Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-07-27
NEWS ITEMS.

disposing of rival in the agections of
colored woman of that city. lie chopped
his head off with a hatchet while he slept.
Edward Timanns won jumping match
last week for $50, distance achieved, twelve
feet ono inch; his opponent jumped eleven
feet eleven inches and Il half 1t is said to
have been the creates jumping match ever
witnessed.
The gold coinage at the United States
mint for June amounted to S4OO 900, all of
which was in double eagles. The silver
coinage in the same time was %, 800 in half
dollars.
General Hooker by getting married, has
entered u new field operations. We hope
that he will be more successful than at
Chanceorvi where he gave it up after
a three days effort, or with Sherman, when
he left in disgust because some other man
was preferred to himself
A clerk in the quartermastcr's office at
Cincinnati, named David Pierce, issued
vouchcs to the amount of SlO,-
600, for which he was arrested on Sunday.
\ lawyer employed as his counsel, was al
lowed to take the prisoner into private
room for consultation, of which indulgence
the culprit took advantage, and escaped
hC consumption VI UccT Is rapidly IN
creasing in the United States. In 1860 the
amount sold was eight millions of barrels.
In 1864 the quantity used had increased to
twenty four millions Of barrels, or about a
barrel apiece for every body.
Elections will take place as follows -
Kentucky, members of Congress and State
Treasurer LIST Mondayin August; Vermont,
Governor, Lieutenant Governor and State
Treasurer, lst Tuesday in September; Maine,
Governor and Legislature, ID Monday in
September
The New York World asks ''if opinion
could make man Il traitor, what would
have become of such men as Giddings, and
Sumner and Seward, who held that the
Constitution was not the supreme law Of
the land, but that there was higher law
their own will? If there be such u thing as
moral treason, the leaders of the Republican
party were the first moral traitors"
They have had great rains at the East,
causing destructive frcshets in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, doing an immense amount
OF damage to property.
The President has appointed Hon. Charles
Durkec Governor of Utah. He is an ultra
radical, and was formerly United States
Senator from Wisconsin, and is a member
OF the Negro suffrage Committee.
1t seems almost incredible, but it is true,
that there is a house in Norristown, Pa, a
handsome and convenient house, which
stands empty, amid the great scarcity of
dwellings, because it has the reputation of
being haunted. This is the year of grace,
1860 Do we progress?
On Monday, at Jordon, New York, a
young woman named Emma Tuttle, died
from ancurisIn Of the heart, produced by
excessive laughter.
a woman has been arrested at Madison,
Indiana, for starving two child.cn, her
nephew and niece. She put them in a
woodshed and kept them there until the Girl
died, and the boy was discovered by some
people almost gone.
There are not less than 10000 applica.
TONS for olllce on file in the Treasury De
partmcnt.
The demands upon the Treasury amount
now to the enormous sum of four or five
millions of dollars II day.
1t is thought there will not be more than
20, 900 bales Of cotton raised in Mississippi
this year.
Gov. Morton, of Indiana, is about visiting
Kentucky, on II missionary tour. He pro
poses to use his influence to carry the state
at the coming election.
The commissioner of pensions has decided
that the remarrlage Off widow terminates
all claim to a pension from the date of such
rcmarriagc.
Adyiccs from Alabama state that the
planters have leagued together and refuse
to sell land to Yankees on any terms. The
negroes refuse to work, and serious diff
Guilty il feared between them and the whites
| "A large number of post Offices have beer
re-establshcd in Mississippi and kcntucky
and postmasters appointed.
The pay Of the provisional governors OF
the southern states is $4,000 per annum
payable from the state department.
A number of rebel generals have recent,
been released from Fort Warren Amonl
them was Maj. Gen, Jackson of Savannah
and it is understood that Gems. Marmaduk,
and Pottlc were also of the party.
Ben, Butler is trying to get the abolition
nomination for governor Of Massachusetts
II he fails in the regular convention, it i,
ntmatod that he will run as a tempcranc,
candidate.
Two hundred and sixteen barrels of oil
two weeks production Of the Germania
(ky.) Coal Company, have reached Louis
vile. The wells are located in Barron
county, Ky,
a Chinaman in Virginia City, having q
grudge against pig-eyed fellow country
man, placed II keg of powder under his
house, and sent it into the air The intend
cd victim, however, was not in the dwelling
at the time.
The device of the state seal of Virginia
has been altered by the new state govern
mcnt. The old device is retained, but the
words Liberty and Union" surmount the
goddess Of liberty trampling on the fallen
tyrant.
Some unpatriotc fellow who was fond Of
sleeping latc stole the tongues from all the
church bells in Ellsworth, Me-, on the nigh,
before the Fourth, and the next morning,
therefore, they were speechless.
Hon. Lewis Parsons, who has been ap-
pointed governor of Alabama by President
johnson, was formerly AN old line whig.-
In 1889 MIR, Parson uuited himself to the
national democracy, believing, as he alleged,
that that party was the only remaining bull.
wark against the cncroachments of the abo
ltionists of the north and the scccssionist,
Of the south.
A man in Bdlcford, Ne. blew his brain.
out because he was 'out of health, withou
property, and life was burden.
The use of Webstor's hair invigoratol
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