Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-08-17
NEWS ITEMS.


by the president at the solicitation of Mrs.
Douglas.
The cholera in the island of Malta is
raging fcarfully. Communication with the
adjacent islands has been suspended.
There are one thousand laborers at pres
cnt employed on the Spanish frontier in
cutting the tunnel for the railway through
the Pyrenees.
! 1t is probable that the trial of jeff. Davis
will soon take place in civil court. His
counsel have received an intimatlon to that
effect, and. have commenced preparations for
! his defence
! John Bell who is now in Nashville, is
said to have failed greatly in health during
| the last four years. His features show the
ravagcs of time, and care and trouble.
Mrs. Stone, 1O7 years old, active and
healthy, resides at Harrisburg, Pa. She
is the oldest inhabitant.
Robert Ould, the late rebel commissioner
of exchange of prisoners, has resumed the
practice of law in Richmond.
A female in male attire was arrested the
other night in the streets of Cincinnati, who
proved to be a respectable lady of the city,
who had adopted this disguise to watch her
husband, whom she suspected of inhdelity
She was released and advised to return home,
which she consented to do.
During the three months, from the first
of May to the first Of August, over 20, 900
arrests were made in New York city.
The Wilmington, N. c., H,raM contains
nearly column of outrages and assassna-
tions by negro soldiers in that city, perpe-
trated on the I'd of August. Two or three
policemen were assaulted and dangerously
injured, and number of other lawlcss acts
openly and boldly committed.
Letters from Naples describe a temple of
Juno Just discovered among the recent ex-
cavations at Pompcii. Three hundred
skeletons were found crowded within the
sanctuary, propitatory service having
evidently been held in the hour they were
overwhelmed.
John Bright, a returned soldier, killed
DR.. Colbun, Of Leighton, Mich, for kissing
his wife.
Thomas +. Meagher has been appointed
secretary of Montana territory.
Gen. Gid Pillow is reported to be making
: union speeches in Tennessee.
DIR. Mott, the venerable president of
Union college, Schenectady, n Y, now 90
years old, is failing rapidly.
4 l. HC tulIclDl VI Auotlld has SlSUG'l IL uc-
: cree ordering the suppression of military
. tribunals for the trial of offences committed
by civilians in Hungary This is an act
which might be initiated here in the United
q States.
The army worm threatens the entire de-
: struction of the cotton crop in Wharton
S county, Texas One field Of 200 acres was
| destroyed in night.
t 1t is said that the scheme of introducing
c emigration into Virginia slikely to fail from
the indispositlon of the landed population
to sell.
=. The Cincinnati correspondent of the Bos
y ton (OUrier says the race for [. 5. Senate
,, in Ohio will be between John Sherman
l. Gen. Schcnck and Benz. Egglcston. IIuzz;
:, Il for Ben.
q Charles ii. Cornwall, convicted ofabstract
d ing public records, at Washington, and sen
fenced to pay n fine ofS2, 900, has been par
+ doned by the President.
y The principal hotels of Boston were Wis
: tied, a few days since, by the Internal Rev
t cnuo officers, who seized their entire stock,
Of cigars, for alleged violation of revenu,
laws
There is great lawlcssness in parts o
Texas, bordering the Rio Grande Bands o
tlllcNcS lllcot INC country, urlNlnS OH STOCK
$, The Emperor of Brazil has appointed
IS Board of Health to investigate and de
y eide what proprietary remedies should b.
q admitted into the country and what exclud
n ed. After some months session they hav
reported condemning them all except DIR. j
's &. Aver & Co. $ preparations. Three O
y those they recommended the Emperor t.
O. admit for the benefit of the public health
X while they hold the fourth, Cherry Pee
Id toral under advisement for further inlorma
$, ton respecting one of its ingredients-m
lc phinc, which, while SO extensively employe
v and so highly esteemed as remedy in th
o. country, is scarcely known in that. Of Il
n the other medicines before them, the In
'd perial commission say, no one Of thel
nj merits any favor whatever, or protectio
h' from this Government, as they contai
III nothing new nor any specified virtues nC
ut fully known and used by our own physicians
r. The Imperial Government has according
r. prohibited them all from admission throug
n the custom house, except the remedies
es our distinguished countrymen above mel
e, toncd-a discrimination by their lcarnc
ut men, very like that to which experience h,
IL, led tho American people. - Boston Ucrah