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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28
PULLMAN PALACE CARS

Are run on all trains of this road.
This is the ONLY LINE running these cars be-
tween Chicago and st. Paul or Chicago and Mil
waukee, or Chicago and Wionna.
At Omaha our Sleepers connect with the Over
land Sleepers the Union Pacific Railroad for all
points west of the Missouri River.
On the arrival of the trains from the East or
South the trains of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway leave CHICAGO as follows:
For COUNCIL BLUFFS, OMAHA AND CALIFORNIA
Two through trains daily, with Pullman Palace
Drawing Room and Sleeping Cars through to
Council Bluffs.
For ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS, Two through
trains daily, with Pullman Palace Cars attached on
both trains
For GREEN BAY AND LAKE SUPERIOR, Two
trains daily, with Pullman Palace Cars attached
and running through to Marquette
For MILWAUKEE, -Four through trains daily,
Pullman Cans on night trains, Parlor Chair Cars on
day trains.
For SPARTA and WNoHA and points in Min
nesota- One through tram daily, with Pullman
Sleepers to Winona-
For DUBUQUE, via Freeport, Two through trains
daily, with Pullman Cars on night train.
FoR DUBUQUE AND La CROSSE via Clinton. Two
trains daily, with Pullman Cars on night train, on
McGregor, Iowa.
For sioux CITY AND YANKToN, Two trains
daily. Pullman Cars to Missouri Valley Junction
FOR LAKE GENEVA, -Four trains daily.
For ROCKFORD, STERLING, KENosHA, JAMES
zen trains daily.
hce, No. State Street; Omaha Office 253 Farnham
street; San Francisco Office, 121 Montgomery
Street; Chicago Ticket Offices; 81 Clark Street, IN
Ger sherman House; corner Canal and Madison
Streets hinzle Street Depot, corner w. Kinzie and
Sana Streets; Wells Street Depot, corner Wells and
kinzie Streets
For rates or information not attainable from
SSuT hGHg sTESSsT HSfs agents. apply yt%N to u,c
Gen; Pass. Ag't' Chicago. Gen. sup't, Chicago.
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The Presidents Message.
lHarper's Weekly.1

The Presidents message is q very
characteristic document. 1t is uncon-
sciously but actually addressed to the
country rather than Congress. 1t is a
plain explanation, to those whom Mr..
Lincoln called the plain people, of the
reason of faults alleged against the Ad-
ministration. 1t is, moreover, a striking
illustration of the simplicity and
patriotism and rectitude Of its author,
and is significant rejoinder to the wan
ton Insult to the Executive offered by
Mr.. Randall in taking the Speakers
chair. 1t is part of the debase-
ment of Democratic politics to
represent General Grant as a
"usurper," "tyrant," and military des-
pot. As matter of fact, the only mill
tary President in our history who has
displayed the military spirit in civil life
was the ignorant, vindictive, and dogged
Jackson, one of the great gods of Demo
cratic idolatry. But General Grants
entire civil career has quietly turned
into ridicule the rhodomontade about his
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The Bender Fiends, and How They Mys-
teri0usIy Disappeared.
Boston Herald.1

One of the blackest of all crimes is
known as the Bender tragedy in Kansas.
The Bender family was resident in Mont
gomery County, Kansas, the family con-
sistiDg of cold Man" Bender, his wife,
his daughter Kate, and his son, young
man who is to some considerable extent
acquitted in the public mind of much
that is charged without distinction to
his father, mother, and sister. The
crime of the crowd consisted of murder
ing for mercenary motives, and burying
upon their wayside premises, not fewer
than nine persons, all of them travellers,
and some of them citizens of at least 10.
cal prominence. Though a number OF
" Sudden disappearances had occurred
in Montgomery County, suspicion had
not settled on the Benders until after
DR.. York, brother OLA. NJ. York, the ex-
poser of ex-senator Pomeroy, had sud-
denly come up missing" and when
suspicion had finally fallen upon the
family every member of the same stimuli
taneously disappeared. Since their dis
appearance no trace of them has ever
been found, Notwithstanding the most
diligent search and the most intricate
plans and plottings of detective bureaus
the country over.
All this, until within a few days, has
been accepted as the essential substance
of what could be discovered or explained
relative to the procedure. Very lately,
however, an unexpected solution of the
matter has been offered, though as yet it
must not be accepted as conclusive.
Facts have come to light which point
very strongly to the supposition that a
vigilance committee went to the Bend
ers' house, placed them in their own
wagon, drawn by their own horses, and
conveyed them to a secluded spot not far
of, on the edge of a large pond, and
there extorted full confession from
them of all their crimes down to the
smallest details. After this the Blenders
were never heard of, and it is more than
probable that their bodies were carefully
concealed. It will be remembered that a
few days after this wagon was discov-
cred near this point, to which a pair of
horses were tied, which was known to be
Benders property. This was soon fol.
1o"Cu oy tuO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS tudG tuc
home of the Benders had been deserted.
1t is said, too, that Governor Osborn
was secretly apprised of all these facts,
which will account for the fact that on
the part of the Kansas authorities no
systematic effort has ever been made to
apprehend the Blenders, and stories of
their capture elsewhere have only ex-
cited an incredulous smile at the State
capital.
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Operating on a HippOpOtamus for
TOOthache.
New York World.I

The baby hippopotamus "Baba" has
become the chief pet of the Aquarium,
much to the disgust of the trained seal
and the learned otter. Baba is docile,
and when not following his keeper lies
quietly in sunny spot near one of the
windows on the Thirty-ffth Street side,
where, with lazy content, he submits to
having his ears scratched by the chill
dren. Baba has his troubles, however,
and for the past day or two had evidently
been suffering from some arrangement.
"Doc," his keeper, finally decided that
it was toothache. An examination
showed, in fact, that one of his milk
teeth was badly decayed. "Doc" said it
must come out, and speedily improvised
forceps out of a pair of gas-nippers.
Baba obediently opened his mouth and
"Doc" laid hold Of the tooth. Then the
forceps slipped and the keeper sat down
with a bump, amid the suppressed
laughter and lronical applause of the
spectators, while Baba looked lazily out
of his half-closed eyes, as if to say:
"What is all this fuss about?" When,
with grim determination, "Doc" ap-
preached again, Baba uttered a rather
dissatisfied grunt, but opened his mouth.
This time the tongs held, and a strong
pull proved too much for Baba's equa-
nimity. He got to his legs with six
hundred pound jump. "Doc" held on
with all his might; there was moment
of breathless suspense, and then the
keeper again took a sitting posture,
waving, however, with triumphant air
the huge forceps, in the Jaws of which
glistened the large white molar. Baba
trotted off a few steps, and stood for a
moment gazing at his keeper. Heshook
his head as if to sse-if everything was all
right, and then came and rubbed his
head against his friend as if to express
his thanks. A rinse of the mouth with
a sponge and Baba was himself again,
and trotted contentedly after his keeper,
the pair being followed by crowd of
admirers.
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Political BreYities.

The Florida Returning Board threw
cratic. Their action was unanimous up
to the point giving the Hayes Electors
324 majority. After that the vote of the
Board stood two against one,
W. E. CHANDLER says emphatically
that Acknowledgement Cooke, of Florida,
has no doubt whatever that the honest
and legal vote of Florida was for Hayes.
He has doubt whether it was Republi-
can on the State ticket, but no doubt as
to the result on the President.
RAW recruits are sometimes frightened
by yells and wild shots and much beat
ing of the brush, but veteran soldiers
never. The Democratic gasconade and
noisy threats count nothing with veteran
Republicans who know their tricks. Go
on with your shrieking, gentlemen.
GOVERNOR TILDEN is quite sure that
Grover, of Oregon, acted legally, and
Tilden is also quite sure that the Demo-
Gratis in the South, who murdered
colored people to frighten that race
from the polls, acted legally. Anything
which helps Reform is legal-eVen the
stealing of a red-hot stove.
"THE question of what will be done
with the electoral vote of Oregon" gays
the New York Times, "is very simple
one. The legal vote will reach the Presi-
dent of the Senate by the messenger ap-
pointed, and will be opened as the Con-
stitution requires, and it will then be
counted"
IT is proud to boast of the average
Democrat, in these days, that were he in
Louisiana he would be the worst kind of
bull-dozer. Certainly he would be, and
that he is not here in the North is owing
to the wholesome restraining influence
of Republican principle which shapes
public opinion.
THE extreme generosity of Cronin,
Mr.. Tilden's bogus Elector, in casting
two votes for Hayes, should not be over
looked. He could just as well have
given them to Tilden, and thus
made his majority five instead of one.
Cronin evidently is liberal sort Of man,
and should be remembered, as he no
doubt will be, by the people of Oregon.
IT is the policy of the Democratic
party to agitate and infiame the people,
and hence they prate about war and in
duIge in threats. This policy is so weak
that even Ben Hill calls a halt, and
openly taunts the old copperhead sneak:
with insincerity and cowardice. 1t is in
accordance with the eternal fitness ol
things that Mr.. Hill is made the instru.
ment to torture them.
THE following are the votes for the con
tested parishes in Louisiana, compared
with the vote in 1874:
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Che Ai9hland alews.
HILLsBOROgoIs, OHIO.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER ~, IA
KING LONESOME.
BY LUCY LARCoM.

" Who is the white-faced old man
Outside, at the w.ndow-pans,
That muttered and sighed, as away hh ran
Int the sleet and rain;
Crying to some one behind,
Calling to some one before,
One whom he cannot find,
One who viii come no morcH"
That old man has sisters three;
One he has never SEEN
On throne of roses afar sits she,
And the whole world owns her queen.
But out of her riches and power,
Nothing has she to spare
Not so much as a flower
For the lonesome wanderer, there.
One sister beside him delayed,
And tried his thin fingers to hold;
But the storm her garments shredded ant
frayed,
And she sank, benumbed with the cold.
And ever be prays and cries,
But over her silence grieves;
Behind him, alas she lies
Buried in golden leaves.
One happy young face before,
Looks back, between cloud and drift,
With a sudden smile, and is seen no m ore
And the pilgrim follows, swift
As flash of the noon-day light;
With wall, and reproach, and shout,
He follows, through day and night,
Till again the face peeps out.
This fairest sister of all
viii laugh in the old mans face,
Will challenge him onward, with merry call,
To measure with her a race,
Till, weary and lame, he falls
Amid rose-buds and springing fern.
She flies with the wind he calls
But never will she return.
For the pale-faced pilgrim without
Is Winter, the lonesome king,
Calling back to Autumn with dreary shout,
And hurrying on toward Spring.
As Summer rules over the flowers,
Over ice and snow reigns he.
Lol there at the pane he glowers,
And shakes his white scepter-seel
ST. Nicholas for january.
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Charcoal for Removing Hair.


The Panama Star reports what it calls
a very important discovery that char
coal, animal or vegetable, is a better
agent than lime for the removal of hair
from hides, preparatory to tanning. An
exchange assures us that the depilation
of hides with charcoal seems likely to
supersede altogether the usual lime pro-
cess. As is well known, charcoal has
the property to take up large quantities
of oxygen from the atmospheric
air, and the oxygen in this form
seems to exert chemical influence on
the fatty substance present in the neigh
borhood of the glands of the hair roots.
An oxidation takes place in the pores
of the skin, which destroys the glands
and loosens the hair. Finely powdered
charcoal is mixed with sufficient water
to make thin paste, and the hides i'm
mersed for four or five days and well
turned.
Hides treated with charcoal need no
other operation. as in the case of the lime
process, and after being washed with
water, they are ready for tanning. An
imal or vegetable charcoal can be used
in any quantity, having no deleterious
property whatsoever. For each hide,
six to ten pounds with the necessary
quantity of water are sufficient, and the
temperature to be maintained is sixty or
seventy degrees Fair. This informa-
tion may be of great value to the people
of the interior of the State, who occupy
themselves in the tanning of that common
leather, known in South America as Suela.
There is always a great demand for this
leather in the manufacture of saddles
and accouterments for the cattle-men
and travellers, also trunks, shoes,
chair bottoms, and other articles of
utility.
The demand is so great that the suelas
have, most of them, to be brought from
Guayaquil, Payta and other foreign
places, where it seems they can be pre-
pared more cheaply than by our native
workmen. By the use of charcoal,
which is much cheaper and more readily
obtained than lime, the tanners will be
placed ON a more advantageous footing
for producing the suelas at a consider
ably less cost than hitherto. They will
then be able to sell the article at a
cheaper price and yet secure quite as
much profit as before. 1t is matter of
surprise, that so remunerative trade as
the tanning of hides into leather has
not yet become leading industry in
this State. Hides can be had in great
abundance for this purpose, and the
bark for the conversion of hides into
leather, can be obtained all along the
and of the best quality. The
or mangle, the bark of which
is thus used, is present everywhere on
the coast.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-12-28

CRAWFORD (Kan.) Nelcs: A case fell
under our observation few days ago
wherein certain parties contracted a
debt of forty dollars, and from time to
time the interest was added until the
amount was two hundred and nine dol
lars and fifty-two cents. Then a mort
gage of sixty acres of land was given to
secure payment. A few days ago the
debtors made sale of forty acres at three
hundred dollars, and paid of the debt,
which then amounted to two hundred
and thirty-four dollars and sixty-six
cents which had grown from the original
one of forty dollars. The party who held
the mortgage was rather miserly in his
way, and the parties owing the debt
may certainly be thankful that they
escaped with even small part OF their
former home.
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ONLY
Remedy for Hard Times.
Change Your Surroundings.

All wanting FRUIT FARMS especially adapted
to the growth of the Vine, where il is an estab-
lisbed success and pays large pront. Ihe land is
also adapted to the growth OF Peaches, Fears, Ap-
pies and small fruits; also, Grain, Grass and Nege
tables.
ards and Farms can now be seen.
The LOCATION is only 81 miles south OF fhlla-
delphia, by railroad, in mild delightful climate,
and at the very doors of the New York and Phila-
dephia markets. Another railroad runs direct to
New York.
prosperous. Churches, Schools and other privil-
eges are already established. Also, manufactures
of Shoes, Clothing, Glass, Straw Goods and other
things, at which different members OF family can
procure employment.
It has been a HEALTH RESORT for some years
past for people suffering from Pulmonary Alice
tions, Asthma, Catarrh, Ague and Debility man
thousands have entirely recovered.
A new Brick Hotel has just been completed, 100
feet 'front.' with back buildings, four stories hlgh,
including French roof, and all modern improve
ments for the accommodation of visitors.
PRICE OF FARM LANDS-S25 per acre, paya-
BILE by installments, within the period of four
years. In this climate, planted out to vines, ~
acres of land will count fully as much as 100 acres
further north.
become familiar with it in short time on account
of surroundings.
Five Acres, One Acre and Town Lots, in the
towns of Landisville and Vineand, also for sale.
land can be visited at small expense.
paper containing full information will be sent
free of cost upon application to
CHARLES X. Lands,
Vineand, New Jersey.
The following is an extract from description of
Vineland, published in the New York Tribune by
the well known agriculturalst, Scion Robinson:
"Al the farmers were of the well to do sort, and
some of them, who have turned their attention to
fruits and market gardening, have grown rich;
The soil is loan, varying from sandy to cayey and
surface gently undulating, intersected with small
streams and occasional wet meadows, in which de-
posits of peat or muck are stored, sufficient TO fer
tilize the whole upland surface, after it has been
exhausted of its natural fertility.
sit is certainly of the most extensive tracts,
in almost level position, and suitable condition
for pleasant farming, that know of this side of
the western prairies. We found some of the old
est farms apparently just proftably productive
as when first cleared of forest fifty or hund1ed
years ago.
''The geologist would soon discover the cause of
this continued fertility. The whole country is
marine deposit, and all through the soil we found
evidences, generally in the form of indurated cal
careous mari, showing many distinct forms of an
cient shells, of the tertiary formation; and this
marty substance is scattered all through the soil,
in a very comminuted form, and in the exact con-
dition most easily assimilated by such plants as
the farmer desires to cultivate" au3y1
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Advertising Rates.
From and after January 1, 1875, the Rates of Ad.
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The above scale of prices is for ordinary single
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The well-earned fame of Hypatia,
Aspasia, Xantippe, Heloise, Beatrice
Cenci, Moll Pitcher, Semiramis, Zebidee,
Bessie Turner, Sapphira, Delilah, and
the butter woman, pale their Intellectual
fires before the greatness of an old maid
in Chicago who invented four story
automatic adjustible hustle that needs
winding up only once in eight days, and
is intelligent enough to wheel right
around out of the way when she sits
Graphic. About Zebidee, who
was she now Phil. Bulletin,
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CastOriia.

Cross, sickly babies and children may enjoy
health, and mothers have rest, if they will use
Castoria. Worms, feverishness, teething, wind
colo, sour stomach and undigested food make
children cross, and produce sickness.
Castoria will assimilate the food, erpeI Uor1,,s
and correct all these things. For twenty years
Dr. Pitcher experimental in his private practce.to
produce an effective Csthartic and stomach regu-
lator which would be as effective as Castor Oil,
without its unpleasant taste or recoil.
The reputation of the experiment extended.
Physicians and nurses rapidly adopted his remedy,
o which he gave the name of Cdstoria.
Castoria is as pleasant to take as honey regulates
and bowels, and does not grippe. 1t is
adapted to all ages, contains no alchohol and is
absolutely harmless to the most tender infant.
Try Castoria once, and you viii never be without
it.
Prepared at the Laboratory of ]. B. Rose & Co.,
46 Dey Street, New York. oct96ws
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Centaur
Liiniin1ents !.

So nearly perfect the recipes of these wonder
full pain-soothing and healing Centaur Liniments,
that we can confidently say that they will alleuiate
any pain arising from flesh, bone or muscle de-
rangements. We do not pretend that they will
mend broken leg or erterminate boils, but even in
such cases they will reduce the Inflammation and
stop the pain. Nor can we guarantee the proper
results where the body is poisoned by rhisky Tenn
perance is as necessary to a proper physical, as
mental condition.
The White centdur Lininaent is particularly
dapted to all cases of Rheumatism, Lumbago,
Neuralgia, Erysipelas, Itch, Chilblains, Cuts,
Bruises, Stings, Poisons, Scalds, Sciatica, Weak
Back, Pains in the Side, Wounds, Weeping Sinews,
Burns, Frosted Feet, Palsy, Ear-ache, Tooth-ache,
Ulcers, 0ldSores, Broken Breasts, Sore Nipples,
Sore Throat, Group, Diphtheria, etc. The most of
these complaints the Centaur Liniment will cure !;
all of them it will benefit. 1t will extract the poison
from bites and stings, and will cure burns and
scdtds without scar. The following is but sam
pie of Thousand similar testimonials:
"AETIocH, ILL.,, Dec. j, 1874.
''My wife has, for long time, been terrible
sufferer from rheumatism. She has tried many
physicians and many remedies. The only thing
which has given her relief is Centaur Liniment
am reJoiced to say this has cured her. =
W. II. RING, Postmaster"
II is an indisputable fact that the Centaur Lini-
ments are performing cures before effected by
any preparation in existence,-like Chronic Rheum-
atism of thirty years. standing Strengthening fin
gers and joints which had been stiff for six years.
taking the soreness from burns, &C.
One dollar, or even fifty cents, invested in Gen.
aur Liniment will be within reach uhen an accident
occurs, and will do more good than any amount of
money paid for medical attendance When ply
scians are called they frequently use this Linment,
and of course charge several nrices for IL
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This is the time of year when the
young man with a bundle of mixed can
dies sits in the cold extension room,
waiting for his sweetheart, while she
stands primping" before the looking
glass in her comfortable chamber for
three-quarters of an hour, utterly obliv-
ious of the rich coloring that the frost
fend is putting on her Willie's nose.