Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-05-26
NEWS ITEMS.

Lieut.. Gen. Grant was forty-two years
old a week ago last Thursday.
The battlefield correspondent of the
New York Post, (Aboltion,) admits a
$4,000. This is an immense loss--as great
as that of the French at Waterloo.
a severe drouth is prevailing in Mime
sofa. The ground is said to be dried sew
eral feet below the surface. Wells and els
terms are dry, and streams and lakes alarm
ingly reduced.
The Philadelphia Ereaiag Tlegraph, a
leading republican paper says that Grant
and Meade had about two hundred thousand
men in the late battles and then continues :
. Gen. Grant makes no attempt to conceal
the extent of his loss lie has lost pae third
Of lbs oJny but he thinks the rebel loss ex-
ceeds ours.
General AL. jenkins, formerly member
of Congress from the Kanawha District,
Virginia, is said to be mortally wounded in
a late engagement with the Fedcrals in
Eastern Virginia. He fell into our hands
and died soon after.
The militia have been put under arms in
st. Joseph, as trouble is brewing there
) among the charcoals and conservatives. -
Major Wilson of the enrolled militia was re-
Gently murdered near st. Joseph.
Edw. A. Pollard the editor of the Rich.
mond Eraniner, who wrote the Life Of
Stonewall Jackson" and the ''Southeri
} History of the War, is Federal prisoner
b He was captured on the prize steamer Gov
Harris.
Adjutant Leaning escaped the Fort Pill
low butchery in acurious way. lie was sew
erely wounded and was thrown into burn
4 L, 1 IL, Ia ,s,l
e known as q Free Mason and some of tn,
r rebels Immediately pulled him out, and t.
: Free Masonry he is thus indebted for hi
e life.
u The Richmond Enquirer of May 14tl
; states that Gen. Pembcrton, of Vicksbur
:, notoricty, has resigned his position a
l. Lieutenant General, and sought and obtain
ed the appointment OF Lieutenant Colonel
% General PembCrtOn was assigned to the com
:? mand of the artillery defending the al
e proaches north Of the city.
"a Arabella Patterson has recovered $500
y in suit tried before the Supreme Court
J, New York, against James Harrington, fC
~ injuries received by being run over by
T. butcher wagon belonging to the deiendan
and driven by one Of his servants.
The Supreme Court in Vermont has d,
a clarcd that the law Of that State conicrriu
- on soldiers the right to vote is unconsttl
tiona so far as it relates to State officers b,
e, constitutional as it relates to the Presidei
H. and members Of Congress.
- -, The Washington correspondent Of Il
" Philadelphia Press says that the Prcsilcl
= I" sweetly sleeps in the position of an ca,
-, conscience. As sweetly no doubt as son
:. women sleep or lie in the position Of an eas
" ' virtue -LouiSuiUe JOu1dL
fl Gov. Brough has issued an address to Il
of citizens Of Ohio, calling for contributions
is clothing and fruit for the wounded men c
O. the Potomac. He asks that contribution
Nv be sent forward Immediately to the Sta
" Agent, Mr.. James G. Wetmore, at Wasl
in ingtOn.
r. p That is a right loyal word spoken by Ger
in eral Butler, when he said there could be II
20 exchange, except of wounded soldiers
g. until the rebel authorities acknowledge co
IF ored soldiers prisoners Of war. Good for oil
st Ben C2eUeland Leader.
~ Soldiers and the real friends Of soldier
~ will please take notice.
es 4 Rochester boy playfully aimed gun
his mother and snapped the lock. tchal
ccd to be loaded, and the mother was sh,
Ie dead.
II. Buchanan Read, the poet, who HI
d, been one OF the loudest brawlers for perpe
he ual war, was drafted in Cincinnati the OF
cs- er day, but refuses to go or to pay his col
Is, mutation money on the ground that he
in not citizen Of the country. He is not al
an to tell Of what county he is a citizen.