Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-29
News from Abroad.

heard OF bearing false witness against your
neighbour was given by little girl in
school. She said at was when nobody
did nothing, and somebody went and
told it."
WHEN Anachars, the 6cythian, was
travelling in Greece, he was reproached by
an Athenian, with the barbarity of his
native land, 1T is true, replied Anacha-
lis, that my county is disgrace to me,
but you are disgrace to your country
re- Seventy-ono ladies calling then-
selves "grass Widows" who reside in
and around Elkbart, Ind, gave ball
last week, and invited their male friends.
None but "grass widows" were allowed
to participate in the festivities.
GYs- On the 18th inst, a son of Mr..
Charles Witherly of Rutland, VT, while
amusing himself alone in an clubhouse,
with performing feats on a rope, was
caught by the neck and strangled 10 death
He was about IA years of age.
EE- The st. Joseph (Mo, J West says
that the Kansas Legislature have granted
one hundred and fifty bills ofdivorcement
in forty days-fnally the Legislature quit
the retail business, and the House conclu
ded to do wholesale operation and i'm
mcdiately passed a bill divorcing all
married persons in the Territory.
Ey- A congregation Of the believers
in the Mormon faith have settled in
/ NJ boolipr aud alraa1,- .f
verts to their doctrine are reported. On
Sunday last five new members made an
open declaration of the Mormon faith,
and took upon themselves the duties OF
Mormonism, by undergoing the process
of immersion publicly.
Ryy- In a recent case Of insolvency be-
fore the Probate Judge of Franklin Coun-
tv, Ohio, the creditor claimed the specta-
cles worn by defendant. The judge very
properly refused the claim on the ground
that the spcctacles were necessary to the
personal comfort of the debtor. This
creditor is probably a relative Of the one
who wished his debtors wooden leg to
be taken on execution.
Etg- The Texas papers are in ecstacies
over the fine weather they are having
The San Antonia Herald of the 9th inst
says: "The fields and prairies have on
their loveliest attire, and all nature is
clothed in smiles The birds sing, the
insect tribes rejoice, and the sheep and
lambs and cattle upon thousand hills,
skip merely, as if delighted with the re-
turn Of warm and pleasant weather"
re- In the English agricultural pa
pers are advertisements of a great COM
pany in London, who manufacture ma
nure from blood. They state that the
number of beasts, sheep, horses, calves
and pigs slaughtered in London in 1856
was S2I, 705; that the yield of blood
from these was $4,000 gallons, of which
Odam's Blood manure Company receiv-
ed 771,000.
lss" Take clean glass bottle and put
into it small quantity of pnlverized al
nm Then fill the bottle with spirits of
wine. The alum will be speedily dissolv-
ed by the alcohol, and in clear weather
the liquid will be as transparent as the
purest water. On the approach of rainy
or cloudy weather, the alum will be vis-
ible in haky, spiral cloud in the center
of the fluid, reaching from the bottom to
the surface. This is a cheap, simple and
beautiful barometer, and is placed within
the reach of all who wish to possess one.
For simplicity of construction this is al
together superior to the frog barometer in
general use in Germany.
re- Our Mississippi valley is destined
to become the garden of the world, but a
dead weight on its population is the
miasm which engenders bilious diseases
all over it. Could an absolute antidote
be found to the malaria which eXhale from
its marshes, it is impossible to over esti-
mate the consequences to our prosper ".
We congratulate our fellow citizens and
fellow sufferers around us, on the an
nouncement. important if true, that DR.,
j. G.. Aver the celebrated medico Chemist
of the East has discovered just such an
antidote-his "dgue Cure" which is sup
piled at n price that can exclude no one
1 from its benefits, and that is said to cure
Fever and Ague and kindred diseases, to
a moral csrtainty.-Family Visitor, Men,
pills.
Eg-A late well known member of the
Scottish bar when a youth, was some
what of a dandy. and somewhat short
and sharp in his temper. lie was gong
to pay a visit to the country, and was
making great fuss about the preparing
and putting up ofhis habiliments. His old
aunt was mech annoyed at all this hustle.
and stopped him by the somewhat contemp
tuous question: "Whaurs this your gaun;
Robby, that We make such a grand wark
about your clase?" The youg'man lost
his temper and pettishly replied: "l'm
going to the devil" "Deed, Robby,
then," was the quiet answer, Eye need
not be sac nice; he'll just take you as ye
are"
Gg- Mrs. Beach, the wealthy and hand
some Bridgeport widow who married
George w. Francis, "a dark Completed
gentleman" gave to her friends as one
reason for her conduct that she had re-
ceived communications from her deceased
husband in the spirit land advising her to
marry Francls, and stating that since he
left this vale of tears he had been conju-
gally united to the spirit of colored