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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

Democracy as 1t Was.

By the nomination of the old fossil
Col. VIM. Allen, for Governor, upon
a platform protesting undying fdeh-
ty to its past history, the Democracy
Of Ohio has challenged the re,produc-
ton of its record for the last ten
years. Even partial recital there
of proves that every liberal measure
was opposed with the same unreason-
ing and dogged persistency which
it evinces to- day to the progressive
principles of .Republcanism. The
people refused to be led astray by
these false prophets then, and there is
no reason to think that their judg-
ment will be reversed in October
next.
''ResOIoed, That emancipation
would throw upon the border free
States, and especially upon Ohio, an
immense number of negroes to com
pete with and underworld the white
laborers of the State, and to consti-
tute, in various ways, an almost or
quite unbearable nuisance, if suffered
to remain among US. And we would
deem it unjust to our gallant soldiers
to see them compelled to free the
negroes of the South, and thereby fill
Ohio with degraded population to
compete with these same soldiers
upon their return to the peaceable
avocations of life.-State platform,
1862. ~
"ResolUed, That we protest against
the emancipation proclamation as un-
wise, unconstitutional, and void
State, 1868.
"Res0Uled, That the effort now be-
ing made to confer the right of suf-
frage upon negroes is an insidious
attempt to overthrow popular insti-
tutions by bringing the right to vote
into disgrace; that the negroes are
not competent to the exercise of that |
right, nor is it necessary to their
safety or protection; on the contrary,
its exercise by them, if attempted,
would be fraught with terrible ca
lamities to both them and the whites,
and we are, therefore, unequivocally |
opposed to negro sufrage.-State,
1865.
"ReSozced, That we are opposed, |
both in principle and policy, to negro
suffrage.-State, 1868. r-
"Resoloed, That *the attempt
to regulate suffrage in Ohio by means
of the so-called fifteenth constitution
al amendment is subversive of the
principles of the Federal Constitution.
State, 1869.
"Resoloed, That we regard the act
recently passed by Congress to en-
force the fifteenth amendment as un-
constitutional, unjust, and oppressive;
an invasion of the rights of The State,
a subversion of the best interests of
the people, and therefore demand its
unconditional repeal.-State, 1870.
'ResOloed, That the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments, so-called, hav-
ing been made parts of the Federal
Constitution by violence and fraud,
are revolutionary and void-State,
1871-Minority Report of Platform
Committee. The majority report
recognize the amendments as accom-
plished facts merely, expressing no
opinion of their merits.
"ResoIced, That we do not indorse
said amendments (thirteenth, four
teenth, and Efficiently nor admit that
they were right, expedient or polite.
Marion county (O) Democratic
Convention, 1871"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

There is another beautiful story
spoiled. In the U. S. Histories used
in schools, there is a charming Incl
dent told of how Benjamin Franklin,
in speech "that abounded in good
sense and was not wanting in elo-
quence, proposed daily morning
prayer" 1t is said that the hint was
well received, and after that, prayer
was offered every morning before pro-
ceeding to business Now, some OF
this only is true Mr.. Franklin made
the speech and the motion, but the
convention voted it down by large
majority.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
"Hail to the Chief who in Triumph Advances
Tine Eighth Wonder of the World"
Nesmith's Great Rheumatic and
Neuralgia Cure, and Magical
Pain Extractor.

1t viii remove all pain at once, and Immediately
cure Neuralgia, Lumbago, Sciatica, Pain in the
Back and Side, Piles, Frozen Limbs, Chilblains,
Burns, Scalds, ToOthache, Earache, Headache, no
difference how bad, nor what it proceeds from,
Chapped Lips, Chapped Hands, Stings of Bees,
Bites of Poisonous Insects, and in fact all of the
External Pains and Aches that the human family is
heir to- and il will speedily Rheumatism, fresh
cases immediately Paralysis, Gout, Sprains Stiff
Joints, Cuts, Wounds, Bruises, Fever Sores, and
Bed Sores By applying it freely to the part affect
ed without rubbing. For Toothache. saturate lit
tie cotton with it, and place it in the hollow of
tAe tooth, and for Earache, drop or drops of it
into The ear affected, and ali pain will instantly
cease.
illsboro Ohio, and by n. Squire, at his Drug Store,
n Greenfield. Ohio. lY20Yl
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

The Marietta Register says
Parkersburg contained more wealth
one morning last week than it ever
had before. A car load of gold,
bound from San Francisco to New
York, stopped few minutes at the
depot. There were S2,OOO,OOO in
double eagles, in 100 canvas bags,
each containing 1000 pieces, or $40,
900. The bags were trebly locked in
twelve iron chests. The car was
guarded by nine armed men, and
safely arrived at its destination.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

The Democracy say in their plat
form they will continue to denounce
and oppose" as they shave always
denounced and opposed" land grants
to corporations. But the fact is that
whatever credit or blame attaches to
the Inauguration of the land grant
business belongs to. the Democracy.
The first grant was that of two and a
half million acres to the Illinois
Central by Democratic Congress.
Stephen A. Douglass was the author
of this measure, and worked il
through both Houses. Prior to
1858 it was followed by thirty nine
other grants, making an aggregate
amount of over thirty-one million
acres of the public lands given to
railways by Democratic Congresses.
When the Bourbons resolved that
they had always denounced land
grants they had probably forgotten
these facts. But then Democratic
principles are "suited to all times
and circumstances"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

In the last letter Mr.. Albert Sum-
ner, one of the Atlantic's lost passen-
gers, sent home from Europe, he in
closed his photograph, with the words,
Coming events cast their shadows
before" How little he thought then
he was SO soon to pass through the
valley of the shadow of death!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
Select Miscellany.
THE AERONAUT.
BY ELIZABETH SILL,


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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
1t is said that upon a convivial oc-

1t is said that upon a convivial oc
casion once Hon. Geo. E. Pugh, al
present enjoying Liberal notoriety-
approached Thomas Buchanan Read
(both having imbibed pretty freely
upon the subject of joining the Dem
ocratic Church. ''The suggestion
may be q good one, responded Read
"but in your church there seems tc
be but one Pugh, and that is already
full"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

Since Miss Maggie Elphick, the
Connecticut fsherman's daughter
pulled young Sims out of the bay al
Greenwich, she has received dozen
offers of marriage, and the Connect
cut girls are asking, Mother, may
go to swim?" Girls, learn to swim.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
A PhiIOsOphic Husband.

An ex-private, giving anecdotes connected
with the late war, relates an incident of q
soldier he calls Jim, that beats Enoch Arden
all to pieces. Jim was made a cripple at
the battle of Stone River After the war q
comrade met him sitting in a provision
store in Columbus. He was still cripple,
but his face had the old quietness of con-
| tent in it. -...- .r..
He said: ''Yes, I'm doing pretty well /;
not making much, but doing pretty we'll
Have just been up to see my wife. She
married another man, you know. Mo-
Didn't you know it? Divorced? No. She
just married him, and threw me overheard,
you know. 1t made me little mad, 1 tell
you. But she married good man, aud
there's the rub, you see. He's got farm
and good house, and he took my wife and
children right in, sir, and treated them like
gentleman. 1t cut me little to have the
woman throw me off, but I looked at the
question from her nd-point, and it's all
right. Then I got worked up little, and
thought had better steal the children from
their step-father. So 1 went up to see
them again. Would you believe it? They
said they didn't want to live with me if they
had to leave their mother. So I said, tAll
right, and came right away again. You
see my girl is smart. She knew that with
my lame leg and arm I couldn't support her
right, and the little duck told me SO, with her
arms around my neck. This finished me,
you know"
''But," said my friend, ''the woman is
legally your wife,"
Il know it," said Jim, but if 1 was stub
born and claimed her, you see, she would
have to take in washing to support the fam
lily. Legality isn't the thing. I can't do
anything much, and lit wouldn't be comfort
able, you know, to have her working for
me. couldn't stand that half SO well as
the way it is now. No, sir, legality don't
help the matter. will never be comforta-
BILE any way. She'd marry after was
dead, SO what's the use of whimpering?"
Poor Jim! He was constitutionally cool
to the last. He accepted misfortune, de-
feat, wounds, loss of wife, and all in the
same spirit with which he went into battle.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
JOHN RANKIN.

S. Wells Williams, the Oldest inhab-
liant among the foreigners in China,
and Secretary of the United States
Legation, has just finished his Die
tionary of the Chinese language. 1t
is the result of 40 years labor, and
contains explanations of 12,5OO
Chinese characters.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

A Nebraska man, on his dying
bed, remembered that his wife was
smoking some hams, and said;
''Now, Henrietta, don't go to snuffiing
around and forget the hams"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
OTHER DISASTROUS RESULTS.

Besides Mr.. Plester, I know sever
al others, the best citizens of Owen,
who have sold out preparatory to
leaving the country, and others who
will leave, at whatever sacrifice, un-
less these lawless scoundrels are
cleaned out, root and branch. The
people are even more excited and
alarmed than on my first visit.
Something must be done, and that
speedily and effectively, or the COM
mon-wealth will soon sink under a
load Of disgrace from which she can
not recover in fifty years.
An armed troop ought to fall on
the cowardly villains like a thunder
bolt. Fifty men of nerve, citizens of
Kentucky, could wipe them out in a
week, without the aid of Federal
soldiery, and at less cost to the State,
both in money and in reputation.
But if our laws are so restrictive that
we must call on the General Govern
ment to save our throats from the
knife, and our bare backs from the
lash, then, in Gods name, let them
come at once.
HOW THEY DRESS AND WHERE THEY MEET.
On a raid the X. K. dresses in a
long calico gown, with mask of
cloth drawn over the face, leaving an
opening for each eye and the mouth.
They now call their order 'the Know
Nothing party" and when on the wit
ness stand they are sworn to know
nothing. For instance, John Smith
joins by the name of Richard Roe,
and in the lodge, or on raids, is
known only by that name.
Of course, though the witness be
known to the court as a Ku-Klux, he
can swear (John Smith being on
trial) that 'tno such name is on the
roll" The last copy of the Owen
News (the 2Oth) calls earnestly, as
that paper has done time and again,
for protection, and details the doings
of squad which visited Owentown a
night or two before.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
Problem.

A bricklayer hired a boy on this condition, thai
for every day he worked he would pay him I'D.
but for every day he was idle he should be fined Sd
When 800 days had passed, neither of them was in
debted to the other. How m3ny days did he work
and how many was he idle? j. W. W.
Carmel, o.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

Susan B. Anthony, remarks the
Boston Traveller, "wants the name OF
the Pullman cars altered either to
Pull man and woman or Pull-irrespec-
tive -of-sex cars"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

Answer to Hymenial Problem in last week.
News.
Thy age when married must have been
just As, thy wife's IS.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

The editor of the Baltimore Ga
zette, after years of experience, says;
"a woman is like tar; only melt her,
and she will take any form you
please"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

The periodicals ofthe United States
according to the latest estimate Of
Rowell's Newspaper Reporter, num-
ber 5,871, and those of all the rest oi
the world only 7,742.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

Texarkana, the southern terminus
of the Cairo and Fulton railroad, is
named from Texas, Arkansas and
Louisiana.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
Youths Department.

fF- Original Enigm as, harades, Problems, ETC.,
are respectfully solicited The answers must always
accompany them, with the real name of the writer.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
Anagrams-Cities and Towns
Charade.

My 1st is malady fearful to all;
My I'd is prefix, though very small;
My Sd is useful and gives nice light;
My 4th is a vehicle, that carries you Alright;
My whole is an island, far away on the ocean,
Where the raging pillows are in constant com
motion.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
CALL For FEDERAL TROOPS.

One and all agree that soldiers,
State or Federal, can accomplish the
dispersion and utter annihilation Of
the Klan in short order. Can we get
them? We have furnished evidence
time and again that the civil law is a
dead letter in this case-why should
any one longer doubt?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
Enigma

Ny S, 8, I, 2, is garment.
My l, 6, Q, S, is part of vessel.
My4 9, 6, I, we should root out.
Mywhole. which is composed of letters, we
should all strive to gain.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

Answer to Scriptural Enigma in last weeks News.
''Strive to enter in at the strait gate"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
KENTUCKY KU.KLUx.

k0bbery. Rape, PiIlage and
Murder. through Three Long
Years-Thirty Brigands Defy
the State. ~
The Louisville Courier-Journal of
a late date contains communication
from Owen and Henry counties, Ky.,
making a more complete expose of
the workings of the Ku-Klux for the
last three years than has heretofore
been given. The correspondent gives
o list of over hundred different out
RACES that have been perpetrated-
murders, robberies, rapes, burning,
beating, &c. It is a long and ghast-
y record.
THE LATEST OUTRAGE.
July &c, 1873, was committed one
OF the most unprovoked murders in
the annals of the State. Lewis vii
son, an honest, reputable negro, liv
ing on the Knoz Brown plantation,
near Gratz, Owen county, was attack
ed shortly before midnight by par
ty OF seventeen.
Though mortally wounded early in
the attack, Lewis drove the towards
from his premises with the breach of
his gun, absolutely pursuing them in
their fight over hundred yards.
He then walked to the residence of
his landlord, Mr.. Williams, and re-
ported, on his death bed, the names
of several of the party; but, mean
time, the gang returned and fred his
cabin, which was burned to the
ground before daylight.
Two or three nights after Wilson's
murder, Nathan Miller, another ne
gro, was attacked at his house in
Franklin county, and likewise shot to
death.
OUTRAGEs SINCE THE PROCLAMATION.
Gov Leslie's proclamation has thus
far had no other effect than to incite
the outlaws to deeds of deviltry. On
last Thursday night, the 18th, a body
of men went to the house of young
Breeder, on Twin Greek, in Owen
County, and whipped him severely.
The correspondent gives list of
other outrages committed since the
proclamation. Among the greatest
sufferers is a Mr.. Plester, who is
obliged to flee the country.
Mr.. Plester thinks that nothing
but an armed force can accomplish
anything towards breaking up this
abominable nest of thieves and rob
bers. That he Is greatly excited by
the outrage, is very natural, yet when
he protest., "This Ku-Klux business
HAS MADE GRANT MAN OF ME,
your correspondent could not refrain
to argue the question in that light,
although he was in a poor mood for
logic. When a man, who has made
small property by honest toll, is
turned loose beggar, with his wife
and children, all in this land of iber
ty and in the nineteenth century, it
is not to be wondered at if he become
almost crazed over such mockery of
protection as the civil law is just now
afording.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02

Governor Leslie, of Kentucky, is
troubled with constitutional doubts
as to his authority to suppress Ku-
Klux outrages in that State. If the
marauders were Republicans, though,
he would hardly permit his scruples
to shelter them. The trouble with
the Governor is that the Ku-Klux are
a political power in Kentucky, and
he would rather let them go on with
their midnight villainies than incur
their i'll will. Even a Senator of a
State is said to be in with the Owen
county Klan, and is probably indebt-
ed to it for the position he. holds as a
lawmaker of Kentucky. How many
more influential friends and accom-
plices these cut-throats have is not
definitely known, but there is some
thing very suspicious in the fact that
they have so long murdered and rob-
bed at pleasure, without serious mo
lestation from the State authorities.
-TCol. Jour.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-10-02
English and American Iron
Trade-Decline of the Form
er and Increase of the Latter.


The English Iron trade continues
greatly depressed, owing chiefly to
the large falling off in orders from
this country. Out of over 1000 fur
naces in the North of England, more
than 700 are idle, and likely to re-
main so for some time to come. In
the United States, on the other hand,
the increased activity in the produc-
ton of iron, which began to be ap-
parent six or seven years ago, gives
promise of remarkable results Last
year 100000 tons of pig iron were
made in this country-an increase OF
more than a million tons over the
product of 1859-60, blast furnaces
and rail mills have become establish
ed in localities where they were al
most unknown, or disregarded, half
dozen years ago, and the quantity
of ore raised is increasing from year
to year. 1t was estimated, at the last
meeting of the Iron Manufacturer
Association, that the new enterprises
started within the last year will req
resent an additional investment Of
about S35, 100000 in the iron indus
try of the Union. This rate of pro-
gress, justified by the continual de.
mand created by the expansion of ou1
railway system and the development
of our National resources, presents q
curious contrast to the melancholy
exhibit made in England.