The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-12-26
Miscellaneous Items.

''--01 1O0'si0leS' were visited by o
slight earthquake last Saturday. No
damage done.
Edwin Forrest, the tragedian, drop
ped dead at his home in Philadelphia,
Thursday morning, 18th inst.
The amended Soldiers bounty land
bill has passed the House of Repre-
sentatiyes by vote of yeas 116, nays
.55.
Dickens considered 'Darid Cop
perfeld' his best novel. It's sale con-
tinues at an almost undiminished
rate. Lately there were $1,000 cop
les sold in one week.
Verdi, as well as Ofenbaeh, con-
templates visit to this country, to
lead in the presentation of his own
operas
Froude's first lecture in Cincinnati,
Will be on the 18th of February.
The Ohio Reform Farm bows have
cane-seated 44,497 .chairs the past
year.
Two granite monuments are to be
erected on the battlefield of Gettys
burgh.
John G. Nicolay, of Illinois, Presi-
dent Lincoln's private Secretary, has
been chosen by the Judges of the Su-
preme Court as Marshal, in place of
Parsons, resigned
Joseph Miller is the champion corn
husker Of Seneca county-871 bush
els in one day.
The taxable property in this State
is S3O,O0O,O0O greater this year than
in 1871.
Mrs. Lucinda Devol, of Marietta,
recovered last week, from Henry
Panhorst, $3.50, for selling liquor to
her husband.
The ship Franklin, from Hamburger
for San Francisco, has been wrecked
in the North Sea, and eighty persons
drowned.
1t is said that no less than $4,000
people viewed the remains of Mr..
Greeley as they lay in the Governors
room in the City Hall on the Sd inst.
Misses Ida and Gabrielle Greeley
will inherit 100000 or more from
the estate of their father and mother.
Three thousand one hundred and
forty-fve dollars have been forwarded
for the relief of the sufferers by the
recent nundation in Italy.
A poultry shipper, of Springfield,
one day last week, shipped three tons
of turkeys to o New York dealer.
The Noble County Republican says
that the farmers who held their wool
are now selling rapidly at 6O@62
cents.
Mary Snyder, the oldest lady in
Crawford county, died on the 11th
inst, supposed to be over 1O3 years
ofage.
The number of students in the
Oberlin College and Preparatory
classes this term is 692.
Pig metal alone viii give Lawrence
county, this year, clear profit of
about one million dollars. So says
the ronton Register.
Miss Mary Kershner, of Greene
County, last week received a verdict
of $4,000 against B. Meys, for breach
of promise Of marriage.
The Librarian of Congress reports
the whole number of volumes in the
library, 246,345.
-Four hundred and seventy one
horses have died in Cincinnati from
the horse disease.
Thurlow Weed declares it impossi
bic to carry out civil service reform
as now instituted.
The passage from San Francisco
to Japan has been made by a screw
steamer in sixteen days.
Greeley's $4,000 insurance on
his life for the benefit of the Tribune
Company, will be devotedto the erec-
ton of new building for the institu-
ton.
A fire in 5th Avenue Hotel, N. Y.
on the 10th, destroyed property to the
value of 100000, and suffocated or
burned II servants, alfemales. 9th
er accounts say that % girls per-
ished
The estate of Edwin Forrest, the
deceased actor, is estimated at from
one-haf to one million of dollars.
His divorced wife will endeavor to Sc
cure her share
Gen. Crook is fighting some hos
tile Apaches In northern Arizona, of
whom he has slain 100.
Bill Crutchfeld, the new member
from the Tennessee Sd District, is
said to be second Davy Crockett in
manners and plainness of dress, and
in driving at the point he is after
without waiting for choice words.
The late S. N Pike is reported to
have left property to the value of
S8,000,000 in New York, New Jersey,
Cincinnati and in mines in Utah.
Harvard College was founded in
1858, the first in America except one
at Quebec, founded one year before
by the French.
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