Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-12-20
NEWS ITEMS.

he stars and stripes, and thus declared Tor
be Union as it is.
Ex- SENATOR CHEsKor writes to the
Charleston Mercury, that he is advised
hat the President will veto any force bill
which Congress may pass.
GREAT suffering prevails at Nova Sco-
ia, in consequence, of the failure Of the
ishing crop. The Legislature has taken
he subject in hand.
The Prince of Wales has resumed his
collegiate studies at Oxford, after spend
ing only about week at home after his
return from his American tour.
pETf1roNs are being being circulated in
Michigan asking the forthcoming Lcgisla-
ture to repeal the Personal Liberty law
now on the statute book.
IT is rulnored that Dom Piatt Of Gin
cinneti, will be the private Secretary Of
Mr.. Lincoln, and that Mrs. Piatt, { Bell
Smith will all Mrs. Lincoln in dispens-
ing the civilitics and hospitalities Of the
White House.
THE lottery business at the South is
gradually dying out. Legislation has
driven it from time to time into narrow
quarters, and the public begins to see
that the whole thing is more or less, a
swindTe.
THE Terre Haute (Tnd) Erprpss says
that Lewis Cradford, now confined in the
Jail at that place under the sentence of
death for murder, was taken from the
prison and baptized in the Wabash river
on Sunday l. 81, as repentant sinner.
PRINCE NAPoLEoN's proposed trip to
this country is again talked of in Paris
and now appears to be fully decided upon
As upon the occasion of his trip to the
Arctic Sea, he will be accompanied by
several men of letters, professors and art
lists.
THERE is a man in London who sells
microscopes at penny each. They are
made of q common pill box; the bottom
taken out, and piece Of window glass
substituted. A small eye hole is bored
in the nd, and therein is placed the lens,
the whole apparatus being painted black
1r is said that Senator G Twin and Lath-
am concur in the opinion that California
ia for the Union, and will not leave it I'M
der any circumstances that may arise
We presume the California Senators now
regret that their State did not remain in
the Democratic Convention at Charleston
A BREMEN journal contains the follow.
ing advertisement; "a young gentleman
on the poir. OF getting married is desious
of meeting man ofexperience " ho will
dissuadc him from such a step. Ad
Dress" dc.
Rev. J. G.. FLETcHER, in recent lectur,
on Brazil, said the press was as free as il
New York, and the law requires the prin
ter to be paid both for his paper and al
vertisemcnts in advance
AN exceedingly virtuous man named
Joseph Holiday, who had been away
from home Albany, N. Y, i've month,
and had Just returned, spent Thanksgiv
ing day in breaking his wife's furniture
assaulting her, and abusing his family
because he was told that one of the board
ers was in the habit of kissing the servant
girl.
Tue present school system OF Notl
Carolina was established in 1910, and tn,
amount distributed to the several counties
to sustain it has been for the last tive
years, $3.50, $50 0S annually. The mum
ber Of colleges and schools has increase,
since 1910, from TT to 4,369, and til,
nnmber Of scholars from 1861 to III,
400.
The special dispatches from washing tor
to the Philadelphia Press, say that Sena
tor Sliiell is openly for secession, but
comedies that if his State Louisiana doe.
secedc, tho free navigation of the Mssss
ippi river shall DO secured to all the State,
of the present Union. That is clever il
cold Humas."
We find the following direction to keer
ice FROM "show Windows" going tho
rounds: Take an ordinary paint brush o,
spogc, and run over the glass once or twic,
u day with a little alcohol, and it will
keep the glass as free from ice ss in til,
middle OF summer, and it will also give
as good polish as can be got in any
other way.
Mr.. Francis johnson. o.! Madison coun
by. Georgia, recently killed COW beef
and found sticking through the upper
stomach and firmly fixed in tho grist,
part of the briSket, large horn-handl,
dining fork. 1t had evidently been swal
Iowod some months before. and, what i,
remarkable. she is reported to have beer
very fat, and thrifty up to the time sh'
was killed.
PROBABLY tho oldest member of th
Masonic order in the United States, n
least in New England is Ebenezer Now
ers. member of the Morning Star Lodg,
at Worcester, Mass. He is now over ,
hundred years ofage. He was initiate,
February Is, 1904. In Syracuse, N. Y.
there lives another Mason, Maj, Goorg'
Middleton. whose in initiation into tn
mystic order dates back to 1894.
In ten States in the Union, Lincoln di,
not receive solitary vote. 1t does no
appear by the returns that single hu
man being is in his favor in all that i'm
mense extent Of territory. In five othe
States polling several hundred thoussn,
votes he did not receive corporal :,
guard of support, The Republican par
ty u not United States Party. 1t ha
NO existence and is regarded no publ
enc nv of all the peonlo in almosk half n