Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-12-13

A Bremen journal contains the follow
ing advertisement; GA young gentleman,
on the point OF getting married is desious
of meeting man ofexperience who will
dissuade him from such step. Ad-
Dress" &c.
Rev. j. G. FLETCHER, in recent lecture
on Brazil said the press was as free as in
New York, and the law requires the prn-
ter to be paid both for his paper and ad-
vertsements in advance.
A drunken Englishman in Manchester,
N. H., was seized with fit of vomiting
a night or two since, and dislocated his
lower jaw in the operation. a physician
releaved him form this unpleasant conse-
quence of his spree,
We find the following direction to keep
ice from "show windows" going the
rounds Take an ordinary paint brush or
spoge, and run over the glass once or twice
a day with little alcohol, and it will
keep the glass as free from ice as in the
middle of summer, and it will also give
as good polish as can be got in any
other way.
A Douglas man in North Auburn, Me,
having foolishly bet that his favorite can
didate would receive more electoral votes;
than Breckinridge; paid his wager the 9TH
er day. 1t was to furnish turkey for
the supper of six persons, and to lead the
bird from North Auburn to Lewiston. a
distance of six miles. A company Of mil
itary and band Of music preceded the
unlucky man, en- his melancholy march.
M. RETcIUs, we hear, died in the full
pursuit of science. On his dying bed he
made his observations on the progressing
dissolution of his own body. The strug-
gle of death is hard" he said to those
about him; "but it is of the highest in
terest to note this wrcstc between life and
death; now the legs are dead; now the
muscles ofthe bowels cease their functions
the last struggle must be heavy, but for
all that it is highly interesting" These
were his last words.
Mr.. Francis johnson, OF Madison coun
ty, Georgia, recently killed q COW beef,
and found sticking through the upper
stomach and firmly fixed in. the gristly
part of the brisket, large rn-handle
dining fork. 1t had evidently been swal,
lowed some months before, and, what is
remarkable, she is reported to have been
very fat, and thrifty up to the time she
was killed.
PROBABLY the Oldest member of the
Masonic order in the United States, al
least in New England is Ebenezer Now.
ers, member of the Morning Star Lodge
at Worcester, Mass. lie is now over a
hundred years age. He was initiated
February is, 1894. In Syracuse, N. Y,
there lives another Mason. Maj. George
Middleton, whose in initiation into the
mystic order dates back to 1894.
In ten States in the Union, Lincoln did
not receive a solitary vote. 1t does not
appear by the returns that single hui
man being is in his favor in all that i'm
mense extent of territory. In fiye other
States polling several hundred thousand
votes he did not receive a corporal's
guard of support. The Republican par
ty is not a United States Party. 1t has
no existence and is regarded as public
enemy of all the people in almost half Of
the States.
The Kansas City Journal Of Commerce
has been shown an ear of corn of the past
seasons growth. which was pulled in a
field in johnson county, which is one inch
and three-quarters in length. and three
inches in circumference, and yet is perfect
in form and shape, is perfectly filled and
every grain is perfect. 1t contained one
hundred and forty-tpo grains.