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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
SmOfherlng Fires.

Extinction of fires by smOthering is a
method which deserves notice. When a
Iady's dress catches fire her usual course
is to rush out of the room screaming for
help, thereby causing the flames to
spread over her with great fury. In such
cases "help'' is at hand in the shape Of
the table-cloth or hearth-rug. If she
were to promptly envelope herself in
the one or the other-or if some one
were to do it for her-the fire would at
once go out for want of air. Again, if
wiRdow-curtains catch fire, common
tendency for mankind is to rush out,
shouting "Fire !" and "Help I" Reader,
why not help yourself-especially if you
be a manly finding out beforehand
what is the best course of procedure in
the circumstances You ought at once to
tear the curtains down, and throw the
rug or table-cloth on them. If you can
not do this, and must leave the room,
don't open the window, and by all means
remember to shut the door behind you; /;
and thus by cutting of the supply of
air, at all events delay the cOnhagration
as much as you can. 1t is a matter Of
the greatest importance that a man
should have a definite idea what be will
do, or attempt in case Of fire. Opinions
may differ as to the best mode Of action,
but all ought to agree In having some
mode of action to carry out. Nothing
is more pitiful than to see one rushing
wildly about, shouting "Help :" and
wasting energy. For a man to be seen
in such circumstances is eontemptible.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

The Gazette's Washington correspond
ent says there are in the Catacazy letters
several instances given of his attempts
to stir up trouble between the United
States and England. One instance of
this is ss follows Some time before the
final conclusion Of the treaty of Wash
ington, a long letter appeared in the
World newspaper purporting to give the
Emperor's instructions to Catacazy con-
cerning the Eastern question and the re-
ported alliance of England and the Uni
ted States, and the object of the entire
letter was to place obstacles in the way
of settling the Alabama claims. The
day after this letter appeared in print,
Catacazy visited the State Department,
called Mr.. Fish's attention TO it, and dis
avowed all responsibility for it. The De-
partment subsequently, aseertained that
it had been furnished to correspondent
of that paper by Cstacazy himself, and
that after the notes were written ont the
manuscript was, at Catacazy's request,
submitted to him for revision.
Such conduct as that would not be en-
dured from the representative of any
gOvernment.-[Ex.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

A WIFE's DEvoTIoN.-Mr. Jacob Sta
ley some time ago thought proper to
steal letter in Omaha from the United
States mail. The letter contained a
draft on which the cash was got by a
forged Endorsement. A touching fea-
ture of the case was that Staley's wife
went upon the stand and swore that she
was the forger. Her hope was TO save
her husband, and she apparently per-
jured herself to compass that end. The
effort was vain, and the Judge in passing
sentence said he was entirely satisfied
that the woman was not guilty of the
crime with which she charged herself
The sentence was a heavy one, being
that Staley should be confined in the
House of Correction for ten years.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Thurman and Nhorn1nn

Ohio's two Senators, named very
like each other, Thurman and Sher-
man, live in the central part of the
State. Sherman's origin is wholly
English, and Thurman's is believed
to be the same. Sherman is four
years the junior, aged fOrty-eight.
Thurman was in the 29th Congress,
while Sherman did not appear here
till the 34th. In temperament the
men are very different. Sherman is
courteous and very diligent, and
careful of his public conduct. He is
one Of the very best State politicians
on the Republican side, exceIIed as
a manager only by Morton, FentOn,
Hamlin, and Cameron. He is a
good debater, but not quick nor
brilliant in repartee, and he declines
mere "bOuts" and passages at arms.
He is comfortably wealthy, pos
sesses an agreeable residence at
Mansfield, and a town-house at
Washington, and is surrounded by
an afectiOnate family. He is an
inveterate smoker like the President,
but unlike him-never appears in
the street with a cigar. He is 6
feet p inches high, height only
exceeded by Pratt, of Indiana, and
by Charles Sumner, (6 feet 81 inch
es.) The heaviest men in the SEN
ate are Pratt, $50 pounds, POmeroy,
232, Chandler, 2O8, and Thurman
2O5. Judge Thurman is the most
brilliant, chivalric, and yet severe,
debater on the Democratic side.
He is a man Of warm temperament
although very conservative, and he
probably laughs with more dimples
and with greater frequency than any
person in Congress. He is a great
favOrite with the anti-Admiuistra-
ton Republicans. Like Sherman
he received only an academic edu-
cation. He removed to Ohio from
Lynchburg, Va, his birthplace, at
the age of six. He is Horid,
stoutish, hearty man, with great
versatility of genius, and has much
humor and snap in him. Socially
he is one of the most interesting
men in the Senate. His term ex-
pires in 1875. In the centennial
year of our independence few Of the
present Seniors will be found.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Olive Logan DiscIaims all Sym
patIIy with Free Love.

To the Editor Of the Sun:
SIR-So many journals have copied
your statement that both my husband
and myself "stand in the front line Of
the ultra-progressionists of the age in
regard to marriage, and the religious
ceremony of Tuesday they regarded as
a concession to the prejudices of the un-
enlightened majority" that I will ask
you to please print my denial. Under
standing the statement to imply that an
ultra-progressiohist in this matter is
one who holds the marriage bond light
ly, and would break it easily, I deny
that we are either of us as such, and the
religious ceremony which Joined us was
a "conceissOn" to nobody it was free
will offering of love to and confidence
in each other, and a practical protest
against growing license of opinion re-
garding the Christian institution of we'd
lock.
I little dreamed when I attended the
WOmen's Convention at Steinway Hall
in the spring of 1869, (the only one
ever attended), that the judicious utter
ances of that respectable body would
ever lead up to such mOnstrOus doctrines
as are now put forth by some advocates
of women's enfranchisement. In the
short speech made on that occasion, I
conjured my hearers to believe that we
sought to wage no war of determination
on the gentle household gods; and I
have progressed" not one inch in this
matter since. still think happy home
the best thing there is on this earth, and
still think the old-fashioned marriage
is the basis of it.
As for my husband, though he has
long been known as patient investiga-
tor into the wrongs and sufferings of the
lowly, and as an earnest pleader for
charity toward the poor working girls
of New York, he has never once, with
pen or tongue, advocated suffrage for
women; so that even by implication he
can not be included in the stigma which
the enemies of that cause would attach
to all its advocates.
Nor is it any sign of progressive
ness" in me that while am Mrs, Writ
Skies in private life, am stin profess
sionally, Yours Truly,
OLIVE LOGAN.
On THE WING, Dec. 30, 1871.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

A representative of the Gallon
(Ohio) press, on visit to the Craw
ford County Infrmary, describes one
of the inmates, an old "tramp," in
the following:
"But who is this seated at the
head of a table, with gray hair,
sunken gray eyes, hollow cheeks
and a general appearance of decay
and decrepitude? It is Tom Wal.
lace, typo, known, perhaps, better
than any other printer in the Uni
ted States, as a most inveterate old
tramp. When we first began our
apprenticeship as printers devil in
Cleveland, eighteen years ago, Tom
came along and asked a weeks
wor5E. During two weeks we sup
piled him with nearly all his food,
and furnished him reading matter
to while away nights and Sundays.
He was then hale and strong,
though gray. Never possessing over
one suit Of clothes, and never re-
naming in one town more than a
fortnight, 'Old Tom Wallace lived
in the most complete state of care
less indifference. A smile invariably
hovered about his countenance, and
his mind was never rufded by angry
for his share of the
worlds riches. Tom was far above
or far below the wealth-hunting
crowd Of humanity-we leave phil
to decide which. He had
then been tramping from one place
to another for nearly forty years, his
head growing yearly more bald, as
if to prove that it could gather hair
no easier than a rolling stone could
gather moss. He has walked more
-han most men and worked n'more
offices than any living printer.
"The printing business abounds in
ramps that traverse the country al.
most annually. Working in one
'hice a few days, they take their
pay and start across the country to
another town, their minds on the
way, being filed with air castles
md idle imaginings. Of this spe-
lies Of the typographical Bohemian,
Tom Wallace forms the extreme
ype. He is now nearly seventy
years old, and though most COM
,letely broken down, longs to be
gain on the road in search of a
full case and a fat take ,"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Horace Greeley's tribute to Frank

Horace Greeley's tribute to Frank
lin: "Let me sum up the character
of Franklin in the fewest words
that will serve me. I love and re-
we're him as a journeyman printer
who was frugal aud didn't drink a
parUenu who rose from want to
competence, from obscurity to fame,
without losing his head +; states
man who did not cruelty mankind
with long-winded documents or
speeches ; a diplomat who did not
intrigue; a philosopher who never
loved, and an ofice-holder who
didn't steal. So regarding him,
respond to your sentiment with
Honor to the memory of Frank
lin
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Answering Letters.

A great many people in this coun-
fry are slramefuIly negligent about
letters. Nothing is more
annoying. In European countries
it is regarded as the height of i'll.
breeding to allow a letter which
needs a reply to go unanswered,
and so it ought to be considered
here. This is the point on which
parents should lay great stress to
their children. They should be
taught to consider it as rude not to
reply to a letter which needs atten-
ton, as to hand a fork with the
prong end.
The busiest people are generally
those who are most exact in this
respect. The late Duke of Yelling
ton, who, it will be admitted, had a
good deal on his hands at different
times of his life, replied to every
letter, no matter from how humble
a source. Once a clergyman who
lived in a distant part of the king
dom wrote to his Grace, on whom
neither he nor his parish had a
shadow of claim, to beg for a sub
scription to rebuild a church. By
return mail came back a letter from
the Duke to the effect that he really
could not see why in the world he
should have been applied to for
such an object but the parson sold
the letter as an autograph for IS,
and put the Duke down for that
amount among the subscribers.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Letlers of RecommendnlIon

Letters of Recommendation.
A gentleman advertised for boy
to assist him in his Office, and near
~ fifty applicants presented them
selves to him. Out of the whole
number he in short time selected
one and dismissed the rest.
81 should like to know" said a
friend, "on what ground you select
ed that boy, who had not a single
recommendation"
"YOu are mistaken" said the
gentleman "he had a great many.
He wiped his feet when he came in,
and closed the door after him,
sh=ving that be was careful he
- -; up his seat instantly to that
lame old man, showing he was kind
and thoughtful he took off his cap
when he came in, and answered my
questions promptly and respectfully,
showing he was polite; he picked
up the book which l had purpOsely
laid upon the floor, and replaced it
on the table, while all the rest step
ped over it or showed it aside and
he waited quietly for his turn, in
stead of pushing and crOwding,
showing that he was orderly. When
I talked with him, I noticed that
his clothes were carefully brushed,
his hair in nice order, and his teeth
brushed; and when be wrote his
name, noticed that his finger nails
were clsan, instead of being tipped
with jet, like that handsome little
fellows in the blue jacket. Don't
you call those things lettersof rec
omendasiOn I do, and I would
give more for what l can tell about
a boy by using my eyes ten minutes,
than all the fine letters he can bring
me-"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Dear Pork,

The Detroit Free Press wickedly re-
lates the following: "Greeley's often
reiterated advice that every family shO'd
keep a hog in case they would not go
out West and buy farm--induced cit
izen of Howard street to invest eight
dollars in n 'shoat' last fall. In addi-
ton to the feed from the family pail the
man purchased and fed the hog eleven
dollars worth of corn, paid three dol
lars 10 rescue him from the pound, and
killed him the other day, to find he had
a hundred and eighty pounds of pork
for twenty-three dollars. As dressed
hogs sell for five cents a pound on the
street, and this cost over twelve, the cit
izen wants Greeley to tell him where
the profit comes in. The philosopher
would probably say that the pleasure
taken in supplying the pOrker's wants
and watching his growth was sufficient
com pensation for the additional ex-
pense."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
An Amusing Illustration of
WOman's Rights.

With many a blush and many a
stammer, a female Judge Of a raw
little Court in the Territory of Wy
Oming has been compelled to retire
from the bench, in obedience to the
clamorOus demands of maternity.
It was the custom-said her Honor
for Courts to take a recess on TT
ting occasions, and for three weeks
there would be no hearing of argu-
ments, no justice to nor punishment
for prisoners in the lookup, no ar
bitrament between plaintiff and de-
fendant. The Court rose, and the.
lawyers went home, the Judge took
to her bed, and presently the census.
of the Territory of Wyoming was
inereased-and while these events
were going on, arrests multiplied,
a new jail was extemporized for the
accommodation Of the unruly, JUS
tice slept, and the learned dispenser
of the law beamed with soft eyes
upon the tiny mOrsel of humanity
whose arrival created all this extra |
ordinary hubbub. The series of in
cideuts which has given this sudden |
FLIP to the gossiping tongues of
Wyoming offer an excellent practi-
cal illustration of the folIies of the
"third sex"-which sex, not con-
tent to be either male or female, is
to abnegate the functions ]
Of the latter while vainly striving |
to assume the proportions of the
former, but with such Indifferent |
success in either direction as to
move mankind to laughter. Inex-
Orable nature will have her way, but
it is not the way in which the female
Judge can walk with joy. There
is another story, not dissimilar to
this, which also comes from Wyom-
ing-the story of a female jury, en-
gagged in trying a case of murder,
who suffered untold pangs from day \
10 day, through tine physicnI tor
-ure Of imprisonment over night and
.he mental distress caused by long
from their families. |,
Finally one woman gave up the
contest and retired, another juror
vas impanneled and the trial begun
gain, and at last it was found that
he substitute was a foreigner, and
low the case is to begin over again
or the third time. It is not sur
,rising to learn that this accmula.
ion of catastrOphes has created a
JrOfOund feeling Of disgust in the
ainds of "learned counseP'-but
uch phenomena must be expected
n the places where the gentler sex
eek to be stronger, and so long as
ature imposes certain limits upon
be Over-ambitiOus. The folly of
he women of Wyoming might be
lughed out of Court, literally, if
/ did not seriously interfere with
he administration of justice.-TN. /
FORK Commercial Advertiser.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Pension Frauds.

General Garfield made the startling
statement to the House to-day, on the
authority of Commissioner of Pensions,
that one-fourth the amount paid to pen
sioners goes to persons who have got
their names upon pension rolls by fraud,
and who have no right to be there at all.
It appears that there is a system of pre-
pairing fictitious evidence of disability
by claim agents, that has succeeded to
the enormous extent stated.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

DARKNESS AND SMALL-POX.-If pa
tient, in the beginning of the attack, be
put in a room from which all light is
excluded save that of candle, the et-
feet is to arrest the disease in the popu-
lar or vesicular stage the skin between
the vesicles is never infamed or swOl-
len; the large scabs of matter never
form over the face; there is no intense
pain, and only trifing itching, and the
smell is very slight, or altogether want
ing.-TLOndOn Lancet.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Useful Discoveries,

Between 1920 and l725 iron was first
smelted by coking stone coal. In 1903
gas was first made by the employment
cf coal. In 1880 the application of hot
blast was invented by Nelson, a Scotch
man, for smelling iron. In 1888 raw
coal was first used to smelt iron. A few
years later the celebrated "black band"
was discovered by Mr.. Mushet.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

The New York Tribune makes a some
what startling exposure of the extent
to which the adulteratiOn of candy is
carried on. Impure candy runs through
the entire range of sweets from fruits to
peppermint, the actual percentage of
sugar ranging from ten to ninety per
cent. The ingredient which enters most
largely into the adulteratiOn is terra
alba, the average being over twenty per
cent. Many of the coloring and flavor
ing tinctures are rank poisons.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

The French women are the best
dressed in the world, German women
have the most Iuxuriant heads of
hair, the Spanish women the small
est hands and feet, Italian women
the most brilliant compilations,
South American the most beauty,
and American women the most
sfVlp.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
CONNUBIALITIBS.

Young man, IL ever inclined you be
To enter the portals Of matrimony,
BewRry how you 60 through it,
II ask Of my wife not to fret and fuss,
She only replies, you're ac-ous, you're ae-cus,
You're ac-cusi you're accustomed to It'll
No matter how tidy she once may have been,
II Madam thinks slOvsnlinsss is no sin
And plenty Of women 50 view it
The more you complain and kick up muss,
The worse she will be, till you are really ac-cus,
You're ac-cus, you re accustomed to It'll
So ] say, young man, take warning in time !
Look we'll to the lesson con ntained in my rhyme,
Or twenty to one you will rue it
If once you submit, twill always be thus;
So, in getting a wife, pray don't get as Gus,
Get ac-cus, get accustomed to It.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

A startled fawn aed for protection
from the hounds into the door yard Of a
Virginia mansion, where a beautiful
girl Of sixteen summers was sitting
The deer approached her with intuitive
trust, and looked piteously into her mild
blue eyes. The maiden, however, con-
trary to all traditions, slaughtered the
animal with a carving knife.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

A policeman in Detroit lately found
a notebook which begins as follows =
''Monday-Buy a gallon of whisky to-
day; take four drinks. Tuesday-Get
a gallon of whisky at noon of Mr.. -;
also get shaved; don't get drunk. We'd
nesday-See if the whisky is out; also
don't drink until after dinner; also see
about more whisky" &c. An uncharita-
BILE reader might say that the owner of
that book drank whisky. He might be
right.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

California is a wonderful State.
In addition to her gold, fruits, grain,
and silk, she is now to present US
with rice of the first quality. The
swamp lands of the Lower Sacramen-
to and San Joaquin Valleys, here'o-
fore regarded as worthless, are now
TO be turned into rich rice fields.
The desert is becoming fruitful.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

A Friend of Greeley's, living in
New Jersey, lately wrote to the
philosopher, asking him how cider
should be kept during the winter.
Greeley replied as follows;
I never raised cider on my farm /;
but would advise that it be washed,
the eyes cut out, then dried in the
sun. After the moisture has suf1-
GENTLY evapOrated, roll it out in
thin strips like pie crust, varnish,
and hang up in a cool place in the
cellar where the flies can't get at it.
In my opinion, cider can be kept
this way a year.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15
Hlsborough Highland County, Ohio Thursday February

tutions at the present time is not quite
seventeen years. hope that Ohio will
not wait until her Constitution is forty
years old before these wrongs are reme-
died. S. H. BEARD.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

A lady says she knows a man
who prayed night and morning
preached on Sundays, and was 6
rich farmer besides. His wife milk
ed the COWS in all sorts Of weather
cut most of the wood, built fires,
churned, economized, and died Oi
consumption. He put a weed on
his hat, bowed to the "dispensatiOn
Of Providence" when he ought tC
have been tried for WOmanslaugh'
ter in the first degree, and sentenced
to chop wood and milk cows in the
rain all the rest of his life.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1872-02-15

A man arriving home at Il late hour a
little the worse for too much supper,
hatIess and coatIess, was asked by his
indignant spouse: "Where's your hat
and coatH" "Sent 'em, my dear (hic)l
to the Chicago sufferers"