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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08
Beware of Unseen Influences.

Beware Of Unseen Influences.
What is it that raises the sea and
makes the tide flow round the world2
What is it that keeps the moon
making her ceaseless flight around
this earth q? You call it gravitation.
What is it that gives irmness and
stability to all that is of the earth ?
It is invisible, but it is potent. 1t
is so all around us. Why, the
morning sunbeams that fall so
gently on the eyeIid, they scarcely
waken the sleeper, have power to
raise the largest pile of rocks. The
monument of Bunker Hill was
considered immovable. Yet, when
a few years ago a cord was let down
from the centre of the summit of
that pile, men were surprised to
find that the point marked by that
cord in the evening was not the
point marked in the morning
They found the great pile was
changed in some way. How was
it? Where the morning light so
/ gently fell from the east upon the
face Of that pile. the little rays Of
heat, each one almost impercepti-
bic, expanded the rock, and one
side rose higher than the other
and when the rays fell upon the
southern part, another part; and
on the western part they changed
back the vast pile from the position
which it held. Who could have
thought it? Yet those sunbeams
were lifting the vast piles of rock.
So God is working around u.s.
teaching us, instructing US how the
spiritual may operate upon human
heart; and if Gods spirit be given
to man, if the light and truth
influence the human heart, shall il
not be that unseen influences may
change, may correct, may control
may purify, may elevate p Bishop
Simpson.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08


MOUNT SINAL-At a recent meeting
held at Cambridge, England, on behalf
Of the Palestine Fund, it was stated by
Captain Fl. S. Palmer, Of the Royal En-
g.ueers, employed in the survey of the
Holy Land, that Mount Sinai must be
identified with the mountain now called
Gebel Musa. At this place a fine cliff
fronts an extensive plain, and it is as
serted, in every particular corresponds
to the requirements of the sacred nara
tive. The tradition of the country, Capt.
Palmer stated, points to still higher
peak of Gebel Musa, which is hidden
from the plain, as the place where the
stone tables Of the law were delivered
to Moses, and the cliff mentioned above
is believed to be the spot where the law
was proclaimed to the people assembled
in the plain below. The scientific sur
vey now prosecuting in Palestine, will
settle many questions that have long
been in dispute in reference to the pre-
else locality of the places mentioned in
Scripture. Tho claims Of GebeI Musa
have been argued against by DR.. Ed
ward Robinson and other travellers, on
the ground that no large plain capable
Of containing the IsraeIi.es existed in
its neighbOrhood but these vinws arc
refuted by the recent survey. Gebel
Musa is the Mount Sinai, according to
tradition, and upon it are built Chris
tian church and a NIohammedan
! MOSQUE.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

KU KLUX.-The official report Of
the Auditor of Mississippi gives the
number of ia inquests held over
murdered persons in that State dur
ing the two years ending April lst,
1871 in the last six months, GIL
yet there is but little doubt that
large numbers of murders never
reach an inquest, probably the ma
jority. 1t is fearful.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08
Select Miscellany.
JONES'"
More in the Man than in the Land.

4OE6 G4G MAI ELldn bL6 LHnus
TTbe following little story, with its moral though
written for the Macon LGeorgia) Telegraph, is quite
too good to be enjoyed by the farmers of the South
alOne.l
/ I knew a man, and he lived in Jones'
Which Jones is a county Of red hills and stones,
And he lived pretty much by getting Of loans,
And his mules ware nothing but skin and bones,
And his hogs were nat as bis corn-bread pones,
/ And he had bout thousand acres of land.
/ This man-and his name was also Jones'
He swors that he'd leave them old red hills and
stones,
For he couldn't make nothin' but yellowsh cotton,
And little Of that, aud his fences we're rotten,
And what little corn he had, dat was boughten,
And he couldn't get living from the land.
And the longer Ls swOre the madder he got,
And he rose aud he walked to the stable lot,
Aud he halloed to Tom to come there and hitch,
For to emigrate somewhere where land was rich,
And to quit raising eOck-burs thistles and sicb,
And Wasting their time on barren land.
So him and Tom they hitchsd up the mules,
Protesting that folks we're mighty big fools
That 'ud stay in Georgia their lifetime out,
Just scratching living when all of them mought
Get places in Texas, where cotton would sprOut
By the time you could plant it in the land.
And he drove by house where man named Brown,
Was living, not far from the edge Of the town,
And he bantered Brown for to buy his place,
And said that seeing as money was ''skace,"
And seeing as sherifs were hard to face,
Two dollars an acre would get the land.
They closed at dollar and fifty cents,
And Jones be bought him wagon and tents,
And loaded his corn, and his women, and truck,
And moved to Texas, which it took
His entire pile, with the best Of luck,
To get there and get him little land.
But Brown moved out on old Jones' farm, :.
And be rolled up his breeches and barred his arm,
and he picked all the rocks from of the ground,
And he rooted It up and pIowed it down,
Add sowed his corn and wheat in the land.
Five years Gid by, and Brown, one day,
(Who had got SO fat he wouldn't weigh)
Was sitting down, sorter lazily,
To the bulliest dinner you ever see,
When one OF his children jumped on bis knee
And says, ''Yan's Jones, which you bought his
land"
And there was Jones, standing out at the fence,
And he hadn't no wagon, nor mules, nor tents,
For he had left Texss afoot aud come
To Georgia to see If he couldn't get some
Employment, and he was looking as hum
Bile as if he had never owned any land.
But Brown he asked him in, and he sot
Hin down to his victuals smoking hot,
And when he had He'd himself and the floor,
Brown looked at him sharp aud rose and swOre
That ''whether mems land was rich or poor,
There was more in the man than there was in the
land"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08
AGOOn EXanIDIe.

The Hon. Samuel Shellabarger
made an address at a Sunday School
anniversary in Springfield, Ohio. on
the 18th inst. After entertaining
the children with an aIlegoricaI
story, he begged the teachers to ful
ly realize the Importance Of their
work, claiming that bringing the
minds Of the young into direct con-
tact with Scripture truths was one
of the noblest and most responsible
works with which men and women
could be intrusted.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

1t seems that after all South
Africa produces genuine diamonds, and
the rush of emigrants to diamond fields
is said to resemble old California days.
There is a canvas city of sixteen thous-
and people at one point and twelve
thousand at another. The stones are
small, but of pure water, and are found
in great abundance. Diamonds, weigh
ing seven and eight carats, have been
extracted from the mud walls of the
cabins of the natives.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

The first stove ever allowed in
the dwelling house of widow Han
nah Of North Stonington, Conn,
was set up April 2Oth, 1871, in
which was kindled a fire from en-
bers taken from the fire in her fire
place, which has not been extin-
guished for over sixty-fve years.
The first lamp and the first match
ever suffered to enter her house was
recently lighted. The old lady re-
marked that she didn't know what
any body wanted such things for
for her part, she had rather have
her old fireplace and candle than a
house full Of such things.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

The Savannah News, Il Southern
Democratic journal, expresses the
following philosophio opinion of the
Ku Klux: "The Ku Klux organi-
zation, or that which calls itself the
Ku- KIux, is taking matters into its
own hands, and quietly but firmly
deposing obnoxious and incompe-
tent ofice-holders." The same arti-
Gle in which We find the above sem
tence informs us that the School
Commissioner Of Clarendon District,
South Carolina, aOas killed, (i. c.,
quietly but firmly deposed,) on
Saturday
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

Jefferson, Me-, has little En- Ic h
Arden sensation all to itself. David
Lane, a former resident of the town,
supposed to have been killed during
the war, turned up the other day to
find his wife pensioned off as his
widow, and married again. David
has contracted with the village sex
ton for a grave, and at last accounts
was considering the relative advan-
tages of filling it with himself Oh
'tother fellow. Odds two to one
On the latter, and no takers.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

Laura Fair says human justice is
satisfed-or should be, with her
conviction for murder in the first
degree, and she should be set free
for additional murder and matrimo-
ny. "Can they" she asks, chang
a woman of my face and figure?"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

One J. Downing sapientIy re-
marks: 81 think that the privilege
of depOsitiug strip Of printed pa
per in a box will not change Fan,
nie's ideas as to the desirability o.
marrying John" His opponent
answers: "This is all the ar
gument needed to knock dowr
every opponent to woman suffrage
It will not cause a beard to grow
upon her face, take the music ouI
of her voice, rob her of her charms
nor her woman's loving heart; il
will not in any measure change heI
womanly instincts nor, cause her tC
be any more 'man'ish' than she
would otherwise be-"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

Tn what circumstances is a woman that wears
stays? Straightcned circumstances.
Irtwica eleven arc twenty two, how can twice ten
be twenty too?
Why is intoxication like wash bowl asked sam
bo. Case it am de basin.
Why is young lawyer like the national currency
Because he is legal tender and somewhat green.
Can a homply woman with a Grecian bond be ac-
curately described an ''iuclined plain -
What is the characteristic Of a watch? Aodestyi
as it keeps its hands before its face and runs down its
own works.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

The Woman's Journal says =
"The world does not want women
who are good lawyers and bad
mothers, clever physicians and un'
faithful wives, clear-headed and
empty-hearted, for not from these
shall come a completed woman
hood"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08
Take warning in time.

The Grand Lodge of Ohio, I. o. o. T.
met at Toledo, recently, and had a gay
time-processiOn, music, speeches, etc.
At the business meeting there were rs
delegates present. The annual report OF
Grand Secretary Earl shows the follow
ing statistics No. of Lodges 42l; paid
for relief of 1856 members during the
year, S57,6O2.87; widows and orphans
SI4, 4,78O.7G; funeral benefits S9,453.74;-
total relief $S7, ,81O.2I; current expenses,
S12l, ,68O.99; total expenditures S2l9, ,72S.-
80. Cash in the general fund, Jan. l,
S94, ,271.02; investments $64l, ,63I. 76-to-
tai funds S736, ,9O3.68; total assets of all
the Lodges, $S29,764SO. The vote o.
Lodges and members for and against
the Widows and Orphans Home was
For - Lodges 1856; members 1905.
Against-Lodges 129: members 3,23G.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

Mother, said a little shaver, the
other day, "I know what l would
do if 1 was at sea and the men
were all starving and they should
draw lots to see who should be
killed and eaten, and if it should be
me I'd jump into the water"
"But," said the mother, "they
would fish you up"
"No they wouldn't" said he, 81
wouldn't bite
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

The Dayton (Ohio) Journal says !:
cat the close Of the last Democratic
administration the nation was bank
rupt, and a civil war Oh hand. The
Union men of the country suppress
ed the rebellion, and now have $780,
O00,OOO of cash in the Treasury, yet
the Democratic leaders proclaim
that the country is rapidly going to
destruction.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

RIGHT.--A drummer from a
printing house in Cleveland, called
upon one of our merchants on Front
street last week and proposed to
show him samples of cards, bill
heads, &c, with a view to securing
an order. The merchant politely
but firmly replied "No, sir, I do
not wish to examine them. We
have good printers, who give US sat-
isfaction in work and prices, and as
they publish papers here, and rep
resent our interests, besides paying
taxes and contributing to the gener-
al welfare in all public enterprises,
we feel it our duty to give them our
work, and think it wrong to send
printing elsewhere that can be done
as well here" Such business men
can consistently ask their fellow
oitfzens for then9somti = But what
claims has one upon this communi-
ty for trade who goes elsewhere
himself when he has money TO
spend ?-rPortsmouth Tribune.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

The Democratic papers are loudly
denouncing the ''Ku Klux infamy."
Let not the reader misunderstood,
though. It is not the outrages
committed by the Ku KIux that
they complain of. Not by any
means. It is the Congressional
legislation to prevent those outra-
ges that receives their displeasure.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08
Youths Department.

ss-Original Enigmas, Churades, Problems, etc,
are respectfully solicited. The answers must al
ways accompany them, together with the real name
oF the writer
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08
Fmioration to Texas has set

Emigration to Texas has set in
earnestly. It is reported that 49,
900 persons, with 1864 wagons,
from Tennessee aud Georgia, have
entered that State since last October.
It is noticeable that a large number
of freedmen are removing from the
Northern and Border States to sup
ply the vacant places of the white
people leaving the older cotton
States.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

WEST VIRGINIA.-Tho Flick
Amendment to the Constitution Of
West Virginia, which enfranchises
white rebels and cOlored Union men
by the same words, has been adopt
ed by a large majority on a light
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

At the dinner Of an Irish association
not long since the following toast was
given: Here's the President Of tie sOci-
ETY., Patrick O'Raferty, an may he live
to see the chicken that scratches over
his grave.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

Charles Campbell, charged with
cutting the mailbag and robbing it
of its contents, near Oak Hill, Jack
son county, some months since,
was recently sentenced by the
United States Court, at Cincinnati,
to pay a fine of 500, and undergo
an imprisonment in the pepitentiary
for one year.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

"The Bible is a strange book, said an
iniideI oJjector to an aged minister.
~ wonderful book" was the reply.
at has some strange characters among
its saints, said the ohiector; ''such as
David and Solomon. If such men liv-
ed in our day we would say that they
deserved to be sent to State-prison for
life." "Worse than that" replied the
minister. 'If they got what they de-
served they would be sent to hell for
ever. But you probably are mistaken
as to the object ofthe Bible. It is not
meant to show how good men are, but
to show how the grace of God brings
salvation to the very worst of men, and
makes saints out of the viIest sinners"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

P. Nolan, convicted in Coviugton,
Kentucky, Of playing "chuck-a-luek," )"
has been sentenced to pay a fine of five
hundred dollars, and be forever fnfam-
Gus and deprived of the right of suf-
frage.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

Some years ago, in one Of our western
courts, three meu-an Engiishman, an
Irishman and a Scotchman-were
found guilty of murder and sentenced
to be hung. The judge told them they
could each choose a tree on which they
would like to be "strung up" The
Scotchman promptly chose an ash tree
and the Englishman an oak tree. "WeI,
Pat, what will you be hung on % asked
the judge. Gift please your honor, I'd
rather be hung on a gooseberry BUSH"
"Ohg" said the judge, "that's not big
enough" "BegOrry thin, replied Pat,
"I'u wait till it grows"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08
Enigma

am composed OF 2G letters.
My l8 9I6 % 1873 25 81 Il u 20 26 is gay belle
of Leesburg, Ohio
My % 7 is something we eat.
NY l48IO1I u is what some persons like to DO.
Ny IS is species Of bird.
Ny is what we all need.
My whole is the names Of a young lady and gen
tleman of LeesBurg, who splendid singers.
n S. 7.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

The erection of a monument to
Alice Carey is in contemplation and
one admirer of her writings has
sent in the voluntary subscription
of fifty dollars to Mr.. Horace Gree
ley, who will account for all sums
that may be sent to him for like
purpose.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

The whisky house of Mills, John
son & Co., on Sycamore Street, Gin
cinnati, was destroyed by fire, on
the 10th ult., with 1000 barrels OF
whisky. Loss, about 100000.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

GaIlipolis has "walkist," disable
hue, looks like a "seven footer,"
though not quite so tall as that, and
has made his sixty-fOur miles in
daylight, and done business in the
way of grub, drink, and rest on the
route. He says he never tries.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

An attempt was made in the Leg
islature to have a clause inserted in
the appropriation bill to pay the
Morgan Raid claims, but it failed
About a hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, covering loses incurred
through the operations of the Union
troops, were appropriated by the
bill, but as it did not pass by the
requisite two-thirds vote the account
| ing officers will not audit the claims.
The President has appointed
Robert G. Corwin, Esq, Super
visor of Internal Revenue in the
Southern District of Ohio. Mr..
COrwin is an earnest Republican
and will make a very capable and
] efficient officer.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

$50 there's another rupture Of
Mount VociFerous," observed Mrs.
Partington, as she put down her
paper and folded mp her specs
"Tho paper tells abcut7the burning
lalher running down the eide of the
mountain, but don't state how it
got on fire. Work of an intendi-
ary,' I SUPPOSE"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

At the recent free trade meeting
held in Cincinnati, there were 1O4
Vice Presidents, only four of whom
were connected with manufacturing
interests. The others were lawyers,
doctors, teachers, spectators, rail-
rnaders. &c.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

The Atlantic and Lake Erie rail
road, with its termini at Toledo on
the north, and Pomeroy on the
south, has been put under contract
between Toledo and Chauncey, Ath-
ems county-19O miles.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08

We copy from an exchange the
following; Black-eyed ladies are
said to he most apt to be passionate
and jealous. Blue-eyed-slothful,
truthful, afectionato and conGdiug.
Grey-eyed-PhiIosophical, literary,
resoluIo and cold hearted. Hazel
eycd-quick-tcmrcrcd and tickle.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1871-06-08
COnundrums.

Answer to Enigma in last weeks Nows: Newton
Solomon TempIin and Laura Rebecca Hough.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-04-26
Lying Newspapers.

Rev Dewitt G. Talmadge, the note Brook
yn divine, places lying newspapers first
among the six curses Of New York aud
Brooklyn In lecture at the Brooklyn
tabernacle, Sunday evening, he said
The newspaper is the great educator Of
Doe century. There is no force TO be compa.
red TO II, and we may as well acknowledge
That the religious and secular newspapers Of
This country are the great educators Of the
people. We in the pulpit preach two or
thrcc sermons week. The printing press
breaches every morning in the year. If a
newspaper be right it is magndcenty right.
lf it be wrong, It is awfuly wrong People
don't read books-the vast majority don't.
The people Of the United States don't average
one book each during the year. Whence,
ihen, tie Intelligence the capacity to discuss
every question, secular and religious, to APP
prcciatc art aud sciencc2 Next to the Bible,
I answer from the newspaper, swift-wingcd
and flying everywhere. The bad newspaper
mover stops at false iidings. Many moth
whose son was at the front in time of war,
ha. read with streaming eyes Of battles that
we're never fought
When newspaper utters ialsehood, 1t
u'tcr- rs many as it, circulation numbers, so
Chat the hugest lie 10 all the earth is a news
paper lie The bad newspaper stops not for
any SANDER. 1t carefully words the para
arh 30 that the suspicion is east out and
fhe damage done, while the penalty Of the
aw is cyaded There are thousands Of men
every year who are crushed under the ink
roller II is q simple fact the most aban-
donel and deprayed man in New York or
Brooklyn can 60 with a few minutes walk
into a bad newspaper Office and have any lie
inserted that he wants inserted. The bad
newspaper stops for no political fasehood
You know as well as | do that in the Autumn
elections there are enough falseboods told by
tho bad newspapers to make the father OF
Io, disOwn his monstrous progeny. Many
time ! have stayed away from the ballot
box because could not tell what the truth
Was and which candidate for Office was wcr-
lhy The bad newspaper stops not for the
uuo'eau story The only question is, will it
uy2 The newspapers Of this country, just
u proportion as they purify themselves, de-
crease their circulation, and when a paper
becomes positively religious it is almost-not
4uiic-certain to become bankrupt. So that
there are to-day, | suppose, not more than
five selt-supporting religious newspapers in
ihis country. People can't stand so much re-
gion. bring this matter before you that
yon may watch the newspapers that come
into your family, for a man is no better than
,he newspaper he perpetually reads