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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16
This Side Up.

We saw Jake mailing up box, the
other day, containing some articles
which he intended to send by express.
From the nature of the contents it was
essential that the box should not be
inverted on the passage, so we ven
tured the suggestion to Jake to place
the much abused "This side up" etc,
cOnspicously upon the cover. A few
days after, we saw Jake. "Heard
from your goods, Jake? Did they go
all safely 2" "Every one broke" re-
piled Jake, suuenly. "LOst the hull
lot! Hang the express company p
eDid you put this side up as we told
you 81 ayes 1 did, and fur fear they
shouldn't see it on the kiver, put it
on the bottom cOnfOund 'em ~
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

A Frenchman, resolved to be rid of
life, went little before high tide, to a
post set up by the sea side. He had
provided himself with a ladder, a rope,
pistol, bundle of matches and a vial
of poison. Ascending the ladder, he
tied one end of the rope to the post,
swallowed the poison, set his clothes
on fire, put the muzzle of his pistol to
his head, and kicked away the ladder.
In kicking away the ladder, he sloped
the pistol SO that the ball missed his
head and cut through the rope by
which he was suspended; he fell into
the sea, thus extinguishing the flames
of his clothes; and the sea water,
which he involuntarily swallowed,
counteracted the poison; and in spite
of his precautions, he remained un-
hanged, unshot, Imprisoned, unburned
and undrowned!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Judge Brinkerhof, for the past ff--
teen years, on the Supreme Bench Of
Ohio, in a letter to Hon. Stanley
Matthews, of Cincinnati, declines
denomination by the Republican
State Convention, for the sole reasonr
as he says:
81 feel and find by a saddened ex-
perience that the salary which our
laws allow is a compensation wholly
inadequate for the no incOnsiderable
personal expenses, the heavy respon-
sibility, the exhausting, never ending
and still beginning labor, and the de-
privatiOn of the comforts and assOcia-
tions of home which the position nue-
essariIy involves" D."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

- The MISERY of human life is made up of
large masses, each separated from the 9th
er by certain intervals. One year the
death of child; years after, failure in
trade; after another longer or shorter in
terval a daughter may have married un-
happily;-in all but the singUlarly unfor-
tunate, the integral parts that compose the
sum total of the unhappiness ola mans
life are easily counted and distinctly re-
membered. The happiness Of life, on the
contrary, is made up of minute fractions;
the little soon-forgotten charities of kiss,
a smile, kind look, heartfelt compli-
ment in the disguise of playful raillery,
and the countless other inhnitesimals Of
pleasurable thought and genial feeling
TColeridge.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16
Te the Wool Growers of Ohio.

To the Wool Growers of Ohio.
The third annual wooden maRufac-
turers association of the Northwest
will be held in the city of Indianapo
lis, Indiana, commencing August Sd,
1870, lasting four days. A very ur-
gent request has been made of the
wool growers to participate and fur
nish samples of their focks. Samples
of an amount to convey with sufi-
eient clearness the quality may be
sent in sacks or boxes marked, "For
the exposit.o t.on, in care Of the Commit
tee of the Wooden Manufacturers As
sociqtion of the Northwest, Indianap-
oils, Indiana 1t is desirable that
whole feeces be sem, that the commit
tee may be the better able to judge
Of the merits of the several samples
on exhibition; the larger the amount
the better.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16
ALust ReVenge.

Scene: A down town restaurant:
Sundry gentlemen discussing the Nc
Farland case. They express dissent
from his methods. A HUOsier startles
them.
The Hocsier (vchemently)-"Mo-
Farland did just right! I'd done it
myself! You'd a done it." CThey
stare).
First Gentleman-"Why, what do
you mean ?"
The Hoosier Dumping up and shak-
ing his fist, with greater righteous in
dignation )-"Yes, Stree! Eff I'd
bin a livin' on a woman for five or six
years, n another man come along m
got her away from me, be id if 1
wouldn't a shot him, N sod you"
(The silence of eonviction.)
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. .-Har-
per's Weekly truthtully says; A
hearty faith in the great principles Of
popular government, general hospitali-
ty to ward new views, and constant
progress, a practical PERCEPTION of the
close relation between morals and pol.
itics, a deep conviction of the vital ne
cessity Of intelligence TO a true republic
will generally lead a man to act with
the Republican party and his position
upon any specific question that may
arise, will naturally determined by
the same characteristics.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

"Did you ever see one of these here
hoop-snakes ?'' asked Mr.. Ferguson
"Me and my hired man was down
there in the home lot, by the side of
the road, and we see something roll
ing down the hill, and says /, Il guess
that must be one of them hOOp-snakes
coming along? My hired man he
was afeerd, and clim up tree; but I
took my hoe in my hand and went
out and stood side of a tree in the
road, and when he came along 1 stuck
out the hoe-handle, and he hit slap,
and, sir, it warn't more'n a mint
afore that are hoe-handle was sWelled
up as big as my leg !?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16
ODE TO THE BRAVE.

How.sleep the Brave, who sink 70 rest
By all their country's wishes blest
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hailowed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's footsteps ever trod.
By fairy hands, their knel Is rung,
By forms unseen, their dirge is sung,
There Honor comes a pilgrim gray, .E.
To bless the turf that wraps their clay,
And Freedom shall awhile repair
To dwell, weeping hermit, there
s- -lCOllius.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

A man with four wives was brought be-
for Hans Swarthart, a Mohawk Justice,
for commitment on charge of bigamy.-
"Four vifes ?" exclaimed the astonished
Hans; "four vifes dat vas a most hino-
cious crimes Discharch him at vOnst."
"Why ?" protested the prosecutor. "Why
him when proofs positive? Will
the Court explain ?" "Yes, I eckshplains.
If he Ifs nit four vifes be got punishment
enough. 1 lif NIT Won, and got too much
punishment already"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Washington Irving related that be
was once riding with Tom Moore in
the streets of Paris, when the hack
ney coach went suddenly into a deep
rut, out of which it came with such a
jolt as to send their pates bump
against the roof. "By Jove, Pve got
it," cried Moore, clapping his hands
with great glee. "Got wbat?" said
the poet. "That word I've been hunt
ing for, for six weeks, TO complete my
last song. That rascally driver has
iolted it out Of me-"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Portage county furnishes this bit of ro-
nance: Thirty-three years ago young
couple were married, lived unhappily to-
gether for six months, separated, and were
divorced. A son was born who grew up
to be the pride of the mother. For thirty
wears the father and mother did not meet.
The man married again; the second wife
sicBened and died. He fell sick, and sent
for the first wife. She came and nursed
him back to health; past differences were
forgotten, old wounds healed, and on the
9th inst. they were again married.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

A San Francisco school-teacher re-
ceived the following: 81 hope as to
my John, you will fog him just as Of
fin as you kin. Heas bad boy-is
John. Altho I've bin in habit of
teachin him myself, it seems to me be
never will larn anything-his spellin
is ottragousIy defshent. Wallop him
well, ser, and you will receive my
thanks. P. S.-What ackOunts for
John bein sich a poor scholar is that
he is my sun by my wife's fuSt hus-
band"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16
Free Trade andLoH Wages.

The labOrers Of England, by reason
of low wages, the fruit of free trade,
cannot afford to eat meat Oftener than
once a day. To this condition wOul,t
the Iaborer come in this country, if
the Free Trade policy should prevail.
LabOrers, above all Others, are interest
ed in a tariff of protection, as their
meat depends upon it. The rich inn
pOrters of the city favor Free Trade,
because it enhances their profits
TIrOntOn Journal.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

A man in Buffalo rolled over in bed
and smothered his child. The vercict
was that "deceased came 10 his death
by being smothered by the father, to
whom no blame could be attached, as
he was drunk at the timeP'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The New York Herald says that
Canada will continue to be subject to
Fenian raids, causing annoyance to
the British Government; hence that
Government, to keep the peace, bad
better offer Canada to the United
States in payment of our Alabama
claims.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

UAt asaIoon ?'' Almost every exchange
brings record of a "row''-a "fight"-a
rmurder," and always at 'saloon," q"
where honorable men are selling rum un-
der proper regulations. Why do not the
murders occur at cabinet, carpenter,
blacksmith, or harness shops? Is the
problem difficult of solution WISCONSIN
Chief.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16
Rnrhnr Wanted.

The colored BARRIERS of Macarthur re-
fuse to shave the editor of the Euquir-
er. Whether this is done from self
respect on the part of the BARRIERS or
from pecuniary cCnsid TatiOns don't
appear. Any way the Enquirer man
advertises for a white barber who is
willing to do such work as a black man
will not do. Here's a cha ~ LU-
gan Republican.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

During a dense fog a Mississippi
steamer took a landing. A traveller,
anxious to go ahead, came to the un-
perturbed manager of the wheel and
asked why the boat stopped. "TOO
much fog; can't see the river" "But
you can see stars overhead" FYes,"
replied the urbaae pilot, "but till the
biler bursts we amt going that way"
Passenger went to bed satisfied.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

SODA WATER.-The discOvere> of
soda-water should be gratefully re-
membered these days. It was a DIR.
Hawkins, blind chemist, who, in the
spring of the year 1912, at the city of
Philadelphia, Pa, manufactured and
sold water there, and erected the first
soda.water fountain ever put up III
that city.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The 8Oth anniversary of the "Old Duck
Creek Church" in the fields at East Wal
nut Hills, Hamilton county, was oelebra-
ted short time since. 1t is said to be the
oldest Church in Ohio, having been or
ganized at Columbia, June, 1870, and from
it has sprung seven Baptist churches.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Theodore, (the Oldest son of Henry Clay,)
who for many years has been a. hopeless
lunatic, died in the Asylum at Lexington,
recently. His insanity grew out Of dis
appointment in love. At the age of thirty
he was a prominent lawyer, and at about
that age met with this serious calamity.
He was an inmate of the Asylum for
thirtY-eight years.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Horace Greeley has consented to de-
liver an address at the next Agricultu-
raj Fair at Clarksburg, Harrison Co.,
West Virginia, where he was indicted
as an (abolitiOnisD ineendiary, four
teen years ago. Times have changed
slightly since then.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Decoration day was very generally
observed throughout the country with
appropriate and impressive ceremo-
MES. In many places business was
suspended, and crowds of people unit
ed in the demonstrations of respect to
our buried martyrs. Gen. Logan de-
livered the oration at Arlington to 1O,-
900 persons. Both houses of Congress
adjourned over the day.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The report of the Senate Judiciary
Committee on the question whether
corrupt or improper means were used
or attempted, to influence the votes
of Senators on the Georgia bill, is to
the effect that efforts were made by
one P. J. Avary, a Director in the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad, to
improperly influence Senators against
the Bingham Amendment; that Lew
is Porter, a clerk in the city post Of
fee, attempted to aid him in his pur-
pose. and that Rufus B. Bullock, in
paying the publisher of the Washing
ton Chronicle triple price for printing
pamphlets and inserting articles and
speeches on the Georgia question, al
so used improper means to influence
votes. There is, however, no evil
dence that any Senator was infu-
enced.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The anticipation Of the friends Of
woman suffrage that the English Par
Lament was about to remove political
disabilities from the sex have met
with a severe disappointment. On
May Attn the bill looking to the en-
ranchisement of women was passed
to a second reading in the House OF
Commons, but on Thursday night the
consideration of the bill was postponed
six months by a majority Of 126.-
This is virtually a defeat Of the meas
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

1t turns out that Mcfarland was
guilty of something like forgery in
changing the dates of his wife's lot
ters, written twelve years ago, to
1866, and now published to counter
act her truthful statement. He is a
mean villain.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Red Cloud, the greatest of the Sioux
Chiefs, who is now in Washington, is de-
scribed as perfect Hercules. He is about
six and half feet in height, and large in
proportion; indeed, there is not small
man among them. Magnificent buffalo
robes, ornamented and bejeweled, are
worn by them all. Red Cloud wears red
Ieggings beautifully worked and trimmed
with ribbons and beads, while his shirt
has as many colors as the rainbow. His
robe was trimmed and crossed with silks
and sea stips.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The Pope has discovered a conspiracy to
blow him up, along with halfa dozen cardi-
nails and all the papal' troops-a regular
ecumenical explosion. Happily it was
thwarted, and the successor of Holy Saint
Peter is not made the victim of villainOus
saltpetre.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The Illinois Constitutional Conven-
ton has finished its labOrs, and the
work will soon be submitted to a vote
of the people. 1t elects the Governor
and Senators for four years and Su-
preme Judges for nine years. It
gives the Governor a veto, which can
be Overruled by a vote of two-thirds
of the members. All bills passed
must have majority of all the mem
6ers elected,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery So
ciety, after an existence of thirty
three years, has followed the example
of the National Society, and disband-
ed, its mission having ended in the
emancipation and the civil and politi-
cal equalization of the African people
in the United States.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The House Judiciary Committee
have agreed upon a bill regulating the
mode of Constitutional amendments.
State Executives are to forward GER
tifcates of ratification to the State De-
partment. After this has been sent it
shall be unlawful for any State officer
to forward a certificate Of a repeal OF
ratification, and such certificate shall be
void. After three -fourths Of the States
have ratified an amendment any one
attempting by a State law or ordinance
to repeal the ratification shall be sub
ject to fine and imprisonment.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The question of lay delegation in the
N. E. Church has been settled afirma-
lively, without the aid of conferences
outside of the United States Seventy
two annual conferences (aIl but II re-
ported officially) give an aggregate
vote Of 6489. The full membership
Of the Germany and Switzerland Con-
ference, which meets at Carlsruhe,
June Is, is in, making the total Of
G554. Three-f -fOurths of this is 49O03,
while the affirmative vote amounts
to 1903, or p votes more than is
necessary. So it will be seen that the
final result will not be affected by the
vote of the Germany and Switzerland
Conference.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

In the arctic regions, when the
thermometer is below zero, persons
can converse more than a mile dis
tant. DR.. Jameson asserts that he
heard every word Of a sermon at the
distance of two miles.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

A good old lady, residing in town not
very far from Hartford, paid her first visit
to railroad station a few days ago. Co
ing into the ladies' waiting room, she sat
down, and after some time spent in look
ing around, remarked: ''It rides real easy,
don't it ?"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

To WHITEN STRAW HATs.-Scrape
stick sulpher with a knife, mix the
powder to mush with water, plaster
it thickly over the straw, and place in
the hot sun for several hours brush
off when dry. An easy and efectual
plan,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

We do not know that a dreadful incl
dent was ever more neatly described than
when a correspondent of the New York
Tribune said the Fenian Gen. DOnnelly
had been ''aOounded in the muscular fiber be-
Lo,C the back"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The Clarke County Commissioners
will submit to a vote Of the people the
question of raising an amount by tax
to secure the location of the Agricul-
turaI College in that county.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

warning 10 AuSUaMuSs
The great want Of women at present
is money-money for their personal
wants, and money to carry out their
plans. I propose that they shall earn,
that they shall consider itas honorable
to work for money as for board, and l
demand for them equal pay for equal
work. I demand that bearing and rear
ing of children, the most exacting Of
employments, and involving the most
terrible risk, shall be the best paid
work in the world, and husbandsshall
treat their wives with at least as much
consideration, and acknowledge them
entitled to as much money as wet
nurses.
The meaning-o this is, that wives
are about TO strike for greenbacks; so
much for every baby born. No green
backs, no more sons and daughters.
No greenbacks, no more population; f;
no more boys to carry on great enter
prises of the age. The scale Of prices
for maternal duties is as follows:
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The Burlington Argus learns that in
KeOkuk county, a family named PerOe
buried the last of their children, all of
whom died of scarlet fever. As the
father and mother were returning
home from the grave of their last
child, just as they were entering their
gate, the lightning struck their team,
killing it and the husband. The wife
is now raving maniac.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16
Important Democratic DiscOY-
APK

That of the Cincinnati Enquirer
that "nothing is more certain in the
political future than Grants re-nomi-
nation by the Republican party in
1872" How shall we meet and de-
feat Grant is, then, the main question
for the Democratic party.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Many a true heart, that would have
come back like dove to the ark, after its
first transgression, has been frightened be-
yond recall by the angry look and mem
ace, the taunt, the savage charity of an
unforgiving spirit.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

"Grandpa, did you know that the
United States has been in the habit of
acknowledging tories ?' "What kind
of tories?'' "Territories Now give
me some pea nuts or I'll catch the
measles"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Col0red children are to occupy sep
arate rooms from white children in the
public schools of Toledo, but will be
educated in all the branches embraced
in the regular course of study.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

A young gentleman of only six was be-
set by baby of eighteen months, with
decided manifestations of fondness. Don't
you see, Johnny, that the baby wants to
see you said the mother. "Y s'm-'at's
cause he tates me for his papa" was the
explanation.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The great sensation at the late woman's
rights convention in New York, was an
address by Miss Catherine Beecher, in op-
position to the woman suffrage movement.
Her text was: 'Let men take care of the
Government, and women take care Of the
homes"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

The English Government has sent
an expedition in search of DR.. Living
stone. He has not certainly been
heard of for a long time and it is
feared that he is dead.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

Rev. I. W. Andrews, D. D., President Of
Marietta College, and Rev. Jos. F. Tuttle,
D. D., President of Wabash College, Ind,
Ia graduate of Marietta College, in 1S41),
were elected Trustees of Lane Theological
Seminary, at Walnut Hills, (Cincinnati),
week before last.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-16

A young woman, performing IN cage
with lions, in New York recently, was
seized by the throat by one of the beasts
and terribly lacerated before she could be
rescued.