The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-11-13
Miscellaneous Items.

The Indianapolis EXposltlon dldn
pay out by about $4,000.
D The recent report that three hun
} dred clergymen in Colorado had re-
, tired to their reservations with their
q scalps and plumber, will bear correc-
r ton. For "clergymen" read 'Chey-
+ ennes." I'D
The Norfolk, Virginia, City Coun-
5 Gil appropriated $500 for the Mem
phis sufferers, and recommended c:ti-
zens to make individual contributions.
The tobacco Crop in Virginia will
: be fully an average one. The season
was more favorable for q large crop
than any year since the war.
The financial panic has lessened
the sale of postage stamps in New
York 1000 daily.
The expectation of gold from Aus
tralia this year, up to the 31st of Au-
gust, amounted in value to $31, 1,078,-
245, an increase of more than one
third over the value of the exports in
1872. L.--......... ..
An Iowa clergyman who had do
nation party lately, has beans enough
to last him thirty-seven years.
A man in Peoria claims to have
stone that Was! iogton threw at
wood pecker on his fathers cherry
tree. s..r .-a
i In Wisconsin, a man reported that
he couldn't find a word in the diction-
ary, because the blasted book hadn't
got an index. t..
A poor Keokuk, Iowa, woman had
no money to give towards building
the new church, but she cheerfully
worked four days in shingling the
edifce.
In Cairo, Egypt, gas pipes have
been laid down in all the principal
streets, and these are better lighted
than some European capitals The
principal thorough-fares are supplied
with water mains, ard good water is
distributed throughout the city.
A Connecticut paper solemnly as
serts that man fractured the ceiling
just above q chair in which there had
been placed hot poker.
When you hear a man say the
world owes him a living, don't leave
any hams laying around loose.
A good way to find out if there is
obnoxious gas in the well, is to lower
your mother in law by rope.
Mrs. Partington thinks that the
grocers ought to hire music teacher
to teach them the scales correctly.
John C. Heenan, the pugilist, died
recently of consumption, on the U.
P. r. R., while on his way to San
Francisco, for his health.
Italy will send an immense delega
ton of emigrants to America next
season-not musicians or sculptors,
but farmers. Let them come.
The United States Signal on the
top of Pixies Peak is Ia, ZIG feet above
the sea level One observer and
three assistants will remain there
during the winter. gaa
The Count De Paris, the future
King of France, if the monarchists
win, was on Gen. McClellan's staff
during the war, and was great fla
yorite with the ladies.
The new forts around Paris, twenty |
two in number, are to begin this |
month, and when they are completed |
Paris expects to be siege proof.
Kansas papers say that seven acres
of wheat are sown this year where
there was one acre last year.
The new Hertz torpedo, recently
invented and subjected to trial by the |
government in Germany, is said to
be the most powerful and destructive
weapon ever constructed.
The scarcity of horses is a great /
embarrassment in England just now
so much so as to cause a Paria
mentary Commission to investigate.
This commission reports that nearly
every large farmer in England is
short of horses.
Twenty thousand bales of cotton
will be raised this season in six of the
southeastern counties of Missouri,
viz: Dunklin, New Madrid, Pemiscot,
Mississippi, Scott and Stoddard.
Boston has voted to take in five of
the neighboring towns, and the
towns have voted to be taken in. The
estimated population of the city is
now three hundred and thirty thous-
and.
A New Orleans paper says that, in
schools of that city, since 1870, there
has been no discrimination practised
against any body, parent, pupil, or
teacher, on account of politics or
color.
Iceland is the oldest part of the
Western world, and next year it pro-
poses to celebrate the 1,000th ami
vers;try of its settlement.
4 greatly needed work has been
done in the codifcation of the laws
of the United States, which are re-
ported to be now ready for submiss-
ion to Congress at the next session.
1t is announced that Mr. James
Gorlon Bennett, of the n Y Herald,
proposes fitting out an Arctic exre-
dition for the discovery of the North
Pole.