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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07
How TO Adjust COngressmen's
Paw.

The law prohibiting free exchanges and
free circulation to newspapers is tax on
knowledge, direct attack on intelligence
and literature.
Men dislike to have privileges taken away;
and, if they can obtain no compensation for
what they are deprived of, they are pretty
likely to take something away from the de-
priver. Thus Congress, feeling that public
opinion demanded the discontinuance of
the franking privilege, discontinued it, and
took two compensations, ,-one an increase
of their own pay; and the other a retributive
deprivation, namely, the discontinuance of
free exchanges and free home circulation of
newspapers; for the newspapers had stirred
up this very public opinion. Of these two
discreditable performances, the former is
an e1 post tactO measure, which is wrong on
the same principle that forbids penalties to
be inflicted on crimes committed before the
making of the law. This principle is sim
ply, Laws may not take men by surprise.
Even wrong-doer must have ample notice
that he is to be punished In like manner
should paymaster have notice what he is
to pay his servant; but our congressional
servants of the people" propose, it would
appear, both to carry the bag, and to help
themselves to what is pat therein. 1t is
morally wrong, as well as politically mex
pedient, that congressman should have the
power of altering his own pay, for the same
reasons that have caused its absolute pro-
hibition to the President; and the Constitu-
ton should be amended so as to prevent
it in future, by adding to the first sentence
of the first paragraph of the sixth section of
the first article the words given below in
Italics, which would cause that sentence to
read as follows: 1.-The senators and repre-
sentatives shall receive compensation for
their services, to be ascertained by law, and
paid out of the treasury of the United States;
and achich shall neither be increased nor d.
nlinisaed for any senator or representative
during the period for acliich he shall haze
been elected" This would allow full swing
to patriotic restitutions by those feeling
themselves overpaid. IL From the Examin-
er in Old and New for August.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

The anniversary of the battle of Bunker
Hill, June IL, was a memorable day in the
history of the late c. L. Vallandingham.-
On that day he ran the blockade at Charles
ton on Confederate steamer, on that day
be arrived at his home in Dayton, on his re-
turn, and on that day he accidentally in
ficted on himself the wound of which he
ded.-Ch.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

The brilliant Khivan campaign of Russia
terminates in treaty of peace preserving the
Khan on his throne in consideration of two
millions of roubles indemnity, and doubt
less private compact not to interfere with
Russian designs. In new and fort on the
Oxus the Gar takes another stride toward
English India.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

The only client of the late Chief JUS
tice Chase during the first six months
after putting up his shingle as attor-
ney-at-law, was a man who paid him
half a dollar for drawing up an agree
ment, and then came back in few
days after to borrow the half dollar.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

SOUilS.

SQuiOS.
A shrewd General-Sharp.
A very sly comedian--Fox. s'-
The convalescent Senator-Bout-
well.
By no means clerical reader
Pope.
A legal and military steward But
ler. o.
A modern Alexander the Great
Stewart.
A Representative of energy and ex-
ertion-Pulman.
A melodious and harmonious
place-Sing Sing. ae..
Persons who never complain of
short crops-Barbers.
Corn dodgers-Sensible folks who
wear big boots.
The most difficult gun to keep clean
"A fouling piece.
Never run into debt! it is bad
enough to walk into it.
How to be always even with the
world-Keep your head level.
The objection to the dog tax is
that it is own-er-ous.
If brevity be the soul of wit, what
a witty man little Theirs must be!
The rarest thing in the world
What is called common sense.
CHUcKIE-HEADs = People who go
round chucking dice for drinks.
Ten currency mills make a cent;
but fancy what ten gin mills make!
To keep the Indians quiet requires
considerable Inginuity.
Never nod to an auctioneer unless
you wish to buy or be sold.
Some ladies are SO economical that
they constantly resort to Tightening
to prevent waistfulness.
A cynic describes marriage as an
altar on which man lays his wallet
and woman her affections.
A Harper's Ferry man owns whole
mountain, and offers to trade it for a shot
gun.
We are told that nothing is made in vain
butt how about a pretty girl? Isn't she
maiden vain?
Always examine an old plug hat before
you kick it.
A Western paper heads description of a
brides trousseau ''Duds."
A genius is popularly supposed to be one
who can do anything except make living.
A revivalist asked an African if he
had found the Lord. "Golly," said
Sambo, sam de Lord lost?"
. An exchange says "Turkey is arm
ing" If the Gar once gets at her in
earnest, it will not be long before she
is "legging."
An English writer insists that from
the abolition of capital punishment
will date the decline OF the British
empire.
A countryman at Dyersburg, Tenn,
was noticed the other day gravely
setting his watch by painted sign
in front of jewelers..
30, ma, said a little girl who had
been to the show, 'Tve seen the ele-
phant, and he walks backward and
eats with his tail"
A dandy asked a BARRIERS boy if he
had ever shaved a monkey. 'No,
sir, answered the lad, "but if you
will take seat I'll t1V."
A schoolgirl was recently asked at
an examination, by a clergyman,
what Adam lost by his fall, and, when
pressed, replied, 81 suppose it was
his hat"
A piece of glass an inch long was
taken from the head of Rochester
man recently, in whose skull it had
been embedded for twenty years.
He had complained occasionally of a
pane in his head.
An Irishman put his head into a
lawyers Office and asked the inmate
Gan what do you sell here?" ''Block-
heads" replied the limb of the law.
"Och, thin, to be sure" said Pat, sit
must be good trade, for ye have but
one of them left.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07
CHOLERA.
What you had Better do if yOn
don't Want TO Die With 1t.
BY Dio Lewis.

By Dio Lewis.
Buffalo, N, Y, suffered more from
the cholera of 40 and "a than any
other city of the United States, with
the exception of Sandusky. During
those two memorable years I was
practising my profession in Buffalo,
and treated more than a hundred IA
tai cases, and perhaps an equal num-
ber that recovered, besides two or
three hundred cases of cholerine, so
called. I published several papers
on the causes, prevention and treat
ment of cholera" the result of my
observations during those unhappy
years. Now thatwe are again threat
ened with the fearful malady, I sug-
gest some preventive measures.
During the year 134S, not less than
twenty-five millions of human beings
perished in Europe alone, from the
plague. England was almost depopu-
lated, Various preventive measures
were adopted. One much resorted
to was hanging a cross on each house,
with 'God have mercy on usl in
scribed upon it. Another means in
which those wretched populations
cherished unbounded confidence was
a peculiar employment of prayers
Ten persons cried, "God have mercy
on us" all at one time, until they
were hoarse and exhausted. But be-
fore they gave out, ten others began,
so that day and night the cry of ago
ny assembled increasingly to Heaven
Meantime their yards and streets
hummocked with indescribable filth.
Kitchen offal, dead cats and dogs, and
every other conceivable kind of filth
sent up a reeking, sickening vapor-
In reading the history of those fear
full times, we are apt to think that if,
in addition to their prayers, they had
their houses and streets, it
might have been better. Prayer is a
good thing, but as means of pre-
venting the plague of cholera, cleanl-
ness is, to say the least, a very impor-
tant adjunct.
Pure air and water are pretty sure
preventives of cholera. Of the hosts
who died in Buffalo during the years
referred to, there were not twenty
five cleanly, intelligent people. A pc
culiar diarrhea attacked our better
class of native citizens sometimes, but
with the exception of a few invalids
and old people among this class, few
died of cholera.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

Mrs. Sharon, School Superintend-
ent of Marion County, Iowa, receives
great praise from the journals of that
State for the excellent manner in
which she performs the duties of her
Office. Miss Lizzie Shirley, Of Del
mar, is a candidate for School Super'
intendent of Clinton County, same
State. --.. .--.----- --- t-
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

ST. LOUIS. st. Louis is increasing
in population very rapidly, probably
more so than any city in the country.
In 1870, according to the census, she
had a population of $4,000. Ac-
cording to Goulds new city directory
for 1873 the population is set down
at 42S, ,157-an increase of over one
hundred thousand III three years.
During the year ending December l.,
1872, there were erected 1859 new
buildings, at. a cost of S6,765,375.
Chicago will have to bestir herself to
save her laurels.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

The Lancet asserts that night work
is not injurious to adults under GER
tain conditions. The hours of sleep
should never be curtailed, and the
light should be white, powerful,
steady, and concentrated by shade
on the work. It argues that an in
sufficient, Pickering or too difused
light is one of the most serious eau
sses in producing the brain irritation
which troubles night workers. II
recommends abundant nutriment, and
q moderate use of tobacco.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

A piece of glass an inch long was
taken from the head of Rochester
man recently, in whose skull it had
been imbedded for twenty years.
He had complained occasionally of a
pain in his head.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

The Southern Historical Society
has issued a call for convention of
those interested in preserving the rec
ords of the lost cause, at the Mont
gomery White Sulphur Springs, Vir-
ginia, on the 14th of August. Gen.
Jubal A. Early will deliver the open
ING address.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07
Enigma

am composed of letters seven,
My first is in Earth, also in Heaven,
My second is in month, but not in year,
My third is in lager, but not in beer,
My fourth is in dear, but not in love,
My fifth is in rose, also in dove,
My sixth is in vine, but not in flower,
My seventh is in simmer, but not in sour,
Dallas, o. "OLD DOCK.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07
THE WATCHERS AT THE PORTAL.

Day after day, forever more,
Two spectres, veiled and shrouded, stand
And keep, without the open door,
A silent watch on either hand.
Whatever fortune entereth
Or goeth out before their eyes,
For joy or sorrow, life or death,
The figures move not anywise:
But dark across the threshold thrown,
The twO-fold shadow brOods within:
The spectre of the dread Unknown!
The phantom of the Might-have-been!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07
THE LAY OF THE LADY ALL FOR
LORN.

First, wondered who I'd take,
But could see none to please me,
And, as older grew, the thought
OF who I'd get did tease me.
As years elapsed found myself
Advanced in lie to oe, .
And, finding no result f:om rouge,
Iwopdered who'd take me!
[Ssil wondering.l
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

An old negro named Pete was very much
troubled about his sins. Perceiving him
one day with a very downcast look, his
master asked him the cause.
30, massa, I'm such great sinner"
'But, Pete" said his master, ''you are
foolish to take it SO much to heart. You
never see me trouble about my sins.
81 know the reason, massa," said Pete,
''when you go out duck-shooting and kill
one duck and wound another, don't you run
after the wounded duck?"
eyes, Pete;" and the master wondered
what was coming next.
''Well, massa, dat is de way wild you and
me. De debil has got You sure; but, as he
am not sure oh me, he ehases dis chile all de
time :"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07
Youths Department.

Original Enigmas, Charades, 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, 1873-08-07
what Man Has Failed to do
Woman Has Accomplished.

The Foss Valley School House has
Just been completed by the fair hands
of the ladies of that district, under
the supervision of only one carpenter.
The ladies even brought planes, ham
mers and saws with them, and work
ed with a will, showing the men of
Foss Yalley-who seem to be indif-
erent about the matter-that in thei-
case the following couplet fits:
ssThe mans fool who tries by force or skill
To stem the torrent of a wOman's will,
For when she will she will, you may depend ont,
And when she wont, she wont, and there's an end
ont"
This work was done under regu-
larly organized body, of which Mrs
McVey was President, Mrs Smith
Treasurer, and Mrs. Hamlin Secreta-
ry. The Working Committee was
composed of the following ladies:
Mrs. and Miss Nero, Mrs. and Miss
Robinett, Miss Stark, Miss Smith,
Miss Barney, and young lady from
San Francisco. To the ladies Of
Foss, therefore, are the children of
that district indebted for a shelter
wherein to become true men and wo-
men. May the fact of the house hav-
ing been built by. their mothers and
sisters be an ever present inducement
to them to learn their lessons faith
fully, and venerate both the parents
and friends who have thus shown
such kind interest in their welfare.
III [Napa (Cal) Reporter.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

An Iowa country squire concludes
the marital knot thusly: "Them
that the court hath joined together
let no man bust assunder; bnt suffer
little children to come unto them, so
help YOU God"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

An enterprising tradesman in Paris,
in order to circulate his advertise
ments, has been pasting them upon
the backs of the currency of the realm.
This is a novel way to make advertis-
ing pay. -...-
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07
ConundrumS.

Why does widow feel her bereavement less when
she wears corsets? Because then she is so-laced.
Why was the elephant the last animal to enter the
ark? Because he had to carry his own trunk.
Why is meat not done ike a good conundrum7
Because ii is rare.
To what place would you consign bad Conserva-
tive? A RefOrm-a-Tory.
Why are handouts like guide-books? Because
they are made for twO-wrists.
WIS is a nice young lady like hinge7 Because
she is something to adore.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07
Charade.

First we all must doubtless be
While on earth we have place;
When from thence we are removed,
Next our lonely graves may trace;
A famous traveller both may tell,
Whom rumor says is safe and well.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

Even in these days of vast engin-
eering enterprises, the project Of
running railroad tunnel through
the Rocky Mountains seems prodi-
gious; but such a project has been
undertaken by the Sierra Madre
Tunnel Company, recently incor-
porated. Money for the prosecution
of the work is furnished by English
capitalists, who are sanguine of the
ultimate success of the undertaking.
The tunnel will be twelve miles in
length, extending from point about
one mile below Black Hawk to the
middle Park, in a northerly direction.
1t will, it is presumed, cut many rich
veins of gold and silver and thus de-
velope a great mining interest. .
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1873-08-07

An Irishman put his head into a
lawyers office and asked the inmate
can what do you sell here?" ''Block-
heads" replied the limb of the law.
"Och, thin, to be sure" said Pat, sit
must be good trade, for ye have but
one of them left.
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-05-18
A Home Without A Daughter.

Boys may not lack affection, but may
lack tenderness. They may not be want
ing in inclination to contribute their quota
to the Paradise Of Home, but they may be
wanting in the abiiity to carry out their in
clination. The son Of q household Is like
a young and vigorous sapling-the daugh-
ter like fragile vine. ~
We know home which once rejOfced in
the sunny smiles and musical aceenrs Of D
cherished daughter. She was lovely
girl, womanly beyond her years:
Of rsaslsHs:s sas sHiss e fal"s'' hope
The child never breathed who evinced
more ahectiOnate reverence, or more
reverential affection for her parents than
she did. Instead of waiting for their COM
mands, she anticipated them-instead of
lingering until they made known their
wishes, she studied their wishes out. Morn
ing broke not in that household until she
awoke--the night was not dark until her
eyes were closed. How they loved her
dfd her father and her mother and of how
many blessed = ,tures Of the future was
she the subject.
"It is fearfal thing that life and death
dweh in the sanre world" says Mrs. Hem
ans.
"FearfuI !" 1t is mad6ering-it is q
truth linked with despair.
Suddenly, like thief in the night, there
came a messenger from heaven for the child,
saying that the Lord had need of her.
She meekly bowed her head-and at
midnight, "went forth to meet the bride
groom" She went, aad- came not back.
Months, long and weary, have worn away
since then, but still there is agony in the
household, whose sun went down when she
departed. The family circle is incomplete
there is ps~daughter there The form
that once>was hers, reposes beside loved
sisterand brother where the pine trees
sigh sad reaniem above their graves
and if the grass grows rank around their
graves it is because it is kept wet with
tears.
is only half blest it is an orchard witheut
blossoms, and spring without a song A
house full of sons, is like Lebanon with it's
cedars, but daughters by the freside are
like roses in Sharon
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-05-18

MR. GLADsToNE's GRAMMATICAL PUZZLE.
The memorandum which Mr. Gladstone
addressed to the Queen is spoken of by all
eur contemporaries as q model of obscurity,
and quite grammatical puzzle. professors
OF our language says the Times, "wiii for
years to come set it to their scholars as an
exercise in the analysis of sentences" We
think their praise rather excessive. 1t
seems to as in the course of our reading
we have often met English ute as hard,
and thasa - few hours patient application
wonlG enable an ninteiligentpersont to discov-
~ meaning, or perhaps even two or three
meanings, in what Mr.. Gladstone said. His
hrst sentence is as hard as anything that
follows, and what is there in it so very
pulling Hero it is cit is, in Mr. Glad
stones view, of tie utmost importance to
the public welfare that the nation should
be constantly aware that the parliamentary
action certain OF likely to take effect in the
overthrow OF government, the reception
and treatment of a summons from your
Majesty to meet the necessity which such
action has powerfully aided in creating,
and again the resumption Of Office by those
who have deliberately laid it down, are
uniformly viewed as matters of the utmost
gravity, requiring time, counsel, and deli
beration among those who are parties to
them, and attended with serious responsi-
bilities." Now, we contend that this SEN
tence, whatever it means, is framed on a
confeRsedly excellent model. 1t is equal
in lucid simplicity to what the Duchess said
to Alice in one Of the most charming little
story books that ever was written, namely.
"Atice's Adventures in Wonderlan6,n y
"Be," said the Duchess, "what you would
seem to be, or to put it more simply, never
imagine yourself not to be otherwise than
what it might appear to others that what
You were or might have been was not 9th
erwise than what you had been would
have appeared to them to be otherwise."-
Irish Times,
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-05-18
r. J. WEST,

Is, y. "ESi,
AGRICULTURAL lMRLENENTS.
PLANTATION HARDWARE AND MACHINERY
11o and III Magazine Street,
AGENT
Poole Hunt sEals;more} Steam Engines Saw Mill.
etc '-'' ~" -A--1'
H. F. Blanay GAINESVILLE, OhioI teaaa Engines, Saw
b. "; Payne Sons Corning, New Fork) Steam En-.
George S4ttisr & Bro. tBuffao, New York, Sugar
Z. ban x Co. Canton obioD Word" and OHIO Now
D ,ers; and Mowers aud Reaperr combined. -
y. NJ Osborne Co, "Kirby" Mowers etc
b. q. Taylor, Hay Rakes.
"Nishuitz F" and " Monroe" PulysIizing uar-oDza
Excelsior" Lawn Mower.
H. Bail & Co Worcester MaaaacI,usetta Tvoo, vo-,
Ing Machinery. " U '" "'fA'
q. = saith tsmithviue New Jersey, Woodworking
Amegican Saw Company New York
Hubbard, Lippncott. Bakeusu & Co Sawa
.SInnPoWu der Copper Works, Baltimore
51ohpe FioE Company, PloWs and Cultivators q"
Mlaship Bro. (AtlRnta Georgia. Cotton Gina
Stafford Cnltvator and '.SattIey' and P6ef Gang
Buckeye" Foundry Bella a
b. J. Vests Cotton Seed Hullsr
D. y; eet Improred FELTON, Patent Grist Mi and
~ Gorn Cob and Shuck Crusher combin6d ~
l. =: Hfsoet tAacon. Goorgia) Cotton Press Screwa
jae6 I'M
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-05-18

Senator Boutwell, has been travelling
through the South since the Adjournment
OF the Senate, aud, with his financial expe-
riences still fresh, upon him, observed close
ly the commercialand manufacturing capa-
biiities of the Southern centres of trade.
His observations have convinced him that
Savannah, Atlanta and Chattanooga will
grew rapidly, and that the latter will be-
come the Pittsburg of the Southwest, ow-
ing to the nearness of coal and limestone
to the marvellous iron in its vicinity"
The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1873-05-18
SEWING MACHINES

THE SINGER SEWING Mad
AT THE WORLDS 81
CONSTITUTED BY THE HOMES OF !
RECEIVED THE
Great Award of the Hiqhed
And have left all rivals far behind them
to the SUPERIORITY OF THE 1
MACHINE over all other.
The Returns of tho Twenty-Five and
Machine Companies, for the year 10,
Number of Machines Sold to I'D
Of which the Singer sold
NEARLY ONE-TH1RD OF TIE TOT
SOLD.
Th~ CHICAGO RELIEF CoMMIrTErI
show like resnls,
Out of 29II Machines Furnished
Singer Machines.
The applicant in every case desiyps,,d
Machiso desired.
There are now 100000 sinqd
Machines in Daily Us
EVERY MACHINE GUARANTEED
SATISFACTION OR MONEY REF
Call and Examine, or Send I'D
and Sample ofWork.
MACHINE TWIST, of all colors, end on
JOHN CLARK JR. & CO.'S CorTO1
spools, at Wholesale and retail,
WIN. E. COOPER &
GENERAL SOUTHERN AsES
80 Canal Street
iy2l721y New Orleans.