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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-28

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rFacticHl House Painters and Paper Hangers
Gazlers, Kalsominers, Fancy ColOTers and
Decorators.
A TREAT FOR THE HOLIDAYH
DIRTY wall and ceiling paper cleaned and whit
coated,
Prices reasonable. All orders promutlv attended
70 at 2vS WEST TWELFTH ST.. and rear Of ilaT
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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-28

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4 q SAMPLES sslt by mail for soc, t6At retail
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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-02-28

Among the great
discoveries Of modern
science, few are Of
more real value to
mankind than this ef-
fectual remedy for oil
diseasesNOf the Throat
and Lungs. A vast
trial of its virtues,
throughout this and
other countries, has
shown that 1t does
uura1u aud nflncfually
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
A Word to the Grangers.

The Monroe Mich. } Sentineld raws
with master hand the portraits of
certain Democratic politicians, who
are just now very busy, trying to flat
ter the "Grangers" with the idea that
if they will Uote the Democratic tick
ct they will secure the reform for
which they are laboring. Are there
not some gentlemen in this county
who might have sat for the picture?
"What is more ridiculous than to
see diseased politicians, dealers in
worthless patent-rights that have
ruined more workers than all othel
impositions put together; notorious
ofice-seekers with unsuccessful pro
clivities, carrying the banners of the
honest, hard-working farmer, shout
ing, Down with monopoiesl Dow1
with the thieves and politicians
Make way for honest toll! Hurral
for our partyl' If the GraDgers can b
duped by these pretentious Headers
they are of different material thai
they claim to be-"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
Indictment OfIhe Ohio DemOe-

According to the New York Graphic, the
Democrats of Ohio are largely responsible
for the defeat which their party has sustain
ed, during the past thirteen years, and on
them must rest the responsibility for the
untimely demise of that organization. The
| Graphic states the case thus, in an article
referring to Aliens nomination.
''The Democrats of Ohio have relieved
their opponents of all anxiety for the pres
ent. In fact the Democracy of that Stat,
have always had genius for laundering.
They have furnished the off-oxen of the
Democratic team. All the marplots of the
party hailed from that State 1t was Ohio
that invented Copperheadism, and fastened
the worst odium of opposing the war, by
aiding secession, on the Democracy of the
| country. 1t was Vallandigham and his Ohio
confreres who defeated Mcclellan by nail
ing the peace-plank to the Chicago platform
and pledging the party to an unpopular and
unpatriotic proceeding. Itwas Mr.. Pendle-
ton, of Ohio, who invented the greenbaek
heresy, which frightened the nation from
the Democracy as from camp stricken
with a plague. 1t was Ohio that prevent
ed the nomination of Judge Chase in 1868.
In short, almost every misfortune that has
befallen the national Democracy has re-
suited from the purblind policy and misera-
BILE blundering Of the Ohio Democrats.
And this last act shows that they have learn
ed nothing from their repeated mistakes,
and that their passion for laundering. is
stronger in death. No wonder that the
Republicans fatter and caress the Ohio
Democracy, to whose persistent laundering
they are indebted for the defeat and dis
grace of their old enemy, if not for their
own successes"
T. That is a strong Indictment, but the lead
ers of the party in this State richly deserve
it all. They took the lead in all measures
designed to afford aid and comfort to the
rebels. They were always found, during
the war, occupying position as near the
rebel ranks as they dared to go, with heart,
OAOOACu W ACOCl N4SlOAACo pun tuO OGlLAS-
| field, and depressed by the triumphs Of
Union soldiers. They forced the Democ-
racy into position which was obnoxious
to every sentiment of loyalty, and virtually
united the fortunes of the party with the
fate of rebel arms. By the position which
they assumed, the success OF the loyal sol
diers was just as fatal to the Democratic
party as it was disastrous to the rebel cause.
The two were joined together in ife-they
could not be separated in death. There is
little doubt but it was the folly and madness
of Ohio Democrats which placed the party
in that position; and now the people are
asked to makea Governor of one of those
Democratic leaders-one of those rebel
sympathizers-one of those men who FORM
ed an alliance between the Democratic
party and the rebel leaders for the over
throw of the Republic and the establish
ment of an oigarchy based upon human
slavery. Such proposition is an insult
to the people of the State, which will be
properly resented at the polls on the second
Tuesday in October.-[Toledo Blade.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
Yirtuons Indignalien.

The Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio has been recently
batting his hook to catch the soldier
vote of his State. In late speech
he took occasion to denounce the
President for his appointment of Gen,
eral Longstreet to lucrative office
IN the South, or in his own language
passing over meritorious soldiers
and appointing man whose hands
are stained by the blood of Union
men," These emocratic gentlemen
are very hard to please. In one
breath they pitch into the President
for not appointing ex-rebels to Office.
and in the next they denounce him
because he selected the best repre-.
sentative of that class for leading
Federal position. Since the close Of
the war the Democratic press and
orators have been soundly abusing
the President for not giving larger
share of patronage to Southern men,
especially to those who held infuen-
tial positions under the Confederacy.
By this benevolent policy we are
told the masses of the South would
be won to the support of the Gov
ernment. But the Administration
saw fit to encourage the loyal ele-
ment instead of the disloyal. When
ever an ex-rebel was found who gave
evidence of an intention to accept the
situation and do all he could toward
bringing about peace, good will and
prosperity, encouragement was ex-
tended in the shape of Federal pat
ronage, but the policy OF wholesale
appointments from among those who
tried to break up the Union, has not
been encouraged, either by the Presi
dent or the party he represents.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
y Far Behindhand.

Macaulay, in all his writings, con
stantly asserted and yindicated his po-
itical principles. He put in his "best
icks" for his party. In one of his elab-
crate historical essays he stops to re-
mark: "Though a Tory may now be
very like what a Wing was one
hundred and twenty years ago, the
Wing is as much in advance of the
4 Tory as ever Society is constantly
advancing; the tail may now be
where the head was some generations
ago, but the head and tail still keep
their distance" This is the language
of a partisan, but it has a general
truth in it which all observers of po-
htical affairs and of party, conduct
have noticed. In Ohio we find a
Democratic Convention resolving to
support the General Government in
its constitutional authority, and to op-
pose notification and secession" In
Virginia a Democratic Convention
resolves to maintain the rights of all
classes without distinction of color" /"
and praises the free school system.
This indicates progress. It is graf
flying to observe that Democracy is
beginning to camp on the ground
which was taken by Republicans
years ago. There is room in these
wide positions for all parties. But
Democrats have not yetby any means
come up with the Republicans. A few
of the advance guard of Democracy
have partially accepted, Republican
ideas, but the masses of Democracy
are still dragging behind. 5g
| A political philosopher once re-
marked that he had constantly
observed a vast number of people are
fifty years at least, behindhand in their
politics. This, in his opinion, is be-
cause only few can fully compare
and digest what passes before their
eyes at different times and occasions,
so as to form the whole into dis
tinct system. From whatever cause
the fact may proceed, there is par
ty among us tagging dozen years
or so behind the march of events,
and ludicrously affirming in solemn
manner doctrines which another par
ty have held for years; and the res
olutions affirming them are uttered
with as much gravity as if our Dem
ocratic friends had just discovered
the principles and claimed original
proprietorship thereof But, far be
hind as they are in their politics, it
is not displeasing to observe that
they are beginning an advance. They
were whipped years ago while con
tending against the principles they
now tardily adopt Portland (Ore-
.gon) Bulletin.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
Didn't Enjoy Herself as Usual.

As an original expression of heavy
grief, we doubt if anything more
touching has been read than the fol-
lowing, of crushed heart, in Star
City, Nevada Mrs.-of that place,
a very eccentric old lady, recently
rushed into the room of a relative,
and, without waiting for the usual
salutations, said: .
swell, Johns dead!'
s.Deadl is it possible?" -y-
eyes, dead Died last night ]
want you all to come to the funerd.
The Masons and Odd Fellers are
going to turn out, and we shall have
beautiful time"
Deaths being rare occurrence II
the settlement, of course everybody
went to the funeral. Next day, some
body remarked to the old lady thai
there was large turn out.
''Yes, indeed, there was" she re-
Piled; "but I didn't enjoy myself al
well as I have at some funerals, thu
hosses cut up So"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
House Ruiltina Day.

The newspapers of Lancaster,
Penn, publish an account ofthe build
ing of brick dwelling house in that
city in ten and half hours, the ma
terials having been prepared and col
lected on the site previous to the
commencement. The house is twen-
ty feet by thirty on the ground floor,
two stories in height, and contains
eight rooms. There were in all up
ward OF one hundred workmen en-
ployed. The cellar foundation was
already laid, and at precisely 6 o'clock
Friday morning the men went to
work. The Examiner thus describes
the labor.
Mr.. J. T. Reading, photographer,
was present with his apparatus, and
took views every fifteen minutes of
the building and the workmen while
in motion, which of course produced
some ridiculous pictures-men, white
and colored, in almost every position
are to be seen represented. At 8
o'clock the structure was advanced to
the height of one story with two
foors-ground and second-laid,
partitions in, and lathed and partly
plastered, doors hung, stairways up,
and view taken with the doctor in
the midst of his workmen. The
scene is busy and comic one-the
brick layers erecting scaffolding for
the second story. 10 o'clock A. NJ.
view taken of western front on Prince
street; second story brick work two
thirds up, with carpenters ready to
lay floor, and plasterers commence
lathing; western front painted and
brick penciled of first story, and ma
sons run short of brick, and then
some delay in consequence, but it
was remedied in a short while. IL
o'clock A. M. the bricklayers are up
to square of ceiling of third floor,
with corners raised to the height re-
quired to receive the rafters for roof
ing. Timers waiting. The process
of white coating is now about COM
pleted in the first story. 11:18 A.
NJ. first rafter for roof laid. 12:1l
the last brick was placed upon the
chimneys and the bricklayers are
done. Roof sheathed, and timers
begin to lay roofing. 1880, scat
folding all removed from building.
2:30 P. NJ. sash in the windows of
first story and painters finished up;
wash boards down, and rubbish
cleaned away. At this writing tin
ners are leaving the building; roofing
and spouting completed. Plasterers
still at work in second story. The
building has been insured, and in the
course of a few hours will be ready
for tenant.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
The California SenatOrship.

Californians in Washington express
the opinion that Governor Booth will
be chosen next United States Sena-
tor. He and Senator Casserly join
ed in the late canvass to make the
fight for the people against the rail
road corporation, but there is no un-
derstanding between them in respect
to the Senatorship. The election Of
either would be a bitter pill for the
railroad ring. It is also predicted
that the new Legislature, when il
shall assemble, will repeal what is
commonly called the Five Per Cent
Law, which allows each county tc
vote 5 per cent. of the total valuation
Of the assessed property, less the
county debt, in aid of the railroads
and that the Legislature will alsC
pass laws regulating the tariff of ras
senger fares and freights.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
Fate Of u Hot Air Balloon Per-
former

Wapello, Iowa, Sept. 25 A balloon ascen-
sion by Prof. j. W. Bailey was advertised
to take place at the Fair Grounds near this
city, this afternoon, and a large crowd
gathered to witness it. At $50 o'clock the
balloon was cut loose; Bailey hanging by
his hands to horizontal bar beneath.
Just after the balloon, which was inflated
with hot air, left the ground it took fire
near the mouth, and Bailey did not ap-
parently see the fire until he was too high
to let go with safety, but hung on until he
had reached an altitude of twelve or fifteen
hundred feet, when the canvas that held the
hoop, from which he was suspended, burn
cd away, and he fell, reaching the earth
quarter of mile from the point of start
ing. His body was frightfully mangled,
MS Isgs being driven into the hard ground
up to the knees.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
European Demand for Bread.
StufFS,


If the recent reports of the wheat
crop in Europe be true, there must
be rise in prices in this country,
consequent upon the foreign demand
which will spring up, to supply the
large deficit in England and France.
In Great Britain, it is supposed
there will be demand for at least
one hundred millions of bushels of
wheat. France will require about
fifty millions of bushels to fill out
her annual demand. Here then is a
deficit in two nations alone of at least
one hundred and fifty millions OF
bushels, to be supplied from without
their own borders.
The shipments of wheat from this
country to England for three years
past, have not exceeded thirty three
millions of bushels in any year
Last year the export of wheat die
not exceed twenty millions of bushels
In, past years the wheat received il
Great Britain from Russia, Germany
and Canada combined, amounted t.
about seventy millions of bushels
Now that France comes in as a com
!. petitor for supply, the effect mus
be to greatly enhance prices. This
if the foreign reports do not Civ
,, false figures, will leave France ant
England fifty millions short, consid
! ering the amount their people hav
been accustomed to use.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
A Remarkable Story.

There lived in Brooklyn not long
ago, a man possessed of a devil. He
had inherited the devil from his faith
er, in the first place, and had nursed
it until it grew so strong that it took
entire possession of him. The devil
was very familiar one, and its name
was Rum. The man had many no
BILE instincts, and, better than all
these, he had a loving, faithful, brave
wife, who made skillful war upon the
demon, her husbands master. Rec
ognizing the fact that her husband
was under and overpoweringimpulse,
that he longed and struggled man
fully to free himself from the passion
for drink, she bent all the energies
of her woman-nature to the task of
helping him. She loved, and toiled,
and suffered, until at last the loving,
and toiling, accomplished their pur-
pose. She took her husband by the
hand, and shared with him his strug-
gle, until after years of labor, she
overcame his devil, and saw him a
free man again. Her battle with
Rum had been q fierce one, taxing
and wasting her strength sorely, but
she was conqueror at last Her hus
band stood upon manly feet, and
showed no sign of falling again.
Several years passed away, ant
this reformed man fell i'll of consump
ton. The distinguished physician
from whose lips we have the story
prescribed alcoholic siimulantsas as thu
only means possible of prolongine
his life. The poor wife was in terror
: and begged the physician to recal
the prescription. She told him. @
her long struggle and her victory
and said she preferred her husban
should die then, sober man, thai
that he should fill a drunkards gray
a year later. But the freed spirit c
the man was strong, and he under
took to take alcoholic liquors as
medicine, and to confne himse
, absolutely to such times and mea'
ures in the matter as the physical
should prescribe. This he did, an
during the months thus added to hi
: life he never once drank single dro
|: more than the prescription called TO
i and he died at last sober man, g
o the wife had so earnestly prayed thu
d he might. But the end was not ye
When the loving and patient wife ha
It laid him in his grave, and saw her Ion
# labors thus ended in the victory fo
It which she had toiled so hard and su
,, fered so bitterly, she turned in gri
Is to the brandy which had been left
y the house, and drinking it she fe
@ herself into the power of the dev
S, which she had fought so heroicall
% And that woman died, not maj
u months later, a hopeless, helple
le drunkard. Hearth and Home.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09

Said a young husband whose busl-
ness speculations were unsuccessful;
my wife's silver tea set, the bridal
Gift of rich uncle, doomed me to
financial ruin. 1t involved a hundred
unexpected expenses, which, in trying
to meet, made me the bankrupt that
1 am His is the experience OF
many others, less wise, who do not
know what is the goblin in the house,
working its destruction. A sagaciouf
father of great wealth, exceedingly
mortified his daughter by ordering tc
be printed on her wedding cards
mo presents except those adapted tc
an income of $1,000" Said he, ''yor
must not expect to begin life in th'
style I am able by many years of la
Dor to indulge; and 1 know of no
thing that will tempt you more thai
the well intended but perniciou:
gifts of rich friends"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09

A colored man of Detroit having long adj
mired colored widow, but being afraid
to come out boldly and reveal his passion,
went to white man of his acquaintance
and askek him to write the lady letter
asking her hand in marriage. The friend
wrote, telling the woman in a few brief lines
the size of her feet was the talk of the neigh
borhood, and askingher if she couldn't pare
them down a little. The name of the color
ed man was signed, and he ewas to call on
heron Sunday night for an answer. A day
or two afterward the writer of the letter
met the negro Imping along the street,
and asked him what the widow said. The
man showed him blood-shot eye, scratch
ed nose, lame leg, and spot on the scalp
where a handful of wool had been violent
ly jerked out, and he answered IN solemn
tones: ''She didn't say muffin; and 1 didn t
stay dar MORN minute!"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
ABAcaRIoR's A wooINe. 3

e. ..a
SEPT 1s.-A rainy day: Inlaid-aside scribbling
found the following, which, descriptive of an Oh
Bachelors tOOoino, is seasonable warning to th'
sinful sarnstering, so common nowadays, in tn
matter of matrimony.
The date is June, 1870, and it commenceth thusly
Matte is your name;
With this pen, write the same,
On this quiet eve of June,
And heart and hand vibrate in tune. a a'.-
Happy are the birds of song,
Happy are the youthful throng, 5
Sweet the cooling of the dove, *
Sweet the minstrelsy of love.
Money hath its earthly charms,
Love, its pleasures and alarms, .t-
But o. BIS are sluggish souls,
As laundering craft, amid the shoals.
Hungering, but lingering still,
Like lazy, irundling wheel, .- {
Round and round, with ugly squeaks,
'On me, oil me-" thus it shrieks.
Risk you such shaky mill?
Halfway down life's muddy hill ?
Can you lore and nurse and cherish,
AnO. B., who else might perish?
To our friend 80. B." of Mansfield, gladstone
greeting: may be, you are hit If so, make .
Bridal. or take the bit. r.l JOSEPHAW.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-09
Party Responsibility.

The Republican party is response
BILE for those measures and acts which
it endorses or defends. To hold it
accountable for every act of its ser
wants is to condemn o community for
every transgression of the law. No
code of laws can make men honest;
no organization can be entirely free
from raseality.-Laws can restrain
the disorderly and punish dishonesty;
organizations can repudiate raseality
when found. Beyond this, neither
law nor organization can be justly
held responsible for the short-eom-
ings of those who are dishonesty
inclined. Human judgment is often
in error; confidence, apparently well
founded, is abused; men who hold
good regulations fail; the trusted
turn out rascals. This has been SO
from the foundation oftime, and will,
in all probability, continue to the end.
The best that we can hope for is that
bad men, as soon as known, shall be
driven from power; that questionable
public measures shall be denounced;
that good men shall be elected to
right the wrong done; and a sharp
watch be kept upon those who are
for the time being called to represent
and protect the peoples interests.
The purest individual that ever lived
has made mistakes; has reposed con-
fdence in unworthy men. The best
party that can be organized by the
wisdom, intelligence, and patriotism
of the nation will at times be led into
the support of men who will prove
unworthy of public confidence. TIC
endorse the acts of these men would
be to transfer their iniquity to the
party itself; to promptly repudiatt
them is to elevate the party above re
proach or censure.-We should draw
a broad line between the bad faitl
of a servant and the good intentions
of his master The Republican par
, ty has had it's faithless servants, bu
in no case has it attempted to shielC
them from the punishment they earn
ed. AS soon as discovered the part.
, has repudiated them, and entere'
before the people its earnest potes
against their acts. The record c
t every Republican State convention
e gives evidence of a sterling morait
among the masses of the people
Never in its history has its standar
= of public integrity stood as high a
!? it does today. 1t demands homes
Il men for public positions and is d.
n termined to have them. No measure
. no act, no character, can hope to b
= whitewashed by the Republican part,
h Both man and measure must stan
e upon their merits, If they are ju'
> and true, the party will be quick
o I, support and advocate them; if uniu'
Il Il and dishonest they will be consigne
# to oblivion. We have faith in a pa
le ty that stands guard over the actor
M of its servants; that is ready to rep
v diate whatever is wrong; that is ind
: pendent enough to exact from l
~ leaders the highest qualities OF pc
10 sonal character and official integrit
ne The Republic can never be in dang
h. when so true and loyal power guld
i'd the administration of its affairs.