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Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
The Late Prize Fight Between
IIeenan and King.

Several Americans who went to England
to witness the great mill between Heenan
and King have returned, and they tell, to
say the least, strange story; one, II true,
which speaks but poorly for English fair
play" Among these parties returned are
Tim Hcenan (John's brother) Con. tltz-
gerald, John Coope and Frank Mcintyre.
These men corroborate the testimony hith-
erto given of the unftness of Heenan's sec
onds, who failed to claim time" on one or
two stated occasions when King was unable
weakness from Heenan's blows. Sayers is
accused of being under the influence of too
frequent hbations, showing himself better
bottle holder than second.
His treatment of the boy was said to
be rough and unnatural, grabbing him by
his head and ears. Jerry Noon, so Filter
aid says, while Heenan was lying on the
ground, attempted to dislocate his thumb,
exclaiming Hell have no more need of
that hand" The falls given King by Hec-
nan are said to be terrific and King 5 Sec
ond is accused of catching him one under a
heavy fall, which would have probably laid
| him out.
A letter received by well known 'bil-
| lardist' in this city from England, land
from one who knows what he is writing, }
says that 'Heenan was drugged." ltsays,
also, that 'four physicians who attended
Heenan after the fight, stand ready to pub
lish their sworn afhdavits to the fact that
his system was full of chlorofom; but Heen-
an viii not permit il" If this is true, a
few months time at the furthest will bring
it out. BY and by there will be dispute
over the spoils, and then some preaching
will be done, for murder will out.-Ne,c
! York Ne,Cs.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
Sslett 4oetrp.
waiting for Our Soldiers.

BY the blue Potomac's waters,
BY the Rappahannock, line,
BY the sunny Southern rivers,
Meath the holly and the pine,
Falling in The shock of battle,
Wounded, in their blood they lie
Pining with the dark malaria
So our youthful patriots die.
In the city, in the village,
In the hamlet far away,
Sits the mothers, watching, waiting,
For the soldier-boys to-day.
They are coming, daily coming,
One by one, and score by score,
In their leaden sasings folded
Underneath the flag they bore.
Thinks the mother weeping, waiting,
And expectant all the day
When his regiment was summoned,
How her soldier went away
With his bayonet a-gleaming,
With his knapsack on his back,
With his blanket wrapped and folded,
And his home filled haversack.
Thinking Of the courage swelling
In his eyes and in his heart,
Though manly tear was rolling,
When he kissed her to depart
Thinking of his precious letters,
Written by the damp-fre's glow,
Rich in love of home and country,
And of her who bade him go.
Counting now the tagging moments
For the knocking at the door,
For the shufiling and the trampling
Feet of strangers on the floor;
Bringing in their precious burden,
Leaving her to grief and tears;
To the sorrow and the mourning
Darkening all the coming year.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
Recruiting of Negroes in Ken
tuCky---Letter from Governor
BramAGtte.

From the Louisville journal, Jan. 49,
His excellency Gov. Bramlette, having
been addressed bya certain person who was
thcr negro ro-recruiting officer or would be Ell
one, responds to the individual as follows
COMMONWEALTH OF KENTUCKY,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
FRANKFoRT, Dec. IA, 1868.
Captain EDWARD CAHILL, Recruiting
Colored Troops:
"SIR--Yours of the 10th inst, inform
ing me that you had been ordered to Ken
lucky to recruit Free Colored Men" for
the army of the United States, and asking
my consent for so doing, is before me. You
do not inform me by what authority you
come to Kentucky to recruit free colored
men" / know of no act of Congress re-
quiring such service, nor have L seen any
order from the War Department directing
| it. On the contrary, | am well assured that
in Difference to our peculiar position and to
avoid unnecessarily aggrayating the troubles
Of the loyal men of Kentucky, the anthorl-
ties ut Washington do not contemplate re.
cruiting "colorGd men" in Kentucky. We
are ready to fiji our quota from the Tree
white citizens of Kentucky. We will un-
hesitatingly comply with the requisition lol
men to defend our Government. We claim
the right to furnish from citizens whose du
4 ty it is to make that defence, and who are
ready to comply with the requirements o.
duty. ThSduty of defence devolves upor
those who enjoy the benefits Of our govern
ment. From such we will fill the call upon
u.s. We presume that white men who owe
the duties of allegiance to the Government
will be accepted for its defence. We will
furnish them. If, therefore, you came tt
recruit "coored men, for the benefit Of
Kentucky, we decline your services. i
T you came to recruit for the benefit Of anoth
er State, we deny your right to do so, ant
forbid it, No State has the right under any
law or order to enter Kentucky to recrui
either white or ''coored men. We do no
intermedde with any State that chooses t.
recruit "colored men, within its own limits
But no State that is not willing to meet thu
measure of duty'b contributing its quot
from its own population shall be permitted
t to shelter from duty behind the free negr
population of Kentucky.
eve shall meet the call upon us withou
enlisting "colored men, and your Stat
r must meet its call from its own white o
r ''colorcd" men, as may best suit its people
t and not assume to recruit either which o
9 black in Kentucky.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
Close Questioning.

"Ah,' said skeptical cOlcgian to an old
Quaker, u suppose you are one of those
fanatics who believe the Bible p Said the
old man, Il do beieveit it Do you believe'it|
"No; l have no proof OF its truth. -
"Then, inquired the old man, does thee
bclive in France2' 'Yes; for thong | have
not seen it, have seen others who have,
Besides, there is plenty ofcoroborating proof
that such country does exist" Then thee
will not believe anything thee or others has
not seen r "No." "Did thee ever see
thy own brains p "No." Ever see a
man who did see them p "No," docs
thee believe thee has any?" This last ques-
ton put an end to the discussion,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
Cold I'm Ia Crosse.

Our exchanges speak of the cold in their
respective localities-but so far as we have
yet seen, their winter would be glorious
summer for this place. New Years it cul-
minated Old Boreas and General j. Frost,
united their forces, changed their base Of
operations from Artc fields to La Crosse
They threw out pckets ON Thursday night,
sank it--threw up breastwork of frozen
babes-barricaded General Caloric who was
intrenched in line Of hot stoves, and took
US all prisoners The engagement lasted
week, but was the most fearful on New
Years. We froze to death five times before
breakfast, The smoke, from the kitchen
chimney went to an altitude of nineteen
thousand feet and all the way it was lad
der of ice We cliined up to the top of the
ladder at nine o'clock in the morning-and
the air below was solid ice, so that we had
to drill our way through. We tried to re-
turn by drawing up the columns OF smoke
and falling through the hole, but froze in
before we had descended five inches b The
iron hoops were frozen from the well buck
cts. We went out to milk cow and when
half through discovery that she was frozen
stiff from the fact that one of her teats-
the hind one on the off side-broke off in
our hand A beautiful maltese cat, worth
about ninety-one dollars in a good season for
cats--had the tip of her tail froze. fast to
the parlor stove while it was red hot Obe
dent to the calls of affection she started for
frozen mouse which had been brought in,
and strange to say, as her tail was well CON
nected with her cutiole, she sprang clear
out Of her skin which was left froze fast to
the stove. She siezed the mouse and feel
ing the cold sprang back-entered the skin
the wrong way-it froze fast to her-she
could not get out and is there yet. A fine
new tail has grown from what was the front
end of the cat and she now resembles a
young elephant with the exception of the
cat, the only beast in the world that instead
of being "double header is a 'double
tailerl"
Every COW in the place gave ice cream
for five days. Every well in town is cake
of ice At noon of New Years all babies
born on that day had been frozen, and all
efforts in this line were at once postponed
week. This strategic move was dictated
by General Hugh Manity. In front of the
post-offce twelve cords of frozen ears, noses:
legs and arms we're picked up-broken off
and thrown aside as worthless. These frag-
ments have been saved for snashengers.
l An anvil in a blacksmith shop was placed
before fire to draw the ice therefrom, and
4 in two minutes seven tons OF ice came out.
All the door bells were frozen off by ten
clock. The clappers to the church bells
went at half past ten and the clappers to the
Court House bell was frozen off at five min
utes before eleven. Two hundred frozen
stage drivers, with over three thousand
stage passengers, We're found frozen at the
toll gate Of the ice bridge on the river. We
are to-dayreeeiving dispatches by telegraph
which have been frozen fast to the wires till
now. Cold Very muchly.-La Crosse
Democrat
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
Love VIII Find "a Way.

A couple not one hundred miles from
Millersburg, carried on their oourtship, in
rather novel manor. A young man had
fallen in love" with the daughter OF his
employer, but from certain IDEAS of wealth,
a match was opposed by the father. The
consequence was-ha was forbidden to visit
his employers house. The old gentleman
was in the habit of wearing a cloak, and the
young couple made him the innocent bearer
of their correspondence. The lady pinned
a letter inside the lining of the old man
cloak every day, and when the father went
to his place of business and threw off his
cloak, the lover took out the ladys epistle
read it, and sent the reply back in the same
manner. Love and ingenuity were finally
successful.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

HENoLodY,-"My son. said the elder
Sprigges to Spriggles jr., to enlighten the
boy on the propagation Of the hen species,
''my son, do YOU know that chickens come
out of eggs p ''Do they p said Sprig-
giles ir., as he licked his plate IL thought
eggs came out of chickens" Thus ended
the first lesson.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

A young printer. "out west who started
PrpSnS Sand USs hss !" s sa Sa and %sssS %SsfsS
boy who is desirous of learning the printing
business b., can haye have ape permanent; situation
boy from the country preferred.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
Tuos, Il, BRAMLETrE,
HGovernor Of Kentucky

Who Capt. Edward Cahll is, or where
he comes from, we do not know, but happily
information on neither of these points is not
at all necessary to the comprehension of the
Governor letter, which speaks for itself. =
Any comment from us or from anybody else
would only dim the perspicuity and dull the
point of the text.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

A mullet-head, "down east who sent a
piece of poetry to printing Office without
any punctuations-one of the printers set II
up according to copy, the typo was accosted
one day in this wise ''Look here, Printer,
YOU have not punetuated my poem at all,
"Well, sir. replied the typo, I'm not point
sr-Im setter,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

A Democratic contemporary complains
that whenever an abolition traitor GENES to
his place TO make a speech, he invariably
bcgius by informing the audience that he
has been Democrat, We suppose the
scoundrcl does that to make it appear that
sometimes in his life he has heen in good
company. Though he lies, he is not desti-
tute Of an ambition to appear respectable.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

GREAT Truths. m not great man..
Abraham Lincoln,
1t is easier to pay large sum than II
to pay larger one,-A Lincoln Esq.
1t is easier to pay debt when you have
the money than it is when you havnt got
the money Old Abe.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

AN exchange comes to us with a notice
that Truth is crowded out of this issue.
This is almost as bad as the country editor
who said, "For the evil effects Of intoxica-
ting drink see our inside.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

EGGS have been filed with whiskey and
shipped in barrels. But now certain wo-
man sports gutta percha breasts filed with
Old Bourbon of the best quality and great
est age. From these the soldiers auaff de-
hcious draughts,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

A subscriber sends us the following inge-
NOUS vcrsiGcation. 1t will amuso our read
crs who delight in puzzles and apparent con-
tradictions
"a FLEXIBLE PLATFORM"
''Tho following platform we have arrang
ed to suit all parties. 1t is trinity in uni
ty-three in one. The first column is the
secession platform the second is the Abo
lition platform; and the whole, read togeth
er is the Democratic Platform. The plat
form is for the Union as whole-it is the
Democratic: but divided, one half is seces-
sion and the other Abolition:
Hurrah for the old Union
Secession is curse
we fight for the Constitution
the Confederacy is league with hell
we love free speech
the rebellion is treason
we glory in Free Press
separation will be tolerated
we fight not for the Niger
reconstruction must be obtained
we must succeed at all hazard
the Union we love
we love not the Nigger
we never said let the Union slide
we want the Union as 1t was
foreign Intervention is played out
we cherish the old flag
the stars and bars is Haunting lie
we venerate the Habeas Corpus
Southern chivalry is hateful
death to jeff Davis
Abe Lincoln is not the government
down with mob law
law and order shall triumph.
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

The true way Of reaching the right is
through the heart of the wrong; he who
goes around it finds but the other side Of
wrong, and the wrong side of right,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

A Battery in Virginia the other day she'll
ed Niger funeral, thinking it was body
OF rebels throwing up entrenchments
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

Speak as you mean, do as you profess,
and perform what you promise
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
Administrators A Notice.

NOTICE hereby given that the subscriber has bsen
IN duly appointed and qualified as Administrator de
bopis ofthe sststs Of O. w. Conyer, late Of Holmes
county. Ohio, deceased WIN NJ. LowIHER,
December fTth, Is63-vs,
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
A. J. BELL,

COUNTY RECORDER and NOTARY PUBLIC
~ Millersburg, o. lie is all times ready 70 tnr,
nl'h MI up ana sMSS M"r,rasss and Powers Of
Attorneys and Record the same take Depo-itions
20 be dsod in any of the Courts Of this state also
Protest Notes, Bills OF Exchange, &C. Office in the
Colnty Recorders office. l1a-ol
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
RACK PAY, BOUNTY &C.

BACK PAY, BOUNTY &C.
~ A. TAYLOR, Notary Public. lolmcsyil lie, D.
l. . will promptly attend to procuring back pay,
bounty and pensions for disnblcd and discharged
soldiers, and to tho collection OF claims i9r tht
riends OF those deceased. Nt-N)
Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-02-04

yxTATCH MAKER AND JEWELER, Main st.
w three doors west Of Weiriohs Hardwar'
.,oro Millersburg. o. t2i-20l
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-02-11
Sad but no Doubt True.

The New York Weekly affirms that
during the past year 1913 more children
died than were born in that city-show-
ing a work progressive determination.
The cause Is assigned to be that of fee
bleness of constitution on the part of pa
rents, and to physiological sameness or
natural likeness Of the parents--the effect
being similar upon the offspring to incest,
or marriage Of brothers and sisters, in
surfing death from any trifing disease
that may attack. Doctors say that no
skill can cure sickness in children Of in
cestuous parents, nor in children whose
parents are equal in physiological nature.
The fault is with the men who have be-
come efeminate or woman-like by fanci-
full or fashionable living. The defect
once forged terminates the family; not
as leprosy which is incurable, yet allows
offspring to mature; not as a scrofulous
constitution which may be reformed /;
but as judgement of Almighty God as
sessed upon those who change His wise
ordinations.
The writer afirms that if such degen-
eracy and incompatibleness of marriage
continues to run for two more generations
as rapidly as they have for forty years
under his own observation. butfew fami-
lies in the so-called higher degrees o.
Caucasian or white families will be free
from scrofula, idiocy, blindness or deaf
ness. By labor, toll and sweat shall mer
earn their meat. Any other means o.
living inures to feebleness and family de-
cay.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-02-11
Chicago Fourteen Years Ago and
Now

A late Chicago Tribune, after stating
that fourteen years ago the first train Of
cars ran out of that city, makes the fol-
lowing statement of the present railroad
business of that city. There are 80 trains
leaving daily, Of which Sc are freight
and 81 passenger. The total number of
cars in these trains is ,432 freight and
1853 passenger. Placing these out trains
all in one line, adding the length Of the
engine and tender of each, the total
length of all that leave the city daily is
Twenty-Five miles and t,oe2ve rods a
very respectable days journey, for man
to drive from one end to the other. The
incoming trains average the same length,
of course, and about the same business.
This, then, would make upwards of fifty
males of t, ANS required to transact the
daily railroad business of Chicago
There are moved daily on an average to
and from the city 9,7SC passengers and
2S,64o tons Of freight.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-02-11
IN PROBATE-Iowa County Court

Tn the matter of the estate Of John Ryalls deceased
ON reading and filing the petition of Mary Rogers OF
" Iowa County, representing among other mugs
that John Ryal late Of said County, on the seventeenth
day of December A. D. 1868, at Murfreesboro in the
State of Tennessee died interstate, leaving goods cha!
ties and estate within this County, that she the pe
toner is the late widow of said deceased and praying
that administration of said estate be to John Rogers OF
the Village of Dodgevlle in said County granted II
ordered that said petition be heard before the Judge
of this Court on Monday the 7th day of March, A. d.
1864 at the Probate Office in the Village OF DodgeVie
And further ordered that public notice Thereon De
given all persons interested by publishing copy OF
this order for three weeks successfully prior TO sad
day of hearing in the DoDGEv CHRONICLE weekly
newspaper printed and published at the village OF
Dodgevile in said County.
Dated February 9th, 1864. >. b. ANoLE1
diva County Judge
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-02-11
Freezing to Death.

That to be frozen to death must be
frightful torture, many would consider
certain from their own experience of the
effects of cold. But here we fall into
the usual error of supposing that the suf-
fering will increase with the energy of
the agent, which could only be tn case
if the sensibility remained the same. In
tense cold brings on speedy sleep, which
fascinates the senses, and fairly beguiles
men out of their lives. The most curl
Gus example of the seductive powers of
cold found in the adventures Of the
botanical party who, in Cooks first voy-
age, were caught in snow storm on Ter
ra del Feugo. DR.. Solander, by birth,
a Sweed, and well acquainted with the
destructive deceits of a rigorous climate,
admonished the company, in defiance of
lass itude, to keep moving on. ''Who-
ever sits down" said he, Twill sleep, and
whoever sleeps will perish" The doctor
spoke as sage, but he felt as man. In
spite of the circumstances of those he
instructed and alarmed, he was the first
to lie down and die. The same warning
was repeated thousand times in the re-
treat from Moscow. Allison, the storian
to try the experiment, sat down in his
garden at night, when the thermometer
had fallen down four degrees below zero,
and so quickly did the drowsiness come
stealing on, that be wondered how soul
of Napoleon's unhappy band had been
able to resist the trsachercrs inauenee.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-02-11
IN PROBATE-Iowa County Court.
In the matter of the estate Of Frederick Helmnsen de-

ON reading and filing the petition o S. W. Reese,
" attorney for Gertraud Hemensten admins tratrix
of the of said deceased setting forth the amount
of personal that has to her hands and the
disposition thereof the amount of debts outstanding
against said deceased rnd description OF the real es-
tate of which said deceased died seized, and the d.
ton and value thereof; and praying that license be to
her granted to sell part of said real estate to pay said
debts and that is necessary in order to pay the same
to sell part of said real estate it is therefore ordered
that all persons interested in said estate appear before
the Judge of this Conrt Wednesday the 10th day of
March ensuing at o'clock in the afternoon OF
said day at the Probate Office in the Village of Dodge
vile in said County, then and there to show cause f
any there shall be- why license should not be granted
to said administrative sell said real estate according
to the prayer of said petition.
And is is further ordered that copy of this order
shall be personally served on all persons interested In
said estate fourteen days before said day of hearing,
and published for four successive weeks in the DoDGE-
VILE CHRONICLE. weekly newspaper circulating in
said County.
Dated February I'd, 1864. ST. ANSLEY
n2l-4w County Judge
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-02-11
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

IOWA COUNTY COURT-IN PROBATE.
In the matter of the last a0 and testament Of Richard
Parry deceased
r ETTERS testamentary having been this day issued
1 to Catherine Parry of Iowa County, and six months
from the date hereof being allowed, and limited cred
tors to present their claims against said deceased for
and demands against the estate of said deceased be
ceved and adjusted before the Judge of this Court and
for that purpose he will be at hi office in the village OF
Dodgeville on the first Monday of each month during
the term above limited
And is further ordered that said executrx without
delay cause copy of this order to be published for
four successive weeks in the DonGEvILLE CHRONICLE
weekly newspaper circulating in said County, and also
that she like copy to be posted up in four differ
emit public places in said County
Dated February 9th, 1864. g. Is. ANSLEf
n2i-4w County Judge.