The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1877-06-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A SEWING woman has been discovered
at Raleigh, North Carolina, who works
hard at making heavy pants at five and
two-thirds cents a day. That is nearly
down to the hardpan of civilized bru-
tality.
The Paragraphers' Association has ex-
perienced a sad bereavement. Stiles F.
Stanton, the city editor of the Norwich
I Conn., Bulletin. has received an appoint
ment in the diplomatic service, and goes
TO Paris.
ONLY fiftt en- years ago China held the
monopoly of tea production now India
is proving a formidable rival. From
100000 pounds in 1861, the export
from Calcutta advanced to 25,000,000
pounds in 1876.
Mr.. MOODY is now staying at North
field, and Mr.. Sankey at COhasset. 1t is
repUrted that Mr.. Moody will probably
begin a new series of meetings at Boston
in the autumn, afJerWard going TO Bal
timOre and to Cincinnati.
THE market for poisOns is active and
unsettled. Lydia Sherman, of ConnecUi-
cut, who poisoned eight persons, has es-
capped from the penitentiary, probably
with the intention of resuming the
BOrgia business on a large scale.
The Sultan recently had the tooth
ache and sent for his dentist. Then he
ordered eight slaves to have q tooth
pUlledin his presence in order to nerve
himself for the operation. Finally he con-
Cluded to let the old tooth ache if it
wanted to.
THERE has recently been formed in
Paris society of gentlemen who advO-
cate the promotion of science, all of
whom agree that their wills shall be-
queath their bodies to surgeons or physi
OlOgists, to be dissected for scientific in
stTuctiOn.
A VERY old woman, one hundred and
four years of age, living in Kittanning,
Pa, whose hair for 2 long time was
white, has apparently grown young
again, as her hair has turned to its
natural dark color and she can read with
out spectaeles.
New YORK Sun: A boy five years of
age having stolen a can of milk, his
mother took him to task with moral sua-
sion, and wound up her discourse by ex-
claiming, " What in the world were you
going to do with the milk P' Z" was 90
ing to steal dog to drink it"
Mr.. STURGEON has not an abiding
faith in reporters. In response to an ad-
mirer, inqUiring as to the accuracy of
certain reports of his sermons, he said
that he usually Tefrained from reading
his sermons as handled by the press for
fear Of giving vent to too much vexa.
tiOn of spirit.
WHILE Colenel J. NJ. Forbes, of War
TentOn, Va, one Of the board of visitors
to Mt. Vernon, was examining the relics
of Washington in the mansion there, he
found a suit of clothing, once worn by
the father of his country, which was
stolen from his Colonel Forbes's) house
during the war. The suit was marked
as a donation from a Federal Colonel in
New Jersey.
THE Queen Of Holland, whose death
has been announced, was q very accom-
plished woman. She spoke several
languages with huency, and possessed
marked literary tastes. She was a
daughter of William I, of Wurtemberg.
Her married relations were not very
happy, and she lived in a palace a little
Out of the Hague, a mile or two from
that inhabited by her husband, King
William III.
LEXINGTON (MO.) Register: A singu-
lar and almost absurd story comes to US
from the country, to the effect that a
eolOred man was seriously injured by
two owls that attacked him in the
woods. They alighted upon his head
and with their beaks and talOns fright
fully lacerated his face and neck. The
man escaped from them only by the
greatest exertiOn, and bleeding from
many wounds.
Two years ago James Knox, of Knox
vile, Ill, died, leaving by will $50, 900
for establishing an industrial agricul-
tuTal school in Knoxville, provided the
citizens would within six months raise
$50, 900 for the same purpose. They
have not complied, and by the terms Of
the will $40, 1000 revert to Hamilton Col
Iege, $40, 600 to Yale and $4,000 to a
female seminary in Knoxville. Suit has
been entered to compel the e1ecutOrsso of
the Knox estate to pay over the amounts
due Hamilton and Yale Colleges.