The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-01-07
New Years Addresses,
TO TEE PATRONS Of the NEWS,
january LIST, 1868.

TIER OF HtLLsBOROUGU
Ny bouorod patrons, I once more
Approach your hospitable door,
And now present my short ADDRESS
To patron and to patronsss.
Another year I've paced around,
Der mud and rocks, ond frozen ground
With frost-bit fingers, frozen toes,
And pendent icicles at nose,
While the Northwest successful tries
To force the tears from both my eyes.
Oft in the summers scorching rays,
July and Augusts burning blaze,
/ serve you with THE HIGHLAND News
With toll, and wear and tear Of shoes;
Upon my arm my weekly pack,
News from all Nations at my back,
And with The patience Of a Job,
Tell you the wonders Of our globe.
Disastrous news we hear from far,
The direful sound Of bloody war;
From India's sunny cline It comes,
Echo of death-groans, guns and drums;
Christian and heather blood is spilled.
Thousands on thousands men are killed,
Mahommedan and Christian blood
Together flow, one common food;
What dire amount Of human sufFering!-
To Moloch what bloody offering
But treason, with her hateful form,
Threatens our country with a storm;
And with its foul, envenomed tongue,
Threatens the wrathof Brigham Young;
What mischief dire chat imp Of hell
Can do, no earthly tongue can tell.
Murder, adultery and incest,
The boast Of this lascivious pest,
Who reigns in that abandonodregion,
And holds adultery for religion.
This specimen Of ''squattor sovereign"
! Our President will have to govern;
His hands, / judge, will have enough in
With Brigham and the Border Rufian.
That desperate gang of border kpaves
Have sworn to fiji Kansas with slaves,
| And force the Southern institution
Upon the Kansas Constitution,
And have n constitution framed,
OF which the Devil should be ashamed,
| And sent the brat to Congress hall,
Where it will doubtless raise a squall
But Mr. Buch adopts the brat,
As true born, lawful Democrat;
And now the dough faced politician
Will be once more in requisition; ..
/ They've saved the Union oft before
Now they must save the thing once more
Seven years ago, a grand fnality,
They framed by most sublime rascality
But modern bogus politicians
Mend documents like quack physicians
/ Whose patent nostrums mend one sor
But make, instead, some half score.
We in Ohio, once again,
Have had stirring, brisk campaign;
Our oppouents--O, what a rare go!-
Tried to get up a "uigger" scare crow
Against us tried to excite enough rage
BY the bug-bear of negro suffrage"
Andsmeared their ticket Fer with honey
But tn people knew who stole theii
money
So we elected Governor CHASE
BY telling truth, we won the race.
But tired of politics, turn
To some congenial concern.
While round our village streets I 60,
Through rain and sleet, and frost anC
snow,
What lots Of pretty girls I meet
And oh, my eyesl they look so sWeet-
Well dressed, well hOoped, well educated
All number ones-not overrated,
Bonnets retiring back with skill,
Saying "come kiss me if you wilp';
And fairly showing every grace
That can adorn a pretty face.
There may be danger, for I'm told
The lovely creatures may catch cold,
Or a sun stroke, which much l dread,
Might strike the pretty creatures dead
And then--O bless their pretty liVes-
What would we do for charming wives
Aud as 1 travel, now and then,
1 meet some things, called gentlemen,
But such a curious looking tribe,
I cannot possibly describe;
A strange, anomalous set Of chaps,
Some dressed in hats, and some in caps
Some wrapped in oloaks, and some il
shawls;
And some in shirt and overalls
Their faces covered Ger with hair,
Like the posteriOrs Of a bear;
Some with the habits Of the shoats,
Some pride in personating goats;
Some ike those quadrupeds appear,
Which have tremendous length of ear
Others, by all twill be agreed,
Appear like gentlemen indeed.
But, my respected patrons, now,
/ humbly make my parting bow,
And hope, kind friends, before I 60,
A generous gift you will bestoW.
| If ia these Bank Suspension times,
Fate has reduced your stock of dimes
And haLfdiBles still in number shorter
ia thankfully accept QUARTER,
And 0UOHl1 not sReezs at HALE a DOL
LAR, e a.
| From some rich gentleman or scholar
Patronsl another year has past
Last night the old year breathed its last
And with the birth Of the New Year
The CARRIER BOY with Joy draw
near
Your festive board, and Graves a gift,
For which his thankful voice he VI lift
/ ADDRESS no, 2.-BY THE CARRIRl
Boy, ...... I'd
i Our thriving place, Of great r6nowh
Is truly, now, o "Model Town, ~
| Though gossips say it'a awful "fast