Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-08-10
NEWS ITEMS.


s 2O0,OOO, though it Is expect to run IN
! to II higher figure. To secure u site for
this structure he is tearing down one of the
finest ralatial residences Of Fifth Avenue.
A Texas paper says four shillings a doz-
en- is about the ruling price of negroes in
that state, and no sales at that.
There are three daily and twenty. five
weekly papers now published in Texas Be-
fore the war there was eighty five.
The association of Iowa liquor dealers
will hold convention at Des Moincs ON the
10th OF August, to take into consideration
the federal taxes, state laws and other mat
ters of interest to the trade.
! The Missouri Pacific railroad is expected
to be complete by the 18th of September, as
for as Lawrence, Kan, when it is proposed
to invite a large party of excursionists from
eastern cities, to visit that city.
The Rev. DIR. r. O. Summers, of Nash
viii, has passed the past three years in South
Alabama. In letter he says 81 have
not found a single planter who does not con.
slider the abolition Of slavery great misfor.
tune to both races; but | have not found
one who does not recognize the abolition as
an accomplished act. That point is set
! tied. "
The population of the principal cities of
Wisconsin,, is as follows Milwaukee, So
$40; Fond du Lac, l,O4l Oshkosh, 9,3li;
Madison, 9,l42; Jancsville $3.50. -
The principle law laid down by old Chief
Justice Hale may be reassertcd in our day:
Ii court martial puts man to death in
time Of peace, the officers are guilty of
murder"
Capt. Hatch, who has been tried by
military commission on a charge of dcfrand-
ing union prisoners, while confined in Lib
by prison, has been completely exonorated
from the charge, and highly complimcntcd
by the eeust on his honesty and the interest
ne took in the welfare of his prisoners. It
is hoped that other charges of matreat-
mcnt OF prisoners on the part Of rebel off
Gals may turn out equally groundlcss.
The new Missouri constitution prohibits
ministers from preaching until they have
taken the oath of allegiance. This is gen
ulne higher law''-higher than Christs
Go yc into all the world and preach the
gospel.
There are said to be 10, 900 useful plants
known in the world; of these about !, 100
are edible fruits, berries, and seeds; 80 GER
Gals, 42O vegetables aud salads; 200 which
yield various drinks; 2GO aumatics. There
are 90 substitutes for coffee, and l29 for tea.
There are 6l5 known poisonous plants and
OF the 2lS known natural families, there
are only Is which seem to be perfectly use
less.
Eleven millions of pounds of sugar were
manufactured in the Sandwich Islands last
year. The yield for 1865 is expected to
reach l5,OOO,OOO.
Among the colossal engineering projects
OF the present dayis a scheme for construct
ing railway tunnel under the bed of the
Severn. for the purpose of connecting the
South Wales Union line with the priciipali
ty., The tunnel is about three miles long,
ana Is estimated at to cost SO, 900.
The Boston Post says that Il company is
organizing to bore for oil in the place where
Barnum' 5 whale was burnt
The republican party of Wisconsin is
getting into Il tangle as to whom they shall
run for governor. Fairchid and Washburn
are the opposing candidates, and the parti-
sans OF each declare that, unless their man
Is nominated, the democrats will elect their
ticket All right.
The commissioners appointed by the
president to confer with the Indians who
were lately in the robe service are prepar-
ing to start on their mission. 1t is EXPECT |
dians will be in council. The commission
ers will leave Washington on the 10th, and
the council will meet about the Ist of Sep
tembcr.
a harbor convention is to be held at
Michigan City, Indiana, at an early day,
and determination is expressed to push |
forward harbor Improvements in that locai-
ty.
Gen. Sully's Indian expedition has reach
ell Fort Rice. Delegates from most of the
influential tribes had come to negotiate for
peace, but the young warriors were opposed
to any such measure. The employees of
the fur company were doing all they could
to defeat the peace negotiations.
A lead mine has been opened in Winona
county, Minnesota, and n company organized
with capital of $2j 600 to work the same.
The United States steamer Michigan, SO
long the only war vessel on the lakes, has
been designated as a receiving ship for naval
apprentices.
The working of the frecdmcn's bureau in
Alabama Is not apparently productive of the
happicst results. Reports from the com
missioner at Selma state that las yet the
labor of the negro is not what it should be-"
i is "fitful and deficient" They are "dc-
'irous Of having matters in their own hands
md in their own way and are continually
eaving most advantageous positions"
The steamer Glasgow has been burned at
ca. The passengers and crew were saved.
Some seventy bands of Conlederates, it
: alleged, have crossed into Mexico, with
!, view, of entering the Mixcan service
Generals Wade Hampton and Shelby are
among them.
Savannah is under strict military govern
ment, as much so as Warsaw or Cracow.
1t is estimated that there are now lOO, .
)oO American in Europe, and that 300 600
will be there before the end of the sum ,
ner.
Hon. \. i. Stone, of Columbus former I
y State Treasurer of Ohio, died suddenly 6
N the night of the I'd inst. !
There are about $50 prisoners now con-
med at the American Siberia, the Dry
'ortugas. c
Governor Holden says the people of !
North Carolina are not inclined to give the q
Government any trouble. d
We are informed that Superior and Grim
nal Provost Courts have been organized by
iencral Gilmore in South Carolina.
Cotton is now coming into Charleston
rom the interior more freely.
When the Radicals carry an election in !