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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
Onack Medicincs,

At recent convention Of pharma-
cists in England, says a New York
medical journal, was urged the import
ance Of fixing some legal limits to the
wholesale poisoning of the public by
patent medicines. 1t was proposed
that even fit be impossible altogether
to suppress the reaction Of dishonest
quackery upon vulgar superstition, the
vendors of nostrums be compelled to
divulge the composition of their wares
and prevented from publishing mis-
chievOus and mendaCiOus advertise
ments concerning them. Among the
examples cited, including sundry 'hair
restOrers, - which, in direct cOntradic-
ton to their advertised pretensiOns,
contain poisonous quantities of lead'
the most glaring one is largely Certi-
liCated 'Sure Cure for the Opium Uab-
it." which IS found on analysis TO give
two grains Of morphine to the dose, re-
commended 10 be taken thrice day.
1t is scarcely to be expected that Amer
lean apOthecaries, mOstOf whom derive
the larger part Of their income from
the sale of these secret nosrums, will
Join in the crusade preached by their
British cousins; but it would be.weIIif
the American publ: were taught that
ninety-nine hundredths Of the prOprie-
tary medicines which flood the market
are the products of uneducated impos-
tors, either wholly inert or positively
deleteriOus.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

NJ. Edward Andre has an article in
the Illustration HorlicOle, showing
that the original home Of our common
potato is in South America, in the
Andes, near the equator. He first
found it growing wild on the summit
Of QuindiO, near the volcano Of Tolima,
at height of Il, 400 feet in latitude 4
degrees "a minutes north. lie next
found it at 200 feet high in the Cauca
in latitude l degree SO minutes north,
in May, 1866. 1t was growing as a
handsome vine, supporting itself on
The neighboring trees and bearing mag
uilicent flowers of a deep purple. NJ.
Andre also found it in North Lima in
The Amancoes mountain, where in the
midst of very scanty vegetation the
potato is found growing in abundance.
1t is equally common in the island Of
San Lorenzo, near CallaO. NJ. Andre
is convinced that Humboldt is entirely
mistaken i'll his opinion that the tuber
did not exist either in Chill, New Gran
ada, or Peru.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

The Evangelist, cohtroverting the
doctrines of the rationaIists. says: The
great central and foundation truth that
God created the world remains Un-
shaken. Those who attribute creation
to chance, or evolution, simply cover
up their ignorance with high sound
ing word, and think to get rid of a diff
mlty by putting it a little farther away.
They SET up an idol of their OWE, calling
it Nature, or Matter, or Force, and put
it in the place of the AL seeing One.
Whether creation was consummated IN
six days or In six great geological epOchs
makes no difference. a million ages
are but rs a moment in the calendar Of
Him who from everlasting TO everlast-
ing is God. Development does not get
rid Of divine intention. The power
produces must be equal to the thing
produced, and the steps by which it
works are incident to the end. Science
deals with methods, not with the sub
stance Of things, nor their cause. j.
discovers how, no, why"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

The Washington correspondent Of
the Cincinnati Enquirer says that an
examination of the expense account
of the Democratic Committee sent to
Louisiana to investigate the elector-
al count of that State, goes to show
that deputy sergeants-at-arms, who
accompanied the committee ''were q
shabby lot of adventurers and bum
mers, one of whom forged thename
of the chairman for S375, and that
they were "as detestable a lot otOf-dead
beats as could be seraped together
with a fine tooth comb. We sup
pose this may be set down as another
item to the credit Of Democratic ''re-
form"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

The following laughable incident is
told by well known OffiCe-holder who
has nothing to do but ride on the cars
lhe rides free), and who has numerous
tales 10 tell of his observations and eX-
perience. There we're two seats in the
car turned so as to face each other.
One was occupied by q lady, 'he other
by a Chinaman. She eXplaiDel TO him
that she wanted to take the cushions
and their frames and place them
lcngthWise across from seat TO seat.
John said ''AIl rightee!" and got out
in the aisle, while she proceeded to lie
down on the bed thus imprOyised,
with her head resting on her valise.
She supposed that tie Chinaman
would take the hint that she wanted to
rest in the space usually occupied by
four persons. But John at once pro
ceeded to crawl in and stretch himself
bv her side, with lis head Oh little
bundle of his own. The Chinese are
an i'm tative race, and Ike to do as
others do you know. The lady, as soon
as she discovered that she had a bed
fellow, got up little wildly and start
ed for the next car, to the infinite
amusement Of The passengers, Who had
been Watching the little scene with
some interest. John took no notice Of
the fun he had created, but went 10
ClecD with the whole bed to himself.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
There is Use in Beauty.

1t makes home attractive, its exter-
iOr more respectable, our lives happier,
our dispositions sweeter, and our social
and domestic intercourse more refined.
BY all means plant some little thing Of
grace to temper the rugged surround
ings Of the front yard. Its silent,
though eloquent language, will speak
to the visitor OF passer-by a word Of
eulogy for you. The least flower OF
shrub will be some attraction; a curved
path winding among trees to the house,
mound Of stones and shells with ivy
trailing over them, the towering shrub
or the turf Of fern-all such things are
attractive and form a pleasing object
for the eye of even the most indiffer
enjbehOlder.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
Misplaced Charity.

There is an element of pauperism in
the numerous private and public chari-
ties of England. An old country, every
town and city has its boquests, its va
ried charitable institutions, founded by
pious men and women, or established
by rich societies. In the west of Eng
land, more particularly, posthumous
charity has done much to enreeble the
national character and breed paupers.
In the fine old city Of Bristol it is a
common thing fora child to be brought
into the world by charity, reared by
charity, apprenticed by charity, put
into trade by charity, and, finally, to be
buried by charity.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

Blackburn, England, contains the
largest cotton mills in the country.
The "Throstle Nest is owned by Mr..
Turner, NJ. P. The "Physic," cOlOs-
sal concern, is so called from its fOun-
der having been a physician. Other
mills are the Cat Hole" the Butter
Tub, F." the "Smut, !" the ''Twelve Apos-
tles," the "GlOry," and the "Hallelu-
jah." The Twelve Apostles" refers
to weaving shed, of which the orig
inal promoters, eighteen years ago,
were total abstainers. The owner Of
the ''Lather Boxn was once a barber,
who shaved at one halfpenny each, but
now owns seven large mills, chiefly
spinning mills, and is the fortunate
possessor Of the extensive estates that
formerly belonged to Lord De Tabley,
in the valley Of the RibUle. The "Sand
Hole" is the next mill TO the ''Lather
Boz" and owes its origin to the exca-
vatiOn of as much red sand as realized
the money to build the mill.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
ADVERTISING RATES.

The above scale Of prices is for ordinary single
column display advertising. Solid Legal, Official
AID Tabular Advertisements will be charged at the
legal rate for space occupied, Rule and Figure
work so per cent. extra.
SPECIAL NOTICES, advertisements In other than
single column measure, and those in prescribed
location, 25 per cent additional.
LOCAL NoTICEs-I6 cents per line for first, and
cents per line for each additional insertion.
CARDS In Business DirectOry-One inch, year
SO: months So; months, g. One-half fnch-I
year, s. nn; 6 mos. So; mos. g.
OBITUARY NOTICES (0thCr than simple announce
ments Of deaths) Tributes Of Respect, Cards Of
Thanks, and announcements by Societies. cents
per line.
Notices Of Marriages, Births and Duaths-when
furnished by proper authOrity-freG.
Attachment, Divorce, Administrators and EXeCu-
tors Notices. must be paid for before Insertion
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
Effect of Ether on Plants.

The eminent psychologist, NJ. Claude
Bernard, has lately made number of
experiments, which proves that etheri-
zatiOn acts on plants as well as on ami
mails. All vital acts, whether in the
animal or in the plant, may be anesthet
lied. Thus, in plants, termination is
arrested by the influence Of ether. The
author proves this in the case of Cress
introduced into tube with ether. The
termination was stopped: on remoY-
ing the ether, however, it began again.
1t was not a case Of death but only
an9thesia. The same occurred in the
other plants, and even with ferments,
whether Ofplants or Of animals. Thus,
beer-yeast in contact with ether for
tWenty-fOur hours, is thrown into
sleep, from which, however, it awakens
when the etherizat.on ceases. NJ. Bert
in his experiment on the influence of
oxygen on living things, killed the
yeast. NJ. Bert observes that, as re-
CARDS a sensitive object, we should dis
tinguish its prOvOcable movements and
its spontaneous movements. Under
the influence of etherization it is only
the former that are arrested, the Othe
still go on.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
The Robins.
DY MAUDE SUTTON

Under the maple trees blossoms Of red,
Whore the sunlight and shade arc at play,
Sits robin redbreast on a low messy bough,
Singing the bright hours away.
Dear little Bess, If his song we're but. words,
What do you think he would say?
WhattaIes Of the beautiful south lands,
Where in bowers Of climates fair;
His song, from the morning till sunset,
Rang out on the tropical air;
And the zephyrs murmured about him,
Laden with perfumes so rare.
Oh. robinl oh, red-breasted robinl
Fly down from the blossomiug tree,
We have strewn the low sill with bread
crumbs,
As fresh and as white as can be,
And tell us the wonderful story,
Tell it to Bessie and me.
But the robin swings on in the maple,
And heeds not word that we say,
And still mid the sweet nOdding blossoms
Sings the bright hours away,
AS We sit in our vine-bOWercd window,
And list to his melody gay.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
poes conelIIation cenoIIi-

ate? ?
We confess that we have been
thus far sorely disappointed in cur
hopes as to the results of President
Hayes conciliatOry policy towards the
South. Though noble in its aims,
and creditable alike to his wisdom
and patriotism, we regret to see that
it is not bearing such fruits as he no
doubt hoped for and expected.
Here and there, it is true, a prom
inent Southern leader, like Stephens,
Lamar and Hill, may be found, who
seem to have accepted the olive
branch of the President, in the same
generous spirit in which it was offer
ed but we are sorry to say that the
great majority of the Southern press
and other leaders of public opinion
seem to have grown more arrogant
and defiant in their hostility to
the rights of the colored Republicans
of the South, since the Southern
States have been left entirely to 90
cal lf-government" without inter
ference from the National authorities
Here, for instance, is a recent docla
ration from the Charleston Is. o.
News and Courier, the leading Dem
ocratic paper Of the State:
The sentiment of the State is that
the negroes shall not be molested so
long as they stay quiet and do not
put themselves forward as political
leaders. The understanding 10as that
they should let politics alone,
But this is mildness itself in com
parison with the following from the
Okolona (lIiss.) States:
NEGRO suffrage is political dam
nation. Down with q brutalized bal
lot, say we!
"Up guards! Shall the North say
that she has conquered your very
souls, and compelled you to accept
her goddess principles! NeverI"
"The Old Guard may die, but it
never surrenders ! Till the last
ditch will the proud manhood of the
South still fight the New England
ideas of Centrahsm and negro suf
frage."
"The bone and siDew, the pride
and culture, the worth and morals
of Southern manhood are with the
States, openly or at heart, in its firm
and unrelenting warfare in behalf of
Statesoyereignty and Caucasian com
mand."
1T is said that the States is unre-
constructed. 1t is And it repre-
sents an unreconstructed constitu-
ency. The North will have to de-
stroy the last trace and remnant of
our people before she can crush out
the spirit that prompted our chival-
ry to bare the sabre and unfurl the
"Bonny Blue.
And so on, for quantity.
It is certainly very discourag-
ing to see the evidence these
extracts afford of the "unrecon-
structed" spirit of the Southern
people, and their apparent determin-
alton not to accept in good faith the
changed political situation growing
out Of the results of the war. IN
less there is a greatand radical change
in their sentiments, We fear it viii
again become necessary for the ma
tional government TO assert its sU-
prcmacy in the South as well as in
the North, and to afford the coIored
voters of the Southern States that
protection in the exercise ofthcir con
stitutional rights, of which the
Southern whites, as a class, seem de-
termiDed to deprive them,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
The Talking Face.

L didn't say a single word" s id
Annie Barton to her mother, who was
reproYing her for her mamiable tenn
per. Il know you didn't, Annie: but
your face talked" What volumes our
faces sayl Some speak of love and
kindness, some of anger and hatred,
others of pride and rebellion, and 9TH
ers still of selfshness. We can't help
our faces talking; but we can make
them say pleasant things, and all
should try to have them do so.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

Bad administration, broken faith
and promises, disloyal practices, and
general stupidity characterized De
mocracy when in control Of National
affairs. A coat of paint cannot make
it a new party. It's the same old
institution-rotten to the core and
unworthy public confidence.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
Arrival and Departure Of
Nails.

R. r. mails arrive daily except Sunday, at 1915
a. and $50 p. n. Depart daily except Sunday,
at 6.25 a. m. and 2.30 p. m.
n. B. Railroad mails close 80 minutes before
departure Of trains.
Ripley mail, for Newmarket, Sugartree Ridge,
MOurytOwn, New COrWin, Emerald, &C., arrives
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at Z p. n. De-
parts Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Z am.
Eastern mail, for Dallas, RainsbOrO, New Pc
tersburg, Greenfield, Bainbridge, Paint, Sinking
Springs, Marshall, North Union, Carmel, &C, ar
rivals Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at J p. m.
Departs same days at q. III.
Fayetteville mail, for Nevin, PriCetOwn, Hollow
town, BufOrd, Sicily, &c, arrives Wednesday and
Friday at p. m. Departs same days at 7 a. m.
Belfast mail, for Rerryville, Belfast, May Hill,
LOvGtts, &c, arrives Tuesday and Friday at II so
=. m. Departs same days at 1870 .. m.
Sabina mail, for samantha, Highland, Memphis,
Sahina, &C, arrives Tuesday and Friday at p. m.
Departs Wednesday and Saturday at T.45 a.
j NJ. BARREEE, p. NJ.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

Arkansas elected State officers on
the %. The Democrats had every
thing their own way, there being no
tiaket in the field, It
will not always be so, We have faith
TO believe.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
How to Gid Rid of a Bad Temner.

A lady, head of a household, was
troubled with an excitable temper. She
had a good Christian servant come into
her service. To this Christian girl she
one day excused herself for her bad
temper, and hoped the like would not
occur again. She said, 80, mistress, I
do so pity you. 1 once had just such
temper as you have, and 1 can feel for
you, ''YOu had just such a temper as
1 have! Why, I should have thought
that nothing ever moved you; and you
had such a temper as 1 have! Why,
what did you do with it?'' II swapped
it away for Jesus; I gave it away 10
Him, and took Him rs my Saviour.
took Him and He took my bad tenn
per 30, I wish He would take mine,"
He will, mistress, if you will give it
up to Him. It is too strong for you to
conquer; but He can easily do it, if it
all be given up TO him." The mistress
and maid knelt together, and Jesus
was besought to do That definite and
specific thing; and lie did it, and that
was like another family from that day.
--CbrjStjal W'Orber.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19
Young Folks Corner.

Original OF selected contributions for the Young
Folks Corner" are solicited from our yOuug read
ers and also from such Of our older readers az
have not forgotten that they were once young pco-
ple The answers must always accompany fruo-
lens Enigmas, Char8des, &C, together with the
real name Of the writer, not for publication but
for the private information Of the editor. q
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

We found silver money demOne-
tzed and destroyed; VIC found the
Resumption Act In full force, and
under it a rapid contraction of the
currency going on, and the green
back in the course of inevitable de-
struction.-T Hon. Hon. II. L. Diekey
at Greenfield.
Mr. Dickey viii allow us to correct
him. He charges that the RepubH-
cans demonetized silver, but the rec
ord shows that as many Democrats
as Republicans voted for the measure,
and it was not in fact, at the time it
passed, regarded as a party question
at all. This being so, Mr.. Dickey is
uncandid and unfair in trying to sad
die the responsibility upon the Re
pubhcans as a party.
Again he says, "we" (the Demo
crats) 'found q rapid contraction of
the currency going on, and the
greenback in the course of inevita-
bic destruction.
The entire contraction of the cur
rency since the Resumption act was
passed, in January, 1875, amounts,
according to the official reports of
the treasury department, to only
about 70 millions, from which must
be deducted about Is millions of siI-
yer added to the circulating medium,
leaving the net sum Of 55 millions, in
three and a half years, out of a
total Of about $50 millions of paper
currency, as the "rapid contraction
charged by Mr.. Dickey! And yet,
in spite Of this 'Tapid contraction" Of
which he complains, money is now
so plenty that capitalists arc invest
ing it in Government bonds at the
rate of a million a day, although the
bonds bear only yfotvPer cent interest! |
How does Mr.. Dickey reconcile this
state of things with his assertion at
Greenfield, that the Republican poll
cy had "made money dearer?2 Is
not 4 per cent. cheap enough to suit |
his notions of cheap money?
But he charges the Republicans
with putting "the greenback in the
course of inevitable destruction.
This is the most absurd idea we ever |
heard advanced by any man pretend
ing to be q statesman. How has
the Republican policy been destroy
ing" the greenbacks? Simply by
bringing them up from 10 per cent. |
beZ05g par, as compared with gold, |
three years ago, to within one haLfI
per cent. Of gold, at the present time.
IF it is destroying the greenbacks
to make them worth nearly 10 cents
more on the dollar than they were
three years ago, then the Republi-
cans plead guilty; but every man Of
common sense knows better than to
believe Mr.. Dickey when he makes
such a false and ridiculous accuse
ton.
No! it is Mr.. Dickey and his party
who are advocating the only policy
that can "destroy" greenbacks, by is
suing them in unlimited quantities,
at the caprice of Congress, so that
there will be no possibility of their
redemption. The Republican party
first n1aae the greenbacks against the
bittercst opposition of the whole
Democratic party, Mr. Dickey among
the rest. The Republican party has
steadfostly maintained their credit,
in spite of the Efforts Of Pendleton,
Allen and all the host Of in1ationists
to ruin it by an unlimited issue that
could never be redeemed; until at
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

Three dinner dresses, two morning
costumes, two walking costumes, and
possibly a ball dress, are essential for a
three days visit in an English country
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Two young men went to California
to better their condition. In two years
one came back covered with rags, and
the other without a rag to his back.
Which was the better off of the two?
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

A London policeman aged twenty
two, lately reported seven fires within
thirty hours. Such amazing activity
excited suspicion that he had Originat-
ed the calamities himself fox the in
formanC's reward, and this being PROV
cd to the satisfaction of a jury lie has
gone TO penal seryitude for fifteen
yeaTS.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

Archie-"See, old man, how I'm
hunted after; all those are invitations -
Friend-"GOOd graciOusl all invita-
tiOns? Invitations to what?" Archie
TO call and settle their accounts"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

Well fattened swine'S flesh is about
thirty-eight per cent water, ten per cent
lean mean meat, fifty per cent fat and
one and one-half per cent salinCs, leay.
ing slight waste.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

III military point of view, Austria
is the next strongest nation to Germany
and Russia. Uerpeace footing is near
ly 100000 soldiers, of all arms an6
branches of the army.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

The Chinese are abIet prove to their
own satisfaction that America was
known to their ancestors more than two
thousand years ago.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

In q Parliamentary report it is stated
that the quantity Of dead meat import
ed into Great Britain from the United
Sla:es from August 1877, TO Feb. I, 1878,
was p, SIS tons.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-19

The man who let's his sheep wander
about the pastures without seeing that
thcy are all alive and well at least once
in every two days is pretty sure TO pay
heavily for his shiftlessness. a better
way is to get them Up every night, es-
pecially if they are dropping their
limbs.
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y girl in Davenport, Iowa, attempted
to build fire with kerosene. She sue.
ceedcd! They didn't have to bury her.
the body being consumed with the
dWelling-hOUse.