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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06
Church Incidant.

The following is going the rounds:
IA minister of a western village found,
one Sabbath, a notice which had been
cut from a Saturdays newspaper, and
placed in his desk for him to read to
his congregation. But by a strange
coincidence, there happened to be
printed on the other side of the same
slip the advertisement Of certain shoe
dealer, q prominent member of his
church, and without turning the paper
to read the other side, as the advertise
ment met his eye, the good man con-
cluded it was expected he would read
it. Accordingly, to the surprise Of all,
he announced at the usual time for
reading notices-'George S. Brown
keeps constantly on hand and for sale,
a large and well selected assortment of
boots and shoes, which he will sell low
for cash, at No. 10 Pine street. And
he added: Brother Brown is a worthy
member of the church and society,
and deserving the patronage of the
congregation The CONSERVATION of
brother Brown may be better imagin-
ed than described"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

In Dublin, a great Methodist orator
once attempted to preach from the text,
"Remember Lots wife," and made a
failure. Afterwards remarking to DR..
Bond that he did not know the reason
of his failure, the venerable doctor re-
piled that che had better hereafter let
other peoples wives alone"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

A VALOROUs HUsBAND.-An editor
having read an article in HalI's Jour
nal of Health, advising that a man
and wife should sleep in separate rooms,
says that DR.. Hall can sleep, how,
when, and where he pleases, but for
himself he intends to sleep where he
can defend his wife from rats, if it
takes all the hair off his head. Spun
XIV bowl
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

A chap inquired at the post-ofice in
Erie, the otoer day, for a letter for
'"Enry Hogden." He Was told there
was none. "Look ere" he replied, a
little angriIy, "you've hexamined a
hodd letter for my name. 1t don't
commence with a hatch Look in
the ole that's got the hos ~
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

"NIary, do you remember the text this
morning ?"
''NO, papa, never remember the text, !
have such a bad memory"
"Mary," said her mother, "did you no
tice Sarah Brown ?"
ooh, yes. What a fright She had on
her last years bonnet, done up, pea
green silk, a black lace mantilla, brown
CATERS, an imitation Honiton collar; lace
bracelet, her old ear drops, and such fan!
oh, my oh, my!"
"WeIl, my dear, your memory is improv-
inr,D
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

SOUND.-The Tribune concludes IN
article on going to farming, thus: tJf
every man in business, who can spare
$1,000 up to 100000, would employ
that amount in buying land-a home
stead, if possible-and let it be decided
directly to his wife, he would signally
lessen the probability of his dying in
an aims house and being buried at the
expense Of the town. Few men will
deem this worthy Of consideration;
we do"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

"1fay 1 be married, ma >" asked
young miss Of sixteen. "What do
you want to get married for? inquired
her mother. "Why, ma, you know
the children have never seen any one
married, and I thought it might please
them a little, that's all" ''Nonsense ;
you can't fool me-" remarked the old
lady, with a significant shake of the
head.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

How many sickly ones wish they
were healthy how many beggarmen
wish they were wealthy ; how many
ugly ones wish they were pretty; how
many stupid ones wish they were wit
ty; how many bachelors wish they
were married ; how many Benedicts
wish they had tarried! Single or
double, lies full of trouble-riches and
stubble, pleasures a bubble.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

A good story is told of a hard
shell Baptist missionary in Medina,
who became mixed up in land specula-
lations. On entering his pulpit recent
ly he announced to the congregation
at the opening of divine service, that
the text would be found in st. PaUl's
epistIe TO the Ainncsotians, section 1,
range s west.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

Sheridan's father, talking with him
on the former glores of the family, re-
marked that they were once called
O'Sheridan. "I don't think" return
ed the son, "that we ever had a better
right to be called O1ge Sheridan than at
present"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

A certain Mr.. Coffin being blessed
with son, friend offered S1OO for
the privilege Of naming him. The
offer was accepted, when the friend
named the bantling Mahogany.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

Generals THOMAS, SLOVENIAN and
JOHNSON have gone to Washington,
and some of the Kentuckians fear that
it is for the purpose Of consulting with
regard to the reconstruction Of that
State.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06
Encouraging Agricultural Prospects

IUOOUIa51U5 a5 IlO--lvVIl al I I O9pVO'o
The reports of the Agricultural De
partment, for April, says; "Never has
there been so general an expression Of
encouragement, in view Of thecondition
of winter wheat, since the establish
ment of the present system Of collect
ing crop statistics" In more than nine
tenths of the returns received, the con-
ditiOn Of the crop is reported favorable
and promi,ing. From the South, re-
turns are as cheering as from the West.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

A distinguished physician recon-
mends the application Of slippery elm
to the biteof mad dog. Who would
suppose that the bark would cure the
bite?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06
Charade.

Fer since the world was first crea ted,
Nv first its work has not abated,
But daily in its onward course,
Sheds radiance DER our sinful earth.
Nv next is thing which most Of us love,
we find it in Spring in every grove
Nv whole is a flower towering high,
which seems hy its nature to love the bright sky
TTis not much admired by many, tits true,
Yet l think that it has its homeiy charms too
MIRA.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06

"The Maiden's Prayer" written by
MP. Willis, begins thus
She rose from her delicious sleep,
And put away her soft brown hair"
This maiden must have lived prier
to the advent Of the "waterfalI." AT
present the maidens put away "their
soft brown hair' before going to their
"deliciOus Sleep"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06
Rebus.

Just as am, I adorn a prince,
Change my second letter,
And yOu make me a Ounce.
NY last lettertake, I am dark bird,
And when corn is ripening,
I'm very often heard.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06
&c OSTAR'S
PICTORIAL
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WhOoping Cough, Influenza, Asthma, Consumption,
Bronchial Affections, and all Diseases Of the Throat
and Lungs.
~ Bottles, 25 cts, 5Octs., and 81 Sizes
na Sold by all Druggists everywhere.
BR- And by HENRY B. COSTAR, Depot 4Si Broad
way, n. 7.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-06-06
Youths Department.

How STRANGE it giI be.[---FlOrenOo Percy
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29
PURE, PERFECT POETRY.

What is poetry? A smile, tear, a
longing after the things of Eternity
1t lives in all created existences- in
man and every object that surrounds
him. There is poetry in the gentle
influences of love and affection, in the
quiet broOdings of the soul over the
memories Of early years, and in the
thoughts of glory that chain our spir-
it's to the gates of Paradise. There is
poetry in the harmonies of nature. II
glitters in the wave, the rainbow, the
lightning and the star-its cadence is
heard in the thunder and in the cata-
ract-the softer tones gurgle sweetIy
from the thousand voice harps of the
wind, and rivulet, and forest-the
clouds and sky go floating over us to
the music Of melodies-and it minis
ters to Heaven from the mountains of
the earth, the untrodden shrines of the
ocean.
There's not moonlight ray that
comes down upon stream or hill, not a
breeze calling from its blue air-throne
to the birds of the summer valleys, or
sounding through midnight rains its
low and mournful dirge over the per-
ishing flowers of spring; not a cloud
bathing itself like an angel vision in
the rosy gushes of the autumn twilight,
nor rock glowing in the yellow star
light, but is full of the beautiful infu-
ences of poetry. Earth and Heaven
are quickened by its spirit, and the
heavings of the great deep in tempest
and in calm are but its secret and mys-
teriouS breathingS.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29
Too TRUE.-Says the Old Common

Too TRUE.-Says the Old Common.
aCedlth:
"When a people are in the throes OF
a violent political revolution men Of
mean capacity and brutal passions
come to the surface, and for time the
best intehects and men of virtue anC
great social and moral worth, from an
instructive adherence of, and fear O.
contamination by association, shrink
from public duties and places of public
trust"
Considersocietyan ocean. Thewaves
lashed by the storms of opinion and
prejudice, have agitated that ocean tC
the very bottom, and cast to the surface
all thehuman dregsand garbage which,
during the still weather of peace, had
settled out of sight. Glance, for mo,
ment, at the characters and doings Of
the persons who have been foisted into
high positions through carelessness, pas.
sion and fraud, during the past few years
of popular agitation. See the Buffers,
Stevenses, Ashleys, Schencks, and the
rest of that class, who are the storm-cast
settings from the dark and horrid cav
erns of life's ocean. The whole current
is foul through which they have passed
to the surface. Their presence and en-
anations have spread impurity far and
wide, until every class of society, and
every branch, almost, of the public SER
vice is tainted with crime.
Time and quietude would bring relief
by sending those filthy and destructive
elements back to their dens of darkness,
but, knowing this theyre-act with their
storm-given power upon the waves of
passion and prejudice, and are thus
hurled again and again to the surface,
where, with the froth and foam, they
keep up a boil and whirl destructive as
a maelstrom to everything that comes
within reach. That they are persons o.
mean and brutal passions no one can
deny, and that, in peace, they would
sink into oblivion is equally undenia-
BILE. So long, however, as the people
will permit themselves to be acted up
on through their passions and to be
kept in a constant state of morbid ex-
element by those cunning and selfish
actors, so long will the country suffer
for want of men of true merit and real
patriotism as directors and legislators.
Patriot & T3liOn
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29
ROTATION IN CROPS.

The physiology of plants is such, says
the Rural New Yorker. that scarcely
any two of them take from the ground
or the atmosphere the same kind OF
nutriment in equal proportions. Hence
it follows that in continuous cropping
of the same product, much of the pro-
ductive power of the soil and of the fer
tilizers combined with it is lost or re-
main inert. This loss may be retrieved
by judicious system of rotation, by
which means all the elements fgrowth
are brought into successive action and
rendered available for farm products.
Perhaps the order of the crops is not
of Especial importance. One might be-
gin system with corn; follow with
oats, then wheat or rye; and then pas
ture or meadow, according to the tastes
or necessities of the farmer, Some
lands will do well in pasture for series
of years. So ofthe meadows, but as a
general rule, the best results are attain
ed by changes every three or four years
at the most. If oftener made the chan
ces of remuneration are believed to be
improved, while the soil SO relieved OF
the thousand nOxious plants which i'm
pair its vitality without returning any,
thing of value by way Of recompenses
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29
.'MINE GOT VAT A PEOPLES

Since the burial corps of the Federal
Government commenced the work of
disinterring the remains Of Federal
soldiers, who were killed in the battles
in SpOttsylvania and the adjoining
counties, many persons have come on
from the North for the purpose Ofre-
moving the remains of their friends to
their homes, and many lodges are re-
sorted to to escape the payment of the
freight on these remains. A day or
two since man presented himself at
one of the depots near Fredericksburg,
intending to taF e passage on the train
for Acquia Creek, and thence by way
of Washington, to his home in New
England. He had with him a candle
box, which he wished to take on as bag
gage.-The agent of the road, suspect
ing that it was something more than is
usually carried as baggage, refused to
allow him to do so, and on inveStiga-
ton, it was found that he had collected
the bones of his brother and put them
in this small box. When he was in
formed that box of bones could not go
as baggage, he concluded not to go that
day, and left the station. The next
day he turned up again with his bones
in a carpet bag, and thus succeeded in
carrying them as baggage. A day or
two since, two females came on, on a
similar errand. They stopped in Fred
ericksburg, and, after collecting the
bones of their friend, packed them in
their trunk amongst their clothing, TO
escape paying freight on them.
Some years since, new Prussian
ministerreached Washington onenight
and put up at one of the hotels on Penn
sylvania Avenue. The next morning
at breakfast, an alteration arose be-
tween a member of Congress and one
of the walters. Not many words pass
ed before the member of Congress drew
a pistol and shot the waiter.-The
Prussian, thinking that affairs of this
kind were of daily occurrence, raised
his hands and exclaimed, "Mine Got,
vat peeplesw
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29

FREEDoM.-A Washington paper,
in reviewing passing events, well says:
that Freedom langGishes amid the
clatter of muskets and the clang OF
swords. Judicial justice demands pa
tience, Investigation, ample leisure and
unbiased will. 1t deals in precedents
and applies well-established principles.
1t laboriously establishes facts and
searchingly Sits evidence. 1t can only
be secured by the calm deliberation and
skilful labors of men learned in the
law and skilled in legal investigation.
But military justice must be prompt
for the virtue of the soldier is decision.
1t has no time and less taste for labor
ed inquiry. 1t is always more or less
tainted with passion, for the camp
breeds the atmosphere of contention.
1t is at the mercy of adroit fiattery or
the keen hope of promotion. 1t de-
spises the poor and sights the uninfu-
entail. 1t is warped by the hand of
beauty, and too often perverted by pet
ty malice and the baseness Of revenge.
Yet this is the kind of justice that the
House OF Representatives would adj
minister to one-third of their country
men,
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29
NATIONAL CEMETERIES.

A Washington correspondent of tn
Rochester Democrat furnishes the fol
lowing information from official sourc
eS.
There are in command of Genera
Thomas the following national GENE
| teries:
At Matches, on of six acres, contain
ing about $500 dead.
Vicksburg, one of twenty acres, COP
tanning about $4,000
Memphis. twenty-five acres, about
$4,000 graves. The dead from Colum
bus, KY, to Helena, Ark, along the
Mississippi river, are gathered here.
From Helena to Grand Gulf they are
inferred at VickSburg.
Corinth has one of twenty acres. II
contains about 5000.
Pittsburg Landing, twelve acres and
1000 graves. This contains the dead
from up and down the Tennessee riv-
er.
Fort Donelson, twenty acres, and g.
500 graves, containing dead of that
field, all along the Cumberland below
Nashville.
Nashville, siXty-two acres, and $4,000
graves. This contains the bodies from
many hospitals and a wide region of
country.
Stone River, sixteen acres, and s, 5,OOO
graves.
Chattanooga, seventy-fve acres, and
$4,000 graves.
Knoxville, four acres, and about g.
600 graves.
Marietta, Ga, twenty-five acres, and
10000 graves.
Andersonville, about $4,000 graves.
Millen, 1000 graves; small enclosure.
Savannah, 5000 graves. Cumberland
Gap, KY, $50 graves. Loudon, 800 !;
Mill Springs, over 500; Perryville l, 200;
Camp Nelson, 1900; Lebanon $50.
In the city cemeteries there are COL
lected at Covington, KY, 600 dead;
Lexington, 1000; Richmond, 500; Dan
vile 400.
At Columbia, Tenn, there are 1, 200
graves.
At Montgomery, Ala, about 500
graves; in Mobile, 1000.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29

1t was not all a dream which made
the wife of Julius Caesar so anxious
that he should not go to the Senate
Chamber on the fatal Ides of March ;
and had he complied with her entreat-
les he might have escaped the dagger
of Brutus. Disaster followed disaster
in the career of Napoleon, from the
time he ceased to feel the balance wheel
of Josephine's influence on his impet-
uous spirit. Our own Washington,
when important questions were sub
mitted to him, often has said that he
would like to carry the subject to his
bedchamber before he had formed his
decision; and those who knew the clear
judgment and elevated purpose of Mrs.
Washington, thought all the better of
him for wishing to make her his con-
fidential counsellor. Indeed the great
majority of men, who have acquired
for themselves good and great name,
were not only married men-but hap
pilymarried-both paired and matched.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29

Two WAYS OF DOING A THING.-In
the train from Harrisburg was gen.
tlemanly Jack Tar, in go-ashore out
fit,jolly, genteel and happy, with de-
cidedly pretty specimen of eighteen
year old crinoline, to whom he had
been week spliced, and was convey
ing Philadelphia-ward. Opposite Jack
and his wife were couple that any one
could see were on honeymoon cruise,
the bride all bushes, beauty and BASH
fulness, and the gallant bridegroom all
devotion and endearment. At one of
the way stations the cars stopped, and
the careful bridegroom thus addressed
his timid bride:
my love, | am about to step out a
fewmoments for refreshments. Do not
be alarmed during my absence"
Gentleman Jack took the cue; and
patting his little wife on the shoulder,
sung out as if he were hauling the
maintop-gallant-yardina ina gale of wind {:
~ say, wifey, I'm going shore to
wet my whistle; don't tumble over
board while I'm gone."
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29
"Beauty Dorn OF a nurmur1ng SOUND
Shall pass into her face"

ADVICE TO PREACHERs.-Be short
and lively. Load up before you enter
the sacred desk; announce your text,
when the time comes, with distinctness,
and dash right into discussion. Fire
at point blank range. Keep your eye
on that drowsy hearer until he becomes
wide awake. Hold the children and
those restless young folks under good
command. "Give portion" to the
aged ones, who try so hard to catch ev-
cry syllable you utter, and, under some
of the modern pulpit orators, loseabout
half. Stir up all the people! "Shake
off dull sloth" in manner and tone. Be
in earnest-tremendousIy. in earnest!
Tine is passing; eternity is near; judg-
ment is at the door! Make an impress
sion if you can, inside of thirty min
utes; if not, ask God to give his bless
ing. and-close.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29

MANS GOT HOLD ON MY "TIL-
TIERS" 1.-THE Smithfield Times tells an
other story illustrative of the old saw
that "the course of true love never did
run smooth" Ayoung couplein Smith
field had laid plan to outwit the vigil
lance of cruel parents and elope. The
Times tells the sequel thus: The youth
stood beneath the window-the lady
attempted to climb out-when, oh! hor-
ror, some one detained her from the
rear! "Why dost thou not come, gen.
tie Amelia?" She answered in an agi-
tated voice: ~ can't, Bill, MANS got
hold on my tilters."
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29
FRUIT TREES.

AS the season for tree-planting is near
at hand, the american Agric,tltttrist
gives word of caution against the
common practice ofordering large trees.
A small, well grown tree, with an
abundance of small roots, is greatly
to be preferred to tall, much branched
one, with its large roots chopped off in
digging. Some of the best western Or
chardists prefer trees one year from
the bud or graft to any other.
Plant whenever the soil is ready, ta-
king care first to trim mutilated roots,
and shorten back the top. Planting,
the present wet state of the soil consid-
cred, will generally be left until next
month.
The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-03-29
POULTRY.-STRAY GRAINS.

Garlic fed once or twice week is
excellent for colds.
See that plenty Ofpure water isw with
in easy reach of your chickens on frosty
mornings. Also feed early.
Pulverized charcoal given occasion,
ally is preventive of putrid affections
to which fowls are very subject.
Feed your poultry raw onions chop
ped fine mixed with other food, about
twice week. 1t is better than doz-
en- cures for chicken cholera.
PulveriZed chalk administered with
soft feed will cure diarrhea. This
disorder is caused by want OF variety
in the food, or by too much green food.
Close up all cracks in poultry houses
near the roOsting poles. Fowls very
much dislike air which reaches them
through cracks and crevices.
Fowls exposed to dampness are apt
to be troubled with catarrh, which will
run to Group if not attended to. Red
pepper mixed with soft feed, fed seve-
raj times a week, will relieve the cold.
The place where the young chickens
retire to ought to have dry floor and
be kept scrupulously clean, and as the
floor is the coldest part of a room, their
roosting box ought not to bemore than
twelve inches high, and to be slanting,
which will keep the warm air in the
roost.
Setting hens can be cured by putting
water in vessel to the depth of one
inch, putting the hen into and cover
ing the top of the vessel for about
twenty-four hours. The vessel should
be deep enough to allow the fowl to
stand up. Give it air.
Earth-worms are greatly relished by
confined fowls. Take spade once a
day and turn over the ground for your
hens. They will soon run after you
when they see you with the spade, and
will amply reward you for the extra
trouble to accommodate them by an
| increased supply of eggs.