Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-15
News OF the Week.

inst, in Bangor, Maine.
LAST month nearly one million and
half of new cents were issued from the
Philadelphia Mint.
Tue Rev. Thos. II. Stockton has been
elected Chaplain of the U. S. House Of
Representatives.
1t is proposed to raise the Atlantic ca
bic and make an effort once more to link
England with the United States.
1t is thought at Washington City that
Spain intends to intervene in Mexican
affairs in favor Of the Miramon party.
AT the Republican Convention held in
st. Louis on Saturday, the Germans
manifested strong opposition to Bates.
Mrs. Elizabeth Crocket, widow Of Da-
Wy Crocket, lied in Johnson county, Tex
as, on the 2nd inst at the age of * years.
The lower House ofthe Virginia legis-
lature, on the 9th, adopted resolution
adverse to Southern conference by a
vote of 80 to AZ.
Tue Massachusetts, Republican State
Convention has chosen Seward delegates
to the Half National Convention, and
recommended him for President.
A debating club in Worcester lately
discussed the important question 'Wheth-
er rooster's knowledge of daybreak is
the result Of observation or instinct
The House Committee will report in
favor Of prohibiting the sale of public
lands to all but actual settlers for ten
years after their survey.
ON Monday the Democratic ticket was
elected in Belfast. Maine by % majority
! The election was on strict party grounds
Last year tho Republicans had 200 ma.
jority.
JUDGE TANEY, who has been sick for 6
short time has resumed his seat on The
Bench in the Supreme Court at Wash
ington. The venerable Judge is now g.
years of age.
GEN, DUFF GREEN has re-appeared il
Texas, after an absence Of II years. Iii,
visit has reference to certain railroad
charters in connection with the Pacifi
Railroad scheme.
At the recent municipal election helt
in Chicago JonN WENTWORTH, Republi
can, was elected mayor by 124S major
ity. This is about the usual majority 70
/ that party in the city.
Born Houses of the Minnesota Legis
laturo have passed the "Three Years EX
emption Bill" the effect of which is t.
extend the time for paying mortgages Of
real estate to three years.
The bill authorizing the construction
Of railroad bridge across the Pan Han
die, and 10 bridge the Ohio at Steuben
vile and Wheeling, has passed the Viz
ginia House OF Representatives.
In the United States there are 1,55
iron works, S32 furnaces, 4SS forges, AM
225 rolling mills, which produce annual
ly about $50, ,0C0 tons of iron, the valu
of which, in an ordinary year, is $50, 90
900.
: The Democracy of Pennsylvania al
alive with enthusiasm. Their meeting j
Pittsburgh the evening of the 9th was tn
largest ever held in the city. Hundred
were unable to gain admission to the hal
, THE total amount of gold and silve
yielded by all the mines in the worlt
from the birth of Christ down to the yea
1856, has beon estimated at sixteen thous
and two hundred and nine millions tw
hundred thousand dollars.
NATIVE iron has been discovered in b,
very few parts of the world. Specimen
have been found in Austria, and in CT
naan, Conn, there exists seam of nati'
iron, two inches in thickness, from whit
horse shoe nails have been forged.
MEslLl.A, Arizona, dates to the "a
have been received. a serious difficult
had occurred between American and Me
lean settlers. Several were killed {
., both sides. Tho Mexicans outnumbe
Il ing, surrounded tho Americans, who Sc
a a to Fort Fillmore for troops.
Q The Committee of the Virginia legisl
O ture on Courts and Justices. have repol
ID ed it inexpeiient to take any action in l
5. gard to communication of sentence or J
prieve of either STEPHENS or LAzLErr, t
doomed llarper's Ferry conspirators.'
l. They will be hanged tomorrow.
d Ir is proposed in Congress to give t
y Court of Claims the absolute adjudicati
r of all private claims against the COVER
a ment. Congress win have nothing
n do but to order the payment of whatov
ID the court decroes.
't The number of persons logged in t
10 British Navy in 1858 was 997; of lash
inflicted, 1880; of men liable to corpC