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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-07-09

DEux, who was SO great a man in Hen
ry's and Mary's time. He married
let me see, here's a book that tells us
all about them-he married Susan Prod
dy, and was descended from a noble
family who came over with William,
and assumed their name from the mot
to Of their house, Pro Dec ct Rege.-
See, here is the ring with a coronot, and
under it the words
"I knowed her we'll" said Tommy.
"She was Susan Proddys child, as
married Dodger, the miller of Wake
field"
The countess laughed long and loud
"YOu pronounce the names Incorrect
ly, Master Thomas. She married Reg
inald DOzier, the head Of the great
D'Oziers of Coutances, who were called
the millcrs from their prodigious
strength and the battle-axe with which
they fought in the Holy Land and
you degrade them into the plebiau
Dodgerl See, here is another ring
with the explanation of the name you
call Honeydew."
She took from a cupboard a plain
gold ring, and showed it to her visi
tor.
"Jackersl but this is more old nor
the other. ] sent that ere to thy
grandmothers grandmother, the day
she married the Constable in Warwick
church. And I do tell thee, the nam,
was Susan Proddy and Stephen Hon
leydcv I seed EN- both, and I wante,
to marry thy grandmother great
grandmother myself; and I would too
only / was so sickly and weak"
"Get thee to the buttery hatch, an,
get thee strong" said the countess pet
ti3hly. "Thou hastoutlived thy strengtl
and memory; and will have thee cudg
elled to death if thou breathest a. wor
more about your Honeydews and Prod
dys and Dodgers"
Tommy hobblcd as we'll as he wa
able to the buttery and there cndcavor
cd to recover his courage and drown hi
'remembrances of Susan with such CO
pious draughts of beer. that in less tina
a week he expired of repletion and ind
gcstion. He was buried at the cxpens
of the illustrious family of the Hor
| d D'Eux, and on his tombstone was wri
TEN
| In MEMORY OF THOMAS PARR, VIII
DIED IN THE YEAR SIXTEEN HUNDRE
AND THIRTY-FIvE, AT THE AGE OF on
HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE.
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3fljstrIlanroUs.
The National Hotel Sickness Again

The National Hotel Sickness Again.
The Editor of the New York Scalpel
makes the following statement in regard
to the mysterious sickness at the Ma
tional Hotel, Washington:
eve have a patient from the immc-
diate vicinity Of this hotcI--a very com
nonsense man and a housekecper-
who assures us that his premises were
oyer-run with rats from the hotel doz-
ems Of them might be seen at almost
any hour Of the day in the yard-in-
deed they were so numerous as to be
incredible, and a man from this city
was sent for to poison them. He did
so, and what he used it is notvery prob
able he told. Those ingenious philoso-
pliers are not apt to communicate their
secrets. The rats all disappeared. My
patient tells me not one is visible on his
premises, and they were in numbers so
incredible that he would not venture to
say; but we know, for we have been
there and seen them in the hOtel.yard.
He had a servant who had been employ
ed at the hotel, and she told him that
it was known to all the other servants
that a great number of dead rats were
taken from the water-tank, which was
used for cooking and other household
purposes. This was published at the
time, and is doubtless true; for a rats
instinct, after eating arsenic will loac
him to She top Of a house to get water
and nothing is easier than for them tC
get in water tank. No other persons
than those who ate at the hotel were
affected, although that sewer opens di
rectly before the room and under the
doors and windows of a telegraph,
Office where sixteen gentlemen are con
stantly operating.
That this National Hotel epidemi,
should have been confined solely to on,
house, and have produced the set OF
symptoms it did, without a specific O
material poison acting on the stomach
and its appendages, is absurd Arsenic
mechanically difused from the decaye,
rats, and slowly acting on the stomach
is sufficient to account for all the symp
toms"
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From Blackwood's Magazine.
LONG LIFE
UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
-lCncMdedl

IDHttuNtt'J
But Tommy was again disappointed.
Eighteen years after his visit to Wake
field, he found his way to Warwick,
where in st. Mary's Church, a noble
marriage was to take place. Stephen
Honeydew was to become the happy
husband Of Susan Proddy's daughter,
the lovely Susan Proddy Dodger; and
from a gallery at the side our friend the
valetudinarian was q witness to the GER
emony. Susan Proddy, now Mrs
Dodger, had lost some portion of her
youthful beauty, for she was now rath.
er crooked, and not quite so graceful in
her walk as when we saw her crossing
the church-yard. with the water-pail on
her head But in TOmmy's eyes she
was Venus and the Graces still. As the
procession went forth, he staggered
down to the porch, and placed himself
so exactly in the middle, that the bride
was forced to touch him with her sleeve
as she glided past The touch of hel
arm gave him new life. He ceased tc
cough for a moment; a flow of warm
blood rushed into his heart. He looked
round for the original Susan Prodigy
but fat man at her side pushed him
out of the way.
"Spludders l exclaimed the invalid
'I always hated that miller-but whats
the use o hating, or liking either? ]
can't have long to live, but then it would
be so pleasant to survive to see if there S
ever a family from this here Wedding
I'll keep my ears open for this
Master HOneydew, but they can't keep
open long. I've got the collie, and knots
on my anCles, and cataract in my eye
and swelling in the joints, and q wen on
my neck, and carbuncles on my ARM
So l must geo home in time to die"
Perhaps all these diseases counter,
acted each other, and left Tommy in
perfect health. He found means be-
fore he left Warwick to forward to the
bride another ring which he had tax,
en- out Of his mothers store; a plain
gold ring with the commencement of
the motto "Honj perhaps it was tho
ring of Richard himself or at all events
Of a Knight Of the Garter;-and having
placed this last memorial of his affection
for Susan Proddy in the hands of hel
daughter, he returned in peace to his ma
tive village
And did he die2 MOI He had sale
he would keep his ears open, but many
things passed in those agitating days Of
English history which never reached
the Shropshire village whore the afiict
ed Tom resided.
Mr. Honeydew, who had married Su
san the second, was a constable anC
sheriff S officer, who had made himself
very useful to Henry the Eighth. H'
ferreted out rich abbots, and turne'
nuns out Of their houses, He haDgct
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THE following affecting narrative We
take from the N. 0. True Delta: can Of
fetal, on All Saints Day, arrayed him
self in his best apparel, and, at the re-
quest Of his wife, called a carriage to Wis
it the cemeteries. The husband be it
promised, knew that his beloved, ere he
married her, gas a widow, but he knew
not that she Mad been the widow Of three
successive husbands AS soon as they
entered the gate of sail city Of silence,
a shade of melancholy passed over the
lady's face, and clinging to her husbands
arm, she went to a tomb at which she
knelt and prayed for the repose of her
"dear dead husband s soul" Tears flow
ed plentifully; but the living husband,
though he felt little mortified at the
strong affection which his wife showed
for her first love, now sleeping his eter-
nal sleep, still forgave the Outburst and
hurried her from the spot. Soon, how
ever, she knelt before another tomb, and
again uttered a touching orisou for the
repOse Of the soul of her "dear dead hus-
band, whose holy dust there found rest
ing place. The husband thought that this
was a little more than he had bargained
for, but he said nothing, though grave
were his reflections, as he again led his
wife from a spot which awakened such
sad remembrances. He had notgone far
when his wife again turned aside, knelt,
and again prayed as before for the repose
Of cher dear husband soulI' The hus-
band could stand it no longer, and utter
ing an inexcusablean unhusbandly oath
said: On it, Madaml how many hus-
bands in the Lord name have you bur
ried." Ere the accusing spirit had flown
to heavens chancery with the oath, the
thoughts of the wife were recalled to
the things of "the earth, earthly" and
sho answered, as only an experienced
and provoked woman could answer
"Ihree, sir, only, and that it would
seem by your outrageous conduct is one
100 tel0P
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ANOTHER NEW PLANET DISCOVERED.
"A circular from the Office Of the Astron-
omical Journal at Cambridge, contains
a letter from Mr.. Hermann Goldschmidt
to the editor, dated Paris, June Sd, an
nounoing the discovery on the night Of
May 9th, of forty-fourth planet, be
tween Mars and Jupiter This is tho
sixth which has been discovered by Mr..
Goldschmidt. 1t resembles a star of the
1O,I1 magnitude.
The forty-third asteroid, discovered at
the Radcliffe Observatory by Mr. Poyson,
has received the name of Ariadue At
the present rate of discovery, we fear
that the classical dictionary will be ex-
hausted before the asteroids are named.
It will be recollected that all of them
have been discovered since the begin
ming Of the present century,
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RaiIroad in Eevnt.

A correspondent of then. York Jour
nal Of Commerce writing from Cairo, de-
scribes the railroad from Alexandria to
the Red Sea:
"a peculiarity is seen in the construc-
tion ofthis railroad observed no sleep
crs except near the depot, instead of
which, as the country could not furnish
the timber, a strong hollow iron appa-
ratus is cast, much resembling the com
mon culinary iron pot, which is firmly
fastened in the earth by sinking the open
end while the rails rest upon notches
cast in the exterior of the other end
These, with small iron bars crossing the
track, keep the rails fast The railroad
is 13O miles long, and is being extended
to Suez, on the Red Sea, all of which dis
tance is completed. except forty miles
next to Suez, and will be opened the
entire distance before the close of the
year.
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A DREAM OF SUMMER


ny Js WHITTIER
Bland as the morning breath Of June,
The southwest breezes plays
And through its haze the winter noon
Seems warm as summers day
The snow -plumed angel Of the north
Has dropped his icy spears
Again the messy earth looks FORTH
Again the streams gush clear
The fox his hill side cell forsakes,
Tie muskrat leaves his rock,
The buebird in tho meadow brakes
Is singing with the brook.
"Bear up, oh Mother Naturew cry
Bird, breeze, and streamlet lreei
"Our winter voices prophesy
OF summer days TO thee!"
So, In those winters Of the soul,
By bitter blasts and drear
O'erswept by memOry's frozen zone,
viii sunny days appear
Roviviug hope and faith, they show
The soul its living powers,
And how beneath the winters snow
Lie germs Of summer flowers!
The night is mother Of the day,
The winter Of the spring,
And ever upon old decay
The greenest moss IS cling;
Behind the cloud the starlight turks,
Through showers the sunbeams fall:
For God, who loveth all his works,
Has left his hope with all
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9ortrg.
THE WORLD is FULL OF
BEAUTY.

There Is beauty IN the forest
Where the trees are green and iairi
There is beauty in the meadow
Where wild flowers scent the airs
There is beauty 10 the sunlight,
And the soft blue beam abovoi
Oh! tho world is full Of beauty
When the heart is full Of love.
There is beauty in the fountain,
Singing gaily in its play,
While rainbow hues are glittering
On ita silverv shining spray
There Is beauty I'm the sireamleti
Murmurug softly through the groves
Oh! the world is full of beauty
When the heart is full Of love!
There is beauty in the moonlight
When il falls upon the ssa,
While the blue, foam-crested biIlows
Dance aud rrolic joyously;
There Is beauty in the lightning CLEANS
That O'er the dark waves rovei
Oh! the world is full Of beauty
When the heart is full Of love!
There is beauty in the brightness
Bearnlng from a loving eye,
In the warm blush Of affection,
In the tear Of sympathy!
In tho sweet, low voice whose accents
The spirits gIadness prove!
Oh! the world Is full Of beauty
When the heart is foil Of love!
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MORMON TITLES IN UTAH.-It ap-
pears that among other methods of reg
ulating their domestic institutions accor-
ding to the sacred democratic rights
defined and secured to them by the
Nebraska bill, the Mormons have Sc
questered the public lands Of the Uni
ted States, ignored the surveys, and
bought and sold the soil, precisely as
if they held the same by original right
of propuetorship 1t is a singular
fact to which attention is now first
called, that though Utah has been Or
ganized for nine years, and has an es-
timated population of from 10000
to 10000, not an acre of land has
been bought from Government, while in
Minnesota, organized at the same time
millions of dollars have been paid into
the Treasury by the settlers for the lands
which comprise their farms and homo
stoads. The first proceeding of th,
new Territorial Government will be tC
make the occupants Of public lands pay
for them at established prices, or oael
chem for sale to other parties
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Adulterated Liquors.

DR. Hiram Cox, chemical inspector of
alcoholic liquors in Cincinnati, states, in
an address to his fellow citizens, that
during two years he has made 24O in
spections of various kinds Of liquors,
and has found more than nine-tenths Of
them limitations, and a great portion of
them poisonous concoctions. OF bran
dy yhe does not believe there is one gal
lon Of pure in a hundred gallons, the
limitations having corn whisky for the
basis, and various poisonous acids for
the condiments OF wines, not gal
J. n in a thousand, purporting TO be sher-
ry, port, sweet Malaga, &C., is pure, but
they are made of water, sulphurio acid
alum, Guinea pepper, horse-radish, &c.
and many of them without a single droI
of alcoholic spirit. DR.. Cox warrant,
there are not ten gallons Of gonuin,
port wine in Cincinnati In the in
spootions Of whisky he has found only
from II to 20 per cent, Of alco4oli,
spirit, when it should have 45 to 90
and some Of it contains sulphuric acid
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DEATH OF A LARGE MAN.-The
jackson (Miss.) Whig, of the 18th
June, chronicles the death, in Hendor-
son county, in Tennessee, of Mr.. Miles
Darden The Wing says the deceased
was, beyond all question, the largest
man in the world. His height was sew
en- feet six inches-two inches higher
than Porter, the celebrated Kentucky
giant. His weight was a fraction over
one thousand poundsl 1t required sew
enteen men to put him in his coffin
Over one hundred feet Of lumber was
requisite for his coffin. He measured
around the waist six feet and nine inch
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MORALS OF New YoRK.-That a very
large proportion of the best-looking,
most cxtravagantly dressed, and in out
ward appearance the most genteel and
lady-like of the women who grace
Broadway on a fair afternoon, are court
csans, is fact we'll known to our citi-
zcns, and not long concealed from
strangers That hundreds of sumptu-
Gus palaces in the best and most fash
ionablc quarters of the town are the
brothels in which these fair but deceit
full women hold rsvelry, is equally well
known, and to their cost, too, both by
citizens and strangers. But the mass
of men and women know little Of the
end of these things; only the few pro.
fcssional and ministerial agents Of the
law, and fewer laymen, ever take the
trouble to follow to its fearful termina.
ton the path of her "whose feet 60
"down to death, and whose steps take
"hold on hell. ~ T. Tibmtc
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GBc Yomr CjrtJr.
BEAUTIFUL EPITAPH.

In a graveyard, in Englu nd, may be found
the following, on a tombstone over four in
fants;
Bold infdelty, turn pale and die
Beneath this stone four sleeping infants lie;
Say, are they lost or saved7
If deaths by sin, they sinned, for they are here
If heavens by work. in heaven they can't APP
pear.
All, reason how depraved!
Revere the sacred page-the knots united
They died, for Adam snnedi they live, fol
Jesus died"
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THERE IS AN END.-To everything
beneath the sun there comes a last day
and of all futurity, this is the only
portion Of time that can in all cases be
infallibly predicted Let the sanguine
then, take warning, and the dishearten-
ed take courage; for to every joy and to
every sorrow, to every hope and to ev-
cry fer, there will come a last day. and
the man ought so to live by foresight,
that while he learns in every state to be
content, he shall in each be prepared
for another, whatever the other may
be.
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9oljtjtaI

u
Senator Douglas on the Stump.
His Opinions Of Kansas The Dred Scott
Decision and Jiah-He knocks "I'Op-
ulqr Sovereignty ip the Head
Senator Douglas arrived in Spring
field, Illinois, Friday of last week, and
in the evening addressed his fellow-citi-
zcus in the hall Of the House Of Rep
rcsentatiycs. He requested to speak
on the following points
1st. The present condition and pros.
poets of Kansas;
I'd. The principles established by the
decision of the Supreme Court in the
Dred Scott case and
3D. The condition of things in Utah,
and the remedy to be applied.
He had little to say about Kansas
His views concerning that territory had
been often repeated, and were wei
known He said
Kansas is about to speak for rhcrsclfthro'
] uNl uClSSdIS9 aa9SLl lJlNo w. i''' 81 IN
tuition preparatory to her admission
into the Union. The law under which
these delegates are to be elected seemed
to him to be just, and was well calcu-
lated to secure the bona hdc inhabitants
lin their rights. They who shall refrain
from voting will be responsible should
any institution be forced upon that land
not IN concert with the opinions OF the
PeoPiG. DuI teU 'Ie I!I la'I ulll.gO.l,'IS III
tbov Ioy will soii:fv the DconIc Of the United
States, because the inhabitants of the
Territory, who alone have the right to
decide upon their own domestic con
Germs, Will mark out their course Tor the
future.
Tbis would brinr down the scope
A.. -
VI inc slavery '6l'"''on ~ '.Io
OF the Drcd Scott decision Inc cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune says
Itbot on bred Scott DoucIag was pccu-
II:..1...4L,..
i'"iI '' "0'l''
"Got on Union-saving and niger
cquality-said that it was a glorious dc
acknowledged Justice fancy. Said
he was a great man and good one; said
that the opinion was the law and
should be obeyed-glad that it was
mado-drew the nation into two par
ties-the friends and enemies Of the
Union Here he was again at home
, He said that those who do not support
j do not admire and love the Dred
Scott decision, were amalgamationists by
b. nature, socially and politically. Said
p much that was disgusting-denied the
Bible theory of the niger race-soid
they were not OF the same species not
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For tIle News.

CoNs.-Why is the comet like man firing
blank cartrdgesi Because il never strikes.
Why Is the end OF dogs tail like the
heart Of tree? Because il is the frrthest from
the bark
Because they're "Suckers" w. II. II II.
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u-Answer to "J. G. BIS" Enigma in last
weeks paper;-"Chinese Sugar Cane"
Answer to Enigma by Lib, Of Penn Tp., in
same paper:-"CoFnelius Conarl,"
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Contemplation Of Christ.

Nothing has more attractive and
heart weaning power than habitual con-
temptation of the Lords living person.
Our Redeemer is no mere abstraction,
no ideality, that has being in our own
shifting thoughts. lie is the most in
dependently personal Of all persons,
and tho most absolutely living of all
who live. He is "the First and the
Last, and the Living One" He is so
near us, as the Son of God, that we can
feel his warm breath upon our souls;
and, as the Son of Man, he has a heart
like these hearts Of ours--a human
heart, meek and lowly, tender, kind,
and sympathizing. In the word-thc
almost UiU0 uocs utterance of himself
his arm of power is stretched forth be-
side you, that you may lean on it with
all your weight; and in the word also
his love is revealed, that upon the bos.
ON Of it you may layyour aching head
and forget your sorrow in the abun.
dance Of his consolation.-Hewitson.
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Some unfortunate Individual thus enters his
protest against sundry evils,
Prom a cross neighbor aud a sullon wife,
pointless needle' and broken knife,
From suretyship, and from an empty purse
a smoking chimney, and a joltng horse.
From dull razor, aud an aching head,
From bad conscience, and a buggy bed
A blow upon the elbow and the Knee,
From each Of these, good Id, deliver me.
A observation-disclosures, on Thursday, the
93rd uIt, by the Rev. Clay Boulder, Nh. An
drew Horn to Miss Julia Parker, President Of
the Young Ladies' Temperance Society.
Fair Julia lived a temperate maid,
Preached temperance dltties night aud morn,
But still her wicked nelghbors said
She broke her pledge and took A Hoax.
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Collecting Taxes in Lawrence.

SgAAGGbAhb 4dAgo III AAaWIenGBa
The claw and Order" Deputy Mar
shall Faiu, Of Georgia, acting in the
capacity Of taz-gatherer, under the au-
thority Of the Bogus Legislature, made
visit to Lawrence, lately, to collect
taxes One Of the first men he met
with was Col. Eldridge, whose splendid
hotel Fain had been instrumental in
burning the year previous, and occosted
him thus:
DWELL, Colonel, I have come to town
to assess property, and collect taxes from
you and the balance Of the citizens
Are you ready to fork over?"
"Whatl ask me for taxes, you id
villain, after burning up and destroying
my property. If / should pay you with
an ounce of cold lead it would be what
you richly deserve. Ifyou have assess
ed any taxes on my property, just take
it out Of that horse you stole from my
barn last summer Leave my presence,
and the sooner you make yourself scarce
the better for your health
The scamp acted upon the hint, and
took himself back to Lecompton in dou-
bic quick time, to tell Walker how he
had succeeded in collecting taxes in
Lawrence. The next question is, what
is Walker going to do about it?
P S-We omitted to say, that it was
with great difficulty the leaders coulC
keep the people of Lawrence, whose
property he had stolen, burnt, and 9th
erwiso destroyed, last year, from taking
him, tarring, feathering, and riding hin
upon rail out of town He well de
served it, A public meeting was called
and the people of Lawrence resolved
as one man, to pay no taxes to the usur
pors nor to any tax gathcrer appointe
by the Bogus Legislaturc.-Chicag
Tribune.