear
with the revival of business, the
second is of a more permanent
character, and is likely to dimin-
ish the volume of emigration for
some time to come.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
FUNERAL OF SENATOR SUMNER.

The funeral of Senator Sumner
i'll the United States Chamber on
Friday1ast was one of the most
impressive and saddening scenes
ever witnessed in Washington
Many as have been the Congress
ional obsequies held hitherto un-
der the roof of the Capital,no oc-
casion save perhaps the funeral
of President Lincoln, has devel-
.oped a feeling of personal grief
SO universaiand sincere asthe last
rites over the remains of the SEN
ater who has so long and SO no
bly, represented Massachusetts, in
the Senate. 1t was not merely a
thronged and snowy funeral, at
which the set forms of obituary
ceremony were enacted, there
was in the hearts of that vast
crowd sense:of real unaffected
sorrow, a general feeling of grief
as Of a great and irreparable loss.
The long procession of eminent
colored citizens, the near and de-
voted colleagues of the deceased,
the men like Sherman andSchurz
and Anthony, felt keenly the
depth of their own and the ma
toms bereavement. 1t was such
a funeral as few Americans have
ever received, and answers more
eloquently than any possible eu-
logy could have done the charge
that Senator Sumner was a man
lof theories and had no hold upon
the popular heart. There was
with all this something sad in the
utter desolation of domestic ties
amid which the great Senator
died. His physicians,his personal
friends and his devoted house
hold servants alone soothed him
in his last moments. No parent
or wife or other relative clsssd
his eyes or followed his coffin
His one surviving relative la
dy-resides in California, too far
away to be summoned to his
death bed or his funeral. He
was literally publicman,the son
and servant of the government.
But Notwithstanding all this he
lis followed to the grave by mour-
ners as sorrowful and sincere as
have ever testified their appre-
citation of. a valuable and well
spent life. ,...a
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
TRADE SHOWING.

~zi The trade showing of the coun
try since the first of January il
ruu of healthy promise to the
business of the country. Says the
New York Herald: 1--WE have
imported since the first Of Janu.
ary merchandise to the amount
of $7O,6S6,652. In the CORES.
ponding period of last, year the
amount was $s2,471,621. The
difference is nearly twelve mil
lions. The exports this year have
amounted, to $57,412,304. Last
year up to the same date they
were $44, ,299, ,975. The difference
is $3,112,320. Thus the trade is
in our favor this year over that OF
last year amounts to upwards of
fifteen millions. If we can 20 on
in this way, and improve upon it,
there viii be less demand abroad
for our gold, premium may de-
cline, and we may approximate
to a specie basis. The problem
of specie payments is to he solyI
ed by the balance of trade.n This
is from journal which simply
takes facts as it finds them; vet ii
will be seen that these facts
strongly sustain the views we
have heretofore expressed.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19
MASSACHUSETTS sENAToRsHrP.

mhoSACnOSEIlSS y SENAI OkShiP.
The Massachusetts, Senatorship
to I'LL the vacancy created by the
death of Mr.. Sumner, is a ques-
ton that will excite interest all
over the country. Already the
names of a number of candidates
Tor the succession are suggested
and among them, Mr.. Dawes,
Judge Hoar, ex-Governors Bull
leck and Clifford, and General
Banks and Mr.. Butler. The
election will not take place, in
probability, until next week. Mr..
Dawes was a prominent candidate
in opposition to Mr.. Boutwell,, to
fill Vice President Wilson's seat
in the Senate a few months ago.
but failing in an election then
his claims may now be consider
cd as having certain priority.
Either Mr.. Dawes, Judge Hoar,or
Ex-Governor Bullock, would be
strong men in the Senate, and
would maintain the intellectual
prestige Massachusetts, has al
ways had in. that body. We hard
ly think Mr.. Butler has much
chance. His connection with the
Simmons appointment hurt him
At home,and the way he has been
caught up in the Sanborn inves-
dgation has damaged his reputa-
lion, if it could be considered
susceptible of further damage.
Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes Co., O. [Ohio]) 1870-1895, 1874-03-19

A number Of United States Senators
are seriously unwell. Mr.. Ferry, of
Connecticut; Mr.. Edmunds, of Ver-
mont; Mr.. Brownlow, of Tennessee {;
Mr.. Morton, of Indiana, and Mr.. Lewis,
of Virginia, are all reported to be In
very feeble health, and are not seen in
the Senate. Mr.. Ferry, Of Michigan,
has also been Ill.