Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-08-16
All Sorts OF Parngrnph,.

Ihb CELSIUS Hlbh IN new London found
woman who gave her own age as %
years, and that of her eldest son as 23l--
thriving town.
The Wisconsin U. s. Marshall bas or.
tered reward Of 81 900 for the appreben-
SION and delivery to him of Sherman NJ.
booth' who was rescued from his custo.
dy by an armed force.
DIR DELASY, the negro TO whom Lord
Brougham called Mr.. Dallas attention at
q meeting Of the Statistical Congress in
London, was for some years q resident of
Pittsburg. Pennsylvania.
HE Indian George Copway, addressed
a Douglas ratification meeting in Seneca.
rails, n. Y, on Friday, from the same
platform with Sanford e. Church, Oar
ius a. Ogden, etc.
~ pair Of twins but few days old
were left on door step in Boston few
days since, and attached to them was the
following note: Take good care of these
chlIdren--they are legitimate, and will be-
reclaimed if the father naarries Inc.
DURiNG the session Of a country court.
down east, witness was asked If he was
not husbandman, when he hesitated for
a moment then coolly replied, amid the
laughter Of the court, "No, sir, Is not
married"
Isaac CHAMBERS, who fought in the
battle Of New Orleans, died in Jefferson
county, Indiana, Saturday night, aged
sixty-six years. He formerly lived in
Bardstown, Kentucky, and volunteered
there for the war of ~.
A printing press with bed Al by 60
inches, to be used by the Georgia Tele-
graph, at Macon, has Just been built at
Westerly, K. /. 1t is believed to be the
largest cylinder press ever constructed in
New England.
ON the 2Sth ult., Frank McCallu.n. q
salt-boiler at Freeport, Pa, was BY some
mischance precipi,ated head foremost in
to cistern of boiling salt water. He
was got out and lived twenty -four hours
in terrible torture.
Owen Lovejoy is a prophet. Four
years ago he said that the Republican par
ty was ''innoculated with Abolitiouism,
and ere long it would break ont all over"
!. He has lived quite long enough already to
see his prediction completely fulfilled.
James o. Harrison, Esq, of Lexing.
ton, Ky, always leading Democrat and
in 1855 the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Ashland District, made
a Dougla speech and presided at a Doug
las meeting ct Lexington few days ago.
The locomotive of the Express train
coming east a few days ago, when near
New Brighton, Pa, ran down five horses,
killing four and injuring the fifth. The
field in which the horses had been put
out for the night, had no fence next the
railroad.
THADDEUs HYATT Offers in the columns
Of the Scientific american, reward of
Sl,O0O dollars for the invention of a
/ practical flying machine, adapted to the
individual locomotion, expressing his
confidence that such thing is perfectly
practicable.
The Charleston Aercury. notorious as
the most intensely sectional paper in the
country, says that it thinks Breckinridge
and Lane inst about sectional enough"
Its fierce and bitter feeling Of sec,ionalism
was never perfectly gratifed by any nom.
ination before.
AN effort is being made to raise 81 900
to make the Connecticut navigable to
Hartford. The old Union Company,
chartered to keep the river deep enough
for trading vessels, has ceased to do any
thing except to take tolls, and the river
has filled up in the meanwhile.
| We hear of men, says the Richmond
| (lnd.) Democrat, in nearly every town.
ship in the county who voted for Fremont
in 1896, coming ont for Douglas and pop
ular sovereignty. The Democratic peo-
pie everywhere are in favor of self-govern-
ment.
A Topeka (Kansas) paper, announces
that the old we'll in that place had "given
out" and adds that if the city fathers
would make a good well, where all could
be accommodated water would be as cheap
as whiskey, and great many be induced
to use it as beverage.
THE Toledo Herald Of 31st., says: ga
gentleman of this city has Just returned
from visit to Connecticut and York
State, aud is reported as holding to the
belief that Douglas will surely carry both
States, beyond the risk of peradventure
. He is Lincoln man-so understood.
Hon. Amos Coggswell, Republican
Speaker of the Minnesota House Of Rep
reSentatives last year, has given notice to
the State Committee that he can no lon
ger act with the Republicans, but support
Mr.. Douglas. Lynus Lowell, ex-Speak-
er of the Republican Legislature, has al
so given in his adhesion to Dauglas.
l. The Fort Wayne (Inliana) Sentinel
= says John Hamilton, Esq, of Fort Wayne
- has come out Cor Douglas and johnson.
l Mr.. Hamilton has at all times been con-
e SiAered the strongest man of the Opposi-
D ton ranks in Allen county; was a candi-
! date for Sheriff in that county in 1856.
$ and ran ahead of his party largely.
The Detroit Free Press chronicles tho
fact that at Port Huron, in that State.
sixteen persons joined the Douglas Club
= who voted for Fremont in 1856. In the