The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-05-02

-o Aprli ION, 1917.
IS DEAR NEws:-An unprecedent
n ed winter, with US has about closed
but not without leaving its marks o
ldesolation. In the West, terribl
snow storms have followed on tn
:. heels of desolating fires. Man!
/ lives have been lost by both fire aDC
Q frost. Thousands of cattle, ant
Q even the hardy buffalo of the plains
: have perished in the storms of th'
!. winter just past.
Il The Fall Wheat, heretofore 81
; successful in Kansas, is, this time
almost a total failure. / am re
minded of remark / once heard
my friend DR.. Shockey, iOf Sicily
make: "There is always feast OF
famine" Those who plowed
early and sowed early last fall, will
probably have a moderate crop Oi
Wheat but, owing to the success
of late sowing heretofore, people
We're careless about it, and the con-
lsequence is, few are fortunate
enough TO have a stand of Fall
| Wheat this Snriug.
Not discouraged, however, many
of our farmers have sown Spring
! Wheat; some Of which is now up
several inches high, and the proba-
bility is, We shall have plenty OF
wheat bread yet. 1 have seen 90 to
% bushels of GOOD Spring Wheat
to the acre raised here which is no
small consideration when there has
been a general failure, as there is
this year.
In the Spring of 1861, (the year
after the famine) the farmers gener-I
ally sowed Spring Wheat, and the
market was glutted the next har-
vest. (The rebels held the river
and the railroads in Missouri, 50.
that we only had a home market. y
So you see it is nice thing to live
in 4 country where there are two.
chances for staple crop in one year.
We may sew Wheat here, and in 90
days, eat bread from that sowingl
Fruit of all kinds is all safe here
yet-peaches, pears, apples, &C.,
none of it winter killed. The trees
are very backward and will proba-
bly, escape all frosts this Spring
Though winter continued long,
Spring has now set in in earnest,
and by the first of May, pasture will
be on an average with other years.
The prairies are green, and the cat
tie are grazing busily.
The city of Atchison has been en-
joying a religious revival for two
weeks. Rev. DIR. Hammond, the
revivalist, has been laboring very
successfully with the churches,
which are united in the good work.
The spirit has accompanied the
WORD, and mighty work has been
done in that stronghold of infdeli-
ty. Hundreds have been awakened
and brought to see the light of Gods
truth. While this good work has
been going on, Satan has not been
idle. The Turner's, society Of in
fdels who have fiourished and built
large hall in Atchison, have pro-
cured the services of noted infidel
lecturer, to counteract the influence
of the religious meeting. He prov
ed to be
"a monster Of snch hideous men,
That to Je hat ed needs but to be seen."
No lady could have the hardihood
to stay in the hall when ne spoke.
While he was raving, and crying 10
fearful tones, "Ihere is no God"
lightning fell,from little cloud that
was passing over. and struck flag
staff on the building. Nearly oppo-
site this Turner'S Hall, on the same
street, stands the M. E. Church, a
much higher building, with a steeple
more than twice as high rs the flag
staff that was struck. just across
another street from Turner'S Hall
stands large Touring mill, with a
flag staff on it much taller than the
one on the Hall.
Just after the stroke of lightning
fell, the Rev. Van Wagner, minis
ter of the Congregational church,
and who was delegated by the corps
of ministers then carrying on the
meeting in the Methodist church,
for the purpose, entered Turner'S
Hall, and was invited into the
stand; and after Mr.. Infidel was
through, ne was called on to speak,
which he did after a good deal of
solicitation, and promise that he
should not be interrupted. Mr.. Van
Wagner spoke for an hour, and he
poured truth down on them with
such force that he was cheered by
the Turner's, and their orator was
hooted. Thus Satan had induced
his faithful servant to do little to
much of a good thing. The good
work Of grace is still going on, and
it is to be hoped that Satan's king
dom in Atchison is tottering to the
foundation.
Yours, A. J. EVANS.
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