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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-05-03
Correspondence Of the News.
Letter from Kansas.
WELINeroN, Kan., ApriI %, lsi

W ELLINGTON han1 ApEH 20 !o't.
Ed. NEWS The home Of the G. Hopper first
dawned upon my sight on the 21th inst. My ez-
pectatiOns of a beautiful country have been more
than realized. It is the most beautiful country
Ihave ever seen. As far as the eye can reach, it is
one vast exPsnse of undulating prairie, spread out
before the vision, with here and there clump of
trees to relieve the wearied eye, while an occasion
al stream, flowing between its clean-cut banks,
fringed with a belt of cottonwood, blackberry and
willow, serves to make up the natural beauty Of
this land of the elk and buffalo.
The soil is black, rich and deep, and constitutes
in its composition one of the best farming and
stock countries in the U. S.
Six or seven years ago the red man roamed in all
his glory over this part of Kansas, in pursuit Of
his lawful prey, the buffalo, deer and antelope,
and the foot of white man, except the freighter,
the herder and tie hunter, had not pressed its
broad ezpanse. Now, there are over seven thou
sand people in the county of Sumner alone, while
all the counties in this part of the State are up
with it. Hundreds are coming here every year.
Eight or ten years from now, will see this one of
the finest counties in the State. Its natural facili
ties are well calculated to support dense popula-
ton It is well watered, and the only objection is
want cf timber. They will have sufficient Of that
to last until the cottonwood can be grown.
The farmers are very hopeful this year of good
wheat and corn crops. have ascertained that
hey are not nearly so much concerned about the
grasshoppers, as we are in Ohio. They have become
accustomed to them, and know how to deal with
them. There are plenty of them in some parts of
the State, and they are reported as doing some
damage, but all seem to think that the worst is
over.
The people here are all push and energy. No
idlers are needed, and none wanted. Money loans
at 8 per cent. month. The climate is delightful,
and your correspondent all D. K.
More anon. WGH
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Correspondence of the News.
Letter from Nebraska.

BOONE COUNTY NeDsy april IL 1871.
Mr.. J. L. BoARDMAS-Sir: After a short de-
Law, thought I would drop a few lines to the
News, to let my numerous friends of old Highland
know where have located. am in the State Of
Nebraska, Boone county. Albion is the county
seat. It is small place, of probably 100 inhabit-
ants, situated northwest of Columbus, 40 miles
from the Union Pacific R. R. I am twenty miles
west of the Indian Reservation.
Ileft Ohio on the 18th of March, landed ct C0zad,
Dawson county, on the 18th. We stayed there
some ten days ! looked all over the Platte Valley,
and travelled over some eighteen or twenty coun-
ties. It is certainly a fine stock country, better
adapted for that than for farming, though it is
good for small grain. Wheat does well here.
Spring wheat, oats and barley are the principal
crops of this part of the country. Wheat makes
from 25 to s. bushels to the acre, oats from 80 to
60, barley from 80 to 40. Wheat brings sIl5: oats
s5 barley 60 cents corn 40 cents. Corn is consid-
cred an uncertain crop here, on account of the
grssshoppers.
We are pretty well through sowing wheat. I am
sowing 40 acres, some oats and barley. will try
Is acres of corn. have rented farm for this
season, as I want to test it before I invest.
left old Highland with the calculation of doing
better for my family. I am not discouraged yet.
There are good bargains here in land. man can
get homestead, or buy claims very low. There
are always some who want to 90 farther West.
can buy improved farms at from 81 to Sc an acre
The land is black and rich, water good, timber
scarce.
Our county-seat is not HillsbOro. 1t has two
stores, druggist, l hotel, lawyer, two doctors,
and editor.
This is 4 healthy part of the West. The air is
pure and dry. Those who are suffering with
asthma or chrouic diseases would do well to visit
Nebraska for health I like it, as far as 1 have
seen, very well. I am going to look at the south
eru part of this State and Kansas about the first of
Msy. will spend this summer in looking at the
country and then select me a home. viii give
further particulars after make further investiga-
tion into the country. Respectfully yours,
A. J. BARKER.
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Ex.President Grant on Pres't
RaVPs' Southern Policy.

A reporter of the st. Louis Globe
Democrat recently interviewed ex-
President Grant, who expressed him
self as follows on the Southern poll
ey of President Hayes:
"What do you think O. Hayes
Southern policy ?"
Il thiIk it is a good policy. I am
very anxious to see this color line
divided, so that the question be-
comes more one of parties, and less
of color, or race.
do you think Mr.. Hayes viii
withdraw the troops from South
Carolina and Louisiana ?"
81 expect him to. I should have
done so, had I stayed in Office. Not
take the troops all away, probably,
but relieve them of their present
duty. For neither the Chamberlain
nor Packard Government can be
sustained without the show of militia
ry authority, aud in this free coun-
try, and so long after quiet has been
restored everywhere else, the eXer-
else of military authority in civil
matters is repugnant to the people
and so, when the troops are gone,
Nichols and Hampton Governments
will rule as a matter of acquiescence
on the part of the people Of those
two States. "
"WilI those two rules be recognized,
do you suppose 7?
Not officially and formally, I
don't believe they will but tacitly
and actually that they will be accept
ed by the people, I do expect.
What kind of a show viii the Re
publicans Of those States have under
the Nichols and Hampton regimes
Is it a wise measure to withdraw the
troops? Your own experience in
this direction was a little the other
way, wasn't it ?"
'Well, yes, it was rather that way.
I should believe in the use of troops
if there were any outrages calling for
it, and, as you know, 1 believe III
using them with a vim at such times
but I think with a reasonable degree
of moderation, the Nichols and
Hampton Governments ought to get
along without any trouble from the
other side.
''The difficulties in South Carolina
and Louisiana are about all of the
old war trouble that is left, are they
moi? 2"
eyes, that's about all"
"How is it that Alabama and
Georgia, and one or two other South
ern States, get along SO well compar-
ed to the rest? ?"
They are manufacturing, busy
States. Northern skilled labor and
capital are invited in. Labor is re-
spected, and all goes right. Make
labor respected in Louisiana and
South Carolina, and the political
field will soon be clear of trouble"
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Neighboring Counties.

Wilmington Journal The fruit
prospects in this county, are regard
ed as excellent. Unless Jack Frost
should pay US an unexpected visit,
there will be plenty Of apples, peach
es, &c.
Ripley Times: Unless something
in the future occurs to kill the fruit,
there will be an abundance of Apples,
Peaches, Cherries, Plums, &c,
Small fruits of all kinds, will make a
full harvest.
MINERAL SPRNGs.-The Ripley
Times says:
The Mineral Springs House has
been reftted and is now ready for
guests. Fare reduced to Eight Dol
Irs a week. The very best accom-
modations as to rooms and bedding,
and to say that Mr.. NJ. A. McPher-
son and his lady have the manage
ment is security sufficient that every
thing that can possibly be done to
entertain the guests will be done.
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SAM CARY IN TRoUBLE.-The great
and only Sam Cary, the horny
handed apostle Of labor" as he de-
lighted to call himself, in his dema-
gogue appeals to the worhngmen of
Ohio, in favor of "more greenbaeks,
has come to grief, through his in
ordinate passion for the circulating
medium" In trial held recently
before Judge LoDgworth, Of Cincin-
natl, it was proved that Gen. Cary
contracted with his partners in the
enterprise, to buy a silver mine for
their common benefit for S5O,OOO,
and the money was furnished him as
their agent to buy it. He bought it
for $4,000, and divided the balance
between himself and nephew. He
was required to make good the little
difference to his partners, all of
which is rather bad for Samuel
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In tI,e NWeef BY.nnd-BY

Cannot but be the happy thought, as the
fortunate recipient of the ''ROcby M0IH-
tain Tourist scans its wonderfully attrac-
tive pages and peruses its fascinating de
scriptions. Most beautifully embelllshed
with new and highly artistic engravings.
its Ietter-press a model Of typographical
richness, and the arrangement throughout
simply superb. the Rocky Mountain Tour
ist is worthy of comparison with PIC
tltresgLs Amerjca or The AJdiHe. 1t is
written in gossipy, graphic style, covering
details of the tour through the garden OF
the Southwest the Kansas Valley, South
ern Kansas, to the very heart OF the Alps
Of America-the Rocky Mountains
Jaunts are made to all the famous resorts
of Colorado, the remarkable ruins, the
springs, the mines, and, in short, to every
point of interest to tourist, agrcUlturist,
capitalist, miner, and invalid With the
TOURIST, the SAN JUAN GUIDE keeps fitting
company, and the two publications are
mailed free to all writing for one or both
to 7. J. ANDERSON, Topeka, Kansas.
ap5tC
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-05-03
Stock Law.

We have been asked to publish the
Stock Law. This would be too
much for our limited space, but as it
is well that our readers should know
their liabilities we have prepared the
following abstract:
1. It is unlawful to permit to run
at large any animal of the horse, OK,
hog, sheep, goat or geese kind, or
to herd them anywhere but on the
owners land-penalty from one to
five dollars. After notice, every day
shall be considered a fresh offense.
2. General permits may be grant
ed by County Commissioners. Our
Commissioners have not done this.
3. Township Trustees may grant
special permits, for particular ami
mails, to terminate March 1st, every
year; or revocabIe at any time, on
three days written notice.
4. Any one can prosecute before
J. P. of the township-the fine to
be for the benefit of the township
school fund.
5. No prosecution to be begun
until one days notice has been Civ
en-. Owner is not liable if his ami
NAL is at large without his fault.
6. The owner is liable for all
damage done by all animals running
at large, without reference to the
kind of fence, or no fence.
T. Any one may take up an ami
NAL so running at large, and may
confne it, giving notice to the own
er, if known, or if unknown proceed
under the stray law.
s. The persons taking up an AMI
NAL as provided, shall be entitled for
taking and advertising horse or mule
$LOO; cattle IS cents per head :;
swine so cents sheep or goose 25
cents; and keep.
8. Township Trustees may pro
vide a pound not to cost over S100
If there be pound no one is authO-
rized to confne animals (taken up,)
on his own premises.
10. 1t is the duty of Constables
and Marshals to enforce this law on
view or information.
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Legal Notica.

Holm UPP, Agnes Upp and Edward Upp. Of
% ChsmDaign County, Illinois. John J. Hall.
Amanda R. Hall, Mary NJ. Poland, and John PO-
land, her husband, Of Van BUren county. Iowa,
heirs at law Of Josiah Hall, decd, win take no
tice that Oliver A. Hall, as Administrator Of the
estate of Josiah Hall, deceased on rhe 23d day of
April 1877, filed petition in the Probate Court OF
Highland county, Ohio, alleging that the personal
estate of the said decedent is insufficient TO pay his
debts and the costs of administration: that he
died seized in fee simple of the following described
real estate. situated in the county nj Highland and
State Of Ohio, and in the Village of Lyncuburg,
viz: In-LOts No. Fifty-fOur 90 snd Fiftv-fve
go, known and designated as such on the recorded
plat Of Collins Hundley's Addition to said Village
and that Jane Hall, as widow of said decedent is
entitled TO dover in said premises.
The prayer Of the petition is for the assignment
Of DOVER 70 said Jane Hall. widow, and for an or
der, authorizing me, as Administrator of said
Josiah Hall, decd, 10 sell said premises subject
to said dover estate for the payment Of the debts
and charges aforesaid.
Said HetitiOn viii he for hearing on the 2sth
day Of Nav, A. D. 1877, at 10 O'Clock A. NJ. OF
as soon thereafter as leave can be obtained
OLIVER A. HALL,
Admir-. Of Josiah Hall, decd.
April q, 1871. ap26w5
IsWA TROTH. Atty.
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Here is a little calm advice from
the Philadelphia Inquirer which
some hot heads would do well to
consider: The truth, which the
politicians would do well to see, is
that this revolution is the peoples ;
that President Hayes is but execut-
ing the popular will, and that it is
reaching to the supreme height of
folly and courting the most igno-
minious defeat, to attempt to turn
the tide of justice and reform which
the new administration has started
on the flow. The old leaders can
gain nothing by making catspaws of
Messrs. Chamberlain and Packard.
They may prolong the struggle for a
little while longer, but they cannot
win any point of advantage by it.
Their defeat will be only the greater
at the end. The wise, courageous,
quiet man at the White House, with
a government policy built upon the
rock Of justice, honesty, economy,
and public esteem, cannot be driven
from it by the few political leaders
whose selfish interests are hurt by it..
Let them recognize this as the peO-
ples administration in contradistinc-
ton to the politician administration.
If they are really shrewd they will
not try to turn back the tide, but try
to float with it.
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LEGAL NnTTCE

Al ARTHA CLANCY, salie Peale and J. W. Peale,
w her husband, Elizabeth BelfOrd and Joseph
BslfOrd, her husband, Amelia A. Brewer and Emp
son Brewer, her husband, RehCcCa Clancy, min
OF, over IA years Of age, LOOmis Clancy. Emma
F. Clancy and Lewis Clancy, minors. whose legal
guardian is Albert Q. Clancy, James W. BObbtt,
and Balaam T. Chaney, all of Highland county,
Ohio, viii take notice, that a petition was filed
against them on the 14th day of March, A. D.
1877, in the Court of Common Pleas, of Highland
county, Ohio, by Charles E. Clancy, and is now
pending, wherein said Charles E. CLANCY demands
partition of The following Real Estate, situated in
DOdsOn tp., Highland CO., o., bounded and describ-
ed as follows, viz:
Beginning at two sugar trees and white oak, S.
E. corner to G. McAiinus' Survey No. 1851; thence
n. IS deg. E. g. poles TO a sugar tree dOgwOOd aud
red oak; thence n. So deg. W. u poles to a syca-
more, elm and ash, at the creek; thence down the
creek, with the meanders thereof, n. As deg W.
IS poles; thence w. Is poles; thence S. 29 deg.
W. 32 poles TO a White oak, box elder and two
hackberries; thence s 81 deg. E. 81 poles to the
beginning containing forty acres Of land, more or
less.
And that at the next May term of said Court, the
said Charles E. Chaney viii apply for an order,
that partition may be made of said premises.
CHARLES E. CLANCY.
By Isma TrOth, his Atty.
March % 1877 TnqrpqsvT
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Richmond, Va, and the
Scioto Valley RGylTOad.

/ SciotO Valley RGylToad.
The Richmond Dispatch, in an
ouncing the commencement Of work
on the above road, says:
All very good. It insures a valu-
able-in the opinion of some Of our
most enlightened and sagaciOus cit
liens the most valuable-cOntinua-
ton of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad to the West and Northwest.
The publie-spirited citizens Of that
city, Ironton, will not suffer the
short intervening link between Hunt
iDgton and Portsmouth to remain
unfinished In fact they have prom
ised that as soon as there is positive
assurance that the SciotO Valley
Railroad is to be completed to Ports
mouth this short and inexpensive line,
running down on the north bank of
the river passing through their city,
shall be put under contract and ex-
peditiously completed. And then, in
the former language of an editorial
of ours, we shall see what we shall
see. The people of Richmond will
have the railroad, and can make what
they choose oft. This movement is
most auspicious. Tt fortunately pre-
cedes the coming of the delegation
of leading business men of the great
cities of the West, who are to meet
in Cincinnati and come by way of
the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad to
Richmond, Norfolk and York river.
There is much to be seen on the line
of the railroad itself and in the safe
harbOrs Of our Virginia waters, and
when these gentlemen have seen for
for themselves they will begin to ap-
preciate the advantages of this line
for travel and freight, and will be
stimulated to the early completion
of all necessary railroad connections.
The western trade is already weav-
ing for itself a broad and expe-
ditious route over the ChesaT cake &
Ohio Railroad. The papers along
the Ohio give reports of increasing
large shipments of corn, -four, tobac
co, etc, for the railroad. The daily
increasing receipts at the James riv-
er wharves by and for the railroad
must convince the most casual OBJ
server that we are on the threshold
at least of new and largely increas-
ing business. The completion of
the Scioto Valley railroad will be an
assurance that the start which has
begun will not be checked, and q
! guarantee that the improvement will
be permanent.
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What shall be said when the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican ez-
presses such sentiments as the fol-
lowing: Speaking of Gen. Devens,
President Hayes new Attorney Gen
eral, the Republican says he SIS of
the best blood and culture of Mass
achusetts, the flower of civilization,
and unites in singular perfection
great refinement and even fastidious-
ness of manner with strength of
thought and capacity for herOism in
C nduct. TheIO .
can be no risk in the statement that
he is the most popular selection that
the President could have made from
amongthe citizens of Massachusetts. ."
What has become of the Adams
family? Quite lost sight Of?
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The Columbus correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, in let
ter dated Saturday last, says:
The school book question has st
last taken q practical form. So long
as the opponents of monopoly in the
business of furnishing textbooks
for the schools limited their efforts
to absurd plans for embarking the
State in the bOok-maling business,
they were powerless to effect any
change. The unanimous report of
the committee of the House in favor
Of the passage Of Mr.. Perkins bill to
provide for inviting proposals from
publishers of text books, to furnish
such as may be adopted for school use
at competitive rates, presents the
question to the House IN a thorough
ly practical form, and it viii be a
Feather in the cap" of the General
Assembly if by the passage Of such an
act it shall secure the object sought
by the bill-a reduction of the cost
of books used in the public schools
to a price corresponding somewhat
to the reduction which has taken
place in the cost Of other articles OF
general use and necessity.
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home, the whole Of the time, or for their spare
moments. Business new, light and profitable.
Persons Of either easily earn from 80 cents to
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make this unparalleled offer: To such as are
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worth several dollars TO commence work on, and
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Reader, if you want permanent, profitable work,
address, GEO. STINSON & CO.,
febm4s Portland, Maine.
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The Vicksburg Herald says the
South is now wholly free, and has
been made so by the Presidents
straightforward course, and adds:
'The fact is indisputable-and we
are enc of those bold enough to an
nounce it-Mr. Hayes has done well
by our people, and he deserves well
of them. Let US encourage him to
continue in his course. Let US re-
fuse to put one obstacle in his way,
and let US refuse ever again to CO.
operate in any way with those hate
full fanatics who are to-day bitterly
opposed to the President because he
is kind and just to the South. If
we have the political sense that
should guide us in the future we will
not fail to encourage all men, no
matter to what party they belong,
who propose to treat the South
kindly and Justly"
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A few years since the propuetors Of DR..
Morris Syrup of Tar, Wild Cherry and
Horehound introduced it here. 1t was not
puffgd. but sold on its merits Our people
soon found it to be reliable, and already 1t
has become the most staple and popular
pulmonary remedy in the market. 1t
Quickly cures the worst coughs, colds,
croup. bronchitis, asthma and inoiPient
consumption. Nothing acts so nicely IN
whooping cough, and it is so pleasant that
children readily take it. Containing no
opium. OF other dangerous drug, 1t Is as
safe as IT is sure. Trial size, 10 cts; large
sizes. 80 cts. and One Dollar Sold BY
JAMES BROWN.
Also Agents for Prof. Parkers' Pleasant
Worm Syrup, which never fails. Pleasant
to take, and requires no physic- Price %
cents. ocI-9eO"
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