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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

At a printers festival in RrinnesO.
ia, Judge Goodrich made a speech in
which he referred the invention of
printing to a higher antiquity than is
USUALLY ascribed to it. He undertook
to prove that the patriarch Job knew
all about it, by quoting from the fol-
lowing passage: "Oh, that my words
were not written. Oh, that they were
printed in a book, that they were
craven with an iron pen with lead in
rock forever" The Judge consid-
cred this undOubted evidence that
Job understood the arts of writing,
printing, engraving, stereotyping, and
lithOgraphing. He men tiOns them in
their regular order, as they have been
discovered. This is probably the uri-
gin of the term "Job Printing. ."(?)
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

Mrs. PartingtOn has been reading
the Health Officers weekly reports,
and thinks that 'TTOtal'' must be an
awful malignant disease, since as
many die Of it as all the rest put to-
getheF.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

The new Maryland Senator, Mr.. Vick-
ers, used to be an oId-line Wing. He is
represented by his friends to have been
an acknowledged Union man and sup
porter Of the late war. and represented his
native county in the State Senate the term
before the present. At home be is called
General Vickers from a connection with
the State militia some years ago. He is
about sixty years of age, hale and hearty,
afable and man of decided ability,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07
Problam M z

Divide the number 332 into six parts so that ~ we
add to the hrgt part take from the second multi
ply the fourth by 2 divide the third by extract the
square root Of the h and square the sixth part the
sum, difference product quOtient, square root and
square will all be equal.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

Hood, in describing the meeting Of
a man and lion, said, 'the man ran
off with all his might and the lion
with all his name"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

The Committee on Foreign Affairs
will, when the House fully resumes
business, report a bill making the ap-
iPrOpriation required by the treaty for
the purchase of Russian America.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

A novelist describes his hero as
making love ''like two bonded ware
houses in flames on a dark windy
night, and the fire alarm out Of re.
pair.n
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

4 STRONG COLORED PICTURE.-T'he
editor Of the Cory (Pa) Republican
claims to be acquainted with Brick
POmeroy, Of the La Crosse Democrat,
and denOunces him as a thief, liar,
drunkard and wife beater to his own
personal knowledge" His appearance
he describes as follows:
"He has red, bushy hair, (Wears it
long to hide his hOrns) a whisky blOat-
ed face, and a red rum nOse-in short,
he looks like the personification of sin
puked out rcd hot from the bowels of
hell"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

The Adams Express Co.'S fre-proof
safe, which was on the steamer Mag
nOlia when she blew up, was fOnnd a
few days ago in the river about one
hundred yards from where the explo-
sion took place. The contents were
uninjured. The safe was found by
Bernhart Christ, Of California, who, it
is stated, rendered valuable assistance
to a lady passenger after the explosion,
and refused five hundred dollars
rendered him in gratitude for his
services.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

A gentleman calling for ice-cream,
and being asked what kind he would
have, promptly replied, 'Raw."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

District Court of the United States,
Southern District Of Chio.-In
Bankruptcy.
M TIE MATTER OF ERAsTUs FENNER, Bank
rupt, before James d. Thompson, Register in
Bankruptcy.
1 hereby give notice Of my appointment as Assignee
Of Fragtus Fenuer Of the village Of Hillsborough,
County Of Highland, State Of Ohio, within said Dis
trfct Whe has been adiudged Bankrupt on his own
pstitioH BY the District Court Of said District.
A. II. MADDOX, Assignee,
GEO. 3. GARDNER, Atty, Hulsboroi Ohio.
april %, 1868. ap23W3
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

Answers to Enigmas Of last week. l. The DAYS Of
Our childhood. 2: Ink, pen and paper. 3. Gassius
Wright and Jane Fisher. Answer to Problem No. G.
6O62s hours.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07
Youths Department.

Iorigina Problems, Puzzles, &c, solicited The real
name Of the author and the answer to sach must &C
company all contrfbutons.l
Enigmas.
I.
I am composed Of Y letters
Ny Y 10 is nickname Of one Of otir large cities.
My % 4 is boys nickname
MyI II II s men sometimes act.
My Al 3 are Affections.
My 9 10 IL l2 is rough
NY whole is the name Of town farpouu for cl.vor
young men and gOod-lOUking giro.
Wsyerly, Ohio. FIDEs.
e.
am composed Of 10 letters
My 7 "a l6 10 TT is one Of the o. s.
Ny I6 IOI2I3 l4 IS is one Of the British TsIs..
Ny Is II 9I7 Is q river in Arkansas
My 2 4 l6 70 Is town in Ohio.
My 3 ~ is a county in Michigan
Ny 0lO O5I22lf Is is a county in Ohio.
by whole Is what every Union man in the county
ought 70 do.
Marshall, Ohio. D.L.B
an composed Of 1s letters
My l-2 "a is a game.
Ny Is & s IS is a beautiful bird
by y l6 IS Il II 4 Is an unbsIisver.
Ny is found on door,
Ny 10 II l6 is title Of adore IS to q man
Ny IL l3 is what abh0r.
Ny whole Is the name Of valuable book
FWO-FOBTY.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

The Lexington Statesman says there
is in that city, negro over one hundred
years old, of Revolutionary memory,
who would have died in the streets,
but for the benefactiOns Of lady teach
ers in the colored schools.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07
Alarming Prevalence of Sui,
cides.


cides.
The Cincinnati Commercial says
"This country appears to be suffering
just at present from an epidemic OF
suicides. Our exchanges teem with
accounts of self murder, and our own
local page of late has not been Ordin-
arily free from such sad recitaIs. The
New York World last week extracted
the accounts of suicides from one days
mail, and filled nearly two columns
with about thirty different cases occur
ring simultaneously in different parts
of the Union.
We are getting to be almost as bad
as Paris, where 700 suicides were com
mitted during the year 1867, being
an average of nearly two day.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

Governor Oglesby, of Illinois, has
issued a proclamation designating
the 18th of April, the anniversary of
the assassination of President Lincoln.
as day of fasting and prayer.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07

TCorrssPondencs Of the News.
Letter from Northern TOWa-CIi-
mate. Surface, Soil, Water
courses, Productions, &c.
WLLIAMsTowN, Chickasaw Co., Iowa,
April IA, 1868.
MR.. EDIToR:-In my last I prom
lsed to speak Of climate, surface and
productions
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1868-05-07
Vol. S2-NO. g.
oLDaafPAPHRINrHno HnooUNF4

y D. Dun UUU IN NUILVW ANU ENUE I.
OFEIOE-Main St. north side second door east Of High
nearly opposite the Post Ohce,
, 1868-01-03
What we are Fighting For.

A radical paper says, "If the copperheads are
not trying to break up the government, will they
tell Us what they are fighting forP The follow
ing extract from the Metropolitan Record, is a
pertinent answer. 1t says that the democracy
are battling for
The overthrow of one of the foulest and most
Infamous conspiracies that was ever concocted
for the destruction of popular freedom.
The restoration of the principles of the Consti'
tuition throughout the length and breadth of the
land.
The redemption of the Republic from fate
like Hayti and Mexico.
The freedom of white labor from the chains
and shaekels of heartless, soulless bondocracv.
The recognition of the sole and exclusive au-
thority of the States the question of suffrage,
and determined opposition to congressional in-
reference with it on any pretext whatever.
The emphatic condemnation by the popular
voice, of the hellish principles Of Sumner, Wade
and Stevens, and particularly their pretension
that ConGfess is above aud beyond the restraints
of that very instrument, without which it would
have no existence-the Constitution of the United
States.
The repeal of the Infamous Civil Rights bill,
which is an outrage ou the country and is a dis,
grace to the civilization of the age.
The exposure ofall the corruptions, the frauds,
the swindlngs, the thitvings, great and small,
of the venders of great moral ideas, who have
purloined more than one-half of the national debt
so. called.
The trial Of the scoundrels and rufiAns who
made use of their usurped power to persecute,
to plunder and to imprison their political op,
ponents.
The naturalization of all who have suffered
uujnst Imprisonment and who have been injured
in person and property through official ruff ianism
and lawlessness.
The complete re- establishment of the suprem-
acy of the civil over the military power through.
out the whole South, and the sweeping away of
those devlish engines of radical ingenuity called
"Military Districts" with all the sneaks end
thieves, and big and little tyrants who have so
long fattened aud waxed rich upon the impoyer.
ished and prosecuted South.
, 1868-01-03

THE OLD WOMAN.'-Once she was
Mother aud ii was Mother, I'm hungry
Mother, mend my jacket Mother put up
my dinner and Mother with her loving
hands, would spread the bread and butter,
and stow away the luncheon, and sew on the
great patch, her heart brimming with affec-
ton for the imperious little curly pate that
made her so many steps, and nearly distract
cd her with his boistrous mirth.
Now she is the 'old woman but she did
not think it would ever come to that She
looked OH through the future years, and saw
her boy to manhood grown, and be stood
transfgured in the light of her ewn beauti.
ful love. Never was there a more noble
son than he-honored of the world, and the
staff of her declining years.
Aye, he was her support, even then, but
she did not know it. She never realized
that it was her little boy that gave herstrength
for daily toil-that his slender form was all
that upheld her over the brink of dark
despair. She only knew how she loved the
child, and felt that amid the mists Of age
his love would bear her gently through its
infrmities 10 the dark hall leading to the life
beyond.
But the son had forgotten the mothers
tender ministrations now. Adrift from the
moorings of home, he is cold, selfish, hearts
less, aud Mother has no sacred meaning to
the prOdigal. She is the old woman
wriukled, gray, lame and blind
Pity her, o grave, aud dry those tears
that roll down her furrowed cheeks! Have
compassion on her sencitive heart, and offer
it thy quiet rest, that it may forget how
much it louged to be dear mother to the
boy it nourished through a careless child>
hood, but in return for all this wealth of
tenderness has only given back reproach.
, 1868-01-03
The Isle and the Star.
BY oEonsE D. PRENTICE.

In the tropical seas
There's a beautiful star,
Where storms never darksn
The suulight's soft smile,
There the hymn Of the breeze
Aud the hymn of the stream
Are mingled in one,
Like sweet sounds in a dream.
There the song birds at morn,
From thick shadows start,
Like musical thoughts
From the poets full heart.
There the song birds at noon
Sitin silence nnbroken,
Like an exquisite dream
In the bosom unspoken.
There the flowers hang like raibows
On wild wood and lea
Oh say, wilt thou dwell
10 that sweet Isle with me2
In the depth of the sky
There's beautiful star,
Where no cloud casts shadow,
The bright scene to mar.
There the rainbows ne'er fade,
And the dews ne'er dry,
Aud a circlet of moons
Ever shines in the sky.
There the songs of the blest
And the songs of the spheres
Are increasingly heard
Through the infinite years.
There the soft airs float down
Through the amarynth bowers,
All fresh with the perfume
OF Eden's own flowers,
There truth, love and beauty
Immortal will be-
Oh say, wilt thou dwell
In that sweet star with me2
, 1868-01-03

can reduce sl5O,OOO, 900 a.yOur taxation,
and yet be able to pay the three hundred
millions which falls due in 1s74.-T Then
you eau reduce your taxation two hundred
millions more, and by retiring your green
backs as the great burden of taxation is re
duced, you will be able to pay the debt ma
turing in 1881, and at the same time to call
in your greenbacks and return to the consti-
tutional currency Of the country.
And yet you see that have not proposed
to increase the taxes or add one larthing to
the currency.
, 1868-01-03

Coop MANNERs.-Young folks should
be mannerly, but how to be is the question.
Many good boys and girls feel that they can
not behave to suit themselves in the presence
of company. They are awkward, clownish
and rough They feel timid, bashful and
self distrhstful, the moment they are address
ed by stranger, or appear in. company.
There is but one way to get over this feel
ing and acquire easy and graceful manners
that is, do the best they can all the time, at
home as well as abroad. Good manners are
nst learned, so much as acquired by habit.
We must be courteous, agreeable, civil. kind
gentlemanly and womanly at home, and then
it will become a kino of second nature to be
so everywhere. A coarse, rough manner
at home, begets a roughness which we can.
not leave off, if we try, when we go among
strangers. The most agreeable people we
have ever known in company, are those who
are the most agreeable at home. Home is
the school for all the best things.
, 1868-01-03

"OREGoy AND IDAHO BRANCH OF THE PACIFIC
RAmRoAD."-We REQUIRED yesterday to the ariir
cles ofincorporation of the aforesaid company,
filed with the County Clerk, Dec. Sd. We give
iu full that portion of the articles which will
prove of interest to those taking deep interest
in the construction of railroad which shall
open up our possessions in Eastern Oregon, also
Idaho and portions Of Utah, and which shall
place Oregon on precisely equal footing with
California. From the papers referred to we find
that the construction of the road is to commence
up the valley Of the Columbia to come suitable
point for laying the same at or near Umatilla or
Walula, thence in south -easterly direction
through the Grand Ronde, Powder River and
Snake River valleys to the southeastern termi-
nus, the said intersection with the Union or Gems
tral Pacific Railroad provided, however, that
the course and direction ami the internedi-
ate points between the termini shall be as the
same may hereafter on final survey be located
and determined and provided further, that aiter
the road or any part thereof between such ter
mini shall have been located or located and con-
structed by said corporation may for the purpose
of improving the route, shortening the distance,
obtaining better ground, or for any other cause
deemed sufficient, relocate and reconstruct the
same or any part thereof, and so also may they
do from time to time as shall be deemed adVlsa-
BILE; and whereas navigable waters exist on or
near the line of the proposed route which can be
used to facilitate the construction of the road,
and thereby also facilitate the earlier connection
nv steam communication of the State of Oregon
and City of Portland with San Francisco and the
Eastern States, this corporation shall have power
to purchase, construct, own and use steam or
other vessels upon such navigable waters, and
also purchase, own and use docks, warehouses
and whatever is convenient or necessary for car
rying on its business by land or water, and shall
have mower to commence and carry on work ups
on any part or upon different parts of its line,
The incorporators of this Railroad are WIN.
Strong. J. C. Ausworth, R. R. Thompson, 5. g.
Reed. j. j. Hoffman, 3. Goldsmith and Z. NJ
Carter-Herdld.
, 1868-01-03

THE UBIQUITOUS Misunderstanding OF
the omnipresence of the niger in all the
necessnries of life under Rump rule, an ex-
change says:
Go to your store, and you get from eight>
cen to TWENTY-FIVE cents worth of nigger In
every yard Of muslin you buy; from ten to
fifteen cents worth of nigger in every yard
of calico your wife and children usej from
six to eli ght dollars worth of nigger IN each
barrel Of -four your family consumes; twen,
tv-fve cents worth of nigger in each pound
Of coffee you purchase; from eight to twelve
cents worth Of, nigger in each pound Of su>
gar you buy to sWeeten it. You'll find a
81 small bit of niger in your box Of matches
and considerable niger in your plug OF to-
bacco, you can wear nothing, taste nothing,
or have nothing that is not more or less at
fected by the miserable niggerism that has
controlled the country since Old Abe left
Springfield for Washington. 4.
, 1868-01-03

Miss Dickinson, in a recent lecture said:
"a man goes about with his six>inch line
and drops his little plummet into the ma
lures of the women around him, and thinks
he has touched bottom, when he has only
skinned the surface" We do not Under
stand what the fair lady means, but suppose
what she says is clear enough to the sex
Boston Post
, 1868-01-03

RADICAL PLATFoRM.-Shinplasters for
the poor laborer and gold for the rich bond
Observation-Disclosures and degradation
of the white people of the South, and the
eufranchisement and elevation OF the negro
high protective tariffs and untaxed bonds for
sboddy lords-oppressive taxation and povOr>
tv for the working man. This is the sum
of the Radical creed.
, 1868-01-03

A ABEAUTIFUL THoUGHT.-Dickens wrot e.:
There is notbing-no, nothing, beautiful and
good, that dies and is forgotten. An infant,
aprattling child, dying in its cradle, will live
again in the better thoughts of those who
loved it, and play its part, though its body
be burned to ashes or drowned in the deep
est sea. There is not an angel added to the
hosts of Heaven but does its blessed work
on earth in those that loved it here. Dead!
oh, if the good deeds of human creatures
could be traced to their source, how beautl-
full could even death appear; for now much
charity, mercy and purified affection would
be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!'
, 1868-01-03

The GREAT AMERICAN DEsERr.-A letter from
Omaha says: "In an atlas l used to stu6y long
ago, and | was no chicken, there was laid down
Just west of the Missouri river, tract broad and
expansive, called the great American desert
recolect a forlorn buffalo, with tail erect
sprawled away outside of this tract, to show that
be did not belong in it and couldn't afford to
live in it on any terms, and even an Indian, with
his pouy's tail turned to the desert, was chasing
off at the top of his speed for better locality
As an infant in geography, always tooi great
amount of stock in this desert idea, which now
think after all grew out of coneeit of some
lazy engineer, who got sick of the vast expanse
of chain dragging, and Jumped the whole as a
region not worth ten days work with chain and
level. He libeled the fairest wheat growing
country in the world. To-day thousands of acres
of the finest wheat1hat ever grew yellow in the
summers sun and bending aud rippling on the
fertile bosom of Nebraska, give the lie to my old
atlas and the typographical chap who misled
good Mr.. Malte Brun. saw up the Platte val
ley twelve hundred acres, six Of it in wheat.
Do you know that Nebraska raises more wheat
to the acre than Illinois, Wisconsin or Michigan
Put that alongside the great American deserl
story and let it choke to death forever"
, 1868-01-03

ETERNAL TAXATION IS THE PRICE OF
L1BERTY.-The expenses of the War Dept.
for the next year, are estimated at seventy
millions of dollars. Half of this amount
goes for Reconstruction" The "union OF
hearts and the union of hands" is costly.
Freedom nowadays is high priced: The
market is up. The New York city !eut9n
can't drink his lager in peace, as IN the
"Vaterland," and when he pays his heavy,
perpetual and ineyitable taxes, no wonder
he cries out. "Mine coil vot countrish.
, 1868-01-03

tMINHooD.'-To disguise the thing as
much as possible, says an exchange, the
Mongrels called negro suffrage manhood
suffrage Since the election they look as
though they were convinced in their own
minds that dsshOOd suffrage is better name
still. Their disgust is unutterable.
, 1868-01-03

TELL your mistress have torn the cur
tain, said a gentlemen to a domestic Of a
lodging house. Very well, sir; mistress
will put it down as rent
, 1868-01-03

Prior to the war, the bank circulation Of
Augusta. Georgia, amounted to nearly So :
100000, all of which was well and proftably
employed in legitimate trade. Now the
available bank circulation is about SAC, ,OOO.
, 1868-01-03

Somebody says, "a wife should be IKE !,
roasted lamb-tender and nicely dressed
A scamp adds, "and without any sauce"
, 1868-01-03

WHY should railway travellers always be
provided with umbrellas2 Because they
often travel BY fast (t)rain.
, 1868-01-03
THE following is from rallying song of
the faithful:

Come rest in this bosom,
My African dear;
Tho thy chains have fallen from thee,
Thy home is still here.
know not, 1 ask not
How much you can tote;
know that love you
because you can vote.
, 1868-01-03

Remember that your will is likely to be
crossed every day-so prepare for it.
, 1868-01-03

1t is better to lose good coat than good
conscience.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-06-25
POLICE ITEMS,


There were ten arrests up to six
o'clock yesterday evening at the Second
District, and five in the First up to mid
night-mostly trivial.
Dennis Harvey was arrested for pass
ing counterfeit money. A twenty dollar
bill was found on his person. He will be
examined this morning.
Officer Coll found a negro man yes
terday morning In Chelsea severely
wounded in the knee. It Is supposed
that he had been stealing and had gotten
a dose. He was carried to the saw mill
back Of the stock yard, where he now is.
Detectives MeCune, Cornell and
Hastings, to whom the job Of working
up the robbery Of the store Of Messrs.
Waleott, Smith & Co., yesterday morn
ing found two sacks Of coffee and one
butt Of tobacco in q house on the Ievee,
between Adams and Jefferson streets.
About eleven o'clock last night they
succeeded in finding and seizing five
barrels and four sacks more Of coffee and
three more esddies Of tobacco in 3 house
in Happy Hollow. Too much credit
cannot be given these gentlemen for the
manner in which they have worked this
case up.
About noon yesterday the house Of
Henderson Clarke was entered by
back window, and robbed Of a large
amount Of valuable clothing, etc.
The private room of Messrs. Log
wood & Folkes, In the GsyosO Block,
was entered yesterday and q pistol and
clothing stolen therefrom.
The stable Of A. D0dmsn, five miles
west Of Horn Lake, was robbed Of fine
mule, saddle and bride night before
last.
"A gray mare was stolen from DR.
Harland yesterday, from his stable, two
miles out on the fernando road.
Mary Sherry and her daughter were
before Squire Herman yesterday, on a
peace warrant. The case was continued
until this morning.
Bridget Crowell charged Mrs. Nc
Carly, of Happy. Hollow celebrity, with
and battery. Esquire Herman
will hear the case to-day.
Mrs. Donovan yesterday sued out q
peace warrant against Mrs. Sheehan.
The case viii come up before Esquire
to-day.