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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02
Aorogh,H Highland Thursday January No 1910

And all have their claims on the popular mind.
While all have the right to prove balwarks o
strength,
The Life of the News is the greatest in length.
0,le-tIrird Of a century fnlly hath passed,
Since our good ship first up her flag to the mast
And without internission hath kept constant sail,
Bearing onward until it hath westhered each gale.
And it still goet forth with the same modest name
The oldest newspaper the county can claim.
As the Old Year beheld it grow fertile and ripe,
1t srrayed it anew in beautiful type.
To eyes dmmed with age, here's secret in truth,
They may now read the News with the pleasure OF
youth.
That our Paper may flourish as years fast ensue,
Is the last and best wish of Seventy-Two.
There is naught left to say--its history is done,
The dear Old Year died when its brief course wa:
run.
Twas glorious death at the birth Of the New,
And we whisper farewell to seventy-Two.
What the New Year win bring Time alone must re-
veal
But we pray with mankind it gently may deal.
Let old age linger lightly and sorrow come slow;
The heart initself is no stranger to woe.
May the smiles of Dame Fortune with magical
wand, ae
Be scattered psofusely al over the land.
And better than al may the Gospel Truth spread,
TIL the light of Religion be graciously shed,
TIL crime and pollution shall cease to be known,
So wide may the seeds of Redemption be sown.
Kind patrons and friends be your homes sad or gay
Long may you remember this glad New Years Day.
Lift of from your lives any gloom-shrouded pail,
Into your bowed hearts let the bright sunshine fall
Let now one and all drink deep cup of joy,
Is the wish and the prayer of the
~ CARRIER BOY.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02
.CGrm for Fuel.

In some parts of the: West corn is
perfect drug in the market, and the
price is SO low that it will not pay for
hauling to the nearest market town,
SO our western friends have turned it
to account in another direction.
From Council Bluffs paper, we ex-
tract the following:
'Weare glad to see that many of
our citizens are taking advantage Of
the low price of corn to lay in heavy
supplies of it for fuel. We have ex=
perimented with it for the last week,
and find that it is an admirable sub
stitute for both wood and coal, and
that at present prices there is both
economy and comfort in its use.
A ton of corn, 80 bushels, at II
cents per bushel, is $5.61. We con-
slider this equal to a cord of hard
wood, as supplied and measured in
our market, at 81; the cutting of this
cord, S1.5O-total, $3.50. Thus
making saving of nearly SO a cord.
For kitchen fuel it is superior to
wood, except hickory, and cheaper
than that. It makes.a very hot fire
with great deal of blaze. We Judge
that three tons of corn are equal to
the heat of one ton of hard coal,
while in economy of itsuse it is equal
to one and half tons of coal. In
small families and small houses there
is always great waste of hard coal,
while there is none in the use of corn.
Besides this there is the public bene-
fit of retaining in the country all the
money we send to Pennsylvania for
coal, and feed our farmers by consum-
ing their products. y
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

THINGS YOU NEED NOT ExPEcr.-EV-
Ell to have a new servant that does
not think your house 'the hardest
place ever she lived in" Ever to
have q mechanic finish a job on the
day promised Ever to see a TRACE
dian who viii not point out how lit
tie his rivals know of their art. Ev-
er to fndsa newspaper reporter who
will not use his stock of phrases, "de-
vouring elements" Launched into
eternity;" "an went merry as mar
riage bel;" "doomed man )" "the hap
py pair ''packed house" )" and "Oi-
yer asking for more" Any prices
within reason at fashionable watering
places. That large class won't con
slider it a sin to steal umbrellas and
repudiate newspaper bills. Ever
to find an old theatre goer who will
not lament "the decline of the drama" +"
Or an old merchant who will not con
denim ''the style of doing business in
this fast age"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

A good story is told of Mr.. Jones,
who one evening in fly time, having
been provokingly lashed in the face,
tied the tail of the COW he was milk
ing very securely to his boot strap.
Everything went on smoothly for a
time, and Mr. Jones congratulated
himself on the stratagem. Presently,
however, the cow took notion to
lash a fly that was biting her. Mr..
Jones chuekled some when he felt the
pull at his boot strap; but his chuck
ling was soon cut short, for '.Bossie'
finding that she could not touch the
tormentor, suddenly started, and, as
Mr.. j. was not prepared for such a
demonstration, he was upset and the
contents of the pail distributed over
his person. The COW stopped for a
moment, but In that time our hero
had gained his feet; in an instant
more he was seen with his hand on
the hip:of the cow, making tour of
the farm-yard with prodigious hops
on one foot. At every hop he would
ejaeJllate, $50 Boss, so Boss" but
Boss didn't $50 worth cent. At
last the boot attachment gave way.
Mr.. Jones returned wiser if not a
sadder man. ... Ls5
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

The Postmaster Generals An
nual Report.

...- hAOsSA nv 1SOANs
Postmaster General CreswelIs re
port is chiefly devoted to postal tel
egraphy. A formidable array OF facts
is submitted, showing
That the Government originally
built and owned the telegraph, and
only relinquished it because its
facilities were then SO imperfeetly
appreciated.
That all the arguments offered
now against postal telegraphy were
offered originally to the carrying Of
the mails, and that sending messages
by telegraph is but legitimate Sc
quence of mail carrying, since the
only difference is in speed of trans
mission.
That SO long as telegraphy remains
in the hands of q private monopoly,
neither the Government nor the pub
lie can receive the accommodation
to which they are entitled, nor at a
cost reasonable when compared with
the profits of the telegraphic bust
ness, nor with the rates paid in every
other country.
That the objection to placing i'm
portant secrets in the hands of Gov
ernment agents is transparently silly
when it is remembered that the temp
tation to misuse the telegraph low,
managed by men having enormous
business interests, is far greater than
it could be if conducted by Govern
ment employees, sworn tofdelity, and
bound by law governing the Govern
ment as well as private persons.
That no existing corporation has
sought to adapt itself topubiic wants;
that facilities have only been supplied
where they were certain tobe private
ly profitable, and not where they
were most needed
That the Goyernmentcan purchase
any of the existing lines at fair ap-
praisal, and pay the whole cost with
in few years, at largely reduced
rates
1t will be observed that the Presi-
dent recommends the postal tele-
but believes it may be exped-
lent to postpone it to the next Con
gress.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02
BRIEF Say ings by Josl. lsiIIings.

Z
Don't be afraide, yung man, tew
make a blpnder once in a while; not
all the bltnders are made by the sin
cere and honest.
I must respekt thoze, 1 suppose,
who never make emmy blunders, but 1
don't luv them.
l like them kind of folks who, If
they do once in a while weigh out a
pound with only thirteen ounces in it,
are just as apt to make the next
pound weigh nineteen ounces.
luv my phailings. It IL theze
that make me pheel that I have that
touch ov nature in me that makes me
brother tew every man living.
There is a great deal ov poetry in
gin; but the poetry and the gin, both
of them, are kussid poor.
How natral it IL for man, when he
makes mistake, to korrekt it by
kussing somebody else for it.
Pride seems to be quite equally
distributed; the man who owns the
carriage and the man who drives it
seem to have it just alike.
If we give up our minds to little
things we never shall be fit for big
ones. I knew man once who could
ketch more flies with one swoop ov
his hand than ennyboddy else could,
and he wasn't good at ennything else.
Human happiness konsists In hav-
ing what yu want, and in wanting
what you hav.
Fortune sometimes shows US the
way, but it Il energy that achieves
suckcess.
The richest man in the world is
the one who despizes riches the
most.
Trusting to luck is only another
name for trusting to laziness.
Fortune never takes ennybody by
the hand, but she often allows them
to take her by the hand.
Avaris and lazyness make the most
disgusting kind ov mixture.
Sekrets are ikemeazles they take,
easy and spread easy.
The eazyest thing for our friends
to diskover in us, and the hardest
thing for us to discover in ourselfs,
IL that we are growing old.
We sometimeshit a thing right the
fust blow, but most always a suekcess
IL the result ov menny failures.
The heart rules the he'd, bekause
the pashun rules the Judgment.
I Advice IL like kissing-it don't kost
nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.
One ov the most difficult, and at
the same time one ov the most neees-
sary things for us old phellows to
know, IL that we amt ov SO much
ackount now as we wuZ.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

The New York World publishes q
list of ffty-two persons who have
mysteriously disappeared in that city
since last August. Ali efforts of the
police to find them have been in vain.
Allowing that four=ffths of the whole
those who have. abscond-
ed, children kidnapped, or girls who
have entered upon a life of shame,
there still remain some ten or q doz-
en- whose disappearance can only be
accounted for ON the ground of muir
der or suicide.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Texas seems to be the only South
ern State which has any great attrac-
tions to the foreign immigrant. The
cause of this may be that the German
settlement there years ago was a sue
cess, and there is a tendency among
all people to get near those of their
own race. Not long since ], 100 Ger
mans landed at New Orleans direct
from Europe, and nearly all Of them
went to Texas. se
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Sergeant Bates will still further
immortalize himself next spring by
marching through the State of New
Jersey with the tail of his shirt fut-
tering in the breeze He does this
upon wager of sixty cents, that the
youth of Jersey will not molest him,
nor volunteer the information that he
has letter in the post-offfce.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Erben G.. Porter, Of Columbiana
county, on the 18th, deliberately left
the freside around which were sever
al relatives, procured a hatchet, re-
turned, and with it murdered his two
little daughters, one three and the
other one year old past. He gave no
reason for this inhuman deed, but
tried to make his escape. He was ar
rested and committed for trial. .
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02
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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

The Columbus Gazette says: D. R.
Groome, formerly of Lafayette, Ind,
and now of Groveport, failed while
in the former city, taking advantage
Of the bankrupt law; but now has re-
turned, looking up all his old indebt-
edness, and has provided for its adj
iustment, with interest added.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02
Warn, Feet.


A correspondent of the American
Agriculturist furnishes that paper
with the following remarks on warm
feet, which remarks are admirably
calculated for this latitude:
To go with cold feet is to under
mine the constitution, and this half
the women and the girls are doing
They have habit of cold feet and an
accompanying habit of Ill health
Thick, home -knitwoolen stockings are
not very fashionable. Once, no coun-
try girl was reckoned fit to be mar
RED until she had knit her pillow-case
full of stockings, but it is not so now.
l do not regret that less hand knit
ting is done now than formerly, but
hope we shall not give up warm wool
en- stockings for winter until we can
replace them with something better.
Merino, or the common "boughten"
white wool stockings, are rather thin,
but some of us supplement them with
an additional pair of cotton stockings,
wearing the cotton or the wooden
pair next to the feet, as individuals
prefer. Cold feet are often caused,
at least in part, by too tight elastics
or bands at the tops Of the stockings,
or by tight shoes, or shoes tight in
the ankles These interfere with the
circulation of the blood, and there
cannot be o comfortable degree of
warmth without good circulation
and aeration of the blood. Some
wellinformed persons object to Con-
gress CATERS; the elastics are usually
so close and firm about the ankle.
Only very loose CATERS are allowable,
and these may not be necessary when
the stockings are worn over under
drawers. CATERS IN the shape of
straps buttoning to both waist and
stockings are most sensible for women
as well as children.
Many women are obliged to work
in kitchens where the floors in winter
are always cold 1t helps matters to
have carpet down, but the kitchen
carpet is Objectionable on the score of
cleanliness, especially where there are
many children. A few large thick
rugs are better. These can be shak-
en- often, and will efford the kitchen
occupants warm places to stand or sit
at their work. There are some very
cold days when I wear my arctic
overshoes all day, and the children
also keep on overshoes. The floors
of our houses are many degrees cold
er than the air about our heads.
One thing too little thought OF In
this connection is absolutely essential
to healthy warmth of the body. That
is pure air. Men who work IN the
open air some every day have a great
advantage over housekeepers. Their
blood gets ozygenated, and so puri-
fed (as far as such degree of air
can do it) and prepared to warm and
nourish the body, Of which the blood
is the constant up-builder. Every
body, male andfemale, old and young,
ought to get out of doors some every
day, and breathe freely aeitb the
mouth.
The air of sleeping rooms and 9th
er living rooms should be purified
each day.
Keep brick or soapstones In the
oven, to be wrapped up and put un-
deryo feet when you are obliged to
sit for some time at a distance from
the fire, especially if you are writing
or studying.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

2 A.colored man was once asked why
he did not get married. ''Why, you
see, sah,P said he, Il got an old mud
der, an hab to do for her, ye see,
sab, an if I don't, buy her shoes an
stockings she wouldn't get none.
Now, ef I was to get married, I
would have to buy dem tings for my
wife, an dat would be talin de shoes
an stockings right out o my mudders
mouf."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

A topper got SO much on his stomach
the other day that said organ repen-
ed the load. As he leaned against a
lamp post, vomiting, little dog hap
pened to stop by him, whereupon he
indulged in this soiloquy: 'Wen,
now, here's a conundrum. I know
where I ate the baked beans, I re-
member where I ate that lobster, I
recollect where I got that rum, but
I'm hanged if I can recall where I ate
that little yaller dog"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Bad luck is simply q man with his
hands in his pockets and his pipe in
his mouth, looking on to see how it
will come out. Good luck is o man
of pluck, with his sleeves rolled up
and working tomakeitcome outright.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

An finquisiitive New Yorker has
been investigating the sources of the
butter supply to that city, andlhas
ascertained, beyond peradventure,
that some of the low, yet not the
lowest, priced butter was nothing
more or less than grease from horses
bones out of a lnacker's yard, color
ed and tasted by drugs, and waste
butter mixed In" z
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Gilbert Munger writes, November
7th, that he is with Bierstadt in the
Sierra Nevada, and says "We work
from sunrise to sunset, mufled up to
our elbows in fsrs, for the weather is
intensely cold, and we are camping
in the snow, sketching snow storms
and snow effects" .
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Virginia has sent Commissioners
to England to hunt up and overhaul
certain ancient maps in the British
Colonies Office, q tradition existing
that therein may be found the origin
al boundary line, giving Virginia five
miles more territory to the west than
she now possesses ,,se...-- ,-f
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Twelve Indians were hung in q
row in Texas, recently, for driving off
surreptitious beef After having their
faces washed, eleven "panned OUT
white men, but they hung just ao
well. ,.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Sydney Smiths definition of the
Popish Ritual-Posture and impos-
ture, fections and genufections, bow
ing to theright and cour5esying to the
left, and an immense amount of man
millinery.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

New Haven has just established a
working-woman's home, comprising
restaurant, reading-room and sewing
room. There are IN every city such
resorts for young men, and no effort
is spared to make them attractive.
Such an. institution is as much need
ed everywhere for women, who are
deprived of the comforts of home,
and shut out, in a great measure,
from the recreations of society.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Texas, with her hundreds of thou
sands of cattle upon illimitable plains,
has no milk. 1t is impossible for a
traveller to get a drink of milk in a
Texas hotel. All the butter used in
the State is imported, and the only
apology for the tactical fluid is con
densed article from. the Northern
C+o4os - = p - - - =
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

GRANT AN LII. D.-The degree of Doctor
of Laws has been conferred on the Presi-
dent by Harvard University. The Presi-
dent, Chas. W. Eliot, says it is in recogni-
ton of his distinguished public services both
in war aid peace; in preserving the nation
in war, and in fostering its great interests
both at home and abroad in peace.
The President replied very courteously,
thanking the faculty and expressing the
hope that heshould always merit such conf
dence.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Ohio has total bank circulation
authorized to the amount of SIS, $780,
$50, and has of circulation already is
sued S4,263,7SO. This gives us a
margin of 81, 1,275,6OO yet in our favor.
So says the Comptroller Of the Cur
rency. a...- r.,rf
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Required the diameter of circular field, contain
ing an area expresslngly decimally l,s2sisisT5.
acres. e.-.-.. - .,-a o, ,.s..-,s ID. tiI..E 80
q
Required the way of getting the sum by placing
the figures four times three, for then the sum viii
just be none, to place the figures in form they viii
be-
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

Some one has defined polite socie-
ty as being place where manners
pass for too much and moralsfor too
little.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

q A minister not long ago preached
from the text, ''Be ye therefore stead
fast" but the printer made him ex-
pound from 'tBe ye there for break
fact"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-01-02

The plea of insanity is to be regu-
lated by statute in Indiana; at least a
bill is now pending before the Legis-
lature which provides that when
murderer is, acquitted on the ground
of insanity, the court shall sentence
him to Lunatic Asylum for the same
term that would be awarded in the
Perdtentiary, if an ordinary verdict of
guilty were rendered This simply
enables the accused to choose between
the two places of confinement. Il