The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-09-26
"GraDe and Canister"

The Democratic Treasurer of Wayne
county, Ohio, has been showing what
Greeley reformer knows about handling
the peoples money. The amount which
stuck to his fingers was just S2O,S2I 80.
Salisbury of Delaware has pronounc-
ed for Greeley.-[ Toledo Blade.
This is the way he pronounced"
81 wa yer un'shstsn' Pm f. Hor'ce
Greeley. wa'-(hic)-I wa er Presh-
den doeshn't drink"
Schurz is ahead of the Government to
the tune of 5000 IS. and still he is not
happy. What "reformer ~
The Madison (Ga.) Bulletin, which has
had the names of Greeley and Brown at
its head, hauls them down and puts up
Charles O'Conor.
1t is very curious thing in journal
ism now to watch the New York World
teaching the New York Tribune how to
edit Democratic newspaper.
Gratz got no farther than Connecti-
cut on his New England stumping tour.
If he had reached Vermont, the State
would have gone unanimously Repub-
licaa.
Two files for Greeley vipers to gnaw-
the decrease of the public debt O,OO0,-
900 during the month of August, and
the election news from the Green Noun
tain State.
Republican-Have you heard from
Muineq
D9mocrat-Yes, we have had rain
enough for the fall pastures, though
little more wouldn't hurt.
Mr.. Barnum is said to be in eonsults-
ton with Mr.. Greeley in the arrange.
ment of a new "happy family" which
he is proposing to exhibit around the
country, consisting of few Yanks aud
an equal number of Johnny Rebs dane
ing together in the last ditch.
The mixed condition of the average
Democratic mind was shown in the
cheerful cheer of one last Saturday
night. 'Rah for Greeley-d-n hin!"
was his constant howl, with peculiar
emphasis on the "d-n him. ."--[Toledo
Blade.
The Greeley "tidal wave" in Vermont
turned out Waterloo.-[Dayton Jour
nal.
Almost all the leading opponents of
Grant are too i'll to take part in the can
vass. Singular thing this illness, and
convenient. They are the sickest lot of
politicians we ever knew.
1t will be inscribed upon Greeley's
tombstone that "his political career
came to an end on his defeat as the
Tsmmany candidate for President dur
ing his green old age.
White county, Ind, has produced a
baby with two heads facing in opposite
directions-a regular Janus. They talk
of calling it Horace Greeley.
Since the Maine election. Horace
Greeley has taken to agriculture again. |
He has just sent a circular to his friends |
at the South advising them to plant
corn and sugar cane together, so as to |
raise johnny-cake with the molasses on. |
There is a Republican in Indiana,
who says he is going to leave the
party because, when they hold !
meetings, he can't get near enough
to hear the speakers. He likes the
Democracy because he can get close
to the stand and hear what they
have to say.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean is of the
opinion that "Greeleyism is a fog
which will soon blow over" Doesn't
need to blow over. It's getting so
thin everybody can see through it.
"Gratz Brown" says one of his
kinsmen, "gets that red head from
the Browns, the brains in it from
the Bledsoes." 1t is a pity he
didn't get more from the Bledsoes
and less from the Browns.
Carl Schurz said in his speech
that "the government of the Uni>
ted States is a viler despotism than
that of Emperor Wilhelm If Carl
prefers that of the Emperor, we
presume it is open to him to return
to. No one is keeping him here.
Go forth, Carl. Bless you, meboy.