The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1875-01-14
Highland County, Ohio Thursday, January

The Truly Gpod'' Edft0r q
the Gazette Has AnOtheI
! Spasln of Virtup!-And DE
nounces us for lack of Chari
ty. and Several Other Sins!
vengeance is mine and I will re
paw" saith the Lord; but any on
reading the Neaos this week, woulC
infer that the divine attributes o
charity and forgiveness are not char
acteristic traits in that concern. It'
flshy article on Newly and Hiestanr
does not contain a single statement
of truth Hillsboro Gaz. of last
week.
Our neighbor of the Gazette is ap
parently determined to stick to his
assumed role, AMI if possible estab
lish a reputation for being ''truly
! good, which will cause the more fa-
nous editor of the Cincinnati Ga
zette to hide his diminished head in
comparison. His fierce diatribe, last
summer, against circuses in general,
and John Robinson's circus in par
ticular, was his first appearance in
his new character, but his success on
that occasion did not seem to satisfy
his ambition, being seriously dimin
ished by the fact leaking out, that his
denunciatory article was prompted
by the refusal of Johns advertising
agent to give the Gazette an adver
tisement at what he regarded as an ex-
orbitaDt price.
Failing to establish himself on that
occasion, in the proud position to
which he aspires, our neighbor has
been on the watch for fresh oppor-
tunities ever since. Our readers will
remember little paragraph which
appeared in the News a few weeks
ago, hitting off the too prevalent
appetite for scandal, by an anecdote
of a, little girl, who asked her mother
to read to her about the Beecher-
Pilton case, instead of reading ''The
Nursery" The ''holy horror" with
which our neighbor affected to view
that innocent little paragraph, and
the pious unction with whi n he de-
nounced it as unfit to appear in any
lecent family journal, could not have
been surpassed by the ''truly good"
Mr.. Pecksniff himself.
But even that triumphant vindi-
cation of virtue it seems did not suf-
fee, for now our neighbor comes at
US again, and in the paragraph
above quoted from his last issue, in
Inmates that we are uncharitable and
unforgiving, and accuses US of giving
an untruthful account of the affair to
which it refersl
Well, in regard to the first charge,
we will simply ask our readers to
turn to the Hillsboro Gazette of Dec
18th, in which the editor of that
sheet made haste to refer to the HE
stand Newly affair, while we passed
it over in silence in our issue of the
same week, partly through reluctance
20 give publicity to so disgraceful an
and partly from a desire
to obtain the facts in more re-
liable form before taking any notice
oft. If his remarks on Mrs. HE
stands conduct, contained In that
article, are not as severe and "unchar-
table" as anything we have said of
her, then we do not understand the
meaning of words. We shall not
quote his language, as it is too recent
to have been forgotten by those WHO
read it, and some of it is q little
stronger than we care to repeat in
our columns.
In regard to the Gazette's last
charge that our article of last week
IN the Hiestand Newby affair "con-
5ained not word of truth" we sim
ply give the statement broad and
emphatic denial, and assert that the
,rticle was true in all important par
ticulars. If not, we demand of the
to specify distinctly wherein
It was false. Its editors assumption |
Of superior truthfulness and virtue, |
md his constant effort to raise him
self in the public estimation by pull
ing others down, are becoming too
offensive to be tolerated, and we give
him fair notice that he shall no long
er pursue such a course with i'm
ounity, as far as we are concerned. |
APPLEToN's JoURNAL.-This excel
ent journal is an anomaly in Ameri-