Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-07-12
News Ofts,c Week.

York. What pity. .s
Flora Temple beat George NJ. Patchin
on the 4th, on the Suffolk Park Course
The New York Tribune admits that
Mr.. Douglas moy carry Missouri
MAY, ,"--he will as sure as the sun
shines.
AT a printers festival, recently the
following sentiment was offered:-"Wo-
man-second only to the press in the
dissemination Of news.
ADAH IsAAcs MENKEN has been "bless-
ed" with a masculine infant, whose pater-
nal partnership it will be difficult to es-
tablish. She says it is "Benicia Boy"
BRlGuAM YOUNG has not been in Phila.
delphia-the story was a conard He
was at Salt Lake, at last accounts, enjoy.
ing himself at a big picnic.
THE Memphis Appeal of Tuesday de-
fines its position on the Presidential ques-
ton, and announces its purpose to sup
port Douglas and j ohnson.
LADY JANE Franklin, the widow of the
celebrated and unfortunate Arctic voyager,
Sir John Franklin, has arrived in New
York by the Adriatic.
Or the one hundred and twenty Demo-
cratic papers in Ohio two support Brack-
inridge. One paper in New Hampshire
and one in Massach usetts support him.
Hon. A. II. STEPHENS, of Georgia, in
taking the field for Douglas announces
his determination not to confine his efforts
to Georgia alone, but he will go into all
the Southern States.
The citizens Of Chicago endeavored to
get up Fourth of July celebration, but
the Committee couldn't agree on any
thing this year, but took steps to have
one next year.
The gentlemen employed in taking the
census find a great many young ladies
aged sixten or seventeen years. In one
family in Vermont there were twelve
girls between ten and sixteen years OF
age.
GENERAL HoUsToN's health is reported
to be very poor. A Texas paper says:
"ic now goes about on crutch, because
of lameness in one of his ankles-the eff.
feet Of wound received at San Jacinto
Ir is said that Messrs Bowman ant
Browne are about to retire from the Con
Stitution newspaper. Their successor has
not been determined upon. 1t will be
hard in any event to find their equals.
THE report that Cen PIERCE has de.
clared himself against the regular Demo.
cratic nominees, DOUGLAS and JOHNSON
is untrue He contributed very literally
to getting up the great ratification meet
ing at Concord.
The wreck of the ill-fated steamship
Hungarian. as she lay below the surface
was sold to two Yarmouth men for four.
teen thousand dollars, and in about six
weeks they have recovered, by diving
goods to the value of nearly eighty thou
sand dollars. They are still at work or
her. and expect to make fortune by tn,
speculation.
AT Columbus, on Saturday. while som,
boys were bathing in the Scioto, young
son of Mr. Simonton of the United States
Hotel in that place, while diving, strucl
his head against rock on the bottom o
the river, tearing the scalp completed,
from the skull, and otherwise seriousl,
injuring him. He was carried home il
an insensi ible state.
United States Marshal JOHNSON ha
been obliged to commence two suit
against persons for refusing to answer
the questions propounded by Assistan
Marshals under the census law. Thes
cases are in Trumbull and Cuyahog
counties. Another suit will be commen
ed against person in Crawford count
who set bulldog on the Assistant an
would not permit him to enter his gate