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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

assist in Furnishing him in any way
that the camp may direct; and that you
will not initiate or allow in this Broth
erhood any Radical, or any one who
sympathizes with them, or who may
have Radical views, if in your power
TO prevent, And should you know Of
or see nnv brother or his family i'm
nosed upon by any Radical or negro,
Won will 90 to his assistance or their
assistance. and render any or all aid in
vonr mower. And should you know
anv of them to be in imminent danger,
Won will Immediately inform them and
po to their assistance. And should you
hear the word of alarm given, you win
90 Immediately to ascertain the cause,
and render all aid in your power, SO help
YOU God"
The witness then stated they had a
peculiar alphabet, with signs and char
aeters, certain letters representing other
letters, by which they could eommuni-
cate with each other without fear of de-
I lection the members were all required
to be suitably disguised, and ready at
moments notice to obey the orders ol
their superiors; the word of distress wai
never to be used only in cases OF the
most imminent peril, and it was the
duty of every member to go to the as
sistance of others when called upon
whenever one camp decreed person
was to be whipped, another camp had tC
do it, by which the members evaded de-
lection in their immediate neighbor
/ hoods.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20
Safe HTnxinls for AlI.

The world estimates men by their
success in life; and, by general
consent, success is evidence of su-
periority. Never under any cir
.cumstances, assume a responsibility
you can avoid consistently with
your duty to yourself and others
Base all your actions upon a prinei-
pie of right; preserve all your in
tegrity of character in doing this
never reckon the cost, Remember
that self-interest is more likely to
warp your Judgment than all other
circumstances combined; +; therefore
look we'll to your duty when your
duty is concerned. Never make
money at the expense Of your repu
tation. Be neither lavish nor mig
gard-of the two avoid the latter-'
mean man is universally dispised
but public favor is stepping-stont
to preferment - therefore generou
feelings should be cultivated. lie
Iyour expenses be such as 10 leave
balance in your pocket - read,
money is friend in need. Keel
clear of the law, for whom you gaiI
your case, you are generally lose
of money. Never relate your mis-
fortunes, and never grieve owe
what you cannot prevent. n
: man who owes as much as he ca
, pay has any moral right to pledg
] his credit by indOrsing bill fc
8 another.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20
Coating for outside walls.

Coating for Outside Walls.
The following coating for rough
brick walls is used for painting
lighthouses, and it efFectually pre-
vents moisture from striking
through: Take of fresh Rosendale
cement three parts, and of clean,
fine sand one part mix with fresh
water thoroughly. This gives a gray
or granite color, dark or light, accord
ing TO the color of the cement. Il
brick color is desired, add enough
Venetian rel 10 the mixture to pro-
duce the color. Ifa very light color
is desired, lime may be used with
| the cement and sand. Care mus
! he taken to have all the Ingredient
we'll mixed together. In applying
the wash the wall must be wet witt
clean fresh water then follow i'm
mediately with the cement wash
This prevents the bricks from ab
sorbing the water from the wash to
rapidly, and gives time for the &C
ment to set. The wash must b
well stirred during the application
The mixture is to be made as thic
as can be applied conveniently wit
; q whitewash brush. 1t is admirabl
J suited for brickwork, fences, etc
but it cannot be used to advantag
over paint or whitewash.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

The eating of fruit, and especially
Of apples, has a tendency to purify
the blood. If a person who is troub-
led with scrofulOus humOrs eats
freely of good, ripe fruit, after long
abstinence from the same, he will
be likely to be troubled with q
"breaking out;" the fruit viii drive
the humor from the system, causing
it to pass of through the skin by
means of pustules. People some-
times fear to cat fruit very freely,
from the fact that it causes such q
breaking out. Such a result should
be encouraged. A fruit diet and
free persplratiOn from moderate ex-
lercise will do much to improve the
health.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20
Every Day Scraps.

"Do make US some 'butter-milk
pap for supper, Winny. We haven't
had any since last spring, I believe,
and I am so fond of it-ln pleaded
husband John.
"The reason why 1 didn't make
it through the summer is the butter,
milk was always too sour. In cold
weather is the best time. I lam glad
you learned me to eat It, John, for it
is so easily and eheaply prepared,
and so light and easy of digestion"
"Yes, and how you turned up
your nose at It at first. You are as
fond of it as I am now"
"Come, Willy" l said, "we must
have a couple Of eggs, " and away
the little fellow went to the hem
house.
I put on a kettle with about three
quarts of rich, fresh butter-milk,
stirring occasionally tin it boiled.
Then I broke the two eggs Willy
brought into a large bowl, adding
four rounded tablespoons Of Rne
-four and half a pint of sweet cream.
After beating we'll stirred this
mixture into the boiling butter-milk
with a piece of butter the size Of an
egg, a little pepper and salt. When
it boiled through thoroughly I re-
moved it from the kettle to cool be-
fore serving.
Our supper consisted Of light yeasI
bread aAd butter, and this butter
milk pap. And it was quite palata-
bic and very healthy.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20
Something about Yourself,

Something about IOuF5eAl'
Supposing your age to be fifteen
or thereabouts, I can figure you up
to a dot. You have 100 bones and
500 muscles ; your blood weighs
twenty five pounds your heart is
five inches in length and three inch
es in diameter it beats seventy
times per minute, 1920 per hour,
100000 per day, 36,722,2OO per
year. At each beat, a little over
two ounces of blood is thrown out
of 1T; and each day it receives and
discharges about seven tuns of that
wonderful fluid.
Your lungs will contain a gallon
of air, and you inhaIe $4,000 gal
Ions per day. The aggregate sur
face of the air cells Of your lungs
supposing them to be spread out
exceeds 20,OOO square inches. Ihe
weight of your brain is three
pounds; when you are a man it
will weigh eight ounces more
Your nerves exceed 100000 il
number.
Your skin is composed of threI
layers, and varies from one fOurtI
to one-eighth of an inch in thick
ness. The area of your skin is abOu
I1,7OO square inches, and you ar
subject to an atmospheric pressur
of fifteen pounds to the square incl
Each square inch of your skin col
tains $500 sweating tubes, or pc
. spiratory pores, each Of which ma
be likened to a drain tile One-fOurt
of an inch long, making an aggr
gate length of the entire surface
your body, of 2O1,166 feet, or ii
g ditch for draining the body almo
forty miles long!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

A Southern paper has published
a letter by Confederate General
Lee to a member of the Rebel Con.
gress, written in February, 1861
recommending the passage of a bill
to provide for enlisting negroes as
soldiers in the rebel armies. The
Confederate chieftain expresses the
opinion that cOlored men would
make efficient soldiers, and thai
those employed as such should b'
freed. A bill to carry into effec
these suggestions was introduced a
the eleventh hour in the rebel Con
press.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20
Directions for the Care Of q
Piano.


As there. are many Pianos in this
community, and many for which high
prices have been paid, a few words as to
their treatment may not be amiss; and,
perhaps, will be acceptable to a majority
Of those owning instruments.
It must be remembered that the Piano
Is a very sensitive instrument, and in
a great degree its durabiltty depends
upon the care and treatment it receives.
The utmost care should be taken to
prevent any hard substance, no matter
solg s7aai5, f5onl dfoppihg upon the sound
board, as thereby a rafting, jarring
noise will be made, frequently causing
much trouble in the endeavor to stop it.
The instrument should always be
kept closed, when not in use, thereby
securing the strings and action from
dust, and sudden. changes Of tempera-
t1re. FtG
More pianos are put out of order by
dampness than any other influence
First, it causes the pins and strings to
rust Second, the de1ieate mechanism
of the action to stick, by the swelling o.
the cloth in the centres. Third, the keys
to stick down; in fact it renders the pi
ano useless. Moths are very destructive
10 the cloth and felt of a piano a piee'
Of camphor placed in a corner Of the in
strument will keep them out.
Many people wishing to avoid ex
pense, will let their instruments remain
llOng out of tune, which is great detri
ment to them, as they are less iikely tt
stand we'll after having been so left.
A piano-forte ought justly to be TUNED
twice a year at least. First, when yoI
commence with a fire in fhe.room. Sec
ond. when a fire is discontinued. B.
following this plan, yOnr instrumen
will propably remain in tune for
longer period Of time.
Lastly, the instrument should not b
allowed to remain below concert pitch
if tuned below for any length of TIM
it will seldom, if ever, stand to Pitcl
without a great deal Of labor. Man
good instruments are nearly, or qui
ruined for want of proper attention
fG,o-, ssr,y1a da4oiIe s
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20
The Liquor Dealers AdVeT-
tfsememt.

Gl8GmeMBs
A missionary Of the American
Sunday School Union, who has been
for several years starting Sunday
Schools in Southern Indiana, once
stopped at the house Of a man who
was about to start liquor shop.
After dinner "mine host" addressed
him as follows ss1Tr., you seem
ike a mighty clever kind Of q gen.
tleman, and I amt no scholar, and
I'd like to git you to doa little piece
Of written for me-" "CeFtainly,' I
replied, 'ff I can. What do you
wish to have written ?" aWhy,"
said he, eI'm thinker Of starten a
grocery, and Pd like to do IT right.
My pap used to say If you want to
do anything right you must begin
right, and I would jist like you to
git up a notice for meaand put It in
the newspapers. I'n pay the Prin-
ter and all.n slf
He wrote the Hnotice." Wsglve
/ it and the result below:
HNot5es.-Friends and neighbOEs,
you are hereby notified thatT eZ-
peet in a few weeks to commence
the business ofmaking drunkaBds,
lpaupers and beggars. I win fur
nish you with liquors that win ex-
cite you to riot, robbery and blood
shed. I win for a small sum under
take, upon short notice and With the
greatest expedition, tOpFepara men
for the poor-house, the prison and
the gallows. I will deprive some Of
J life, many Of reason property and
peace. Twill cause the rising gem
teration to grow up in Ignorance, and
l prove a nuisance to the nation. If
2 any one should ask what indueamsnt
9 [ have to try to bring such misery
? upon my neighbOrs, my honest reply
]. is mgreenbacks." All can see that
3 this is a profitable business. Some
9 Temperance men, and even some
protesting Christians, give it their
It countenance, and besides I live in
o a land of liberty, and intend to &c.
, license to shorten mems lives, and
% ruin their souls. 50 come one, cons
A all, I pledge myself to do all I havt
IS herein promised, and farther, for tn
?, annoyance Ofgood Christian people
le viii agree to keep open on Sunday.
t. When I met him again, he said
.sMr., I'm the wust whipped felle
n ever you seed. That advertisement
q you put in the papers about my grC
ys Gerry jist opened my eyes. I tell 70
~ what's a fact, never thought hoy
m much harm it might do, and TT
n plumb ashamed oft, and jist mad
be up my mind I'd rather WORK for
he quarter day than to 60 into it.
he told him 1 believed he was an hOI
ep est man, and needed only to see Ii
he awful consequences Of the busine
III TO cause him to change his mint
ice He replied, "I'm mighty glad 70
nd writ just as you die" J" and repsate'
AID rather work for a quarter
ug day."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20
A.MA1DBNs LAY OF LIFE.

Tell US not in idle jingle,
s 'saTarriage is an empty dream :"
For the girl is dead that's single,
Such girls are not what they seem.
Life Is real life is earnest!
Single bIesssdnsss a hbl
s.aIan thou art, to man returnestF
Has been spoken Of the rib.
Not enjoyment, aRd not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way
Bat to act that each tomorrow
Finds us nearer marriage day.
Life is long, and youth Is iieeting'
And our hearts, though light and gay,
f.. SIN, Ike pleasant dreams, are beating,
Wedding marches all the way
In the worlds broad field Of bAttlss
In the bivouac Of life,
BE not like dumb, driven cattle
lf Be 3 hsroins-a wife. E
Trust no fature, howe'sr pleasant, .
Let the dead Past bury its dead
Act-act in the living present.
Heart within and hope ahead
Lives Of married folks remind Us;
.s We can live our lives as well,
And departing leave behind Us,
Such examples rs shall ''tell."
Such examples, that another,
Wasting time in idle sport,
A forIorn, unmarried brother,
Seeing, shall take heart and court.
Let rs then be mp and doing,
With heart on triumph set;
Still contriving, still pursuing,
And each one a husband get.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

NEuRALGIA.-Sufferers from neu-
ralgia may be pleased to learn that
a medical correspondent of the Lon
don Lancet writes ga few years
ago, when in China, 1 ascertained
that the natives, when attacked
with facial neuralgia, used oil OF
pepper mint, which they lightly ap
piled to the seat of pain with {
cameIs hair pencil. Since then, IL
my own practice, I have frequently
employed this oil as a local ar@5
tholic, and not only in neuralgia
but also in gOut, with remarkably
good results"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

Evidently we are to have rough
times in the near future. Mrs. Kle-
bert of Evansville, IndIana-"The
Western sybll"-has been kind
enough to fall into trance, aud
while in this condition, has predict
ed a very wet spring dry, hot sum-
mer and, as a natural consequence,
a terrible epidemic. This is bad
enough, but "The Western sybif'
looks for moment longer into the
future, and sees crowding on the
heels of the epidemic ''a European
war, which is to be at once "fresh
and bloody" These be ParlOui
! times.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

The House Committee on BeneVo'
lent Institutions have unanimously
agreed to recommend for buildings
for the Soldiers Orphans Home,
improvements on the farm belong
ing to the State near Xenia, apPro
priations amounting in the aggregate
! TO S16O,OOO.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

ALLEGORY.-I observe that Of all
plants God hath chosen the vine,
low plant that creeps upon the help
less wall of all birds, the mild and
guiIeless dove. Christ is the rose Ot
the field and the lily of the valley
When God appeared to Moses, il
was not in the lofty cedar. nor the
spreading palm, but in a bush, ar
humble, slender, abject bush ; as i
he would by these selections check
the coneeited arrogance Of man.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

The Captain of the steamer on
which the San Domingo Commission
came up the Potomac refused to al
low Fred Douglass to enter the din
ing saloon with the other members
ofthe Commission, who, properly
regarding this as an insult, declined
f, sit at the table where such dis
tinc.ion was made.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

The New York Tribune says the
Democrats in Congress know "that
the FIVE thousand victims Of Ku
Klux outrages at the South have
been Republicans they know that
every man admitted to the secret
organization is member of the
Democratic party and will vote for
any ticket that it nominates ; and
that indeed, the Ku Klux Klan is
simply a Southern Democratic pOlit'
ical organization, which does moi
hesitate to intimidate and murder
with as little conscience as Northern
organizations ''repeat," " falsely regis
ter and "stufs' ballot boxes.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

Upon the German Emperor's re-
turn TO Berlin almost the entire pop
ulation of the city turned out to give
him welcome and rejoice over his
great triumphs. In the evening a
grand illumination took place, and
the streets and avenues were filled
with rejoicing peOple of all ages and
,ovns
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

EXCELLENT LAw.-The Ohio Legisla-
ture recently passed an act which re-
ouires railroads to construct platforms
or aprons between passenger cars on
their lines, with side boards or mel
wcrk of wire or strap iron at each side
of the said bridges, of ut least equa.
height with the ordinary railings upon
car pl Platforms.
And so ye have taken the teetota
pledge, have ye3' said one Irishman t'
another. Indade have, and am no
ashamed of it aither." Aud did no
Paul tell Timothy to take a little win
for his stomach ?" " So he did Du
then, my name is not Timothy ant
there's nothing the matter with m!
stomach, bedad!"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

France, in the hour of her humilia-
fion. and as a means of rebuilding
her prostrated manufacturing indus
trv. now proposes to levy prOtec-
tive duties. Free Traders should
make a note of this pregnant fact.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20
-Four Puzzles.

Our sharp-wittsd young readers will enjoy crack
no these nuts, which we find in an exchange Some
4 them have thick shells but will crack easily;
/.
Dreaming Of apples on a wall,
And dreaming often' DEAF
dreamed that il counted all,
How many would appear:
II.
stick found that weighed two pounds,
sawed it mp one day
In pieces eight OF equal weight
How much did each piece weigh
Everybody says a 'quarter Of a pound which
wrong
Jobp gave his brother James box
About It there were many loiks.
lanes woke, and said it gave him pain
So rave it back to John again.
This box was not with lid supplied,
Yet caused two lids to open wide;
And o,l these locks had never key
What kind Of a box, then, could il be:
".
What is most like a bee in May
..Wsu. let me think perhaps you say,
Bravo you're guessing well to-day.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

The Manchester Gazette tells US
they are going TO have Democrat
ic paper in that hOurishing place.
The new paper will advocate the
claims of Manchester to the county
seat, and was projected by the
Democrats who have become dissat-
isfed with the stand taken by the
official organ of the Democracy in
Admins county.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

In the old church books of the
First Baptist Church in Stamford, is
the following antique record "Oc-
tober 8, 1897. Died, at Norwalk,
sybll Whitehead, aged one hundred
and sixteen years-a member Of this
church, baptized Oct. 5, 1880, in the
ninety-ninth year of her age. She
lived at Norwalk, where she kept
school, and for years frequently
came on horseback to Stamford, a
distance of thirteen miles from her
home, to attend public Worship
coming on Saturdays and returning
on Mondays. The last time she was
here she was one hundred and eighl
years old. She then walked nine
miles, and also returned on foot
She was never married"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

That excellent Republican paper,
the Lancaster Gazette, comes to US
enlarged and printed on a new Pow
or Press. We congratulate its pro-
prietors on their prosperity, and
hope the Republicans of Fairfield
will properly reward their enter
nrisn
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

Senator Frank P. Blair has written
letter to an Alabama editor, in when
he says that the contest, as waged by
the Democrats, "is not to take away
suffrage from the negroes, but to pre-
serve that wide distribution Of the pow
ers of government without which al
suffrage is but mookery, and to pre-
vent that control by the national func
tionaries which is sure to create imperl
alism, and will inevitably degrade, i'm
poverish and euslave the toiling mas
-. "
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

Henry Ward Beeeher once hear
ing one ofhis own published sermons
delivered in an obscure village, ac-
costed the preacher on his way out,
and said, "That was very good
discourse; how long did it take you
TO write it ?'' "Oh, I tossed it off one
evening, when I had leisure" was
the reply. "Indeed ;" said Mr.
Beecher ;"it took me longer than
that to think out the very frame
work of that very sermon" care
YOU Henry Ward Beecher p eX'
claimed the clergyman. "I am
was the reply. "Well, then," sale
the unabashed preacher, "all that
have to say, is that 1 amt ashamed
to preach one of your sermons an!
where !'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

Henry Ward Beeeher is a most
independent clergyman. He says
what he believes to be true; and
his influence on the public mind is
greater than that'Of any other min
lister in America. On Sunday,
March 10, he said that when the
"so-called orthodox sabbath-schools
were not allowed to walk the same
day on the same streets with the
Unitarian Sabbath.schOOls, Christ
was sad and the devil was glad. y
"I could worship in a Unitarian
church or with Universalists or
swedenbOrgians, or with my Bap-
tist brethren, and could wade into
the water with them if it was neces-
sary. What is sprinklingP What
baptism ? Nothing under the sun
but outward forms, and necessary OF
unnecessary, as the case may be. The
trouble is that the churches save
the chaf" and let the wheat go.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

The New York Sun wants Senator
Sherman defeated because he is in favor
of an income tax. If he is not re-elect-
ed, that will not be the eason. A vast
majority of the people of Ohio are in IA
vor of that sort of law.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-04-20

"Chari,y," a slave ninety-fve
years of age, died on Sunday last at
Dundee, in Bergen county, and was
buried on Monday, at the old Slau-
terdam burying ground. She was
one of the few who did not elect or
choose to be free, and consequently
she remained a lien on the estate of
Simeon Van Riper, of Bergen, and,
Van Riper's daughter marrying
Richard AIvea, Charity became an
attche of the Alvea family. Char
ity had no other name, as slaves in
olden times had no surnames. It
was only after the negroes were
made free that they started family
names.