The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1874-02-12
Odds and Ends.

The new Insane Asylum at Athens
is at last completed.
It cost Uncle Sam only six million
dollars to double up his fists at
Spain.
The Jews in this country are agi-
tating the question of holding their
Sabbath on the Christian Sunday.
The Constitutional Convention has
decided in favor of annual sessions of
the General Assembly.
The public debt was increased in
December, SS,453,272. The net in
crease since June is S11,4 ,496,615.
The Old Catholics have now one
hundred parochial charges in Ger
many, and 10000 enrolled members.
sr A new route has been opened be-
tween St. Louis and Galveston, cto
Iron Mountain railroad, $50 miles
shorter than the NJ, K. & 7.
Susan B. Anthony has petitioned
Congress to relieve her from the
sentence of the Court, for voting at
the late Presidential election.
Eighteen thousand unemployed
men are living in the soup-houses OF
Chicago, and have been for the past
three months.
16 passengers were killed by rail
road casualties in Ohio, last year,
and 68 injured. In all, 210 persons
were killed OF fatally wounded.
A large portion Of the business
part of Charleston, W. Va, was de-
stroyed by fire, on Monday morning,
Jan. 26. Loss, 100000.
Anna Dickinson kept a Syracuse
audience waiting half an hour because
her Green dress with trail had not
come. ~. g1q Ti1g.a
Mrs. Laura Adair, the widow of
Lieut.. Adair, killed by the Indians
last year, is postmistress of Ports
mouth. 3ts' -- l'-e
Henri Rochefort is still alive, de-
spite the recent reports Of his death.
The French government has received
information of his safe arrival at the
penal colony to which he was sert.
According to Dr. Livingstone, the
Victoria falls on the Zambesi are 600
feet wider than the combined Falls
of Niagara. Their native name is
Mosiatunya.
Shipbuilding is becoming an i'm
portant interest of the Pacific coast.
Twenty-Five sea-going vessels with a
total capacity of 5000 tons have been
built at Boos Bay, Oregon.
Three Indians and one white man
have been sentenced to be hung at
Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the Sd OF
April, for murders committed in the
Indian country.
Chicago don't seem to be going
backward very much just now. Her
f merchants sold lastyear $3.50, 100000
worth Of goods, being gain of Is
per cent. over the sales Of 1872.
: No females over thirty years old
r are hereafter to be forwarded to Salt
4 Lake City by the Mormon missiona-
e ries. Bring EN- young" says Brig
ham Young.
D It appears to be a fact that the
t whole or nearly the whole OF the
e Swiss Jura District has gone over tc
), the Old Catholic movement, expell
:, ing the ultramontane clergy and
t throwing off allegiance to Rome.
The amount of the debts Of cOun
i ties, townships, cities, incorporated
5 villages and school districts in Ohio
: is S20,O33,123; being S2,442, 81;
y more than in 1872. City debts
L amount to three fourths of this.
A "Life of Washington in Japan
ese, consisting of fortyfour volumes
= illustrated, has just been published
in Yeddo. Washington is represent
, ed in the costume of the presen
time, with a mustache, a cane, and
= Skye terrier
- The life insurance Of our countr.
. is larger than in all the other nation
q of the globe, which in the aggregat
= amount to 81, 100000, which
- 1927, ,625,00 less than the amour
- credited to the United States.
In some of the public schools i
re England the teaching of telegraph
le has been tried with much success
to Instruments are lent by the govern
A. mant and the children learn ver
II rapidly.
m Henry W. Shaw Josh Billing
ch has sold four hundred and ten thou
10 and of his "Almanax" during the la
re five years. Profits, $4,000. Ho
ht much was it that Milton got for Pa
adise Lost?
~ The Georgia Legislature met {
~ the 18th. The Governor, in b
- message, takes cheerful view OF Il
public affairs. The State debt
=, S8, 100000, and it is estimated tn
- the value of taxable property is S25'
~ 100000. The Senate approved t
~ final action of Congress on the sala
,s+ question.
II A worthy Quaker thus wrote: