Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-08-03
NEWS ITEMS.


are understood to have indicated a purpose
to treat their Southern Brethren just as II
the rebellion had not taken place. This is
the sensible course to pursue.
The gold and silver coinage Of the San
Francisco mint during the fiscal year just
ended, EQUALS Slq,0O0,0O0. \ telegram
from British Columbia states that one min
ing claim in Carriboo yielded over 100000
during the week ending july 1th.
4 dead body was recently found in bar
rel of brandy sent from Philadelphia to a
Richmond druggist.
1t is said there was never but one man
who wasn't spoiled by Icing lionized-he
was jew and his name was Daniel.
There is a scarcity of cottonin New York,
and its place is principally supplied by whis-
ky.
A Louisville paper says it is more dan
gcrous than a pitched battle to walk a dozen
squares in that city after the street lamps
are lighted
1t rainod frogs in Detroit the other day.
General Sherman and General Meredith
have spoken against negro suffrage. Why
can't General Cox do the same thing? Isl
he afraid that Langston and Obcrlin will
throw their influence against him if he shall
do so?
| The Abolitionists argue that the negro is
the equal Of the white man. lie may be as
/ far as they are concerned. They are better
able to measure their own capacities than
any one else.
The Miss Mcl'limscys' who have pretty
ankles will be gratiicd to learn that the
fashion makers are trying to introduce the
peasant skirt, which doesn't reach the
ground by several inches.
! The abandoned females in st. Louis who
fall into the clutches of the police, arc put
to work breaking stones for the road
new kind of street walking.
The United States Pacific Railroad com
pany have placed twelve hundred miles of
their new line of telegraph to California un-
der contract, to be built before the end of
the present season. The wire for the lInc
has been purchased, and the poles for the
interior portion of it will be cut this fall.
The whole line from Chicago to San Fran
cisco, will be completed and in operation in
one year.
i a battered mimic ball has Just been ex-
tracted from the head of recovered New
Haven soldiers after remaining there lO7
days
A young Kentucky giant name Bud
Bates is seven feet tall and weighs $40 lbs.
He is indeed a bud of promise.
The Government negro boarding and
work house IN Arkansas is said to be work
ing well. We have no doubt the board
part is.
General Dick Taylor has applied for a
pardon. lie is at Willard Hotel i'm Wash
ington.
The Navy Department is informed that
the Steamer Dictator made ten knots an
hour going into port, and would have gone
faster if her bottom had been clean.
The military have assumed the iurisdic.
ton OF all negro cases in Alexandra.
General Roddy is in Washington applying
for pardon.
N. A. Sturdevant has been elected Mayor
of Richmond, and j. w. Wright Sheriff
They were both Confederate soldiers under
General Lee.
> The New York H0uWs Fortress Monroe
correspondent says that Mr.. Jefferson Da-
, Wis is permitted out door exercise; that is,
outside his cascmatc, but inside the fort.
, The reason was the feeble state Of his health
, Mr.. Clay, through his physician, has re
\ ccivcd the same privilege.
y General II. g. Wright is to have com
Z mand Of the Department of Texas, an,
), General Candy that of Louisiana.
T. Arthur Tappan, one of the early Aboli
n tionSts, died at New Haven, Conn, in TIN,
&c cighticth year Of his age.
/ 1t is said that perfect reign of tcrro
u prevails in Texas, and that murders ant
c robberics prevail to an alarming extent. |
is denied that Generals Kirby Smith or Ma
II grudcr made anything by cotton specula
l ton.
u The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that manufactured tobacco may
y be cut into smoking or chewing tobacco, i
~ it is done in the presence of the Inspector
~ without extra duty.
n There are said to between seven and cigh
~ thousand Texans and Missouriaus on thci
"a way to Mexico. They are organized an,
:, armed.
10 There is complaint that the Federal an
st thoritics do not furnish transportion to pa
ID rolled rebel soldiers who wish to return,
of According to news from liberal sources
At General Ortcga, partisan of Juarcz, ha
rs received an accession from deScrtlon, of tw
N entire reg imcnts from the Imperial service
lc lie says that he is daily receiving offer
lie from Mexican officers, now with the French
ct to serve him.
'X He says that Maximillian has contractc
1T with foreign spcculator for the introduC
le ton of Il large number of negroes, who III
rs y, to be held in slavery for ten years, undo
ia such conditions as to make it in reality tt
t. life. This news is to be received with grci
N caution, and is very likely untrue.
u, ~ According to the New York Times WaSl
:, inton special, the health of jeff. Divis
~ ~ better now than it has been for five year
it General Joe Johnson has applied for pa
~ don and will receive it,
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