Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-08-23
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want OF iund5 ~ called capital punish
ment.
1t is the man who makes the most noise
that secures the most attention from the
world.
IT is conferring kindness TO deny nt
once favor which YOU intend to refuse
at last.
Shere is no arena in which vanity dis
plays itself under such variety of forms
as in conversation.
IF thou desirest to be held wise,' says
an auther, be wise enough to bride thine
own tongue
To be deprived Of the perons we love
is happiness in comparison to living with
one we hate.
Nothing is'so enduring and malignant
as the hatred of woman, who has once
loved you-bewarc of vinegar made Of
sweet wine.
THE Douglas men in Albany have or
ganized club in opposition to the Wide
AwakeS' and Rail SplitterS," and call
themselves Little Giants
Forty French girls direct from Canada
have arrived in Lowell; only one ont of
the number can speak English They are
to be employed in the Lawrence Mills.
1t is far from being one of the best fea-
lures of human nature, that, whilst we
love those whom we have benefited, we
often hate those who have benefited US.
1t is mistake to suppose that time is
money. We know of two or there rail-
roads that make first rate time, but not a
bit Of money.
Virtue has its pains; but the greatest
happiness still abides with it, as the
greatest unhappiness. ever abides With
crime.
If we command Temperance, we mean
temperance truly temperate, and not
repulsive asceticicism-a rational virtue,
not fierce virtue.
An athletic frame may be fashioned by
gymnastic exercises, but form of symme-
try and beauty only by free and uniform
action.
A Western country editor has become
so witty that his wife manufactures all
the butter that his family uses, from the
cream Of his joke.
when carved work comes in fashion,
you will be the prettiest fellow ever saw.
said a waS to .op deeply SCARED with
the smallpox.
The very latest curiosity spoken of in
the papers is wheel that came off a dog's =
tail when it was waggin' The man
who discovered it has since retired from
public life.
Gov. WINSTON, Of Alabame, is now on
the stump for Douglas, and will continue
to address the people of this State until
the day of election.
Grief humbles to the dust, but it also
exalts to the clouds; it shakes as with an
ague, but also steades like frost; it strick-
ems the heart, but also heals its inirmi-
ties.
Each day brings its own duties, and
carries them along with it; and they are
as waves broken on the shore, many like
them coming after, but none ever the
same.
a Douglas paper is shortly to be star
ed in Cherokee, Alabama, to be called
the National Democrat. The Selma Sen
tnel, states that Cherokee is good for
1900 ma ajority for Douglas and johnson.
Hon. Henry w. Hillard has consent
ed to canvass the Fourth Congressional
District of Alabama, in cooperation
with Colonel G. w. Lee, the Elector
for that District, in support of the Ma
tional Democratic nominees, Douglas
and johnson.
Colonel Henry Calhoun, a life time
Democrrt, has taken the stump in Jasper
county Mississippi, for Douglas and
johnson, and it is said his speeches have
aroused the people of that region of
Mississippi to the true condition Of the
country.
The Providence Post says: "Our
friends in Maine are fighting a glorious
battle; and we entertain some hope that
even in September they will redeem the
State. That its electoral votes will be
given to Mr.. Douglas in November we
have no doubt"
An electoral ticket has been formed in
Arkansas which will canvass the State
for Douglas and johnson. The follow
gentlemen compose the ticket: For the
State at large, Gen. Il. Ii. Bradley and
Col. d. II. c. Moore. First district,
ID. G.. Cross; Second, w. p Brace.
The Democracy OF the 4th District
have renominated the Hon VIM. Allen,
of Darke county, as thoir candidate for
reelection from that district to the next
Congress. Mr.. Allen is good, staunch
Democrat, a worthy man, and will no
doubt be successful by good, round
majority.
We see frequent notices that new pa
per has dropped the name of one Presi-
Dental candidate and hoisted that of an
other This only shows that money can
buy paper and Representatives, with
the editor thrown in; sometimes without
him. we grant that now and then a real
honest change takes place; but the mere
announcement that such paper was for
one candidate, and is now for another,