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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11
HIsboough Highland County, Ohio, Thursday April
What Came of Answering an
Advertisement for q Wife.

What Came of Answering an
Advertisement for q Wife.
The Rondout Freeman says that
a very respectable young lady OF
Saugerties, New York, has had her
reason completely restored lately,
as the following incident shows:
She discovered in some paper an
advertisement purporting to have
come from a highly respectable
(worthy and handsome, of cOurse)
Christian young man, desiring some
young lady to correspond with him,
probably with view directed to-
ward matrimony. Now, as she
was plain country lass, although
her folks were well.to-do people,
she was by no means one who
should "waste her sweetness on the
desert air. so she concluded to an.
swer. In due time a reply came,
and as time passed on the letters be.
came more and more affectionate.
At last affairs came to crisis, and
the young gallant was invited to
come and see her. He did come.
But, alas for her hopes and fancies
of delight! he came dead-drunk.
But the joke of it was he had to go
two or three miles out of the village
and every house he went to he in
quired il Miss - lived there.
Being very tight, he would gener-
ally state the object Of his visit to
her, and would read her last letter
and then pass on to the next house.
He made out to arrive at her house
at ten o'clock at night. The old
folks were absent, but two sisters
were there. The meeting can bet
ter be imagined than described;
suffice 1t to say that the correspond
enee has ceased.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

The Georgetown Kentucky, Times
says that fancy farmer of Scott
County had has built two thousand
dollar hog-pen, which is painted and
grained, furnished with hot and
cold water, warmed with steam, and
lighted with gas. There is a fine
library, where can be found Cobb's
Elementary Works, the works OF
Bacon, Inquiry Regarding the De.
scendants of Ham, Hogg's Poems,
Golden on the Corn Laws, and the
popular little poem, "Root Hog or
Die" The troughs are of mahog-
ny, inlaid with ivory and furnished
with Phelan cushions. Whenever
a hog is led out to execution, chlor-
oform is administered.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

The DIFFERENCE. Jones was
travelling with his wife, and (for a
ireak) was SO gallant 10 bis beha-
vior to his cara sposd, that madame
grew uneasy and demonstrated
against his attentions as too mark.
ed for public observation. "Tho
d-l" said Jones, "we're married,
suppose" "Yes," said the lady,
"but, judging from your department,
folks will think zoe aint g' "WelI,
what of it?" said Jones. "Why,
not much, certainly, for sou," said
the careful dame-"you are u man,
hat we women have our characters
10 take care Of" Jones was shock,
ed into propriety for the rest of the
journey.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

DR.. Draper, in his history of the
civil war, Gays that Abraham Lin
coin felt that there was no arInor
against destiny, and said shortly be-
fore his assassination: 81 do not
think / shall live TO see the end of
my term. l try to shake off the
vision, but it still keeps haunting
me-" He began to receive threaten
ing letters soon after his nomination.
He kept them by themselves, la
beled "Letters on Assassination, "
After his death one was found
among them connected with the
plot which had succeeded.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

The Ohio River Stone Company
have recently received orders for
their cutlery grit of grindstones,
from Sheffield, England; also from
Germany. An English grinder,
who had been employed in q New
York Cutlery Establishment, and
used the Constitution stone, wrote
from Sheffield on the goth of Janu-
ary, to the company, that "this
stone would suit the Sheffield grind
ing trade better than any stone ever
tried here" The sending grind
stones to Sheffield is about as bad
lin another sense than the proverb)
as sending s'coals to New Castle"
1t is big card for the stone
I Marietta Register.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

"Now, children" said a Sunday
school gentleman visitor who had
been talking to the scholars about
"good" people and bad" people,
"When l am walking in the street,
1 speak to some persons meet, and
I don't speak to others; and what's
the reason?" He expected the an
swer would be, because some are
good and some are bad" bat to his
discontinue, the general shout was,
"Because some are rich and others
are poor!"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

EDITORS vs., LAWYERs.-The
Nashua Telegraph says: $50 far as
our observation goes, newspaper
men make the best platforms and
lawyers the worst. The expIana-
tion is easy. The former-if train
ed at all-are trained to put things
as an arrow goes to its mark. The
latter do so much skirmishing the
mark is often lost sight of entirely.
A short, simple, sententious plat
form is the article wanted. Half a
dozen resolutions of six lines each,
are enough to express The creed of
any man, should he live a thousand
years"
That depends whether the French
man was right who said the use of
language was to conceal thought.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

Mr.. Edward Payson Weston has
at last broke the continuity of his
defeats bya success. In Macon, Ga,
he walked fifty and half miles in
nine hours, forty-five minutes and
fOrty-fve seconds. He walked the
last half mile backwards in eight
minutes and seven seconds. He did
the whole without stopping to rest.
This il said to he the quickest time
on record.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

last summers scandal about jeff.
Davis has been revived by the indis-
Greet conduct of one of his hot headed
friends, ex-General Maury, who insult
ed the famous sleeping car conductor
by asking him if he was "the man who
circulated those lies, &C." and upon his
replying "Yes," the General put his
hand behind him-an action which in
that country is understood to mean sud-
den aud active business. The upshot OF
it was that the General required the SER
ious attention of surgeon, from the
effects of poker in the hands of the
con ductor, and JEFF. Davis is again incl
dentally brought into prominent and
unenviable notoriety.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

They have most extraordinary ideas
Of public justice in Constantinople. A
Minister of Police there was unable to
account for deficit in his cash account.
He said, as the handiest thing to say,
that ne had paid it to Grand Vizier
since deceased; but as he brought no
evidence Of such payment, and as he
could neither intimidate the judge nor
pack the jury, this ex-Minister has been
ANONYMOUSLY sent to the State prison
for five years, has been fined double the
amount stolen, and made incapable of
again holding office. Pretty prompt
action this is for in6dels. We should
send some of the carpet-bag officers to
Constantinolle lie for treatment.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11
The day Of discovery bias mot ye

The day of discovery has not yet
passed In California. A vast region
yet lies unexplored; and even in re-
gions that have been occupied and
worked for years, new ledges are
uncovered and rich paying gravel
beds struck. The latest success in
this line is the reported discovery
of extensive marble quarries, coal
beds and copper veins, some twen-
ty.five miles from Los Angeles City.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

The Roman Catholic priests in the
eastern part OF Massachusetts have been
recently more than usually active in
forwarding the temperance cause. One
priest recently returned a gift of $50,
whom he discovered that the donor was
a liquor seller, and others threaten to go
into the courts as complainants unless
The trade is abandoned.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11
Friphtened to Death.

A little six year old son of Geo.
Baker, of Middlebury, died on Sun
day last from excessive fright. He,
with several other little boys, was
one day rambling through the woods
south of Middlebury, tapping ma
pie trees and drinking the sap that
every boy loves so well, when he
was set upon by some larger and
older boys, who threatened to take
his life and in other ways frighten-
ed him almost to distraction. So
badly, indeed, WIS he frightened
that he was thrown into spasms,
which, Notwithstanding the best
efforts of the physician, resulted in
his death on STANDARDIZATION Bea-
con.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

A surgeon went TO the side of an
ague patient in a military hospital
and inquired how he felt. In the
midst of a shivering chill the reply
was: "N-n-ot bit bet ter" 81
am sorry, but your case is very
peculiar one, and hard to get hold
Of" said the surgeon, sympathetic
ally. "Y yes" said the shivering
soldier, "th-at's--that's so; th.th-the
cease shakes so y-you can't g get a
hOld-d of it-ah!" He recovered.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11
The Precise Date of Christ's
CFUcif1xiOu.


A distinguished German scholar,
Herr Kelk, in recently published
work, considers that be has settled
the true date of the crucifxion. He
shows that there was a total eclipse
of the moon concomitant with the
earthquake when Julius Cesar was
assassinated on the 18th of March,
3. c. A. He has also calculated the
Jewish calendar to A. D. "a, and
the results of his researches confirm
the facts recorded by the Evangel
lists, of the wonderful physical
events that accompanied the cruel
fxion. His astronomical calculations
also show that on the 9Th of April,
A. d. 81, there was a total eclipse
of the sun, accompanied, in all prob
ability, by the earthquake spoken
of in Matthew. This mode of reck-
oning is verified by another calcu-
lstion, made by calculating baclc-
ward from the great total eclipse of
1918, which also gives April 5th as
the date of the new moon A. L. 81.
As the vernal equinox of the year
fell on March 26, and the Jews ate
their Easter lamb and celebrated
their Feast and Passover on the fol
lowing new moon, it is clear April
9th was identified with Gisan 14th Of
the Jewish calendar, which more
over was on Friday, the day of prep
aration for the Sabbath, aud this
agrees with the Hebrew TaImud, so
that astronomy, archaeology, tra6i-
tional and Bible history seem to
unite in fixing the date of the cruci-
iixion at April 5, A. d. 81.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

The Government printing Office at
Washington is the largest in the world.
The building is 4lS by 90 feet, stories
high, and is entirely occupied with
presses, type, bindery, &c. The num-
Der of persons employed is 1000. Nearly
100000 worth of printing was done in
It last year.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11
Look Most 10 Your Spending.

Look Most 10 Your Spending.
No matter what comes in, if more
goes out, you will always be poor.
The art is not in making money,
but in keeping it; little expenses,
like mice in barn, when they are
many, make great waste. Hair by
hair, heads get bald straw by
straw, the thateh goes of the cot
tage; and drop by drop, the rain
comes in the chamber. A barrel is
soon empty, if the tap leaks but a
drop q minute. When you mean to
save, begin with your mouth many
thieves pass down the red lane.
The ale jug is great waste. In all
other things keep within compass.
Never stretch your legs further
than the blankets will reach, or you
will soon be cold. In clothes,
choose suitable and lasting stuff,
and not tawdry fneries. To be
warm is the main thing; never
mind the looks. A fool may make
money, but it needs wise man to
spend it. Remember, it is easier to
build two chimneys than 10 keep
one going. If you give all to back
and board, there is nothing left for
the savings bank. Fare hard and
work hard while you are young,
and you will have L chance to rest
when you are old.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11
Select Miscellany.
THE BALLAD OF HIRAM HOVER.

Where the Moosstockmayuntic
Pours its water in the Skuptie,
Net. along the forest side,
Hiram Hover, Huldsh Hyde.
She maiden fair and dspper,
he, red sd-haired, Stalwart trsppsr.
Hunting beaver, mink and skunk,
Is the Woodland Of Squssduek.
"why," he murmured, 10th TO leave her,
"Gathsr yards OF chills and fever.
When lover. bold and truo,
Only waits to gather you''
''GO.' che answered, ''I'm not hAsty;
prefer man more tasty;
Lssstwsys, Que to please me well
should not have beAsty s.nsll."
"nAughty Hulbsh,' Hiram answered;
"Mind and heart alike are csneered;
]est look here these peltries give
Cash, whsrsfrom pair may live.
at. you think, am but = vagrant,
Trapping beasts by no means frAgrsnti
Yet-I'm sure it's worth thank
I've handsOms sum in bank"
Turned and vanished hiram Hover;
And before the year was over,
Huldsh, with the yarbs she soId.
Bought cape against the cold.
Black and thick the furry cape Was;
0fs stylish cut the shape wSs;
And the girls. In all the town,
Envied HuldAh up aud down.
Then. at last, one winter morning,
Hiram came. without warning;
"Either," said he, ''you are blind.
Huldah, or you've changed your mind.
one you Enub for trapping Varmints;
Yetyou take tbs skins for garments;
siuce you wear the skunk and mink,
There's no harm in me, think
SWELL" said she, "we will not quarrel,
Hiram, I accept the moral,
Now the fashions SO. guess,
can hardly do no less''
Thus the trouble was all over
OF the love of Hiram Hover;
Thus he made sweet Huldah Hyde
Huldah Hover, s. his bride.
Love employs, with e7usi favor,
Things Of good and evil ssvor,
That which first appeared to part,
Warmed, at last, the mHiden's heart.
Under one impartial banner.
Life the hunter, Love the tanner,
Draw from every beast they snare,
Comfort for welded pair
lAtlantie Monthly.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

Once in a while an author in this
country becomes wealthy through his
pen; but the thing seems an accident
rather than the rule. OF the Biographies
produced by the late Sidney E. Morse,
several million copies were sold, netting
the author near 5000, 1000. Usually not
one book in fifty in the United States
ever pays the author to exceed couple
of hundred dollars,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

The law is sometimes very curl
Gus in its operations. At Washing
ton City a few days since a pick
pocket was detected in the very act
of picking a lady's pocket, and was
hustled off to Jail. But when brought
to Court it was found that the stat
utes of the District Of Columbia said
not word against any attempt to
steal, and the lucky thief was dis
missed scot free.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

Iowa stands the sixth State in the
Union as regards farm products. In corn
she heads the list, averaging in 1871 423
bushels per acre. Next comes Nebras-
ks, with Az bushels, then Illinois, the
so-called great corn State, with ss!.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

The first iron canal boat made in
this country, or In the world, is now
being built at the Continental
Works, Green Point, New York.
She is especially intended to carry
grain, and has a cargo capacity OF
{, ,6G6 bushels, or 200 tons of wheat.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

A Connecticut clergyman recently an
nounced from the pulpit that he heard
q man say he had read the Bible tbro'
in sixty hours. Determined to ascertain
whether the individual told the truth,
he set about it himself, and read the
whole of 1t aloud to his wife in 6fty-nine
hours and something over thirty min
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

Answer to the ClrcIe Problem.
The following Problem appeared in the News of
March Gsth:
PRolLEH.
Three sTud circles, tonching each other external
ly, thus inclose one OF land Required the di-
smeter of the circles. An answer is requested.
My solution is as follows:
The diameters of the circles form an sQuilatersI
triangle. The Of an tquisteraI triaagle whoss
side Is 1-483O
ofS circle which is contained 1927 in the triangle
.0403-ths area of
the space included within the contact Of the circles
when the diamsters R., and the side Of the tri-
angle Is r.
So. Rods.
.0463)lsO OOOOCSs7O-squsre of the disnstsr.
Extract the square root of 1910, and We have g
rod. and a small fraction, the answer.
A. SHoEMAKER.
Oak Ridge, April lst, 1872.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

He that is good will infallibly be-
come better, and he that is bad will
as certainly become worse; for vice,
virtue and time, are three things
that never stand still.-TColton.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

The Pennsylvania ia Central Rail-
road, which has recently absorbed
the Camden and Amboy monopoly,
has now turned its attention South
and is bound to have seaboard
terminus in Virginia with a con-
Meeting road westward, thereby in
stituting an opposition to the BaIti,
more and Ohio Road. 1t is stated
that the Central has about 1000
miles of railroad representing a cap
ital of s25O,OOO,OOO, and has an an
nual revenue upon this of sixteen
per cent. or $40, 100000.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

Intoxicated rats are frequently
seen in the vicinity of breweries at
Cleveland, and an effort is being
made among the old settlers to Or
ganize society to prevent the
young rats from falling into dissolute
habits that will ultimately bring
them into a trap.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

In 1s47, Henry Ward Beecher, then
pastor of the Second Presby terian
Church, indianapolis, on a salary of
four hundred dollars, placed himself in
nomination before the Directory for
Presidency of the Madison and Indian
apolis Railroad. On the twenty-seventh
ballot the election resulted in favor of
the late Governor Brough, Of Ohio.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

A teacher in a school not hundred
miles from Augusta gave out the word
"eucharist" in the spelling exercise, and
then asked one of the pupils to give the
definition of the word. Fancy the feel
ings of the teacher when be asked,
doesn't it mean a frst-rate euchre
playerS'
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

Hopeful: "Will breakfast soon
be ready, mamma?" Mamma:
ayes, my DEAR" Hopeful: "Well,
papa, you might say grace just now,
to save time"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

In Utah canyon, during the extreme
cold weather of last January, some trav-
elers saw a dog standing by the side OF
a telegraph pole. The appearance of the
animal struck them, for as they rode up
towards it it did not move or give any
signs of life, but stood as motionless as
if carved out of stone. A closer inspec-
ton revealed the fact that the dog was
frozen to death. He had died leaning
against the telegraph pole, and stood as
naturally as II alive.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

A FOREIGN MURDERER CAUGHT.
Detective Farley, of the New
York force, has arrested Carlo
Voght, charged with numbering q
nobIemsn in Brussels, In 1871, and
then stealing s50, 900 worth of bonds
and securities.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

"Der small poy stand on der fountain,
der poy mitout any clothes; and der
young girls wonder in passing, vat he
means by such conduct as dose;" that's
what's the matter with the Davidson
fountain,
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Friendship has the skill and OBJ
servation of the best physician, the
diligence and vigilance Of the best
nurse, and the tenderness and pa
tiencs Of the best mother.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

A Richmond man writes 10 the
Dispatch of that city that the report
of his death by drowning which it
published Is "extremely mac
eurate."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

DIR. E. N. Cushing, of WoodviIle, KY,
advertises that saloon keepers who sell
him liquoc when he is drunk he will
prosecute when he is sober.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

Great events may be traced back
to great thoughts, which stand to
them in the same relations as OBJ.
scure progenitors to illustrious de-
scendants,
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A barrel OF buekwheat aour Exploded

A barrel Of buckwheat -four exploded
recently at Keokuk, Iowa. A man Of
science camly says that the buckwheat
was probably wet, and being confined
in the barrel, an alcoholic vapor was
generated, which ignited as The lid was
taken off and lighted candle brought
into contact. That is all very we'll, but
whom or what can We trust when the
staff of life goes back on US like gun
powder or nitro-glycerine, and barrel
of slap-jack timber turns out self-con-
stituted Internal machine?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-04-11

Good occasionally comes out of
evil. A young man employed in
the Xenia powder mills was in
Springfield to spend the Sunday,
got drunk, oversight himself, and
III. ssed the train Monday morning.
Had he kept sober and been at his
work on Monday morning, his
fragmentary remains might have
been gathered up in a market bask-
ct after the explosion. 1t is not safe
to take this as a precedent for getting
drunk on Sundays. All drunkards
do not work in powder mills,
though all deserve good "blowing
up of some kind.
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Enigma

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My rs 20 27 % 29 Is QUE who struts.
My 6 S 4 80 l IL Is q mendicxnt
Ny l6 II Is SO 10 2s 10 IL 81 Is fruit
Ny Is "a IA IA 80 is character from Shake
spesrs.
My II 20 81 % q the Afth.
Ny 20 Ia prominent in tobacco.
My whole can be found in "heasure for Measure y
HIBERNIAN.
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ship at sea sprun leak. The vent was foot
square. There vas but PiScs of plank on board,
which was lS inches long and inches bro.I Ths
question is to cut this plak in equal parts so al
to just fill the vent. An answer is requested.
A. sHoEMAKER.
Oak Ridge, April 1, 1879.