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MAYORS os,iog.
Washington, February 8, 1859.
PROPOSALS in writing win be received At this orHco uptois
drant conveying water and for sinking wells including all
somptss in The be aud for Keeping the same ia rt
repair the district composed 81 the First AID
Fourth aud seventh the third district composed
The Fifth and sixth wards eaeh district 70 he b for separately aud
menens on The rs, day Of April 1852 agreeaoy 70 The oos
considered and the contractor viii be required 10 conform rs
TOR WELLS.
Digging and wnng wells Including rsfnong
Dirt per foot Tho walls 10 be bur inches thick Of good hard
brick
Cleaning out wells, each.
Taking old wells aud putting IN SAME, per foot
Cases Of cigilt feet length, do stas
Cases than eight feet length, do
Eastern Shore iisi les than three inches thick laid double
opennr old wells covering materials each
opening old wells and covering same with new timber
FOR PUMPS.
Keeping the pumps repair stopping all leaks &C., when
can be without taking the pump, each.
Taking out and putting in old pumps per log each.
Making new Joints in old logs gs ttts8
New logs putin old pump, per foot
New boxes and spouts in Old pumps, each
New pumps per r
Boxes and spouts for new pumps, each
All top pieces square inches sap she
oak and fourteen feet long Lower timber 10 be II inches in diane
AlL,op pieces TO have three coats Of paint.
FOR HyDaANr
aud pouts aud repairing The old and lh'
old belonging 70 the wheni can be done without takns the
ilydrant each. la
rnking bydTan,s and putting same each. F4ssf
New hydrants, per foot ssss atst.t.
Spouts for hydfants, each ssia ti.asg
Spout stones, each
Panng pumps and hydrants three coats, each.
viii he received hydran practical plumbers.
IRON WORK
Handles nxes spears plates bands repairs per pound
Spout and lower box irons for pumps zach.
New joints 10 old pears,
New spout aud vaveirons Tor hydrants. Afal
the materials all the quality OF their
spec,iyc kinds
will be received that made BY practical
maker
Contracts will not be assignabe
person persons accepted will be required
dollars good sureu,
faithful performance and
fail comply with
the conditions his their any
the time Of direct
ing done Mayor authorized employ any other per-
expedien contractor
failing shall be responsible this eoporsn Tor
thereby, BIS
annu the contract Of such contractor contractors
Peb lo--3awAIar JAMES @. pEtlEr, Mayor
Separate proposals will be received for keeping
of the several Districts s VIII s
price per pump furnish msesso
every which required by said Commissioners ft all e
pairs and cleaning out the "e
JANIS BEIRET, Mayor
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KINNEY G. HOLLY,

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bought paid Money invested real o'ia
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Nebraska Territory Il.
Mr. HOLLY q che above be found until March w
Kirkwood House Bic Twelfth street
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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12
Country VS.. City.

The Ohio Farmer gives this sensible
advice to those young men and women
who are so anxious to leave their coun-
try homes and go to the city, in the ex-
peotation of bettering their condition:
Now let us say to chose anxious
young men and women, all over the
country, that going to the city is a very
dangerous experiment.. It is not only
probably true that you will not amass
your fancied fortunes, but there is great
danger that you will lose what is worth
more to you and your friends than the
largest fortune, your reputation and
character But suppose you should not
not make such shipwreok of your char
aoter, you will have put yourself in a
more uniavorable position for happi.
ness or success, by going to the city,
than if you had staid at home. The eX-
citements, extravaganza, and other pc
culiar habits of city life will have dis
qualified you for the quiet and moder.
ate customs Of country life. Our ad-
vice to farmers sons and daughters is,
make the country your home until cir
cumstances call you to the city. IF
they do, then go, but don't run before
you are called Do not suppose be-
cause city people dress better, and have
whittier and softer hands, that they arc
better, or know any more. OF all ig-
norant creatures, an ignorant city man
or woman is the most helpless
When you 80 to the city don't suppose
that the streets on which the stores arc,
or the parlors, are the whole of city
life. In the garrets above, in the cell
lars beneath, back in the alleys, back in
the stores, is not only hard work, but
poverty such as a countryman can on
ly read of, but never sees; vice such as
he happily cannot conceive Of misery
such as never disturbs even his
dreams.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12
About Clocks

Haroun al Ruschid, in 800, sent a
clock to Charlemagne, which was so ar
ranged that horsemon came forth from
it and displayed themselves, at the hour
of twelve.
Since the fourteenth century, clocks
have been placed upon steeples and 9TH
er conspicuous public buildings, in or
der that the people Of cities and large
towns might have uniformity. as well as
facility, in obtaining clock time
Hence a simultaneousness Of movement
in all large cities, at appointed hours.
Fanny Kemble gave to the town in
New England where she has her cot
tage a clock with such an enormous
dial that the time may be seen q mile or
more
Gen. Washington would not wait for
guest if, deceived by bad watch, he
did not come to dinner at the appointed
hour.
A nobleman, celebrated for punctu-
alitY, who was to meet the king az
twelve, was startled by the striking Of
the clock, as he was passing the ante
chamber. Enragcd he smashed tho
dial with his cane "Whv did you
strike the clock2' asked the king
"Sir," said he, 'the clock struck frst!"
The English Board of Longitude re-
warded Harrison with 100000 for a
marine watch which would determine
longitude at sea. Tie also invented a
pendulum consisting of nine rods, five
Of which were of iron and four of
brass. Ordinary pcndulums went fast.
er in winter than in summer. because
cold contracted and heat elongated
them. These improved pendulums be-
. ing made Of different metals, compensa-
ted or equatod those effects, and now. it
/ is said, there arc chrOnometcrs which do
not vary one stroke of the pendulum in
a year. This brings us as near to the
true time as we can approach.
As for watches, they so notOriouslv
disagree that they can only be regarded
as aids in guessing time rather than as
time-keepers. Tn China they are worn
IN pairs, and so one serves to correct
the other. 1t is well known that
"Ho who watch would wear, two things
rauFtdo-
Pocket his watch, and watch his pocket too"
The largest clock ever constructed
has just been finished by Mr.. Dent
for the new houses of Parliament,
London. The dials are twenty-tw
feet in diameter; the point of the
minute hand will therefore move near
( ly fourteen inches every minute
The pendulum is fifteen feet long
The hour bell is eight feet high, and
weighs fifteen tons. The hammer
weighs four cwt. The clock, as a
whole, is eight times as large as a full
sized cathedral clock.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12
Random Gems


Religion and medicine are notrespon-
sible for the faults and mistakes Of their
doctors.
To speak harshly TO a person Of sensi-
bility, is like striking harpsichord with
your fists.
Intellect is not the moral power; con-
science is Honor, not talent, makes the
gentleman.
To do good to our enemies, is to re-
semble the incense whose aroma per-
fumes the ere by which it is consumed
It is a pretty saying Of an old writer,
that men, like books, begin and end
with blank leavos--infancy and senili-
ty.
A head properly constituted can .ac-
commodato itself to whatever pillows
the vioissitudes Of fortuto may place
under it.
While you are medtating revenge
for a real or fancied injury, the devil is
meditating another cord around your
soul.
Of all the agonies Of Ffo, that which
is the most poignant agd narrowing
that which for the time annihilates
reason and leaves our whole organiza-
ton one lacerated, mangled hearts,
the conviction that we have been de-
ceived where we placed pll the trust Of
love.-[Bulwer.
When I think of my loved dead at
night, in the thick darkness, my
thoughts dwell perforce on the gloom
of the grave, where their bodies lie; but
in the morning, there ate sure to come
to me with the triumphant dawn,
bright thoughts of the morning land
where their souls are dwelling. And SO
it happens that those whom I loeep for
at night, 1 rejoice with ID the morning.
I'M. =. II.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12
From the Cincinnati Times.
Old Bells in Ohio.

In the court house at Lancaster in
this State, there hangs a bell, and "thero-
by hangsa tale" BY a Spanish in
scription on it's side it appears that il
was cast early in the fifteenth century
we forget the precise date.
II once belonged to a convent in
Spain, and the sounds which now sum
mon 20 dull disputes Of law, and per-
haps Of equity, the people of new
town in O new world, not known when
they FIRST rang, often called the nuns at
morning and at evening hours 10 mathis
and 10 vcspers.
The story as tradition bath it, runs
somewhat after this fashion: Many
years ago when the bonditi who iu-
tested some parts of Spain we're so fierce
and powerful this convent was sacked
by them, and the bell being among the
booty, was transferred to q pirate ship
The ringing and the swinging, which
had hitherto spoken in clear and musi.
cal tones across the bin and valley only
Of devotion and Of prayer, was now
changed to the ''clashing and the clang-
Or which struck upon tho ears Of wild
and desperate men, and surgod sadly
over the tumultUous sea.
How often it summoned the awlsss
crew to deeds Of pillagc and murder,
may not be said. The pirutical vessel
in its turn fell into the hands Of pursu-
ing justice, and was brought a captive
to the port Of Baltimore A gentleman
then contracting to build a court house
for the town Of Lancaster, purchased
the bell when the ship wds sold, forward
ed it to that village, and for years its
notes have been echoed by hills as beau
tiful as the most romantic bell could
desire though its uses can no longer
be deemed practical.
In Wfin there is also a bell which
once swung from tho turret Of q castle
on the Rhine, so that, almost within
speaking distance Of each other, these
bells toll forth their memories of tho
past and it would not be difficult to
imagine that upon still nights and love.
ly summer mornings they hold con
verse together over their singular hist0
RIGS
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12
Primary Functions Of the Mind.


The impediment to the cultivation
of Mental Science, is a want Of knowl-
edge respecting the elementary func-
tions Of the mind. There was no pre-
cision in the speculations of the chem
ist until he discovered the elements Of
chemistry. Then his knowledge be-
came definite. SO with the metaphy-
scian, his knowledge will be chaotic un-
til he discovers the elements of the
mind. There must be elementary, un-
compound, indivisible functions of the
mind. These primary faculties, essen
tial in the accumulation of wisdom, are
nine: Perception, consciousness, mem
ory feeling, conception, Judgment, rea-
son, conscience and will. Perception
perceives physical phenomena through
the five senses Consciousness makes
the individual conscious Of the present
actions Of the mind. Memory informs
the individual Of the past actions Of
the mind. Feeling is that inherent
faculty by which feelings arc exper-
fenced, it is that attribute which re-
ceives an impression from the action of
every other mental faculty, and from
the impression a pleasurable or unplcas.
urable feeling follows. Conception
sees ideas Judgment decides. Reason
inters. Conscience approves or disap-
proves of actions which relate to God
and to mankind. Will commands.
An elementary attribute is restricted
to a single Office; it can do that and
nothing else. Conception is limited to
the Office Of concciying--seoing ideas
and in like manner are the other eight
restricted.
The majority of the words that ex-
press mental phenomena are those
which embody shades of feeling. The
next large class are those which EN- body
the compound functions of the mind
as an example, meditation is not a single
primary function or action, but is COM
posed of memory, conception and judg-
ment; intuition is a compound Of con.
ception and Judgment. The least class
are those which express the primary Of.
fees Of the mind; as the words memory.
recollection, remembrance, and coucep
ton, comprehension, understanding anC
/ disccrnment.
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9ortrr
SPRING.


by ALFRED rEvNYsoN.
Like souls that balance joy and pain,
with tears and smiles from heaven again,
The maiden Spring upon the plain
Came iu a sun-lit fall Of rain,
I'm crystal vapor everywhere.
Blue isles Of heave laughed between,
Aud, far In est-deeps unseen,
The topmost elm.tree gathered green
From draughts Of balmy air.
Sometimes the linuet piped his songs
Sometime the throsue whisiled strongi
Sometimes the sparhawk' wheeled along,
flushed all the groves from fear Of wrong;
BY grassy Capes, with fuller sound,
in curves the vellOwinE river ran,
And dropping chesnut buds began
To spread into the perfect fan
Above the teeming ground.
Then, in the boyhood Of the year,
Sir LaunCelot and Queen Guiuevere
Rode through the coverts Of the deer
With blissfuI treble ringing clear,
She seemed a part Of joyous SPRING.
A gown Of grass green silk she wore,
Buckled with golden clasps before;
A light greeu tuft 0f plumes she bore
Closed in golden ring.
Now on some twisted Ny-net,
Now by some Gukling rivulet,
In m sses mkt with violet,
Her cream bite mule his pastern set;
And neeter now she skinned the plains
Than she whose elfn pnucsr springs
By night to eery warblings,
When all the glimmering moOrland rings
With jngling bridle-reins.
As she fed fast through sun and shade,
The happy winds upon her played,
Blowing the Hnglets from the braid;
She looked so lovely as she swayed
The rein with dainty finger tips,
A man had given all other bliss,
Aud all his worldly worth for this,
To waste his whole heart IN one kiss
Upon her perfect lips.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12
Value Of Scientific Men.


IF there is one sign Of these times
more hopeful than another, it is that
scientific men are, as a class, more hon
ored than at any former period Of the
worlds history James Watt, who dis
covered the steam engine, has enabled
England, with a population Of twenty
millions, to do work that as many hun
dred millions Of men could not have done
without. It's thus that science has
created the fabulous wealth Of that mon
archy. She is doing the same at this
moment for our own country, Who
can tell the value to this nation Of the
lifo of such a man as Fulton, with his
steamboats,, or even above him, our
own glorious old Franklin. who wrested
the lightning from heaven, and the
sword from the hands Of tyrants2--
Doubtless many man, who boastod Of
his own great practical business powers
smiled if in passing he marked him,
with kite and key, demonstrating, in
this, our own country, the identity Of
lightning and electricity, and laying the
foundation thus for those electrical tel
ographs now ready to convey tidings
from continent to continent round the
globe in an instant. Who can colcu-
late the value Of such man as Profes.
sor Morse to the country and to the
world2
The scientific man, then, is Of value
to the community justi in proportion to
the amount of labor he saves to the men
while producing similar results Lie.
big has increased the production of all
the farms in England, by applying the
principles of analytic chemistry to soils,
manures, and agricultural results gener-
ully-he has been worth millions Of
bushels of wheat already to Europe
The scientific medical men Of that cOun-
try have lougthened the average Of life
several years. The same is true Of men
tai science. lie who has better knowl-
edge Of those laws which enable a man
at once to distinguish truth from error
can write a book which will save thous-
onds from some popular mistake, or
from years of laborious thought, en-
abling men to form just conclusions
without delay--his empire is over the
mind Of man Phila. Ledger.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12
DOMESTIC ECONOMY.


NEWTON SHORT GINdERBREAD.-
Eight cups of -four, three cups of su-
gar one cup of ginger, one cup Of but
ter, six eggs, one tablespoonful of soda.
POTATO CHEEsEcAKE,-Ono pound
.ofmashed potatoes, a quarter Of a pound
.of ourrants, a quarter of a pound Of
butter and sugar, and four eggs Bake
in tins lined with pasta.
SALEM CoOKIEs.-Three and a half
pounds of -four, one and half Of su-
gar one Of butter, one teaspoonful of
carraway seeds, one and a half cups
of milk, half tea-spoonful Of soda.
LOAF OR TEA CAKE.-One cup of
sour milk, one cup Of sugar, one tea
spoonful rose water, a little nutmeg
one tablespoonful of butter, one tea.
spoonful Of soda, two and half cups
of -four.
NICE AND NAlELEss CAKE.-Twc
cupfuls Of sugar, a small lump Of but.
ter, half pint Of milk, four eggs, one
cocoanut grated, teaspoonful of soda
and two tea-spooufuls Of cream Of tar.
tar.
DEBoRAH's BATTER PUDDING.-Six,
teen tabie-spOonsful Of -four, one quart
Of milk, six eggs, salt; beat the eggs tc
a frothon a plate, and after it is mixed
and beat it fifteen minutes. Either boil
or bake.
AN EXCELLENT IMITATION OF APPLE
PE.-Take a tea.oupful Of bread crumbs
cut in small pieces, a tea-spoonful of
cream Of tartar; three tea-spoonfuls Of
sugar; stew in q pint Of Watory Bpio,
TO suit the taste,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12

An eminent Professor has annouuc-
cd, as a fact not to be disputed, that
were the distance between our planet
aud the sun diminished, the access of
solar heat would convert her waters in
to air, while the rich stores Of metal
garnered in her bosom would become
brazen rivers, discharging themselves,
when their race was run, into the va
cant depths of the ocean If the dis
tance'were increased, the difference from
the directly opposite effects would be
no less decided The diminution Of
the solar heat would cause the air to
liquify, turn the sea into crystal, and
bind the great continents of the earth in
eternal frost. As it is, however, the
distribution Of heat is regulated with
unerring precision. Indeed, the mind
can conceive no scheme of measure
ment so accurate, no balancing of cause
and effect so mathematically exact, as
the adjustment or relative position of
the quantityof heat which the earth re-
ceivcs from the sun. 1t is governed by
an eternal law-so apparent one would
think, as to convince the most profound
disbeliever in an overruling Provi-
deuce
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12

DEATH OFTHE KENTUCKY GIANT
Mr. Jas. D. Porter, widely known as
the Kentucky Giant, died in Portland
on the Oath ult., in the ffieth year Of
his nge. Mr.. P. had been in delicate
health, but his last illness was of short
duration, his disease being an affection
Of the heart Few men, says the Lou
isvillo Courier, have been more widely
known than Mr.. Porter His cxtraor-
dinary height, being about seven feet
nine inches, ranked him as the tallest
man in tho world. He seemed to labor
under the consciousness that he was an
object Of universal curiosity and shun.
ned, rather than sought the public
gaze. He was modest and retiring, the
very soul Of honor and honesty His
social feelings were elevated and re-
fined, his affections strong and marked,
He was a gentleman of intelligence, and
welded a considerable influence among
his neighhors and friends. His coffin
was nine feet one inch in length, and
two feet across the breast.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1859-05-12

At literary dinnerin London, where
Thaokeray and Angus B. Reach wero
Uis-a-Uis at table, Thackeray-who had
never, before met Mr. Reach-address
him as Mr.. Reach--pronouueing the
namo as the photography would natural
ly indicate. "Re-aok, sir-Re-ack, if
you please" said Mr., Reach, who is
punctilious upon having his name pro-
nounced in two syllables, as if spelled
Re-ack. Thackeray Of course apollo
gized, and corrected his pronunciation;
but in the course of the dessert he took
occasion to hand q plate Of fine peach
es across the table, saying in tone
which only he possessed, "AIr Re-aok,
will you take a pe-aok?"