Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-11-29

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To kiss your own shadow, place your
self between the light and the person you
intend kissing on whose face your shad-
ow will be thrown.
A MARQUIS said TO a financier: al
would have you to know that am m an
of quality" "And l." said the finan-
cier, "am man ofquantity."
BY the bursting ofa camphene lamp in
house in San Francisco, whole fami-
ly was burnt to death, and the house and
furniture destroyed.
WHEN Aristotle was asked what were
the advantages of learning, he repied-
at is an ornament to man in prosperity,
and refuge in adversely"
Wendell Phillips says that the "spectre
hand of John Brown lifted Abraham Lin
coin to the presidency" And that John
Brown was behind the curtain at Chicago
when Lincoln stepped out in front"
DENsoM. a slave implicated in the late
insurrectionary plot in Princess Anne
County, Virginia, has been sentenced to
transportation for life.
EDwsRD EVERETT, at the suggestion of
Messrs. Sheldon & Co., publishers, is
about to write life of Franklin, and
hopes to complete it in the course of next
year.
A gay widow of thirty, living in STRAIT
ford, Canada, lately sned young man
of twenty one for $40, 900 for breach of
marriage. The jury gave her $500.
q. II. LARABEE. NJ. c.. from Wiscon-
sin, a few days ago fell through the floor
Of his Touring mill at Haricon and sus-
tanned severe injuries.
A New Orleans dispatch saws: Gov
ernor Moore, Of this State will convene tho
Louisiana Legislature on the 10th of De-
cember to deliberate in reference to pub
lie affairs.
Hon LEWIS CAss. JR. arrived at his
home in Detroit recently. His health
having some time since compelled him TO
abandon public life. He has been travel
ing in Europe since he resigned his minis
try to Rome, but with little benefit.
DEXTER, the sculptor, states that Gov.
Willard took the deepest interest in hav-
ing State collection Of the busts of all
the Governors of the Hoosier State-and
advanced money toward having copy of
his own made--little thinking that it
would so soon bo monument to his
memory.
THEIR VICToRY Is THEIR DEFEAT-The
Toronto Globe expresses the opinion that
"Lincoln will have great difficulty in sat
isfying both North and South: and says
it will not surprise us to see the Republi-
can party torn by dissensions at no dis
tant day.
The Philadelphia Ledger, a few days
since contained the following interesting
advertisement; it speaks for itself:
"Wanted, by respectable colorcd
family, q white boy, fourteen or sixteen
years of age, to wait on the table, and
make himself generally useful about the
house."
A young lady. residing at Newburgh,
on tho limo OF tho Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad. having been disappointed in
love affair, left the house few nights
since, went to the railroad track, and hav-
ing thrown her clothes head, delib-
erately laid her neck upon one of the rails
and remained there until train ran over
her, killing her instantly.
AMONG the noticeable circumstances of
the Southern movement, says the Virginia
Sentinel, is the interest taken by the ladies
in the manifestations Of resistance to re-
publican rule. AS the Minute Men
were moveing in procession through
Columbia on the night of the l4th inst,
the account says they were cheered by the
ladies from all quarters"
The Pittsburg police have arrested
James Cooper of Monrovia, Robert and
Harvey Cunningham, of Homevood sta
ton on the p. TT w. " G. Railroad, and
James NJ. Bannon, proprietor of the New
Brighton House, New Brighton, all on
charge of counterfeiting. A large amount
of spurious coin, &C.. was found in the
possession of the prisoners.
TRuE,-The Alexandria, (Va.) Gas.
cite, which is strongly conservative, says:
those Black Republican papers at the
North which are exultng at their success
and treating the excitement at the South
as worse than nothing, or making insult
ing remarks in relation to tho condition of
thing at the South, are incendiaries of the
worst stamp. Nero fiddled while Rome
was burning; but the fanatics heap fuel
on the fire which they themselves have
kindled, and which patriotic and good
men everywhere are now endeavoring qui-
etly to extinguish.
THE Chicago Times says that about
forty negroes of that city have organized
a m ilitary company under the name of
Freedom Guards One of the objects of
orgaization is to rescue fugitive slaves
from the hands Of Government officers
whenever any such shall be captured. A
year on Georgia rice plantation would
be beneficial to these Freedom Guards.
says the N. Y. Journal Of Commerce,
with whom we heartily concur.