Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-01-21
News Items.

Our of twenty one Iowa regiments and
! five Iowa batteries in Gen. Doge command,
nineteen regiments and four batteries have
re-enlisted.
A Force of /, 600 carpenters and railroad
laborers are going from New York TO Nash
vile. Tenn, to complete the railroad to
Chattennuga.
THE total debt of the city of Boston is
S1l, ,24S,732 Of this amount, S379,773
was added during the past pear.
PHILADELPHIA consumed last year 81, GA
beeves, 222, 1919 sheep, l79,5S0 hogs, and
and $3.50 cows.
COMMISSIONER Newton's agricultural re-
port discloses the fact that there is a def
cheney in the corn crop, for the year, of
100000 bushels.
THE parties at work on the wreck of the
Golden Gate have recovered six hundred and
fifty four thousand dollars of the treasure
sunk with her.
THERE are twenty thousand societies in
England.
THERE are sad accounts of disease among
the sheep and cattle in a great many parts
of England,
CHLORINE decolorizcs precious stones, but
the diamond, ruby and sapphire resists its
influence.
IT having been announced by telegraph
that nothing remains to prevent the taking
of Charleston whenever the Admiral wills
it, cotemporary exclaims:
'Well, why don't he take it p
That editor is uertlant The Radicals no
more want to take Charleston than they
want to end the war.
Provisions are enormously high in Jack
son, Tenn Salt is quoted at one hundred
dollars per bushel, and whisky at forty dol
lars gallon, in Confederate money, and
five dollars gallon in Federal money.
EASTERN capitalists are buying immense
tracts of land in Michigan. One New York
Company has invested three hundred thou
sand dollars. Where are our Land Reform
ers
THERE were forty cases of small pox in
the Penitentiary at JeffcrSonville, Indiana,
on the 18th inst, but only two deaths had
occurred in the prison The disease was
still spreading in the town, and six deaths
had occurred among the citizens.
ONO, Indiana, Illinois and Iowa have
been formed into Military Department,
with General HEINTzLEMAN as its comman-
der. The headquarters are to be in Cincin-
natl.
A MAN died in New York last week from
the effects Of laughing gas, while having
his teeth extracted in dentists Office.
IT is currently reported that Dr. WAR
Rem, the late State Comptroller of Calfor
mia, is defaulter to the State in a large
amount, and has left the country
Ice formed in New Orleans two inche,
thick on the night of the 2nd of January
The intense cold extended even South Of
that into the tropics
In the Boston Sanitary Fair, amongst
other curiosities was the manuscript OF
- Home, Sweet Home" by the author
John Howard Paine, the sword of Miles
Standish, and the lock Of the gun which
killed King Philip, Of Mount Hope, in
1776.
ARCHBISHOP HUGHES dying request
was that he "should be buried in the sun
shine. " 1t has been arranged to deposit
his remains in vault under the pavement
attached to the cathedral, near where Bish-
op DUBOIS was buried.
THE State Senate of Ohio has oustod
Hon. Z. j. KINNEY on some frivolous plea
concerning the soldiers vote, and given the
seat to Mr.. GAss, the contestor.
| "A FEW udyS dSoj dL ShlCttSOi ncgIt
enlisted in the army. He received his boun
ty, squandered it, and then hung himself
The Steamships City of Manchester anC
Hammonia sailed from New York the Other
day. with specie amounting in the aggre
gate to 81 400, 900.
THE coolest day ever known in Cincinna
ii occurred on the 9th of January, 1856. -
The mercury stood at fourteen degrees be
low zero in the city and twenty-five degree
below zero on the hills.
SEVENTEEN thousand two hundred an,
nineteen persons were committed to prison
in Philadelphia, during the past year, sever
hundred and four Of whom were females.
THE Iowa Legislature has reelected JAS
W. GRIMES, Abolitionist, to the Unite,
States Senate from that State for six year
from the 4th of March next
Albert s. White, of Indiana, is to b.
appointed United States District Judge o
that States, in place of Caleb B. Smith, de
ceased.
GEN. Banks says he will soon complete th
organization of the State Governmet il
j Louisiana.
The Schooner Joseph L. Gcrty has beel
captured by rebel passengers and taken in
to Balizc, Central America. The Govern
ment has offered $500 for the apprehension
of those engaged in the act,
A slight shock of an earthquake wa
fell at Balize, Honduras, on December 26
1t is reported that the Federal Cavalry
will soon make raid to Montgomery, Ala
1t is claimed that Lees force in Virgni,
does not now exceed 10000 men.
The object of the rebel force in the Shen
andoah Valley is to procure subsistence
England protests against the German oc
cupation of Holstein. The Danish troops
are evacuating the Duchy.
GENERAL BUTLER has taken off the ca
giles of Colored Nelson, of the Tenth Mig
ger Infantry, for impressing niggers into
his command.
gems. HUNTER, Wadsworth and Cad
wallader are ON the Court of Inquiry into
the conduct of Generals McCook and Crit
tenden.