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Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28
Good for Nothing

"some folks are good, and some ora
good for nothing.''
This was one of the wise sav,i,,c..
Gle Jerry, who had a great MANY sensible
ideas, and a very sensible wav of TELLING
them.
The ''good-for-nothings" are, unfortu-
nately very numerous. They show signs
of their nothingness when they are chill
dren.. They are fond enough of play, if
it does not tire them too much; but they
always keep away from work. Books
they cannot endure. They wonder what
books are made for, unless to torment
girls and boys, and keep them from hav-
ing good time in play.
Thus they grow up, knowing nothing,
and learning nothing, unless it be some
thing that will do them no good. When
they become men and women they hard
ly know how to get a living honestly land
it is quite likely that they will try to get
one dishonesty. They constantly COM
plain that they are not getting along, and
they wonder why it is. There is really
nothing strange about it. They never
tried to learn when they were young;
they have always shirked work, they are
lazy, and now find it easier to beg or to
steal than to get an honest living by hard
work
There was once lazy fellow who had
brother a bishop. He thought that be-
cause of this, he would be made great
man. Too idle to work, he depended on
his brother to take care of him and to
make him somebody.
'BrOther,'' said the bishop to him one
day, E'if your plow is broken, I'll pay for
the mending of it; if your OK should die,
I'll buy you ahother; but I can not make
you what you can not make yourself. A
plowman [ found you, and, fear a pIow-
man must leave you
If he had only made good plowman,
he might have become somebody; but he
was too lazy to plow well. He worked
slowly and very poorly, and was ready
to quit long before the days work was
done. So he lived in poverty and wretch
edness, Notwithstanding he had bishop
for brother.
Boys and girls, do not join the Good-for-
Nothing Club. Make up your minds that
you will be somebody; that the world
shall hear about you; that you will do
some good in the world before you leave
it for better.-S. s. AdUocate.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28
Made the old Man Walk.

Sabina News, Nov. 81.
J. D. Gordon, father of Scott Gordon,
was informed few days after the Man
meisel murder, that his character was
such as to render him obnoxious to the
citizens of the community, and that the
best thing he could do was to make him
self q bit scarce. Certain threats that he
had made against those who had destroy
ed Eibe's saloon made his presence more
intOlerable, so when it was found that he
was paying no attention to their advice,
they concluded to rid themselves OF him.
With this intent, we are informed, num-
ber of them seized him in front of Grubb'S
shop last Tuesday night, and escorted
him to Floral Hall, in the Fair Ground,
where tar and feathers and lynching were
alluded to in a manner that did not con-
tribute great deal to his comfort. In
deed, it is limited, that a moose was placed
in unpleasant proximity to the coupler
between his head and shoulders. At any
rate, it is claimed, that he was made to
beg with tears in his eyes for mercy, and
promises such as his captors chose to ex-
tort. were gotten from him with little
trouble. This was all they wanted, so he
was taken to the Greenfield pike and
started off without further ceremony. He
had previously boasted that he didn't in.
tend to leave till he got ready. 1t seem;
his preparations were soon made. Such
at any rate, is the report.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28

The New Haven, Conn.,, Board of Edu-
cation very wisely rejected the proposed
compromise in regard to religious eXer-
cises in the public schools. The joint COM
mittee of Protestant and Roman Catholic
gentlemen adopted liturgy, and in 1t
was form of prayers to the Virgin Mary
to be used by the children of r. c. pa
rents. The Committee made their report,
and we are pleased to see that the Board
declined to adopt it. So the matter stands
as it did.
Better so than to sanction idolatry and
pay for its practice out of the peoples
purse There are many, certainly sever
al, plans by which the matter may be set
tied without going into an arrangement
so palpably inconsistent with the princi-
piles on which the public school system is
| founded.--N. 7. Observer.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28

Bost on Globe.

Bost on Globe.
The Wallace Farmer Electric Lights,
which Professor Edison represents, has
so far given the most satisfaction. 1t
throws out a brilliant, steady light, turn
ing night into day. In the Mechanics
Fair building, in this city, there are II of
these lights in use, each light being equal
to 200 gas Jets. The Fair Committee claim
saving TO the association of $40 per
night in their gas bills. The Secretary
of our Navy, some months since, had one
of these machines placed on board Uni
ted States frigate, and placed special
officer in charge, with instructions to give
it fair trial and report to the Depart
ment full particulars of its working. He
has returned from his cruise, and reports
favorable, recommending that one of the
machines be placed on each vessel. For
factories, foundries, churches, theaters,
railroad depots, mines and steamboats,, it
far surpasses gas, and can be used for one
half the expense. Ii is a well established
fact that the ''electric light is the near
est approach to sunlight that has yet been
produced, and is now the most ecOnomi-
cal and desirable light for general illu-
minatiOn.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28

a responsible gentleman, who came up
from Waverly last Saturday evening, and
is given substantially as told him by
Grandstaf.
There are many persons who did not
put much confidence in Grandstaff's state
ment, until the Sunday papers reached
here, which contained dispatch to the
effect that Cleggett had also made con-
fession, corroborating that of Grandstaff.
GIBSON.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28
YlRnE-YIang.

The Ylang-Ylang flower is produced by
a large tree, and its odor scents the air for
miles around. DR.. Price prepares his
Ylang- -YIang Extract from the otto of
these flowers, and it is charming per-
fume, having fragrance unlike any other
handkerchief extract.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28
Solving the tramp Quest1On.

The only remedy for the tramp is to
abolish him-utterly and forever, and
this can be easily done. The tramp is a
person that roams from town to town,
State to State, begging, stealing, robbing,
assaulting women and children in the
woods and fields, and on unfrequented
highways. We are informed that there is
not tramp, at present, in the State of
New Hampshire. A little more than n
year ago, the State was over-run with
them, so that it was not safe for a woman
to go alone anywhere in the woods or
fields. A short and summary law passed
last winter by the Legislature effected all
this change. 1t is in substance this: Any
tramp who begs is arrested; if he is not q
native of the State, he is sent to State
Prison for three years; if he is a resident
of the State he is sent to the town where
he belongs; II reward of fifty dollars i:
| given for the arrest and conviction of 4
tramp. This has done the business. Tramp
ing, as Il profession, has ceased in New
Hampshire. 1t is an equal and just law
If enacted i'll every State, tramping wOulC
be at an end. Every town would then bt
obliged to look after its own poor and its
own scoundrels asit should do.--Harttorc
Courdnt.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28

A meeting was held Tuesday at the
Phillips House, Dayton, of the grain drill
manufacturers of the United States to
agree on uniform scale of prices. All
the leading firms in the United States
ere represented.
Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1878-11-28
Masonic directory for Fayette County
Ohio for she Year 1S7S.
FAYETTE LODGE, no. I07, ?. An.


OFFIcERs:-II- L. Robinson. W. NJ; c. 5. Sny-
der, S. w; I. J. Lindsey. J. w; d. Furtwanger,
Treasurer; B. II. Miiljkan, Secretary: H: f.
ming, Jesse Arnold Stewards; Wm. II. Hammer,
Tyler; Mills Gardner, Mast. Ger: r. 4. BObinson'
Organist; J. p. Patterson. Chaplain. Prudentlal
Committees. z. johnson, L. e. MallOw, D. Euft-
wangler.
BLooMINGBURG LODGE no. 449, F. & A. NJ
OFFICERs: "A. b. Elliott W. NJ: William Clark
S. w; Wln. 81 Jones, j. w; j. a. Mccoy, Secre-
tary; Henry Casey, Treasurer Chas- SteuOe1 Sd;
John n Brown. j. D.; VIM. Noble, VIM. Squier,
Stewards; j. NJ. Adams, Chrplain; l.. Delenger,
Tyler. Prudential COmmittee-D. NJ Hays, John
". Rodgers, Fl Try Crow
JEFFERsoHyILLE LODGE NO. 4GS, F. A.. N.
OFFIcERs:-J. W. ROebuck, W. NJ; c. L. Bush,
e. w: J. 4. Lott, j. w; {. W. Gray. Treasurer;
o. V. Creamer, Secretary; L. A. Elster, 5. D.; e.
r. Marshall, J. D.; Urban Hidy, George Miller,
Stewards; Abel Armstrong, Chaplain; VIM. Wood
Tyler.
FAYErTE CHAPTER no. l03, ROYAL ARCH MAsoNs.
OFFICERs:-J. NJ. Mccoy, High Priest; R. Alilli-
kan, King; Milo Rockwell, Scribe; j. z. Patter
son, G. II; ". W. Savage, p. s.; II E. Browne,
R. 4. G.; Z. S. Snyder, G. NJ. Sd v; II. d. Pursel,
q. NJ. I'd v; L. Y. Grubbs, q. NJ. lst v; W. G..
Il. Hammer, Guard.
ELY coMMANDERY no. 2s KNIGHT TENPLAR.
OFFIcERs:-C. Garis, Eminent Commander; Jas.
:. Ely, Generalissimo; j. b. Hudson, Captain Cen
eral; Mills Gardner, Prelate; j. W. Woods, ). W.
II. Z. Browne, }. W; D. Furtwangler, Treasurer;
J. I. Lindsey, Secretary; Milo Rockwell Standard
Beareri e.. 5. Snyder, Sword Bearer; w. T. Cleaye-
land, WardcF; Il. A. Robinson, Organist; W. H.
Il. Hammer, Sentinel.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-29
Lac coIumbus pistrlot.

Since the nomination of Hon.
George L. Converse as the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Columbus district, there has been
considerable dissatisfaction among
the better class of Democrats, grow
| ing out of the alleged corrupt means
used to secure his nomination. It
is charged that money was freely used
to buy the votes Of delegates, and it
is said the charge can be proved
beyond dispute. The district, as
fixed up under the new Democratic
''gerrymander" has a Democratic
majority so large, that it was gener-
ally considered hopeless to nominate
Republican candidate. In this
state of affairs, the Republicans de-
termined to give their support to
some able and honest Democrat, who
was opposed to COnverse's nOuina-
tion, and Hon. Lorenzo English, OF
Columbus, was induced to consent
to be an Independent candidate. The
Republicans held their Convention
last Thursday, and decided not to
make any nomination, and passed
resolutions pledging their support
to Mr.. English. It is believed the
chances are good for his cleo
ton, and that if elected, he will
favor the Republican financial pol
icy, as he is known to be opposed
to the ''greenback" delusiOns Of the
Democratic platform of 1878. The
district is composed of Franklin,
Delaware, Fayette, Madison and
Piekaway.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-29
Courage in Everyday Life.

Have the courage to discharge a
debt while you have the money in your
pocket.
Have the courage to do without that
you do not need, however much your
eyes may cOvet it.
Have the courage to speak your mind
when it is necessary you should do so,
and hold your tongue when it is pru-
dent you should do so.
Have the courage to speak to a friend
in a 'seedy" coat, even though you are
in company with a rich one, and richly
attired.
Have the courage to make will. and
Just one.
Have the courage to tell man why
you will not lend him your money.
Have the courage to cut the most
agreeable acquaintance you have, when
you are convinced that he lacks princi-
pie. "a friend should bear with a
friends igfrmities," but not with his
vices.
Have courage to show that you res
pect honesty, in whatever guise it ap.
pears; and your contempt for dishonest
duplicity, by whOmsOeYer exhibited.
Have the courage to wear your old
clothes until you pay for your new
ones.
Have the courage to obey your Maker
at the risk of being ridiculed by men.
Have the courage to prefer comfort
and prosperity to fashion in all things.
Have the courage to acknowledge
your ignorance, rather than to seek
credit for knowledge under false pre-
tences.
Have the courage TO provide enter
tainment for your friends within your
means-nOt beyond.
Exercise for the body, occupation for
the mind-these are the grand constit-
uents Of health and happiness, the car
dinal points upon which everything
turns. Motion seems to be the great
preserving principle of nature, to which
even inanimate things are subject; for
the winds, the waves, the earth itself,
are restless, and the waving Of trees,
shrubs, and flowers is known to be an
essential part of their economy. A
fixed rule of taking several hours of
exercise every day, if possible, in the
open air, if not, under cover, will be
almost certain to secure one exemption
from disease, as well as from the at
tacks of low spirits, or eHn1r,, thatmO
sler who IS ever waylaYing the rich and
indolent. "ThrOW but stone and the
giant dies" Low spirits can't exist in
the atmosphere Of bodily and mental
activity.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-29
Erner;ment Stations in Italy.

The Italian Government has estab-
lished and endorsed seven agronOmical
stations, each Being charged with a
special subject of study and expert
ment. The station at Florence took
charge of the inquiry, in what way did
potash affect the growth of potatoes
and the production Of stareh2 Two
fields were planted with potatoes; one
was manured with ordinary farm-yard
manure, and the other with potash;
the latter yielded double the quantity
Of tubers and they were relatively
richer instarch.t In Ferli, the expert,
ments were colafned ito sainfoin, 10,
cerne, and clovet;ihom a series of anal
yses it was clearly shown, that the pro-
portions of 5protein matter, starch,
phosphoric acid, &C., were greatest
when the Towering was complete. 1t
was also broventha while the applica-
tion of lime increased the yield of clo-
yer, it did not augment its nutritive
yalUa.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-29

An individual residing in a neigh
boring county, when under age, con-
tracted a debt amounting to twenty
dollars, which he refused to pay. He
was sued, and employed an attorney to
defend the case.
"What is your derense?" demanded
the counsel
plead my minority" said the client.
"When I contracted the debt, I wasn't
Of age. That is my only defense"
VERY we'll, replied the counsel.
They proceeded to the court, where
the plea was made, and succeeded. The
court decided in favor of the young
man, and the creditor had to pay ali
costs.
But this is not the best Of the joke.
A settlement had to be made between
the client and the counsel. This was
soon brought about by dun from the
counsel.
"What do you charge for your SER
vices?"
twenty-five dollars, sir"
"What, twenty-five dOllarsl" ex-
claimed the client; "why, I was sued
for only twenty dollars. L had better
have paid that"
$50 you had" replied the lawyer,
"and for not doing so, you shall now
pay me twenty-five dollars; so out
with it, sir, and learn 10 pay your hon
est debts in future"
The money was paid.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-29

Not long since a frightful accident
occurred at the blast works of BIessrs.
William Whitewell & Co., pig iron
manufacturers, South Stockton, Eng
land. About eight o'clock the hopper
Of No. 8 furnace was charged with IRON
stone, ETC., by man named James
Higgins and other wOrkmen, and. in
order to allow the material to fall into
the furnace, an attempt was made to
lower the bell, a large conical shaped
apparatus which fits into the ring OF
bottom Of the hopper, about two feet
into a broader space. In consequence
Of having been raised too rapidly on
the previous occasion, the bell had be-
come tightly jammed in the upper part
of the ring, and could not be moved.
Two or three eXpedients were tried
without effect, and ultimately Higgins
procured q large hammer, leaped on to
the bell, and struck it blow. The ap-
paratus Immediately sank into the
broader space, and Higgins unfortu-
nately went with it. a grOan was
heard, but nothing could be seen of the
poor fellow, he having passed with the
material beneath the bell into the fur
mace. The blast was at once thrown
off, and a powerful current of air forced
in, but the horrible smell which arose
proved that the poor fellows body was
being rapidly consumed, and not the
slightest portion, Of course, was recOv-
cred. The deceased was a married
man, and leaves a widow and several
rhildren.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-29
Tie Chief Sinnnrs-In Theory.

Wherever Mark went, says Edward
EgglestOn in his serial Roxy" he was
successful and everybody praised him.
Mrs. Hanks, Roxy's well to do aunt,
held forth to Jemima upon the admira-
bic ability of the young man, and his
great goodness and self-sacriice in
''laying all his advantages of talent,
and wealth, and prospects at the foot of
the cross"
81 tell you what I think, Henriette, :"
replied Jemima with her customary
freedom; 81 think that's all fol-de-rOl
and twaddle-de-dee." Here she set her
iron down with emphasis and raised
her Redeemed face from her work, wip-
ing the perspiration away with her
apron. 81 think its all nonsense for the
brethren and sisters to talk that way,
jest like as ef Mark had conferred an
awful favor on his Greater in Iendin'
Him his encouragement. DoyOu think
it's sech a great thing to be Col. Bo-
namy's son and a member Of the Inje-
amy Legislator, that God must feel
nightly Obleeged TO Mark Benamy fer
bein' so kind as to let him save him his
immortal soul? Now, I DON'T" and
here she began to shove her iron again.
You'll all spile Mark by setting him
up on a spinacle of the temple, ," she ad-
ded, as she paused a moment to stretch
out a shirt-sleeve preparatory to iron
ing it.
"Jemima," " said Mrs. Hanks, its wick
ed to talk that way. You are always
making fun of the gospel. Pm sure
Marks very humble. He calls himself
the chief Of sinners"
"I s'pose he does. That's nice to
set himself up along side of Paul and
say: See, Paul and me was both great
Sinners That makes you think he's
agoin' to be like Paul in preachin'. But
spose one of the brethren-Brother
Dale, nOw,-Was to say: Brother Bon
amy, you're the biggest sinner in town.
You're wussun old Gatlin that went to
the penitenshry, an you're wuss'n Bob
Cramps that was hung D'you think
he'd say Amen, that's a fact?' But eff
bein' the chief Of sinners means any
thing, that's what it means"
Jemima, 1 tell you, you're wicked.
It's right to kill the fatted calf for the
returned prOdigal."
"Oh yes, I know, and Jemima wiped
her face again. ''But I wouldn't kill
all the calves on the place and then be-
gin on the ye'rlin's so as to make him
think it was Dice thing to be a prOdi-
back and try it over again."
And here Jemima broke out with her
favOrite verse:
'Oh hender me not, fos I will serve the Lord,
And praise Him when die.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-29
ETecfs Of Cultivation on Climate,

There is quite a general belief in the
western country that radical changes
have taken place in the climate since
The territory was brought under culti-
vation. Mr.. Landsborough adds his
testimony 10 this belief from Observa-
tiOns made by him in Australia, and
mentions some of the ways in which
this change has been brought about.
The prairies of the Westand the plains
of Australia possessed no trees, except
on the watercourses; not because the
soil would not produce them, put be-
cause the dry grass taking fire would
destroy everything like a tree ors shrub
which might take root there. In Aus
tralia the introduction Of sheep-farm-
ing, which was the first industry, result
ted in preventing these fires by keep
ing the herbage closely cropped; and
where before there were no trees there
are now large forests. The influence
of forests upon the equalization of the
rainfall have long been noted, disas-
trOus floods following the clearing off
of the timber, and arid wastes being
reclaimed when trees have commenced
to multiply.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-29
A S1naI BoT on Tobacco.

Tobacco grows something like cab.
bage, but 1 never saw none boiled, al
though 1 have eaten boiled cabbage and
vinegar on it, and have heard men say
cigars that was given to them one day
for nothing was cabbage leaves. To-
bacco stores are mostly kept by wooden
Injuns who stand at the doors and foo
little boys by offering them a bunch OF
cigars which is glued into the Injun's
hand and is made of wood also. Hogs
don't like tobacco, neither dol. I tried
To smoke a cigar once, but it made me
feel like EPSON salts. Tobacco was in
vented By a man named Walter Bal
eigh. When the people first saw him
smoking they thought he was a steam
boat; they were frightened. My sister
Nancy is a girl. don't know whether
she likes tobacco or not. There is a
young man named MyrOn who comes
10 see her. I guess she likes Myron.
He was standing on the steps one night
and he had cigar i'll his mouth and
said he didn't know as how she would
like it, and she said: "NyrOn, the per-
fumo is agreeable" But next morning
when my big brother Tom lighted his
pipe Nancy said: Get out of the house
you horrid creature, the smell of TO.
bacco makes me sick" Snuff is Iniun
meal made out of tobacco. I took a
little snuff once and then I sneezed.