The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-09-18

And the clouds of our December
Let no beam Of hope shine through;
Then, oh then: God bends Him DER us;
Then His love grows very clear;
Long we heavenward then-before US
Lo, His angel standing nearl
Fresh the cup of life He reaches;
Whispers courage, comfort new;
Nor in vain our prayer beseeches
Rest for the beloved too.
IScribners for September
Governor NOyes, the Republi-
cam Candidate for Governor
Governor Edward F. Noyes was
born at Haverhill, Mass, October
Sd, 1882, and is, therefore, forty
years of age. His parents had both
died before he was three years old,
and he went to live with his mothers
parents at East Kingston, N H.
When twelve years of age, be was
taken in charge by his guardian, and
when thirteen years old took care of
fifteen or twenty head of cattle, cut
the wood for fires at home, and went
three miles into the swamps, where
he cut his half cord of swamp naples,
and piled the wood up by the day.
At fourteen he went to Dover, N. H.,
into the Office of the Morning Star,
religious newspaper published by the
Free Will Baptist denomination, to
learn the printers trade, his guar
dian giving him the choice between
this and going intoa store in Boston.
At eighteen, with the consent of Mr.
William Burr, publisher of the Morn
ing Star, he left the printing Office
and commenced preparation for col
lege, attending school and teaching
alternately, as he was dependent upon
his own exertions for the means of
attending school. At twenty-one, (in
1851 he entered Dartmouth College
as freshman, and graduated in 1857
among the halfdozen best scholars
in large class. Immediately upon
graduating he removed to Cincinnati,
Ohio, and studied law with Tilden,
Rariden & Curwin, and graduated at
the Cincinnati Law School, of which
Hon. Bellamy Storer, NJ H. Tilden,
and Maskell E. Curwin were the pro-
fessors. He commenced law practice
in Cincinnati in 1858, and was in sue
cessful prosecution of his profession
when the war broke out in 1861. He
opened recruiting station in his
law office, and between the 9th of
July and the 20th of August, in con-
| junction with Colonel John Groes-
beck, raised and organized the Thir-
ty-ninth regiment Ohio infantry. He
took the field as major of that regi
ment He was made colonel, in the
summer of 1862, and served in the
field under Pope, Rosecrans, Dodge,
Mcpherson, Sherman, and Grant, un-
til July 4, 1864, when he lost leg
while commanding an assault upon
the enemy's works at Ruff's Mills,
near the Chattahooche river, in the
advance of Atlanta. Having been
previously recommended for promo
tion to the full rank Of brigadier gen.
eral, LIE was, after being wounded,
breveted for meritorious services. He
suffered two amputations in five
weeks, and three months after being
wounded reported for duty again, and
was assigned to the command of
Camp Dennison, in Ohio. In April,
1865, and while yet in the army,
General Noyes was elected chief at
torney (city solicitor) of Cincinnati.
Before his term expired, he was elect
ed Probate Judge of Hamilton coun-
ty, and served three years, receiving
the highest commentators for his
administration of the office. In 1870
he went to Europe, and spent seven
months in travel, and returned to
Ohio in the fall of 1870 to commence
law practice again in Cincinnati, in
the firm of Noyes & Taft, and was
doing splendid business when the
Ohio Republicans asked him to be-
come the Republican candidate for
Governor. They nominated him by
acclamation, and elected him by 20,
166 majority. During the campaign
he made ffty-fve speeches in forty
one days, and in the Presidential
campaign of 1872, spoke in SIX States,
averaging two hours day for three
months, and at the late Ohio Repub-
lican Convention, was nominated as
Governor by acclamation.
This brief statement of facts, so
closely personal to Governor Noyes,
explains his popularity. He is an
able man; he has done his utmost to
improve his abilities and opportuni-
ties; he has won his success by the
honest toll that is the chief honor of
the great body of Americans.
He has been tried in various mill
tary and civil posts of great response
bility, and in every instance received
the plaudit "Well done!" Such man
by his very nature and course of life,
is Republican. His party in Ohio
is most fortunate in having chosen
so fit leader, one who personally
adds assurance to its hopes of success.
The Mansfield Herald tells the sad |
tale of General Brinkerhof, that on
the day of the Richlan1 County Re
publican Convention, he offered the
Republican candidate for Auditor the
support of the ''third party" provided
he would pledge himself to appoint
as his deputy the Liberal candidate
for the same place. This is elegant