Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-12-06
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six States would be an act OF egregious
folly and gross ingratitude."
A CALL, signed by four hundred and
eighty names, has been made by citizens
of Louisiana on the Governor of that
State, asking him to convene the Legis-
lature.
GEN. CAss is large loser by the de.
cline Of stocks. owing to Southern seces-
ion. At the last meeting of the cabinet,
he denounced tho Disumionists in unmeas
ured terms.
ALL the Springfield correspondents
speak Of Lincoln as an inveterate story.
teller--we don't mean afibber, but q re-
taller f anecdotes. He will have another
story to tell when lie becomes President.
THERE are said to be more divorces
granted in Massachusetts than any other
State When we reflect upon the kind of
men the poor girls have to marry in that
State Of isms, we cannot be surprised.
A FISH STORY There is boy in New
Orleans whose body is covered with scales
which are renewed yearly. Though this
sounds rather fishy, we are justified in say
ing that he is in no way related to the
Prince of Whales.
Ir is worthy ofnote. that all the con-
servative and Union men in the South de-
mand that the Fugitive Slave Law must
be enforced, and equality in the Terrific
ries extended to the South, or they also
will go for dissolution.
AS soon as it was known that Lincoln
was elected, Illinois Banks fell to 10 per
cent. discount! Can he not keep up the
credit of the banks Of his own State?
The banks in Kentucky are still good.
II is said that Postmaster Fowler, of
New York. is in Cuba, and is drinking
to such excess as to have almost produced
delirium tremens His responsibilities
being heavy he has gone into liquidation.
The editor Of the Brownsville Times
says he hopes, by eating buckwheat- cakes
and being economical in habits, to get
along Just as well as though Lincoln had
not been elected President. That poor
devil is a philosopher.
The st. Clairsvlle Gazette says: With
in ten days, Mr.. VIM. Harper, of Pease
Tp., has lost five children with diptheria,
or sore throat. The eldest, daugher of
II years The balance of his family,
three children, are sick with the same dis
ease.
THE New Orleans Crescent, while sym.
pathizing with their sentiments, sternly
rebukes tho Baptists of Alabama who
passed secession resolutions at their Gen
) eral Convention. 1t recommends them
| to attend to religious matters, and lei
politics alone.
TWENTY FIVE thousand one hundred
and fifty-six copies of the Bible were sold
in Constantinople in 1859, being more
than double the sales of preceding year
J A CHURCH bell, made of glass, fourteen
) inches high and thirteen inches in diane
ter has been recently placed in the turre
! of the chapel at Grange, Borrowdal,
Cumberland, England.
THERE is living in Pike county, Mo-, {
negro named Philsa, the property oi
Joseph Roberts. Esq, who is now ninety
six years of age. He was born in Vir
ginia, and often served at the table where
Gen. Washington was a guest. He en-
Joys good health and bids fair to liv,
many years yet.
| Mrs, MARY HALLER died in Wyth
, county Va, week before last. She wa
: in her Saith yeat---had been married sixty
Q seven years--had twelve children sixty
two grand children, ono hundred anC
2 twenty-four great-grand children, AM
o three great-great- grand children.
= OLD nags seem to have terrible time o
it in la belle France. 1t is said that in
; large leech bleeding establishment in tn
' department of the Gironde, upwards o
700 horses are annually bled to death t.
feed the leeches.
e The Steubenvillc Herald says tha
since the first of January last, nearly 20,
children, and about one-fourth that nun
!. ber of adults, have died in that city, o
!, dipthcria.
g Hon. HENRY king STRoNa, well
n known Pennsylvania politician, and VIII
. liam S. Stockton, father of Rev. Thoma
II. Stockton, and leading philanthro
pist, have Just died in Philadelphia. Th
former was SO, and the latter Is years o
age.
t AN ANCIENT TRnE BIowN Down.
S The wcl-known "old Elm" of Somerse
# Mass, which grew near the liver, in thu
= centre of the village, and supposed to b
n from 400 to 500 years old, was blow
y down few nights ago, in fierce gale
II 1t was 100 feet in height, and the girth G
X the trunk was 66 feet
- A proposition will bo laid before tn
next Legislature for the removal 10 Vir
ginia OF the remains of Gen. Harry Lee
o Light Horse Harry"--from his prcsen
burial place in Georgia, upon the land
n once owned by his companion in arms
!, Gen. Nathaniel Greene.
n NEWSPAPERS IN PARis--Paris possesse
Il at present 500 newspapers; AZ of thes
s having of politics and national economy
y have to deposit a security in the hands c
d of the government; AGO are devoted t