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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-05-16
A River Of Logs.

The Flint River, Michigan, presents
grand appearance at present. The Globe
says that from Flint, up the stream for
twenty miles, every square foot of sur
face is packed with pine logs so thickly
that a man may cross from bank to
bank dry shod. 1t is estimated that
there are 100000, 900 feet of such logs in
the river. The ''stage" of the water is
splendid. Logs run with the utmost fa-
cility, and yet no one rides over the
banks into the adjacent fields or woods.
There is just water enough, not gallon
too much. The smaller tributary streams
are still too low to float the logs that
line their margins. The work of run
ming, asserting and booming is going
actively on, an army of men being en-
ployed. The mills are now running with
one or two exceptions, and at least five
hundred men and boys, mostly men,
are cutting up these logs and taking
care of the lumber. No bee hive pre-
sents more animated appearance than
many of these mills. The daily bread of
$500 people is earned in them from
Monday morning till Saturday night.
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True Riches,

Many @ man is rich without
money. Thousands of men with
nothing in their pockets, and thous-
ands without even a pocket, are
rich. A man born with a good
constitution, good stomach, a
good heart, and good limbs, and a
pretty good head piece, is rich
Good bones are better than gold;
tough muscles arc better than sill
yer; and nerves that flash fire and
carry energy to every function are
better than houses and lands. It
is good estate to have the right
kind of q father and mother
Good breeds and bad breeds exist
among men as really as among
herds and horses. Education may
do much to check evil tendencies
or to develop good ones; but it is a
greater thing to inherit the right
proportion Of faculties to start with.
The man is rich who has Il good
disposition-who is naturally kind,
patient, cheerful, hopeful, and who
has a flavor of wit and fun in his
composition! The hardest thing to
get on with in this life, is a mans
own self. A cross, selfish fellow,
desponding and complaining fell
feilow--a timid and care burdened
man-these are all born deformed
on the inside. Their feet do not
limp, but their thoughts do.
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executive interference or dictation.
8. The public credit must be sa-
credIy maintained, and we denouuce
reputation in every form and guise.
8. A speedy return to specie pay
ments is demanded alike by the
highest considerations of commercial
morality and honest government.
10. We remember with gratitude
the heroism and sacrifices of the
soldiers and sailors of the republic,
aud no act of ours shall ever detract
from their justly earned fame or the
full rewards of their patriotism.
II. We are opposed to all further
grants of land to, railroads or other
corporations. The public domain
should be held sacred to actual
settlers.
12. We hold that it is the duty of
the government, in its intercourse
with foreign nations, to cultivate
the friendship of peace by treating
with all on fair and equal terms, re,
garding it alike dishouorable either
to demand what is not right, or to
submit to what is wrong.
13. For the promotion and success
of these vital principles, and the
support of the candidates nominated
by this convention, we invite, and
cordially welcome, the cooperation
of all patriotic citizens, without re-
gard to previous political affiliations.
HORACE WHITE,
Chm'n Of Com. on Resolutions.
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Now that Parepa, and Nilsson,
and Wachtel have made their for
tunes in the United States, all the
musicians of Europe want to come
here. Mr.. Maretzek has taken q
lease of the Academy Of Music from
September to April, and, in part
nership with Mr.. Jarrett, purposes
introducing Lucca. Mr.. Rosa is
coming back the year after
Wachtel promises to return. Stan
ley, we dare say, will return. And
now Tam berIik offers to come, with
Mr.. De Vivo for his manager, and
to bring with him full company,
He is to open, in October, q season
of four months in Havana, and
thence intends to come to New
York in February, by which time
Lucca will probably be singing in
the provinces.
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From the Gin. yolksfreund-German Democratic.
A SORRY PICTURE OF DEMOCRAT

From the Gin. yolksfreuud-Germau Democratic
A SORRY PICTURE OF DEMOCRAT
IC INFIDELITY.
Should the Democrats, like the
Liberal Republicans, abandon their
principles at their National Conven-
ton and endorse Greeley, they will
commit political harikari. The
campaign and the Administration,
whether it be called Greeley or
Grant, will lose all character, and
will become merely contest of per-
sons and cliques. A few Demo-
cratic professional politicians would,
of course, profit by this, but the
Democratic party would go down in
shame and disgrace, and the country
be subjected to an interregnum of
the most dangerous character. AS
a party, the Democracy can afford
TO support no traitors to the Consti-
tuition and no rabid Protectionisis.
The moment it attempts to do SO it
will sink under the imprecatiOns of
all true Democrats. To-day the Ma
tional Democratic Com mittee meets
in New York to fix upon a day and
place for holding convention
Should the committee attempt to
lay wires for the endorsement of
Greeley, it had better proclaim at
once the dissolution of the party,
for should the Convention display
the same spirit of bargain and sale
and betrayal of all principle as did
The Liberal Republicans, the De
mocracy is doomed.
The Bourbous who have made
political shipwreck, are ready for
anything, and the politicians with
an eye to profit must not imagine
that the true Democrats have bat
tied for sixteen years in an almost
hopeless minority for their priuci-
Piles only to desert them now for a
few bankrupt and sellSh dema-
gogues, at the very moment that a
practical adoption of those princi-
pies has become a question of life
or death to the Nation,
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Vol. S6-No. 81
It's Republication by the Free
Traders aud Germans.
Probable Course Of the De
~ mecraey.

[Fron the N. Y. Evening Post-Free Trade
| Republican
The FtascO at Cincinnati.
The Convention, so big with
promise, and so auspiciously ursher-
ed in, has gone the way of many
similar assemblage; it has surren-
dered, stock and fuke, to the wire
pulIers; and it has sunk into COM
monplace chicanery, intrigue, bar
gaining, and compromise. Two
| things it had to do, and only two,
to meet the exigencies of the times
and fGlfiIl the wishes of the better.
minded classes of the people. 1t
had, in the first place, to publish a
declaration of political faith, which,
by its clearness, its comprehensive
ness, its fearlessness, and its wisdom,
would have rallied to it a large part
of the thoughtful and patriotic men
of all parties, who discern the dam
gerous drift of our affairs, and are
prepared to make sacrifice of their
prejudices for the sake of recovery.
In the second place, it had to place
upon this platform of principles, as
its representative, some man of
commanding intellect and charac-
ter, of tried experience and states
manship, of solid and stable judg-
ment, of inhexible purpose, and
whose name and history would
excite the admiration and warrant
the confidence of the whole reflect
ing com munity. The principles to
be proclaimed leaped to the eyes of
all who had eyes to see, and the
man 10 be chosen as their exponent
stood prominently forth, like a
statue in public square.
But, with these unmistakable
pathways of duty before it, what has
the Convention done? 1t has con-
cocted creed which, admirable in
several respects, is blind and halt in
its most essential point; which, in
regard to the most important and
fundamental reform of all reforms,
our false, complicated and oppresS-
i've revenue system, has no clear ut
terance, but muddled, hesitating,
time serving incoherence, and of
which good many more than half
of those who voted for it, when
they come to reflect, will be asham-
ed. And whom has the Convention
set up to be the standard-bearer of
the weighty reforms it was sum-
moned to inaugurate, of the stern
and unyielding protest against the
abuses of governments which it was
bound to utter? Mr.. Horace Gree
ley, whose whole public career has
been one long, stubborn and persist
ent championship of the worst de-
vices of partial legislation, of op-
pressive monopoly, and of over
weening centralism!
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Mining Excitement in the
Pacific States.

The mining excitement in
the Pacific States continues at
fever heat. 1t is based on
recent discoveries in the deep
levels of the Comstock mines
in Nevada, which lead to the
belief that the lower the
miners go the richer will they
find the ores. The value of
the COmstock mines estimated
by the market rates of stock
at the prices ruling on the
18th ult. approaches $50,000,-
600. All of these mines are
embraced within the area, on
the surface, Of a quarter of a
mile in width by two and a
half miles in length. The
Grown Point mine, the surface
limits of which are only six
hundred feet square, is selling
at the rate of $12,000,000 for
the whole mine. The man
ayers of this mine say that
they expect to show a gross
yield of 81, ,000,0 900 per month
for the next two years, and
they appear to find persons to
believe them, judging from
the price of their stock. In
the Belcher and Grown Point
mines, the richest gold and
silver-bearing ores yet discov-
cred have been developed at
a depth of more than 1000 ft.
below the surface. This has
strengthened the popular be-
lief that the Comstock is a
true tissure vein, and practi-
cally inexhaustible.
The Gold Hill Enterprise
says that all the stocks along
the line of the Comstock have
advanced in the aggregate
fully 80 per cent. during the
past six weeks, and that the
capitalists of California and
Nevada are seeking invest
ments in them at the rate of
millions of dollars daily. On
the other hand, some of the
California papers consider the
excitement fictitious, and pre-
dict a huge crash before long.
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Home Correspondence
when is Lesson Prepared ?

Mr.. Following up the arti-
Gle, Chow shall prepare a Lesson?"
its answer in the N. Normal for Feb,
here present another question and its
answer, taken from the May No. of
same journal:
Am grateful to "ScriEtor'' for his
commendation, and to Holbrook and
Co. for answering these simple yet per-
tinent questions:
"When is Lesson Prepared7''
"When the class can make a recita-
ton without being asked a question by
the teacher. The less~a teacher talks,
the better for class. The teacher may
assign tasks, give permission to recite,
out should depend upon the pupils to
keep up the logical connection between
different portions of the lesson, as well
as to sustain the discussion. Pupils
should not act like deep wells, the con-
tents of which the teacher is to draw
forth by much pumping, but rather
like overfowing springs, whose streams
of knowledge the teacher need only
direct.
''If class cannot master a subject so
as to discuss it intelligently and spon-
taneously, either the subject is beyond
their grasp, or time enough has not
been given for thorough enough prepar-
alton. Fortunately for good recitations
our textbooks are not very logical in
their discussions of subjects. The more
a book lacks in this regard, the better
for a class. The judgment of the pu-
| pills will be mora actively called inc
| operation, in order to arrange the sub.
ject under its appropriate heads for ra
tional discussion in the class.
sit is easily seen that the practice O
thus mastering subject for independ
ent discussion will have an infinitely
better effect upon the mind of tke pupi
than the too prevalent practice of com
mitting a lesson to memory with the ex
pectation of being called upon in Ger
tain order, and perhaps, for a certain
question" Asever,
"HARRY OF CARMEL"
Dallas, Ohio, May, 1872.
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LiitIe polly Warden.
IFrom the Chicago Post !

III. lffonl the Onlcaeo tost
There was once little girl named
Dolly Warden. Her mamma was
very good mamma, but her papa
had a Dolly Warden nose, produced
by drinking too many Dolly Warden
cocktails at the "DolIy Warden sa-
loon" round the corner, and he used
to ne :lect his family. One time
when her ma asked him for a dollar
(averring that she had not had a
farthing from him for two weeks)
to buy a Dolly Warden for their lit
tie daughter, the brutal man refused
and put a Dolly Warden all around
her mas left eye. Well, one day
Dolly Warden dressed herself in her
very best, had her hair done up in
Dolly Warden style, put on her Doll
ly Warden hat, and her Dolly Var
den boots, and her lovely, new Dol
ly Warden, and wentou for walk
She went into a confectioner's to
buy some Dolly Warden caramels.
While there she saw in the Indian
apolis Evening Journal a column
of "Dolly Warden Notes." and stop
ped to read the paper. This appar>
entity trivial circumstance cost her
her life. As she passed down the
street she came to a dry goods store
where painter was lettering sign
over the third-story window, "Dol
ly Vafdens of Every Kind" He
turned round on the scaffold to look
at a Dolly Warden circus horse
which was passing in John Robin
sons great show, and lost his bal
ance, falling to the ground. No,
not to the ground, but upon Miss
Dolly Warden, who was passing be-
meath. Her sweet Dolly Warden
parasol was no protection against
his falling body, and she was dashed
to the earth, her lovely Dolly Var
den being bespattered with his
brains. She was at once conveyed
home, and the sad news telegraphed
to her pa, who was al Cincinnati, a
delegate to the Dolly Warden Con-
vention.
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The Volks6Jdtt, with singular per-
versity, remarks that the points
which makes Greeley "most objec-
tionable to the Germans seem to be
precisely those which are most fam
cied by the Irish" The point made
particularly against him by the Ger
man press is his lifelong devotion
to the principles of the Temperance
Prohibi.ionists. Can our German
contemporary really mean that this
is what is "most fancied by the
Irish?' If not, what does it mean?
Certainly not that Greeley sided so
strongly with the Germans in their
late war with the French. We are
obliged TO give up the conun-
drum.-rCin. Chron.
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Silent Men.

Washington never made speech.
In the zenith of his fame he once
attempted it, failed, and gave it up
confused and abashed. In the
framing of the Constitution of the
United States, the labor was almost
wholly performed in committee of
the whole, of which George Wash
ington was day after day the chair
man; he made but two speeches du-
ring the convention, ,bowever,he was
acknowledged the master spirit,
and historians affirm that had it not
been for his personal popularity
and the thirty words of his first
speech, pronouncing it.the best that
could be acted upon, the Constitu-
ton would have been rejected by
the people. Thomas Jefferson new
er made q speech. He couldn't do
it. Napoleon, whose executive
ability is almost without parallel,
said that his greatest difficulty was
in finding men of deeds rather
than words. When asked how he
maintained his influence over his
superiors in age and experience
when commander-in-chief Of an
army in Italy, he said by reserve.
The greatness of a man is not meas
ured by the length of his speeches
or their number.
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The Ernption Of Vesurius.

The number Of lives lost by the recent
eruption was over-stated in the first dis
patches. 1t is now stated that only II
persons are known to be killed and II
injured by the burning lava. The erup-
tion is described as the grandest wit
messed since 1851. The villages of San
Sebastian and Massadisomma have been
almost entirely destroyed; but the in
habitants succeeded in getting away
safely. The villages of PonticelIi, Ger
cola, Saint George, and Portice, have
been abandoned by the inhabitants.
The people living in the towns of Tore
Del Greco, Resina, and Boscotrecare al
so fled from their homes, as those places
were threatened with destruction.
Showers of ashes and sand from the
volcano fell in the streets of Naples to
the depth of several inches.
On Monday, April 80, the lava had
ceased flowing, and the worst of the
eruption was thought to be over.
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The Toledo Blade says:
"Some of the Eastern papers
speak of the late Samuel Gal
loway as a successful imitator
of Tom Corwin. He was no
more like Tom Corwin than
Mark Twain is like Josh Bill
lings. He didn't tell a story
like Corwin. He didn't make
an argument like Corwin OF
any other man, he didn't ges'
ticulate like Corwin, and he
got up a facial expression that
was as unique as it was pecu.
liar to himself. There never
was but one Sam Galloway,
and he was an original.
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The Law in Regard to Bonn
ties.

NEO9a
The late law in regard to bounties
does not, as has been stated in some
Of our exchanges, include soldiers
who enlisted for three months.
Under the law the accounting Off
GERS have decided as follows:
l. All soldiers who enlisted for
three years, between May and
July p, 1861, and were mustered
for three years prior to August 5,
1861, and were honorably discharg-
ed, are entitled, ifthey have not re-
ceived the same for such service, to
one hundred dollars bounty. :
2. Soldiers who were discharged
for promotion are not entitled to this
bounty, as such a muster-out was
such as was contemplated by gener-
al order No. 10, 1861, under which
the contract was made.
3. Where soldiers were enlisted
and mustered as above, and died or
were killed in the service, their heirs
having received, or being entitled to
receive, the bounty under the act of
July 22, 1861, are not entitled to
this bounty.
4. Where soldiers were enlisted
and mustered as above, and have
died subsequent to discharge, their
heirs are not entitled to this bounty,
for the reason that bounty is a graf
uity, and is only payable to the par
ties named in the law, or under
which the contract was made.
5. Soldiers entitled to this boun-
ty are not entitled to bounty under
act of July %, 1866, and vice versa.
The bounty there granted is under
the conditions named in the act,
which conditions are not changed
by subsequent laws.
A law of the same date extended
the time for filing claims under the
act of July %, 1866, which was
limited to January l3, 1871, by the
act of July 13, 1870, to January 80,
1873. All claims which have been
filed in the proper Department since
the date of limitation, will be con-
sidered without reading.
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When does have to keep his wordl When
no one will take it,
Where did Noah preserve the bees during the
food =? In the ark-hiVes.
Which is the oldest, Miss Ann Tiquity, old Auuty
biluvian, Miss Ann Terror, Miss Ann Cestor, Miss
Ann T. Mundane, or Miss Ann T. Cedent?
Thompson is not going to do anything more in
conundrums. III recently asked his wife the differ
ence between his head and hogs-head, and she said
therS was none. He says this is not the right an
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-05-16

Some people want newspaper to
be a four page edition of the character
of Monthly Joker. Others would
have it full of love stories of the
blood and thunder sort. Some would
have it full Of purely literary and
political articles, sober, solid strong.
Others would have it all local and
would have all that local unadultera.
ted nonsense, no item to be over
lour lines in length, for these poor
creatures cannot otSummon more effort
at once than the reading of such a
tedious item involves. Some would
have a paper full of hits and jokes, OF
course at the expense of some one
else. Others would have it some
thing else, and so on. Now since
no paper can or ever does meet all
these requirements, how many pa
pers may be said to give entire salts
faction?-[ Exchange.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-05-16
The Antioch Earthquake.

The recent earthquake is the fifth or
sixth time during the Christian era that
Antioch has suffered such calamity. In
the year lis, while the Roman Emperor,
Trajan, was visiting the city-then call
ed from its wealth and influence, the
"Queen of the East''-an earthquake
leveled almost the entire city to the
ground, burying thousands beneath the
surface of the earth. The city was re-
built, but in the year 45S was again
visited by shock almost as severe as
the first. But worse fate was yet to
come to it, for in the year SIG, while the
inhabitants and multitudes of people
from the surrounding country were cell
ebrating tie Fast of the Ascension, the
earth opened and engulfed large part
of the city, shattering and destroying the
remainder. 1t is impossible to calculate
the amount of suffering occasioned by
this single disaster, but it is known that
more than 25O,OOO lives were lost.
About sixty years later the city was
again the scene of like calamity, and
again in the year 1922.
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Select Miscellany.
rHF HERALD OF SUMMER.

hear gush Of melody, see a gnsh of green,
So / know the summers coming with the glory of :
queen;
For Spring. her welcome herald. has proclaimed i
far and wide,
Since the throne of Winter tOppled, aud the Ft'rn
old dsspot died.
Spring hEs spread Ger moor and mountain carpet
for her feet
Silver daisy, golden kiug-cup, purple Orcbis, COW.
slip sweet
BAde the trees unfold canopy of unduisting shade
where anemOUo and violet their woodland home
have made.
Pale nArcissus and faint daHO1l whisper of her by
the well,
Where isus bend DER the primrose lest she the
cret tell;
But hyAeinth and harebsll ring the tldings bOldg
For the breezs to catch the echoes aad answer with
shout.
The busy brOOkIets, listening. have turned the
theme to song,
And sing ito the sedges they gently glide along
The mountaln strssms, no longer dumb, join in
the joyous lay,
And leAping Ger their rocky bounds, laugh ont in
sparkling spray.
Glad butterflies are nutteriug like banners 10 the
aira f-e rrF ea4 hlsE q
Rich flowers hold up their nsctarIes aad offer in
ceuss rpre;
The tOn;ag bee hnms cheeriiy. the gnats dance in
4ssnn,
Tn. very frog, erOak goefully DER spring tide life
begun.
No need the tArdy cuckoOs nOtO to gossip Of the
Spring.
Whilst other warbisrs tune fnl thrOats have a
prophetic ring;
Aud orchards white with cherry snow, through
which apple-blossoms blush,
Bring dreams Of Summer frnitago to the birdlings
in the bush.
Spring Is here and Summers coming, with a
nal Of light! t--
For the sky-iark, like courtier, has winged his
upward flight, -s -
The first to meet Queen Summer in her golden ca-
Of state, % - p
And salute her with his anthem close to her palace
gate.
-lAll the Year Round.