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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17

The first case under the McCon-
nellsville Ordinance was tried on
Monday before Mayor Laird and
jury. The case was against Chris.
Bertsch. The following persons
composed the jury: Lucius Reed,
Charles Roads, Lewis G. Long, Asa
A. Farar, William T. Price, James
Chestnut, A. G. Van Dyke, Ezra
Walters, i. B. Gibson, MosesJ. Nor
gan, Anson Hanna and David d.
DUNCAN. The evidence showed that
Mr.. Bertsch was in the habit of sell.
ing beer. He had a bar, with 20 tc
25 beer glasses. Sometimes it was
furnished in the glasses, and some
times in q tin measure. He all the
time notified his customers that they
must not drink in the room. Some
times he told them they must go of
his premises. They would go out al
his back door, drink in the back yard
and then come in and return the
glass, and other vessels. The jury
remained out all night, but they could
not agree. Welearn that they stood
four for conviction and eight for &C
ouittal.-T jackson Standard.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
For Congress, Sth District,
Dr.. TH0S. W. GORDON,
Of Brown County.
Resolutions OF the 7th District
ReDu,Iican Convention,

/. Resolved, That the times demand
above all things, honesty, integrity and the
strictest economy, in the administration OF
public affairs, and that the people should
elect no man to Office whose record in these
respects is not free from suspicion or re-
proach.
2. That the course of the present Rep
resentative of this Congressional District,
Hon. L. T. Neal, in accepting the increased
pay under the iniquitous law known as the
SALARY Grab, " for nine months before TAX
ing his seat in Congress, merits the severest
censure of his constituents, and should
unite honest men of all parties in opposing
his reelection.
3. That it is the sense of this Conven-
ton that the Congress of the United States
should grant warrant for leo acres of land
without requiring residence thereon, to
every Union soldier who served in the war
of lS6I-'G5, and who was honorably dis
charged from said service
4. That we recognize the farming and
laboring class of this country as the bone
and sinew of the nation, and that every at
tempt to remove taxation from chattels to
realty, from capital tolabor, is an Outrage
upon the people and disgrace to our coun-
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
Transfers of Real Estate.

From Previous Report up to Saturday, Sept 12, 1874,
by Georqe Stevens, County Recorder.
Jonah Cadwallader, Admir-. TO W. H. McCoppin,
So acres, 5000.
Elijah Young to Charles Mclaughlin, Hamer tp.,
25 acres, 81 OPS.
Elias HiIdendrand to Jubes Smith, Greenfield,
lot, $4,000.
w. H. Blair and others to ]. o. Cherry, E. Mon
roe lot, $3.50.
Eli shaffer, Admir- to VIM. Smith, Salem tp., 3;
acres, ssO7.
Eli Corder to same, Salem tp., so acres, $500.
Joseph Shockey to same, Salem tp., 5 a., 1926.
Sheriff to Benz. Barrere, Hamer tp., lis acres
s5,9es4.
A. Mccoy to John Fowler, Liberty tp., a., s1Oo
II, II. Maddox to J. E. @. Maddox, Hillsboro
OF, $500.
W.T.. Duvall to J. II. Duvall, Salem tp., so acres
s., 800.
Samuel Mahan, jr. to E. Carson, Hillsboro, lot
$500.
C. C. Parks to Israel Tate, Hilsboro, lot, $40.
J.W, Fenner to j. F. Bell, Brushcreek tp., As a..
s9O3
Jas. Durnell to W. B. Littler, Madison tp., 5OA
acres, $3.50.
F.M. Evans to r. E. Cox, TX acres, $3.50.
w. Dyke Duckwall to Amos Evans, Liberty tp.
12O4 acres, s2,75O.
w. T. Duvall to J. M. Perry, Pricetown, lot, s76O
Mary Daily to Daniel Rogers, Hilsboro, lot, 500
J.E. Bradon to Charlotte Newland, E. Monroe
lot, $500.
Chas. NJ O'Hara to Hugh Swearingen, lot, Hills
boro, $500.
WE. Webb to Mary A. Bowers, lot, Hillsboro
$3.50.
Jas. Burton to Orebaugh and Dodson, Dodso
tp., mill, $s,2oO.
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NeighbOring Counties.

The Clinton County Pioneers
meet at Wilmington, on the Goth.
The Temperance Alliance of Cler-
mont county will hold a county
meeting at Batavia next Tuesday.
The peach crop of Leo. Weltz at
Wilmington, is estimated this year
at $4,000 bushels.
Fayette County Fair had over
$4,000 receipts, which paid all expen-
ses and left something over.
Horace G. Harlan, aged 10, fatally
shot himself on the Sth inst, at the
residence of his auntnea Wilmington.
He left letter saying he was tired
of life.
Burglars went through the Post
Office and several stores at Balm
bridge a few nights ago, but got no
money, and apparently didn't want
anything else.
Ross county has shipped via the
Ohio Canal to Columbus during the
past season an average of 300 bush
els of peaches per day. From there
some have been re-shipped to other
points, some of them going to
Baltimore.
The Ross County Racing Asocia-
ton have arranged for four days ra-
ces to come off at the Chilheothe
Fair Grounds, Oct: Z, s, 9, and 10.
The aggregate amount of purses will
be $4,000, the last day ending with
a trot for horses that never beat
2:3O, for purse of $500, and a run
ming race, mile heats, 8 in 5, for a
purse of $500.
Entries will close Sept. %.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17

The Eighth Annual Reunion of the
Society of the Armyof the Cumber-
land will be held at Columbus, Ohio,
on Wednesday and Thursday, the
10th and 18th days of September,
commencing at 10 o'clock A. NJ. on
the 10Th inst. All officers and sol
diers, who, at any time, served with
honor in the Army or Department of
the Cumberland, are, by the constitu-
ton of the society, entitled to mem
bership, and are especially requested
to attend, and join in the business
and festivities of the occasion
Members of kindred societies are
cordially invited to participate, and
all will receive a hearty welcome,
The railroads generally will carry Wis
itors at half-rates.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
Neal and Schilder-''A Pair of
Noble Brothers,

Neal and Schilder-''A Pair of
Noble Brothers."
Mr.. Martin Schilder, of Chillicothe,
is the Democratic nominee for Board
of Public Works. The Chillicothe
Gazette says that he charged and
tried to collect illegal fees for his
official services as township trustee.
If this be true, Mr.. Schilder should
be scratched" by every honest
Democrat, but then perhaps Martin
may urge that it was no harm fol
him to take exorbitant fees, if Mr.. Neal
could draw his 'front pay" under the
"Salary Grab" law, and still be re
nominated to Congress by Demo
cratic Convention. It is true Mr.
Neal did not draw any more pay
than the law allowed him but hac
not his party previously denounced
the law as a steal, and did not he him
self hasten to vote for itsrepeal, on thu
ground that it was dishonest "grab'
at the peoples money? How then
could he consistently take the pa.
allowed him by such an iniquitouI
law?
We are afraid that plain honest
sensible men will not be able to SCI
much moral difference betweel
Martin Schilder and Mr.. Neal, anC
that if one be Scratched the othel
must share the same fate
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
BERLIN, April 80.


This has been our first day of stu
dy. I feel little wearied tonight,
for someof our lecture halls are quite
far apart. Prof. Ebell's lectures are
given three times week, in the hall
of a very large building, used for
such purposes, which stands on the
grounds back of Prince Albert's pal
ace. 1t is lovely walk, by an old
stone wall, with overhanging ivy and
linden trees on either side.
Prof. Els lectures are on geology
and chemistry. Our attention in
travelling, and wherever we have stop
ped, has been especially called TO the
geological features of the country,
and in Scotland there was much of
interest for us in these observations
Our German teacher gives his in
structions in the same hall I have
spoken of. He isavery earnest teach
er, strict, but kind-essential charac-
teristics of a good teacher.
We go on Wednesdays and Satur-
days in the afternoon. The mornings
of the same days we spend in the Art
Museum, which has SO much that is
beautiful, strange and admirable, that
I intend some time to tell you more
about it.
The instruction in music secured
for those who desire to take lessons
is of the very best. Prof. Kullak is
the teacher in instrumental music,
and Prof Mantious in vocal. I am
in the vocrl class.
Each one is allowed by Prof Ebell
one private lesson, and all other in
struction is in classes. My private
lessons are in painting. Prof. Shuie,
who was pupil of Achenbach and
Lessing, is my teacher. 1 am de
lighted with him, and he seemspleas
ed to have one advanced scholar
There are three young ladies and two
gentlemen who paint at the same
time, all of them beginners, and moi
one of them able to speak to the 9th
ers-one being German, another Ital
ian, another English, &c. Prof. Shui'
does not know one word of English
so I have had to study up considera
, bly, the names of colors, artists ma
terials, &c.
, 1t seems strangely fortunate tha
5 a teacher belonging to the school o
{ painting I admire SO much, shoulC
l have been selected by Miss Mehen
(who has been DR.. Ebelrs agent Il
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
Death o t Rev. WIN. Simmons.

This well know methodist minis
ter died at his residence in Xenia,
Ohio, on Thursday morning, August
6, in the 77th year of his age. A
correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette furnishes that paper with the
following sketch of his life:
He was born in Mason County,
KY, January "a, 1898. When but a
year old his parents removed to
Ohio, and settledin Clermont County,
where most of the family have resid-
ed ever since. On the 18th of July
1920, he was licensed to preach, and
was received into the travelling con-
nection by the Ohio Conference, at
its session held August 7, of that
year, at Chillicothe.
He has since, as pastor and pre-
siding elder, for more than half a
century, held a high place among
his brethren, and at the time of his
death was the oldest effective mem
Der of the Cincinnati Conference.
Mr.. Simmons was well and favor
bly, known in Cincinnati, where sew
eral years of his ministry were spent,
and where he will long be remem-
. bered for his zeal and usefulness.
He was an ardent advocate OF the
temperance cause, and never faltered
in his faith that it would sooner or
later triumph. He employed his
pen diligently, and effectively, in
church and local newspapers, in be-
half of that and other reforms, and
however much others might differ
from him in opinion, no one could
ever doubt that he was q man ofrare
honesty, frmness, and uprightness
of character.
A few hours before his death, he
said to a brother minister, ''Ten my
brethren of the conference that I am
now ready to be offered, and that
the time of my departure is at hand.
1 have fought a good fight. I have
kept the faith. Henceforth there is
laid up for me crown of righteous
ness. which the Lord, the righteous
Judge, shall give me at that day."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
Temperance VS.. InGemPerance
Freedom vs.. slavery.

| y
The Kansas Republican State
Convention adopted the following
Temperance plank in its platform:
Resozoed, That drunkenness is one
of the greatest curses of modern So
ciety, demoralizing everything it
touches, imposing fearful burdens of
taxation upon the people, a fruitful
breeder of pauperism and crime, and
worker of evil, and only evil, con-
tinually; hence we are in favor of
such legislation, both general and To-
cal, as experience shall show to be
most effectual in destroying this
evil.
Thus it is that everywhere the Re-
publican party is ranging itself bold
ly on the side of Temperance, while
the Democratic party is either silent
in regard to intemperance, or open
ly bids for the votes of the liquor in
terest, as it has done IN the license
plank of the Ohio platform. So it
was in the days of slavery. The Re
publican party planted itself square
ly against the extension of that great
evil, and finally abolishedit, and gave
freedom to four millions of slaves;
while the Democratic party bowed
down to slavery and worshiped it
for the sake of political power, until
it lost the confidence of the people,
and was overthrown. So it will be
with the Temperance question.
The party that favors Temperance
will ultimately triumph as surely
as God rules in the affairs of men.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17

A Lawyer from Portsmouth, a
Democrat, remarked to us yesterday
that Judge johnson would get the
vote of every member of the bar in
that county. That is highly compli
mentary, if true. 1t is about as
hard for Democrat to vote for q
Republican as it is for leopard tc
change its spots. However, Judge
johnson is highly popular with the
bar in Souehern Ohio [Irortor
Jour.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
sborough County, Ohio Thursday
Republican Convention.
H1LLsBoRo, Sept. II, 1874.

HILsBoRo, Sept. IL, 1874.
At primary convention of the Re
pubicans of Liberty tip. J. X. Pick
ering was appointed Chairman, and
W. T. Greuber Secretary.-The fol
lowing delegates were elected for the
Co. Convention:
Jacob Holmes, Jacob Hiestand,
Philip Hansboro, Nelson Taylor, DR..
D. Noble, Frank Hott, Isaac Bennett,
W. G. Barry, B. Foraker, Jos. Eli
fritz, ]. K. Pickering, D. G. Arthur
W. T. GREUBER, Sec'y.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
TWhOle No. 1899.

Berlin during the past Year, without
any knowledge on her part who was
to be instructed, or what they want
ed. Prof. S. allowed me to select one
OF his best pictures to copy, which
you know was very kind, and highly
appreciated by me.
TO BE CONTINUED.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17

Hon. John @. Smith, of Clinton
county, has been renominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the
Sd district, and will be triumphantly
reelected. He has made an excel
lect record thus far in his first term.
His opponent is John S. Savage, Of
Wilmington.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17

The first female lawyer in Ohio
was Miss Nettie Cronise, of Tifin.
She practised in the legal courts
about two years, but Cupid's was
more attractive and she yielded last
week to another lawyer named
Lutes.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17

We are importing about SIX mil
lion dollars per month less this year
than last yaer, the decrease being for
the past ten months over sixty mil
lions for the whole country. On the
other, hand as might be expectedou T
exports have increased by about thir-
ty millions for the period stated.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17

As soon as license became dead
issue in this State the Democrats
took it up. That is the characters
tic of the party Lronton Jour.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
WEDNESDAY NooN.

We have all recovered so nearly
that yesterday the Professor gave us
a lecture on the ocean, sky, &c. which
1 enjoyed very much. He is a man
of high attainments, if it is proper
to judge on such short acquaintance.
Every one seems to have the greatest
confidence in him.
Last night one of the girls played
on the tamborine, one on the bones,
and Scotch lady on the piano, and
almost every one danced. 1t was a
jolly time, for there are quite num-
Der of gentlemen on board. 1 felt
GLAD enough to dance, because I was
so well, and because we will soon see
land, but thankfulness subdued glad
ness, and I desisted.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
Extracts of
LETTERS FROM EUROPE.
BY MISS MARY THOMPSON.
NO. 1.

We are kindly permitted to make
the following extracts from letters of
our young townswoman, Miss Mary
Thompson, who is now in Berlin,
Prussia, pursuing her studies in
painting, German, &c. They will no
doubt beinteresting to her numerous
friends, and to our readers generally:
ON BOARD STEAMER,
FRIDAY, April 10, 1874.
Every one seems disposed to-day
to commune with their own hearts
and be still, for the wild waves are
saying, as they dash over the deck
and the rain continues, that to-mor-
row may bring a storm. Some are
singing Home, Sweet Home while
others are trying to be brave enough
to listen without emotion.
I am quite well to-day, SO be as
sured I am not disconsolate. This
is the first time, dear ma, that I have
longed for all of you-not because I
am sick, but because I am well, and
enjoying the grand majesty of the
ocean.
I have been up on deck for two
hours, watching the world of waters
about us-allowing my mind and
heart both to go with the waves, and
the higher towards heaven they would
rise, the nearer I felt to the dear Sa-
vior, who is still saying, 'It is I-be
not afraid"
The sea is green, but the sky is
still gray and the wind very high, so
that, below, the chairs, pillows and
people are recklessly falling. It is
very funny when one RECEIVERS to see
all this. Some of the ladies and girls
are still in their berths very sick, and
I do feel sorry for them, for I assure
you one day was as much as I could
bear amiably.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-09-17
SUNDAY MORNING.

We all rushed up on deck this
morning to see an iceberg. 1 say all,
but I mean only those who are we'll
The sky is BLUE today, for the first
time since we started. There has been
no storm, but the fog and gray sky,
and the high wind at times, have been
tiresOme.
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Hacdbills! Handbills !

From the smallest Dodgerr to the largest "Poster,
neatly printed on short notice. Prices are very
sow-from 50 per up. Call at the
sep1St NEWS OEE1CE.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-08
Bonds as WALLPAPER.

Detective McAuley tells rather Il
strange story, which he has kept locked
up in his bosom for several years. He
couldn't hold it any longer than ycster.
day, and unraveled his little yarn in this
wise: He was informed that a boy had
slipped into store on State street, near
Eighteenth, and, while the proprietors'
backs were turned, made an indiscrimi-
nate grab in cash-boX in safe, the
door of which was left open. The haul
consisted of large roll of United States
$50 bonds, registered, and issued but IA
short time before, and small sum in
postal currency. Mack learned that the
boy lived in an old house with widowed
mother at Haas Park, and went out
there in search of him. On entering the
shanty he was astonished at the
popularity of the paper on the WALL and
was more struck on beholding that it was
the identical pile of 5-20s that he was in
quest of, all nicely matched and pasted
tightly to the wall. Here was a job, and
Mack pulled off his coat and prepared
for the work of stripping off the paper
1t took him nearly all day, but he recov
cred every bond, while the old lady
looked ON in mingled fear and wonder,
and calculated, "What are they good
for? Sure, and me boy brought Trim
here a long time ago, and thought they
was only bits iv old paper. But if ye're
m officer ! suppose it's all right"
Mack moistened, pulled, and slowly
worked away until he stripped the wall
of every bond The whltewash came off
freely with them, but they were all there,
and Mack took them to the owners and
received their earnest thanks for his
arduous task in their behalf. The lad
who stole them was not at all aware of
their value, He was captured and pun
ished for the theft.-Chicago Tribune,
Sent 10
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-08
Back Yards.

THE following remarks in the Congre,
gatsondlist concerning New England
homes have equal pertinence as applied
to homes in other places:
"Take the prettiest and best-kept vii
lagos of New England, and we doubt if
a tenth part Of even the most pretentious
mansions and the most ornate cottages
will bear examination in the rear Instead
of being nicely finished in all their petty
domestic details and conveniences, and
kept snug and trig, with trim grass plats,
with all the subordinate avenues and
garden approaches well graveled, clean
swept and free of refuse, and everything
wholesome and orderly, there is apt to
be look of general untidiness, as If
all the residual rubbish of years had
been dumped therein. Not unfrequently
railroad runs its tracks in such man
ner as to expose the rear of plenty of
houses to the eye of the traveller over it
whose sense of neatness is offended
by square rods of back yard numbered
up with every conceivable variety of
secondhand, damaged and invalided
article known to domestic use, from a
horse-cart disabled by broken thills and
wrecked wheelsl to the ghost of the baby
of children, interspersed with smashed
crockery, rusty and condemned tin-ware,
old boots, sardine boxes, disabled junk
bottles, hoop skirts, chips, burdock, null
lein, ashes, half burned Jumps of wasted
coal, and all imaginable litter, trash, &c
bris and dirt.
"Were the traveller to alight at the
next station and take carriage to any
one of these habitations he would doubt
less be charmed with the neatness of
the front approaches and the ION ex-
hibition" portions of these very homes,
the slatternliness of whose portion not
thus consciously on public view had
just disguised him.
Nothing is pretter than cottage
which is thoroughly well kept in rear as
well as its more public portion. 1t seems
inevitably redolent of a purer sweeter,
happier domestic life than one with
heaps of fostering rubbish crowding
hard upon itn
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-10-08

cuscs are; how they demoralize boys (;
how he ought to be thrashed for even
seeing the procession 60 by; and then
when he's sound asleep do you sneak of,
pay half dollar to 60 in, and come home
astonished at the menagerie and pleased
with the wonderful gymnastic feats.
Keep your boy steady at school; have
work for him every holiday; thrash him
if he wants to go fishing or nutting; re-
strain his desire for skates, kites and
marbles rout him out at daylight, cold
or hot; cuff his ears for asking ques-
lions; make his clothing out of your
cast-of garments, and you'll have the
satisfaction, when old and gray headed, of
knowing that you would have trained up a
useful member of society had he not up a
died just as he was getting well broken
in" M Quad," in Our Fsreside Friend.