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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
Miscellaneous.
How Cars are Crowded.

The correspondent of the Xenis
l(Ohio) Torrhlight, tells very amusing
lily his experience in a crowded car
He says:
The nine o'clock train up from
Xenia was packed with people-but
loosely packed, as is the royal Ameri.
can custom. A long string of a man
coiled all over two seats, with hard
knot of q head up in the window and
a double-knot Of boots over in the
aisle an incubatively wide crinoline
woman spreading defantly and
looking cluckishly spiteful at any en-
tering passenger of the same gender,
who offered to shove her over; a man
and a woman with three valises, two
baskets and five flower pots, eight
shawls, bird cage, an invalid poodle,
pre-eminently asserting eminent do
main over all four seats; so loosely was
this train overcrOWded with passen-
gers when we entered it at Xenia.
1t requires courage to get seat
here. To get three seats requires au-
dacity as a natural gift, and we push
for the four seats which contain the
man and woman, the valises, the
1Ower-pOts, the shawls, the bird cage
and the indispOsed poodle. We pro-
pound to the man the preposterous in
.quiry, whether or not he occupies all
four Of the seats as if we couldn't
see that he just more than occupied
them! Man, with the full measure of
disgust appropriate to the situation, as
though sick in his very soul with our
impertinence, promptly replies, he
rather does occupy these four seats
and his decisive emphasis, corrobOra-
ted by the before detailed appearance
of things, goes to indicate that he
means to be understood as occupying
every inch of them.
"But, my dear sir, have you paid
for four seats ?''
This was an outrageous question
and we fancied the valetudinarian
poodle gave symptoms of fainting at
the shock of it.
" yes, sir, nave paid Tor them ~
response coming with an indig-
nant pop, as if jerked out with the
cOrk-screw.
"Well, sir, we shall see if you have"
We had become quite obstinate, and
believed we had call to fightit out on
that line. We therefore reinforced,
and moved upon the works. A man
offered to bet the conductor some four
dollars and half, we think it was,
that payment of seat implied the
whole slip, and that he only had what
his ticket called for. The conductor
very cOurteOusly declined to take the
bet, but did take the valises and the
rest of the inventory out of two of the
four seats, making the other two look
like an overloaded furniture car, with
the little family economically packed
in the middle. AS two ladies went
into possession Of the vacated premi. |
ses, we felt a pang of remorse for our
process Of ejectment.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
Flood in california.

Reports from the Sacramento Val
ley indicate as destructive a flood as
in 1862. The whole Valley is sub
merged, and travel is suspended in
every direction. Several railroad
accidents, caused by washing away of
the track, resulted in loss of life. The
American river is higher than ever
known before. Levees of the Sacra-
mento withstOOd the flood. No fears
will be hereafter entertained of the
safety Of the city. The Ievees of
Marysville are broken away, aud the
greater part ofthe city was overfowed.
Roads in the Sierra Nevada Noun
tains are rendered impossible for ami
mails. Mails and express matter from
Virginia and other places in Nevada
is carried by men on foot. Such a
storm was never heretofore
known on the mountains.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
NeW Hamnshire for Grant.

The following is the resolution,
respecting General Grant, adopted
by the New Hampshire Republicans,
at their late Convention: "Resolved,
That in behalf of tho loyal people oi
New Hampshire, we do hereby pro
claim, as our and their first choice for
next President of the United States
General Ulysses S. Grant, who led
our armies to victory and our coun-
try to peace. Reticent and sagaciOus
in council, seIf-possessed and daring
in battle, modest and magnanimOus
in victory, he is first in the confidence
and first in the hearts of his country
men,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
COnundrunnS.

why is dancing like milk? Because it strengthens
the calves.
When may the funds be supposed to be unsteady?-
When money is tight.
When were the first sweetmeats made? When Noah
preserved pairs in the ark.
Why are people who 60 to church without paying for
their seats not likely be much benefited Because
they get good for nothing
Why is bad physician like an ilI-tempered man p
Because he is apt to lose his patients.
Why are iuli-grown cats like unskilIed surgpons7-
Because they mew-till-late and kill the patience
Why is an onion like piano Because it smeU
OdiOus (it's meOdiuus)
What makes more noise than a pig under a gate?-
Two pigs.
gentleman, one evening, sitting near a lovely
woman, when the company around were PROMISING
conundruws to each other. Turning TO his compauioD
he said why is a lady like mrrOr?' She gave it
mp Because" said tho rude fellow ga mirror re-
fleets without speaking lady speaks without re-
fecting" 'Nery good" said she. ''Now answer me:
Why is "A man like mirrors' 81 cannot tell voI''-
Il cause tie mirror is polished au the uldu ls not
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

ga few evenings SINCE" says a let
ter from Rome, "the Pope signed the
order for dismissing those functional
ries who evinced sympathy with the
Italian army or with the GaribaIdians
during the troubles. A large number
of the inhabitants of the disafected
towns have fed into Italy, the emi-
grafton from Velletri alone exceeding
800 persons. Ninety-twO Of the in
habitants Of Velletri have been thrown
into prison, and as many as 5000
Romans are in the prisons of Rome
A Naples letter, of the 28th ult,
says: tVesuvius is attracting thOus-
ands Of strangers from all parts OfEu-
rope, who crowd the way up to the
Hermitage. The base of the noun
tain at night is Illuminated with a
multitude of torches carried by ex-
pIOreTs, and, when viewed from Ma
pies, produces a curious effect, which
is increased when the jet from tine vol
canO launches forth flames mixed with
stones. Long observation leads to
the belief that this eruption will last
about three weeks.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

The Journal of the Telegraph tells the
story of an odd telegraphic bIunder: "a
merchant who was absent from his home
received telegram informing him of his
wife's safe delivery of a little girl at the
same time letter from his partner in
formed him that draft had been presented
for $4,000, and the signature seemed rather
doubtful. The merchant replied to both
dispatches, but misdirected them. The
establishment of the wife may be imagined
when she read: 81 know nothing about
it; it's swindIe." The partner received
hearty congratulations uuon his safe d .
livPraucc.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
biography of Gen. Grant.

Albert D. Richardson is preparing
a work, personal rather than military
or political, aiming to tell the life stO-
ry of Grant the Man, rather than of
Grant the General and the statesman.
AS the material is widely scattered, he
will be thankful for authentic remin-
.iscences, conversations, descriptions,
and anecdotes of any portion of the
Generals life, which may be forward
ed to him at the Tribune Office, New
York, and also for the use for a few
weeks of pencil sketches, photographs
and other views of scenes in Mexico,
California, Oregon, Ohio, Missouri, or
elsewhere, now interesting from asso-
Citations with the earlier life of our
great Captain.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

The above stock viii be disposed Of on the PoPrI,R
oEE-PElCE PLAN, giving every patron a fine Gold or
Solid Silver Watch ioi SO, without regard to value
WRIGHT, BRO- Co., lGl Broadway, New York wish
70 Immediately dispose Of the above magnificent stock
Certcatea naming the articles, placed in sealed
envelopes, and well mixed Holders are entitled to
the articles named in their certificate, upon payment
Of Ten Dollars, whether it be a watch worth 81 600 or
one worth less. The return Oany Of certificates
entities you 20 the articles named thereon upon paw
ment, irrespective Of its WORTH and as no article
valued less than SO is named any certificate It will
at once he that this il lottery but straight
forward legitimate transaction, which may be partici
pated in even by the most iastidiOus
single certificate will beseut by mail, post paid
upon receipt Of Is cents, five for 81, eleven for So
thirtythree and elegant premium for S., sixty-sx and
more valuable premium for SIO one hundred and most
superb Watch for SIS. To agents those wishing
employment, this is a opportunity. Il iB a le-
ultimately conducted business duly authorized by the
Government, aud open to the most careful scrutiny
Watches sent hy Express, with bill for collection on
delivery, that dissatisfaction possibly occur
Try Address
WRIGHT, BRO. & CO., Importers.
Oct2im3ussGCO ljl Broadway, New York.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
A SeasonabIeS SoIufiOn.

Why ''merry Christmas" and chap
py New Year?' and why not the
conditions transposed? When the
little folks ask you this hard ques
ton, tell them that merriment is only
proper as a temporary condition, and
hence it is only desirable for a day
Christmas Day. But happiness is for
a longer period, and therefore is ap-
as applied to a period-A
New Year New York Commercial
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

The Boston Commonwealth thus
describes Mr.. Dickens: ga short,
thinnish gentleman of about 55 years
of age; bald from the crown of his
head to his forehead, above which
was gathered his side-hair, brushed
forward over his ears, set off by "a
mustache,. and rather long and wide
imperial a black dress-cOat, with lap
pel-fastenings of watered satin in the
upper Ieft-hand button hole a pink
and white flower; low cut vest, with
diamond studs to shirt-bosom, white
cravat, and gold watch guard black
pants. The whole appearance that
an active, volitile, draper French
man, who had seen some care, the
lines of which were well traced in his
face.'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

Mr.. Thomas, who fred at the ring
master in a circus at Eaton and killed
Miss Campbell, in October last, has
been convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree, and sent to State Prison
for life. Eighty-six jurors were called
before the panel was filed. The
Court in discharging the jury said that
if the evidence established the fact
that the prisoner had not killed the
one he shot at, the crime would be
only manslaughter. But the jury re-
turned the verdict as above. Thomas
was one of the three who started the
affray, and it was proved that they at
tended the circus for that purpose
All were intoxicated at the time.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
Fnmillnr 1ronseloId Eords.

Pshaw. Stop your noise. Hold
your tongue. Let me be. Go away.
Get out. Behave yourself. I won't.
You shall. Never mind. You must,
You'll kill yourself. I don't care
They're mine. Mind your own bust
ness. I'll tell ma. You mean thing.
There, I told you so. You didn't. l
did. I will have it. o, look what
you've done. Twas you. Won't
you catch it, though? It's my house.
Who's afraid of you? Mah-h-h. Boo,
hoo; boo, hoo; boo, hoo. What's the
matter? Get out of this room direct
Iy. Do you hear me? It's enough to
set one crazy. Would you put a tuck
in it? Three fOunces. GOred.-
Worked crOsswise. Trimmed with
velvet. Ten yards. Cut bias. Real
sweet. You bet. That's nice. Stun
ming,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

A Brazilian steamer arrived in Rio
Janerio, on the oath of November,
from Montedevideo, bringing news of
the loss of the English mail steamer
Saturn, in a terrible gale off that place
the week before. She had on board
400 persons, including the crew and
passengers. Among the latter was
the English minister, who had just
been relieved to enable him to take a
short visit home. He, with the rest,
were lost; only fourteen were saved.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
1 call the previous question.

POTATO ROLLs.-Boil two pounds
of potatoes, pass through a cullender,
or mash them well; add two ounces of
butter and pint Of milk, a little salt,
one gill yeast, and as much -four as
will make a soft dough; set them to
rise. When light, cut them in cakes;
let them rise one hour, and bake
Sweet potatoes make beautiful biscuits
mixed as above.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

Truth continues to be as strange and
striking as fiction. In the year 1852 man
named William Berry went West from
CharlestOwH, in Massachusetts, and settled
in Minnesota. At the end Of ten years,
two Of his boys, one eight and the other
eleven years old, returned one morning to
their home from the wood to find father,
mother, three sisters and a brother lying
dead OH the floor, massacred bv Indians
The little fellows fled, with their faces
turned toward the East, halting and jour
neying on foot for five years, at last reached
CharlestOwn, in search of their fathers
friends. But they found none there, and
were lately taken in charge and cared tor
by some charitable persons.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

Professor W, of - Universi-
ty, is something Of awag, and the
boys seldom get the start of him in the
way of Impractical jokes. One day, on
going into the recitation room, Fresh
man class present, he found a sheep
sitting in a chair. His sole remark,
addressed politely to the sheep, Chow
are YOU, Fr, shman?" rather turned the
.Oke on the boys. Similarly, when at
another time, opening his desk, a
goose few out. "Ah, glu;Ien>a,
another cIassmIte, l sec ~
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
Wonderful HeFOism A Man
Saves TWenty-SeVen Ship
wrecked Persons.

An instance of great herOism on the
part of young man, Capt. William
Jackson, is related in the NewfOund-
land papers as having occurred at Lab
rador during the violent hurricane, of
October 9th last. A vessel called the
Sea Slipper had struck on a reef near
a place called Spotted Islands, Labra-
dor, at which were no residents. This
young man, Capt Jackson, being prov
identially in the neighbOrhood, wit
messed the vessels striking, saw her
fall asunder, with a number of per-
sons on her deck and rigging twenty
seven, as it afterward appeared. To
save some of these poor creatures, Mr..
Jackson cast himself into the sea and
swain to the wreck, a hundred faith
Oms or more from the shore. The hur-
ricane at this time was at its height, ac
cOmpanied by snow. Eleven times
did this heroic man swim between ship
and shore, each time bringing a man
from the wreck and placing him in
safety. By this time persons from
neighbOring settlement had arrived
with ropes. Sixteen trips more did
the noble sailor make, conducting all
the survivors in safety to the Shore
Captain Jackson, like all true heroes,
is said to be as modest as he is brave,
and when spoken to on the subject,
will not allow that he did anything
more than his duty. Application is to
be made on his behalf, by the magis-
lrate of the district, to the Royal HUI
name Society, for its gold medal,
which will undoubtedly be promptly
granted.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
VesuYius-Increase of the ErUp-
tiOn.

ltOms
LONDON, December 24-NOon.-
Dispatches received from Naples men,
tiOn that the eruption of Mount We
suvius is continually increasing in
power and splendor. Immense sheets
of white, yellow and crimson flame
arise hundreds of feet above the era
ter, and at night the Bay of Naples is
lighted up for miles. Lava is pour
ing down the mountain side in i'm
mense quantities, and large stones are
occasionally thrown out from the
mouth Of the volcano. A deep rum
bic, like reverberating thunder, is beard
from time to time as in the bowels of
the earth, and many of the people in
the vicinity have left their homes,
fearing an earthquake or other calam-
ity. No such eruption has probably
occurred in VesUvius for centuries, and
the spectacle is regarded as one of the
most magnificent and sublime ever
in Nature.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

Miss Alice G. Mutt recovered a
verdict for $4,000 in the Superior
Court of Cincinnati, before Judge
Storer, in a suit brought for the value
Of a trunk, alleged to have been Civ
en- in charge of the Little Miami
Railroad Omnibus Company.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

One Virgins was recently hung in
London for numbering woman, he,
all the while, protesting his innocence
and insisting that the woman commit
ted suicide, New facts make it prob
able that poor Wiggins was judicially
murdered, simply because he had not
enough money to pay counsel and
hunt up witnesses. The unfortunate
man fought his. executiOners upon the
scaffOid and died struggling and
shrieking.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

"Come till America, Pat,'' writes a
son of the Emerald Isle, to his friend
in Ireland, '' it's a fine country to get
a living in. All you have to do, is to
get a three-cnrnered box, and fill it
wild bricks and carry it till the top Of
a four-stOry building, and the man at
the top does all the work"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

Queen Isabella, of Spaid; is unable
to find a Prince that will marry her
eldest daughter, a young beauty with
dark flashing eyes. All courts decline
to enter into the bonds Of
relationship with her Castilian Majes-
ty, although the young Princess is
rather good hooking, and is said to be
a very amlable girl. The bad charac-
of the mother for chastity may have
something tod with this.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

A little four year old pet stood look
ing out of the window a few days ago,
when an expressman stopped just op-
pOsite, and tied up the horses tail to
prevent it falling in the mud. She
watched the operation intentIy for a
moment, and then called out eagerly,
90, see, Annie! the expressman is
making a waterfall for his horse"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

THEODORE SWAMI, of Fulton CO.,
Ohio, was swindIed out of $4,000, by
a Chicago operator, on the 24th. The
swindIer bought that value of wool
from Mr.. SWAMI, giving him can
celed Chicago water bond in payment.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
Poetry.
EFrom the British Friend.

THE BRGGAR BABY.
Pale and weary, strangely old,
Wan with hunger, pinehed with cold,
Clothed in rags around it rolled,
Was this poor beggar baby.
Careless travellers going by,
Walked around, lest coming nigh,
They might hear the hungry cry
OF this poor beggar baby.
Rich men passed, and thought within,
'Twere we'll that life had never been,''
As though misfortune were a sin
For poor beggar baby.
Only the pauPer mother smiled,
Only the mother blessed the child,
And nurmured love in accents mild
To that poor beggar baby.
But by and by that baby died,
And they buried it ION the pauper side
OF the yard)-Only the mother cried
For that poor beggar baby;
Who used to cling to her lonely breast,
And kiss her cheek ere it sunk to rest,
Like little bird in happy nest
Poor little beggar baby.
But 10 beyond the pauper tomb,
A wondrous light stole through the gloom,
And voices sang, "In heaven there's room
For that poor beggar baby"
And then in garments white and new,
Upward the rank Of angels through,
The radiant, ransomed spirit few
OF that poor beggar baby.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

. The wives of the Union officers stationed
in Richmond have formed a benevolent
society, whose object is to relieve the suf-
fering poor of that city. The officers are
also fully cooperating in this movement,
There is great suffering among the poor
whites, and the authorities of the place re-
fuse to take any measures to extend aid.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

The Mansfield Herald says that Mr..
Henry Voegle, of Mansfield, was kill
ed, few days ago, by the accidental
of a gun in the hands of Mr..
Kaiser, proprietor Of the Exchange
Hotel, in that place, just as the parties
were starting out on 4 hunting oXcu =
sion.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09
Youths Department.



am composed Of 19 letters
Ny s Is lie the name of a beast
NJ II IA 10 is an agricultural implement
My 3 Is is n domestic animal
My 7 II Is 10 IL is a vehicle.
My IS + is kind Of grain.
My y 10 4 is weight.
My 10 is an exclamation Of contempt.
My u 10 is tropical fruit.
My whole is the name Of one of the Sinners of tIs
Declaration OF Independence
WaYerIy, D. FIDFS
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

A suit has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Cincinnati to recov-
er $4,000 from a railroad company
for permitting bridge to remain out
of repair, whereby the plaintiff fell
through, and had leg and arm bro
ken.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

During the prevalence of the late
annular eclipsean enthusiastic colored
individual in Norfolk, Va, became
greatly elated. ''Bress de Lord" said
he, 'nigger's time has come at las
he's free, and now we gwine to have
a black sun-surely de master oh glory
am wild de cOIOred folks"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

To keep copper tea-kettle bright,
wash it occasionally with a solution of
salt and buttermilk, rinsing thorough
" with clean water.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

A Hartford author is engaged on a his
tory of wOmen's progress from the earliest
ages, to be entitled, "FrOm the Fig Leaf to
the CrinOliue." The first chapter will be
interesting.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

Wendell Phillips in his latest fulmi-
nation claims that the only merit
which Gen. Grant possesses is his
reticence. We wish we could record a
similar merit in Mr.. Phillips.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

Alfred Tennyson will publish in the
Atlantic Monthly, several new poems.
The first one will appear in the Feb
ruary number Of the magazine. The
title of it is "The Victim.'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-01-09

A Convention of old maids is to be held
at Little Rock, Arkansas, ''tO gain true
knowledge of the nature and attributes of
men," MatrimOny is the shortest road to
the knowledge they are in search Of.