The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-12-25
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4 OonelA TIeLnOnG mas cancer IN
the stomach, but has, until lately,
kept the matter a secret from family
and friends. His physician says that
he cannot live a year.
The new hymn book which the
General Assembly of the Presbyteri-
an Church authorized to be issued,
Will not be ready for several months.
The Rev. Joseph T. Duryea, D. D.
is the compiler.
Col. Clarence Prentice, only son
of the late George D. Prentice, of
Louisville, was thrown from a buggy
on Saturday night, near that city, and
killed.
A Baptist paper says it is sad
thought that more than 1,25O,OOO
Baptists in the United States barely
raise little more than 100000 for
the great mission cause abroad.
Aletter from Senior Alfaro to Gen.
Burriel, offering to desert the Cuban
cause and to divulge secrets confded
to him if his life is spared, is Just
published. In this affair Alfaro is
joined by seven other Cubans.
Western cattle-men report that in
no previous season has the grass on
the p aims 'cured down" so finely as
the p resent fall. As a consequence,
there will be no lack of good winter
feed. u-
Spain is in magnificent financial
condition. Her annual deficit in
revenue, as compared with receipts,
is thirty-fve millions of dollars, and
she has added three hundred and
eleven millions to her debt since
1869. .
The Postmaster General hasissued
an order reducing the registration fee
on domestic letters and packages
from fifteen to eight cents, commenc-
ing ON the 1st of January next.
The census of Baltimore Just COM
pleted, shows population of 3O2,-
893.
A subscription has been started at
St Louis for the family of Captain
Fry, Of the Virginius.
A FLORIDA colored boy in the act
of eating sugar, was stung in the
mouth by bee and died from the
effects of the sting.
Senator Sumner says that of all the
men whom he met while abroad none
impressed him more favorably than
NJ. Tmers.
Colonel Ryan, recently executed by
the Cuban authorities, has mother
and sister living in Chicago, and a
brother in Joliet, Illinois.
Anew cause ofdisease has appeared.
A woman has Just been sent to the
Maine asylum on account of insanity
developed by Excessive fondness for
her husband"
Henry Clews & Co., the great
New York bankers, have effected
satisfactory arrangements with their
creditors, and will resume business.
Diphtheria is raging fearfully at
Medicine Prairie, MINI, small Ger
man iettlement ten miles from Min
neapcis. Sixteen persons have al
ready died there.
Re7. VIM. V. Feltwell, rector of
Grace church, West Farms, New
York, having joined Bishop Cummins,
has been compelled to resign his po-
sitioI.
Tbe long strike at the iron mills,
at Toy, N. York is ended, Twelve
hundred men viii find employment
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
tunnel through Church Hill, in Rich
mond, Va, is completed, and trains
will commence running regularly.
Three hundred more workmen will
be given employment in the silk mills
of Patterson, N. j., this week.
Navigation on the Hudson river
betw zen New York and Albany has
entirely closed, the earliest case Of
closing on record during the present
century.
France is forming fortified camps
at Bclfort, Besancon, and Verdun, on
the German frontier, and, as eonse-
querce, Germany is increasing her
miit ary reserves
Captain Monengaro, of the Spanish
war vessel Arapiles, which has been
for some days in dry dock at New
Yorl-, has received orders from Mad
rid to get ready for sea at the earl
lest moment.
The Virginius, it is said, belonged
to a Mr.. William Patterson of N. Y.
and was bought by him for the Gu
bans. In compelling that vessel to
stril e, therefore, Spain struck Billy
Patterson. Thus one more perplex-
ing riddle is solved. .
In New York, James H. Ingersol,
and John D. Pennington, two Of
Tweed's associates. have been sent
enced to penitentiary, the former for
five years, and the latter for a year
, and half