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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

WIT.-Witis is the most dangerous
talent a woman can possess. 1t must
be guarded with great discretion and
good nature, otherwise it will create
you many enemies. Wit is perfectly
consistent with softness and delicacyj
yet they are seldom found united
Wit is so fattering to vanity that they
who. possess it become intoxicated,
and lose self-command. HumOr is a
different quality. It viii make yorfr
company much solicited; but be eau
tious how you indulge it. 1t is often
a great enemy to delicacy, and sill
greater to dignity of character. 1t
will sometimes gain you applause, but
it will never procure you respect.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02
Correspondents of the News.
Letter from the State Capital.

Hot Weatter-IHe Ohler Murder Case
Death Of Wm. NeH-Decorati0n
Dag, &c.
COLUMBUS, May 20, 1870.
EDITOR News :-The weather has
been dry and extremely warm for the
last ten days, and the farmers and city
people have been watching and pray
ing for shower, and last night certain
localities were favored with one. 1t
touched the city lightly, for.which we
are very thankful, the heaviest of it
passing north. It seems to have put
new life in the people and vegetation.
The Ohlen murder case is creating
considerable excitement at present. A
few days since James OhIen, 10 years
Of age, and a son Of one of our wealth.
lest and most respected citizens, was
arrested on a charge of murder, in
smothering newborn babe, the ille-
gitimate offspring of himself and a vic
tim of whose seduction he had boasted.
He is charged with the seduction of
two sisters, members of a very respect
able family, one of whom died on
Thursday of last week, two weeks af-
ter giving birth to the child he is
charged with having killed. He was
taken before the Mayor for hearing
on Monday last, but in consequence of
the great excitement against the pris-
oner, his examination was postponed
until Tuesday afternoon, when several
witnesses were examined, one of whom
.swore cOnclusively that "Ohlen told
him that he had got into a woman
scrape, and had smothered the child to
death, placed it in box and threw it
into the Catholic grave yard" where
it was found few Sabbaths ago. The
case was continued until the following
day, during which time it was deemed
best to have him brought before the
Grand Jury, which was in session, and
yesterday they found a bill against
him for murder in the first degree, as
charged in the affidavit filed in the
Mayors Court. Court is in session,
and 1 suppose his case will be dispos-
ed of at once.
VIM. Neil, one of our oldest and
most prominent citizens, aged SO years,
died at the residence of his son-in-law,
Ex-Gov. Dennison, on Wednesday
morning last. His loss will be felt by
the whole city, especially the poor.
He leaves a fortune of near $3.50, 900,
and six children to enjoy it.
Yesterday another aged and promi,
nent citizen, Rev. o. Allen, was called
from the cares of this world. He
dropped dead in his yard, from disease
of the heart.
Some of our leading citizens are
making great preparations for the
decoration of Soldiers Graves" II
it could be done conscientiously, then
I would say decorate, but 1 see names
to the committees that I know once de,
spi8ed the name of soldier. 1t is true
and it is done only for the name and
honor of it. They are now glad to
sneak in and claim that they entertain
a high regard for our fallen heroes.
The weather is hot and prospects Of
more rain. II.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02
DENTON, Denton Co., Texas,


April 29, 1870. !
EDITOR NEws--Dear Sir: When l
last wrote you 1 closed with a descrip-
ton, or rather with an attempt to de-
scribe, the scenery in the Choctaw Ma
ton of the Indian Territory. We
passed through almost 200 miles of
their lands in coming from Fort Gibson
to Red River, that being the distance
between those two points, only a few
miles of the country adjoining that
stream being held by the Chickasaws,
who have passed law taxing cattle
driven from Texas through their cOun-
try, fifty cents per head. This has
turned the cattle drovers about fifty
miles west of the Fort Gibson road, as
it would be very heavy tax on some
of those who drive ten and twenty
thousand a year.
The Choctaw5 farm but little, and
their chief property is in hogs and
horses. The hogs run wild in i'm
mense numbers in the forests and cane
brakes along the streams, and are of
a very superior breed, and fat enough
for prize pigs at County Fair in the
States. Bacon, in that region, sells at
ten cents per pound. We paid 203 at
Fort Scott, as we were told we could
buy nothing of the Indians. Ponies
sell at twenty to forty dollars.
And now, for the benefit of any OF
your readers who may wish to make
this trip, 1 would say to buy nothing
at Fort Scott or Baxter Springs, except
what they want to take them to- Fort
Gibson, because they can buy cheaper
there than at those places, as steam,
boats run up to that point
will give an outline of the route
Leavenworth to Ft. Scott is 125 miles
Ft. Scott to Baxter Springs is 65 miles
Baxter Springs to Ft. Gibson, with nc
intermediate point, and no settlement
is 100 miles; TT. Gibson to Perryville
is 100 miles; PerryviIle to BOggy De
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02
On BIackbeFries. A Boys
Composition.

Blackberries grows on bushes and
fits in tin-cups first rate. Blackber-
ries always has a sticker, SOS you
may know where to find 'em. When
you run agin a sticker, a berry amt
fur off. Sometimes, when you 60 to
set down in a blackberry patch, you
git right up, because you don't want
to sit any longer. Blackberries is
healthy, and sometimes is 4 cents a
quart. When big boys and girls 60
after blackberries, they never git eny,
because the girls can't climb over the
fences, and SO they all go and sit
down under a tree and wait for the
fence to tumble down. No more.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

Now here is more persecution OF
Democrats. Some nine hundred of
them, confined in the Illinois peniten-
tiary, have been deprived of their
daily mental pabulum, the Warden
having prohibited the circulation Ol
the Chicago Times in that institution
on the ground that it is an indecent
and immoral publication, and calcu-
lated to corrupt the morals Of the pris-
Oners. 1t is considered a very good
paper for Chicago, but it won't do for
the penitentiary.-[St. Joe Herald.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

The Cherokee Nation Barter Springs
TO Fort Gi6son-An Old Military
POst-Fort Gibson to Sherman, Texas
- CBoctaD and Cticbasalo IndianS-
AdUtce to TFareler8 through the In
dian Territory Schedule of Route
and Distances, &c. &c.
SHERMAN, Grayson Co., Texas, !
April %, 1870. !
J.. L. BoARDMAN, Esq.-Dear Sir:
The last letter I wrote you, if 1 re-
member, I had been casing, and dis
cussing the Indians, and closed rather
abruptly, on account of the sudden ap-
pearance of a party Of them in camp.
Common courtesy demanded that !
should give up my employment and
entertain them, and common prudence
told me would have to watch them
with care, to see that they paid due
respect for the rights of property.
The Cherokees inhabit the northeast
ern portion of Indian Territory, from
the Kansas line to the Arkansas river,
and are said to be the most numerous,
as well as the most civilized, of all the
tribes in the Territory. They have a
fine country, and one capable of sup
porting a population of millions Of
people. The road from Baxter Springs
in Kansas, to Fort Gibson, lays through
rather fiat prairie country, and the
distance is one hundred miles.
There is a weekly line Of stages
between those two points, which con-
tinues to Sherman in this State.
Fort Gibson is a very old military
post, Situated at the junction of the
Grand and Arkansas rivers, and is q
place of probably 1000 inhabitants
and seems to be quite business place
The population is a mixed one, com
posed of whites, Indians and negroes
and in one of the stores, 1 saw white,
Indian and negro clerks, and repre-
sentatives of all three of the races trad,
ing at the same counter.
From Ft. Gibson to Red river, the
northern boundery of this State, it is
200 miles. We crossed the Grand and
Arkansas rivers at Fit. Gibson, and
were then in the Choctaw country.
Here the country through which our
road passes is rather inclined to be
mountainous, but in picturesque beau
ty of scenery it surpasses anything
have ever seen. The Rocky Mountains
furnish scenes of more sublimity and
grandeur, but for simple beauty this
could hardly be exceIled.
At one point our road wound along
a mountain side, about halfway up
and at the bottom of it stretched q
wide plain, many miles in extent
covered with fresh green grass, and
dotted here and there with mounds
covered with timber. The full green
foliage of the deciduous trees, just put.
ting forth, formed a fine contrast with
the dark green of the evergreens, with
which they were intermingled, while
a number of small streams, swollen by
the recent rains, could be seen wind.
ing like silver threads through the
plain. Away across it, as far as the
eye could reach, stretched a low range
of mountains, whose rugged tops were
tanned down by the distance to look
like great banks of clouds, and the
blending lights and shadows Of the
setting sun formed one Of the most
beautiful scenes the eye ever beheld
But 1 must close.
refr5 sr----
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02
Good IIIustrarion.

In the celebration at Louisville,
KY, the other day, of the Fifteenth
Amendment, they had Transparent
cy in which the strain of Progress
was depfcted5-a locomotive labeled
"The Fifteenth Amendment" with a
train Of twenty-nine cars attached,
representing the ratifying States, and
a number of jackasses harnessed to
the rear car, emblematic of the States
refusing to ratify, and vainly trying
to pull the train backward.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

A CRUEL BoY-What is it that
prompts boys to torment and torture
helpless animals as they sometimes
do? The last instance we have seen
is that of boy who was arrested
lately by a Montreal policeman fol
cruelty to frogs. He and his compan'
ions had placed a kettle of water on
fire and thrown seven frogs into il
to be boiled alive! He was fined 50.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02
/ Whole No. I775.
Selections for a Newspaper.

Most people think that the Sc
lection of suitable matter for a news
paper is the easiest part of the business.
How great an error. To look ovei
and over fifty exchange papers daily
from which to select enough for one,
especially when the question is not
what shall, but what shall not, be Sc
lected, is no very easy task. If e7-
cry person who reads q newspaper
could have edited il, we should have
less complaining. Not unfrequently
it is the case that an editor looks over
all his exchange papers for something
interesting and can find absolutely
nothing.
Every paper is drier than a contri-
butiOn-bOX, and Jet something must
be had--his paper must be ont with
something in It, and he does the best
he can. To an editor who has the
least care in what he selects, the writ.
ing be has to do is the easiest part 6i
his labor. Every subscriber thinks
the paper is printed for his own
benefit, and if there is nothing
that suits him it must be stopped-it
is good for nothing. As many sub
scribers as an editor has, so many
tastes he has to consult.
One wants something very smart,
another something sound. One likes
anecdotes, fun and frolic, and the next
door neighbor wonders that man ol
sense will put such stuff in his paper
Something spicy comes out, and the
editor is a blaekguard. Next comes
something argumentative,and the ed
itor is a dnll fool. And so, between
them all, the poor fellow gets g. fits. y
They never reflect that what does
not please them will please the next
mani but they insist that if the paper
does not suit them it is good for moth.
ing and will stop it right off.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

A smart boy, after eating a green
apple, exclaimed, 30, dear, Tve chew
ed an Odd Fellow! can Odd Eel
low ?" said his mother. eyes, he's
giving me the grip" That yOungstel
will be somebody yet, if he lives long
enough.-CCOl. Jour.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

A verdant youth who walked from
the south side of Holmes county to
Wooster few days ago says. "Golly
if the world is as big t. other way as
it is the way I came, it must be a
whopper."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02
CrOD Prospects,,

The Cincinnati Gazette of last Thurs
day says:
The reports in our exchanges re
garding the crops are generally favor
able, but complaint is made Of too
much dry weather. Rain is needed
very much to keep the grass, wheat
and oats from drying up, and to sprOut
the corn recently planted in increased
acreage, but potatoes are neglected in
many places, where last year there was
a large crop.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

II will interest many to know what
a task the "readers" for magazines
have set before them by those ambi-
tious to achieve greatness in the litera-
~ line. From the revival of Put
nam's in January, 1868, to the begin
ming Of this year 24OO MSS. were sent
in as contributions. OF these about
three-fifths could easily be and were
disposed Of 10 about five minutes each,
another fifth had to be read over be-
fore rejection. while of that remain
ing about $50 were used-a proper
ton Of one out Of nine
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Conundrums.

Why is q widows costume like 6
field of turnips ? - Because it's
(s)wedesI
Why is a Nabob like a beggar?-
Because he's an Indy-gent.
Why is hen immortal Because
its son never sets.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

ANNEXATIoN.-The vote on an
nexing Avondale, Clifton, Columbia,
Cumminsville, Riverside, Woodburn,
and other localities to the city of Gin
cinnati, just taken in the territory to
be annexed, was-FOr annexation,
1,124; Against, 1882. Majority for,
42. This annexes some 10000 or
more inhabitants to the city.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

A fashion paper has the following
items: GA smiling, white-browed
IiIy-fngered, golden-haired woman,
all silks and laces and jewels, is an ex-
quisite picture to contemplate" 1t is
before the bill comes in. After the
bill arrives contemplation makes ii
worse.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

"Have you ground all the tools
right, as l told you this morning when.
I went away Y' said a carpenter to a
rather green lad, whom he had taken
for an apprentice. "AIl but the hand
saw, sir" replied the lad, promp bi
81 could MT get quite all the gaps OUT
of that"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

Miss Evelyn Goodbee, of Memphis
Tenn, while talking with some other
young ladies, took a pistol in her left
hand, and, in a spirit of sport, thrust
the muzzle against her body, with the
exclamation; Where is my hearth"
when the weapon exploded, sending
the missile Of death through her
heart
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

Old Jones was an inveterate ''dead-
head" He had no possible claim
whatever upon the managers, but he
always got into the theatre without
paying. One night he appeared at
the door as usual. "Here, can't
pass you," said the door-keeper in a
surly way. "You need MT pass me, +"
said the irrepressible dead-head; 'Just
stand where you are and I'll pass
vou." He passed.
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Select Miscellany.
ZEE sNAKE IN lee eRAss.

THE SNAKE IN THE GRASS.
BY JOHN G. SAKE.
Come listen awhile to me, my lad,
Come listen to me for a spell
Let that terrible drum
For moment be dumb,
For your uncle is going to tell
What befeI
youth who loved liquor too well.
A clever young man was he, my lad,
And with beauty uncommonly blest,
Ere, with brandy and wine,
He began to decline,
And behaved like person possessed
protest
The temperance plan is the best.
One evening he went to a tavern, my Iadi
He went to a tavern one night,
And drinking too much
Rum, brandy and SUCH
The chap got exceedingly slight"
And quite
What your aunt would entits "fright."
The fellow feIl into snOoze, my lad;
'Tis horrible slumber he takes;
.'-. He trembles with fear,
And acts very queer
Ny eyesl how he shivers and shakes
When he wakes,
And raves about horrid great snakes
IT'S warning to you and to me, my lad;
A particular warming to all
Though no one can see
The vipers but he
To hear the poor lunatic bawl
--..-. --. SHOW they erawll-
All over the floor and the wallI'
.. Next morning he took to his bed
And he never got up
Te sInt or to sup,
Though properly ohyscked and bled
And read,
Next day, the pool fellow was deadl
You We heard Of the snake in the grass
! Ofthe viper concealed in the grass
But now, you must know,
Mans deadIest foe
Is a snake Of a different class
Alasl
IT'S the viper that turks in the glassi
A warming to you and to me, my lad
A very imperative call;
OfIquor keep clear,
Don't drink even beer,
Ifyou'd shun all occasions to fall;
II at all,
Pray take it uncommonly small,
And if you partial to snakes, my lad;
A passion, think, very low
Don't enter, to see 'em,
The DEvIL's MUsEUMi
'Tis very much better to GO
That's 50 J.
And visit a regular show.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

An exchange says: "YOung men
should never settle down for life in the
place of their nativity. They rarely
get to be men if they do, but are al
ways known as Billy Tommy and
Johnny and with ever so much merit
will find it difficult to rise above the
dOllY status.n
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

A "TALL'' ARTIsT.-An artist paint
ed a dog 80 natural that the animal
had the hydroPhobia during the hot
weather. He's the same man that
painted a copy of beer bottle with
such skill that the cork few out Just
as he was finishing it. And after he
was married, he painted q picture Of
his first baby so life-like that it criedr
and his wife spanked it before she dis
covered her mistake.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

Gilbert Stuart, the celebrated pnr~
trait painter, is said to have once met
a lady in a street in Boston, who hail
ed him with: "Ahl Mr.. Stewart, {
have Just seen your likeness and kiss
ed it, because it was so much like
YOU" "And did it kiss you in re-
turn p "Why, no" HThen," said
Stuart, sit was not like me-"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

"You ought to acquire the faculty
of being at home in the best society,""
said a fashionable aunt to an honest
nephew. "I manage that easy
enough" F." responded the nephew, "by
staying at home with my wife aTd
children"
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Seven American ladies are engaged
as scuIptors in Rome at the present
time-Misses Hosmer, Whitney, Lew,
is {eolored), Freeman, stebbins, Foley
and Virginia Ream.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02
Hints 70 Young Ladies'.

If any young woman wastes in triv-
ial amusements the prime season for
improvement, which is between the
ages of sixteen and twenty, they will
he fer bitterly regret the 10. s, when
they come to feel themselves inferior
in knowledge to almost every one
they converse with; and above all,
if they should ever be mothers, when
hey feel their inability to direct and
assist the pursuits of their children,
they find ignorance a severe mortifea-
ton and a real evil Let this animate
their industry; and a modest opinion
Of their capacities be an encourage
ment to them in their endeavOrs after
knowledge. A moderate understand.
ing, with diligent and well-directed
application, will 90 much farther than
a more lively genius, if attended with
that impatience and inattention which
too often accompany quick parts. Il
is not for want of capacity that SC
many women are such trifing, insipid
companions, so Unqualified for the
friendship and conversation of a sen
sible man, or for the task of govern
ing and instructing a family. It i:
often from the neglect of exercising
the talents which they really have
and from emitting to cultivate a taste
for intellectual improvement.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

One of the banners carried in the
procession of the rejoicing colored
men in Charleston, S. c., bore this in
scription, addressed to the Democrats:
owe have played together, you say,
but were we ever whipped together?''
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

A traveller in Pennsylvania asked a
landlord if they had any cases of
sun-stroke iu that town. "No, sir,
SAYS the landlord, "when a man gets
drunk here we say be is drunk--and
we never call it by any other name. "
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1870-06-02

4 physician is lccturing ladies and
girls concerning the manner in which
they wear their garters. The tight
ness of the garter, he says, if worn
below the knee, produces vericnso
veins. He has had several incuraLle
ulcers in bis practice, caused by wear
ing the garters in this manner. It
should be worn above the knee, and
kept loose"
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Charade.

often call forth impressions Of fear,
And the eyel can sometimes beaew with q tear
also can make it with pleasure luok bright,
And cause It to beam with sense of delight
Again aIn certain it oft has been found
That 1 culture the mind instead of the ground.
HIBERNIAN.