Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-05-31

Alfred Collins, were killed by lightning
striking the tree under which they had
taken shelter. Two others were slightly
injured.
The Republicans of Missouri have pre-
sented Mr. Potter with bowie knife
eight .fetl long. They should have shaped
it like a sickle, so that he could stand be-
hind a tree to fight.
The lower House of Congress has Civ
en- Mr.. Howard, Republican, the scat in
the 1st district of Michigan, which he
contested with Mr.. Cooper, Democrat
Howard got nearly the same votes that
elected Pennington Speaker.
The Government has made contract
with the Colonization Society for the
support of the Africans captured on the
Wildfre by the Mohawk. 1t is expected
they will be conveyed by the Society to
Liberia.
A man in Troy, n. Y. named Thomas
Downing, became enroged at balky
horse, and opening the mouth of the an
imal, pulled its tongue outl The horse
had to be killed, as it was impossible for
it to eat.
THE Republicans in Congress have de-
feated the bill for paying the Police Of
the District of Columbia, thus showing
their sympathy with the plug uglies and
other blaguards who fell under police sur
veillancc.
THERE was genuine IIoosier in the
Chicago Convention, named Buskirk
who was six feet eleven inches in height
He must have been the tall pole which
=. knocked the persimmons for Lincoln.
The crop of Coffee in Brazil is larger
than ever before known; the limbs of the
trees having to be propped up to prevent
their breaking beneath the weight of the
growing berries. The new coffee will not
be in market before the middle of June
The Republican committee of the
Board of Aldermen in Worcester, Mass.
have placed two negro BARRIERS upon the
jury list for the coming year. This is {
practical carrying out of Republican doc
trine.
The Belgian journals state that thu
Notifications of Antwerp are advancing
but slowly, owing to many cases Of leve
) among the workmen. 1t is also said tha
the wages paid are insufficient to Undue
he best to remain This state of thing
causes great dissatisfaction among tn
towns people.
A murderer named johnson, was re
, Gently hung at Dubuque, Iowa, who RAJ
lightly up the steps mounting to tn
scaffold, removed his shirt collar, adjust
. ed the moose to his own satisfaction, pro
claimed his innocence and died like sol
dicr, without a struggle.
n The report is that while Mr.. Lincoln
protective tariff man, Mr. Iamlin is
free trader. Such an incongruity betwce
candidates Oh the same ticket is consist
ent with Republicans, though with moth
ing else.
y The Albany ALlaS says the reception c
a the news cf Lincolns nomination wa
very chilly there. cover n ton of fiji
;. works, and many gay banners and trans
! parencieS had been provided in anticipa
ton of Mr.. Stewards nomination. BIT
not rocket, or even Roman candl,
was let off, nor building, not even tt
" journal office, Illuminated"
h The Wantona wisconsin, Arg,
says: Last week we chroniclcd the decea
ST of Mrs. Case, of this village, "aged 81,
=. teen years, six months, and ten days.
Mrs. c., so early called from life
death, was married about three years ag
and has left three little children to mou
, mothers loss-a sad commentary ,
the error of such early marriages l.
parents beware, and girls take warnin
NEAR Mansfield, week ago last Sa
" urday. a dead child, three or four mont
y old, was found in the woods, where
:" had undoubtedly been left to starve by
parents. a servant girl, named Sar'
Gates, has been arrested on sus picion
Is She has since been acquitted.
% Republicanism is not well received
'o the Old Dominion. Mr.. w. II. Gilt
III Montgomery county, Va, who was a
pointed an elector for the State at lar
Is by the late Wheeling republican conve
IN tion, is out in card in the Richmo
+. iader, denouncing the organization, a
demanding to know by what authori
bo his name had been used in that come
,d ton.
lie THE qualifications Of Mr.. Lincoln
TO the Presidency are gradually y being dev
$, opcd, a correspondent OF the n.
~ Al.