Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1866-01-04
NEWS ITEMS.

4 The Outrageous iniquity Of trying Ad
miral Scmmcs, Of the Alabama, by mill.
| tary commission, after hc had been parOlcd
/ by General Sherman, and had surrendered
upon the explicit condition Of an amnesty
for all past acts, is said to be in contcmpla.
/ ton. We cannot believe there will be 80
scandalous u breach Of faith.
| The plan Of the Controller of the Cur.
rcncy, to extend the National circulation
! to $500, 900, 900, 50 that the United States
may avail themselves of it, will be brought
up in Congress before the adjournment.
A serious riot occurred in Alexandria.
| Va, on Christmas-day, caused by too much
whisky 1t had to be but down by militia.
ry force Some fifty to one hundred of the
! rioters were arrested.
Governor Eyre has been superseded in
Jamaica by Sir Henry Stork. The reason
was that he hung number of barbarous
negroes who had been numbering and com.
uniting all sorts Of atrocities upon the
whites, such as putting their eyes out and
saving them asunder. This hanging of a
negro murderer is more than Abolition Ex-
etcr Hall can stand.
IL is said that the wife of Gen. Robert f.
Lee has received presents OF elegant furni-
ture. For the love Of heaven, don't tell
Ben. Butler of it.
The Episcopal Bishop of Nebraska, Doc
tor Clarkson, broke his collar. bone, and was
otherwise seriously injured, by being over.
turned in stage on his journey to Council
Bluffs.
1t is reported in indianapolis that Gov
ernor Morton, Of Indiana, who is on his
way to Europe, has been commissioned
Minister to England
These are ticklsh times for office holders.
They await the news from Washington with
intense anxiety, and are non-committal as
possible upon the questions at issue. -
Look out, gentlemen; you must do more
than admire the good temper" Of the
leading conservatives The President has
his eye on you
Capt Scmms has arrived in Washington
from New Orleans, in custody of Lieut..
French, of the Marine Corps, and is pris-
oner at the Navy lark. The detail of the
court martial has not yet been prepared.
1t is confidently asserted that the Pres-
dent is so well satisfied with the condition
of the South and our foreign relations that
he has determined upon still further re-
duction Of the army.
President johnson S message Is received
with favor on the other side of the Atlantic,
The Telegraph is very eulogStic, and says
the document reflects the highest credit on
its author and furnishes the world with
satisfactory augury of peace.
Georgetown, following the example of
Washington, opened polls on Thursday, to
tSst the sense Of the citizens on the subject
of negro suffrage. OF over LOO votes cast
only one was in favor ofextendiug the fran
chiSe
We find in Ayers American Almanac,
(now ready for delivery gratis by all agents
the remarkable statement that the temper-
ature of the earth has not diminished more
than l-3O6th part Of one degree Fahrenheit
for POO years. TO our enquiry how he could
make such an assertion DR.. Aver writes us
the following answer. "Aipparchus gives
the exact record Of an eclipse in his time
This enables us to measure with extreme
accuracy the earths' diurnal revolutions
since to any eclipse now, Diminution of
its heat would by concentration, shorten its
axis and consequently its time of revolution
on its axis. The data show that this change
has been only such as state it, mathemati-
cally and indisputably true. ."-Neo York
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