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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28
The Louisiana White League.

The furious howl of simulated indig-
nation against General Sheridan which
Northern Democrats and Southern ex-
rebels are now making, does not grow
out of any acts which that gallant and
patriotic soldier has committed, but out
of words which he has uttered in his
dispatches to the Government. His
words, like his blows in times past, have
struck so sharp and quick that they have
struck fire. His keen eye detected the
cause of the trouble in Louisiana as soon
as he arrived in New Orleans to be the
White League, or " the banditti," as he
aptly calls it in his dispatches and with
plain, blunt speech he asks for the privi-
Iege of crushing it. This cause is not an
ideality, but fact, and the sooner that
fact is recognized by the American peo-
pie and dealt with decisively, the better
will it be for Louisiana and the whole
country.
The existence of the White League is
an undisputed fact. The commander of
that unlawful organization has been be-
fore the Congressional Investigating
Committee, and testified to its existence,
and to its purposes in part, although
concealing and undertaking its extent.
1t is beyond the possibility to dispute
that the White League is widespread,
armed, oath-bound organization, COM
posed of ex-rebels, whose sole object is to
terrorize over and intimidate Republi-
cans and Conservative Democrats also.
There is no celored league, armed or un-
armed, in the State of Louisiana, as is
shown by proof before the Investigating
Committee. The leader of the White
League himself had only "heard there
was Black League, but knew nothing
about it, while abundant testimony was
given to show that there was no such Or
ganization in the State. This White
League has not only been thing of the
past, but it is a thing of the present,
which exists now, not only in New Or
leans, where it swarms by thousands, but
also throughout the country parishes,
where it controls the colored people by
intimidation, and defeats the purpose of
the majority by terrorism. 1t works
with safety, because it works in secret,
and has no opposing organization, either
public or secret, to interfere with it. 1t
produced the revolution of September
IA, 1874, and seized the State Govern
ment by force, violence and murder. 1t
perpetrated the Red River massacre of
officials and citizens. 1t has repeatedly
set the laws at defiance, and issubyersive
of peace and order wherever it exists
and has the power to carry out its pur'
pose. 1t is an illegal organization
which would not be tolerated single
d,,, in onv Nortbarn State II iS a
branch, or rather the successor, of the
Ku Klux order under another name, Sc
cret in its character, Oath-bound in its
organization, thoroughly armed, andmur-
derous in its purposes.
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French Words Improperly Used.

The French words constantly used in
English are often used wrongly. 1t
would be interesting to know the origin
of our habit of calling out encore when
we wish to hear a piece of music over
again. 1t is just possible that in some
bygone age the French may have done
this, but certainly no living being ever
heard a Frenchman. call out anything
but "bis" on these occasions. Then we
have adopted the French word morale;
but it is never used by Engllshmen,
never even by the most learned histori-
ans without blunder. The learned his
torians say, for example, Wellington
was Eow determined to carry on the war
a Poutranee, and the morale of his army
was excellent" Both these expressions
are blunders. A Poutranee is bad French;
it ought to be outrance; but morale used
in this sense is still worse. 1t Is hardly
possible to imagine a more absurd mis-
take, and yet it is universally prevalent
among English writers. The historians
mean to say " the moral of the army was
excellent" or in plain English, that the
men were in a cheerfully resolute tenn
per; whereas to say that the morale of an
army is good, is to affirm that its theories
of morality are sound, or, in plain words,
that the soldiers are convinced that they
ought not to commit adultery, etc. lie
moral, used in this way, means mental
frmness, cheerfulness, courage to face
difficulties, and bear privations without
being cast down into low spirits; Ia
morale of body of men means their
theory, more or less severe, of moral
duty and obligation. Thus lofty morale
may exist at the same time and in the
same person with a low moral. You may
be utterly discouraged as to temporal at
fairs, you may feel quite certain that
your worldly position is hopeless, that
disease and ruin have you in their
clutches for the rest OF your days on
earth, yet at the same time your morale
may be of an elevation and purity to
gladden. the angels in heaven. The con-
verse is also true. Your moral may be
excellent in the military sense, that is to
say, you may be merry under fatigue,
and look death in the face with care
less Jest on your lips, yet have such
low morale that you may see no partleu-
lar reason for not committing the seven
deadly sins on the first seven favorable
opportunities. CromwelPs army had
both, the idle knight of the middle
ages had both, the armies of Napoleon
had one without the other. The two
things are so independent that their con-
junction or their severence is favorite
subject of the poet and the novelist.
You have them together in Sir Galahad,
together in Scott's great heroine, Re-
becca, but only one of them in Brian de
Rois-Guilbert.
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The Spider Trap.

A spider living in the country, and
having followed his business for time in
an obscure corner, determined to travel
a little for improvement of taste, and also
for any advantagein business which might
turn up. By good fortune he turned
his steps to fiower-garden, where were
displayed thousand blossoms of every
variety and hue. As we always compare
new things to something we have seen
before, SO in his mind he compared the
colors of brilliant flowers to the various
insects which in his chronological studies
he had become acquainted with. Elated
with all he saw passing on, sometimes
creeping, sometimes throwing a suspen-
sion bridge from pier to pier of flower
stalks, until the thought occurred to him
that he had not dined or supped. Ac-
cordingly he looked around for a place
whereon to spread his table first, and
then to sit down on it to see what good
fortune will send them.
At length, after several selections and
re-selections, he found a saloon of the
most admirable description. 1t was moth
ing less than Morning Gloryl If he
had only known the name which it bore
In the catalogue, he would, 1 suppose,
have been still more proud than he was
of his tent. For that must be sumptu-
GUS flower which can boast name as
long as a Spanish princess, as this did.
(1t was the IpOn,ea hederacea superbd
yraadi fora.)
Alas for day dreams! While he was
thus fondly expecting his guests, saw a
bumhle- bee of the largest size, heavily
flying from blossom to blossom, from
colvulvuli bell to bell, and the thought
crossed my mind: how queer it would
be if he should visit the spider Sure
enough he seemed to have caught my
thought, for in second he carried his
great blundering body right down to the
bell and dashed his head through the
web; but not liking it he made off, like
Samson, with part of his prison on his
shoulders.
Meanwhile the spider seemed far more
alarmed than the bee, and shrank back
into his flower house. Misfortunes never
come single, it is said. About an hour
after this encounter l went out to see
how the travelled spider was enjoying
himself. He and 1 both had forgotten
one thing, and that is that on fair sum-
mer mornings the cenvolvuli shuts up its
blossoms by ten o'clock. While the spider
lay securely inside, the edges had folded
down and closed the opening! The
flower had proved a prison!
All, ye who spin webs of evil across
the places of pleasure, and lurk for the
destruction of the simple, may your
refuge prove snare, and may you be
caught in the very net which you spread
for others!
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to clergy has been raised from 3,5OO,OOO to
10000
THE merchants of Madrid have presented
a magnificent crown to King Alfonso.
SERIOUS alarm is again felt for the health
of the Pope, who is suffering from chills.
SENIOR CASTELAR, declares that he will re-
fuse to take his seat in the Cortes if he is
required to swear allegiance to monarchy.
In Germany, the Chancellor has submitted
to the Federal Council an ordinance prohib-
iting the importation into Germany of
American potatoes, as a measure of precau-
ton against the spread of the potato dis
ease.
NJ. CAZEAU, Bonapartist, has been elected
to the Assembly in the Hautes Pyrenees, by
| 5000 majority. The result makes a great
sensation at Paris.
! THE Spanish Government, on account of
the frequent outrages on railway trains and
employees, has ordered that every armed
| Carlist found in the vicinity of railway
shall be shot.
! THE British steamer Berar, from Odessa
for Cardiff, is said to have foundered with
all on board, twenty in number.
STATEMENTS are made that the Republic
ans have left Barcelona and other towns in
Spain for a conference with the Carlist
ehieftain, Saballo, regarding general rising
against King Alfonso, and that, should the
project succeed, it is proposed, by plebis-
cite, to decide between a Monarchy, with
Don Carlos as King, and Republic. There
is considerable agitation among the Repub-
licans in Barcelona.
THE following dispatch has been received
from Montevideo: "The Uruguayan Gov
ernment has fallen, and the rebels are in
power. There is general alarRn, and business
is suspended. A British squadron is in the
harbor. Pedro Varela, President of the
Senate, has been elected Provisional Presi-
dent of the Republic.
FoRTY-sEvEN Carlist officers have notified
the Spanish Consul that they have given in
their adhesion to King Alfonso.
THE London Times announces that Russia,
Austria, and Germany, have agreed to
recognize Alfonso as King of Spain at once,
without waiting for proclamation by the
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Circumstances Alter Cases.

Speaker Witt" So far, so good. ]
have knocked down the clerk, seized the
chair, declared myself elected Speaker
and sworn in enough Democrats to give
us the majority. What had we better dc
next?"
Chorus of Democratic members
"Call in the Federal troops to prevent
the Republicans from grabbing the House
again and robbing us of our hard-earned
victory"
Speaker Wiltz. -" Sergeant-at-Arms,
request General de Trobriand to come
here with some troops to protect U.S."
Enter General de Trobriand with
soldiers.
Speaker Wilt. "The Democratic
members of this House ask your protec-
ton. They depend upon the gallant sol
diers of the nation to secure them from
outrage"
Chorus of Democrats" Hurrah for
the Federal troops! General if you and
your brave men will stand by us we are
safe. We demand the assistance of the
military arm of the Government"
Speaker Wilt" General, will you
please have the hall and lobby cleared of
intruders."
TThe troops comply with this request
and withdraw. Meanwhile the Governor
demands that the military shall also eject
the Democrats sworn in as members by
Wilt. General de Trobriand appears
in the hall a second time and states his
mission.
Speaker Wilt. -"I protest against
this monstrous invasion of the sover-
eighty of Louisiana by a horde of brutal
soldie.y. l protest against the presence
of these. myrmidoms of fendish des-
potism in this hall. appeal to the
American people against this wicked
assault upon our liberties by the hireling
cohorts of the Presidential assassin"
Chorus of Democrats all pro-
test. The pollution of this sacred place
by the presence of the minions of mil
itary tyrant is the greatest crime ever
committed against freedom and popular
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28

L was-mercurlal, nervous changeable-
in house on Sunday! Oh, how gloomy
| looked at the flies, ate gingerbread and
cake, tried to read book 1 never could
understand. My father was too busy to
attend to children, and my second mother
was good but severe, and my Sunday was
the glOomiest day of all the week. How
L watched for the sun to 90 down. ]
stood by the large dining-room window,
and watched the great red orb descend,
and it never seemed to be so lazy as on
that day; and when its glimmer was
gone, | jumped and cried, Sundays
gone Sundays gone p"
IT is kind words and bright smiles that
make people happy often. They are
worth more, sometimes, than great
speech or rich gifts, and any little boy or
girl can give them.
A sPUNKY Brooklyn boy who gets
whaled every day with singular regular
ity, makes these little domestic episodes
dramatic by sitting down on the steps of
the man next door, and bawling as if he
would peel all the lining of his throat
off.
IT isa great comfort for boy who
falls down stairs with a pitcher of milk
in his hand, to know that he joined a
Sunday school on the previous Sabbath.
A PLUCKY SToRY.-A farmers lad
was crossing field where a very wild
and ferocious bull was allowed to roam
at large. When the boy had about
reached the middle of the field, he sud-
denly saw the bull, with head lowered,
rushing furiOusly at him. Being ac-
customed to manage cattle, he was in no
way disconnected, but ran to tree near
by and commenced running around it,
with the bull after him; presently he
caught the bull by the tail and COM
menced belaboring him numerically
with a stick The bull, finding that
tail was turned, started off at run,
the boy swinging on to hin, but the
faster he ran, the more the boy belabored
him, until finally he commenced below
ing. "Oh," says the boy, increasing his
blows, "you may below, but I'd like to
know who started this"
This is a good lesson in courage; but
we wouldn't advise all boys to take bulls
by the tail. Sometimes bull might not
pc coward.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28
A Wonderful Freak of Nature.

The other evening well known gen
tleman of Pottsville bought number of
oysters at the Union Hall restaurant,
and proceeded to eat them raw. When
he came to a certain one he gave a look
at it and started back in amazement and
horror. And well he might, for the
oyster presented an appearance most SIN
gular and unexpected. There, as plainly
as if drawn by painters pencil, was the
head and breast of a woman. The eyes,
mouth, nose, breasts and general outline
were as plain as plain could be. II
oyster was put in ice and frozen. Whe.
we saw it next day it had begun to thaw,
and had shrunk somewhat, and then pre-
sented the appearance of female corpse,
the skin of the oyster seeming to serve
the purpose of a shroud. The mouth
was open, and appeared to have been
drawn to one side. The eyes were
staring, and altogether the effect was
anything but pleasant. We never saw
more curious freak of nature than this,
nor ever heard of one.-Mners' Journal.
LORD RoMn.LY, late Master of the
Rolls, died recently in London, at an adj
vanced age Lord RoEilly belonged to
one of those French Huguenot families
which S, ught refuge in England.
FARMERS gather what they sow, while
seamstresses sew what they gathsr.=
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28

SAMUEL HOPKINS was the first person
who ever received a patent from the
United States government. 1t was
granted July 26, 1898, and was for the
manufacture of pot and pearl ashes. The
third was Oliver Evans, of Philadelphia,
SO famous for his inventions in high
pressure engines, of whose invention
President Jefferson remarked that it was
" too valuable to be covered by patent,
and there should be no patent for thing
no one could do without after it was
known" This was in December of that
year. For many years afterward the
Patent Office was but clerkship in the
State Department.
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government"
Speaker Wiltz.-"Let us withdraw
We might as well, anyhow, because we
are in the minority since my four Dem
ecrats were torn away by the despot's
satraps."
They withdrew, and the next day the
refrain of the chorus is taken up by the
Democracy of the nation and is howled
out right vigorously. Philadelphia Bul-
Lefin
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28
FOR THE UNG FOLKS.
Before and After school.

BeJOfe.
Quarter to ninel Boys and girls do YOU hear?"
One more buckwheat, then-be quick, mother
dearl'
Where is my luncheOn-box?' "Under the shelf,
Just in the place where you left it yourself!"
can't say my tablet" go, find me my capr'
One kiss for mamma and sweet sis in her lap"
" Be good, dearp' "PH try.p "9 times 9's 81"
"Take your mittens!" "AIl right" "Hurry up,
Bill; let's run"
With slam Of the door, they are off, girls and boys
And the mother draws breath in the lull Of their
noise
after.
Don't wake up the baby! Come gently, my dear ~
40, mother Pve torn my dress, just look here
Pm sorry. l only was climbing the wall.h
go, motherl my map was the incest of all"
" And Nelly, in spelling, went up to the head!"
40, say can go on the hill with my sled?'
"Ive got such tOothache." ''The teachers un-
fairr'
I" Is dinner most ready? Pm just like a bear"
Be patient worn mother, they're growing up fast,
These nursery whirlwinds, not long do they last;
A still lonely house would be far than Doise;
Rejoice and be glad in your brave girls and boysl
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Foreign.

A CIRCULAR letter was received at Paris
from Berlin, few days ago, which states
that Germany, although wishing to respect
the feelings of the Spanish Government,
considers she is obliged to satisfy public
opinion and avenge the insult to her flag.
She is disposed to adopt the same conciliatory
policy toward the new Government which
was maintained toward President Serrano.
Thereto claims from the good will of
Spain tn t "a sfaction be done the German
flag.
GERMANY will soon have fifty guns on the
northern coast of Spain.
GLADSTONE has written an article on the
speeches of Pope Plus TX, which appears
in the Quarterly ReUie1C. He sketches the
history OF the Pope's reign, points out the
increased subserviency of the Roman Catho-
lie clergy, and concludes that the mass of the
British nation now repudiates the preten-
sions of the papacy more eagerly and resO-
lutely than it has done for many genera
tons.
THE King of Spain has signed decrees rel
alive TO the salaries of the clergy, and de-
clared that, while giving support and respect
to the Catholic clergy, he desires to firmly
maintain religious liberty as it exists in the
most civilized countries. The subvention
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Legislatures.

THE Arkansas Senate adopted a substitute
for the House joint resolution, denOuncing
military interference in Louisiana, which
denies the charges of Sheridan so far as Ar
kansas is concerned.
GOVERNOR STEARNS, of Florida, in his
message, expresses the hope that the Legis
lature will not neglect the State interests in
the contest for United States Senator; urges
the recognition of Cuba by Congress, and
good to the depositers in the Freedmen's
bank the full amount of their deposits.
THE joint convention of the General As.
sembly of Indiana, elected Hon. James E.
Mcdonald United States Senator, BY ten
majority. The vote stood: Mcdonald, rs;
Pratt, A; Buchanan, 10; Holman, 8; Thomp-
son, g.; Curry, 2. Four absentees.
A TELEGRAM announces the election of
81. L. Dawes United States Senator, by the
Massachusetts, Legislature
BOTH Houses of the New York Legislature
have elected Francis Herman United States
Senator, to succeed Reuben C. Fenton.
THE Pennsylvania Legislature sends VIM.
A. Wallace to the Senate. Delaware sends
Bayard.
THE Michigan Legislature has elected
Isaac P. Christiancy to the United States
Senate by one majority. Chandler received
6S votes, Bagley l, and Christiancy 67.
ALGERNoN SIDNEY PADDOCK has been
elected to the United States Senate by the
Legislature of Nebraska, to succeed Senator
Upton.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-28

PRIZE ESSAYS ON GIRLS, BY A SMALL
BoY.-I hate girls. Girls are fools.
They can't play at leap-frog, or punch
fellows heads, like boys. Girls like to
go school-that shows what fools they
are land to wash their hands and faces,
and have their hair done. Girls always
have lot of secrets to tell to one another
and lot to talk about but it is all stuff
about big boys being in love with them.
shall never be in love with a girl, be-
cause it is stupid.
On Boys, BY A YOUNG MIss.-I hate
boys. They are all alike. l do not see
the good of boys until they have grown
up into men. Men are not so bad as
boys. 1 should like to be a man myself.
Then should wear long mustaches, and
be very wild, and break girls hearts. 1t
would be great fun! Most girls are stu
pids, and it would Just serve them right.
On FRIGHTs, BY A FRUMP.-I hate
dressed-up dolls. 1 think a girl can not
dress too plain. If girl studied more
what she put into her head than what
she put on it, she would be happier. She
might not get married, but what of that ?
l am not married myself l think the
present fashions are odious. The way
that some girls show their figures is
shameful. would not show my figure
even if / had any.
On DOC, BY A Gait hate dogs !;
they bark. Dogsare kicked, and lick the
feet that kick them; cats don't. Dogs
tails curl; this is very stupid. knew a
stuffed dog once. He was better than
unstufed dogs; but his stuffing made
you sneeze if you shifted at him. Dogs
have to be muzzled, and go mad. l
don't see no good in that.
HENRY WARD BEECHER thus de-
scribes his boyhood's Sunday: " 1 remem-
ber very we'll when woke up on Sunday
morning once, and brother Charles lay in
the trundle-bed near by me. l began to
make rabbits out of the cotton in the
bed-quilt, and the thought flashed across
me that it was Sunday. 'Charlet,' said,
it's Sunday We ducked down under
the coverlid and blanket, and expected
to be struck dead. Shut up a child like