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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-05-02
CHERIFFS SALE.

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5. W. Horsman ct all In the Court of Common
= Pleas of Highland Co
Jno. W. UrseII ct al. ohio. manu- wy
Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned
Sheriff of Highland County, Ohio, yvirtue OF an
Order of Sale issued out Of said Court in the above
entitled cause. aud 10 him directed rs Sheriff of
SAID county, viii, at the door of the Court House
in HillsbOrO, on
Saturday, May 4, 4. d. 1873,
at O'Clock p NJ Of said day. Offer for sale at Pub
lic Auction the following lands and teDemsnts to-
Wit:
Situate in the county Of Highland, in the State of
Ohio, and in the uillagg of New Lexington, and
bounded and desc ibed as follows
Being all that portion of In-Lot No. p, as known
aud described in the plat OF said village of New
Lexington, not conveyed by deed Of general war
rantp to ThOs. S Long and others, by John Bishop
and Susan Bishop, January, 1870.
Appraised at -25.
Terms Of Sale-Cash on day Of sale.
Given under my hand at HillsbUrO, Ohio, this
lst day Of April, a. ID. ISIS.
W. c. NEWELL, Sheriff.
J. K. PICKERING, Attorney for Plaintiff.
April !, 1873 apr4w5
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Horace Greeley once defined a good
newspaper as follows: 1T is Outspoken
and hmest-not just what you wish,
but yet a paper you cannot do well with
cut "
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A Boston man has Just constructed a
wooden horse, which is propelled by
the weight of the rider.
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Gas was not used for the purpose Of
lighting the streets Of London until as
late as the year 1909.
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whole No. 2I88.

Snoring is now politely described as
indUlging in sheet music.
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Assignee's Notice

The undersigned was, on the 9TH day of Janua-
~, 1873, duly appointed aud qualified as Assignee
of JAMES A. Roberts, an insOvent debtor Of High
land County, Ohio.
MILTON TCDHUNTER.
April Is. 1873 aprz5w3
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An old Scotch woman recommended
a preacher who arrived at the kirk wet
through, to get at once into the pulpit:
YEN be dry enough there"
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X, the incorriglDle, is being scOlded
by his broken-hearted fancs. Wretch: "
says she, "there never was woman
vet that you knew whom you did not
make miserable"
He with vinOus earnestnessl -" Yesh
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Sister Tot stood in the door. Her
tins were set so tight, and her eyebrows
lied in hard knot, learning to knit,
''And the thread goes over so, and then
so. and-dedr mel I've dropped a
stitch! What shall I dO?' 100
needn't do nOssen at ALL - said sweet
little Wee-wee, stepping down from the
doorstep at Tots side to the grass. 100
needn't do Rossea. III des dit down
here and pit 'em all mp of ze gwound
f fas' as ever go dwOp 'em. Where isoor
itch? liant see it heret ALL"
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Sqturddu. Mqy II, A. %. ISIS
CHERIFF'S SALE.
Henry Walker, Gusrdian,)
vs.. In Partition.

In pursuance Of an Order of Sale, issued in the
above stated case, from the Court Of Common
Pleas of Highland county, Ohio, and to me di-
rected will offer for sale at Public Auction, at
the door of the Court House IN HillsbOrO, Ohio,
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Whole. I consist Of fourteen letters, and form
.he name Of a noted Eugiishman-
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I am composed Of fifteen letters.
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Ny L., 8, 2, s, % is a river in Austria
My "a, 5. g, 10, 70 is a river I'm Europe
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DR.. s. j. SPEES

WILL now give his entire time to the practice
W of his Profession. BE has had extensive
experience and will give special attention to the
Treatment Of Chronic Di5eaaes.
OFFICE-At the Palace Drugstore, High Street,
sOuth of Main. Residence West Walnut St near
the Public School House, HiUsboro, Ohio.
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DIR. q. EVANS,

N JIrEeon ID ent1Bt,
Once Corner Main an High Streets, up stairs owe
Evans & Ferriss Bank. ALL WORK WAR
RANTED.
- February g, 1871. feb9ylr
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CnNTNnRTNIS.

To Scripture Puzzle Of April ls-A whale.
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which the said treSpasS or damages shall be
alleged to have been done or committed and
1.-THE said enclosure shall not be good and
sufficient according to the true intent and
meaning of this act, he or they shall not
nake out award or assess any damages what
ever.
30. In all cases of action by trespass, oatare
cLdtts,t'n fi'egit, or legal process of any kind
hereafter to be sued out or commenced to re-
cover damages for tresspass upon lands il
said county by any kind or description of live
stock the defendant or defendants may plead
the general issues and give the special matter
IN evidence under this act, and the plaintiff or
plalntiHS in each and every suit shall be nom
suited and mulcted in costs whenever il shall
be clearly proven by legal and competeni
trespaSs shall be alleged to have been done
orcommitted were not enclosed according to
the provisions of this act.
IS. It shall not be lawful for any person in
Garrett county to impound any horned or
black cattle, sheep or hogs, unless the same
shall he trespassing within an enclosure sur
rounded by good and substantial fence at
least four feet high.
81. Ifany person shall beat, dog. bruise, or
In any manner injure any horned or black
cattle, sheep or hogs, the owner or tenant of
the property wherein such damage shall be
done shall be liable for an action Of damages
for the injury to the full amount of the actual
damages to be estimated by two disinterested
persons one chosen by each party and to be
recovered before any Justice of the peace of
the county; and if EITHER party shall refuse to
appoint an appraiser of such damage for the
space of five days from the injury done any
justice OF the peace may appoint in his stead
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JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND
CONSTABLES.

4G. There shall be the following number OF
Justices of the Peace and Constables for Gar
rett county, viz: for election district number
one, two Justices of the Peace and one Con-
stable; for election district number two, two
Justices of the Peace and one Constable; for
election district number three, two Justices
of the Peace and one Constable; for election
district number four, one Justice of the Peace
and one Constable; for election district mum
Der five, two Justices of the Peace and one
Constable; for election district number six
two Justices of the Peace and one Constable;
for election district number seven two JUS
tees of the Peace and two Constabes: for
election district number eight, two Justices
of the Peace and one Constable; for election
district number nine, one Justice of the Peace
and Constable.
Al. Every Constable in Garrett county shall
receive, in addition to the fifty cents allowed
by law for the delivery to the sheriff any
person on commitment, six and quarter
cents per mile for every mile ne may have to
travel in the performance of said duty, over
four miles.
As. Every Constable who may find it neces-
sary to su .nmon any person to assist him in
taking to Jail any person on commitment
shall summon Constable, if one be convent
ent, and such Constable or other person sum
moned for that purpose, shall be entitled to
the fees and mileage aforesaid.
40. 1t shall not be lawful for any resident OF
Garrett county to be sued before any Justice
of the Peace of said county, out of the election
dist riot in which the defendant resides; this
provision, however, shall not affect any suit
heretofore brought or now pending.
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JURORS.

Al. The jury law applicable to Allegany
county shall be in force in Garrett county.
except that the lists from which the juries
shall be drawn shall contain one hundred and
fifty, instead of two hundred names.
~. The jurors of Garrett county shall re-
ceive each two dollars and fifty cents for each
day they shall attend the Circuit Court, and
when they reside more than five miles from
Oakland they shall receive an additional
sum of twelve and one-half cents for each
mile over five miles, to be allowed only in one
direction, and only once each term.
49, The County Commissioners shall annu-
ally levy such sum of money as they may
deem sufficient to pay the jurors of the coun-
ty for the ensuing year, to be paid over to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court, who shall annually
account with said Commissioners therefor,
and shall give bond with securities to be APP
proved by said Commissioners, for the faith
full disbursement thereof to the jurors afore-
said.
A. Any surplus that may remain in the
hands of said Clerk shall be contingent
fund for paying said jurors
45. The County Commissioners shall allow
said Clerk such compensation as they may
deem reasonable for said services.
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SALES BY AUCTION.

S. No person shall vend at auction any
goods, wares or merchandise of any kind on
description whatever, within the limits OF
said county, unless be shall first pay to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county the
sum of sixty dollars per year for such privi-
lege, to be applied to the use of the State and
paid into the treasury, and no such license
shall be issued for shorter period than one
month.
So The provisions of the aforegoing section
shall apply only to such person as shall bring
goods, wares and merchandise into said cOun-
ty to sell at auction within the limits afOre-
said and to such persons as shall sell at auc-
ton goods, wares or merchandise sent into
the county for the express purpose of being
sold as aforesaid by auction.
60 Any person who shall sell as aforesaid
within the limits aforesaid without having
previously paid the license herein directed
shall be liable to penalty of one hundred
dollars upon conviction thereof in any court
of law.
g. The Clerk of the Circuit Court shall be
entitled to the same fees and commissions for
issuing the license and paying into the treas
ury the money therefor, as for like licences
under the laws of this State.
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TAXES.

II. Where there is no personal property on
ANY land in Garrett county from which taxes
may be made, the tax collector may, If he
shall so elect, instead Of selling the land un-
der the provisions of the general laws of this
State, sell sufficient quantity Of timber
suitable for cord wood, tonce rails, hoop poles,
shingles, slaves, railroad ties or saw logs, In
one parcel, growing on the same acre or con-
tiguous acres of the land. to pay such taxes
Y. Said collector, before making such sale.
shall give notice in some newspaper publish
ed in said county, and by advertisement set
up in three public places in the naighborhood
adjoining the lands on which the taxes are
due. Of the time and place Of sale, q least ten
days before the day Of sale and shall give the
purchaser or purchasers Of said timber GER
tiflcate under his hand and SEAL verified by
afi1davit, stating the quantity of timber sold,
and shall also return similar certificate TO
the County Commissioners at their next
meeting, to be recorded among their pro-
ceedings.
70. The purchaser of any timber so sold
shall have twelve months to remove the
same. and enter upon the land at any time
within said twelve months, and from time TO
time during said twelve months. TO cut down
aud remove the same.
-. a any person shall knowingly cut down
and remove from said land more timber than
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ORPHANS COURT.

s.. The Judges of the Orphans Court for
Garrett county shall be allowed a per diem OF
two dollars, and at the rate of twelve and one
half cents per mile for every mile (over and
above five they shall travel coming from
their place of residence to lIland, but such
mileage shall be allowed only in one direc-
ton, and once each term.
81. The Register of Wills in said county at
eoch meeting of the Court, shall make n
memorandum on the minutes of the Court OF
the number of miles travelled by each Judge,
and the County Commissioners shall levy
therefor accordingly.
q. The County Commissioners shall annu-
ally levy sufficient sum to enable the Col
lector to pay the per diem and mileage of
Judges of the Orphans Court upon the pas
sage OF their accounts by said County COM
missioners.
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as hereinbefore specified shall bind, hold,

as hereinbefore specifed,) shall bind, hold,
operate or take effect.
81. Any sheriff, or other officers, who shall
have an execution or attachmellt against the
property OF any such individual, association
or corporation, shall exempt from execution
a sufficient amount of property to pay any
Indebtedness OF such individual, association
or corporation to employers or furnishers Of
raw material, and it shall be his duty dill
gently to inquire whether the said individual,
association or corporation he indebted as
aforesaid, and if the employees or furnishels
of raw material shall in any way suffer, BE-
prejudiced or injured by refusal to comply
with, or negligence in executing the require
ments thereof, such officer, together with his
sureties. shall be bound and held liable for
whatever injury or damage shall be done in
the premises.
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he bought at said sale, he shall be deemed
guilty OF violation of section forty of this
article.
70. Whenever the tax collector shall offer
for sale under the provisions of the general
law, any real estate in Garrett county for the
non payment of taxes, it shall and may be
lawful for the County Commissioners of said
county to become the purchaser thereof and
said Commissioners are hereby authorized to
buy and hold the same, and to lease, rent,
sell, dispose of or convey the same as fully as
any individual might do and TO make and
execute good and valid deed or lease there
for or for any part thereof, and such deed,
lease or conveyance shall pass as good title
to the grantee therein as though the same
had been executed by an individual.
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FISH.

80. No person shall take, catch or kill any
speckled, brook or river trout, or have any
such trout in his or her possession, except
during the months of April, May June or
July, under penalty of five dollars for each
trout so caught, taken, killed or had in his
any person or corporation from catching
trout in any manner, or at any time, in wa
tiers owned by them or upon their premises,
to stock other waters.
80. Said fines shall be collected as provided
by section seven of this article.
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within fifteen days after he receives
the copy of the levy as hereinbefOre'
provided for, deliver to each taxpayer
his tax bill.
122. If any tax payer should fail to
pay his taxes within sixty days after
the collector of taxes has delivered to
him his tax bill, then the said cOllec-
tor is hereby empowered and author
lied to distrain for said taxes in the
same manner, land with the same
costs, that collectors of county taxes
are authorized to distrain for taxes
I23. The collector of taxes shall
give bond with security to be APP
proved by the Burgess and Commits
sioners, in the penalty of one thous-
and dollars, conditioned for the
faithful discharge of his duties, and
said bond shall be recorded in the
Office of the clerk of the Circuit Court
for Garrett county.
124. The collector of taxes shall re-.
port in writing to the Burgess and
! Commissioners, at every regular
meeting held by them, the amount
Of taxes collected by him since the
last meeting of said Burgess and
Commissioners, together with the
names of the PERSONS from whom
collections have been made, and the.
amount collected from eacli', and said
report shall be recorded by the town
clerk, and the said Collector shall, at
the time he makes his report as
aforesaid, pay over to the treasurer
the amoGnt collected'by him, less his
commission, which shall be ten per
cent of the amount collected.
f25 1t shall be the duty of the town
( clerk to be present at all the MEETINGS
of the Burgess and Commissioners.
He shall keep correct record of
their proceedings and an accurate ac-
count of all their financial transac-
tons. He shall enter all ordinances
passed by the Burgess and Commits
sioners, and signed by the Burgess,
in a book kept by him for that our
pose. and the books of said corpora
ton shall be open for the inspection
of any tax payer at all times, and
copies of all ordinances shall be put
up III the most public places of said
town. The said town clerk shall re
ceive twenty five dollars per annum'
for his services.
1875. 1t shall be the duty of the COL
lector, as town constable, to preserve
] the peace and quiet of the town, and
for that purpose he is hereby inves-
ted with all the powers of a constable
within said town. He shall perform
such other duties as may be required
of him by the Burgess and Commits
si0ners, and shall receive such com
pensati0n as the Burgess and COM
mis~ioners may deem right and
proper.
127. fla vacancy should occur in
the office of collector of taxes or town
clerk by death, resignation, removal
or otherwise, the Burgess and Com
nissioners may make an appoint
ment to supply such vacancy.
+ l2S. Should the BaIltf arrest my
person for violating any ordinance
passed by the Burgess end Commits
sioners, he shall carry such offender
before my Justice OF the Peace in
said town, and it shall be the duty Of
such Justice to hear and determine
the charge against such person in ac-
cordance with the ordinances of said
corporation.
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HOoP-POLES AND TIMBER.

80. If any person shall cut down, or cause or
induce any person to cut down. any timber or
tree of a size not less than those commonly
used for hoop-poles, in Garrett county, with
intent to appropriate the same to his own
use, every person so offending his aiders and
abettors, having knowledge of said intent.
shall be adjudged guilty of felony, and shall
or chattels to the value of the tree or trees
which shall be cut down as aforesaid, and OF
the injury thereof OccasiOned.
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TOWN OF EVANSVILLE.

SS. The citizens in the town of
Grantsyille, in Garrett county. are
hereby constituted and made body
corporate, by the name of the Com
missioners Of Grantsville, with all
the privileges of a body corporate,
and to have a common seal and per-
petual succession.
SO. The male citizens of Grants
vile, afo. esaid, fthe ages of twenty
one years and upwards, being citizens
of the United States, who have resi-
ded in said town for and during the
space of six months next preceding
the first Monday in June, eighteen
hundred and seve ty eight, may, on
that day, at the usual place of hold
ing elections in said town. and on
the first Monday in June in each and
every year thereafter, at such house
as shall hereafter be designated by
the municipality, be authorized to
elect five Commissioners for said
town, who shall have resided within
The limits of the same six months
next preceding the election.
30. A Justice Of the Peace for the
time being residing in the said town,
shall appoint by writing under his
hand and seal, three judges to hold
the first election, who shall keep the
polls open from nine O'Clock in the
morning until five in the afternoon,
and shall conduct the said election in
the same manner in which the Judges
Of election are now directed to con-
duct an election for delegates to the
General Assembly, as far as may be
consistent with the provisions of this
Act and the said Judges shsll make
return under their hands and seals,
of the persons elected, to the clerk of
the Circuit Court for Garrett county
to be kept by him.
81. All future elections shall be
held and conducted as shall be from
time to time directed by the laws of
the corporation, the same not being
inconsistent with the provisions Of
this act.
81. The said Commissioners elect
ted according to the provisions 0.
this Act shall, on the first meeting
after said election, choose some one
of said Commissioners President Of
the Board whose duty it shall be to
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SHEEP.

81. Ifany dog shall be seen running sheep
i'll said county, any person may kill him or
if any dog shall have been known to worry
sheep, and information thereof being given
to the owner thereof if he does not kin said
dog, he shall make full compensation for all
damage done by it, and any person seeing the
dog running at large may kill him.