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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
Lieut.. Fred. Grant.

Lieut.. Grant has not been and
never will be promoted over the
heads of any number of officers, and
it is the depth Of weakness to make
such foolish charges as the Enter
prise INDUCES in. We can only rec
ommend to Bro. McC Clellan an inYesti-
CATION of the facts in all such cases,
before he ventures too far in asser-
ton. @
Sheridan, as Lieutenant General,
asks the detail of Lieut.. Fred Grant
to his staff, and the detail is made
by the Secretary of War. Lieut.
Grant then becomes an Aid de Camp
to General Sheridan with the tempo
rary rank of Lieut. Colonel. When
his duties cease, as such, he returns
to his regiment with the hneal rank
of Lieutenant, and. he can not be
promoted over, or displace, any senior
officer in the army.
1t is not because he is the son Of
the President that the detail is made,
for Sheridan is not "one of that kind;"
but it is because he is the son of the
President that such charges are
made TUrbana Citizen. ~ ~
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
wor,,, of aPo,ato.


Professor TYndall iiiustrateszthe val
ne of single potato by supposing that
every potato in the world but one were
destroyed; that one would contain in it.
self the possibility ofagsin stocking the
world with an invaluable article of food.
If one potato would produce, when
planted, only a crop of ten potatoes, in
ten years the total product of the pro-
duce of this one potato would be equal
to ten thousand millions, which would
be sufficient to stock the whole world
with seed. sFhe real value of that sim
gle potato, then, would be such that it
would be better that the city OF London
or New York should be totally destroy
ed than that tuber should be lost to the
world.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
HIsborough, Highland County, Thursday,
Use of n RSceiDt,

In city not theuSand miles from
this locality there lives a lawyer, Graf
ty, subtle and cute as fox. An
Indian of the Choctaw tribe, Kiser by
name, owed him some money. His
patience at last gave way, and he
threatened the Indian with lawsuits,
processes and executions. The poor
Choctaw got scared and finally
brought the moneys to his creditor
He waited for the lawyer to give him
receipt. 'iasF
"What are You waiting for?'' said
the lawyer. @ias m"s
Receipt said the Indian.
"a receipt said the lawyer, ''a
receipta what do you know about a
receipt? Can you / understand the
nature of a receipt 4 Tell me the use
Of one and I will give it to you.
The Indian looked at him moment
and then said, 'Sposen me die; me
go to heben; me find the gate locked;
me see the 'postle Peter: he says,
'Kiser, what you want?' he say want
to get in he say, you good MANI me
say, yes he say; you pay Mr.. A. that
money? What me do? I hab no
receipt, hab to hunt all ober he'll to
find you"
He got his receipt iin rclartsville
Texas Times.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
some man talk Iike anoela nha ~. I, I


Some men talk like angels and pray
with fervor; and mediate in deep
recesses, and speak to God with
loving affection and words ofunction,
and adhere to Him in silent devo-
ton, and when they go abroad are as
passionate as ever peeyish as a
frightned fly, vexing themselves with
their own rejecting; they are cruel
in their bargains, unmerciful to their
tenants, and proud as a barbarian
prince. They are, for all their fine
words, impatient of reproof, scornful
to their neighbors, lovers of money,
supreme in. their own thoughts, and
submit to none All their spiritual
fancy is an illusion. They are still
under the power of their passions and
their sins rule them imperiouslS and
carry them away inyariably.-[J. Tay-
lor
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

Lieut.. Dennison, a few years since,
married a rich widow, and being a
rather fast young man, squandered
her money quitea-lavishly, against
which she protested. He being in
the U. S. navy, went with his ship
and was absent for some time, and
on hisreturn he found his wife had
broken up house keeping, sued for
a divorce, and refused to see him.
Maddened by these reyerses and
excited by dissipation, he went to a
friends house and blew out his
brains. 1t is said he had travelled
in Europe with this dashing lady,
always being her companion, before
her husbands death. D affL
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
LATER-THE MoDoCs FoUNr

The coming postal card will no doubt be
a good thing and a convenient thing, but
human perversity and ingenuity can make
even good things the vehicle of injury and
dishonesty. In England these cards or
their Introduction were made the means OF
anonymous slander and indecent ribaldry.
In France, in at least one instance, they
We're made the agency of very adroit
swindler. An enterprising cdeoaEer din
duSt,5e addressed to himself several cards,
calling upon him to receive money due
him, and notifying him of the success OF
his addresses to lady who possessed very
handsome dot. The curiosity of the hotel
keeper1ed him into the loss of his money.
He lent the man who was SO well off, and
with such fine prospects, ten thousand
francs, and could give no better reason for
his act than that he was proud to be the
creditor of one who already possessed so
much. 81
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

PEAR TREES IN GRASS. ss.-Occasionally,
-theSgEass ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS with-some
examples of encouragement to their
theories. Here is one in point: In the
last report of the American Pomologcal
Society, an Iowa orchsrdist icommuni-
Gates the fact that he has been engaged
for twenty-five years in growing pears,
and has lost in that time by blight fifty
times as many ashenow has growing. In
1864 he ceased to cultivate his trees, and
allowed them togrow TO grass, which
he kept down by cutting every few
weeks; and to keep the sod open he
spread barrow-lo load of manure around
each tree in autumn. Since that date,
eight years ago, he has net lost tree.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

A bitter war, increasing in violence,
is being waged between the Liberal
Catholic party of Canada and the
Ultra Montanes. The latter are under
management of the Jesuits, and the
former under direction of the Arch
bishop of Quebec. 1t is thought the
strife may lead to the expulsion of
the Jesuits from the Dominion.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

The Cleveland Herald of April 29th
says: ''The Cleveland, Mt. Vernon
and Columbus Railroad is now with
in twelve miles of Columbus, and the
road is to be in running order be
tween Cleveland and Columbus some
time in June, when a competing line
between the two cities will thus be
opened. A branch from Oxford to
Dresden on the Panhandle road,
will connect it with the GAINESVILLE
and Cincinnati line, thus opening
another route 10 Cincinnati"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
The agent vanished.

The Columbus Dispatch says OF
Senator's Sherman and Thurman:
"They did not take the back pay,
nor did they ever intend to take it.
The day after the bill was through
Congress they both decided that
they would not touch it or any por-
tion of it, but would quietly have it
covered into the Treasury of the
United States, where it will require
another appropriation act to reach it.
The very fhst, It seems, to resolve
upon this course were the distin-
guished Senators from Ohio; but it
seems, also, that they preferred not
to advertise what they considered
it proper for themselves to do under
the retroactive clause of the salary
act" il .tf f,f.. '.l
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

Congressman Lamison, Democrat,
who represents the 5th Ohio District
in Congress, supported the salary
grab. At a recent convention in his
District, resolution condemning his
conduct was offered, but not adopted
No matter: that's the last ofIIamison
The people viii be heard in spite o.
politicians and caGcuses
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

An Iowa Editor says: ''The gen
tie grasshopper has not yet com
menced to whet his razor legs
and spit tobacco juice around on the
fences, but many farmers are looking
for his appearance with fear and
trembling. That fellaw knows all
about grasshoppers.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
A Warming 70 ioDrinikers,

/ A powerful temperance lecture has
been delivered from the scafold. The
wife murderer who was executed in
Chicago on Friday last made a speech
just before he was swung off, in the
course of which he said;
':Twas drinking whisky brought
me to this. Only for it Wouldn't be
in this place now. Do ye see this
rope, all ofye around me here?" The
doomed man caught the moose in his
hand and held it'up eye do well
when ye drink that bad whisky to
think of thisrope' that's going to end
my life. = =
Give up drinking whisky, young
men, and all Of ye. Give it up, or
it will bring ye to hurt some day. Be
sober, and be good to your wives and
kind to everybody. Whisky will
. E
make the best man mad. 1 had as
good a wife as any Of ye has now, and
if I hadn't been drunk I'd never Ia
ken her life, nor would be here my
self but whisky, I say it again, whisky
brought me to this. It was
the poisonous drink that was in me
that did not let me see what I was
doing. Oh, avoid liquor, let me say
to you once more"
John B. Cough never delivered a
more effective warning against intern
perance than did this unfortunate
man, speaking, as he did, from the
brink of the grave Wash. Star
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

A wife of nearly ten years, having
given her servant a holiday, was at
tending toaculinary matters herself,
and hearing her husband coming in
the kitchen, thought she would sur
prise him as soon as he entered the
door by throwing her hands over his
eyes, and imprinting kiss on his
brow as in the days of the honeymoon.
The husband returned the salute with
interest and asked, as he disengaged
her hands, MARY, darling, where is
your mistress ?" The wife discharged
"Mary darling" the next day, and
has adopted new plan of "srrpris-
ing" her husband. rfstV frq
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

Aphilosophical Journal says; ''Men
regard with gentle 7complaeeney the
wealthyscamp whose money comes
around suspicious and unexpected
corners. : The majority Of men'un-
doubtedly do, but the complacency is
losing its value even to the wealthy
scamps themselves Money is an ex
cellent thing. It can be made useful,
and in the hands of the wise man is
useful In the hands of the fool it is
a weapon of destruction and brings
sorrows without number. We may
tolerate asman because he is wealthy,
but if we ahaye a suspicion that his
money came around doubtful corners,
the suspicion ITSELF destroys the val
ue of the complacency and is really q
verdictof guilty, the sound of which
is not pleasant to the scamp.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

|, The steamship Atlantic has been
completely blown up. Fourteen
bodies were recovered on Sunday and
Monday Very few valuables were
found The blowing up of the steam
er is considered injudicious. The
New York Wrecking Company, it is
said, will be heavy losers.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

"Mr. Doolittle," said the Rev. Cyrus
P",ona pastoral visit, 81 don't see
you and Mrs. Doolittle at church Sun
day evenings"
fTWell, no. replied Mr.. Doolittle.
"My wife has to stay at home to take
care of the children, and as it comes
rather hard on her, l stay to keep her
company"
"Why, how is that3 don't You keep
any servants?" f.f.
"oh yes, we keep two; but they don't
allow us any privileges"
That ia about It, genssaiIy.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
A CASE OF CEREBRo-SPINAL MENINGI-
.T1s.-An old woman Of our place enter

A CASE OF CEREBRo-SPINAL MENINGI-
-TIs.-An old woman Of our place enter
ed doctors Office not many days since
and made the following remarks:
"Whar's the dock?"
"He's not in" was the reply.
"Well, jist wanted ter know what
was the matter with my old man; some
says be died with the fevers, others say
he had spine in the back. 1 hearn the
day of the lecshun he jist got up ON his
hands and walk fur aquarter of mile
without turning down."
"Ah! well, madam, be evidently had
spine in the back"
"I'm much obleeged to you, sir.''
"Good mornin." r. tlL.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
Transportation 10 the Sea-
board.

The COMMITTEES on TRANSPORTATION
Routes, of which Mr. W1NDom, Of
Minnesota, is chairman, has decided
upon a plan of Investigation en-
bracing the following general divis-
ion; first, the Lake and st. Lawrence
route; second, the Lake Erie canal
and Hudson river route; third, the
James river and Kanawha canal route,
embracing improvements of the Kan
awha and Ohio rivers; fourth, the
proposed Georgia canal route; and,
sixth, the various railroad routes
from the interior to the coast.
In regard to this last, in which
we are more directly interested, the
committee will inquire as TO The act.
ual cost of several trunk roads, ex
elusive Of watered stock; the actual
freight charges per ton per nile
during the last twenty-five years;
the percentage of freight receipts
consumed by the actual cost of trans
portation; time ordinarily consumed
in the transportation of the agri-
Cultural products of The West from
the pricipal points to seaports; the
cost of transhipment and Storage,
speed and maximum profit for freight
trains; relative charges for through
and way freights; and other inquiries
for the purpose of ascertaining how
the railroad facilities for the transpor-
tation of Western products to the
East can be Increased. SThe chair
man of the committee, Mr.. WINDOW,
is now vigorously pursuing the in
yestigation of the subject and is pre-
pairing blanks, and schedules of in
quires which will soon be sent to
the proper sources of information IN
various parts of the country.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

The people of Frankfort, Germany,
"got their Dutch up the other day,
and killed twelve persons, wounded
forty others, and wrecked sixteen
breweries, all because the price of beer
was raised The breweries Will prob
ably not attempt another rise.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

The conscience money" fund is
growing to be one of the institutions
of the Treasury Department al
Washington. If one-half of those
who have grown rich upon frauds on
the government were only to be con
science stricken, and make restitution
of their in-gotten gains, what-a hand
some sum would be accumulated. It
would help materially to reduce the
public debt.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

The new English law against the adul-
teration of food, drink or drugs, DEGREES
that the person making or ordering such
adulteration shall for a first offense be
subject to a fine of $3.50, and for sec
ond offense to Imprisonment with hard
labor for six months. For selling any
adulterated article penalty of SIOO is
imposed. Pity we haven't similar law
hara
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

The most interesting couple in the
cabin of the Atlantic were Mr.. and Mrs.
Sheat, of Nevada. They wore jewels to
the value of about 100000. Mr.. Sheat
talked of nothing less than millions, and
poor lamented Kruger, of Exchange
Place, New York, used to joke with Mr..
Sheat by talking millions back. Mr..
and Mrs. Sheat and their $50, 900 worth
of diamonds are floating around in the
cabin yet.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

The number of the ModOcs has
again been put at sixty-three, and
when one reflects upon the fact that
the telegraph has killed at least two
thirds of them, it must be assumed
that they increase and multiply in
some original and very remarkable
manner
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

Road LAw.--By an Act of the Legis-
lature passed April 10th, parties who ap-
ply for a new road or the vacation of an
old one, at the option ofthe Commission
ers, will be required to pay all or part
of the expenses attending it, whether
the road Is located or not.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

At a spirit meeting the other night
a agentleman requested the medium to
ask what amusements were most pop
ular in the spirit world. The reply
was "Reading Of obituary notices"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

Donald Mckay, who figures in the
Modoc war as the commander of the
Warm Spring Indians, tour alhes), is
the Scotch settler of the same name
by an Indian woman, and is conse-
quently a halfbreed. He is said to
bean educated man, and during the
rebellion was the, Colonel ofan Indian
regiment in the Union service. He
now holds a temporary commission
from the Government as captain.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

A Western preacher discoursed
from the text: -'How old art thou" /"
and the next day about one-third of
the women of the congregation called
round to tell him it Was none of his
business. -l Il
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

The Minnesota Legislature has passed
law providing that all vendors of in
! toxicating liquors in that State shall be
required. to pay an additional license fee
of $40, which money is to go for the
foundation and support of an asylum
for inebriates. Persons selling liquor
without license are made liable to fine
and imprisonment.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

Two members of the Kentucky
Legislature being noisily drunk on a
railroad train, the conductor remon-
strated. One of them pompously
demanded, 'tDo you know sir, that
am member of the Legislature?'
The conductor quietly replied
you've got the symptoms.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

A daughter is. almost always right
when she endeavors to initiate her
mother, but we do not think she is
equally right when, at a certain period
of life, she tries all she can to initiate
her daughter. l......
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

To prevent the teeth from decaying
brush them with lime water. Even
if they are far gone, it will cause them
to decay with little or no pain. Sat
urate the brush well, and use with
tooth-powder.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

The Hon. r. B. Hayes has formal
ly declined the Office of Assistant
Treasurer at Cincinnati, which was
the second time rendered to him by
the President. OF Ha -lIrL
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

One of the corpses picked up at the
Atlantic wreck had on quilted vest,
and in every diamond of the quilting
there was a sovereign, there being in
all about eighty, equal to S400
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

At the late session of Congress a
mail route was established from Wa
verify, via Pee Pee and Morgan, to
Cynthiana. Also, from Waverly via
Zahns Corner to Beaver. e -lE
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
Conundrums.

Why should old maids always go to the theatel
before the rise of the curtain? Because then there
is chance of an overture.
What length ought lady's petticoat to be?
little aboyetwo feet. .......f
What is it which makes every person sick bu
those wko swallow il? Flattery.
What house pet is generally admired, sought af
ter and valued, yet more abused, trampled upon
kicked about, looked down upon and whipped thai
any other? A carpet
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22
Little Johnny HenIy In Luck.

Little Johnny, ,Henly the only child
who was saved from the wreck OF the
Atlantic, was not saved for nothing.
Glory waits him; also money. To-
gether with a giraffe, a fat woman, ell
ephants, and other. curiosities, he is
offered the proud privilege of travel
ing with Mr.. Barnum. 1t is delight
fully gratifying to know. that the
terms proposed by Mr.. B. include
$4,000 and the right to sell his. pho
tograph. e
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

1t is said that necessity is the
mother of invention but go to the
Patent Office, in Washington, and
they will tell you that invention is the
mother of necessity Nine inventors
out of ten die poor. J 2ri
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

A private letter from Oregon re-
ceived in Washington states that Mrs.
Candy is greatly -prostrated by the
death of her husband, and is not ex-
peeted to recover. ya .41 ID
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

How easy it is to please and be
pleased, if one will take the fragrance
of the rose instead of thorns, and
hold the knife by the handle and not
by the edge. ay
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

Keep your soul in an attitude Of
heartfelt trust in God, and the more
you are. encompassed with troubles
and infrmities, hope the more stead
fastly in Him.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

A Baptist Minister in California
says: Z came here with the old opin-
ion that plenty OF wine would pro-
mote the temperance cause. When.I
see whole families, father and mother,
boys ard girls, made drunkards by
the produce of their own vineyards, I
am convinced that wine making is a
curse Californiais becoming State
of drunkards. E... ~.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

An Indiana man is naming his chill
dren after the New England States.
He now has Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts,, and Rhode
Island, with a fattering prospect of
Connecticut.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

A Minnesota youth hit his horse
with gun to make him go. The
horse went, the gun went, and three
fingers went, too.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-05-22

To show what slippeey business
striking oil is, a bill is before the
Pennsylvania Legislature to pension
the man who first bored for oil, who
is now in extreme poverty. IA