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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-10-29

NEW FAssi:NGss Err DEPoT.-Ihe Valley
Railroad is about erecting Il passenger de-
pot near their freight depot t,.d p:: Y
near it. so their passenger trains may be
turned there. Passengers, on the compile
ton Of the building. which Is 10 be COM
ineuced directly, Will leave the city from
that depot, instead of from the G. & O
platform. As at present. 4 water tank is
also 10 lie built near tie depot.-Staunton
FlntiiCut0r.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
Follow the Example.

A certain mechanic found, at the
age Of twenty-one, that he possessed
fancy for books, cigars and liquor
extravagant tastes all Well, he
thought the matter over, and know
ing that he must be dependent on his
skill for a home and education, he de-
cidea to lay out in books every year
the sum which he estimated it would
cost a moderate drinker for liquor
He also calculated what it would cost
him for tobacco and cigars, for thea
tres and Sunday riding, and set apart
that money in the same way. The
result was, that in a few years he
owned library of several hundred
volumes. In this library he has a
row of shelves labeled Liquor, To
bacco, Theatres, Livery Stables, which
are low filled with books bought with
the money he would otherwise have
appropriated for these purposes
Young men, this little story needs
no eomment-but think of it.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
The First Element Of a q al IIIf5i fom e, Z

l never saw a garment -toonfne for
man or maid; there ne7ercwas a chair
toe good for a cobbler or cooper to
SIT an never a house too fine to shell
ter the human head. These elements
about us, the gorgeous sky, the i'm
perial sun, afehet toodgoed FOR the
human fqn 70 race. Elegance fits man.
But do we not value these tools of
housekeeping a little more than they
are worth, and sometimes mortgage
home for the mahogany we can: bring
into it? l would rather eat nv din
nef off the head Of a bafrei, or dress
after the fashion Of John the Baptist
4sthe wilderness, or sit onda block
an n5Iiifes than consume all myself
before get home, and take. SO much.
pains with the outside that the 3in-
sads0wasl as hollow as an empty nut
Beauty islalgreat thing, but beauty
OF garments, house and furniture is
very taWdry, ornament compared with
domestic-iove All the elegance, e. in
the world will net make a home, and
would give more for a spoonful of
hearty love than lhlan for whole Cshiploads
OF furniture, ~ and all the upholsterers
OF the YYarld .eonld gather together
/ Thfolo lore Parker ,rrr obc,,, =.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
1f4nsiIEI2iid6i.h.aaIi con III iio iioouii !

| The Constitutional Convention has
agreed to d substitute for Article IL
of tie present constitutidan! The
sect ms Of chief interest + IN the Sub Sub
stitute are as follows:
SIC; Alg gIhe ( Gepsfa Assembly
shall provide by law for the election
Of such county and township officers
as may be necessary, and each county
ofijcfr shall, be paid a stated salary
out of the treasury Of the proper
county, and Shall account for and pay
into ishe treasury all fees collected by
him under such regulations as shall
be prescribed by law
SEC. 9. Counties and townships
shall have such power of local taxa
tionl for police purposes, and for con-
strqctlng and improving bitches and
roads, when necessary. to public
health, Convenience or welfare, as
maybe prescribed by law. iui.-H ! G.
Sec. 10. Each county and town
ship officer who shall collect public
money or fees, shall be required by
law to make a semiannuaI report
under oath to some officer designated
by law, of all his collections, fees and
emoluments. ai"I alI 81 Eiii-itit.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
WY Ioln ana BeeIIMsv5 IS 5....II,IaIa, ..I,IraoIEa 3 !,

OHsa -
II 50 happened they met n the
meadow on their way to ichurch-
Betsy was dressed out in all the coll
ors of the rainbow hen, tall form
much enlarged by the fashion of
hoopkkirt and a large 0sg6orn flat,
covered with ribbons, made her, in
Johns opinion, the pink Of the mead
ow: While she tw5irled her. parasoly
turning and flirting her skirts, and,
they were tsts- a-tete, John uncon-
sciously had, while poking his um-
brella in the grass, stirred up a vel
low jackets nest, and, neither having
noticed it, Betsy had managediit0
hive them under her broad skits.Ae
She had asked John how he9hked
her new dress, when all at once she
gave ASPIRING, and John said she
jumped higher than his head, then
another and another, displaying her
wardrobe in the most reckless man
ner, jumping fences at pace of two
forty, and at last she disappeared IN
arttthiesketTof woods. John had by
this slime. tiiaei discovered byia- few things,
- - =
what vas the matter with Betsy, But
that was the lastlof John and Betsy;s
courtlng, .-L.r t..I---..r .-.-.....- -
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08

AT Monticello, Illinois, a preacher
recently in his sermon, harangued
the brethren on the profits, accruing
to middlemen, and advised his. hear
ers to buy and sell at head-q uarters,
and have nothing to do with persons
who came between the producer and
consumer. Among his congregation
is jolly butcher Thenext morning
the parson, with basket in hand. Wis
tied the meat shop, and inquired the
price of roast for dinner. The
butcher usually waited upon his spir-
itual adviser with alacrity, but at this
particular time he was moody, and
refused to deal any longer with the
eloquent f;lrmerlpreacher. 'FWhat is
the matter now, said the middle
man in religious matters, shave not
always pUd you for meats bought1"
Yes, replied the butcher, ''but that
speech of yours last night did the
business for me. Hereafter 1 follow
your advice, SO far as you are con-
cerned; in futureyou viii go to the
bullock for your meat, and I Will go
to Jesus Christ for my salvation"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
Marriage I'M IdaIy.

At last theyare going to introduce
civil marriage in Italy. A law will
shortly be submitted to the Italian
Chambers making the civil marriage
ceremony obligatory, and Furnishing
any priest or clergyman who shall
perform a marriage rite unless the
civil requirements have first been
complied with. In point of fact,
civil marriage was introduced there
in 1865, when the new ciyl code was
adopted, but this provision of the
code wus rcver-cnrried- e,lt, there be-
ing no means to enforce it. The
present measure is introduced to
remedy this deficiency. 1t would be
well for the German Empire to in
troduce a similar law, and thus do
away with an important element of
the conflict between church and state.
. Missouri Democrat
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
The Ratnges lof Cholera.Gly

The American Health Association
met in New York on the l11th Of No
vembef, and among other subjects
considered the raFages of ch0IerS
during the past summer .THelaga
.gregate mortality as gathered from
the reports OF various members of
the association, ttBodgh not complete,
shows that the disease was not very
light in its attacks upon the country.
Nashville suffered 750 deaths; Mem
phis 500;J New Orleans 1872; Cincinl
natl 2O1; Chicago 1I6;; ST. Louis I10I
The total number reported is 5,475.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
Cath 0licisn and the Com an o Z.
Schools.

The Catholic children have been
very generally withdrawn from the
public schools of New York city and
Brooklyn, and placed in parochial
schools established by the Catholic
Church. A thousand children were
taken from the public schools in one
of the wards and marched with ban
ners to new and costly edifce erect
ed for a parochial school. AS the
children passed their old school, they
gave it three cheers! This withdraw
al of the Catholic children is not due
to the religious exercises or instruc-
ton in the public schools, but to the
fact that these schools are not under
the Catholic control and influence.
The announced policy of the Catholic
Church is to educate all its youth in
Catholic schools, and, to this end, it
demands a division of the school
fund Ohio Educational Monthly.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
i'f Excellent Advice.

The following has been handed us
by our friend Bob, who has carried
it in his purse for many years, as a
sort of talisDada, and who regards
much of his success in life as the re-
suit of a strict adherence, to the ad-
vice it contains. We do not often
see more sound advice in the same
space. We. commend it to all young
men just starting out in life. Out it
oaet and paste it in your hat: o. l..
"Keep good company or none.
Never be- idle, If your hands can't
be usefully employed, attend to the
cultivation of your mind. Always
speak the truth. Make few promises.
Live up to- your engagements, Keep
your own secrets, if you have any.
When you speak to a person, look
him in the face. Goodcompany and
good conversation, are the very sin
ews of virtue. Good character is
above all things else. Your charae-
ter cannot. be essentially injured, ex-
cept by your own acts. If any one
speaks evil of you, let your life be SO
that no one will believe him. Drink
no kind ofintoxicating liquors. Ever
live misfortune excepted within your
income. When you retire to bed,
think over what you have been doing
during the day. Make no haste to
be rich if you would prosper. Small
and steady, gains give competency,
with tranquility of mind. Never
play at any game of chance Avoid
though you fear you may
not withstand it. Earn money be-
fore you spend it. Never run into
debt unless you see a way to get out
Of it Never borrow if you can pos
sibly avoid it Do not marry until
you are able TO support a wife NeY=
er speak evil of any one. Be just be-
fore you are generous. Keep your
self innocent, if you would be happy.
Save when you are young, that you
may spend when you are old. Read
over the above maxims at least once
a week"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
Tunnel from England to
France,

The old project to make a tunnel
under the Straits of Dover, between
France and England, has been again
revived, a ockcompany having been
formed in France to effect the pur-
pose. 1t is believed that the forma-
ton to be penetrated is nothing but
an immense bed of chalk, for. the bor-
ing of which machines have been in
vented that viii bore hole ffty-four
feet deep and seven feet in diameter
within twenty7four hours The esti-
mated cost of tie tunnel between
Calais and Dover, twenty-three miles,
is S50,OO0,OOO. The stock company
asks no subsidies from either govern
ment, but, demands that il shall have
a eomdlete monopoly of the business
of the tunnel. gFE
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
- g. -sLt u t
Under a Cloud,

| We saw the man today who is
going about 'under cloud, 1t is
cloud that he has enyeloped him
self in. 1t is one Of hisIoYn creating.
No one is to blame for it but him
sell, He might free himself of it
perhaps, if he chose to do SO, and
had the moral nerve to make the eff
fort Tt wants nerve, though, and
he hasn't got it. Does anybody sus- IS
pect what the cloud is? We can can call
it in one word. Its drink. 'iAab5rt 4 short
and wonderfully expressive word Rtl Of #
one syllable. Geographically { speak
ing it is bounded on the north by
depraved appetite, on the east by
weak resolution, on the south BY tad
company, and on thesyest by.a.Whisky
shop Speaking after the manner of
the grammarians, drink is a nom, a
common common noun, very common as
general thing being the name of a
thing, and it is thing that people
would do well to let alone entirely.
It should be; in the objective case,
but the number of those who. OBJ
iect toitis surprisingly small, Nouns
are supposed to agree with their verbs,
but drink is a noun that hardly ever
agrees with anybody. az -, -.
The man who is under aeloud has
a way Of forgetting everything. He
forgets his engagements and obi
cations. He forgets to get up for
is too late for dinner, and
gets Cleft at supper per time. He ,; is
of his personal appearance,
and hasn't pride enough to keep him
from trying to borrow money of
strangers, or get the bar tender to
trust him. If he sits down anywhere
it is to sleep, and if he is walking; . on
the street you can n safely bet he he is
hunting drinking saloon or a lunch
table. After all, the man who is IN
der a cloud is entitled to some pity.
You who are differently constituted
from him need not take too omuch cred
lttoyourselves that you do differently,
but thank heaven that you are not
under q cloud. - -
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08


A HARD WNTER-The Rocky
Mountain News says that an old
hunter just in from the mountains,
bringing a load of bear and other
game, predicts hard winter. Noun
taineers and frontiersmen who have
studied the signs of the forest and
learned to forecast the seasons by a
knowledge of the disposition of wild
animals are generally pretty correct
in their representations, and come
as near the truth quite as often as
sod Probabilities" himself <
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08

1t is Mr.. Billings, of course, who
has mined the following nuggets of
wisdom: iahH.I-lt1Hr.i -.HeG
Silence il alwus safe. gru.g3- -la
Er.uff good LUX will ruin emmy man.
It requires the greatest ov skill tew
hide a weakness.
Avarice IL zabout the only pashun
that improves by age.
There is lots Of peoplewho mistake
their imaginashun for theh memory.
Sum ph0ikes are like kats, so well
balanced that they alwus strike on
their feet when they fall. 30. ) 1.-I 81.
Human natur liz like COW natur. I
have known them both tew give a
good mess ov milk, and then xix it
over.
Thare IL plenty of Ipholkes in
this world whose hartes bleed for
the poor, but whose pocket books
never do. nair r ,l.
Whar thar IL one man obstinate
bekause he IL wize, thar IL 4,695,S43
obstinate bekause they are ignorant.
The morerarea m IN s.qualities are,
the more he will be found fault with
dust on a diamond IL alwus more no
ticeable than dnst on q brik.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
Centennial Tea Party.

In the chain of events that led tC
the Rebellion of the Thirteen Colo
MES, and ended in the birth of the
United States of America, the de.
stru ction of the tea in Boston Harbo1
will maintain an enduring place in
the popular memory, when the other
and graver reasons that induced the
colonists to rebel against the mother
country are less generally under
stood Possibly no event in modern
history has so successfully appealed
to the imagination of the novelist, to
the brush of the artist, to the pen of
the historian, or warmed the elo-
quence of the orator as, on each re-
curing Fourth of July, the Colum-
bian Statesman pays tribute to the
American Eagle "whose bright home
is in the settin' sun, and hurls def
ance in the face of the British lion,
and denounces the efete despotisms
of Europe And, indeed, there was
much in the event to make it stand
out in future times landmark more
enduring than brass or marble. New
York and Philadelphia had been con
tent to send the East-India ships
with their cargoes back to London
Charleston received the tea in Bos-
ton, ''town meeting resolved that
the tea should not be landed, and
when, in the face of this protest, the
vessels came into the harbor, and |
preparations were made for sending
the cargo ashore, the hour for decis-
i've action on the part of the Boston
ians came.
The secret midnight meeting, the
Indian disguise, the swift descent on
the decks OF the vessels, the noiseless
but rapid consignment of the tea to
The waters of the Atlantic, the mystic
" that, even to this time, has con-
,ealed the actors in this drama from
name and fame, the first Congress
hat resulted from it-are they not
written in every school book on
American history, and is not every
me familiar with them?
One hundred years have rolled
round, since that event transpired.
IN event SO marked in our early his
ory ought not to pass unnoticed, and
he Centennial of throwing the tea
nto Boston Harbor, on the night of {
Dec. 10th, 1773, was remembered in |
lmost every city in the Union. !
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08

The FIRST SETTLER ON THE ScIoro.
It having been claimed thahP1saac
Bonser, of Scioto county, was the
first settler on the Scioto river; in
the spring of 1897, correspondent
of the Pike County Republican
says
"Hezekiah Merritt, who removed
from Pennsylvania in 1875 to Man.
chester, Ohio, came from the latter
place on the oath of December, 1895,
TO where Lucasville now stands, and
settled there, and claims that he
(the father of the writer) was the
first settler on the Scioto, along its
whole length"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
GramdnaOther.

For long time L did not under
stand it at all. 1 thought that, be
cause grandmothers often were feeble
and old-fashioned, they could never
really feel as we children do; that
they needed no particular notice Oh
enjoyment, for it was their nature to
sit in rocking chairs, and they seemed
quite different from the rest of the
world, and not to be especially
thought about; that is, by girls who
were as full of merry plans as we
were.
sGrandmotherlived with us, as father
was her only son. We had a vagpe
idea that she helped mother mend
the clothes and knitted all fathers
winter stockings, besides some pairs
for the church society. We were
supposed to love her, of course, and
were never openly rude, for indeed
we had been taught to be polite to
all aged persons. AS for grlndmoth-
er, she was one of those peaceful
souls who never make any trouble,
but just go on in their own way so
quietly, that you hardly know they
are in the house. Mother sat with
her sometimes, but We girls, in our
gay, busy pursuits, rarely thought of
such a thing. She seemed to have
no part in our existence
It went on so for some time, till
one day 1 happened at sundown tSi
go into the sitting room, and there
sat grandmother, alone, She had
ffallsR asleep in heT-reshfaiF chair s. by the wiz
dow. The sun vas just sinking ouS
of sight, leaving glory of light as
he went and in r4is glory 1 saw
grandmother-saw Ler really for the
first time in my life
She had been reading her Bible,
and then, as if there had been no
need OF reading more, since its treas
nres already lay shining in her soul,
she had turned the book over upon
her lap and leaned back to enjoy the
evening.
1 saw 1t all in moment-her gen
ueness, her patience, her holiness
Then, while her love and beautiful
dignity seemed to fold about me like
a bright cloud, the sweet everyday
lines in her face told me a secret,
that even then, in tie wonderful sun
set Of life, she was, o, hoE human
So human that she missesS bid faces
and old scenes; so human that she
needed share Of what God was Civ
ing us-friends, home interests, lit
tie surprises and expectations, loving
offices, and, above all, a recognition
In the details of our fresh young
lives.
Girls when grandmother woke up,
she found us ali three stealing softly
into the room; for God had helped
me, when I went to tell my sisters
about it. Mary only kissed her and
asked if she had had a good nap;
Susie picked her ball of yarn off the
carpet, where it had rolled, and be-
gan to wind it, all the while telling
her a pleasant bit of news about one
of the school girls; and I-well, 1
knelt down at grandmothers feet
and, just as 1 was going to cry, 1
gave her knees a good hard hug, and
told her she was darling.
That's all, girls. But it's been
different ever since from what it was
before st. Nicholas.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08

.
CONSOLATION FOR THE Dun
There is no talent so useful towards
rising in. the world, or which puts
men more out of the reach of the
fortune, than that quality generally
possessed by the .dullest sort of peo
pie, and IN common speech called
disecetiOn-a species of lower pru-
dence, by the assistance of which,
people of the meanest intellect, with
out any other qualification, pass
through the world in great tranquil
ty, and with unusual good treatment,
neither giving nor taking ofeneesra
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08
Youths Department.
TO Contributors to the Youths
Department.

Our call for contributions to this Department has
been pretty well responded to by our young friends
and we have now quite supply of original Enig-
mas, which will appear in the order they were re-
ceived-''first come, first served" Don't be impa-
tent, therefore, if you don't your contributions
published Immediately, but wait few weeks, and
they win probably appear, if accepted.
Be careful not to make mistakes in spelling, and
write IS plainly possible.
We would like to have some original problems
from our young mathematicians.
Remember always to send the answers with your
Engmas, Charades or Problems.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08

The Washington Star says that on
Monday last Sunset Cox was more
than usually active, spurty, and ire
pressible in the House. Finally,
when the House came to an agree
ment to proceed with the debate on
the salary bill in twenty-minute
speeches, Cox dispatched page with
the following note:
sDEAR Mr.. SPEAKER-Put me down
for twenty minutes.
To which the speaker replied:
'EDEAR Cox-I would be delighted
if 1 could keep you down half that
time. j. G. B."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08

According to London paper of
recent date the Rev. DR., Parker, one
of the delegates to the Evangelical
Alliance, which met in New York a
few weeks sincs, prefaced his sermon
at Exeter Hall with the following
complimentary allusion to our coun-
try. sit is not very agreeable to my
patriotic impulses to say-and yet l
must say it-that America is, in my
opinion, on the point of laying its
hand on the supremacy of the world.
England has a magnificent history,
but America has still more nagni-
icent future. gf :
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08

Several tea houses in New York
have failed lately and others are
winding up business. The reason is
that Western cities receive their sup
plies of teas by way of the great
steamers, direct from China and
Japan to San Francisco and by rail
from there. Instead of being six
months on board of sailing vessais, as
tea coming toNew York is, the tea
comes the other route in some thirty
to forty days. The consequence is
that the West is more cheaply sup
piled than New York, hence the clos
ing of New York tea houses.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-01-08

Caleb Gushing will be "a in Janu-
ary. He is one of the most learned
men in the country; and through the
administration of three Presidents
has been kept on liberal pay to in
struct the powers that be-" when
necessary, on questions of precedent,
history, use, and propriety, touching
innumerable matters connected with
our foreign policy. On questions of
domestic politics he is not much con-
suited. He can converse fuently
with the Ministers from all lands in
their own tongue. His health con-
tinues good, and he continues active
the same at IA as he was at 81.
He never takes rest or recreation; he
works.