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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

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and was not IN a agilded salooa"
gotten up regardless Of cost, but was
just a barrel Of cider Il did not see -
straw about with the balance Of the
stock on rough boards. Truly s
tempting table-set for the-wise men
Of the State.
1 noticed, boioTe the digni6ed
members were called to order, that
the eOlored brethren didCvery muelf
as the other members The "supet-
iOF race sat at their desks. hats ca,
ans their feet elevated upon their
desk-ir0nssS beading FspaPsrszsal
did the brethren The visits me4
Bers took the eolored ones out 10 ooes
aide 10 say something to them, and
did not hesitate in their earnestness
to slap them famiHarIy upon the
shOuldef, as if they we're saying6
''you are trump-I Ike you."-i
Neither did the nbrssbren" appear to
hold themselves above those whom s
strange and mysterious Providenca
had permitted to occupy seats 10 the
same House or Senate. -
As Hotels are not very plenty IN
Jackson, took lodging at a private
boarding house, aud found there four
Representatives-(all white, By your
Ieave) After supper mine host, as
my request, showed me up to their
room, and as I was a "COrrespon<
dent for a paper up North, they very.
kindly permitted me to "ihterview'e
them, which I did to my entiFe. salis-
faction, and I hope to theirs also.
From them learned that oil
things, in State affairs, were lovely,
and that they were "in h fair Gay 10
do WE'LL"
Gov. Alcofn--proaoHnced Ali-cosH
is, by authority Of the new Consti!
tuition, about to make appointments
for all county ottices-TreasuroTs,
Sherifs, &c. &c. The State Senate
is to confirm these appointments, and
the two branches House and SenateJ
are to make a law regulating the
time of holding elections throughout
the State, which will probably not
take place for year or more from
this time.
The Governor stands high in the
estimation of most Of the people here.
abouts n. T. AYRES.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

a pleasant story has lately circulds
ted about Count Bismark. A country
clergyman, an old acknowledged 6f
the Counts, was anxious to get his
SON into the marines; and at length
summoned up courage to address his
quondam cOmrade, entertaining, how
ever, but faint hopes of the great MINI
ister remembering him. Not being
much in the habit Of writing to grand
ee5, the good man could not for some
time determine how to begin, but at
length commenced his letter, "YOur
Highness." He soon received the fol-
lowing: "YUu Old bIOCkhead DIS
you think I have forgotten the happy
time when we studied and drank to-
ge. her in Gottenberg, and when we
were So often waiting on each other
And now, how can you address tis
in such a foolish way? Pray never
again call me Ijghne55. Let Us con-
tinue on the same terms rs Of old. As
to your boy, send him 10 me. I'li
take care of him."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

DR.. Archibald Alexander was a firm be-
lever in the doctrine that we never forget
ANYTHING. He had been lecturing on this
subject one day to his theological pupils,
and the young men had repaired to the
Seminary Tefectory to get dinner, when
the conversation at the table fell upon the
topic that had been presented tothem in
the classroom that morning. One of the
students boldly proclaimed his dissent
from the position that had been taken by
his venerable instructor. 81 know" said
he tsthere are some things have totally
forgotten, and shall never be able to re-
calIV' DR.. Bethune, who was a student
at Princeton at that time, Immediately
threw the table into rosrs of laughter by
crying out in his comical way, "Name one
of them, sir"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

taUNCrUATtoS. Ally editor Of literary
paper or magazine, with Il single years
experience, is a competent witness to
prove that not more than four ojtt Of every
forty who sCriGble for bread or nOturieIy
have any more corre6t idsas OF puhGlda-
ton than Patagonisu has Of Paradise.--
One profound thinker, leaving out the n.
drives on over three pages Of fOolscHp
without a single dot of punctuation: An
other perpetrates one line of periods; bring
ing us to down brakes" at the end uf
every lire, as abruptly as if we had check
ed up against a dead wall at thirty-ulfles-
an-hOur speed. Number three keeps up n
continuous string of exclamation points
eternalIy screaming at something that re-
qIires no screaming at whatever. A good
3,,Shing style of punctuation, Slipping in
one-mj twoj three, and halfline dashes in
Observation-Disclosures paragraphs inLo
spasmOdic nonsense.
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j is related that Il merchant in a
town not. a thousand miles from the
gOodIy city of Hamilton; recently
hired a new clerk and, Of course, in
itiatpd him at once into the mysteries
of the "tradpmark. The same Gfter-
noon the newIy-inductcd Knight Of
the yard stick was showing some goods
10 a lady customer when she de-
INJURED at the price Of the article
The feelings of the merchant may lie
imagined when the young man called
at the top of bis voicc: ''What shall
Is II this for? 1t is marked four DOL
lars and cost fiity cents" The en-
gageineht with the clerk was ternjua.
led,
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ICoIFaaPondenco o. tlie New.
LETTER FROM MISSISSIPPI:

- ~ l'sAg ~ 05il ) u
From Memphis 10 VIelEsburg--
The 1EisslssiPpl RiYer-Vieks.
bnFg-Jaezs0H. the state Cap
iial-Neero Legislators Il goT.
AIcorn. DE.
YIcKsBUH Mss, May 3, 1870.
There are many ways Of travelling,
but when time is not an object the
NEST aeteoa 9ay is BY Steamboat
that is by a boat-but poor boats
ere not az CO lon a8 poor Gays.
From Memphis to Viekaburg Cfout
hundred miles5 I enjoyed a splendid
trip of about 45 hours on the magnif
icent side-wheol steamer, Robt. E.
Lee. She has capacity for ESQ pe0-
pie, and the Captain told. me she
would carry besides these, 5000 bales
$500 lbs. each) of cotton.drawing 12
or 13 feet Of water when thus loaded:
Freights are very low by river-3O
cents per Dbl. for Flour from St..
Louis to this place, and about the
same for all freights from St. Louis to
New Orleans that the NJ. & c. R. R.
gets from Hilsboro merchants on
goods from Cfncinnatil What bless
ings we bave-in disguise. Passage
from Memphis to this place s12, and
the best fare in . the country furnished
all the time.
The banks Of the Mississippi are
very low. Between here and Mem
pbis there is not a.single point whore
the banks on either side are ten feet
higher than high water mark, and
generally the banks are higher than
the land short distance back from
the river. The river bottoms are
about 60 miles wide, and land is pro-
tected in most places from overfows
by embankments called Levees, 1t is
said that the only, or greatest prOtec-
ton to the country, is in the crooked
ness of the river, but as rises occur
yearly all houses are built above
ground, some as high as ten feet, so
that water can run under them when
it is that high. AS the FLYER was up
I saw many houses surrounded by
water, but the people did not appear
to mind it iD the least.
Vicksburg is "Hn City," sure
enough. 1t now claims 10000 peo
pie, and is a business place second to
none that [ have seou of its size.-
Money seems to be plenty, and the
merchants were busy.
The great drawback to the city is
It's bad location. From the river il
is up bill and rock all the way, and il
lis not very far back from the river
that the city extends, owing to the
hills. There was not a spot of ground
that I saw, 100 feet square, that could
be called level, anywhere in the city
Cincinnati is built in a prairie eoun.
try, when compared with this.
Goods sell at good prices, term;
cash, and the merchants can live com
fortably. New Orleans sugars sell al
about the same prices here as in
Hillsboro, 1900 miles further from the
place Of their production.
will finish this at Jackson tosmor
row, if 1 get there over the Ficks
burg and Meridian Railroad, which i
is said is in such bad condition that
the cars only run at about the rate o
ten miles an hour.
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Enr1N Lmna1fc AsYIums.
CHoCTAw NATION,

Bethlehem-cOmmonly shortened into
Bedlam, in London, founded in I547, is,
according to Hayden's Dictionary of
Dates, the oldest lunatic asylum in Eu-
rope except one at Granada. But Bedlam
was not the second institution of this kind
founded in Europe, though there may be
but one older now existing there. No lu-
natic asylum, it is true, was established
in Christehdom till the fifteenth century,
and the honor of instituting this form of
charity among Christians belongs TO
Spain. The first of these asylums was
founded in Valencia, in 1903, second in
Saragossa in 1925. One was established
in Seville, and another at Valladolid, in
1886, and one at Toledo in 1883. All
these, it will be seen, were earlier in Gate
than the first in England. Asylums for
the insane were known in Mohammedan
countries, however, centuries before the
first was thought of in Europe; and the
Spaniards, as they were, for several centu-
ries, in closer contact than other Europe
ans with the followers of Mobammed, are
supposed by some to have borrowed the
idea from the Moslems.-[Oiver Optics
Magazine.
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81 think" said A. Bronson Alcott,
in one of his Conversations" "when
a man lives on beef he becomes some
thing like an OK; if he eats mutton he
begins to look sheepish, and if he feeds
on pork may he not grow to be swim
ish?" "That may be-" said Dr., Wei
ker, of Cambridge, who was one of the
"but when a man lives on
nothing but vegetables, think he is
apt to be pretty small potatoes"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19
PENSION & BOUNTY
CLAIM AGENCY
u. II. .WMELeNir,

r ATE Captain Company A, seth Reg't. o. Y. l.
4 would respectfully announce to the citizens Of
General Claim Agency for the collection Of all Gevern
ment Claims.
Having had considerable experience with the differ
ant Denrtmeuts applicants may feel assured Of having
their claims collected with promptness and safety, and
that every attention will be given to whatever business
may be euIeusted to me.
BB- Our charges are reasonable. No charge If we
fail to collect any claim.
All kinds of Blanks kept on hand for every variety
Of claim
Claims Of ocers or Soldiers for Invalid Pension, foi
Bounty after two years service, or arrears Of Pay
Claims Of Widows or Mothers Of deceased sOldlers
for Pensions.
Claims Of Fathers, Mothers, WidOwsp Brothers OF
Sisters Of deceased Ocers or Soldiers for arrears Of Pay
or Bounty, Money, &C.
Blanks for the wives Of Prisoners Of war TO obtain
pay Of their husbands while confined in Rebel prisons
Discharged Ofoers' accounts settled, and certificate
OF non indebtedness procured.
BIlsb0ro, o.
BgIsboro, Dec 81, 1854. d-c=7u
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

At one of the recent concerts at the Tuil-
cries, "one Of the most beautiful women"
of Paris attracted much attention by the
Empress conversing with her for some
time, and on her returning to her seat all
eyes were turned upon her. The lady ac-
custUned to this homage, thought it was
as usual paid to her charms. But sudden
ly she discovered that one Of her beautiful
eyebrows, made of felt, had dropped in
her lap, and that this it was which attract
ed SO much attention. Sne tainted, of
course, and no doubt viii take better care
in future Of her fXtnSs.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

Ask no woman her age. Never joke
with policeman. Don't play at chess
with a widow. Nevar contradict a man
who shutters. Be civil to all rich uncles
and aunts. Your Oldest hat, of course, for
an evening party. Always sit next the
carver, if you can, at dinner. Keep your
own secrets. Tell no human being You
dve your whiskets. Wind up your cou-
duct, like your watch, once a day; examine
infinitely whether you are fast or SLOW
Make friends with the steward on board a
steamer; there's no knowing how soon
YOU may be in his power. Write not one
more letter than you can help; the man
who keeps up large correspondence is a
martyr, tied, not to the stake, but to the
post.
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uowtO Keep Poor.

Many a man there is who is very
anxious to get rich, but they succeed
very badly in the attempt, indeed
they fail. In how many cases may il
be attributed to self-indulgeuce, which
tends to keep them always poor, SUCH
as the following: Two glasses of ale
a day, ten cents, seventy three dOIlaTsT
three cigars, one after each meal, ouo
hundred and nine dollars and fifty
cents; board for a big dog, thirty dUi-
laFs-all in one year, two hundred
and twelve dollars and sixty cents.
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One DreT., a Presbyterian, had lady
love, a decided Baptist. When talking
once of their approaching nupuals, the
doctor said;
81 am thinking, my dear, Of two events
1 shall nnmber the happiest Of MY lie"
"And what may they be, doctor 2" re-
marked the lady.
"One is the hour when ] shall call you
my wife for the first time"
UAnd the other z"
alt is when we shall present our hrst-
born for baptism"
"What, sprinkled p
"Yes, my dear, sprinkled.
GNever shall child of mine be sprink1
led. ~
"But mine shall"
'.1'hey shall be, hey ?"
eyes, my love-"
"Well, sir, then I can tell You that your
babies won't be my babies, so good night,
sir"
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Select Miscellany.
MAY.

..-.
The red-winged merle from bending spray;
With graceful pinions posing,
Pours out liquid roundelsy
In iubilant rejoicing:
The cock-grouse drums on sounding log
The fox forsakes the cover,
The wOOd-cock pipes from fen and bog.
From upland leas the plOver.
The speclzled trout darts up the stream
Beneath the rustic bridges,
While hOcks Of fpigeons glance and glsaut
Ger beech and maple ridges:
The golden robin trills his note
Among the netted shadows,
The bob-o-link, with mellow threat,
Makes musical ths meadows.
The peeping frogs with silver balls,
In rythmical ovation,
Ring outa Chime Of treble swellI
Injpyous graduation;
The low of kline Is mingled with
The song of lark and sparrow,
And fallow fields are growing bliths
Beneath the plow and harrow.
The moon all night, serene and whits,
On lake and stream Is glowing,
While ripping fountains seek hor light,
Through woodland valleys flowing;
And all night long, low, sweet song
Sweeps o'er the misty hollow,
From marsh and fen, from hill and glen,
From brook, and field and fallow.
It is the time Of pleasant things,
When love makes up his issues,
And hearts we'll up, like hidden springs,
From rgIytad cells and tissueF
time to hear at break Of day
silver chorused matin-
liquid fretwork in crochet
On atmospheric satin,-
A time to feast the soul, the eyes,
To watch each bird that passes,
And half surmise that birds ars wise,
And men are only assesi
And then to turn and raise the load
With weary shoulders bending, r,
And take the old, well-beaten road
That leads-unto the ending.
GEO. ". SEARS.
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Woman Suffrage.

Chief Justice Cole of iowa, lectured on
"The Ballot" at Des Aioimes, recently
He favored allowing women to vote, and
said: "Our laws will be better and purer,
and be more faithfully administered; vice
and immortality will meet with seyerer
condemnation; the great and growing evil
of the day, intemperance, will be sup
pressed the ballot in wOman's hand Is
the leverage whereby that greatest curse,
the social evil, is to be removed. Finally,
by admitting women to the polls, you VIII
Danish therefrom profanity, obseenity and
drunkenness. y
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

A vicious dog gave vent to his spite
against a man ne met ON the street in In
dianapoIis, recently, by biting him on the
leg. Instead of driving him of, the man
stood still and let him work. The leg be-
ing a wooden one, the biting did Mt hurt
the man and seemed TO afford the dog ths
greatest satisfaction.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

A young lady being asked by rich old
bachelor, not yourself, who would you
rather be % she replied sweetly aud mod.
estly, "Yours truly"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19
Youths Department..

Bs-origbal Enigmas, Charades, Problems, etc, are
respectfully solicited. The must always ac-
company them, together with the real mans Of the
writer.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

Chinese parents give away girl-babies
soon after birth. In this country they
arc retained until they become Of marriage
able ago, when they arc often regularly
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-05-19

AS an Englishmau and Irisbman tefs
passing by a galiows, the former ssked:-S
pat, if that gallUws had its dues, pray
where would you be ?' "Och faith, and
I'd be riding to town all alone" was tbs
Quick reply.
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Enigu1as.


7 am composed of II letters.
Nv / is in cash, but not in moneys
NV 2 is in bees, and also in honey
bly 3 is in knowledge, but not In power
NV 4 is in sweet, but not in sour
MY is in early, but not in late;
NV IL in sailor, but not in matei
Nv is in fun, but not in sport;
Nv is in wisdom, but not in court
NV is in love, and also in hate;
NV 10 is in walk, but not in gait
Nv II is the first and last Of dead.
My whole is a village III Ohio.
2.
Ny first you all have, or have nuce possesssdj
Mostly my second too, a thing Of rest
Old ladies for my first my second use,
Which children tumble over and abuse.
Nv whole is one Of the cardinal points.
My second was President in 1923
Ny whole is pleasant village in Ohio. Nm.
Charade.
Curses and blessings from my first proceed,
AS very often we in history read;
Tho reeling sot, with half closed eyes,
In vain to effect my second tries:
Without my whole you u clearly note,
good Charade is seldom wrote.
Answer to Enigma in last weeks News Nanassc
-oiyped fCtv-fve years in Jerusalem
answer L. ChsrBds. Pleasure.
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People who are behind the fines
should be ftd on ketchuP.
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high Street, few doors south Of Harndens Express
Office.

s,D,s,furIy announce to their old friends and Gus
toners that they are now selling
ekbDTEs- HARNESS. COLLARS, WHIPS, &C.,
Al Reduesd Prices. They return their thanks ior tae
-Se1s no efforts to merit 8 continuance OF the same
tr T.ate 20 order and keep constantly on hand the
BEST ASSORTMENT OF everything IN the[ & nhS
esp he had 20 this market
- - Repairing done promptly. an work warrant
BE-Cail and see uss helore y"u Ooy' -.
EHithCrc, Seit.5r wv Si~
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FHE HIGHLAND TEEELYNEES.
oIDEsFPAPERI IN THE COUNTY
~@uR WISE

OFFICE-Main st. north side second door eastsf High
nearly opposite the Post ONCE.
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OF THE COUNTRY,
FREE FOR OWE TEAR.

TIE AMERICAN srocE JoURylL,-A ifst-clasF month
~ containing 81 large double column pages devoted to
Farming and Stock Breeding, containing regular de-
partments TOR the Practical Farmer DaiTyman, Stock
Breeder Wool Grower and Poultry Keeper &C., &C.
&c Illustrated with numerous fine Engrayihgs and
bound in Handsomely tinted covers Farmers will dnd
this monthly very efficient aid in all the departments
OF Farming and Stock Breeding. II has Veterinary
al rnent under the charge Of Of the ablest Pro-
fssors in the United States who through the
JoURNAL. free a charge al questions relating to Sick
n iurpd or Diseased Horses Cattle, Sheep, Swine or
poultry Thus every Subscriber has a Horss and Cat
tls noctor free. dec2m5
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Correspondence Of the News.
Letter from Indian Territory.

From LeaCenacorth Ctyto Fort Gibson,
l. E-Fort Baxter Springs
The Indian Territory The CFero-
kees-A Fine Country, &c.
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INolIlal0lualca oI Inl N9775-
e irosl7sl g FROM EENTUEIE y.
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Absence from SchOOI-Ils Evils.

-rFrom Lippinooti's Magazine for May.
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little CHILDREN.

Thank God for little children
When our skies are cold and gray
They steal as sunshine in our hearts
And charm our cares away.
almost think the angels,
Who tend LIES gardens fair,
Drop down the ssset, wild blossoms
That bloom around Us here.
Il seems breath of8satsa
Round many Q cradle llss3
Aadsvefs little baby
BFing blessings from the skies.
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Answer to Enigma in last weeks News Nanassch
roigped fnv-6ve years in Jerusalem.
. Sp-zrer e. ChsrBde. Pleasure.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1870-12-29
DIR. Whittier.

A REGULAR GRADUATE OF MEDICINE
"A rs Diploma at Office will show, has beenI
ilonger engaged in the treatment of Nenereal,
iSe2ual and Private diseases than any otherj
IL hysician in st. Louis. Syphilis, 6onorrhea,I
sGleet, Structure, 0rchits, Heriia, and Rupture,|
iali Urinary Diseases and Syphilitic or MercuriaI
Affections of Throat, Skin or Bones, are treat
led with unparalleled success. spermstorrhea,I
Sexual Debility and lmpotency, as the result
Eof self abuse in youth, sexual eIcesses in ma
.turer years, or other causes, and which produce
some of the following effects, ss nocturnal ennis
,sions, blotches, debility dizziness, diuness of
lsight, confusion of ideas, evil forbodIngs.avers
ION TO society Of males, loss Of memory and
sexual power, and rem deriDg marriage improper|
iAre be rmanently cured. The Doctors oppor-
tunities hos ital ana private practice are unsur
passed In ST. Louis OF any Other city Back
fes Of st. Louis papers prove that be has been
located here longer than any other so ADVERT
jsing The establis eDt, library, lsbortory ,snd
are unrivalleG in the West, I'm
lean be relied upon, and the doctor can refer tol
many ply sieians throughout the country. In!
past success and present position he stands
without n competitor. The writings Of q ply
Isician whose reputation is Union wide should
tbe worth reading. DR.. Whittier publishes Al
Medical Pamphlet relating to venereal diseases
land the disastrous and varied consequence
Iof self abuse, that will be sent to any addressI
lin scaled envelope for two stamps. Many
physicians introduce patients to the doctor az
Ter reading his medical pamphlet Communi
alton confidential. A friendly talk will cost y ou
nothing. Office central. yet retired. No. 617 Sd
Charles street, St. Louis, Mo. Hours Q. N
ito : p. m. Sundays IL TO up. m