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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22
For the News.
Geographical Enigma.

deOgfapnlCal Enigma,
am composed Of 90 letters,
My ], 9, 9, 10, l3, Is city I'm Sardinia.
Ny 2, g. -, 10, isa range Of mountains
I'm Europe.
Ny 8, i2, Is, 10, s, IS lake in North
America,
My 4, 5, 10. 10, Ills city in Beloo-
My 5, ., Is, 20, is lake in North Amer
lea.
My 6, 8, Q, IS, 10, 90, Is river in Russia.
My rs, G, 10, 8, 9, is on island in tho In
dian Ocean.
My 8, 9, 3, 70, is q town IN Russia.
NY 9, IS, ~, 90, is a river in Egypt.
My 10, -, I3, -, is city in Arabia.
My II, 5, 90, 9, II, 10, Is, Is, is a city In
China.
My 70, 3,l2, 10, is a sea in Asia.
My 3, 70, S, l3, 6, is a county i'm Ohio.
My ID, 70, II, J., -, is a town In Beoo-
Chistan.
My 1873, 4, s,2II, 1914, is town in
Russia.
My IIaI5,IGs,5s,is river in South
My is, 90, 3. 2, Is a country in South
America.
My 9, 90, 5, is a county In Iowa.
My 90. ID, l6, l2l is volcano in Sicily.
My whole is a country in Europe, and It's
Capital. TRlSMEGlSTUS.
Marshal TIP.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

THE Coon ARE BEAUTIFUL.-"Ohl
what an ugly little oreatureI"
"She will be beautiful in heaven,
ma'am, replied a lady.
"Will she, indeed2' returned the in
dividual who spoke so lightly Of the
child. 81 should like to know how you
can tell that?"
"Iu the other life, replied the wo-
man, "the good are beautiful, and the
evil deformed and ugly. No matter
how fair face a person may have had
in this life, it will, in the next world, be
changed into beauty or ugliness, accord
ing as he has been good or evil"
Chow do you know this2' inquired
the FIRST speaker
"Any one who opens his eyes may
see and know that this will be true,
was replied. els not the most beautiful
face rendered disagreeable, when any
bad passion is felt and exhibited And
does not the homeliest face become
pleasant to look upon, when good afrec-
tions are in the heart? Tia the other
life we shall appear as We really are,
and Of course evil passions will deform
tho face, and good affections make il
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22
LITTLE NOBODY.

by CHARLES MAcKAY,
When the tempest flies
O'er the cloudy skies,
And from crag to crag the frantic thunders ride
When the lightning stroke
Has DESTROYED the oak,
Safely down below the little violetS hide.
In the strife appalling,
When the proud are falling,
Little men can rest, or watch unheeded by;
Blow, ye storms U Fate,
On the rich and greats
I'm but little Nobody--NObody am /.
Pebbles on the shore
Dread no hllows' roar,
But the mighty ships, deep laden in the hold
With q thousand men,
Steering home again,
Founder oftentmes with all their men and gold
Feathers iall but slowly,
And the poor and lOwly
Fall and are uuhurt- while greatness falls TO die
Kings may wake 10 weep,
While their ploughmen sleeps
Who would be a Somebody dy2-Nobody am /
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

The Honolulu Sandwich Island)
correspondent Of the Cleveland Plain
dealer thus writes Of a somewhat noted
character, formerly of Ohio
Gen. o. Hinton, the noted mail-rob-
Der Of Ohio, is a resident here. Ho
came down from California four years
ago with his wife, and they kept a board
ing house, but lost money at it, and the
old man was finally reduced to working
by the day at carpenter work Finally,
the rheumatism prevented him doing
even this, and now he has turned law
yer, and manages, I presume, just to
live and no more. I sincerely pity tho
old man, and think that he is truly
repentant He does not know me,
but I remember, when I was a boy,
seeing him in his primei but now how
changed
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

munication Of bis secret, are, that a list
Of SOC subscribers, at 25O francs each,
should be iilled up, when he will at once
proceed to initiate them into tho mys-
terry a letter has been published in
the Paris papers, detailing the wonder.
tul effects produced by causing O restive
horse to inhale the breath Of human
lungs, and it is asserted, whether truly
or not / cannot pretend TO say, that
some such operation forms the basis Of
Barey's treatment.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

"ABE" Lincoln, an ex-member Of
Congress from Illinois, and the Repub-
lican of that State, who is anxious for
the shoes Of the Little Giant, tells a
story, as we learn from the Illinois pa.
pers, that illustrates in the best anecdo-
tai style, his appreciation Of the late
fight in Congress. 1t reminds "Abe"
of testimony given concerning fight,
one Of the belligerants being his client.
Among the witnesses for the plain
tiff was a remarkably talkative old fell
low who was disposed to magnify tho
importance of the affair to my clients
disadvantage 1t came my turnto ques-
ton him. Witness" said l, "you say
you saw this fight"
Eyes, stranger, I reckon I did. D."
"Was it much of a fght?" said I
"I'll be darned if it wasn't, stranger,
a right smart fight"
GLOW much ground did the combat
ants ,covor2"
"About an acre, stranger
About an acre, / repeated mus
ingly. "Well, now, witness, Just tell
me, wasn't that just about the smallest
crop of a fight off Of an acre of ground
that ever you heard off,"
"Thats so, stranger, I'll be gol darn
ed if it wasn't"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22
Gbr gomr Cjrtlr.
The Boys Tool Chest.


We have known many an excellent
mechanic made just from the fact that
in boylood they learned the use of a
few ioincr's toals. A boy, if he be not
utterly stupid, takes to using a ham
mer and driving a nail as soon as his
right hand can lift the one, or the left
hand hold the other And as they
grow older, nothing engages their at
tention, or fixes their thoughts, when
wanting recreation, like a puttering
about something or other, with a saw, a
hammer, some nails, and a gimlet No
matter what they make-whether it be
a martin or a wreu-box, a rat.trap or q
hen-coopeit is all the same, so that they
make something, amuse themselves, and
learn the use of tools. In fact, we
consider a well-furuished tool-chest for
boys, Of as much consequence, and as
profitable an Investment as we do a set
Of school books; and q boy who, at the
age Of fifteen years, cannot make a good,
substantial dry goods box to pack his
traps in, why-that boys education has
been neglected We do not contine
these remarks to farmers boys alone;
they apply to everybody's boys-city,
village, and country. Nor, whore there
is a gardener or farmer, should the
little garden tools be omitted. The
boys should have the best of tools, and
fitted to their own size and strength
We have seen many a bright, ambitious
boy driven out of the garden, the field,
and tho meadow, because he could make
no headway with a miserable, cast.off
tool given him, which no one else could
use, but cit was good enough for q
boyl" We consider it as an outrage,
as we'll as an injustice Of the grossost
kind, to turn a boy out to labor with a
poor tool If you hire a man, and
expect him to do anything, he has got
to have good tools, and if he is a man
of any spirit, he will not work with
out them And so with boys; they
should be taught that their labor is
worth something, and nothing will so
readily convince them of the fact, as
to furnish them with the best of tools,
such as they are American Agri-
cultuTist.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

ANOTHER MAINE LAW IN MAINE
The Maine Legislature have enacted a
prohibitory liquor law by an overwhelm-
ing majority, which is to be submitted
to the people at a special election Tho
present license law, enacted at the time
the old Maine Law was overthrow, is to
be submitted along with it The two
are thus to go before the people at the
sumo election, and the voters are to be
called upon to express their choice by
tho ballot
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22
An IrishmaD'8 Confidence in q Bank.

/ An 4rAsnman'B Confidence in q Bank.
We heard the following capital story
yesterday, and only regret that We can
not tell itaa &c was told us;
A banker in Dubuke, whom we shall
call Mr. My for short. found it nee
essary a short time ago to suspend bus
iness, and accordingly olosed his doors.
and issued q card to his Gepositors, in
which he stated that he hoped he would
soon be able to resume again. The day
Mr.. NJ. had closed his doors, he vas met
by Hibernian miner who had 10000
deposited with him, and accosted thus:
Good morning Mr.. NJ. Faith an.
it's well you're looking this morning,
considerin the weather. But, sure, it's
sorry / am, Mr. NJ, to see that card Of
yours in the papers. But niver you
mind sich triGes as that, mon-take
courage and hould mp your head as high
as iver-the throuble Of the thing win
soon be over And as for that $4,000
Of mine, just kape it as long as you
want tive no use for the lousy dol
lars--and I know yoes for an honest
mon, and perfectly good for the same at
anytime. Kape it, sir, and pleasant be
wild ye."
Mr.. NJ, expressed ,his thanks, and the
banker and depositor separated But
on the following day Mr. NJ, was star
tied from his pheasant dreams" by the
presentation of a check for S6,OOO
bearing the name of his Hibernian
friend Not knowing exactly how to
understand the matter, Mr.. NJ, sent for
Patrick, when the following ezplana-
tion took place;
"Wel you sec Mr.. NJ, Peggy, that's
my wife, has been raising the very div
| il about my money--and Just to pacify
the poor ignorant crater that it was all
safe, I thought, bcdad, that I'd Just
send for it, and count it all over be-
fore her ugly face, and then she'd con-
sent to my leaving it wild you, together
wild other $4,000, that is giving us so
much throuble to kape from being sto-
len from us.
To such an explanation, together with
the new temptation of $4,000 addition
al, the banker could take no exceptions
so he counted out the 5000, in short.
But that was the last of the Irishman.
The banker meeting him several days
after, desired another explanation.
"Och the thruth is, Mr., NJ, it's my
self that's been ashamed to see yees.
Peggy, that divil of mine, you see, has
hid the money and dom me if I can
find itat all at all, and that's the thruth
sir"
The banker made a graceful tender
of his hat, but Pat generously declined
to accept the same, although justly en-
titled to it, Burlington Gazette
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22
For the News

For the N ewB
Miscellaneous Enigma.
am composed Of 5 letters:
My a, ., 8, is a color
My g, 6, 10, is a boys nick name.
My 9, 3, !, is AN animal,
My s. 10, 5, II, 4, is river In South Amer
iCa.
My II, l3, 9, IS cover.
My 70, 7, IA, 5, is the body or a ship.
My whole is the name Of a Clerk In this
town. JESSE.
Hilsboro, Feb. g, 1858.
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TRUE LOVE BxALTs.

] praised Der, but no praise could I'm
The depths Of her desire TO please,
Though dull to others as a will
To them that have no legaolfs,
The more praised the mogo she shone;
Her eyes incradulousIy bright,
And all her beauty fully blown
Beneath the beams Of my delights
Sweet rivalry was thus begot;
By turns, my speech, IN passions style,
With batteries the truth o'eTshot,
And she surpassed them with her smile.
--The Angel IN he House.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

CIVIL WAR IN URUoUAY-TERRr-
BILE ATRoCITIEs.--A civil war is raging
in Uruguay with even more than the
usual ferooity Spanish-American quar-
rels. A letter writer from Montevideo
states that about the 1st Of February
Gen. Rosas, a distinguished commander.
was defeated In the interior Of the eoun.
try By the Governmental forces. aud
with 300 troops compelled 10 surrender.
The Government at Montevideo, in am
swer to inquiries as to what disposition
should be made Of the prisoners, sent
orders to shoot % Of the officers. and
cut the throatss of 200 of the soldiers.
which was done in spite Of the remon-
strances Of the English and French Min.
listers and American Consul. and the
intercessions of the wives and relatives
of the officers, many of whom belonged
10 the first families of the country
Business has been entirely suspended.
and the prospect is that carnage will
complete the work begun by the yellow
fever, which last year swept away 1000
Of the inhabitants Of Montevideo.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

A man was cured of hydrophobia, in
Italy lately, by swallowing vinegar, in
mistake for a medical potion A pby-
aician in Padua hearing Of this, tried
the remedy on a patient He gave
him q pint Of vinegar in the morning,
another at noon, and a third at sunset,
which cured him We give this as one
Of our exchanges gives it 10 us.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

A PREss DESTROYED BY A MOB
The Office of Mrs Swisshelm's paper the
Visitor, at st. Cloud, Minnesota, was
broken into on the Oath ult., the press
taken to pieces, and the type scattered
in the streets and thrown into the river.
Mrs, s. had given offence to some of the
citizens by her free style Of speaking Of
certain things to which she objected.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

WoRTH KNowING-One pound of
copperas (oosting seven cents) dissolv-
ed in one quart of water and poured
down a privy, will effectually concen-
trate and destroy the foulest SMELL
For water closets on board ships and
steamboats,, about hotels and other
places, there is nothing so nice to cleanse
and purify those places, as simple green
oopperas, dissolved; and for sick rooms
it may be placed under the bed in any
thing which will hold water, and thus
render a hospital or other places of the
sick free from unpleasant smells. For
butchers stalls, fish markets, slaughter
houses, sinks, and wherever there are
putrid and offensive gases, dissolve cop.
peras and sprinkle it about, and in q
very few days the "bad smell" will pass
away. If a cat, rat or mouse, dies about
the house and sends forth an offensive
gas, place some dissolved copperas in q
cup or jar anywhere within smelling
distance, and the cure is sure. I have
known a stock Of goods which were
nearly spoiled by "skunk" under ,
store to be cleaned and restored BY
simply sprinkling dissolved copperol
about the floor.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

And have my people been provided?
have they laid up a suficienoy to feed
their cats and dogsp
Yes they have done this
We'll, my people are worthy. Now.
80 ye again unto them, and If there be-
anything left, tell them TO take it and
pag The priaterF
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9outBs department.

dJ7Answer to Enigma by "Evonder, IN last
weeks paper'-Kennedy's Medical Discov-
cry"
Answer to Enigma by "Dingy," In same
paper, "a Cooking Stove"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

AN EMBASSY FROM JAPAN-A Paris
correspondent Of the New York Jour
nal Of Commerce says:
"a gorgeous embassy from Japan is
expected; after visiting our capital, Lon
don and perhaps Vienna, these princes
and other grandees Of the DIongolian
race will cross the Atlantic, to learn
what the United States are, and what a
Republic means. They are quite as
worthy Of an elaborate welcome as the
Turkish Admiral, about whose mission
and advent there has been in Congress
and Common Councils a fuss, which ez-
cites some smiles on both sides Of the
British Channel"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22
TIE SABBATH DAY.

The week is nearly closed, and the Sabbath
blessed day Of rest 10 all, is az baud. The
rich and the poor are alike entitled TO ia bless
inRs. The Sabbath has been properly styled
Che poor mans dav, in which the following
beautiful lines can be properly read;
Sabbath holy!
To the lowly,
Still thou art q welcome day,
When thou comest, earth and ocean,
Shape and brightness, rest and motion,
Help the poor mans heart to pray.
Sun.wuke forest!
Birds that soareth
Der the mute, enpurpled moor,
Thrustis's song, that stream like howest!
Wind, tIat over dew drop goesll
Welc ONE now the woo-w6rn poor
Little river,
Young forever!
Cloud, gold-bright with thankful glee.
Happy wood-bue, gladly weeping!
Gnai, within the wild-rose keeping!
Oh, that they were blessed as ye!
Sabbath holy!
For the lowly
Paint with flowers the gIiuerlng sodi
For afliction's sons and daughters,
ID thy mountains, woods and waters,
Pray to God the poor mans God
Pale young mother,
Grasping brother!
Weeping sister, young and fair!
Grief-bowed sire, that life long Giest!
Whlte.lipped child, that sleeping slightest
Come and drink the light and air.
Still God liveth,
Still He giyeth
What no life can take away,
And oh, Sabbath, bringing gladness
Unto hearts Of weary sadness,
Still thou art the Poor Mans Day"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

beautiful. And she win be beautiful
in Heaven, for she is a good little girl
homely as her face now is."- Arthur's
Magazine.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

THE ONION is a superior disinieot'
ant. Two or three good sized ones cut
In halves, and placed on the floor ab-
sorb the noxious efluvia, &o which are
generated in the sick room, inan incred.
IDLY short space Of time. They should
bo changed every few hours asIon
l 66e American.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-04-22

IHE MoRMoNs.-The Mormons claim
to have 100000 members oftheir church
scattered over the world. They have
ninety-hye missionaries in Europe, and
an equal number in Africa, Asia, and
the Pacific Islands. They have one
newspaper in Salt Lake City, issuing
1000 copies weekly; one in Liverpool,
issuing 22,O0O weekly; one in Swansey,
South Wales; one in Copenhagen in the
Danish language; one in Australia; ono
IN India one in Switzerland, in the
French language The "Book Of Nor
mons has been translated and publish
ed in the Welch, Danish, French, Ger
man and italian languages.
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-01-21
From the Baltimore American of the OH.
WASHINGTON Items.

In the Senate, in executive session, yes
terday, there was an animated discussion
on the nomination Of Mr.. Sedgwick for
District Attorney for New York in the place
of Mr.. McKeon. The defenders Of the
Presidents course rested their support OF
the nomination on the absolute right of the
President TO remove federal officer, but
much was said even by some who were dis
posed to take that view, in depreciation Of
the removal of a faithful public officer on the
grounds on which Mr.. McKeon is TO be re-
moved.
After strenuous opposition the nomination
was confirmed by vote Of twenty eight
against twenty-four. Messrs. Douglas
Broderck and Pearce Of Maryland, at one
stage of the proceedings, voted to lay the
is said, was somewhat damaged by the pro-
duction during the debate of his correspon-
dence with General Cass, short time pre-
vioussto the New York Mayoralty meeting
in which he inquired Of the Secretary If the
Administration objected TO his taking part
in that meeting. Gen. Cass in answer, ad-
vised interference, and consequently
Collector Sohell telegraphed from Washing.
ton to Mr.. McKeon, demonstrating against
his proposed participation.
The large delegations in the House from
New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio are a
unit in support ofIhe Administration on the
General Walker question, and the evidence
is palpable to all that the opposition will
embrace only the ultra fllibusters. General
Walker and his friends themselves fee
satisfied OF this, but they nevertheless con-
tinue their efforts TO elevate him up to the
dignity of hero. 1t is stated that Genera
Walker refuses 10 yield up his command oil
iilhbuster movements against Nicaragua,
and that unless he does, and a full compile
ment of men and munitions of war are pro
vided, General Henningsen declines to take
any part in the next expedition for tina
quarter.
Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-01-21
The Canvass of 1858.

The papers are beginning for the Can
vass OF the present year. Congressman,
members of the Legislature and County Of
ficers are 10 be chosen in August.
In the Fifth Congressional District, the
name of Capt. Reid, of Jackson, has been
brought forward, and his claims and fitness
strongly urged.
In this Senatorial District, composed of
Howard, Charlton and Randolph, the demo-
cratic papers are beating about for condi-
date, The Brunswicker s. Gazette favors
the nomination of Judge M. C. Hurt, Of
Charlton, and brings some facts forward 10
show that Charlton is entitled TO the candi-
date. Judge H. is a very excellent man,
and we know Of no democrat that we would
prefer over him. The matter will most
probably be settled by convention at Roam
oke.
In some Of our exchanges, we notice the
names of a number of aspirants for the place
of Sheriff, and observe other indications
that there are many persons in our State
who are willing 10 sacrifice private inter,
ests for public service, and the prospects
are that we shall have lively times next
summe.
Howard county is entitled to but one rep
resentative, and among the democracy there
are several willing to serve.