Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-04-26
News oS the week.

between FRIDAY evening and tuesday last
| ,030 westward bound emigrants arrived
in .hnt city.
The everlasting Durdell case is up
again in the New York Courts. The
heirs are now quarreling among them
selves as to the division of the murdered
dentists property.
\ BILL has been introduced into the
Assembly OF Alabama, for transporting
all negroes convicted OF capital ofenses to
Mass sachusetts.
Mn. WILLIS GRAVES, of Cleveland,
who was falsely charged with suffering
his own mother to die of starvation, has
instituted libel suit against the publish
ers and editors of the Cleveland Morning
Leader, laying his damages at So, 900.
A young man named Samuel Cocn,
was recently found dead in dismal by
way in Wyandotte county called Blind
Lane. A jug of tangle-ioot whiskey was
found by his side, which explained the
cause of his death.
THERE is dissension among the Ameri-
cans and unconstitutional Union" men Of
Maryland in regard to the Baltimore
Conscntiun The Americans seem dis
posed to maintain their distinctive party
organization, and to remain uncommittcd
to the fusion Opposition movement.
/ BMhonHR preached hundred horse
! powrl sensation sermon the other eve
ming. lie commenced by announcing
that great prize fight was to come offin
England on the 10th, and then proceeded
to pitch into the newspapers for publish
ing so much about it.
VICE PRESIDENT BRECKINuDGE author
izes an unqualified denial of the report
which has been much circulated, that he
once said that he would vote for II person
of his own religious faith sooner than fol
one holding to another and that he would
vote for native sooner than a foreign
born citizen.
A WILL caso of considerable interest
was decided in the Superior Court al
Norwich, Conn, last week Stiles Park
was the tcstator, and his will contained d
provision that none Of his property, about
$34 900, should be given, either directly
or indirectly, to any religious denomina
ton, society, preacher, teacher, &c. ant
its validity was sustained.
A BILL has passed both branches o
the New York Legislature essentially mod
flying the death penalty. Execution
hereafter are only to be treason, arson
and murder in the first degree. In case
of death sentences the execution shall no
take place until one year after sentence
shall have been passed, nor until the is
f sue of the Governors warrant.
TIE Mt Vernon Ranner has entcrc,
' upon its ODD year, and its editor say
has been source Of pecuniary profit t.
each of its publishers, of which, durin,
its life, there have been four previous t
its present proprietor and editor, Mr. Har
per. The Banner is an able exponent o
Democratic principles. Long may
wave.
JIM BRowN, an old resident of Akron
, and who has already served several term
[ in the Penitcntary for counterleiting, ha
been convicted of the same offence
9 Grand Rapids, Mich, and been sentence
r. to three years solitary confinement in II
q Penitentiary of that State. Brown
10 over seventy years Of age.
spun some idea may be formed from II
- fact that 2iO hanks, each $40 yards
length, are spun from II single pound
cotton, a total length of above i4l mile
!. Yarn spun so llne as No. 700 will exec,
33l miles in length, the product of OF
, pound of material. Worked up into Il
q. finer kinds of lace, the original shilling
ir worth of cotton wool. before it passes j
y TO the hands of the consumer, may ha
~ been increased to the value of betwc
ri 800 and 400 pounds.
$, TuE Prince of Wales will not lea
~ England till the tenth Of July. PrivS
~ letters received in Toronto state that I
0. Duke of Cambridge, Commander
- Chief, and the Duke of Newcastle, Min
st ter for the Colonies, will visit Canada
. company with the heir to the throne. Il
20 Prince will also be attended by Gcnel
r Brown who acts as his Governor Il
t, admiral of the fleet on the North Anne
ar can station will meet the squadron in
/, flag ship, and subsequently visit Qneb,
~ One Of John Browns Men.
One of the original lIarper's Ferry
" surrectionists staid in BucyruS on tn,
day night. His name is Francis j. Nj,
1T riam. lie is one of the gents that G.,
h. l4etcher wants to see so very badly; /
Governor Dennison thinks the State
Ohio cannot spare him-that without h