The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-11-28
w. H. JOHNSON & CO..
Odds and Ends.

Nilsson, that was, comes in for share in
the Boston business. She had two granite
stores burned.
The production of the oil wells of Penn
sylvania is over $4,000 barrels per day.
Ogdensburg has had shower of toads,
and the Journal thinks the shower was very
opportune, as the old toad crop was pretty
nigh exhausted.
A vein of coal eight feet thick has been
found near Fort Dodge, Iowa, beneath the
surface of prairie land
Every county in Michigan gave majori-
ty for Grant.
| The destroyer of the rebel ram AIbemarle,
Lieut.. Gushing, has been awarded $3.50, 900
as prize money.
Theodore Triton is buying up and sup
pressing all that is left of the edition of his
silly and infamous life of Mrs. Woodruff.
Telegraph Offices all over the country are
being filed with female operators, and good
ones they make.
''Master" Erasmus Dennison, son of ex-
Gov. Dennison, has been promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant in the Navy.
Sir Rounded Palmer has been appointed
Lord Chancellor of England.
New York enjoys a more lucrative South
ern trade this autumn than for MANY wears
past.
A Buffalo woman has made 81, 500 this
season from her two acre strawberry patch.
1t is estimated that not less than 2,25O,-
900 stoves will be manufactured in this
country during the present year.
A young girl at Lee, Massachusetts, whose
hair reached almost to the ground, sold it
recently to Pittsfeld hair dealer for fifty
five dollars
A boy at Underhill, Vt, has just coughed
up beechnut which he got into his lungs
two years and half ago.
The shutting down of the oil wells, in
Pennsylvania, has already resulted in an
advance of one dollar barrel for petrole-
um.
Rosa Bonheur is said to have expressed
recently desire to visit the United States,
and, if possible, to do SO within the next
twelve months.
The Northern Pacific railroad is progress
ing in the work of construction with great
speed
Abraham De Long died recently, near
Van Vert, Ohio, from the effects of a bull
let lodged in his forehead, where it had
since remained, in Shermans charge on
Missionary Ridge, Nov. 25, 1864.
Bayard Taylor is in Gotha, writing life
of Goethe.
The late VIM. H. Seward left en- estate
valued at $500, 900.
William Cullen Bryant and his son-in-law,
Parke Goodwin, have made $4OO,OOO or
$500, 600 each out of the New York Even
ing Post.
The Prohibitionists cast 2, 2,O1O votes at
the October election, in this State. A fall
ing off from one year ago.
Kossuth's popularity is waning in Hun
gary.
Renan has nearly finished a new work,
'L'Anti- Christ"
Lady ushers are the latest wrinkle for
fashionable weddings in New York.
Col. Craig, formerly of Marietta, O., is
now tilling farm of one hundred and twen-
ty thousand acres in Colorado.
Bret Harte is to publish soon a new vol
ume of sketches, called ''lIrs. Scragg's
Husband" and other pieces.
A select committee of the British House
of Commons has reported in favor of the
of reformatories for habitual
drunkards.
The Oregon Legislature has passed bill
to appropriate 800, 900 for the erection of
a State Capitol at Salem.
The wealth of Iowa, equally divided,
would give $6O1 O3 to every person in the
State.
The silver smelling works at Omaha, are
now using II furnaces, Omen, eight retorts,
and two cars of ore per day.
The California gold product is steadily
decreasing from year to year, but other in
dustries are largely on the increase.
Sully, the famous artist, died in Phila-
delphia on the 9TH, at the advanced age of
100 years.
The mackerel fishery for the present sea-
son, now about closed, is reported to be
failure. Mackerel will rise.
Coal in London is now costing, on an av-
erage, three dollars ton more than it did |