The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-11-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Nearly two feet of snow has fallen
at Moose River, Maine. Lumbermen
are busy in the woods preparing for
the winters operations.
Hon. Lot. Morrill, has been appoint
ed United States Senator from Maine,
in place Of the late Mr.. Fessenden.
President Grant favors the assem-
bling Of the Nebraska Legislature, to
ratify the XVIII Amendment, there
being no regular session till January,
1871.
The Central and Peru railroads in
Illinois now issue a Communication
ticket, good for one thousand miles
travel over their lines, for $25. 1t
may be used as desired, riding one
mile or a hundred at a time, until the
one thousand miles are consumed.
The Postmaster General has opened
negotiations with the British Cavern
ment for a reduction of the single rate
of letter postage on and after the first
Of January next to six cents.
By the death of the old Earl of Der
by Lord Stanley succeeds to the Earl
dom. Lord s. is one of the stauuchest
friends of the wOrkingman in England,
and has always been an able advocate
for cooperation.
A chap in Kentucky says he Is a
son Of Anna Dickinson by her first
wife. He is a lunatic.
The new Catholic cathedral which is
being built mt Brooklyn, N. Y, will
cost $2.0OO,OO0, and will seat about
fifteen thousand persons.
Ernest Rrnau's latest volume does
not sell in France, and the publisher,
who paid him a heavy copyright on
! it, is losing money on the book.
The Emperor of Russia is in such fn.
BILE health, owing to his dissolute life,
that his physicians say his death may
be looked for at an early day.
Ex-Queen Christina is said to have
offered General Prim several million
dollars if he would give his aid and
Influence to the cause Gthe Isabellists
About one hundred copies of the New
York Ledger pass through the distrib
uting department OF Berlin post Office
They are collecting money in France
for the purpose of presenting fund 0
one hundred thousand francs TO Faith
er Hyacinthe.
| A Firm in Winthrop have ju-t recejv
ed an order for one thousand grind
stone frames from London, England.
The total crop of the country is esti
mated at some 1,4OO, 900 bushels
of grain, of which wheat is 350, ,OOO,OOl
and corn 8OO,O0O,OO0.
The third annual meeting Of the So
ciety of the Army Of the Cumberlan'
will be held in indianapolis, on thr
18th and 10th of December next.
Seventy-six Mormon missionaries
! twelve Of them women, left Omahi
Saturday evening for the East, eil rout
for Europe.
The total earnings Of the Union Pa
cific Railroad for October were 1919,
i O92 O6; increase over Srptember, sl20,
625 Is.
4 Admiral Farragut is on his wa.
East, accompanied by his wife and son
He is progressing finely in his conva
iIescence.
One vote was POlIed at the recen
election in Philadelphia, in favor {
Susan B. Anthony for Governor.
| At Chilli, Indiana, last Sunday MOI
ming, two little girls Of John C.Belew
one thirteen and the other eight year
old, got up to build a fire, their moth
er being sick and their father being ah
sent from home, and, using the can c
coal oil, an explosion followed, thei
clothing caught fire, and both were 5
badly burned that they dieJ that 'gh
The Saxons used to call Novembe
EWindmouat," or windy month.
was also termed "Blot-mOnat," G
bloody month, from the fact that dul
ing the month it was customary to xii
a great number Of cattle to be salte
for winter use.
The beautiful Tyler Davidson Four
tain will be placed in the Fifth STREE
Market Space, Cincinnati, next season
/ the Court having given such a deci:
ion that the old Market House will b
removed tor the purpose.
The public debt statement for tn
month Of October, shows "A decrease
81, ,G36,S62 70, making Il total de
crease since the first of March Of $50
332, ,O7O IS.
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