Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-04-05
News Of the week.

lOuOuhNN' SOVu'
THE season of Lent, or the forty days
fast will end on the Sth of April, Easter
Sunday.
Ar recent election for county officers
in Achison county, Kansas, the Demo
Gratis elected their entire ticket.
McHARD TAYLOR, son Of President
Taylor, is one of the Delegates to the
Charleston Convention.
Mr.. English, father Of Hon. William
II. English, has been appointed United
States Marshal for Indiana
THE Democrats Of Kansas anticipating
the admission of that territory as a state,
have elected delegates to the Charleston
Convention.
GENERAL Donniphan, the gallant lead
er of the Missourans in the Mexican war,
has heartily joined the Democracy. He
has heretofore been whig.
GEoRaE AKEns was executed at Nor
ristown, New Jersey, on Friday, for the
of Isaac II. G orden, on the 18th
of October last.
THERE is a bill pending before Con-
gress to so amend the Invalid Pension
laws as to provide pensions for the old
soldiers of 1912. We hope it will be
passed. T.
a CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Gazette says that unless some sound anti
slavery man is nominated at Chicago it
will be discovered that the "honest old
Liberty Party still lives"
TAz. w. NFwMAN, who recently re-
signed his office as speaker of the Ten
nessee Legislature, on account Of charges
of official corruption, has been reelected,
the charges not being sustained.
The Wisconsin papers say that much
excitement exists at Black River Falls in
that State in consequence Of reports of
large quantities of silver ore being found
some dozen miles west of the Falls.
The Black Republicans of New York
Legislature have bill before them to ere
move the rocks at the entrance of He'll
gate" This shows which way the party
intends to travel-certanly not towards
the White House.
REPUBLICANS have been boasting that
they are the white mans party" AS
they hold mulattoes to be white men,
this may be so; but then don't it, after
all, make the claim considerably "mix-
ed?"
The Legislature has passed 'dorg' law,
which provides, that any 'dorg' which
kills sheep, may be slaughtered any time
afterwards. Great law that. Who will
say, that the last legislature, was not a
smart one. Great fellows on dogs. and
--aUooi.
Gov. HousToN not receiving the Gov
ernment military aid expected, has order
ed Col. johnson to raise Immediately II
large force of rangers, and drive the Indi-
ans from the northern frontiers. He
takes no step against Mexico, pending the
ratification of the treaty.
THE Supreme Court has decided that
Justices OF the Peace have jurisdiction,
in all civil actions Except those eSpec-
tally limited by statute, where the am
cunt in controversy is less than three hun
dred dollars. Justices will take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
Ir is proposed, in New York, to match
a large American eagle captured last
winter near Boston, against any dog in
the former city, for any reasonable sum
The eagle has many hackers, and the
Clancy" are excited about the expected
engagement.
A colored woman with nine children
all pent up in one room, two of whom
and herself had the small poX and the
other seven the measles, were found by
the police in Cincinnati one day last week
The woman knew of no husband and th'
children of no father.
OK the 10Th of April the great fight fo
the championship of the World betweel
llecnan and Sayers comes off. The bet
ting in England is about six to four il
Sayers' favor. In the same ring Lynch
the American, and Shaw are to fight fo
the championship of the light weights.
THE Iowa Legislature has conferred up
on the Cedar Rapids and Missouri Rive
Railroad Company land grant of 700
600 acres, recently reserved for the low
Central Company. This is the most val
liable grant in the State, and insures tn
speedy extension of that line to the Mis-
souri, River
The Portland Republican says the Cap
tain of brig whose name it could no
learn, was in that city Friday, who say