The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-07-25

From Our Travelling Cores
pendent.
COLUMBUS, o., July 8, 1872.
Every body complaining; wealth
er very hot and dry; crops suffering.
Capt. Blount, the popular land
lord of the American Hotel, has ta-
ken his family and gone to make a
tour of the most fashionable water
ing places, Long Branch, Saratoga,
&c, and expects to return by way OF
Niagara Falls, Put-in-Bay, and Il
expect) Catag5a Island.
Among the Highland 'laddies"
living here I find Tom Hibben, Ike
Nelson, Geo. UnderhiH, Frank Kel-
ler and others.
ATHENS, o., July 10.
AS we left Columbus yesterday af-
ternoon there was a fine prospect of
rain. On our way here we were
treated to several showers and also
after our arrival. Weather has been
so very dry for some time past that
these rains must certainly be cery
highly appreciated.
The extensive buildings of the
Lunatic Asylum here are nearly all
under roof. They are beautifully
situated on range Of hills south of
Athens, and overlooking the valley
between.
For a good, comfortable, old
fashioned toUern, with good square
meals and a jolly landlord, commend
me to Browns Hotel of this place.
MARIETTA, O., July 10.
What a bore the citizens cf this
place have in the M. & G. r. RI A
one-horse or bOb-tail train runs from
Harmar, on the opposite side of the
Muskingum river, to "Scott's Land
ing" where it connects with the
trains East and West from Parkers-
burg and Cincinnati, and if the
trains are behind time (of course a
very unusual thing the passengers
have the delightful privilege of
waiting in the poorest apology for a
waiting room that can be found on
any road. Wonder how they like
it?
However, they are building a
road North and soon will have a
"way out" independent of the M. &
G. There is also a probability of a
road being commenced soon, to run
down the valley Of the Ohio river.
PoMERoY, July II.
From Marietta we ran back to
Athens and thence by hack to this
point, a distance of 80 miles, time Z
hours! Arrived here at II at night
in company with Mr.. johnson of
Granville, o., one of the Directors of
the Atlantic and Lake Erie road.
He is here in the interests of that
road, work upon which has already
been commenced at this point and
at the other end, Toledo. l under
stand work has been progressing for
several months.
The road passes from Toledo
through Bucyrus, Mt. Gilead, Gran
vile, New Lexington, Athens and
New Albany, Ohio, to this point.
Here, also, railroad along the val
ley of the Ohio is talked of, with
every prospect of soon being placed
under contract.
The authorities of Pomeroy, Mid
dleport and the six or seven other
towns and villages strung along this
nayroao bit of bottom, have resolved
to build stone wall some so feet
out from shore, and by filling in
widen the front street (about the
only street there is) to Is or so feet.
The work is estimated to cost $780,
900, but it will add twice that to
the value of real estate.
Salt and Coal are the principal
products of this city, or string of
towns, for as some one has said, "It
Tor they) is seven miles long and
runs back from the river as far as
you can see." Since the "everlast-
ing hills" tower above the tallest
buildings scarcely far enough back
from the shore to allow the building
of a good deep store-room, it may
be readily surmised that unless one
can see through a stone ones range
of vision in that direction must be
very limited.
The river is very low, and L am
very much afraid that in order TO
"get on" down the river l shall have
to stage it back to Athens and take
the cars there-a proceeding to be
very much. dreaded by any one who
has ever been persuaded to try the
hack over the hills 'twiXt here and
Athens, as a delightful method Of
T. RAVELING.
The Chicago Post says: Gan earn
est Greeley paper in the interior,
after a severe wrestle with a stand
ard work of arithmetic, has conclud-
ed that a change of ten votes in
each of the 1000 township of Illi-
nOis would make difference of 49,
900 in the majority of 1868 for
Grant That is only equaled in
delicious ingeniousness by the re-
mark of the boy, who having found
q five cent nickel on the street. told