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Middletown transcript., 1875-01-16
from the door.

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ebsdordummy" By the shoulders. His
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aoSA, Ind Expecting = strusgfsahs pusi
forth all bis strength in mighty effort.
Iflass very successful .s.A Tha driver
went out Of the car heels over head,
With tbe stF.w mar, op top, Of him, and
the yonDe. rmea ileapsdroff the front end
ofsthssosr jast ~ he victim was toying
10 get his thumb in the straw, mans
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Middletown transcript., 1875-01-16
French Literature and Partisan Lif

by Albert Rhodes, with illustrations by
French Artists, will appear during the year.
THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND,''
Or, "The Modern Robinson Crusoe." Jules
Verne Q latest story. will be eontinued, with
ID Illustrations. "A story, by Sake Holm,I
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
A Reasonable Prediction.

1t is a singular fact, says The Republic,
that when man fails in business, or
meets with financial reverses, no matter
now much blame attaches to the unfor-
tunate party, he usually attributes the
result to others. Scarcely ever do we
meet with an xception-with a man
willing to shoulder full responsibility
for the distress falling upon him.
This principle, if we can call it princi-
pie, was plainly manifested in the politi-
cal field last fall Times were hard.
Drought settled upon some portions of
our country. Locusts devoured growing
crops in others. and trade and commerce
in nearly every section. Demand for
labor and laborers diminished Those
who had money kept close and careful
hold upon it, while those who had but
little, felt anxious as they saw their store
wasting away, and dreaded the approach
of winter.
Such was the condition of things in the
several States of our Union, during the
campaign of 1874. Providence had laid
its Christening hand upon our people, and
should have reminded many of their
past imprevidence and caused resolves
on future frugality. But, true, to the
frailties of poor human nature, very few
were found who thus accepted the dis
pensation, but on the contrary, set them
selves about to find scape-goat to wear
their own infirmities and shortcomings.
although DO relation could be traced be-
tween hard times and the dominant po-
litical party and its administrators, yet
a great number professed to believe that
Grant and a Republican Congress
were the sources from which their mis-
fortunes flowed. The President had be-
fore been called Cesar, but this ridicu-
lous charge of responsibility for drought
and grasshoppers, would stamp him as a
greater man than Cesar, even more
omnipotent than Jehovah. But Demo- |
cratic press and opposition orators wrote
and mOuthed the charge and appealed to
the electors of the country to institute 4
change, and as we stated at the outset, |
the victims of untOward circumstances ,
accepted the plea and delusion, and the
result was a change in the political COM
plexion of the Lower House of Congress.
But the change has not worked out any |
remarkable result. We have since |
passed through an unusually cold win |
ter, and the locusts have again fattened I
upon the growing crops Of our Western /
while in many eases /
where Democrats were elected to succeed
Congressman, the drought
threatens to kill out the cereals.
But we opine that the "sober second
thought" has taken possession of the
people. Reliable intelligence comes to
us from all sections of the Union that
those who stepped outside of the Re
publican organization last fall are tax
ing their old positions within its ranks
again, and the "signs of the times" in
licate good old-fashioned Republican
najorities in States wrested from us
through apathy or discomfort among
,ur friends, by vigilant and unscrupu-
Gus enemy, and 1876 will witness the
success of the Republican
tandard bearer in the Presidential con-
est. II
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The Prison of La ROauette.

A correspondent of the London Daily
Nelos gives an account of the famous
prison of La Roquette, in France. The
condemned cells are three in number,
lofty, well lighted, and cool, with iron
bedsteads, mattresses, coverings, chairs,
tables, and other conveniences. Most of
the French criminals who are executed
die bravely, some joking; Trappmann,
the wholesale murderer, being an excep-
ton to this rule. The chambre dc toilette
is narrow apartment, whitewashcd at
the top, and painted brown at the floor.
Three doors. all narrow, lead out of it.
French executions are still public, but
the gullotine is not now raised upon 4
scaifold. A man about to he executed
may dress us he pltases. When the order
for his execution arrivcs he is disposed
of with marvellous celebrity. At ESQ a.
NJ, he is warned; at $50 he has ceased
to exist. The hair of the criminal is
kept closely cropped, and the execu-
tioner merely tears oil his shirt collar by
an adroit movement of the hand NJ.
Rich, the executioner, does his duty in a
very cool, collected, and impressive
manner. 1t is necessary to send him
away in closed carriage Immediately
after each execution, or the mob might
modest him.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
Musical Kites.

In Central Asia the amusement of
flying kites is as popular as in Europe or
America, but it is made to yield adouble
qualification. 1t delights the ear by an
emission of soft, melodious murmurings
at the same time that it pleases the eye
with its graceful, bird-like motions.
Each kite is so constructed as to produce
the effect of floating @olian harp, and
thus the flight and the song of winged
warblers are both initiated in the ingeni-
Gus plaything. Major Abbott gives this
description of these musical kites in his
Narrative of a Journey from Herat to
Khiva :" Each kite is square formed
upon two diagonals of light wood, whose
extremities are connected by tight
string, forming the sides of the square.
Over the whole paper is pasted. A
loose string upon the upright diagonal
receives the string by which the kite is
to be held, and a tail is fastened to its
lower extremity. The transverse diago-
nal or cross-stitch is then bent back like
a strong bow, and fastened by thread of
catgut. Every breeze that passes the
kite of course vibrates this tight cord,
and the vibrations are communicated to
the highly sonorous frame of the kite.
And as numbers of these kites are left
floating in the air all night, the effect is
that of aerial music, monotOnous, but full
Of melancholy interest"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
Unappreciated Enterprise.

In Scri6ner for August we find some
cool reading in the shape fan article on
"Ice," in which occurs the following ac-
count of the attempt to introduce Amer
lean ice in England in 1912:
AT that date fancy drinks were almost
unheard of in the clubs, taverns and gin
palaces of London. Mr.. Hittinger con-
ceived the idea of introducing these, to
show to what extent ice was used in the
States" for this purpose. He therefore
secured the services of several bar-keep-
ers, whom he had initiated into the mys-
teries of mixing juleps, smashes, cock
tails, and other drinks known only in
Yankeeland. His experience, as he re-
lates it himself, is very amusing:
went out in the steamer, so as to make
arrangements for the arrival of the bark
and cargo, delivered my letters, talked
with parties, and felt perfectly sure that
| had struck vein. In due time the
Sharon having made good passage,
arrived in the Thames The thing had
been talked over so much that the cargo
of Boston ice was as we'll advertised as it
could have been in the columns of the
Times. But, after all, it appeared to
them strange fish, that no one dared to
touch. My feelings were just about the
temperature of my ice, and wasting as
rapidly. At last Twas introduced to the
Chairman or President of the Fishmon-
gers Association, an association which /
was not long in discovering had the
merit of wealth, if not of social position.
He was sociable, and seemed to cOmpre-
hend my position if didn't his. Matters
were soon arranged a magnificent hall
or saloon had been secured; ascertained
that my barkeepers, through constant
drill, had attained the correct sleight of
hand in mixing the drinks. The hour
arrived. The hall was long and bril-
liantly lighted After the company was
seated, the chairman introduced me and
the subject matter of the evenings dis
cussion. Now, thought l, am all right
At a given signal the well-trained wait
ers appeared, laden with the different
drinks. The effect was gorgeous, and l
expected an ovation that no Yankee had
ever had. But, alas! the first sounds
that broke the silence were: say-aw,
waitaw, little 'ot wataw, if you please
| prefer it 'alf n 'alf' l made dead
rush for the door, next day settled my
bills in London, took the train for Liv-
erpool and the steamer for Boston, and
counted up clear loss of twelve hun
dred dOlIarsU
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Glycerine Thermometer.

The glycerine thermometer is recent
invention brought to notice by NJ.
Jaksch, of Bohemia, and is quite a nov
city in its way. In its construction, an
ounce bottle is two-thirds filed with gly-
cerine of any desired color, and the bot
tie placed in freezing mixture of sal
ammoniac, saltpetre, and water, so as to
cool the liquid to thirty-two degrees
Fahrenheit A glass tube, twelve to fif-
teen inches long, is passed through good
fitting cork, so as to dip nearly an inch
into the glycerine. The cork is inserted
in the bottle and rendered air-tight with
sealing wax, or a cement of varnish and
chalk, and the thermometer is then ready
to be graduated On inserting the cork,
the liquid rises in the tube few inches.
The bottle is now placed in melting ice,
and the level of the liquid marked thirty
two degrees, if the scale is to be Fahren-
heits. 1t is next placed in warm water
say at the point of one hundred and
thirty-two degrees, and this point is
marked. The space presented between
these points is divided into one hundred
parts, and this division is carried down
to the Fahrenheit zero, and upward to
the top of the tube.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
Indian Tradition

Here is the Yute account of the Gre
alton: In the beginning the earth was
covered with mists. You could not see
before you. The Great Spirit took his
bow and arrows and shot-shot so well
that he scattered the mist. The earth be-
came visible to him, but there were no
men upon it. Then he took clay,
fashioned a man, and set him to bake.
Man came out white; the fire had not
been strong enough. The Great Spirit
began his work again, and this time the
man came ont quite black; he had re-
manned too long in the oven. 1t was
necessary to try Il third time. The ex-
pertinent at length succeeded, and man
came out done to a turn; he was the
redskin, the most perfect of human
types.
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~Whar'S de UseU

He was as black a negro as ever was
painted by proficient artist in lamp
black, and was terribly indignant because
some other darkies had invited him to
join benevolent society.
"Whar's de usew he said, Zone O. you
fiddle-string niggers tell me dat! A Mig
ger can't do dem tings like a white man.
You all jine a manevolence s'ciety and
de able-bodied niggers in the crowd has
to pay to sport the one who can't and
won't work. OATS no malevolencel De
best malevolence is to help yourself; ;
dat's me, Petel You heerd mew
And he tramped on about his business.
jingling his nickels in his pocket.-At-
JqntG Constitution.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29

EVEN the most uncomfortable puns-
tiers among our contemporaries haven't
been able to do anything, so far, with
such words as Dollymount and Abercorn.
Globe Democrat. Pshawl We know
Dollymount well. She wore one-legged
dresses and pinched her number five
feet into number two shoes. The con-
sequence was her stern parent had to
make Dolly mount the corn doctors stool
and 'Ab-er-corn trimmed.-Pinekneyvilie
(M.) Independent.
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worth all it has cost; but let it never be
forgotten that all our present financial
evils had their roots and origin in the
Southern rebellion, which was itself the
fruit of Democratic treason. These fel-
lows must be held to the record,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
THE COMPLAINT OF THE WHIP-POOR
WILL.
BY GEORGE W. BuEeAY.

When other birds set hushed and still
Upon their nests with folded wings
All night the wandering whip-poor-win
Her melancholy solo sings.
Why whip poor Will?
Is he untrue?
Won't he fulfill
His VOWS to you?
Why wake us with thy pensive strain
When summer woos the flowers to bloom2
A garden seems the grove and plain,
The air is laden with perfume
Why whip poor Will
When flowers are here,
And odors fill
The atmosphere?
Why fit with song from grove to grove,
Thy lamp the glOw-wOrm' gentle light?
Art thou spirit doomed to rove
The realm of shadows through the night,
And from thy bill
To pour the strain
of whip poor viii
Ger hill and plain?
Did he betray a maiden fair,
With many promises to wed,
And then desert her love, to share
Another maiden's love instead?
ii her poor heart -
Is bleeding still,
Then LET him smart
Whip, whip poor VIII!
Proclaim thy sorrows far and near,
And wake false lovers from their rest,
Make every truant husband hear
The message from thy mourning breast.
Thy strain should thrill
The world around;
Whip, whip poor Will.
Wherever found.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29
Political Items.

A WESTERN paper remarks that while
Massachusetts was celebrating Bunker
Hill, the Ohio Democrats were nominat-
ing Hunker Bill.
As the platforms adopted at the
various Democratic conventions this
year all differ from each other, it will be
strange if some one doesn't come near
being the correct thing.
THE Dayton Journal wants to know
whether the Democrats of that State in
tend to go back on their principles and
support carpet-bagger for Governor.
General Hayes is a native Buckeye,
while Governor Allen carpet -bagged
from Virginia nearly century ago.
OHIO State Journal: The Ohio States
man has made discovery 1t says that
Governor Hayes expended nearly twice
as much as Governor Allen out of the
contingent fund. As this contingent
fund is expended almost wholly in pro-
viding for the care of manned soldiers
who are found away from home and out
of money. and in providing halffare
transportation for them to the Soldiers
Home or to their own homes, we can well
understand that Governor Allen would
be likely to economic a little on Hayes
expenditures, so far as this particular
fund is concerned.
THE Democrats have had full swing in
Tennessee. 1t was not plundered by
"Carpet-baggers." The following dis
patch to the Louisville Couier-Journdl
shows its financial condition: The State
finances are in such condition that the
propriety of calling the Legislature is
much discussed; but it will hardly be
convened, as it is believed by many that
it would do no good. State Treasurer
Morrow says the July interest can not be
paid this year, if ever. By November,
when the taxes fall due, a debt of ST.
000,000in State warrants for borrowed
money will accumulate. and will have to
be paid. 1t is very doubtful whether
the January, 1876, interest can be met.
1t is believed that the debt will finally be
settled by low-rate bonds, or repudiation.
SOME one has been figuring up the ex-
penses of the General Government per
head since 1914, exclusive of the war
period. The showing is one that the Re-
publican party need not be ashamed of.
The figures are as follows:
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29

ODD FIsHING.-The Macon Telegraph
has the following: 1t is related for a
verify that a man set a trout line in the
river a few nights ago, with one hook
baited with live frog. On going to his
line next morning, he was surprised to
find it lifted out of the water and
into the branches of a neighboring tree.
A close examination revealed the fact
that his live bait had been gobbled by an
owl during the night, and the owl in
turn had been caught by the hook. We
simply tell the tale as it was told to us,
prevaricating, and naught SET
down to test the credulity of the people.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29

The tramp" nuisance appears to be
pretty general, and the legislatures are
taking the matter in hand. By recent
act of the Connecticut Legislature, when
ever any tramp shall apply for bounty the
person to whom such application shall be
made, in return may require the appli-
cant to perform a reasonable amount of
labor, and on refusal may call On the
authorities for assistance, who, if neces-
sary, shall commit the tramp to Jail.
The last Legislature of Ohio also passed
law, under the terms of which any
tramp refusing work when offered may
be fined or committed to Jail. This is
the true doctrine. If tramp will not
work he should not eat.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29

LET'S chip in and raise hundred dol
lars for the Boston physician who says
that it is unhealthy to rise before the sun
has dispelled the morning fogs.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29

The death of Lady Jane Franklin,
recently announced by cable, was not
unexpected, as she had been extremely
ill for some weeks. She was a noble
woman and devoted her whole life to a
thoroughly practical charity and in testi-
flying her devotion to her husband, Sir
John, whose fatal arctic voyage has be-
come so familiar to the world. Even
after receiving almost certain confrma-
tion of the suspicion of his untimely
death, in 1S47, Lady Franklin was
always interested in every expedition
which went to those cruelty severe re-
gions, among whose hungry icebergs her
husband perished. Her very last contri-
button was made to the party which has
just sailed on the screwsteamer-yacht
Pandora, from London, the expense of
that expedition being borne by Lady
Franklin, jointly with Jas. Gordon Ben
nett, of the New York Herald. Lady
Franklin was seventy years of age when
she died,
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General.

The following persons have been brought
before the United States District Court, at
st. Louis, on capiases issued under indict-
ments in whisky cases by the Grand Jury:
Frederick w. Bollman, Edward O'Hara, H.
A. Thias, Ed. B. Frazer, and Gerhard Bens-
burg, for failing to remove stamps from
empty liquor casks; Alfred Bevis, E. B.
Frazer, and VIM. R. Jouett, for Illicit dis
tilling; VIM. R. Jouett, for removing and
concealing liquors; Finley Robb, store
keeper, for failing to efface stamps, and for
receiving unlawful fees, and doing other
unlawful acts. All of the defendants waived
an arraignment, pleaded not guilty, and
were bailed in sums ranging from $1,000 to
to $4,000. Other persons, against whom
indictments have been found, will be
brought before the court as soon as found.
VIM. N. butcher has completed a walk of
five hundred miles in five days, twenty
three hours, and twenty-five minutes, at
North Adams, Mass, walking the last mile
in ten minutes.
Donaldson ascended from Chicago, on the
18th of July, with a local editor of that city,
and has not been heard from up to the pres
ent writing. Incoming vessels give the fol-
lowing statements, which seem to prove that
the aeronauts have been drowned in Lake
Michigan: Capt. Furlong, of the steam
barge New Era, reports seeing, about fifty
miles northeast of Chicago, life preserver
with the straps pulled out, floating in the
water, and something near by which
looked like the basket. He did not
make it out exactly, not getting
near enough. He had not heard of the
missing balloon. Captain CASTILLO, of the
schooner Queen of the West, reports that
Saturday evening he saw something like
balloon sticking out of the water, about four
miles from Crosse Point. He could not get
near it. The captain of a lumber vessel, re-
ports seeing floater wearing gray coat,
about forty miles from Grand Haven. The
general opinion is, that they were swept into
he lake by terrible storm the night of
heir ascension.
The jury in the case of ex-Treasurer
Parker, of South Carolina, has rendered a !
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THE House Of Representatives of
Connecticut, after due deliberation. have
voted, 50 to 1O2, to indefinitely postpone
the bill giving women the right to vote
in the Presidential election. The advo-
Gates of female suffrage regard the large
vote in their favor as nearer a victory
than any action heretofore in other States,
and consider it quite triumph for their
cause that the committees report was
unanimously y in favor of the bill.
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THREE hundred American girls are
said to be in Italy fitting for the opera;ic
stage.
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CURRENT TOPICS.

The Spanish are taking measures to do
tardy justice to the memory of the
authorOf "Don Quixote" A new literary
paper is soon to be started in Madrid
called Cerudntes, the profits of which will
be devoted to the erection of a monument
at Alcala de Henares, in honor of the
man whose name the magazine bears.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-07-29

ATMOSPHERIC pressure has been en-
ployed in some collieries in the Creuzot
mining district of France for raising coal
"a piston in an air-tight tubein the shaft,
with cage attached, in which the tubs
of coal are placed. Air being admitted
beneath the piston, the coal is at once
urged to the top of the shaft, and, at the
same time, more than seventy thousand
cubic feet of foul air are discharged from
the workings, while corresponding bulk
of fresh air enters the mine. This appli-
cation of pneumatics presents many
advantages to mining operations.