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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
The Ku.kluX.

The evidence taken by the Ku.
Klux Investigating Committee, as
submitted in the majority report,
fills six large volumes of from six
hundred to seven hundred pages
each. Five thousand closely print
ed pages of the record of the crimes
committed by these rufiansl Five
thousand pages, giving only por-
ton of the crimes perpetrated by
lawless, thieving cowards-murders,
rapes, arsons, assassinations, rob.
berries, mayhems, all the vilest and
most atrocious offenses known to
criminal history. The victims of
these fends range from the babe in
its mothers arms, up to the gray
haired centenarian tottering on the
verge of the grave. Men murdered
in open day, assassinated at night,
and bounded on to a miserable death
by starvation by the prosecutions of
weeks extending into months. Wo-
men violated and driven to insanity
by being compelled to witness the
atrocities committed upon their nus
bands, children, parents and lovers.
Columns could be filed with a con
densed summary of the mere mon
ton of the doings of these devilish
towards.
These crimes, and the perpetra.
tors of these crimes, find apologists
only IN the Democratic party. Il
comment necessary?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
Deaths from ChIOrOf0rnl, &c.

A lady died in New York recently
while under the influence of nitrous OK
ide or laughing gas, which had been ad-
ministered to her by the dentist engag-
ed in extracting some of her teeth. A
few months ago another lady died in a
dentists chair in Brooklyn, while under
the influence of chloroform. Notwith-
standing what doctors say about the
safety of anesthetics, we frequently
read of deaths under their influence. A
medical journal recently contained q
record of nineteen cases of deaths under
chlorcform, all of which occurred with
in one year in British and American
practice. In the Surgeon Generals Of
fee at Washington, there are eight cases
on record in army practice of death by
chloroform. Before putting a patient
under the an@sthetic influence, doctors
should be careful to ascertain whether
there are any conditions of the system
or peculiarities of constitution, which
forbid the administration of the agent
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

ADVICE TO BoYs.-You are made
to be kind, generous and magnGni-
nous, says Horace Mann. If there
is boy in school who has a club
foot, don't let him know you ever
saw it. If there is a boy with rag
ged clothes, don't talk about rags in
his hearing. If there is lame boy,
assign him some part in the play
which does not require much run
ming. If there is a dull one, help
him to get his lesson.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
tFor the News'
ACROSTIC.

W eep, soldiers OF the Union, weep,
| n dust yonr banners trail,
ow in his last long sleep, the President lies pale
iled BY assassns hand, his loss the people feel,
teroity alone his virtues will reveal.
s ecessionlsts have made a breach that time cur
never heal.
B orn for a curse to virtue and mankind, lind.
o all this broad green earth his like you cannot
o utcast from God, in igoe his soul shall groan
T hrough all eternity whare Satan hath his throne
II ell with open ia shall claim him for her own.
POLLY FOXER.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
The Great Tichborne Trial

The greatest swindle of the nine
teenth century has come to climax
we allude to the celebrated "Tich-
borne" case. The claimant, the
supposed "Roger," is in deep grief
within the walls of Newgate. Last
week the jury became sick of the
fraud, and intimated to the judge
that they had heard enough evil
dence to enable them to decide upon
a verdict. OF course, this was un-
derstood to be against the claimant.
The counsel for the plaintiff yester-
day decided 20 Withdraw the case
from court, and thus terminated an
Issue which has excited the curiosity
and interest of the civilized world.
On this, the counsel for the defense
moved for a Bench warrant for the
apprehension of the claimant-who
is now believed to be none other
than Arthur Orton-and the appli-
cation being granted, the pseudo
"Roger" was transferred from the
association of his friends to the cold
hospitality of Newgate Thus ends
this gigantic swindle. The scoundrel
who fabricated the fraud, and those
who aided and abetted him in his
to wrest the Tichborne estate
from the rightful heir, will receive
condign punishment. Unfortunate
ly, great portion Of the estate has
been wasted in law proceedings, and
can not be recovered. 1t is hardly
probable that history records such
a we'll l-contrived and plausible con-
spiracy as the case under notice,
and it will be likely to remain as
the greatest legal curiosity on record.
We trust that the ruffian who sought
to swindle the Tichborne family out
of their estates, and defame the
name of Mrs. Radcliffe, nee Miss
Doughty, will end his days as a
felon.-TLondOn Free Press.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
COnundrumS

Why is a corset like economy? 1t dimini.hes tn
waist (waste).
Why are rusty hinges like rsiualls They max
creaks (creeEs).
Why is a ditcn with plank across it like con
densed history? II is abridged.
Why ale whales like earthquakes Thoy are fol
lowed by great fishers (hssuEosl.
Soldiers Asylum, Dayton. o. E. S.
Who is the biggest liar IN sacred history Go-!iah
Why is pocket handkerchief like a snake B.
cause it belongs to generation Of wipers.
Why might carpenters really believe there is Z
such thing as stonol because they never saw it.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
Tea and Coffee.

The imports of tea and coffee,
from which it is now certain that
the duty will be taken off by the
present Congress, during the last
fiscal year were as follows: Tea.
51,364,919 pounds, valued at ST.
2546l7; coffee, 327 1892, ,O48 pounds.
valued s4O,992. 500. The du.ies are
fifteen cents d pound on tea, and
three cents a pound on coffee. From
1841 to 1861 tea was imported free;
during 1861 and 1862 a duty rang
ing from fifteen to twenty cents a
pound was collected, and from 1862
to 1870 the rate was twenty-five
cents a pound. Coffee was free from
1910 to 1861, and a duty of five
cents a pound was collected from
1861 to 1870.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

A young cOlored man who is fit
ting for the ministry, with a view to
labor among his own people, makes
this statement concerning their needs:
"Out of six hundred calls which
made in Alexandria, Va. There were
two hundred families who never at
tended divine worship; one hundred
were destitute of the Bible, and
fOrty-seyen others who had on
an average, not heard a gospel ser.
mon for twenty-five years. MOrali-
ty, both in Alexandria and Wash
ingtOn, is at a very low ebb among
the people Of color. They have
wrong conceptions of what consti-
tutes true christianity; but what can
be expected when their pastors are
men devoid of cuIture?"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

IN Sweden only a limited number
of saloon licenses are granted, and
these are sold at auction. The sa-
looms must close at a fixed hour, no
liquor may be sold to a child or a
drum nkard, and no money can be re-
covered for liquor sold on credit.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

THE RoosTER.-Here is what Josh
Billings says about him /: "There is
a variety of pedigree among the
rooster race, but when they come
right down to the grit, and throw
all outside influences overheard,
there amt nothing on earth nor un.
der it, that can Out-style, out-step,
out-brag, or outpluck a regular
Bantam rooster. They don't weigh
more than thirty ounces, but they
make as much fuss as ton. l have
seen them try to pick fuss with a
two. .hoss wagon, and 1 don't think
they would hesitate to fgst meet
ing-house if it was the least sassy tc
them"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

The Kentucky Legislature has re-
pealed the restrictions ON the Cincinnati
Southern Railroad bill, and it is now
unencumb bered. 1t is 10 be hoped that
the road will be speedily built, SO that
the Louisville and Nashville line, the
only road leading TO the South, may not
have a monopoly of all the travel at its
eXorbitant rates.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

Henry Ward Beecher says: sit
will scarcely be denied that men
are superior to women, as men ;
and that women are immeasurably
superior to men, as women; while
both of them together are more
than a match for either Of them sep
arately."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

At the competitive examination
for Il cadetship at West Point, for
the 9th Congressional District, held
at MonrOeville last week, thirty~One
young men presented themselves.
The examination comprised papers
in Geography, Arithmetic, Grammar
and History, and was entirely on
paper. The result was; 1st. S. S
Pogue, Of Gallon. 2d. T. p. Hop.
ley, of Bucyrus. Sd. W. It. Sher.
man, of NOrwalk.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
Select Miscellany.
A DREAM oF sUMHER.
III JOHN G. wHITrrrR.

H JOHN c. wHTTrTrR.
Bland as the morning breath Of June
The southwest breezes play;
Aud, through its haze, the winter noon
Seems warm a. summers day.
The snow -plumed Angel Of the North
Has dropped his icy speari
Again the mossy earth looks forth,
Again the streams rush clear.
The fox his hillside cell fOrsakes,
The muskrat leaves his nook,
The blue bird in the meadow breaks
Is singing with tae brook.
"Bear up, o, Mother Naturel" cry
Bird, breeze and streamlet free,
"our winter voices prophecy
or summer days to theei"
So, in those winters Of the soul,
BY bitter blasts and drear,
Der swept from mencry's frozen pole,
will sunny days appear.
Reviving hope and faith, they show
The soul its living powers,
And how beneath the winters snow
Lie germs Of summer flowers.
The night is mother Of the day,
The winter Of the spring;
And ever upon old decay
The greensst MOSES cling.
Behind ae clouds thesunlight Turks,
Through showers the sunbeams fall;
For God, who loveth all His works,
Has left His hope with all.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

That philosophy is the most effec-
tive which can point its moral with
a laugh; humor is nearly allied to
pity. Charles Lamb said a laugh
was worth a hundred groans in any
market.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

Senator Conkling unfortunately
compared Mr.. EdmundS to Don
QuixOte, in the Senate on Friday.
"He is fighting a windmill said
Mr.. Conkling. "CertainIy 1 am, -
said Mr.. Edmunds, "the gentleman
from New York"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

An honest country parson, in a
time of great drouth, who was de-
sired TO pray for rain, answered:
"I'lI willingly do it to oblige you,
but it is to no purpose while the
wind is in this quarter"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

"Greenland's icy mountains" G.
which the churches so often sing
are far from being the abodes oi
heathenism. About half the popu-
lation belonging to the Lutheran
communion and the whole country
is we'll supplied with churches, pas
tors and catechists. The salaries o.
clergymen range from $500 TO $140O
which is better than the average in
this country.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

A lazy lad who did not go to
church until the congregation were
coming out, asked ''Is it dOne?"
mo" was the reply. alt is all
said; but 1 think it will be some
time before it is all done"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

The Spaniards do not pay hyper
bolical compliments; but one of
their admirable writers in speaking
of lady's black eyes, says "they
were in mourning for the murders
they committed"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

What has become of Mr.. Littie's rail-
road billP Is the Committee on Rail
roads of the House going to suppress it,
or withhold report until too late for &C
ton? 1t has now been retained by the
committee much longer than would
seem TO be necessary.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

A disappointed candidate for
office, speaking of men who would
sell their votes, remarked: "They
are base as Esop of old, who sold
I his birthright for a mess of potash" "
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

A new safe has been invented
which makes things very unpleasant
for burglars. The walls are filed
with gunpowder in such a manner
that the blows of a sledge or the
cutting of chisel in the attempt to
rob the safe will ignite the powder,
blow off the outer crust, annihilate
the burglar, and leave the contents
of the safe uuinjured.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

The Cincinnati and Newport railroad
bridge has been completed, and was
tested by the passage of train of five
heavy locomotives, weighing over l3O
tons. This great weight occupied only
200 feet-half the length of the centre
span. The bridge is considered a great
triumph of engineering. The detection
of the bridge was from three-fourths to
] inches.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

st. Louis was the scene of
tremendous tornado last Saturday
night. The Seventh street market
house was blown down and several
persons killed and fatally injured.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

DIR. Graham, of the old Harrodsburg
Springs, has presented his valuable cab
met collection of fossils, minerals, and
specimens in archaeology. geology and
natural history, to the Public Library of
Kentucky, his native State. 1t is said
to embrace some of the most valuable
collections in the country. He has
spent fifty years as an industrious and
enthusiastic collector in making it.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

A gentleman who had a very
deaf servant, was advised by friend
to discharge him. "No, no." replied
the gentleman, with much good
feeling, "that poor creature could
never hear of another situation"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

A quarrelsome couple were dis
cussing the subject of epitaphs and
tOmbStones, and the husband said:
"My dear, what kind Of a stone dc
you suppose they will give me when
| dIr?"
"Brimslone, my love-" was the
affectiOnate reply.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

The Marietta & Cincinnati Rail
road Company have notified their
hands that any one found in a sa
loon while on duty, or any employe
found intoxicated, will be discharg-
o1
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

A st. Petersburg letter says that
the Russian press almost universal
ly side with the United States in
their views of the Alabama claims
under the treaty of Washington.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

The largest and handsomest process
sion of colored citizens ever seen in the
United States, took place on Wednesday,
in honor of the adoption of the XVIII
Amendment. At least 5000 men were
in oOluDOn
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
Influence of Railroads on
Property.


Mr.. Poor, in his carefully prepar-
ed statistics of railroads and their jn-
fiuence on the value of property,
says IN his Manual for 1S70-'T1:
"That every railroad constructed
adds five times its value to the ag-
gregate of the country through which
it passes"
This estimate seems high, but fig
ures bear him out in making it.
Capital is timid, but the way capital
goes into railways north, south, east
and west is evidence that large div
idenGs are anticipated. People are
fast coming TO recognize the fact that
the road to wealth is the railroad,
and that fortunes track is a track
made of iron. Just think of it!
How wonderful has been the growth
of this country! How rapid the
growth of portions of 1.-THE north
west for example-the State of Ohio,
if you please. Twenty-One years ago
the whole north west had only 1915
miles of railroad; Ohio but SIS.
Now Ohio has nearly four thousand
and the great and growing north
west nearly if not quite 10000.
Forty years ago there was only
910 miles of railroads in the United
States; now there are over 10000!
Five thousand miles were built in
1869. The ratio of increase in rail-
road mileage to the increase in pop
ulation is, in the aggregate, about
5000 miles of new railroad for every
1000, 900 population. The aggre-
gate cost of Ohio's railroads is esti-
mated to have been nearly $3.50, ,000,-
900. Now in 1880 Ohio had SIS
miles of road; and the total value of
her taxable property was S430, 1885,
800 In 1870 the total value of
taxable property in the State was
nearly s1,5OO,OOO,OO0. In twenty
years the value of real estate of Ohio
has been trebled, while the value of
personal property HIS been increased
! almost five times.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

A negro preacher once observed
to his hearers, at the close of his
sermon, as follows: "My obstina-
ceous bredren, 1 find it no more use
to preach to you dan it is for a
grasshopper to wear knee buckles. !"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

CHOW, papa, what is humbug"
at is" replied papa, "when ma
pretends to be very fond of me, and
puts no buttons on my shirt"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

Bismarck has no hesitation in say
ing that England is clearly in the
wrong in regard TO the Geneva
Arbitration.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

The Post-office regulations now re-
auire that the county should in all cases
be portion of the superscription on a
letter,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

w. H. Beard, the artist, is at work on
a picture called "Dickens and his Ch ar
acters,' something in the style OF
shakespeare and his Friends"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
Notice

us HEREBY GIVEN, to the Stockholders of ths
HSOUTHERN OHIO r r. CO., that ten per
cent or vs dollars per share, Of the capital stock
cribed to said Company, Is required TO be paid
within thirty days from the date Of this notice
n GREGG, of the town of Hilsboro. is hereby
snpointed Collector for the county of Highland, and
spTborizpd to receive and receipt for such payment
or payments in the name Of the Company
- WM. II TRIMBLE,
E.E. BARNEY,
D. W EMM0NS,
JOS MCDOWELL,
JOHN II. JOLLY,
Corporations Of ). U. X. R. Co.
March 20, 1872. nArZln
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Four dealers in obscene literature
were fined two hundred dollars each in
the Criminal Court, at Baltimore, on
Wednesday.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

sis not Horace Greeley college-bred
man ?'' asks a correspondent. No, sir;
he's a Graham bread man.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
Youths Department,

s6-Orig;nal Enismas, Charades, 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, 1872-04-18

Gen. Humphrey Marshall, ex-con-
federate Congressman and General,
died at Louisville last week.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

Five incendiaries who recently
undertook to burn Port au Prince
have been sentenced to death.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

How large would a square field be, that when
fenced in. there would be many acres in the field
as there would be rails around it, counting f'urtcen
rails to the rod? An answer is requested.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18

caught her softly in my arms, my
gentle, blue-eyed Kate; she squealed,
"Let go, you cussed fool, you hurt my
vaccinateW
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control them. The testimony of our best eiti-
zeus. OF aU classes, establishes the fact, that
CrrERRY PECroRAL will and does relieve and
cure the affecting disorders Of the Throat and
Lunrs beyond any other medicine. The most
DANGEROUS affections of the Pulmonary Organs
Weld to IT'S power; and cases OF COnsumP-
lion. cured by this preparation, are Pnbile-
lv known, so remarkable rs hardly to De De-
lieved. were they not proven beyond dispute.
As a remedy it is adequate, on which the puDlie
nav RELY for full protection. By curing Coughs,
the foreruuners Of more serious disease, 1t saves
uunuubered lives, and an amount OF suffering
not 10 be computed. 1t challenges trial, and con-
y,inces the most sceptical. Every family should
keen it ON hand rs protection against tie eariy
and unperceiyed attack of Pulmonary Affections,
which are easily met at first, but which become
incur;lOIe and too often fatal, II neglected. len
der LUNGS need this defence; and it is Unwise to
be without it. As 4 safeguard 10 Children, anna
the distressing diseases which beset the Throat
and Chest OF childhood, CHERRY PEeToEAL
is invaluable; for, by its timely use multi
tudes are rescued from premature graves, ana
saved 10 the love and affection centred on them.
It acts sueedv and surely against ordinary colds,
securing sound and health-restOring sleep No
one will suffer troublesome Influenza and PAIN
full Bronchitis, when they know how easily
thev can be cured.
Originally the product Of long, laborious, and
successful chemical investigation, no cost or toh
is spared in making every bottle in the utmost
uossible perfection. II may be connden'Iy re-
fed uDon as possessing all the virtues It has ever
exhibited. and capable Of producing cures as
memorable as tine greatest it has ever effected.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-18
Ayers
Cherry PeCtOral,
For Diseases of the Throat and Lungs,
such as Coughs, Colds, Whooplng
Cough, Bronchitis, Asthma,
and Consumption.

Among the great
discoveries Of modern
science, few ere Of
more real value to
mankind than this ef-
fectual remedy for all
diseases of the Throat
and Lungs. A vast
trial of its virtues,
throughout this and
other countries, has
shown that it does
surely and effectually