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


tenders of Baltimore in 1914, died in
Frederick City on Friday morning the I'd
inst, in the 73d year of his age.
ES- Edward Bates, of Missouri, is a
native of Virginia, and is now in the six
ty.seventh year of his cgc, and the father
of seVcnteep children. In case the Chicago
Convention should nominate him he will
have n handsome start in the race If he
can secure the united support of his own
family.
E1FOne Of the prisoners, now in the
Wooster Jail, and who was sentenced to
be confined in the cell or dungeon, and
fed on bread and water 20 days, on Mon
day last undertook to shorten the sentence
by hanging himself with a towel. He
was discovered barely in time to save his
liie.-- Wooster Republican,
Eg- Tho Cincinnati police pointed out
one of their wealthiest citizens to newly
tledged policemen as noted burglar, and
as the verdant but Jealous novice coild
not catch him in the commission of crime
he arrested him for vagrancy. The va
grant turned out to be worth couple OF
millions dollars.
Gxy- A few days ago, boy, ten years
of age, returging from school, near Con
emaugh, Pa, saw large rock on thesrail-
road track, when. taking little red cap
that his sister wore, he raised it and ran
waving it up the road, along which a
train was laundering. The train was for
tunate y arrested in time, or the conse.
quences would have been fearful.
RF"The Planters n Banner says that
the orange trees hav5%early all been kill.
cd By the severe freezes of the past Win.
ter. Even many of the sour orange tree.
have been killed, though these are so bar.
! dy as to be perfectly safe against the freez
es which ordinarily occur in the country
Many an orange grove that was clothed
with verdure and beauty last Fall, now
looks as dry as pile of brush.
ES" a controversy is going on il
England now, i'll the columns of some o
the Methodist papers, on the propriety o
lining the hymns at public worship. Olt
Methodism clings to the system of giving
out the hymns by lines; Young Method
ism prefers to have the whole verso Civ
en- out at once, and there does not seen
much probability of the two being likely
soon to come toanything like definite
settlement of the question.
gy-It is stated that fellow in Venangc
County, Pa, profited in the following
manner by the coil excitement" now pre-
vaiing so extensively in the western anC
northwestern parts of Pennsylvania. II,
bored hole on his land, poured a barre
of oil in it, and then called his neighbor'
to see the large yield. The result wa
that he sold his land for $4,000 in cash
pocketed the money, oiled his boots anC
"slid."
In removing the bodies from the bur
ial place of the First Baptist Church
Philadelphia, two bodies, a man and
woman, were disinterred, in such an ex
cellent state representation that, although
they had been buried for thirty years
their features were recognized by thei
surviving friends. What caused this re
suit, cannot be ascertained, as other bod
les lying within few feet of these tw'
were entirely decayed.
Gtg" A Wesleyan minister at Fraze
River states that the Chinese there ar
likely to get the principle benefits of tn
mines there. They are arriving in larg
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and hesitating and in too many case
drinking and gambling, the Chinese 6
at once to the mines, work hard, spend
ing but little, and laying by almost a
= their earnings. He represents them a
remarkably temperate and as anxious
{ learn our language and religion.
R1s~ A married man named James Ow
; en-, living near Vincennes, Ind, latel
e went to st. Louis and procured the insel
= ton in a'paper there of a notice of h
: own death by drowning, and then, viii
5 his relatives were mourning his death, /
G managed to get back to the neighborhoo
e. from whence he came, and held a seer,
= interview with the partner of his shame
o the wife Of another man, and made q
+ rangements to elope, which were carrie
out last Tuesday, and the twain are no
supposed to be on their way to New o
leans.
: ES" Disgusting Amalgamation.- III
= Troy On, " 1re@o, says that quite q
excitement exists in certain quarter
that city, in regard to the marriage of
! white woman and darkey, as also the a
: tempted suicide of another white woma
who fell in love with negro who is
u married man and has family. TT
marriage Of the former took place la
u week, and was on account of being recent
divorced from her husband, who is re
u pectabc man, and resides in that city
The motive was said to be revenge.
GFT a Yorkshreman named Wils'
t., in Guelph, c. W., having left his W
and eioped with buxom grass wido
t, named Cassidy, and then left his new 10
and returned to his old one. The Guell
t., Advertiser says that number of the j