Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-01-12
NEWS ITEMS.


vote Of both branches Of her City Council .
has appropriated one mditOn dolldrs TO re-
llcyc the city Of It's quota Of the late call for
more troops.
General Sherman has limited the publ |
cation OF newspapers in Savannah to two I.
They are not allowed to comment upon the
acts ofthc authorts.
The Richmond Sentinel says that if the |
South is overcome, they want an alliance
with England, France, Spain, or any other
nation rather than the Yankees.
George ID. Prentice who has returned
from Richmond to Washington, has brought
Il memorial to the President from Lieuten-
ant Gov Jacobs, of Kentucky, asking per-
mission to return to that State. He has
been banishcd by the military authorities
from the State The President has the
memorial under advisement.
Out Of every eight hundred Calfornians,
one is insane. Gold digging has rather
bad effect
An orphan boys fair held in Boston, last
week, petted $4,000.
The Archbishop of Toledo has addressed
a circualar to the clergy forbidding women
to sing in churches
When a couple want a divorce in the Ida
no mines, meeting of the miners is called,
who grant it if expcdient.
Deer have become unusually thick this
winter on the slope at the Allegheny noun.
tains in Pennsylvania. Hunters believe that
they must have cmigrated there from other
States.
Railroad companies are now changing
their coal burning locomotives back to wood
burners Nearly all the Eastern railroads
have stopped using them entirely.
The arbitrary conduct of General Lew.
Wallace, in Maryland, is being reviewed by
the President. Hon. Thomas Corwin APP
pears to be on the side of clemency and
justice.
General Bragg has issued a congratula-
tory order about the success of the rebel de-
iense of Wilmington.
While the oil fever is raging in the At
lantic States our friends on the Pacific
Coast are not without their sensation. They
arc greatly excited over the new discoveries
of gold in the region Of Puget Sound. A
great increase of emigration to this region
is expected, and new gold fields are about
to be opened.
The construction Of a bridge overthe Ohio
river at Bellar, will be commenced in the
Spring The enterprise is undertaken by
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Cympany
1t is estimated that it will require $500
men, three years and half to complete
the work.
A distinguished writer says. 81 can
pick out men in New fork-great men, that
count millions to their names--of whom, if
you should take away their wealth, there
would be nothing left--you might hunt with
lighted candle, and you could not find
them to all eternity.
The cavalry and artillery branches of our
service are full and the Provost Marshal
General has forbidden the enlistment ofmen
for either. He should also forbid the en-
gagement Of men in such service as burning
up an immense amount Of powder in trying
to shake down fortrcsses. Then an order
against bursting six 100 pound Parrot guns
at a time, might prevent such disasters in
the future.
Indiana divore laws are not so lax as
they once were. The applicant for divorce
must now prove dOnaf fde residence in the
State for a year, as well as satisfactory
cause for divorce, in order to obtain the
dissolution.
AT the golden wedding of Deacon Lewis
Chaplin, OF Worcester, Mass, last week, a
cake was presented to him bordered with
fifty gold dollars, and with an eagle and four
gold dollars in the centre.
The work Of draining the Dubuque lead
region, where mining operations have been
embarrassed by a copious flow of water has
been commenced on large scale by Il COM
bination of New York and Western capital
lists, and promises to take rank among the
notable enterprises of the day.
There is large quanty of vacant public
land in MissOuri--some six millions acres
which can be entered under the homestead
act or located with land warrants, agricultu
raj college scrip or cash There are good
many reasons for settling in Missouri, and
this land ought to be in good demand.
There has been meeting called in Boston
to aid the destitute people in Savannah
The blockade Julia, with 45O bales
of cotton, has been captured by United
States gunboat She was making for Nassau.
Tho loss Of the Julia and cargo was 5000, 600.
1t is rumored that the rebels at Richmond
are hurrying troops to Branchville to check
Sherman 5 progress in that quarter.
The Richmond papers have news that
Hood defeated Thomas at Columbia, captur-
ing brigade Of our men at the town.
Forrest is said to have captured brigade
and 600 wagons. He has been made
Lieutenant General for his services.
The Richmond papers announce the death
of Gen. Sterling Price, by apoplexy. The
is contradicted.
Hood army is now South of the Ten
nessee river, 25,00O strong.
The damage done to the salt works by the
Union raiders in Southwestern Virginia
will be speedily repaired
The Richmond Sentinel announces that
Mosby is rapidly recovering.
The New York Herald Washington cor
respondent says that Fitzpatrick $ cavalry
has seized Hardeesville on the Charleston
and South Carolina road.
The distractions in Savannah River are
being removed, and navigation up that
stream, for heavy draught vessels, will be
opened in a few days.
There are daily arrivals of cotton in Sa-
vannah from the country, and the merchant
men are making offers to reopen trade with
the North, pay their old debts and COM
mence anew.
The Richmond papers state that Hood, on
his retreat, has impressed large numbers of
hogs and cattle and breadstuffs and many
men.
The Ecdnaiiler contains aneditorial severe
ly condemning the administration of Jeffer-
son Davis.s
According to dispatch in the New York |
World, from Washington, the South will be |
by England and France before