Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-11-19
XAIsIOItS ITEMS.

Some Of the Brahmins in India have rs
many as one hundred and thirty wives. This
beats the Mormops out Of sight
Brigham Young, in a late address to the
Mormons, says that the present war is "vis.
itation from Heaven upon the people be-
cause they killed the prophet OF God, Joseph
Smith, Jr."
The dead at Chattanoga are reported as
still unburied They lie indiscriminately
over the battlefield, and wagons hourly pass
r over them.
A man named Weed, working or rDo o'""
/, of the Susquehanna, lately ''h Oh "oo ~.
.., A., read between the fork OF
, A.. ,.n...nss, where, being unable to help
! ,,,,~sefr, be hung until be was dead.
In the town OF Shoals, Indiana, difficulty !
occurred between a white man and a negro,
the latter literally cutting the white man to
pieces. The quarrel grew out of discussion
on the Slavery question. The negro fed,
but was soon after found near by, dead, with
two bullet holes in his head.
There are eight soup societies in Phadel. |
phia, one of which distributed last winter
eighty three thousand pints of soup, eight
thousand nine hundred ard sixty pounds OF
bread, and seven thousand six hundred
pounds Of Indian meal.
Vermont farmer sent to an orphan asy-1
lum for boy that was smart, active, brave,
tractable, prompt, industrious, clean, pious,
intelligent, good looking, reserved and mod
est, The Superintendent replied that their
boys were all human, though they were or
phans. and referred him to the New Jerusa-
lem II he wanted his order filed.
The rebels have adopted a method OF re-
cruitng their armies which might be follow
ed with advantage in the North. General
Bragg allows every non commissioned officer
or private forty days furlough who obtains
a recruit for his army--the recruit to be mus
tered in before the iurough is granted. This
makes the friends Of every soldier anxious to
obtain recruit in his name in order that he
may visit them at home.
5 1" Those who vote must fight" was the
1 repeated declaration of the abolition press
Q before the elections. Massachusetts, has vo.
ted; now let Massachusetts fight.
We do not believe in Democrats quarreling
with each other about things past. The tru,
. other, particularly when that enemy is divi
ded among themselves and invites attack.
= The report that President Lincoln hereaf
o ter proposes to sentence persons who may b'
. arbitrarily arrested, to take command OF thu
Army Of the Potomac, needs conf
u The Ohio Farmer says that coal oil ha
been found by accident, to be most effectv
means OF protecting fruit trees against th
~ ravages OF the curculio, by placing sawdust
saturated with the oil, at the foot OF the tree o
W Rosecruns, when he was writing politica
- letters to the Ohio Legislature, was " al
y hunk" with the administration. As soon a
" the elections were over, charges the most as
founding and surprising are made againsthin
: by tho administration organs. If they ar,
true, why was he not removed before the flgh
at Chickamaugai But abolition ways ar
hard to explain.
=. We desire to encourage volunteering, an,
:, say to the unconditional Brough- and Unior
men," now is the time to enlist. The thin
ned ranks OF our armies must be filed vi
. either BY draft OF volunteers /!
Forty five men were recently drafted II
Lyndon, Vermont. and one. third OF tht
number were exempted twenty mine paid
. Tho commutation fee, and ono went to war
Prince MaXimillian's departure for Mexico
is said to bo fixed for the Ind of February
next. He is reported to be engaged in dis
cussing with members of the Mexican Lega
I tion tho plan of new Constitution adapted /,
the spirit and wants of the Mexican people
i Tho Supreme Court of the State of Penn
II sylvania has decided that the Conscriptio
Law is unconstitutional
A bill to allow any one to change his or he
name as often as desired has been introduces
into the Vermont Legislature. The introdu
n Ger must be modern improvement" man.
# New playing cards are spoken of, the pic
n lures for which are to be taken from tn
Il forms and faces OF men who have distinguish
ed themselves in the war. Shoddy contract
ors will represent the knaves.
4 Mr.. Seward, Mr.. Lincoln's first Cabine
:. minister, nominatcs his principal for re>eoc
a tion to the Presidency, thus seeming TO con
firm what Wendell Phillips said, namely: tha
il the present Cabinet was only a committee t,
n manage the next Presidential election.