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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-10
PnIrandrr in ThihAf.

A noticeable feature in the national
life is the immense number of mOnas-
tCries and nunneries which are to be
found scattered over the country. In the
neighbOrhOOd of Lhasa alone there are
eleven mOnasteries, in which are clOis-
tered upwards of 10000 monks, and the
nunneries are found in like proportion.
This apparent devotion to spiritual con-
Germs IS at first sight calculated to arouse
our admiration and sympathy, but a
little consideration suggests the idea
that the religious fervOr of these Tibetan
monks and nuns is q good deal height
ened by a keen sense of sOrdid self
interest. If the blood of martyrs is the
seed of churches, poverty, especially in
the East, has a wonderful effect in null
tiplying the crop. To men who have
no taste for the hard labor demanded by
the soil from its tillers, and to women
who have no means of gaining a liyeli-
hood for themselves, the secluded idle
ness and secured meals Of monastery
or nunnery present attractions which 1t
is next to impossible to resist. The
women also have an excuse for entering
religious orders which is denied to men,
for there exists in Thibet one of those
extraordinary marriage customs which
are occasionally met with in Out-Of-the-
way parts of the world, and which are
to be explained only by reference to the
surrounding circumstances Of the people.
4 numerous progeny in a poor and
sterile country, is doubtless a distinct
evil, and it is one which naturally sug-
gests the imposition of a check even to
those who have never heard of Nautilus
or his doctrines. This we may suppose
to have been the position of the Tibetans
when they cast about for some plan by
which they might limit the increase
the population. The plan they adopted
for this purpose IS almost unique, and IS
called pOlyandry, which may be explain
ed as the exact reverse of pOlygamy ;
for, as in most Eastern countries it is
lawful for a man to have a plurality Of
wives, in Thibet it is the custom for q
woman to have a plurality Of husbands
The usual practice is for two, three or
four brothers in household to marry
one wife. They all reside in enc house,
and the children are considered to be
the Joint offspring of all. 1t is incon-
ceivable to us that such system should
exist for an hour; but IN Thibet, far
from giving rise to the evils which
might be expected to flow from it, it
works easily and well, and the pictures
which travellers give US of Thibetan
households display a degree of domestic
happiness and affection which certainly
equals that enjoyed in much mere favor
ed lands. This is a description Mr.
Boyle gives of a family at whose house
he spent the night: The house belongs
to two brothers, who are married to a
very handsome wife, and have three
of the prettiest children I ever saw.
They all came to drink tea and eat
sugar-candy. After night came on the
whole family assembled in a room to
dance to their own singing, and spent
two hours III this manner with abUnd'
of mirth and glee."
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-10
Arrival and Departure Of
Mails.

R. R. mails arrive daily except Sunday, at IO.15
a. m. and $50 p. m. Depart daily except Sunday
at 6.25 q. m. and 230 p. M.
NIB. Railroad mails close 80 minutes before
departure of trains.
MourytOwn, New Corwin, Emerald, &c, arrives
Tuesday Thursday and Saturday, at p. m. De-
parts Monday Wednesday and Friday at Z q. m.
Eastern mail, for Dallas RainsbOro, New Pc
tersburg Greenfield, BaiDbridge, Paint, Sinking
Springs, Marshall North Union, Carmel, &C, ar
rivals Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, st p. m.
Departs same days at a. m.
Fayetteville mall for Neyin, Pricetown, Hollow
town, BufOrd, Sicily, &c, arrives Wednesday and
Friday at p. m. Departs same days at a. m.
Belfast mail, for Berryvie, Belfast, May Hill,
LOvetts &C, arrives Tuesday and Friday ct II 80
q. m. Departs same days at 1890 p. M.
Sabina mall for Samantha, Highland, Memphis,
Sabina, &c. arrives Tuesday and Friday at p. m.
Departs Wednesday and Saturday at I.45 a. m.
j. NJ. BARRERE, P. N.
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Correspondence ofthe News.
Letter from Iowa.

CoLEAx, Iowa. Sept. "A, 1877.
EDITOR NEws .-We-mother and
LEFT Lynebburg, o., on the ID of
Sept, to visit J. NJ. Kennedy and
wife, formerly Anna NJ. Troth) who
live in CoIfax, Jasper Co. Iowa. We
landed here on Wednesday, Sept 4,
since which time I have been ''on
the go" over this county and Polk
sightseeing. Among other things
[ have attended the Republican
/ mass meetings, and heard some Of
the best speakers Of the State. The
campaign here is conducted upon a
different plan or basis, and a differ
ent line Of argument pursued from
that in Ohio. Here, the prospect
| Of 'Solid South" and its effect up
on the '1ost cause, enters largely
into the discussions, and the course
Of the administration upon many
questions is publicly criticized, and
on some bitterly opposed, The
meetings are large and enthusiastic.
In this county (Jasper) the Demo
Gratis and Greenbackers have united
and the fight is waxing warm.
The Schools opened here on Mon
day, Sept. I'd, and the busiest man
in COlfaz now, is J. W. Jarnigan,
who is principal Of the public schools
and editorof the "Sentinel, " a staunch
Republican paper published here.
From the number Of eoYerd wag-
ons passing through here, one would
guess that half the people were
agoing West" Twenty five to fifty
trains per day is nothing unusual
They are generally bound for Kan
sas or Nebraska.
At a contest between butchers II
the next county (Polk) last week. a
young man dressed his beef in 8
minutes and 43 seconds. This Is
quick work, bat John NJ Whitacre,
Of Lynchburg, claims to have once
dressed a beef in a few seconds
less than five minutes. So old
Highland is still ahead.
The fruit crop is almost a failure
here. Fall apples sell at S1.25 per
bushel. Wheat about g half crop,
and of inferior quality, but an e1-
oelIent crop of corn.
Farm machinery Is much more
extensively used here than in Ohio,
and on many farms in this (Polk)
county. I see good plows, harvesters,
thres6ers, &c. &c left to 60 to de
cav, where they were last used.
Such q course would bankrupt Ohio
| farmers.
The celebrated "1IineraI Springs
are only one mile from here. They
usually have from IS to 100 PATIENTS
| but I must speak Of them some other
tine. We are having cool weather
and frosty nights here.
Very truly yours,
ISMA TROTH.
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Contributors

Contributors to the ''Youug Folks Corner
should be very careful to look over their Enigmas
Sc before sending them to the press, in order TO be
sure that the spelling. numbers, sc. are all right.
Mistakes Of this kind Of course render their pro-
ducfious unfit for publication. For this reason
alone, we are compelled to reject two Enignas-
one from ''suushade,7 Hillsboro, the other from
s.lIoHie Rose" New Petersburg. Try again, and
be more careful
Can't some Of our young contributors send us some
MafncmaticaI Problems, Charades, COuundrums'
&C, for the sYoung Folks COrnerT2 All their tai
enr of late seems to run to Enigmas. A little more
variety would make the Corner more interesting.
Put on your thinking caps, boys and girls and
.sola folks" too. and study up something new and
k.loty.
s.Bulger' sends us an Enigma without the an
sver. When he sends it, his Enigma viii ap-
near
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Combat Between a Parrot and Spider,

The correspondent of a French paper
relates a remarkable contest which he
witnessed in the Isle of Java between a
parrot anda gigantic spider. The spider,
whose body was as long as a smalFbird's,
dropped down upon young parrot
whose mamma was from home, and
spreading its huge claws over the nest
began sucking its blood. When the
mother returned she naturally went for
the enemy, and seized hold of one of his
legs. but whether it be that legs are not
a sensive portion of spiders organization,
or that this particular insect had an
overpowering penchant for the blood of
young parrots, he wouldn't let 60, until
his pain becoming too intense for cndu-
rance, he turned on the mother and,
twining all his legs firmly around her
neck, was just arranging for a good long
suck in that quarter, when she gave him
an awful dig in the belly with her beak,
whereupon he fell over, dragging her to
the ground with him. The naturalist
then shot him and released the parrot.
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POETICAL ENIGMA.

] aun composed Of letters.
Wv ist is in cabbage, but not in beet
nv 2d Is IN hog. but not iu meat
Nv 3d Is I'm able, but not in we'll
BIv 4th is TO ring but not in bell,
NV zth is in look, but not IN see
NV 9th is IN lettuce, also iu pea
BIy 9Th is I'M sound, but not ln pound
Ny sth is 10 round, but not ln bound
Nv 9th is I'm hog, but not in cattle
Nv 10th is 10 rustic, but not IN ralile1
NV nth is in shoe, but not in boot
Nv 10Th is I'm hoOt, but not in tOotI
Ny 18th is in cape, also i'm cap,
NY 18th is IN nap, but not lu rap
NV 18th is iu deal, but not in shuttle,
Ny 18th is in cloak. hut not in mutleI
NV 18th is i'm knot, but not i'm tie
Elv 18th is I'M mullins, but not in pie,
Nv 9th is in flies, but not In lyp
Ny 9th is i'm wheat, also in rye,
NV Dist is in merry, but not in cheer
EIy 22d is dee, but not 10 deer,
EIv 23l is I'm river, but not in lake
NV oath IS burn, but not in bake
NV 25th is in short, also In long,
Nv 2fth is 1u wiring, but not in wrong,
NV whole forms the names of q couple UhoI as
am told,
AS they came from Camg-meeiing got very cold.
Egypt, o. ION AND Lula
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TEE HOME CONCERT.

Well, Tom, my boy, I must bid YOU gOOd-by.
I've had a wonderful visit herei
Enjoyed u, too, as well as / could
Away from all that my heart holds dear.
Maybe I've been a tTile rough
little awkward, your wife would say
Of your city polish day by day.
But somehow, Tom, though the same old roof
Sheltered US both when we were boys,
And the same dear mOtherlOve watched US both
Sharing our childish griefs and lows
Yet you are almost a stranger now;
Your ways and mine are as far apart
As though we never had thrown an arm
About each other with owing heart.
Your city home is a palace. Tom:
Your wife and children are G.ir to see;
You couldn't breathe in the little cot.
The little home, that belongs TO me.
And am lost m your grand large house,
And aaZed with the wealth every side
And hardly know my brother, Tom,
In NE midst Of so much stately pride.
Yes. the concert was grand, last night,
The nging splendid; but, do you know,
My heart kept longing, the evening through,
For another concert, so sweet and low
That maybe it wouldn't please the ear
Ofone so cultured and grand as yOui
Butto its music-laugh If you will
Ny heart and thoughts must ever be true.
Ishut my eyes in the hall last night
(For the clash Of the music wearied mel,
And close TO my heart this vi,iOn came
The same sweet picture I always see:
In the vine-clad porch Of a cottage home,
Half in shadow and half in sun,
"A mother chanting her lullaby,
Rocking TO rest her little one.
And soft and sweet as the music fell
From the mothers lips, I heard the coo
OF my baby girl, as with drOwsy tongue
She echoed the song with "COO-a-gOO"
Together they sang, the mother and babe,
Ny wife and child, by the cottage door.
All ! that is the concert, brother Tom,
Ny ears are aching to hear once more
So now good-by. And wish you WELL
And many year OF wealth and gain
TC4t were born TO be rich and gay;
lam content 20 be poor and plain.
And so back TO my country home
With love that absence has strengthened too
Back to the concert all my own
Mothers singing and bahy's COO,
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The south,s Plan.

Okolona (AIiss.) States: The South
never will be satisfied until the At
rican is totally eliminated from
American politics. Nor until in
''sack-cloth and ashes, in ruin and
beggary, through payment Of thous-
ands of millions of fraudulent rebel
claims, the North and its people ere.
pent" their resistance to the over
throw ofthe constitution and Union,
and the destruction of freedom aud
free institutions.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

~ Extra copies Of the News can be found ev-
cry week at George Bowers News Depot, and also
at this Office Price cents.
X The entrance to the new Editorial Room Of
the News is on Main street, one door west Of GIas-
cock, Quinn & Co.'s hardware store, by the stair
way leading to Dr.. Russ's office.
Eg- Correspondence solicited from all parts Of
the county. Send Us the facts, in few words, and
we will put them in shape for publication. The
writer's real name must be given in all cases, as
guaranty of good faith.
The NEWS having much larger circulation in
Highland county thaA any other paper, and among
the best class of readers, is the best advertising
medium. Business men VIII please note this
fact, and act accordingly.
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HOnOrs to Stanley.

Henry NJ. Stanley recently made q
speech defending his conduct towards
the Bambirch natives, for warring
against whom he has been severely crit
iCised by humanitarians. He was fre.
quently applauded, and Lord HOughton
spoke kindly of him on behalf of the
English people.
Previous to the dinner, at which this
speech was made, Mr.. Stanley was visit.
ed by a deputation of the Royal Geo
graphical Society. Mr.. Stanley gave Sil
Rutherford AlcOCS, the President, to un-
derstand that the society must take fOl
granted that he had acted while in Afri-
ca honestly and hOnOrably. If they had
any doubt on that point, or any suspicion
that he had been WantOnly numbering
negroes, he would prefer not to receive
| the deputatiOn. This frank and manly
statement was met in a similar spirit
Col. Yule, of the Geographical Society
opposed extending any cOUrtesies to Mr.
Stanley until he had vindicated himself
from the charge of cruel slaughter re-
ftrred to. On this subject Mr.. Smalley
the Tribune correspondent, says, ''ThC
savages Of Bambirch-the savages who
shortly before had been fOiled in an ef-
fort to kill Stanley himsef-had mur-
dered even SANKEY'S allies-a friendly
chief among them. If he had allowed
this outrage to pass unaYenged, what
would have been thought of him by the
Africans themselves? They would have
said, Thisma is a fool; he allows his
friends to be murdered, and does not
avenge them; it Will be safe to destroy
him. His own men would have said
also: Master is a fool; he does not pro-
tsct those who serve him; we shall all
be killed five follow him further News
of that kind spreads with rapidity. Fresh
foes, emboldened by his apparent timid-
ity, would have sprung up at every step
1t is probably not too much to say that
though he had many other battles be,
fore him, he owes his safe return to that
one act of courage and decision. Such
at any rate, I believe to be his own con.
yiction, and must say think Stanley's
judgment of the state of public opinion
in Central Africa better worth taking
than that of sundry dissenting members
of the Royal Geographical Society thou
sands Ofmiles away"
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Samuel J. Tlden, the Democrat
ic candidate for President two years
ago, ought to be pretty good Demo
cratic authority. In his letter &C
cepting the nomination Of the St.
Louis Convention, he says;
"The object demanded by the Con
vention as q resumption OF specie
payments Of legal tender notes of
the United States. That -e001tld not
ozaIy restore the public credit and
maintain the national honor, bit 1t
a0olsZd establish q sound currency for
the people"
So say the Republicans, and that
is Just what they are going to do, in
spite of Ewing, PendIetop, Dickey,
and all the rest, who are going about
telling the people that Resump-
ton will ruin the country, and de-
manding the repeal Of the Resump-
ton Act. Let honest Democrats
who believe Mr.. Tilden was right,
vote the Republican ticket this fall,
and help the Republicans to carry
out the policy he so strongly recon-
mended.
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InI-n-EILss DrZLLE-

Ist, A place in Northern Ohio where great X
r. accident occurred iu ISIS,
2I the reward of q wounded soldier
sI mountain of Turkey,
fth q place TO CJnine sWlue1
5ih, letter,
9Th the falling tidnr
Ith, a Sind Of fruit,
SIN, something real,
9th, scene of the r. r. accident first mentioned.
Lyndon, o. ShADOW.
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Democratic Reform in ohio.

There are forty-nine Democratic
counties in Ohio, and there have
been Democratic defalcations in
twenty-one of them. The amounts
stolen vary from $4,000 to S142,5 ,545.
In one county the thieves destroyed
the books and accounts by burning
the court house where they were
kept. And the loss of another cOun-
ty has not been accurately deter
mined. But the robberies of nine
teen counties foot up more than
S64O,OO0. In every instance, the
thefts we're committed by Demo
cratic office holders, men who were
Justify bawling ''reform!" while they
had both hands in the public Treas
urV.
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I an composed Of % letters
Ev5. S, IG, p. n, 4, is the name Of town in
Ohio.
NvILT.1T. %, IS the name Of vessel
Nv r3. 6 % p D. is the name of a bee.
m TO- IS. rs. Q, is something formers use
NrIg, 2, q, is the way fish are generally found.
Nv 18th win be found at the end OF the Woril.
Iffhis be rightly solved, ] wiz wager my bounty,
TEat the gentleman aud lady live IN Highland
county MOLLIE DARLING.
New Petersburg, o.
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The Pennsylvania Democrats are
said to be surrendering to the Ma.
honals more completely day by day.
Having started out to catch the Ma
tionals they have themselves been
caught, and are being rapidly alb
sorbed. This indicates the real pur-
pose and only possible effect of the
National movement, and should ad
monish ,very straying Republican
and drive him back into the ranks
of his own party for the hardest
kind of a fight.
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Cleveland leader: The Hon.
Milton Sayler was down for a speech
in Cincinnati Thursday night; but
instead Of appearing, sentin a physi-
clans certificate that he was sick.
After the election, Mr.. Sayler's sick
ness viii be apparent to the public
without any certificate.
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Each word contains five letters. The centrals
taken downward name a town in Europe.
Ist, memorial
2I to treat with scOrn,
I'd, convenient,
4Ih. an officer,
jth TO look with disllvOr,
6-h amusicaI Instrument,
Tth mark of distinction,
sth, tD salute,
9Th, kind Of ish,- -----
10Th, language of ancient Scandinavia- - --.---
Iith. chief magistrate Of CitEQr borough.
a stick Of candy is offered FOR -the-tE55 etr-
rect solution. -----------lallllA'
Bufurd, %.
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Town and Hillsboro P. o. Sub,
gcribers.
Business Directory.

Cards inserted under this head at the following
rates: For incl space, SO q year; u inch, S. a
year; 4 inch, S3 year.
Eg-T Twelve lines Of this type make 1 inch.
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The Potter Committee has already
cost the taxpayers Of this country
twenty-six thousand dollars. The
purpose for which the money was
expended is indicated by the fact
that the Democratic Congressional
Committee has prepared, and is send
ing out as a campaign document, a
garbled report of the evidence tax
en-. This report omits all the testi-
mony which shows Anderson to be
a liar, and it neglects all the very
interesting evidence which proved
that Tilden tried to bribe one Of the
Louisiana Electors. The country
pays for the production Of this rub
bish, and for its transportation
through the mails, for all Of it is
franked by the patriotic Democrats
who are supplying it to the party
Philadelphia Bulletin.
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The Democracy of Maine are in
pretty much the same condition rs
the Ohio boy who took out a very
young bull-pup to train in killing
woodchucks. The pup was ''willin,
and Immediately disappeared down
the hole to be killed by the wood
chuck. The boy watched the hole
for half day, and went off with a
sigh, and the remark that she guess
ed there had been a death in the fami-
ly." The Bourbon pup was also viii
ing in Maine, and disappeared down
the hole made by the Fiatists. As
he doesn't come out again, they be-
gin to suspect there has been a death
in the family. = Chicago Tribune.
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DR.. S. ]. SPECS

~ ILL now give his entire time 70 the practice
" Of his Profession He has had extensive
experience and will give special attention to the
Treatment of Chronic Diseases.
OFFICE-At the New Drugstore, Main Street
Utm1n's Bl ok. Residence West Walnut St. near
the Public School House, HillsbOrO, Ohio.
fu1gv1
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Answers 10 ''NOuug Folks Corner 0tOci. 3;
To Enigma No. l. Columbia . ..
To Enigma No. William Brown and Kate
Clark.
To P1eiicsl Euigma-1Ilry Nilligsn- Milton Eli
H.
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HALL

A HOME SCHOOL
The Fourth Annual Session, with corps IF teach
ers unchanged, begins Wednesday, Sept. u. 1878.
address the Principal, +. BAUDER- AN,
iy25m3 FentOn, Geuesee Co., Mich.
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It is becoming clearer every day
that the financial question is the rul-
ing issue in the campaign. There
are other important questions to be
solved, but Just now the contest is to
be waged between honesty and dis
honesty, between honor and dishon-
or, between resumption and repudia-
ton, between financial prosperity and
financial disaster. On this issue
there are but two parties The Dem
ocratie party and the National
Greenback Labor party are united
in sentiment and action, and they
have inscribed upon their banners
Dishonesty, DishonOr and Repudia-
ton. The Republican party alone
stands by the country in its honest
endeavor to honorably pay its hon
est debt in honest mOney.-[Syra-
cuse Journal
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Examinations Of Teachers.

FUVHE Board Of School Examiners Of Highland
y county give notice, that examinations Of Ap-
plicants fOr Certificates viii take place the BILLS
bOrO Union School building on the first Saturday Of
every month, and on the third Saturday of Februa
~, March, April, August, September and October.
The Examination fee prescribed by law is so cts
By order Of the Board
au24YI II. S. DOGGETT. Clerk.
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HandbiIlsI HandbilIs !

From the smallest 'Dodgcr to the largest Postery
neatly printed on short notice. Prices are yer
Uw-fr0m 50 per 1000 up. Call atthe
senlStf NEWS OFFICE.