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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03
miscellaneous
Drunkenness in Europe.

OEuuhGuu6SB III EuIOpBs
Rev. Theodore Parker, in one Of his
letters from Europe, says;
"In Europe you see many things
which seem strange to an American
Take the uso of wine. IF am right, the
Europeans consume about 6,5OO,000,-
600 gallons of wine. In France, leave
out of account the pasture land which
is not ploughed, and the forests, Of the
actual arabic land, 0no-thirdis is devoted to
to the culture of gTapel Yet there are
immense districts where no wine can be
raised at ALL 1 see it stated that the
government returns make it appear that
the people of France drink $4,000,
900 gallons of wine, and the calculation
is that the amount is not much less
than 1,OOO,O0O,OOOl Yet 1 don't be-
lieve, in the year 1859, there was so
much drunkenness among the 39,OOO,-
600 people of France as among the
100000 Yankees of New England
I have been four months at Rome
there are wine-shops everywhere; 1 am
out of doors from three to six hours a
day, and I have never yet seen man
drunk; now and then one is merry,
never intoxicated, The Romans, Ital-
ians, French, &c., are quite temperate
they drink their weak wine with water,
and when they take liquors it is only q
little glassful at a time, which does not
make a spoonful. 1 don't believe there
is a bar in all Italy whore men step up
and drink rum and water, gin and wa.
ter, Nc, Excessive drinking is not tC
the taste of the people, In the north
of Europe, and even in Switzerland, il
is not so. The English, without helE
from the Irish and Scotch, drink about
600, ,OOO,O 600 or 7OO,OOO,OOO gallons of
beer every year, not to speak Of the
wine, spirits &C., they take to wash il
down Withal."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03
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THE sHoBMAKHR

The shoemaker sat amid wax and leather,
with hislapstone over his knco
Whore, snug in his shop, no dehed all weather,
Drawing his quarters and sole together;
happy old man was he.
This happy old man was so wise and knowing,
The worth of his time he knew;
Ho bristled his cuds and he kept them going,
And i0lt Co each moment stitch was owing,
Until ne got round the shoe.
or every deed that his wax was sealing,
Tho closing Wa8 firm and fast,
The prick of his awl never caused D feeling
or pain TO the toe, and his skill IA heeling
Was perfect aud true to tho last.
Whenever you gave him q foot to measure,
With gentle and sldllnul hand
He took it's proportions with looks Of pleasure,
ASH you were giving the C0stiest treasure,
Or clubbing him lord Of tho land.
And many one did ne save from getting
iover, or cold, or cough
For many foot did he save from wotting,
Wheni whether I'm water or snow twas sitting,
His shooting would keep them on.
Whom he had done with his making and mondng
With hope and peaceful breast,
kosgunE his awi, az his thread was ending,
Ho passed frum his bench to the grave descending
A5 high as the king to rest
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

a New SOUTHERN STATE PROPOsED.
The old project Of forming a new State
out of Northern Mississippi, Western
Tennessee and the extromo Western
point Of Keutuoky, has been revived,
and the Tennessee Legislature haa given
it its sanction The proposed State
would be bounded by the Tennessee
River on the East, through the State 81
Kentucky and Tennessee, and by tho
Mississippi ou the West and would
contain population Of about 200, 600.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

A beautiful but silly girl Of 16 to 18
years, daughter Of a widow Of Rock
ford, H., advertised for a husband in a
paper for the romance Of the thing,
and was caught and seduced by a Pike :
Peak gambler named William Moore
She started in company with him foi
Pixies Peak, and now has been found
murdered on the way to Ottuma, Iowa
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}loutgs' department.


For the News.
Miscellaneous Enigma.
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My 20 8 81 38 Is a lake
MY a 20 80 90 Is the most important part Of house.
My 81 81 Is n ladys name.
My % 4 48 Is pronoun.
My 20 l3 40 30 20 is "a largo bird.
My 40 "A 10 Is troublesome insect.
My AZ 90 10 is A IA Is what the boys get OCCASION
ally
Ny 81 AZ % 81 IS 9 20 "A 4s 81 wos celebrated
orator,
My n SO 20 22 is a musical instrument
My 20 o 10 is part Of tho body.
My III 25 ~ l5 what every person loves
My whole is a pr0yerb Of solomon. RHODA,
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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03
"THR FAMILY.0

"The family" is like a book
The children are the leaves,
The parents are the cover, that
Protective beauty gives.
At first the pages Of tho book
Are blank and purely fair,
But time soon writeth memories,
Aud paintcth pictures there.
Love IS the little golden clasp
That bindeth up the trust;
Oh, break Il not, lest all the leaves
Shall scatter and be lost.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

The editor of the Albany Flag gets
off the following squib:
Why is the editor of the Louisville
Journals career through life like a
celebrated tune? Because it is the
Rogue's March.
Prentice, who is a dead shot, loaded
his piece, and, taking aim let the man
have it right in the teeth after the fol.
lowing manner, to-wit:
Why will the editor of the Flag, al
the close of his career through life, be
like tune of Paganinis? Because he
will be executed on a single string.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

FoRNEY's Philadelphia Press is very
severe upon the Presidents recent ness
age to the House of Representatives,
protesting against the proposed investi-
CATION iuto his conduct. 1t states the
case thus:
The case stands just as If a clerk in
a store should say to the firm, You
shall not examine the books to asccr-
tain my delinquency ropel the auspi-
cioni protest against the disgrace; but
you mag prosecute me for feloaB and run
the risk Of securing copUjcti0n.'
Mr.. Buchanan says in this most arro-
CANT of all state papers upon record
most arrogant in its assumptions, most
arrogant in it's tonc--"I defy investiga-
ton" And yet the whole meaning,
object, and aim Of the paper is to cs-
cape investigation. + Il + The Demo
cratic party must utterly and openly
repudato this protest aud the protester,
or they will hear from the people soon
upon the subject Of Presidential prerog-
atives.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

The LARGEST PRINTING PRESS IN THE
WoRLD.-Att che printing house of the
Appletons, in New York, is a press
made expressly for Websters Spelling
Book, which prints both sides at once
As this is the only press of its kind in
existence, so Webster's "Spellor" is the
only book requiring a press so rapid,
and on which a single book is being
printed without interruption from Jan
uary to December. The sale of Web
ster's "Speller" amounts to more than
one million per annum, and more have
been sold than there are people in the
United States New York Albion.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

Tbirty-siz destitute children, twenty
six boys, and ten girls, left Boston on
Tuesday last, in care of an agent, des-
tined for Lebanon, Ohio, and the neigh
borhood, where they expect to obtain
homes.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

A proternaturally brilliant thing was
said upon the stage of the Adelphi
Theatre, the other day, at rehearsal
The morning was extremely wet. Mr.,
Paul Bedford was on the stage, when
enter to him Mr.. Toole Both abused
the weather, for both had been caught
in a shower 81 am wet" observed
Mr.. TooIe. "But I am wettor," said
Mr.. Bedford, "and as my parts over
I shall retire and dry" "Yos," said a
witty author (not translating,)
"suporAuous lags the wcttcr 'un on the stage"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

EDWARD BATEs.-Judge Bates is in
the sixty-sevonth year of his age, a ma
tive of Virginia and of Quaker descent.
During the last war with England he
served some months in the army. Went
to St. Louis in 1914, and was admitted
to the Bar in 1916. In 1920 he was
appointed Attorney-General Of Missou-
ri, and in 1924 District Attorney of the
United States. In 1926 he was elected
to Congress, and in 1880 and 1884 to
the State Legislature. In 1913 he was
elected Judge of the st. Louis Land
Court, and served three years and then
resigned. In 1847 his address as Presi-
dent of the Chicago Harbor and River
Convention was exceedingly able. He
was also President Of the Whig Con,
vention that nominated Fillmore in
1856. He has been the leading law.
yer Of the st. Louis Bar, exceedingly
exemplary in private life, and the faith.
er of seventeen children, eight Of whom
still survive.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03
Tho New Bonnets.

A year ago, says the Boston Post, we
predicted that "the little bonnots of the
present day are sure to be followed by
the large scoop-shovels which used to
hide the fair faces Of the wearers fifteen
or twenty years ago" Editors, like
poets, are prophets eT.o6jcio and the
of our vaticination is already
foreshadowed in the spring fashions
Not long ago, you couldn't see a wo-
mans bonnet for her face; presently
you won't be able to see her face for
her bonnet, but
"Searching long in vain,
You'll spy her features down Lcghom lane
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

Cross PURPosEs.-"I have to in
form you that I have been married
since l saw you"
$50 much the better"
"Not so much the better, for my wife
proved an arrant shrew."
$50 much the worse"
"Not so much the worse, for she
brought me fortune"
$50 much the better"
"Not SO much the better, for with the
money L bought great number of
sheep, which died of the rot.
$50 much the worse"
"Not so much the worse, for I sold
the wool, and with the produce I built a
house"
$50 much the better"
"Not so much the better, for my
house was burned"
$50 much the worse
"Not so much the worse, for my wife
was in it.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

FoRCrBLE AND FLEXIBLE REMoN-
sTRANCE,--A worthy old farmer, who
thoroughly detested taxes and tax gath
orers, was once called on by collector
for taxes he had once paid, but for
which he had mislaid the receipt; and
as he told the story to his friend,
would you believe it, sir, the fellow
began to abuse mel
"Well," said his friend, "what did
you do?"
"Do! why [ demonstrated with him.
"And to what efect?"
"Well, 1 don't know to what effect,
but the poker a0as Jeati"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

The following, by Yankee, Is the answer to IN,
Riddle Ia last week. kDpaper:
Ecodl I've guessed tl-'tis Con;
Cutoh lts head, he's very OD
Gut Of his tall youhayo a Co.,
Aud that is "plura" all men know.
Cut of his head and tail, you leave,
A middle nothing, (O) you perceive;
What Is his head2 A sounding O.
What Is his tail2 The river ID.
And where's the opIcure but cries. "Ohi zoundsl
know the Con produces most sweet SOuEps"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

ltur the News
Mn EDTOR.-I send the answer 20 tho Problem, con-
tainod in your paper Of the 18th of April.
The boys chopped l715 cords Of wood The younger
boy receives 81, and the older a28 pApB BOY,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

In Wilmington, N, c., on Saturday
evening last, Joseph S. Canaday, a
young mechanic, who had just puVchas p
ed a dirk, while jesting with a oompan-
ion, playfully struck his own breast
with the knife, crying, clay on, Mac
Duff His friend told him that he had
stabbed himself Ho stated that he had
not; but, upon looking at his breast,
perceived the blood, when he uttered
"good Lord!' and, falling backward in
the door, died almost Immediately 1t
is supposed that when he struck him
self with the dagger, he intended to do
so with the handle, repeating dramatic
quotations, and "suiting the action to
the word"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

Rev. Daniel Worth was recently con-
victed of the crime of selling Helpers
book in North Carolina, and sentenced
to one years Imprisonment.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

The Supreme Court of Mississippi
has affirmed the validity Of the law,
making penal for retailers to sell IL
quor to q drunken man.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

Answer to Enigma by "Buuker' Tho shelby County
Democrat.
~ Answer to Enigma by "SIo end Myself. Caro-.
Inc Woodrow.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

THREE PRINCES AMONG Us.-We arc
shortly to be honorod by the presence
of three full.blooded, live princes
among us--tho Prince of Wales, who
will leave Liverpool for Canada, on the
10th Of June, and who will extend his
visit to the United States; Simme,
Prince of Boosen, and Mooragaki,
Prince of Awadsi-the two latter men
toned being scions of japanese royal
ty, who are to come with the japanese
EmbassY.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

PoRTRAIT OF JOHN WEsLEY.-John
Wesley was a man rather under the
middle height, and spare in make. He
wore a clerical costume. His features
were deeply marked with wrinkles. His
smile seemed to be breaking into a cry.
His chin was carried very forward. The
form of his throat was well marked,
and the skin on each side seemed pulled
by his projecting chin into two loathory
gussets. He wore buckles. His hair
had been long, and bobbcd up; but
when my informant knew him, Cline
had thinned his flowing locks" His
manners were simple and sinccro-so
sincere and earnest as to make an i'm
preston even upon his enemies. He
was not what is usually called an elo-
quent man; but there was a suasive-
ness in his preaching, and homoli-
ness of illustration, which was exceed
ingly winning. If eloquence is to be
judged by its effect, (to my mind far
the best criterion he was eloquent
His style and manner were copied by
his imitators, and MAY yet be seen
among his disciples. Perhaps no sin.
gle man in modern times did so much
good among the class to whom he ad.
dressed his ministrations. - Joshua
Yernal.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

Suppo a clock 10 have hour hand, minute hand,
and a second hand, all turning the same contro.-
At12 o'clock an the hands together and point to l2
/. How long before the second wiz be between the
other hands and at equal distances from each?
2. How long before the minute hand will be equally
distant between the other two hunds2
3. Also, how long before the hour hand will be
equally distant between the other two handsl
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

A Warning to California Emigrants
The following is an extract from
letter from Mr.. Charles G. Leonard, a
gentleman we'll known in Louisville,
and in whose statement implicit conf
deuoe can be placed. The letter was
addressed to a relative:
The Washoo silver mines still contin-
ue to produce great excitement and the
various routes to Carson valley are
crowded with travellers, on horseback,
and some on foot with their freight wag-
ons. When the silver ore was first dis
covered at what is now marked out as
the "Comstock Lead" the people became
wild with excitement and O great rush
was made there by speculator9 from this
city. In a few weeks several fortunes
were made in re-selling claims. Thus
while q few may realize fortunes, thous-
ands will regret they ever went there
The excitement is kept up by a few
adroit spectators A speculator goes
to his friend and takes his note for $780,
900 payable nobody knows when, and
then gives him q deed of o half inter
est in 200 feet, stipulating in the same
that he has sold half Of certain claim
for SIS, 900, S25,OOO cash the balance in
a note for S5O,OOO, 0hen really there is no
sale at aU. This friend then comes into
the market, shows his title, &C., explains
all about the reported riches of the lead
and dupes some unsuspecting individ-
ual into the purchase of one half Of
his half for, say $4,000 part cash and
the balance on long time, This is the
management resorted to. Two or three
hundred heartless spectators are now
trausacting business in this way at the
Washoe mines. Those duped turuaround
and dupe others. AS to encouraging
emigration to California, it is down
right swindling to indite such fattering
accounts of the country as appear in
papers here, when hundreds and thous-
Qnds of laboring men are out of employ
ment. There is a large surplus popu-
lation and every steamers arrival adds
to the large number Of halGstarved
people.
There arc many persons employed
here as walters at hotels and restaurants,
who would scorn the idea Of such po-
sition in the States. Every one who
has living salary in the States should
remain there. San Francisco has an
immense idle population, and there are
more thelts committed within her gates
in one week, than in the State Of Ken
lucky in a whole year.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03
Gerrit Smith, SAYS The n. Y. Tribune,

Gerrit Smith, says The n. Y. Tribune,
continues to improve in health All
the old vigor of mind has returned
He cannot however, bear much excite
ment or fatigue, as his physical system
is yet weak. A few months will doubt
less find him perfectly well, and if the
dyspepsia, which was mainly the cause
Of his temporary insanity, is porman-
emily cured, he may enjoy even better
health than for many years past. So
much for a good constitution, well
guarded by life of strict temperance
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1860-05-03

The New York Tribune, entering up
on its twentieth volume, gives the fig
ures of its circulation. Its total circu-
lation is 286,75O; a gain in a year of
10000. This circulation is as follows:
Daily Tribune, 10000
Semi Weekly, 2G,25O
Weekly Tribune, 217,OOO
Pacific, $500
The Tribune oirculates in New York
93,547; Pennsylvania, 27,1O4; Ohio,
%, $40; Illinois, 1000; Indiana, 13, G39;
Wisconsin, 1918; Iowa. 1850; Mas
sachusetts, 1O,7O4 Michigan, 10,G20;
Maine, 1O,O88; Maryland, 555; Virgin
ia, 800; Louisiana, ST. North Carolina,
G8; Alabama, 80; Georgia, 81; South
Carolina, 2G; Mississippi, p; Florida, s.
Arkansas, 3; Texas, 81; New Mexico, 2.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-05-31

Mr.. Lincoln, having been born in Au
gust of the same year. He is lawyer
but for the last twenty years has been in
public life. From 1888 to 1910 he was q
member Of the Legislature Of Maine, and
for three Of those years he was the Spea-
ker of its House of Representatives
In 1913 he was elected member of
Congress, and reelected for the follow
ing term. In l847 he was again mem
Der of the State Legislature, and the
next year was chosen to fill vacancy
occasioned by the death of John Fair
field in the United States Senate. In
1851 he was reelected for the full term
in the same body, but resigned on being
chosen Governor of Maine in 1857. In
the same month he was again elected to
the United States Senate for six years,
which office he accepted. resigning the
Governorshlp. Up to the time of the
passage Of the Kansas. Nebraska bill in
1854, Mr.. Hamin was member of the
Democratic party. Thenceforward he
gave his support to the Republican
party, OF which be has ever since contin-
ued a faithful and distinguished leader.
The duty Of Republicans and Opposi
tionists is now plain. We have able and
eminently worthy candidates and sound
platform. 1t remains for us to organize,
disseminate our doctrines. and enter with
spirit and confidence upon the contest.
If all work, earnestly and perseveringly,
success is not only within our reach. but
is moral certainty. Let us commence
the needlul work Immediately, and cease
not our labors until patriotism is rewar-
ded by the election of Abraham Lincoln
and HannibalI Hamlin to the Presidency
and Vice Presidency Of these United
States.
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-05-31
Hay-lIaking.

As the season for making hay is ap-
preaching, we will give few words Of
caution in advance. Don't dry your hay
too much. Hay may be dried till it is as
worthless as straw. AS good coffee
maker would say, "Don't burn your cof-
fee, but brown il" so we say, don't dry
your hay, bus cure it. Our good old
mothers, who relied upon herb tea in
stead of 'potecary medicine gathered
their herbs when in blossom, and cured in
the shade. The sugar of the plant, when
it is in bloom, is in the stalk ready to
form the seeds. If the plant is cut earlier,
the sugar is not there: if later, the SUI
gar has become converted to woody mat
ter.
Hay should be well wilted in the sun,
but cured in the cock. Better to be a
little too green than too dry. If, on
putting it into the barn, there is danger
of heating in the mow," put on some
salt. Cattle will like it non ethe less.
Heat, light. and dry winds will soon
take the starch and sugar, which consti-
tute the goodness Of hay, out of it; and,
with the addition Of shower, render it
almost worthless. Grass cured with the
least exposure to the drying winds and
searching sunshine, is more nutritious
than if longer exposed, however good the
weather may be. If over cured, it con-
tains more woody fiber and less nutritive
matter.
The true art Of hay making, then, con-
sists in cutting the grass when the starch
and sugar are most fully developed, and
before they are converted into seed and
woody fiber; and curing it up to the point
when it will answer to put it in the barn
without heating, and no more.-O Far
nner. . N
The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-05-31
A Courteous Retort.

Hon. Alexander Fl. Stephens, of Geor~
gla, was once running for Congress, with
an opponent of unusually large stature,
and on the stump one day the discussion
became exceedingly warm. Whereupon
the large man said to Stephens, who was,
small and delicate:
"Why, I could butten your ears back,
and swallow you whole"
"And if you did, you would have more
brains in your stomach than you ever had
in your head"
The laughter which followed effectual-
ly dissipated the ill-humor which was fast
gaining ground.