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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

How SOLDIERs LIGHTED THEIR
PIPEs.-A correspondent Of the Amer
lean Artisan tells of an ingenious
method of procuring fire. 1t was in
vented in Weitzeps brigade at the
siege of Port Hudson, at the time
matches were a luxury:
ga ramrod was stuck in the ground,
but with the tip end upward a little
wad of cotton, of which there was a
plenty, as thousands of bales were
used for breastwOrks, was stuck upon
the rod, percussion cap placed upon
the rod over the cotton, in the same
manner as a cap is put upon the cone
Of a rifle, and it was then struck with
some hard object. The shank Of q
bayOnet was generally used for this
purpose, as the blade served a cOnven.
lent handle to hold it to strike with,
and it was not at all times possible tC
get a better substitute for persuasive
force. This plan Of producing fire
had many advantages over matches,
as caps were always at command, and
a light breeze or current Of air would
not eXtinguish the fire so produced
among the wad Of cotton, but rather
promote it whereas a light breath OF
air would eXtinguish match almost
as soon as lighted"
WoOdmen and travellers in the far
west might borrow this idea from the
military with advantage.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07
SOIOnlOn,s Temple.

There is a charming tradition con-
nected with the site on which the
temple of Solomon was erected. It is
said to have been occupied in common
by two brothers, one Of whom had a
family; the other had none. On this
spot was sOwn a field of wheat. On
the evening succeeding the harvest,
the elder brother said to his wife:
"My younger brother is unable to
bear the heat and burden of the day.
1 will arise, take my shocks and place
them within his, without his knowl-
edge"
The younger being actuated by the
same motive, said within himself:
"NIy elder brother has a family, I
have none; I will arise, take my
shocks and place them within his,
without his knowledge"
Judge of their mutual astOnishment
when on the following morning they
found their respective shocks UnGi-
minished. This course of events trans
pired for several nights, when each re-
solved in his own mind to stand
guard and solve the mystery.
They did so, when on the following
night they met each other half way
between their respective shocks with
their arms full. Upon ground hal
lowed by such an association as this
was the Temple Of Solomon erected
so spacious and magnificent, the Won
der and admiration of the world
Alas in these days how many would
sooner steal their brothers. whole
stock than add to them a single sheaf !
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07
Things New York.

Geo., Alfred Townsend, writing to
the Troy Times, says there are TWEEN
ty-six ferries from New York to its
Subsidiary cities, with eight steamboats,;
sixteen horse railways within the city
ninety-two' express companies; six
ty-eight hotels, American and Euro
pean, of the first class. Sixty piers
lie upon the North river, and seventy
one on the East river; each pier marks
a separate street. There are thirty
seven police statiOn-hOuses; seventy
seven sound and river steamers, eigh-
teen of which cost upwards ofS4OO, 900
apiece; only six omnibus lines, where
there were twenty-five three years
ago; one hundred and two ocean
steamers; twelve trunk lines Of steam
rail come to Eew York, each Of them
diverging branches. Eighty-fve tug
boats pull the shipping to and fro.
Twenty-Five thousand voyages are
made in and out of New York in one
year. Twenty-six thousand horses sub
sists upon the Island.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07
AFemnIe Sharner.

The Troy Times says a stranger Of
the female persuasion has lately been
practicing sharp game upon some of
the citizens of that place. She repre-
sents herself as an agent Of the .. S.
sanitary commission, and that she IS
authorized to distribute among fami-
lies over the country large amount
of clothing, particularly female appa-
rel. She required only small amount
of money-just enough to pay her
travelling eXpenses-frOm those to
whom she would send the goods in q
few days. A number Of persons Sc
lected the particular kind Of dresses
they would like to have, and gave
'the lady" their dollar or two. Since
which they have heard nothing Of
their money or "the lady"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

VIM. L CoggeshalI, Z. s. Minister
to Ecuador, South America, died near
Quito, Aug. %, Of consumption, aged
about 43.
Mr.. Coggeshall was born at Lewis
town, Pa, Of Rhode Island parents
lie came to Ohio about twenty-three
years ago, and from that date till he
left for South America, a year ago, he
was the most indefatigable worker
connected with the press in the State,
lie was kind-hearted, genial man, a
good writer, a useful citizen. and VIC
mourn him as one Of our personal
friends. He delivered the address be.
fore the Literary Societies Of Marietta
College, at the Commencement oI
1SG7.-T Marietta Reg.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07
What they Moan.

Many persons have wondered what
was the significance of the different
whistles of locomotives. The follow
ing explains:
One whistIe-"Down brakes"
Two whistles-"Of brakes"
Three whistles-"Back up"
Continuous whistles-"Danger."
A rapid succession ofshort whistles
is the cattle alarm, at which the
brakes viii always be put down.
A sweeping parting of the hands on
level Of the eye is a signal to ego
ahead"
A downward motion of the hand,
with extended arm to ''stOp."
A beckoning motion of one hand to
"back."
A lantern raised and lowered YER
tically is the signal for ''starting"-
swung at right angles, or crOssways
the track, to ''stop''-swung in a cir
Gle, "back the train"
A red flag upon the track must be
regarded as a signal of danger. So Of
other signals given with energy.
HOiSted at a station, is signal for
train to stop.
Stuck up by the roadside, is signal
of danger on the track ahead.
Carried unfurled upon an engine, is
a warming that another engine or train
is on its way.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Human nature has not changed
since Martial or some one also wrote
the piquant epigram, originally in
Latin.
aThree faces wears the doctor when first
sought,
An Angel-and Gods the cure halt
wrought,
But when, that cure complete, he seeks his
fee.
The Devil looks less terrible than he.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

A BOLD ROBBERY.-A few days
since, as a wealthy lady was attempt
ing to step upon a street car in Chica-
60, a man stepped on the platform i'm
mcdiately in front Of her, another be-
ing close behind. The conductor at
the time was inside the car collecting
fares, and the rear platform was va
cant. The first man quietly closed
the car door, and then, by a rapid
and skillfuI movement he fastened his
hands upon her throat and threw her
upon the railing. His accomplice
rifed her pockets in a seconds time,
secured her wallet containing $4,000,
leaped from the platform and disap-
peared. So rapidly was the affair ac-
complished, that it failed to attract at,
tention from passers-by in the street
But a gentleman sitting in the rear
portion of the car gave the alarm, and
a general rush was made by the con
ductor and male passengers to the real
of the platform. The villain had re
leased his hold of the terrified lady
and was leaping from the car wher
he was coIlared by two gentlemen
who after a desperate struggle, sue
ceeded in taking him into the car.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

SHOWING How AN INDIAN
AGENT, BY PROPER ECONOMY, MAY
GET RTCH.-A Western paper, irOni,
cally aIIuding to the manner in which
Indian Agents accumulate fortunes,
says: can Indian Agents salary is
about 81 800. By being economical
in the saving Of his salary, he manages
to retire at the expiration Of a four
years. term, with about $4,000, and
in the mean time supports his family
in q style that corresponds with the
dignity ofan official and representa-
tive of "the best Government the sun
ever shone upon" A superintendent
who undertakes to say that an agent
shall not make $1,000 out of an in
come of $4,000, is apt to get into
trouble"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07
Hsborough Highland County Ohio Thursday, November = 1867
The AndersonviIlo Prisoners. I

The AndersOnViIIe Prisoners,
A medical work now in course o.
publication in New York, embOdies
some information on this still painful
topic. It appears that DR.. Davic
Jones, of Augusta. Ca, was deputied
by the Richmond authorities to got
AndersOnviIle and examine into the
condition of the Federal prisoners
His report in manuscript has been read
by the author of the publication re-
ferred to, who gives extracts from it,
DIR. Jones, writing on the 29th Of Oc-
tober, 1864, says there were at that
time more than five thousand serious
ly sick in the hospital and stockade,
and the deaths ranged from ninety to
one hundred and thirty each day
Since the establishment of the prison,
on the 24th of February, 1864, over
three thousand Federal prisoners had
died; that is, nearly One-third Of the
entire number had perished in less
than seven months. He states that
be made a careful examination Of the
grounds-of the water, and all the
other features of the prison. In refer
ence to the terrible effects Of hospital
gangrene, he says:
More than thirty thousand were
crowded on twenty-seven acres OF
land, and little or no shelter from the
intense heat of the southern summer
or from the rain and dew, with coarse
corn bread, from which the husks had
not been removed, with scant supplies
of fresh meat and vegetables, with lit
tie or no attention to hygiene, with
fostering masses of filth at the very
doors of their rude dens and huts
with the banks Of the stream flowing
through the stockade a filthy quagmird
of human eXcrements, alive with
working nlaggOts, generating by their
own filthy eXhalatiOns and eXcreatiOnsi
an atmosphere that so deteriOated and
contaminated the solids and fluids,
that the slightest scratch Of the sur
face, and even the bites Of the smallest
insects, were followed by such rapid
and extensive gangrene as to destroy
eXtremities, and even life itself"
After this statement of a rebel sur
geon, it will be in vain for the Rich
mOnd government" sO-called, or
their advocates, or apOlOgists, to seek
to explain away their responsibility
for the diabOlicaI treatment of Federal
prisoners. That ineE3ceable blot on
the conduct of an unprOvOked wal
will consign its perpetrators to the ex,
ecration of po5terity. 1t will be re,
garded, however, as consistent that
conspiratOrs in behalf of human bond
age should treat their captives with a
barbarity which belongs only to the
age of slavery. The lesson, though
repuIsive and saddening, is yet too
significant to be entirely forgotten by
our countrymen.-[BOston Journal.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

The Dayton Journal is of the opinion
that the Copperheads must have cOlonized
in Montgomery county extensively, OF
resorted to other illegal means in the late
election; for while the Republican vote i.
but "a less than it was last year, the Cop.
perhead vote is increased over 600, and
there is no corresponding increase of Cop.
perhead families or residents in the places
where these gains were made to account
for the increase of their vote.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07
Poetry.
WEIGHING A BABY.

WEIGHING A BABY.
"How many pounds does the baby weigh
Baby who came but month agO2
How many pounds does the crowning curl
To the rosy point of the restless toe ?"
Grandfather ties the 'kerchieFs knot
Tenderly guides the swinging weight,
And carefully over his glasses peers
To read the record, only eight
Softly the echo goes around;
The father laughs at the tiny girl;
The fair young mother sings the words,
While grandmother smOothes the golden curl
And STOPPING above the precious thing,
Nestles kiss within prayer,
Murmering softly, Little one,
Grandfather did not weigh you fair
Nobody weighed the baby's smile,
Or the love that came with the helpless one
Nobody weighed the threads of care
From which woman's life is spun.
No index tells the mighty worth
Oflittle baby's quiet breath
A soft unceasing metromOne,
Patient and faithful unto death.
Nobody weighed the baby's soul
For here on earth no weight there be
That could avail: God only knows
Its value in eternity.
Only eight pounds to hold a soul
That seeks no angels silver wing,
But Bhrines it in this human guise,
Within so small and frail a thing
0, mother, laugh your merry note;
Be gay and glad but don't forget
From baby's eyes looks out a soul
That claims a home in Eden yet"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Letters from Gambia give terrible
accounts of the condition of the Gre,
tans.-With the exception Of a few
cantons and villages, it is doubtful.
whether there is a village standing in
the Island in a condition to offer shel,
ter to its people during the coming
winter. The Cretans, however, still
struggle for their independence, il
spite of the misfJrtunes that have be
fallen them.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

PICKED UP HIS OWN HEAD.-An
Irishman, addicted to telling queer
stories, said he saw a man beheaded
with his hands tied behind him, who
directly picked up his head and put ii
on his shoulders in the right place.
"Ha ha ha ~ said bystander.-
"How could he pick up his head when
his hands were tied behind him >"
can sure, what a purity fool yt
are ~ said Pat. "CouIdn't he pick it
up with his tathe. To the divil will
your bOtheratiOn ~
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

The Richmond Enquirer says {:
'CWhat we want is fortunately not
now so much Iaborers to be hired, as
industrious, frugal farmers to settle on
our lands. We must repeat it, at the
risk of dinning unwelcOme news into
the ears of our country friends, that
there is no other salvation for Virginia
but the division Of farms"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

A wag in New York, seeing a man
driving a tack into a card, through
the letter "C' of the word "BOston, 4"
printed on it, seized the latter and ex-
claimed:
"Why, what are you about? Don't
you know that laying tao on tea IN
Boston once raised a laundering muss
there ?'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Hon. Thomas A. Jenckes, author of
the Bankrupt law, and who IabOred
with wonderful diligence to get it
through Congress, is one of the first
applicants under it for relief from in
debtedness. During its tendency in
Congress, and at the time of its pas
sage, Mr.. Jenckes was accounted one
Of the WeaIthiest men in Providence ;
but the heavy defalcation of a friend
and associate-nOt exposed until after
his disease-whO was esteemed
one of the most honorable men in
Rhode Island, and other heavy losses
which followed by the indirect in
huence Of the first loss, reduced him to
bankruptcy. Mr.. Jenckes, being a
man of wonderful vital energy and
splendid legal abilities, will soon
emerge from the financial shadow I'M
der which he is now suffering.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

\ neighborhood correspondent Of
the Geauga Democrat, says that cows
bought there last spring for from $50
to SIS, are now selling on account oI
the drouth, for S25. lie says the
cheese factories will soon have to sus-
pend operations for want of milk.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Gov. Brownlow is out in a card an
nouncing himselfa candidate for T.
States Senator. He says his health is
much better than it was Il year ago
and he hopes to regain good degree
of vigor before the time when, if elect.
ed, he will take his seat.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Italics and capitals going out Of
fashion in printing would seem to im-
ply that an intelligent public can find
the place for the emphasis and the
point Of the joke without Topographic
cal help. That book Of poetry which
Ia bishop published with the fine
passages urderscortd is. not now in
demand.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Bankrupt comes from the italian
6ancO TOttO or broken bench. When a
Venetia failed, it was usual to break
up his bench or chair in the exchange
to signify that he had no longer a seat
at the board, which made it good for
the cabinet-makers.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Judge Bangs, who is now an able
Judge of the Supreme Court Of one OF
the States of this Union, when he first
"came to the bar" was very blum
dering speaker. On one occasion,
when he was trying a case Of repIevin,
involving the right of property to a
lot of hogs he addressed the jury as
follows: "Gentlemen of the jury,
there were just twenty-fOur hogs in
that drove-just twenty-fOur hogs,
gentiemen-exactly twice as many as
there are in that jury box" The ef-
feet can be imagined.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

n. P. WILLIs.-Geo. D. Prentice
of the Louisville Journal, thus con-
cludes a notice of the late poet of Idle
wild: "FareweII Willis! As the He
brew girl by her loved river sits and
listens. to its melancholy wall, mourn
ing for the glories long since faded, so
sit we tonight by the fresh-made
grave, and mourn for one who was
the magic musician, whose lightest
strain stirred our rugged nature, and
softened its stern chords, until only
harmony-soft, sweet delicious har-
mony-flIed our soul. Willis, fare
WE'LL"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

ALvAH BUCKI" CHAM, one Of the
oldest citizens of Ohio, died in Put
nam, on the 4th inst. He emigrated
to the State in 1900, and settled at
Marietta, but soon after removed to
Putnam, opposite GAINESVILLE. He ac
cumulated large fortune in mercan-
tile pursuits, and was noted for his
benevoIence and Iiberality.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

A scientific Frenchman thinks that
once in ten thousand years the earth
is deluged by the sea passing over it
from pole to pole. But no one now
living need feel any anxiety, for the
next deluge is not due for six thousand
wears.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Charles Lever hints that Louis Ma
poleon will have to come down heavi-
Iy with hush money to keep certain
unpleasant written records ofthe Mex
lean expeditions from being made
nubIiC.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Ohio is now the chief wool growing
State, having G.5O8,O52 sheep, out o.
81, 2,GO5,7 ,797 in the whole United States
In 1866, the live stock of Ohio wa:
valued at S151, 100000, which is great
er than any other State except New
York.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

The witty author of Lifith Lank
says in the Citizen: "Hereafter we
shall have to be careful not only who
are our Presidents, but also who are
their wives-The taiI-feathers of the
eagle must not be bedraggIed."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

EXPENSIVE LITIGATION.-An ac-
tion now pending in the Court of Com.
mon Plees of this county, which orig
inalIy involved the amount of $40, the
costs in its litigation thus far amount
to over $12O, to say nothing of attOr-
ney fees on both sides, which will
probably amount to 5000 more
GAINESVILLE Courier.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

The meaning Of song goes deep
Who is there that, in logical words,
can express the effect music has on us?
A kind of inarticulate, unfathOmable
speech, which leads us to the edge of
the Infinite, and lets us for a moment
gaze into att Carlyle.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07
a gentIeman Vas once arguing with

A gentleman was once arguing with
a Scotch lady, when at length he
stopped: "I'H tell you what, ma'am, -
said he, 'I'll not argue with you any
longer; you're not open to convic-
ton" "N0t open to conviction, sir''
was the indignant reply, 81 scorn the
imputatiOu, sir am open to cOnvic-
ton" "But," she added, ''show me
the man who can convince me-"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

jim. Emmitt, the big whisIlcy man,
who spells Europe, u-T Up, has been
elected to the Ohio Senate from the
district below here. IF there is any.
thing Indicative in this sign Of The
times, it is, that the world is retrograd-
ing Ironton Reg.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

The New Orleans papers have ac.
counts Of tremendous gale at Calves
ton on the I'd inst, and estimate the
damage to wharves, shipping and
goods at a million of dollars. 1t was
the highest overflow since 1887.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

"DIy dearest UNCLE" says a humor-
GUS writer, ''was the most polite man
in the world. He was making a voy-
age on the Danube, and the boat sunk.
My uncle was just on the point of
drowning. He got his head above
water for once, took off his hat, and
said, Ladies and gentlemen, will you
please excuse me! and down he
vent
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

The Madison Tnd) Courier says:
owe have good authority, and tolera-
bly, direct, that Senator Morton is in
favor Of General U. S. Grant for Pres
ideut in 1868"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

The Boston Transcript says: "Gen-
eral Sheridan has one Of the finest
minds in the country. His brain
works with great celebrity, and seizes
upon the vital points of the situation
with unerring certainty"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

SHARP PRACTICE.-The Sultan Of
Turkey must have been taking lessons
from American politicians. 1t is
against the laws Of Turkey for its SOW
ereign to leave the realm. But the
Sultan wished to go to the Paris Ex-
position, so he "decreed' that France
be annexed to Turkey! On his re-
turn the decree is ssrevOked' with all
due form.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

PROMPT AND PROPER.-We notice
in the Athens Messenger a call for a
meting of the Republicans of that
place for the purpose Of organizing for
the Presidential campaign Of 1868.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-11-07

Gomez J issued a proclamation de-
claring Tamaulipas a sovereign State,
land he and Canales are raising troops
for the capture of TampicC. They are
in open revolt against Juarez.