Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-11-16
NEWS ITEMS.

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A little girl in Indiana destroyed her eye
sight by looking at the sun during the re-
cent eclipse.
They have the hog cholera badly near
Evansville, Ind.
A man in Tennessee killed coon the 9th
or day which weighed 35 pounds. The
'rings on his tall showed that he belonged
to the coon party of 1910.
A country journal in Michigan complains
that the village has no grave yard. AS we
find in the same paper the advertisements of
two doctors, We infer that the ground Of
complaint will soon cease to exist.
Theodore Reeder, of Circevillc, o., l0I
years old, and big enough to know better,
drank % onces (nearly two pnts) of whis.
A Calcutta letter of September 22d,
says that tho Cholera broke out on board
the ship Yang Moehane for Boston, and on
the 9th, Capt. McI.con, second mate, and
three sailors died. Five sailors who surviv-
ed, were sent to Halifax.
Active cxertions are being made BY par.
ties interested in the movement, to intro
duce into the Southern States, as aborers,
foreign cmigrants as substitutes for Ameri-
cans of African descent.
InC CnOlcId Is uCCll1lUp III
and it is also abating in Barcelona.
Mrs Maximilian of Mexico recently re-
viewed the Mexican troops in carriage
that cost 100000 IL was constructed en-
tirely of glass and silver, and the inside
lined with satin and gold lace. She's ex-
pensive to somebody.
|, A man passing through gateway in the
dark, hit his nose against the post. 81
,uiSh that IN D. n ~ ba IL
ter wish it somewhere else said bystand-
er, or you might run against it againl"
| The cholera is still at work at Damascus
estimated at 1000 and Jaffa 900.
The Paris Consul says there is no longer
any doubt that the cholera has commenced
its ravagcs in that city.
Reports from Florence to the State De-
partment, represent that the cholera has
greatly diminished in the southern and east.
= ern portions of the Italian kingdom.
e Mai. Gen. Judson Kirkpatrick, has been
/ appointed Minister to Chill, and Col Ed
!. win +. Cook, of the same State, Secretary
i of Legation.
1t is stated that the vicinity of Nashville
IS is infested by robbers. A market man was
killed on the night of the lth inst, one
mile from that city, by a negro.
The body of Wirz, by order of the Presi
q dent, has been buried in the Arsenal grounC
j. where Payne and others were buried.
l. Reports show that the mortality among
the negroes daring the war, varied from
i thirty to forty per cent During the 1864
J. the deaths in the interior Of North Carali
. ma amounted to fifty per cent of the whole
{ population of those sections.
T. ky on bet, and is now departed spirit
o Three men who instigated him to the ac
are under arrest
A young lady in Cleveland Ohio, was
burned to death the other day by the ex,
. plosion of kerosene lamp.
t A new born infant was found in the woods
| in Wells county, Ind, few days since,
{ covered up with leaves, but alive and
healthy. Upon taking it to its supposed
mother, she at once acknowledged the child
| as her own, but remarked she thought
the little brat was dead long ago"
n young man named Jameson, in Cincin-
natl, wishing to curtail houehold expenses.
adopted novel mode to effect his object.
lie kissed the servant girl when he knew Mrs.
f j. would see him. Results, discharged ser
. want girl and Si2 per month saved.
n A Memphis negro attempted suicide til,
n other day. because the dusky object Of hi
&c affections lad engaged herself to another
- niger.
y The Georgia Convention has repudiatet
K the Confederate war debt by vote of l3S
y to III.
Sc The order for the muster out of supertlu
u Gus general officers has been suspended to
few day. 1t causes great commotion an,
Df trembling among the stars, whose otium cm,
rs Hgnitate is in danger.
u The chief quartcrmastcr at Cincinnati
n has received orders to stop the sale of govern
'di ment property in his department
~ y, The steamer America arrived in Ney
70 York on the Sth, bringing European new
nj to the 25th ult 1t is announced that Loui
y Napoleon intends withdrawing all Frencl
Is troops from Mexico in order to remove al
NJ NJ cause of dispute with the United States. Z
= regiment of Belgian soldiers are about t.
10 go to Mexico,
,r The republicans would not let the South
,r crn States go out of the Union, and the
now oppose their taking their places in tn
II Union. Was there ever such an unreason
l. able faction?
,s John Mitchell has arrived in New York
is and has taken the oath of allegiance.
d 1t is now understood that when Genera
l. Lee surrendered he did not have but 2S,
;. 600 men. johnson had 81 900.
~ The Secretary of War has ordered th
:. suspension of the closing of the Govern
!, ment hospitals in Washington, so us to hav
n them ready for use in cholera cases.
III Our Washington correspondent says tina
- the result of the late elections will not hav
cs the effect to induce the President to abar
=, don his reconstruction policy Why shoul
it? The Republicans did not dare to tax
O. issue upon that policy, but professed to fl
al vor it.
'al An association of young men has form
ly ed in New York, against matrimony, 5
O. long as the young ladies pay more attentio
to the decoration of their persons than I
those accomplishments that are calculate
lg to make agreeable and not too costly. Sin
a plicity in dress and economy in nexpendtur,
of are what these young men desire to hav
IL the girls learn and practice.
H. Mary Pane sued Joseph Griffith, in ii
en- Guernsey Common Pleas for breach
ne promise. A jury has awarded her 80;
III damages.
)" ~. 1t is said that there is no cholera now
:" % the port of New York.
= Adviccs from the South show that Il
-. 90 80 called Union candidates are generally
IN featcd.