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The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
After the Election.

When I got home last night (said
Squills) the old lady was waiting for
me. I knew there was something In
soak. There always is when she sits
propped up in bed reading, and / knew
it.
I was feeling pretty good, said
SQuills, for I had been whltewashed in
the convention, sold out body, boots
and breeches, and felt like board
yard he cat with his back hair curled
the wrong eide up.
Have you got elected, SquilIs,
dear p
I knew that she had seen the paper,
but I said. :" No, love-" as mildly as if
elections and all such snares were be-
meath my notice.
"Not got the election, Mr.. Squills 2''
"No. Mrs. Squills, not that the court
is aware of at this present writing,
Certainly not"
s. Then what do you expect to get
for all the whisky you've been pouring
down those fellows throats?''
"What fellows throats %
Your friends who have been ramp
ing IN and out of my house, Mr..
Squills, and borrowing your children's
money, and running you into all kinds
of disreputable places to hunt up votes,
and sneaking you off into the country
to barbecues and other infamous re-
ridiculous remarks, which I know you
paid the reporters to work up into a
speech. A nice thing you have
done for yourself, and me,
and the poor children, and
then, after all, not get anything for
your pains I'm ashamed of you, Mr..
Squills. If could afford to blush for
SO wicked being, Squills, 1 would
blush for you. But I can't, and. what
is more, won't. Don't tell me, Squills,
that you don't want me to blush for
you, and you sitting there just as mad
as hatfui of hornets. After you tell
ing me, too, and the dear child, that
she should have new silk when you
| got the election. Anice election you
got, and those fellows who took your
money and your whisky just laughing
at you and thinking what fool you
are for believing them. That's what
hurts me in the tenderest point,
Squills."
esAbout this time, said Squills, IS
put out the light, tu1nbled into bed,
and prepared to sleep, but Mrs. Squills
still kept at it with forty Squills power.
After a time exhausted nature gave
way, and she was SILENT Then I felt a
singular J1ggl1ng at the bed, and
turned round and said Mrs. Squills, is
that you? What in the world are you
doing that for ? If you want to laugh,
laugh, but don't shake as if you had
the buck-ague."
Oh, what a politician you are,
Squills," said she. "Two weeks can.
vassing, and then to be beaten by 6
tadpole."
To keep peace in the family said
Squills. So had to promise dress, OIL
something else, and as for the tadpole
business, what can you explain to 6
WOMAN
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
A Nice Man to Ride with.

The London correspondent of the
Graphic tells this story One of the
most popular notions in England is
that our system of railway travelling
surpasses yours in comfort, from the
fact that with our small carriages it is
easy to get compartment to ones self,
or, at worst, carriage with only one
or two occupants. That there are
drawbacks, however, even to this sum-
NIT of earthly felicity, the adventures
of worthy director, who recently trav-
eled from one Midland station TO an
other, may show. The train he had to
catch was very full and he was rather
late, and in hurrying to and fro he OBJ
served carriage tenanted by two men,
one of whom was leaning out of the
window while No. 2 was asleep in the
corner. No. l endeavored to assert
that the carriage was taken, but the
director would stand no such nonsense
and bustled into the carriage, followed
by the solicitor to the company. The
train started immediately, and tenant
No. proceeded to explain that his
sleepy friend was a 1unatic, and that he
was his keeper, and that as his patient
was excitable all that was to be hoped
was that he might not wake. On
luckily this hope proved vain, and the
A1AF e-AA0 OCAAB AHOuSO0 Hc4u4IO0 b1o
director to sit opposite him while he
explained the theory of the connection
between fsh-ponds and frogs, the di-
rector's open mouth doing duty for the
former and the rG'ausacuLi being repre-
sented by little pellets of paper, which
were hurled down the aperture with
great precision by the lunatic. This
interesting invalid next insisted on
the directors daubing his face with ink
which was produced from a travelling
bag, and the entertainment wound up
with a screaming farce, called "Hot
Pancakes" in which the fun consisted
In the insane gentleman's slapping each
of his companions faces in turn, and
excIaiming, :" There's another hot pan
cake. This finally resulted in free
| fight, and the capture of the lunatic !;
but the director takes care now whom
he travels with.
Mrs. WATSON, wife of Professor Wat
son, of Michigan University, is prob
| ably the only woman who enjoyed the
privilege of going on the transit expedi-
| tion from the United States. She had
long journey. First, there was an
overland journey to San Francisco, and
then voyage, lasting twenty-six days,
| to Yokohama, a four days sail to Ma
| gasaki, and another of six days to Tien-
tsin. Then followed voyage up the
river on small house-bo ats to Tune
Chang, and finally. a donkey ride OF
sixteen miles to Peking.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
Dog Dentistry In New York.

Dogs have the toothache, and not
only do dogs have the toothache, but
they have dentists, and it's hard to tell
which is the wofst to have. A lady
here has a beautiful black -and-tap, q
fragile bit of canine weighing no
more than two pounds. The dear little
man became fractious. He plunged his
head in the sofa pillow and threw up
his other end as if life had no more
bones. He took lap at his mug of
cold water, and then sat down on his
tail, and lifted up his voice in such pro-
longed misery that the whole house
cried hydrophobia, and got up on top
of chairs and tables. Had this been
twenty-pounder instead of two, and
affection the only tie between the owner
and the beast-though it pulled her
heart-strinR-" Claude ,, would have
been shot; but it was the purse strings
by which he held on; he was worth two
hundred dollars. A doctor was sent
for-the patient was found with his
nose in an india rubber shoe, and his
rat tail vibrating with big ache-an
ache the attendant physician i'm
ache. Imagine the astonishment of
the family when the prescription for
Claude was the dentist. His blanket
was put on, his spirits encouraged, and
off went the poor dear to have his teeth
fixed.
A regular practitioner was the oper-
ator. Claude was put into q neat little
box, packed in with wool. His wonder
ing countenance stuck out of a hole in
the cover. A rubber-covered stick
| went into his mouth and kept his jaws
open, and the investigation commenced.
Two of his back teeth were pulled
| there was no doubt of that. He ex.
postulated loudly, Notwithstanding the
gag. Then he was allowed respite OF
some hours, after which he reluctantly
resumed his harness and had three
| teeth filed with amalGam. Thus t1nk.
cred, Claude has returned to his home
to think of the past and refuse all
sweet things that may bring to his little
canine soul such sorrow as he has just
suffered.
The little dogs dental bill was $40
and that's but one of his mistress
troubles. She has paid $25 for hi
passage across the ocean four times
She has paid 800 for damages dene *
suit of furniture, from which he ate
every button in every tuft In the space
of half an hour. She has paid innum
erable small sums for railway travel
for of late years they are trying, these
hard hearted railway officials, to par
the tender traveller from her poodle
considering the dog as nuisance
NeaO York Letter.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
Our ProductIye Grovtll.

Every man must take peculiar pride
in contemplating the vastness Of the
productive industry OF the Western
States. Its increase is SO wonderful
that frequent examination of the fig
ures is necessary to it's complete COM
prehension.
In the year 1872 the States of Michi-
gan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Min
aesota, Iowa. Missouri, Kansas and
Nebraska, produced, of cereals, ], ,029,-
600, 900 bushels, or about 50 per- cent.
of all the grain produced in the United
States in that year. OF this, ever 1885,
OO0, 600 bushels were of wheat. of
which, these States consumed only
about s6. .0OO, 900, leaving some 20, 900, :
600 bushels for export from these
States. They produced. also, In that
year, 7OO, 900, 900 bushels of corn. The
Western and Northwestern States ship
ped to market, the same year, 213, 900,
600 bushels of wheat, of which over
| IA, ,4OO, 900 went to foreign countries,
over a, ,O00, COO to the New England,
and the balance to the Gulf States.
The year 1873 saw an increased acre
age, and 1874 surpassed all the preced-
| ing by far, both in the number of new
acres brought under tillage, and in the
aggregate yield of most Of the cereals,
and this In spite of droughts and insect
depredations, which in quite extended
localities destroyed all vegetation
Prairie Farmer.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

You have not asked me to forgive
you, Mathew" she said softly.
Forgive me, when you have painted
my crime down for all posterity to look
upon r he said. "Is it likely Be-
sides, you are rich now and he
looked at her costly dress; Sc and next
door to beggar.
Great tears filed Margaret's eyes.
Mathew" she said. !" does that pic
ture stand between us?"
Your hate-your scorn-that which
gave birth to that picture must, he
said.
Have you penxife ?" she asked.
A penknife 2"
eyes"
Perhaps he thought she meant to kill
him. He took it from his pocket and
opened it, as he handed it to her, and
| flung his coat back, and stood, as it
were, ready for blow. And she indeed
lifted the knife, but the blow fell upon
the picture, upon the painted face of
the King, upon the golden hair of Rosa
mond, and the royal robes of Queen
from the canvas all the toll of months,
| in few short minutes. There was no
picture left, as she turned from her
work, for critics to stare at, or rich men
to buy; but her eyes sparkled, and her
cheeks were aglow.
eNothing stands between us now,
Mathew" she said. stThere is no
memory of the past on my heart, any
more than on that canvas. Let it be
blotted out for both of us, and let us
begin our life anew together"
And in moment she wept upon the
bosom of the man who, whatever had
been his faults, was still her husband,
and the father of her children-and the
only man she had ever loved in her life.
think Margaret will never paint an
other great picture in her life. Pretty
things-bits of still life and woodland
hooks. and doves upon their nests, still
grow beneath her pencil but no dreams
of art or fame, no longings for Italy,
slumber in ner dark eyes now. Instead,
you see there the sweet light reflected
from the fireside, and all her dreams
are of home. Perhaps she ought moi
to be happy, but she is. And he who
has repented is dear to her, as the Bible
ys repentant sinners are to heaven
And Queen Eleanor, and Rosamond
and the false King, and the wrongs anG
woes that gave bulk to those " coun
terfeit presentments, have faded from
her mind forever.
. AS for the picture, no one guessel
how it was destroyed, except the ticket
! taker, who, laying the deed to the charg,
of the man he admitted, keeps his owl
counsel, lest he should bs blamed.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26

CONFnAGRA1ToMB are now spoken Of
as the !" yaIlsr-winged Aend. y
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-02-26
A Horse that {. Knows the Ropes,

The Newburg On. Y.) Journal relates
the following A gentleman living
in the suburbs has q colt which he
values highly, not only on account of
his possessing pure blood and degree
of speed, but for his intelligence. In
common with the other stock In the
stable, he is fed his hay from crib on
the side of the building. &c had been
noticed that, while all the other animals
left small quantity OF fine hay-seed IN
the further end of the crib, which could
not be reached, the bars only permit
ting them TO get their noses IN 9 short
distance. this Horse always had his eaten
clean. On being watched i was dis
covered that the colt would catch mp
the slack OF his repe halter IN his teeth
SO that it formed loop, and thrusting
IL between the bars, he was able to
push it TO the back part Of the crib, and
by drawing il out again, to drag with it,
where he could reach it. the part OF the
feed referred 20. Thus il was the eT16
was always clean. Theway he handled
The rome Is said to be skillful and
sagacious In the extreme.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08

SUPERVISORS, ATTENTIoN!-A law
passed last March makes it the duty
of the Supervisors of Road Districts
to cut down and destroy all the weeds,
burrs, bushes and briers growing on
the county and township roads, said
cutting to be done in the months of
July and August of each year.
The law went into effect on the
1st inst
Farmers, for whose benefit this
law was enacted, should see to it that
is efficiently enforced. The object
of the law is to have the weeds cut
down before they have matured, and
before the winds have scattered their
ripened seeds broadcast over the
farms adjoining the roads. There
has been an unusually heavy ram
fall this summer, and the season has
been favorable to heavy growth OF
weeds that are now rapidly matur-
ing. Let the Supervisors attend to
them in time
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08
A. G. CAMPBELL.

BooK-KEEP1NG.-Mr. W. S. Clark,
of Cincinnati, has just published a
neatly bound and handsomely print
ed book, entitled "Short and Easy
Method of Double Entry Book Keep
ing" 1t tells you. how to change
from single to double entry, how to
open your books and how to keep
them after they are open; how to
close them and make out, your bal
ance sheet, all in language SO plain
and comprehensive that none can
fail to understand it. Itgives you a
guide rule for every entry in any or
binary business, with an illustration
of the entry and the reason you so
make it. 1t also contains short and
easy interest rules, the legal rate of
interest throughout the United States;
a table for the number of pounds per
bushel for grain, produce, coal, lime,
&c. This is really an invaluable
book for people who are engaged in
mercantile pursuits, as well for farm
ers and others. Orders sent to Mr..
Clark Will be promptly filed.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08

The Hillsboro Gazette favors the
denomination of Senator Shepherd
from this District. The Gazette is
the paper that "pitches into" shows
and circuses that do not advertise in
it or deadhead its editor. 1t made
this matter political issue last week
regarding Rebinson's show, and beg
ged Democrats not to go to it be-
cause it didn't advertise in their Or
gan.
Senator Shepherd may be renomi-
mated, but he must regret that he
wasn't first mentioned for renomina-
ton by something else than such q
nonentity as the Hillsboro Gazette.
Old John Robinson fattened Sprin.
ger as thin as pancake Chill
Register.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08
Republican County Con-
VentiOn,

The Republican voters of Highland
county are requested to meet at the
usual voting places in their respec-
tive townships, on Saturday, July
"a, 1875, between the hours of 2 and
4 o'clock P. M. and proceed to elect
delegates to the Republican County
Convention, to be held in Hillsboro,
on Tuesday, July 27, 1875.
The basis of representation in the
County Convention will be one dele
gate for every so votes cast at the
election of 1874 for A. T. Wikof, for
Secretary of State, and an additional
delegate for every fraction of Is votes
or over. Also one additional dele
gate at large for each township.
According to this basis, the num-
Der of delegates to be chosen from
each township is as follows:
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08

The LIBERAL REPUBLICANS RETURN
ING.-The Marysville Tribune says:
'The Liberals, who strayed after
Horace Greeley, and afterwards be-
came lost, are returning to the Re,
publican fold almost to a man. They
feel, like the Prodigal Son, that O
few years feeding on husks, don't sat
isfy them"
1t is the same way over here.
brother Shearer. We know of sever.
al prominent Liberals in this county,
who will this fall 'treturn to theil
first love" and vote the Republican
ticket.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08
Runs up the Republican
Flag.

The Ottawa county Reporter,
which has been Independent in poll
tics, runs up the Republican flag. 1t
says:
"When compelled to choose be-
tween Governor Allen, the Bourbon
policy of the late Ohio Legislature,
Catholic Church aggrandizement as
foreshadowed in the Geghan bill,
and Republican reform and old-time
principle as embodied in General r.
B. Hayes, we can hesitate no longer.
The Reporter supports General
Hayes and the Republican State tick
ct. In county matters it will sup
port the best men, regardless of par
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08
Division of the schooIFund.

The Right Reverend Bishop Nc
Quaid, of Rochester, New,'York, ,deliv-
cred lecture in the Grand Opera
House, Cincinnati, before the several
Catholic Societies last Sunday night,
in which he made an outspoken de-
mand for the division of the school
funds, He claimed that such a di-
vision was only fair; that now Catho-
lies were taxed, but derived no bene-
fit from the taxation, but that the
time might come when they and not
the Protestant element would die
tate the use to be made of the school
funds, and in conclusion ne said:
"He hoped this question would be
brought to ayote. Said he, II stand
here and say that unless we bring
this thing of the school taxes to the
ballot box we do not deserve the
name of Catholics. 1t may not be
necessary to bring it to the ballot
box; we may, by making q demand,
effect q compromise; we may. obtain
a platform on which we can stand.
Politicians will come to us. Irish,
German, and American Catholics
will not be SO patient as their fathers
have been. The platform of the
schools is not now for us. 1t is for
Jews, for Infdels, for Protestnnts,
but we are under it. Suppose we
get strong enough to rise up. Re
member, the platform is on us;
where will the platform be then?
Men will learn that we have some
thing more to do than praying; we
must vote, and the laymen must
work. There is a jealousy of the
priests, which will not have force
against the earnest, persistent labor
of the laymen."
We have a Legislature to elect in
Ohio this fall. The last Legislature
was Democratic, and it passed the
Geghan bill, that placed the Catholic
Church in possession of all the re-
formatory and punitive institutions
in the State. For this act of sub
serviency the Catholic Telegraph, the
organ of the Archbishop, declared
that 'The Catholics will, to man,
vote the Democratic ticket"
The next Legislature will be eth
er Republican or Democratic. If
Republican, there will be no med
ding with our present excellent
school system; if Democratic, we
have the assurance of Bishop Nc
Quaid that "we do not deserve the
name of Catholics unless we bring
this thing of division of the school
taxes to the ballot box"
The Catholic Telegraph pledges
every Catholic to vote the Democrat
ic ticket. What ticket do you intend
TO vote III Chic this Falli-[H Hamilton
Tel.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08

Whole No. legates.............G .Gl
It is recommended that the dele.
gates be chosen by ballot, and that
the polls be kept open in each Town
ship until 4 o'clock P. M.
In those townships having two
precincts, the delegates elected will
appoint the delegate for the town
ship at large.
The delegates elected to the Coun-
ty Convention will meet at the Court
House in Hillsboro, on Tuesday,
July 9th, at 10 o'clock A. M. and
proceed to nominate candidates for
the following offices, viz:
Representative, Probate Judge
Prosecuting Attorney, Sheriff, Audi
tor, Treasurer, Recorder, Commits
sioner, Infrmary Director and Coro
ner.
By order of Committee.
w. PATTERSON, Chm'n.
J. K. PICKERING, Sec'y.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-08
It seems to be a pretty general

1t seems to be a pretty general
opinion that Governor Allen, of Ohio,
is not destined to ''rise up" to sec
ond tenn without hard labor. Gen
eral Hayes, the Republican nominee;
is thought to be formidable candi-
date, both on account of his record
and his conservative views. If the
Democrats make the canvass on an
out-and- out imitation platform, a
sound whipping would not come far
from being'a National blessing.-[N.
Y. Tribune.
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The HEALTH REFoRMER for July
contains the following among other
articles: Physical Effects
of Alcohol; Dress Reform; Criminal
Responsibility; Diagnosis of a Cold;
Discussion of the Salt Question;
Bathing; Parlor Lectures, No. i; The
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