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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
Clusters Expedition Against the
Indians.


General Custer has made detailed
report of his operations against the In
dians, On the 18th uItimo he learned
that two hundred and rixty Cheyenne
lodges were eneamped near Medicine
Bluff creek, within ten or twelve miles
of his camp, two hundred of which
were in front of a small stream.
Medicine Arrow, Chief of the Chey-
ennes, and several other noted chiefs,
then rode up. Among the two hum
dred lodges were those of the -"Dog
Soldiers" the most blood thirsty
band of Indians that infest the Plains.
General Custer first intended to at
tack this band, when he discovered
that the Cheyennes held two white
female captives, Mrs. Morgan and Miss
White. He concluded not to do so,
at least until he had those women out
of the hands ofsavages. He therefore
went with "Medicine Arrow" to his
lodge in the centre of the village
Before entering the village he perceiv-
ed the greatest excitement, and no
ticed that everything was prepared for
flight. The general thinks that had
he then been compelled to attack
them with his fatigued troops, he
could not have effected more than the
capture of their lodges. He ordered
the arrest of the Chiefs "Big Head"
and ''Dull Knife" intending to hold
them under guard as hostages for the
white women captives. After cOnsid-
cradle parleying, and only when the
rope and tree were chosen, did the In
dians deliver up their captives. The
story of their treatment told by the
captives, is one Of crueltiei and indig-
mites. They express themselves hear
tily sick of war, and are willing to go
to thai part of the country which has
been designated for them. The Gen
eral did not lose single man of his
command. He concludes his report
with the following words: ST now
hold captive Cheyenne chiefs as hos
tages for good behavior of their tribes,
and for the fulflment of the promise
of the latter to come in and conform
to the demands of the government.
This / consider is the end of the In
dian war ~
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
Times Old and NeW.

Senator Wilson, in the United
States Senate, in replying to sone re-
marks BY Senator sprague, made the
following reference to times old and
new in New England
/ know something Of the stern trials
of men who seek Of their feIIOw-men
leave to toll for wages, but know,
and 1 am grateful to God for the
cheering fact, that the laboring men
Of the country have made immense
progress during in the past third Of q
century. I speak not now of the
mighty change in the condition Of
the toilng millions Of the South. 1
speak Of the Improvement in the con-
dition Of the great body Of the me-
chants and working men Of the
North, Of New England, Of Massachu-
sets, and Rhode Island, too. I hap
pened to be born in New Hampshire,
in farming community. I have
tOiled in the field in the cold Of winter
and in the heat Of summer, with as
good men as ever handled hoe or
swung ak or scythP, who received hfiy
cents per day for their labor, and re-
ceived their pay not in money, but in
corn at one dollar per busheI, OF purk
at seventeen cents Pcr pound. WOm-
en- 10 three days went out 10 labor, to
do hOusewOrk, to spin and weave fOF
fifty cents per week.
Sir, I venture to state a fact that u
lustrates the wonderful Improvement
in the condition Of working men. In
the winter of 1886, when I came Of
age, hired myself for one month to q
farmer Of my native town. I went
into the forests, drove teams, chopped
wood and timber, working at least
fourteen hours daily. For this work
1 received the enormous sum Of six
dollars in cash. I then thought was
quite fortunate to get six dollars in
money for that months hard toll,
The wages Of labor have increased in
that region in New England since
that day three or four fold. Hard as
is the lot, and perhaps ever will be,
Of laboring men, the furniture, the
means of improvement of their chill
dren, the accumulations in the savings
banks, all demonstrate and advanced
position Of working men during the
past thirty years. Better, far better,
inspire hope and courage, than to in
culcate hOpelessness and despair.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
The Pilgrim Fathers were not
k'uFitanss

CLEvELAND' Ohio, April 6, 1869
To the Editors Of the ". Y Evening
POST
In your issue of I'd instant, your
correspondent e. d. N, in an article
headed "Contributions to Colonial
History" indirectly falsifies one Of the
best established facts connected with
our colonial history. He says Of
Captain Jones of the Mayfower "Af-
ter he had landed the Puritans at Ply
mOuth"-implying that the Pilgrim
Fathers were Puritans, while nothing
can be wider from the truth. Amy
close reader of the history of that pc
riOd cannot fail to fud that the Pill
grim Fathers separated Of their own
accord from the Established Church
and formed Independent church organ
izatiOns, from which they were called
.SepaTatists or Independents; while
the. .Puritans kept within the Church
and endeavOred to purity it from ma
ny POpish rites and errors which the
Established Church had borrowed
from the Church of Rome. Hence in
derisiOn they were called Puritans
Although prosecuted by the Establish.
ed Church, they still adhered to it, IN.
til driven out by the strong arm o.
power. on
The Pilgrim Fathers were tolerant
of all religious sects. ahd prosecuted
no one. The Puritans were intolar
ant, and prosecuted (in some instances
even unto death those whose religious
faith and practice did not square with
their dogmas; ; even the SeparatistS
did not escape them.
The difference between the Pilgrim
Fathers and Puritans are marked
broad and distinct, yet nineteen-twen
tieths of their descendants are in bliss
/ IfuI ignorance of the distinction, anC
paragraphs similar to the one referred
to tend TO perpetuate the popular fal
lacy. M. B. s.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
Miscellaneous.
The southern Heavens.


In the Southern heavens there is a region
of sky in which stars Of all magnitudes
are strewu more richly than in any other
portion of the celestial sphere. This re-
gion extends, according to Frassr's Maya
zine, from the feet Of the Centaur over the
southern Cross and along the jeweled hull
Of the ship Argo, merging into the splen-
did band Of stars belonging to the con-
stellations Canis Major, Orion and Tau
rus. Across the southern part Of this re-
giOn the Milky Way shines with lustre
so far exceeding that which it has along its
northern semi-circle as to suggest the i'm
preston Of greater proximity. The whole
region is so splendid that ib strfkingly i'm
presses those who are. accustomed to the
comparative uniformity of our own noe
turnal skies. Travellers in the Southern
hemisphere fully confirm the extraordina-
~ statement made by the late Captain
Jacob, careful astronomer and observer,
'that the general blaze from this portion
of the sky is such as to render a person
Immediately aware Of its having risen
above the horizon, though he should not
be al the time looking at.the heavens, by
the increase of general illumination of the
atmosphere, resembling the effect of the
young moon."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06

A London paper states (and we
presume the statement is correct) that
Mr.. Charles Dickens is to receive s10O
(OrtiVe hundred dOlIars) a night for
each of his forthcoming readings in
that city. If this sum seems large
let it be remembered that equal
amounts, and even larger, are some
times paid for similar purposes in this
country. Prof. Agassiz has received
$500 each for an extended series of
lectures. Mr.. Cough has repeatedly
received 81, 900 for a single nights
performance. Mr.. Beecher could, du-
ring the past winter, have made SI0,-
900 by lecturing ten nights in as many
principle cities OF the West. The
reigning opera singers and star actors
and actresses receive still higher land
sometimes almost fabulOus) cOmpensa-
ton. Ifa merchant in his business
makes $50, 900 a year, nobody thinks
it worthy of public mention but il
a speaker or writer makes One-hall
that amount. many people are thun-
derstruck. Numerous painters in
France earn 1000 francs annually
and here and there an American artist
sells a secOnd-rate picture for a first
class price. It is happy sign Of the
times that the more intellectual and
psthetic vOeatiOns are now everywhere
bearing greater pecuniary rewards
than in former pOverty-strieken days
of literature and art.-[N. Y Inde'
pendent.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
Return TO Reason After Ferry
Years Of Insanity.


Return TO Reason After Ferry
Years Of Insanity.
About forty years ago a young lady,
eighteen years of age, full of life and
beauty, and a resident of this county,
from some unknown, or at least, ungov-
.ernable cause, became suddenly insane
For some time she remained beneath the
roof Of her parents and received theunited
efforts and sympathy of relatives and
friends. But all to no avail. The mental
faculties were too surely broken. A short
time after she became an inmate of our
County Poor House at Dowitville, where
she remained until few days since, a Gu
riosity to strangers and wholly lost to her
self Well we remember, three years
since, while paying visit to the county
buildings at that place.. noting the very
strange appearance of "Crazy Ann
There was something peculiar about her
arrangement, so much so that we have
often called TO mind incidents Of her con-
versatiOn, and peculiarities of her manners
But few days since, "Crazy Ann" Teas-
sumed her proper cognomen and is again
sane. What sleepi Forty years of blank
existence and now a stranger to herself
She resumes life where she left it when
young and beautiful and the companion
of the gay and mirthful. Now she is old
feeble and gray, in the enjoyment only Of
the fact that-she is again rational and busi-
ly engaged in making her own acquaint-
ance.-L Exchange.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
Power Beauty.


We do not recall more beautiful or po-
eticaI anecdote, illustrating the effect Of
womanly grace and purity on the rough
est natures, than the following, related by
Lord shaftesbury at a ragged school in
Sheffield. The lady in Comus walking
unharmed amid the rabble rout of satyrs
is not more effective. His LOrdship said
that young ladies would be surprised to
find with what respect they would be
treated by the forlOrn classes if they would
20 amongst them with view to education.
''In one of the worst parts Of London, he
said, "there was an institution which he
visited. In one room he found about thir-
ty-fve men listening to the teachings OF
the daughter Of a small shopkeeper in the
neighborhood. She was one of the pret-
test women he ever saw in, his life. He
noticed that there was no one present but
the young woman with those rough men,
and he said to the superintendent, 1Are
you not afraid to leave my dear little
friend alone with all those men ? He re-
piled, i am Then why don't you go
to her % you mistake my fear. I am
not afraid of their doing her any harm
They love her so much that they would
lick the ground on which she walks but
1 am afraid some person may step in, and,
not being under authority, or knowing the
manners OF the place, may say something
impertinent to her, and ifhe did he would
not leave the place alive
It is, indeed, one of the most cheering
facts, to such as work for the elevation OF
the human race, that womsnly beauty,
where united to maiden mOdesty, COM
mands the homage Of the most degraded.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
IA young Woman BurIea Allve

"A u 4OMUB NuWAlAFsA A3AAA AE'-a 4AAAtNe
The Pittsburg Republican has the
following: Several years since a
beautiful young lady, hardly eighteen
years Of age, who resided in the vi-
cinity Of Allegheny, became sudden
ly sick, and although her parents,
who idOlized her, summoned the
most skillful physicians, the disease
increased to virulence for some days,
and apparently terminated fatally.
Her death was a heavy blow to
her mother who loved her fondly,
and after waiting the usual time pre-
scribed by custom, the body was in
TERED in one of the cemeteries ad-
joining our sister city. A few weeks
ago, the lady's father died, when the
mother expressed a desire to have his
body inferred with the remains Of her
daughter.
The request was so natural that no
objections were made to it, The
grave of the departed fair one was
opened, and upon the body being ex-
/ humed, it was discovered with hor-
rOr, that the body mad been turned IN
the cofin.-An Investigation proved
to cOnclusively that the poor young
lady had been buried alive.
Her clothing about the body had
been torn into sbreds, and her hair
pulled from her head by handsful.-
She had undoubtedly recovered con-
sciOusness while entOnmbed an after.
ward died of sufOcation. The moth
er when viewing the corpse, was seized
with Mysteries, and few days since
was conveyed to the Diximent Insane
Asylum raving maniac.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06

A writer in the Hearth and Home
says Respect the body. Give it
what it requires, and no more. Do
not pierce its ears, strain its eyes, or
pinch its feet; don't roast it by a hot
FIRE all day, and smother it under
heavy bed covering all night; don't
put it in cold draft on slight Occa-
sions, and don't dose it with DOCTORS
stuffs, and, above all, don't turn it in
to wine eask OF a chimney. Let it
be "warranted not to smoke" from
the time your manhood takes posses
sion. Respect the body; don't over.
work, over-rest, or owe love it, and
never debase it, but be able to lay il
down when you are done with it a well
worn but not abused thing. In the
meantime, treat it at least as well as
you would a pet horse or hound, and,
my word for it, though it will moi
jump to China at a bound, you'll find
it a most excellent thing to have-es-
pecially in the country.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
A Case Of spontaneous Combus-
lion. r-I

A Case Of Spontaneous COmbus-
Hon. r4
The New Orleans Crescent relates a case
Of spontaneous combustion which occur
red in that city. The victim, one CASTOR
Luylay, Frenchman who was an excess
sive drinker, was Euo,0n to absorb as much
as fourteen bottles of claret in one day
Luylay became so degraded that he be-
came a mere hanger-on at a low saloon
During one of his horrible debauohes he
was discovered in the act Of drinking from
can containing coal oil. The physi-
clans who attended him were unable to
divine the nature of his complaint. The
victim uttered the most heart-rending
screams, complained of intense -stinging
pains, and died in the greatest. agony
His whole frame was convulsed and slight
ly distorted, the body in state of ebulli-
tion, as it were, and covered with blisters
which bursting, lot of liquid of yellow
ish red color, trickled from them to the
floor. When death ensued the body be-
came perfectly dried up aud shrunken,
and as black as charcoal. The Coroner's
inquest brings out the above statements.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
Priests lTarrr in ItnIT.

The question Of priestly celibacy
has come up once more in Naples,
and the right of priests to marry is
now res adJudicata in Italy, outside
the States of the Church. The Tri-
bunal OF SalernO forbade a young
priest to take a wife, whereupOn he
appealed to the Neapolitan courts, and
the result was in his favor. A similar
decision was rendered two years ago
in Genoa. 1t seems strange enough
that just at the moment that some Az
gil can extremists are meditating the
solitary vow, the priesthood Of the
older Romanist countries are throw
ling it overheard,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06


A curious discovery has just been
made at Pompeii. In a house in
course of excavation, an oven was
found, closed with an iron door, on
opening which, a batch of Pighty-one
loaves, put in nearly eighteen hun
dred years ago, and now somewhat
over done, was discovered; and even
the large shovel with which they had
been neatly laid in rows. The loaves
were but slightly over baked by the
lava heat, having been protected by a
quantity of ashes covering the door
There is no bakers mark upon the
leaves they are circular, about nine
inches in diameter, rather fat and in
dented (evidently with the bakers ell
bOw) in the center, and are slightly
raised at the sides, and divided by
eight lines radiating from the center,
into eight segments They are now
of a deep brown color, and hard, but
very light. In the same shop, were
found 561 bronze and So silver coins.
A mill with a great quantity of corn,
in excellent preservation, has also
been discovered.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
Anawars 20 PmbIema.

.'Hank Virgins" sends the correct answer to the
Geese Problem Of April 22d. The number Of geese
was Z.
Dill Chapman also answers tie same Problem cor
reetly.
Answer to Corn Problem Of April 22d: The land
lord would lose and 18th bushels by the propo-ed
mode OF division, the rent would entite him to
25ths Of the IS bushels. The tenant should give Is
bushels from his share after the division Is COM
plsted OtherW ss the landlord would receive but the
2-7ths Of the first s3 bushels
The answers to the Cattle and Horse Problems Of
April 29th will nOt be published til next week in
order 10 give Cine 70 those Who wish 10 send in an
GWara.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
SPRING

SPRING.
Tha sweet South wind 90 long
Sleeping 70 other eiines, Ger sunny seas,
Or daliying with the orange trees
In the bright land Of song,
Wakes unto us and lsughingly sweeps by,
Like glad spirit Of the suDlit sky.
The laborsr ct his ton
Fsels on his cheek the dswy kiss, and Iifs
HE open brow % catch the fragrant gifts
The aromatic spoil
Borne from the blossorning gardens Of the South (;
While Its faint sweetness fingers round his mouth
The bursting bud Iooks up
To cheer the suRiight, while It fingers yet
On the warm hiIisids-aud the violet
npars IL azurs cup
Meekly, and luutlsss flowers awake to fling
Their earliest incense to the galsI Of Spring.
Oontinual songs arise
From universal naturs-blrds and sfreams
Miagle their voices, and the glad earth seems
A second paradise!
Sunshine and song, and fragranoe-ali are thine :
Thrice blessed Spring thou brightest gift divine
Not unto earthaIOne-
Thou hast . blessing for each human heart,
Balm for It's wounds and healing for its smart,
Telling Of winter hoWni
And brightest hopes upon thy rainbOW wing,
Type Of eternal Hght-tiEioe blessed Spring.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
A Boys Composition on Heads.

"A nOV . OOAM ElD8AGAOlA OA AACtsNASs
Heads are of different shapes and differ
ent sizes. They are full Of notions. Large
heads do not always hold the most. Some
persons can tell just what man is by the
shape Of his head. High heads are the
best kind. Very knowing people are called
long-headed. A fellow that won't stop for
anything or anybody is called hot-beaded.
If he isn't quite so bright they call him
soft-headed if he won't be coaxed nor
turned, they call him pig-headed. Ami
mails have very small heads. The heads
Of fools slant back. When your head is
cut off you are beheaded. Our heads are
all covered with hair, except bald. heads.
There are other. kinds of heads besides our
heads.
First, there are Barrel-heads. Second,
thers are Pin-heads. Third, Heads Of ser
mOns-sometimes a minister used to have
fifteen heads to one sermon. Fourth,
Headwind. Fifth, Head of eattle-when
a farmer reckons up his cows and oxen he
calls them so many head Of cattle. Sixth,
rumheads-drumhead are made Of
sheepsisin. Seventh, Heads or tails-when
you toss up pennies. Eighth, Double-head-
ers-when you let of rockets. Ninth,
Come to a head-like boil or rebellion
Tenth, bageheads-dunces are called
cabbageheads, and good enough for them.
Eleventh, At Loggerheads-when you
don't agree. Twelfth, Heads of chapters.
Thirteenth, Head him ofF-when you want
to stop a horse or boy. Fourteenth,
Head of the family. Fifteenth, a Blunder-
head. Sixteenth, the Masthead-where
they send sailors to punish them. Seven
teenth, get up to the head--whsn you spell
a word right. Eighteenth, the Head of a
stream-where it begins. Nineteenth,
Down by the head--when q vessel is deep
loaded at the bows. Twentieth, Figure
head carved on a vessel. Twenty-hrst,
The Cat-head, and that's the end of stick
of timber that a ships anchor hangs by
Twenty-second, A Headland, or cape
] Twenty-third, A Head Of tobacco. Twen-
| ty-fourth, a Bulkhead, which is parti-
tion in a ship. Twenty-ffth, Go ahead
but first be sure you are right From
Our Young Folks for May.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
The Florida Air PLANT.

This plant attaches itself to trees
and derives its nogishment from ali
and water. 1t will grow on planed
board, if fastened in place. 1t varies
in height from three inches to eight
feet. The large air plant always con-
tains in the folds of the leaves, water,
sometimes a quart, clear as crystal
cold, almost, as ice. Even after long
drought it is as abundant as at othel
times, and affords a grateful treat tC
the weary traveller.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06
III LEIEI.K.

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EilIag " fUaie tHu=U7 eass5 a DebiIiJv.
EL1r Sapdu s fas n land uig0r D lls t1h0ls
q eriolzisI-g Il tisri food enabgc hs Sios
aaeh e diqesf 4 pst The 6l0od gt5e good, soifIa,
hsalV o0npIe1i0l eradicate ths ysOg tHgc from the
~ iapaTt bloom % tls cheeks, and change t1e Pdftet
iron sioTi-breafsd suaciaisd, i0eGk, end aeFuOus
Glpalid % fdesdi Gous, and vigorous PcTSoH-
Weak and Delicate Children are
made strong By using the 81tterg OF
EGnies In fact, they are Family AAeal1
GlUeGs They can be administered Win
perfeea safety 20 q child three months
ed, the most delicate female OK . man
oEmAnslIs
ne E...ll.s e.a r.al.s.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06

A trifing sort of a fellow not long
since won the affections of the daugh-
ter of bluff, honest Dutchman, : of
some wealth. On asking the old man
for her, he opened with a romantic
speech about his being a ''pOor man."
etc. "Ya, va" said the old man. al
knows apout ito but you ish leetle
too poor-you has neider money nor
character"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1869-05-06

RUNNING OUT OF CHURCH, min
ister down east, being very much an
nOyed with persons leaving the
Church before dismissal, got off the
follOming and wasa't uubled any
more: Some ofmy brethren have been
greatly afflicted that so many young
folks leave church before service is
through. But 1 tell them that they
ought not to feel so, for doubtless,
most of those that go out are young
women who who live at service, and
their mistress require them to be at
home at 9 o'clock, and the young men
have TO go out and wait upon them
home; so hereafter, when these young
leave church before service is over
you will understand who they are
and not feel badly agout it.