Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-07
News Of the Week.

! lHhNb IL no lrutn III lne report lnat
Hon. Edward Everett refuses to accept
the nomination from the Union party.
The Senate in Executive Session re-
jected the Mexican Treaty by a large ma
jority. 1t failed to commend itself to
the Republicans.
The Mississippi State Convention has
unanimously sustained the action of their
delegates at Charleston. The South Car
olina convention did the same thing.
ADvlcEs from Southern Russia gave a
favorable account of the growing corn
crops. Strong hopes are entertained that
the harvests may repair the deficiencies
of recent years.
A LADY eloped from Buffalo with a
hack driver and arrived in Albany few
days since. She was arrested and sent
back. She is upward of 60 years Of age.
"Go it while you're young"
a Washington correspondent states
that "the prospect for harmonious action
at Baltimore is daily increasing. Hun
| ter, Lane and Breckenridge are ready to
take stand for a Northern Statesman
likely to unite the party.
Is all the States between the Delaware
and the Rio Grande, not one man was
found whom the Chicago Convention
would consent to name even for the Sec
ond office i'll the gift of the people.
THE Rev. Geo. N. Munro has been ar
rested at Cincinnati, upon charge o!
adultery. lie ran away from New York
City with one of his parishioners, tho
wife of a New York journalist named
Pittman.
THE editor of the Cleveland Plqindeal-
er, who was present at the Chicago Con-
vention, says: cat moderate calcua-
ton, there were fifteen thousand persons
in state of extreme inebrity at Chicago
last night"
80, WILLIE, we have missed you," as
the disconsolate Sew ardites sing when they
take their harps down from the willows,
and attempt to keep step to the music Of
Old Abe Lincoln.
a chap up the country speaking of the
rainy season the year he was married,
said: at rancd when he went counting,
rained when he got published, rained
when he gotmarried and squalIed the same
night as he went after the DOCTOR"
A genius in St. Louis has invented a
revolving fan, worked by an electric bat
terry, which will not only keep off flies,
mosquitoes, and other winged insects,
but afford constant, refreshing breeze
that is perfectly delightful,
Mr.. COOKE, the equestrian, has offered
Tom Sayers an engagement for twelve
months, at $50 week and all expenses,
to travel with him up and down the conn-
try, and appear in some of"the scenes in
the circle" What will Barnum say to
this?
Mrs. MARGARET ASH handsome
quadroon, was taken from the Ohio PEN
itentiary last week, where she has been
for the last six years under life sentence
for killing her husband in Cincinnati
She was taken to Cincinnati for new
trial, granted by the Supreme Court.
A HUGE beetle was found at Marietta,
Ohio, few days ago, in piece of solid
rock, which was dug up by laborers ten
feet below the surface of the earth The
cast of the insect in the rock was perfect
1t was stiff and torpid at first, but when
exposed to the sun showed all the signs
Of "activo lilc."
AunURN is the homo of Gov. Seward,
where he was soiourning when the news
of defeat arrived. lie bore his defeat
with great equanimity, but his friends are
indignant and outraged. The Chicago
convention have nominated nan with
out principles, and platform without
any meaning"
AFTER ten years litigation in the New
York courts, the celebrated Forrest di-
vorco ease has reached settlement. The
final order allows Mrs. Forest alimoney
at the rate of IS 900 per annum, with in
tereSt on the arrearages, amour ting in all
to AZ, 600
THAT old and reliable Democratic pa
per, the Mansfield Shied anil Banner, is
out in an entire beautiful now dress
Mr.. GleSsncr has published the paper for
over nineteen years. He is one Of the
old veterans of the Ohio Press. Long
may he WELD the pen, paste and scissors
in defence of Democracy.
TnE Mansfield Banner Of the 30th ult.
says: ga load of old worm eaten rails
passed through this city yesterday, by
railroad, expressed through to New York
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