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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20


The laws of bankruptcy shall not ap
ply to said corporation. No DIVIDEND
shall hereafter be made, except from
the actual net earnings of the road
and no new stock, or mortgages. o.
| pledges be issued without the con
sent of Congress. No director or off
Ger of the road shall be hereafter in.
terested in any contract, herewith,
except for his lawful compensation,
and any violation of this act shall be
punishable by Imprisonment not ex-
ceeding two years, and by fine not ex-
ceeding five thousand dollars.
The committee also find that there
are persons connected with the Credit
Mobilier Company holding the bonds
of the United States, and that such
persons hold the said bonds not Ii
good faith and for value, but having
Illegally obtained them.
The committee do not recommend
that the Government should refuse to
pay these bonds with interest; but
that while the frauds now pointed out
exist, there are so many persons who
hold the first mortgage bonds of the
Union Pacific Railroad Company in
good faith that the mortgage should
not be set aside.
They report the facts as to the
character of the Credit Mobilier Com
pany, and also refer to the report of
the Poland investigating committee
for the facts relating to the connec-
ton of members of Congress and 9th
er persons with those transactions,
but without submitting any recon-
in regard to them.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

a We can recommend the following Vocal Collection
Of choice Piano Songs: 'Shining Lights lSacrec
Songs; "Golden Leaves" Vols. / and IL; HearTE
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% in cloth; s.. 50 in cloth aud gilt.
Also the following Instrumental Collections
"Fairy Fingers, Magic Circle" "Young Pianist,
and "Pear DroprH-f0ur eaRy collections. ''Ausi.
cal Recreafiona," +'fessant Memories" "Goldel
Chimes" and "Brillianf Gems" for more advanced
players. Price of each book 81 IS in boards 50 in
cloth; 81. so in cloth and gilt.
vols, 81 each in boards; s. in cloth. Noyello's
Cheap Edition OF PIANO. Forte tlassics consisting
OF Aendelssohn's complete works IN vols. sv0,
price $50 each; Folio Edition. S5 each; Beetll-
ovens Sonatas, 81 BeethOven's Pieces 81: Chopin's
W4fzes, folonaises, Nocturnes, MazilrkaS Ballads
and Preludes, price 50 each Schuberts Ten Sonatas
s. Schubert's Piano Pieces, 81; Mozarf's Sonatas
g: Weber's Complete Piano Pieces 81; Schuman's
43 Pieces, 81, etc. etc. In ordering these be sure
10 ask for Novelties Edition. They are all hand.
some editions. Novelties cheap Vocal Collections
Mother Goose 81 and 81; Randegyer's Selected
Sacred Songs S2.5U; MendelssOhn's Is Songs
.beautifu!y bound, $50; Schuman's Vocal Album
s. Moores Irish Melodies, Folio Edition, By Balte
g; German Volkslieder Album, 81, etc, etc
Staineris Christmas Carols new and old, Illus
trated. Price 81. The same without nlusirafiOns
in vols, 81 each complete, g. 80.
PETERS MUSICAL MONTHLY, price 80 cents each
every number containing AT least 81 worth O
music. Bound volumes for 1859, 1ss0, 1911, ant
1873, price, 5 each. Address, -
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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

-
"My sister thoughtit only fair tina
she should return your hospitality,
Hugh said, thinking to turn off the
matter with jest ..'Seriously, yor
did not think that we were going tc
send you to a hospital or q boarding.
house when you had just risked-yes,
and by Jove! came within an inch Of
losing-your life to save mine!" he
added, little indignantly. -T
'I-upon my honor Inever thought
of it at all" Tyrren answered. "My
head-confound it!---had not been
in much of condition for thinking.
But it is very good, very kind in you
to have me here. "~T
'1f it had not been for you, I
should not be here" Hugh said
bluntly. Il generally try to pay my
debts-after a fashion, at least. Oh,
I had quite forgottenl' as knock at
the door was followedby the entrance
of small servants and q breakfast-tray
Margaret wants to know if you viii
be well enough to come down after
you have had your breakfast. There's
a couch in the parlor where you can
be comfortable, and you'll find it dull
up here, for / must go over to the
mines" "a
f'0f course I Will come down" said
Tyrrell. 'fWhat is the matter with
me? I ann not sick" 3ee
"a man can't inhale mephitic air
with impunity,," Hugh answered '1t
will be several days before you are all
right again. I had q turn with it
once, but not like this"
Concluded meet soeek
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

A scholar in country school was
asked, "How do you parse, Mary
milks the COW ?r-The last word was
disposed of as follows: "Cow is =
noun, feminine gender, singular num-
Der, third person, and stands for Ma
ry." Stands for Mary? How do you
make that out?" Because, added
the intelligent pupil, 'if the COW didn't
stand for Mary, how could she milk
herr"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
Select Miscellany.
Death UnravcIs The Mystery of
Life.

hold, not from mere sentiment and
warmth of impulse, but from the reason of
things, and what / know of God, that.
somewhere down the future, we shall meet
what we most longed for, but did miss in
this present Life and that all prayed for
purely-the answer being impossible in this
state and world-will then and there be Civ
en- me, and shall put my arms around it,
and have it with me as mine eternally.-
Then that knowledge which l crave, and
have not; for which search and do not
find-tle knowledge of the First Cause, and
the intricacies of human destiny-be dis
covered. Then shall the mysteries of Prov
idence, which withholds where 1 should
grant, and permits where should deny, be
unfoldel. Then shall the uneven balance,
which 10 lifting of my faith can bring to
even poise, be accurately adjusted, and 1
shall see why the wicked prosper, and the
good decrease. Then will the grim, stark
mystery of sin. which many explain so
glibly. but which to Inc, after all my pom
dering and praying, only looms up as the
great, ug.y, inexplicable fact, which hangs
like dread eclipse upon the efulgence of
universal and otherwise apparent love, be
explained Then shall 1 gain what have
lost and mu, ,h besides, even what I crave
and have lot, and at last be satisfed-CW.
81. Murray.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
CLifereicA%sfinks Z .thas-a

eLifereicAthii thassa
great deal of the short sight
edness decrease in endurance
and acuteness of vision) in
England is the result of the
bad arrangement of light in
the school-houses. These evils
may be prevented by causing
the light to fall on the desk
from the left.hand side and
as much as possible from
above. The children should
sit erect, and the book should
be at least ten inches from
the eyes; it oughtto be placed
at a right angle of twenty, de
grees for writing and forty
degrees for reading.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

We notice that Democratic papers
are denouncing the Poland Credit
Mobilier Committee for its supposed
favoritism for Republicans, but neg
lect to state the fact that a majority
of the committee were Democrats.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

Compulsory education in
Texas requires that persons
under the age of Is shall at
tend school. A married lady
in Houston, who has not yet
reached that age that would
entltle her to exemption, at
tends school regularly, and
carries her baby with her.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
Solution to the Ditch Problem in the



Mr. EDrToR:-You viii please publish the follow
ing solution to the Ditch question:
B s1.12K-$9-s and C s7I cents-s7-s per rod.
Now divide 100 rods in two parts so that such parts
may bear the ratio to each other that does
9, as follows: plus 7-16. Such parts are GO and
7-16 by each of which fractions divide 100 rods and
the result will be Ssh rods for C, and 49, rods for
B, making 100 rods for both.
This is not a true arithmetical problem, and the
only way in which the same can be solved so as to
give to each $50 is this: Divide C's share of the
ditching by BIS s9-s per rod for digging, and BIS
share of the ditching by Cs SIS per rod for digging
and the answer is $50 EACH OF course the divisors
must both be inverted, and the No. of rods express
ed decimally or reduced to improper fractions, be-
fore commencing the operation.
High-Point, Iowa. j. A. DEISHER.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The House has passed a bill pro
viding for the rebuilding of the North
ern Ohio Lunatic Asylum. 1t appro-
PIRATES $555,000 for the purpose, ex-
elusive of heating apparatus andfurn-
iture. The structure is to be fire
proofand to accommodate $50 patients
an increase of 250 over its former
capacity.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

TIE GREAT EASTERN, with 1857
miles of cable on board, and her four
consorts with the remaining quantity,
are to sail the last week in May, to
lay the line of the Anglo-American and
French Cable Combination, which is
expected to be ready for work by the
1st of July, touching Halifax and New
York
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
Enigma

I am composed of 10 letters.
My first is in plank, but not in log,
Ny second is in horse, and also in hog,
My third is in snipe, but not in jay,
Ny fourth is in April but not in May,
My fifth is in rain, but not in snow,
My sixth is in pike, but not in road,
My seventh is in fish, but not in toad,
Ny eighth is in apple, but not in plum,
Ny ninth is in wine, but not in rum,
My tenth is in lime, but not in rock,
My eleventh is in eagle, but not in hawk,
Ny twelfth is in yes, but not in no.
My whole forms the name OF young man, VIII
wanted to know what was the matter. HUGH.
Hillsboro, Feb. 1873.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

Miss Cobbe, an English female
adept in mental philosophy, has late
ly published long and well written ar
ticles in two London magazines, in
which she contends that dogs as well
as men have immortal souls.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The lady teachers of the Detroit
public schools, have issued an admir-
ably written addres to the tax payers
of that city, asking for an increase Of
their salaries, which are now shame
fully inadequate.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The Bellfontaine Republican says
''Every day, the Temperance sentiment of
the State is correcting itself as to the posi-
ton of the drunkard, and public opinion is
fast settling to the correct conclusion that
drunkenness as well as hqnor selling is a
crime. The stupid sympathy for the man
who voluntarily lowers himself below the
brute has about run its course, and worked
evil enough. When drunkenness is regard
ed as a crime, and the drunkard considered a
fit subject for punishment rather than SYM
pathy, we will have taken long stride to-
wards correcting the evil"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
Problem.

A man is standing on a straight track behind the
cars SO yards. The train starts, and goes feet
the first second increasing 2k feet each second in
speed, for about \ of minute. The man starts at
the same time, running at his utmost speed with
satchel, yards per second. Can he catch the
train?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

Value the friendship of him who
stands by you in the storm; swarms
of insects will surround you in the
sunshine.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

"My dear" said the sentimental
Mrs. Waddles, "home, you know, is
always the dearest spot on earth. !"
well, yes" said the practical Mr..
Waddles, sit does cost me about twice
as much as any other spot"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

David Kirk, schoolmaster at Gar
den City, Mimi, had his eyes filed
with cayenne pepper by a refractory
pupil whom he was about to warm in
another locality and manner.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The latest joke of st. Louis upon Cincin-
natl is that the Pork City is building a
Brobdignagian sausage for the Vienna E1-
hibition. 1t will require the Great Eastern
to tow it across the ocean, after it has been
hoated down the Mississippi to the Gulf. It
is to be made in sections in a railroad tun-
mel, the hogs being driven in by the hun
dred and then subjected to hydraulic press
Ire
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

Rev, Henry Ward Beecher says in
the Christian Union that Prof Tyn-
dalls face is 'qong, thin, finged with
whiskers, without moustache or
goatee, leaving his mouth, like the
embrasure of fort, clear for action.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
Attachment Notice,

David Bourlier, Pl'f, Before John Bel, j. p. o.
against Clay Township, Highland
F. @. Jodry, Def't. County, Ohio
fAN the 10Th day of February, A. D. 1873 ssid
Justice issued an Order of Attachment In the
above scton, for the sum Of stxtyone dollars s6l
April, A D. 1878, at 10 O'Clock A NJ.
Clay Tp. Feb. %, A .. 1873.
szErzrnD q HUssnrs, Attys. ps.sSs
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The University of Michigan is weak and
suffering. Having very little money it give.
its professors beggarly wages, and conse-
quently it is rapidly losing the best of them.
The remedy of State aid is proposed, and
viii probably be bestowed
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

Think upon sin, and repent; think
upon God, and return; think upon
grace, and hope; think upon glory,
and press onward.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The Dutch do not allow married
children to live in the same house
with the parents of either the husband
or wife.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

Wool is advancing in Boston, the
ruling price for Ohio being 70 centa
In New York the market is active,
and brisk seaBon is looked for.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

A female lecturer says the only de-
cent thing about Adam was rib, and
that went to make something better.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

A married man says that courtship
is bliss, but matrimony is blister. In
his case we don't doubt it.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
Conundrums.

Why are red-haired men like the most vlgilani
soldiers? Because they sleep on their Jire-IOcks!
STILL
Why is innocence like an umbrella? Once parted
with, 1t never returns.
When may turkey be said to be ghost? When
he's a-goblin:
Why should q German take naturally to brass
bands7 Because he's born a-toottn. Teuton)
What Is the most useful thing in the long rum
Breath.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

An exchange asks: "Where does
the cotton go?" We know where a
good deal of it goes, but don't like to
IN
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The passionate are like men stand
ing on their heads; they see all things
the wrong way.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

Bulwer Lytton is credited with the
remark that "there is something In
spirituahsm, but nothing to benefit
mankind
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

A Washington belle can speak five
different languages, but couldn't bake
q loaf OF bread 20 save her Life.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
s>+e- tFor the News.
THE EMERRIMAc AND MONITOR.
By "SIcHolAs EIcKLEBY."


The Merrimac in qneenly style.
Steamed boldly out from craneg Isle,
And headed straight for Newport News,
To do almost as she should choose
The Jamestown followed in her rear,
The Yorktown also hoyered near.
> These IN their turn were followed too
BY quite gorgeous retinue
Of tugs, and boats, with ladies filed,
To see the blood Ql "TaIssecs' spilled
Yes-hlled with gents and ladies polished,
To see the ''Yankee7 ieet demolished!
Onward the rebel monster steamed,
Impregnable to al she seemed,
With coat Of mail and iron armor,
No yankee" gunboat e'er could harm her.
The Cumberland first she does assaf,
With shot and shell in perfect hail.
Bravely fought her noble crew,
Doing al that men conld do,
Until the ship sank meath the waves
Fought on these patriotic braves
To the Congress next the monster turned,
Quickly was she found and burned.
Two ships were all that now remained,
At which her cannon might be trained,
But these the merrimac soon found
Were almost helpless, fast aground.
And 80 she left them TO her sorrow,
To be deyoured upon the morrow,
Left off her carnage for a while, f .s.. Z
And proud returned to Craney Isle.
The sun sank slowly out Of sight,
Ane then commenced Il al awfai night
A night of sgony and fear. $50 -
To be remembered far snd near,
When men who neer had prayed before,
For Gods protection did implore.
The Rebel craft would soon return,
To sink, to devastate, to burn,
And when she'd finished Fort Monroe,
To the North she'd surely go,
And on the forts and shipping prey,
For wooden ships were but her play.
But no! for God their prayers does hear
Succor even now isnear. =a
Twas ten O'Clock that dismal night, &
When 10! they saw speek Of light
A tiny speck, far out to sea-
They wondered what that speck could be-
Aud reel II now approaches land
Behold It is Eeaven-sert band
'Tis the Monitor" by Heaven directed,
And Hampton Roads shall be protected. 4
The sun rose bright that Sabbath morn,
Itrose on men with new hopes born,
Its cheerful face WIS bright and clear,
1t shone on men who knew not fear.
Never did more lovely morn
That calm and peaceful bay adorn.
VI.
AT nine O'Clock that Sabbath day,
The Merrimac was under way,
of her new foe unconscious quite,
She steamed out boldly to the fight
Just then the Monitor hove in sight,
In stature small, but large in might
The Rebels looked, the Rebels laughed,
"Tis Yankee cheese box, on a raftI"
That she would dare their guns to face,
Such foolish thought could find no place.
But on the Monitor boldly steamed,
Into the jaws of deaih it seemed, .- Il
TIL "Fire'" the order clearly rang;
The men into their places spraHg,
The iron pendulum swung aside,
The men the gun-ropes quickly piled,
The round shot struck the Merrimac,
And made the monsters sides 20 crack = ,s- - I
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20
Youths Department.

.s-original Enigmas, 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, 1873-03-20

Then such duel there occurred,
The like was never seen or heard.
Side by side the vessels rode,
Firing fast as they could load,
Shot and shell es .hick as hail,
Glanced from their solid coats of mail,
And the cannon's laundering roar
The land and water echoed DER,
From mountain foot to mountain peak.
Twas iron to iron, twas "Greek to Creek"
Waged this duel four long hours,
Between these two unflinching powers,
Until the Rebel Merrimac
Retreated slow with broken back.
-Four gaping wounds were IN her side,
Into which rushed the surgihg tide,
Andrendered wild by seas she'd shipped,
The Rebel Merrimac was whipped!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The little Monitor had spoken,
And of her power had given token,
The Rebel paused in greatest wrath,
To see who dared to cross her patti,
Then turning, sought with one grand sweep
To sink the ''cheese-box" in the deep,
But the Monitor stood firm as rock,
And minded not the harmless shock.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

Answer to Enigma in last wseks News. John
W. Stevens.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-03-20

The sun rose bright that Sabbath morn,
1rose on men with new hopes born,
Its cheerful face WIS bright and clear,
1t shone on men who knew not fear.
Never did more lovely morn
That calm and peaceful bay adorn.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1873-08-14
lire,

But there is a successful way of clear
ing a room. of flies for the nenee which
is our benevolent purpose herein to COM
municate. Thus-Procure two large
sheets. No washing is necessary.
Starch or otherwise stifen the sheet
thus procured stifly, so that they viii
give out /" crinkly'' sound, like unto
fair. Julias Sunday skirts. Take one
sheet thus procured, and thus made stiff,
In each hand after having put aside
tables, chairs and all other impediments
of free gymnastics and acrobatics place,
yourself at one end of the room, COM
menee to whirl and thrash the sheets
about in your most vigorous and emerge
tic manner, steadily advancing to the
further end of the room then wheel
quickly and make your return march,
continuing your whirling and thrashing
of the stiffened sheets and thus per-
severe. The alright which viii pervade
the breast of every fly in that room viii
rejoice your heart, strengthen your arm,
and inspire you with joyous courage.
You will observe, at your first wheel,
that as many flies have slipped to your
rear as were at first in front This call
for fresh whirling and thrashing viii
arouse your resolutions anew, and con-
tinue to do so as the work in hand pro-
crosses. Stick to your endeavor, if you
would triumph and if the door has
/ -, 1905, A.. J,oaopxubila opd vO11T.
muscle is enduring, at the end of half
an hour or SO you viii have the satisfac-
ton to perceive that a dozen, or two
dozen, possibly, of the aforesaid flies will
have tired of the sport, and retired to
the adjoining premises. The remaining
5000 will evidently be sorry when the
fun is over. This is the best plan to
/ drive flies ever known, and it is not pat
| ented, though patentable.