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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-06-04
rho Consoientious Child.

A gentleman, whom we will call Mr..
Ellis, had a large and beautiful peach
tree in his garden 1t was loaded with
fruit. which was not quite ripe. His
son William watched the peaches day
after day, and longod for the time
when he would be permitted to take his
little ladder and gather some. But, as
vet he was expressly forbidden to do it
or to shake the tree, and thus get o
peach or two d little ripper than the rest.
A heavy wind had blown down a few
of the peaches, and they lay very invi-
tinrlv under 5he tree, one afternoon, as
William was walking alone in the gar
den, and passed near them The temp
tation was strong one "My father
told me, thought he to himself "not
to pick any nor to shake the tree. I
have done neither Here the peachs are
already ON the ground, and shall 1 dis
obey my father if I take one2'
Then some better thoughts came into
his mind. "It is true the wind blew
the peaches down; but if I take one and
eat it, / shall do what my father wished
me not TO do-eat an uarjps peach 1t
was because they were not ripe, that he
forbade me to gather any, or to shake
the troo for the same reason, not to pick
up fru 4 the ground and eat. He stop
ped and looked at the peaches He was
exceedingly fond Of such fruit. He
walked nearer to the tree. His better
thoughts again came into his mind He
stood looking at the fruit, but as yet,
he had not determined to take any.
What would you have done if you
had been there Just as William was? II
would have been so easy, you know, to
make an excuse and say, "Father you
never told me not to take any from the
ground. I supposed that they were
about as good as ripe, or the wind would
mot have blown them down, and then
I took only one What would you
have done?
I will tell you what William did HC
did not meddle with the peaches. He
hesitated no longer; but went and tolC
/. his father just how twas, and how he
had struggled with himself to overcome
the temptation. lie lras O conscientious
boy. He did what he though was righ
although he doubted a little at frs
about it, and might have made wha
some children would think a good ex
cuse for doing differently. lie felt
great deal happier afterwards than b,
could have done had he eaten SOM
peaches. BE alCays conscientious.
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Famine i'm Finland.


The latest accounts from Russian
Finland continue to give a most distress
ing picture Of the famine raging in that
unhappy country. In the districts of
Eleaborg, Wasa, and Eurpio, alone, out
of population of 657, 900 souls, no less
than 250, 600 have no other means of
subsistence than begging, or eating the
unpalatable bread made from the bark
of trees. The mortality is consequently
very great, and is daily on the increase,
as the dreadful famine typhus has bro
ken out with great malignity. The dis
tress is such that children have been
seen who, for want of other food, have
actually eaten off their own fngersl
Liberal contributions have been sent
from Hamburg and Lubeck Upwards
of $4,000 have been remitted from
Sweden, and as soon as the ice disap-
pears several vessels with corn and -four
will be despatched to the relief of the
sufferers.
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An English nobleman once sent his
stupid son to Roland Hill, in order that
he might be educated accompanied by
o note in which the father said of his
hopeful son, "I am confident he has
talents, but they are hidden in nap
kin"
The eccentric but shrowd divine kept
The youth a few weeks under his care,
and then sent him back to his father
with the following laconic message:
'I have shaken the napkin at all cor
ners, and found nothing in it,
TIE BEDBUas-A man named Aaron
Bedbug, Of Montgomery county, Ky.
intends to petition the Legislature ID
change his name. He says that his
sweetheart, whose name is Olivia is un.
willing that heshould be called A. Bed.
bug, she O. Bedbug, and the little ones
little Bedbugs
Tn proportion as men are real coin
and not oounterfeits, they scorn to en-.
joy credit for what they have not
"Paint me, said Cromwell, wrinkles
and all. Even on canvas tho great he.
20 despised falsehood.
An Editor out West who served four
days on a jury, says that he is so full of
law it is hard for him to keep from
cheating somebody.
"Sam, why don't you talk to your
massa, and tell um to lay up his treas
uro in hcaveu?'
whats de use Of his laying up his
treasure dare, he never see um aqainr
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NJ WIFE,s ECONOMY.

Mrs. Jones is a jewel Of a woman.
The dear creature lately came home from
a shopping excursion, in the most ex-
travagant spirits.
Ihave made such a bargain to-day
said she. 'I have bought such beau
tiful dress for thirty shillings only
So 1 said to myself even if L get
Nine Flourish to make it up, twill be
economical"
Now Nine Flourish was a French
modiste who had lately come from
Paris, and had really great taste, but
was most extravagant In her charges,
and i never heard her name without
ashudder. A few months before she
made up a brocade for Mrs Jones,
which everybody said fitted beautiful
ly "It looks as IL you we're born in
it, enthusiastically declared q friend,
''and il had grown with You. But my
pleasure IN contemplating this mas
ter-pioce, i must confess, was some
what diminished when the bin came inr
70 the tune of two pouuds sterling fQr
making and trimming TO- However
''it wasn't so astonishing after all as
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Take a Newspaper.

The Indiana Freeman's Journal re-
lates the following story Of a wealthy
Hoosier who did not patronize the prin-
ter
"Some six or eight days since a far
mer from the country, eight miles from
town, paid our sanctum O visit to learn
the newsor From a stray number Of the
journal which had found its way into
his neighborhood, Gas we have no sub
scribers there he had learned, second
handed, of the frightful railroad acei-
dent at Hamilton, Canada, and had got
the idea that it happened in Ohio
Filled with the most painful apprehen-
sions, after a sleepless night, he started
for our Office TO learn the truth, Gas
strange as the paradox may seem, as
editors are called the greatest liars eX-
tant yet they % continually appealed
to for the correctness or incorrectness
of public rumor) He had a son "Out
of pocket had gone TO Ohio-expect-
led to take the cars-had oyer-stayed his
time a week, and hence the uneasinesa
felt by the old gentleman upon hearing
a vague rumor Of arailroad accident
The secret of the matter was, he took
no paper, his neighbors took none, and
they were an In the dark about the oc-
currence together Though worth q
good farm, With all the necessary ar-
rangements about him for comfort, with
sons and daughters growing up around
him, he hurried 20 town, losing hale a
day, to beg a copy Of the paper from he
pfinter, to set himself and family free
from their dreadful approhensious about
Che safety Of their son."
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SPRING


s,Come gentle Spring! ethereal mildaess comoH'
Oh! Thompson, void ofrhyme as well os rea-
son,
How couidst thou thus poor human nature
hum2
There's no such season.
The spring shrink and shu1der at her name!
Forwhv find her breath bitter blghter!
And su fer from her bi0lcs as If they came
From Spring thc fighter
Her praises, then let hardy poets sing,
And he her tuneful laureates and uphoIdersr
Who do not feel as If they had a Spring
Poured down their shoulders.
Let others eulogize her floral showersi
From me they caunot win a single stanza;
know her blooms are in full bows-and SOS
The Influenza.
Her cowslips stocks, and lilies Of tho vale.
Her honey blossoms that you hear the bees at,
Her tansies da1odis, and primrose pale,
Are things I sneeze al!
Fair is the vernal quarter Of the year!
And fair its early buildings and its blowings;
But Just suppose consnmpsion's seeds appear
With other sowtngs!
For me, find, when eastern winds are high,
A frigd not genial inspiration;
Nor can, like iron chested Chubb, defy
An inflammation.
Smitton by breezes from the land Of plague,
To me all verna luxuries are fabIes'
Oh where's thu Spring in a rheumatic leg,
Stiff as a tablet
limp in agony-I wheeze aud cough;
And quake with Auge, that great Agitator;
Nor dieam, before July Of leaving off
My Respirator
What wonder IL in May itself like
A peg for auditory verse to hang ont
Spring mild aud gente2-yes, as Springfield
ed jack
To those he sPrang on
In short, what ever panegyrics lie
In fusome odss too many to be cited,
The tenderness of Spring is all my eye,
And that is bIighled!
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We must be permitted to transfer the fol-
lowing poetic gem, from the pen OF T. b. Aid
rich, 10 this columns
WE KNEW 1T WOULD RAIN.
We knew II would rain, for all the morn,
spirit, on slender robes Of mist,
Was lowering its golden buckets down
Into the yapory amethyst ..
OF marshes and swamps and dismal fens-
Scooping the dew that lay in the flowers,
Dipping The jewels out Of the sea,
To sprinkle then overthe land in showers
We knew II would rain, for the popIaIs showed,
The while Of their leaves-the amber grain
Shrunk In the wind-and the lightning now
is tangled In tremuIous skeius Of rain!
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THR PEN AND TIE PRESS.

The Pen and the Press blessed allauce COM
bued
To soften the heart aud enllghteu the mind
For that to the treasures Of knowledge gave
birth,
And this sent them forth to the ends Of the earth
Their battles for truth were triumph indeed.
And the rod Of the tyrant was snappei.like a
reed
They were made 10 exalt us, to teach us TO
bless,
Those invincibs brotbers-tho Pen and the
Press
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SllisrGILanrons
Mr.. Buchanan's Reception of Office
Beggars.

Mr.. Buchanan's Reception Of Office
Beggars.
The Washington correspondent of
the Richmond South says:
''The ofice-seokers are still in force
here, in expectation, I suppose, of the
foreign appointments, and their atten-
tions to Mr. Buchanan must be very
harrassing. There were some thirty in
his ante-room this morning, waiting for
an audience; and when they were ad-
mitted, it was curious to watch their pro-
ceedings; and the persistence of some
Of them was really amusing. One in
dividual wanted a small country post
Office and Mr. Buchanan politely re-
ferred him to the Department. But the
individual was not so easily dismissed.
and he forthwith commenced a pre-
pared philippe on the incumbent of the
petty Office 'He is in coalition with
the Free Soilers," he ran on, "and he
abused the successful candidate for the
Presidency" "Ah, my dear sir" re-
piled old Buck, with that amiable cock
Of his eye, "we will not 60 into that
now" During the reception, an old
Lancaster acquaintance hustled up to
Mr.. Buchanan. Don't you want an
Officer said the amiable President
mo, sir, was the emphatic reply. "I
thought you did not, reioined the Pres
ident you look fat and contented' .-
1t is really a pleasure to witness the
amiability, the genial humor and the
charming simplicity with which Mr..
Buchanan treats his visitors although
it seems he can scarcely forbear an allu-
sion now and then to the miserable vo-
cation Of Office begging.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-06-04

BOYS, TAKE NOTCE.--Beniamin
Franklin Wade, Senator in Congress
from Ohio, and Edward Wade, Repre-
sentative in Congress from the same
State, are brothers, and were born at
Feeding Hills, (West Springfeld,) in
this county. Their father was poor,
but they improved their leisure moments
in reading or study, while the sons of
the wealthy were spending their time
in foolish amusements, and thus laid
the foundation for their present fame
and usefulness. They did not have the
benefits of a liberal education Vest
field (Nass.) Ne1os Letter.
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TEACH CHILDREN PoLITENEss. Chill
dron should early be taught to be polite
to each other, and to those about them;
and here the practice of parents is much
more eflicacious than their teachings
1 have just been reading a little book,
published by Scribner, presented to my
children at Christmas, which has some
admirable lessons on politeness. Ellen
Blake, the youngheiress, was too polite
to be rude to any one. The rich and
the poor were, in this respect eyer treat
ed alike by her, and she grieved no
heart by unkindness. "Never Mind
the Fac, is tho title of the book My
children have read it again and again;
and such testimony, / consider the best
in regard to the attractiveness of a book.
%. Farmer. ANNA HOPE.
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lodrr
OH! COMRADES, FILL NO GLASS
For MEl

nv srErHEN c. FOSTER,
OH comrades ill no glass for me,
To drown my soul On liquid flame;
For &C 7 drank, the toast should be-
To blighled fortune, health and fame.
Yet thought long to queII the strife
That passion holds against my life,
Sill boon companions may vo be,
Bot, comrades ! mo glass for me!
/ know a breast that once was lighti
Whose patient suffering needs my cares
] know a hearth that once was bright,
But dropping hopes have ncsted there
Then, while the tear-drops nightly steal
From wounded b oatrs tlat | should heal
Though boon companions ye may be-
Oh! comrades, fll no glass for me!
When was young felt the tide
OF aspirations undehIed;
Bot mauhood'B years have won the pride
NV parents centored i'm their child.
Then, by mothers sacred tear,
Byall THAI memory should revere,
Though boon companions We may be,
Oh! comrades, 10 mo- gluss for me!
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FANNY FERN ON HUsBANDs.-The
sprightly "Fanny" thus takes off some
body who had spoken of "tbe awe which
a wife should feel towards her husband"
"Awel said I, on hearing the above
remark-"awe Of a man whose whiskers
you have trimmed, whose hair you have
cut, whose cravats you have put in the
wash, whose boots and shoes you have
kicked into the closet, whose dressing
gown you have worn while oombing your
hair, who has been down into the kitch-
en- with you at eleven o'clock at night
to hunt for a chicken bone, who has
hooked Your dresses, unlaced your
boots, fasened your bracelets, and tied
on your bonnet; who has stood before
your looking-glas with thumb and fin
ger on his probosois, scraping his chin;
whom you have buttered and sugared
and sugared and toasted, and tea-ed;
whom you have seen asleep with his
mouth wide openl Ri-diculosI"
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EMAHGRATIoN 40 AIBERIA.-By a
statement recently published, it appears
that the whole number of Immigrants
sent from the United States to Liberia
from 1920 to 1886, inclusive, was 9,502.
OF this number, 3,676 we're born free;
326 purchased their freedom, and $500
were omancipated. Massachusetts, fur
nishod 81, Rhode Island, 82 Connect
cut lG, Virginia, 8.8l5, North Carolina,
; ,l58, and Georgia 030.
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DIR. BURDELL's HEIR.-Mrs Cum
ningham Burdell is understood to be
about TO give birth TO a child the Off
spring Of her marriage with the late Dr.
Burdell providing that the said mar
riage is established to the satisfaction Of
the Surrogate before which the question
is now pending Blra. Cunningham
Burdell, as tho widow of the deceased,
.is entitled to ono-third Of the property.
This new heir win take the other two
thirds. i'm the event of the ohilds
death, Mrs Cunningham Brdoll will
inherit The whole property
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94it aa0 8nm0r
80 sinrinc prenoher.

Rev. Mr.. , Of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, is a charming singer.
He tells a capital joke at his own ex-
ponse On one occasion, just after he
had been placed upon new circuit, in
riding to an appointment, he overlook
"a venerable negro jogging slowly along
in Che same direction, when the follow
ing oolloquy took place between them:
"Well, old man, where are you trav-
eling2
"I am just a going, massa, TO de meet
in house up de road, sa.
"Ah, you 90 to Church, do you?'
"Sometimes, massa; I'm going to-day
kase de new preacher wot's come on de
cirkit is goin to be dar, sa."
"What is the name Of your new
preacher"
"WelI I don't know, massa, zactly,
but I tink his name is -," mention
ing something akin to the ministers s
coguomen.
"Well, did you ever see him2"
"No-not yit massa."
"Why, then, are you anxious to go2"
"Why, massa, ye see dey say he an
beat de witches singin', though he can't
domuch in de preachin' line-dat's de
reason ] wants to hear him"
"l Judge they say right about him,
said The preacher, and putting whip to
his horse rode a little faster than his sa-
BILE companion.
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HUNTERS ONLY PUN.-The celebra-
ted John Hunter is said to have made
but one pun in his life, and that was
when lecturing in the Windmill School
Of Medicine, In demonstrating the
jaw-bone, he observed that this bone
was known toabound in proportion to
the want of brains. Some students
were talking instead Of attending to the
lecture, upon which Hunter exclaimed;
Gentlemen, let us have more intellect
and less jalgr'
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A PRINCELY DoNATIoN-Nr. George
Peabody, the American merchant, has
donated 100000 for the establishment
of an Institution in Baltimore to en-
brace a free Library, Musical Academy
and Picture Galleryj the donation to be
increased hereafter TO half a million
dollars.
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Music not only improves a mans
tastes, but his morals Il gives him a
taste for home that improves his habits
wonderfully. The man who spends his
evenings with q piano, is seldom seen
in dram shops, and never witch night
brawlers. We believe ia music, and
candidly think that one Auto win do
as much towards driving rowdyism
outof q neighborhood SIS four police
men and q bulldog
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PREDARIoUs.-"How is your .hus-
band this afternoon, Mas. Squiggs?'
"Why the doctor says as how as,
if he lives till morniu' he shall have
some hopes of him; butif he don't he
must give him up"
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A shrewd little fellow who had just
begun to read Latin, astonished his mas
ter by the following treatment Vir, a.
man; gin, a trap. Virgin, man-trap.
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LIBRARY BEoUEsT--Mr. VIM. Nc
Clure, Of Harmony, Ia, who died some
three years ago, left S75, 600 to be dis
to various towns in Indiana,
in sums Of $500 for the establishment
of libraries. The only prOyiso was that
each town was % first furnish one hun
dred volumes. Alton now claims a do
nation.
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DR.. j. Welmap, Of Pittsburg, writes
that he passed the evening of April 18th
with Sumner, in Paris Mr.. Sumner
stated that he was rapidly gaining from
day to day, and confidently anticipated
a acomplete and speedy recovery
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Covs-Whot key can never bo brOken7 a
key (w) hole
Why cannot Kings be made april fools off,
Because they are august Persouages}
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A DAUGHTER MURDERED BY HER
FATHER Elizabeth Buchey was shot
by her father, Julius Buehey, near Shep-
herdsville, in Built county, Ky. She
had been engaged to a young man in
the neighborhood but her frther had
broken Off the match On that day she
desired to visit a neighbor, where her
father suspected that she intended to
meet her old lover lie refused to let
her 90, became highly exasperated at
request, and finally drew a revolver and
shot her in the head, killing her instant
ly He then shot himself with the
same pistol, fell and expired,
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AFRICAN SUGAR.-Sugar cultivation
succeeds So well in Liberia, that they
talk Of exporting it to the United Sta
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IM1uGRANTs.-The number of immi-
grants arriving at New York during the
last three months was 1880, against
9,162 for the corresponding season last
year The commissioners anticipate
that tho immigration for the current year
will nearly reach that of 1854, when
not less than 23O, 900 foreigners arrived
at that port
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A Paris correspondent, mentioning
the recent deoease of a notable French
gentleman, NJ De Salvandy, says:
"On his death-bed, and when he could
no longer speak, he asked his wife to-
hand him a slate, when he wrote and
handed to her. Sixty years Of exis-
tence-thirty-tWo years Of happiness" Z"
Brown says thatin order to knoWwhcth-
er this was meant for a compliment to
his connubiality or his oelibacy, the let
ter should have told us whether he was
married at twenty-eight or thirty-two,
~ Boston Post.
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ITAnswsr to Enigma in last weeks paper
by "Euoch"'-" ConslantinopIe."
ErCorrect answers received from F."
and "Houtio," to Enigma by "Sallieo of Oak
land"
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JUVENILE DE PARTMENT

A Riddle made by Mr. Macauay on dish at
table:-"Cut off my head and Pm sngulari
cut of my tail and plural I appeari cut off my
head and Pm uought." C9d
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A dentist presented a bill for the
tenth time to a rich skinhint.
"It strikes me- said the latter, "that
this is a pretty round bill"
eyes, replied the dentist, "Ive
sent it round often enough to make it
so, and / have called now to get it
squaredr
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A character, like kettle, once
mended, always wants mending.
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"Mary, do you not intend to give a
dollar to Che foreign missions this
yoar2' said the wife Of minister to a
poor shop girl.
"No, replied the noble girl, 'I
see every day in our streets, children
as far from being what they should
be, as any young heather are; and if ]
have anything 10 spare after my poor
sick mother is taken care of ] shall
give it TO the Reathen at home-those
whom the priests and Lovites pass BY
on the other side.