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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01
HbOrough, Highland County, Ohio Thursday, August l. 49,

in thirty seconds, and then the dwarf
bent down and asked:
"COmrade, can you speakP"
II understand-it's all rightI' was
the whispered reply.
Here's your rife" said Dan. If
the Indians rush upon you shoot your
FelfI If they don't lind you for an
hour you'll be dead. GoOd-by. God
forgive you and us, it's the only wayl"
Leaping to the back of his mustang,
he turned for the "White Horse Hills"
Just as a terrible wall of sorrow, min.
gled with cry for vengeance, rose on
the cool night air from the village.
The horses had not galloped a mile be-
fore they were pulled up. The banO
was safe for a moment, and each heart
was heavy at the Thought Of the COM
rade dying among the trampleI flowers.
Each head was bent that way, and each
ear heard the rush of Indians in that
direction. They rode as straight for
the dying man rs if it had been broad
MONDAY. Asudden shout proved that
they had found HIM, but it was hardly
raised before herepOrt Of + rifle echoed
across the prairie.
"He was brave man," whispered
Little Dan.
"God pity the poor ones &C homel'
added the others, and they rode forward
at full speed, knowing that they had
not one chance in ten of reaching Fort
McKavetIe.
But they did reach it after days of
riding, starving and thirsting, and the
order was delivered and Western Texas
saved from the horrors of an Indian
war.
Before the wild winds of winter
swept the bleak pains, a solitary horse,
man rode from Fort Territt at night,
lodging Indian scouts, and never mind
ing the gaunt wolves which gallOped
close behind him their red tongues
hanging from terrible laws. He crossed
the raYine, rode across the site Of the
Indian village, and halting at a spot
half mile beyond, he dug hole in the
soft soil and firmly embedded a post
and a cross. In deep carved letters was
the legend:
"a BRAVE MAN DIED HERE"
Only that and nothing more, and the
records of the frontier forts show. from
information furnished by the Indians
themselves, that seventeen redskins
were killed and nine wounded in that
wild charge through the village.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01
HE Beantr Of the Sky.

It is a strange thing how little, IN
general, people know aboutthe sky. 1t
is the part Of creation i'll which nature
has done more for the sake of pleasing
man, more for the sole and evident pur-
pose If talking to him and teaching
him, than in any other Of her works,
and it is Just the part in which we least
attend to her. There are not many Of
her other works in which some more
material or essential purpose than the
mere pleasing of man is not answered
in every part Of their organization; but
every essential purpose of the sky
might, as far as we know, be answered
if once in three days or thereabOuts, a
great, black, ugly rain cloud was broken
up over the blue, and everything well
watered, and so left blue again until
the next time, with perhaps film Of
morning and evening mist for dew.
But. instead of this, there is not mo
ment Of any day Of our lives when ma
ture does not produce scene after scene,
picture after picture, glory alter glory,
working still upon such exquisite and
constant principles of the most perfect
beauty, that it is quite certain it is all
done for us, intended for our perpetual
pleasure by the Great Being who made
all. all worlds.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

TOBACCO CHEwHa.-The Cincinnati
Gazette recently had a column edi-
toriaI, warning boys against learning
to chew tobacco, and describing all
the nasty consequences Of the habit
It ought to make a serious impress
sion upon "Young America" Of the
masculine gender, and save many
of them from contracting the habit
referred to. It is bad enough, when
viewed only from the Gazette stand
point, of personal uneleanliness, but
when to this is added, the ruinOUs
effects upon the nervous system and
the expensiveness of the habit, every
intelligent boy ought to sign an anti
tobacco pledge and stick to It.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01
Rebel Claims 20 the Front.

Rebel Claims 90 the Front.
New York Tribune: Easy mind
ed people who insist that the gener-
al alarm about the advance along
the whole line of rebel claimants upon
the Treasury is a manufactured
fright, and means nothing, viii
please direct their attention TO the
vote of the House Of Representatives,
yesterday, upon Mr.. COngers pro
posed amendment to the COnstitu-
ton. Mr.. Congers resolution sim
ply prohibited the payment Of any
rebel claim growing out Of the late
war, and its presentation threw the
Democrats Of the House into a pan
ic. The Northern Democrats voted
on the side of the North, but sixty
one members voted against the
straightforward measure Of prOteC-
ton for the Treasury. In other
words, sixty-one members Of the
House, all Of whom viii probably
be found to be Southern Democrats,
and many of whom are undoubtedly
ex-rebels, voted that rebel claims
ought to be paid from the Treasury.
There are people who seem unable
to believe that Mr.. TiIden's letter on
Southern claims offended the South.
Will they believe now that the South
means what it says when is vows
that rebel claims must and shall be
paid?
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

y Extra copies Of the NEWS can be found ev-
cry week at George Bowers News Depot, and also
at this office. Price cents.
n The entrance to the new Editorial Room Of
the NEWS is on Main street, one door west of Gas-
cock, Quinn & Co.'S hardware store, by the stair
way leading to DR.. RUSS office.
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Agents for the NEws, to receive aud forward sub
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guaranty Of good Faith.
The News having much larger circulation in
Highland county thas any other paper, and among
the best class Of readers, is the best advertising
medium. Business men Will please note this
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TaImage on StIngr Men.

The Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage thus
talks right out in meeting about stingy
men,
"YOung men are exposed to tempta.
tiOn, superficial and subterraneOus. Sin
is a daughter of hell, garlanded, robed,
and trinketed, inviting the young man
to walk in her primrose paths and drink
from the river Of wine, the participant
only asked 10 dip it up in chalices that
sweat with diamonds and amethysts
and chrisOprases; but the end of it all
is death. Tie only kind of nature that
is free from temptation is the cold,
hard, stingy temperament. What
would Satan do With such Il man if he
got bimI The person is sure for the
everlasting realm Of everlasting mean
ness: The generous, ardent, warm
hearted, social young man, is in espe-
cial peril. Young Mems Christian As
sociations need not bother themselves
about the empty-headed, empty-heart-
ed young man. He will not gamble,
except with somebody else's stakes.
He will not drink, unless some one
treats. He waits for some generous
youth to Join him at the bar. And when
he is asked to have drink he replies.
Since you insist on it, l will Too
mean to 60 TO perditiOn, unless some
one pays expenses. May the thunder
bolts of Almighty Gods wrath strike
down and consume the influences that
are attempting to destroy the young
men for whom Christ died. Some es-
adjustments are educating our young
men that will honor our cities, but 9th
ers are teaching them to be nothing
but charlatans. undertake to say that
the employer who has learned his clerk
sharp practices and then winks at them
when they are executed, is responsible
for all the iniquities of his clerks, I'M
der those clerks, down to the tenth
generation -
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Here Milton Lived.

II the early part of the year 1877, the
last of the numerous houses inhabited
by Milton, the poet, was levelled to the
ground. It was situated in Petty
France-now Queen Anne's Gate
Westminster, and originally overlooked
the Green Park, the back of the build
ing opening into York street. II this
house ''the greatest of poets passed the
happicst and sadJest years of his life.
When compelled by ill-health, in 1852,
to resign the situation of Latin Secre-
tary to the Privy Council, he removed
from Scotland Yard to Petty France,
where, in communion with the first
scholars of the age, he lived fer eight
Years, surrounded by all the moral
worth of his time. Here his first wife
died in giving birth to her fourth child,
and Milton, shortly after her death mar
rying again, here also lost, from a sim
liar cause, his second wife, in twelve
months after marriage. Lastly, it was
in this house that he became totally
blind"
In demoliShing the house, the stone
tablet erected to MiltOn's memory, and
affixed to the wall by Jeremy Bentham,
who afterwards occupied the next
premises, was carefully preserved. 1t
bore the following inscription: 'Sa-
cred to Milton, Prince of Poets" 1t is
said that when Bentham took visitors
TO view the House he compelled them
70 kneel before the slab. This must
have been meant as a grim Jest. The
eccentric reclUse was no lover of poet
~. AS duty, he once read MiltOn's
works through, but he used to declare
that all time spent in reading OF writ
ing poetry was sadly miSaDDlied.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01
Sense OF Smell.

Julia Brace, deaf q blind mute, a
pupil of the American Asylum, had a
fine physical organization and highly
nervous temperament. In her blind
ness and stiffness her main occupation
was the exercise Of her remaining
senses of smell, touch and taste, so that
through them she might get knowledge
of all that was going on around her.
Smell, however, seemed to be the sense
Oh which she most relied. She smClled
at everything which she could bring
within range Of thesense; and she came
to perceive odOrs utterly insensibIe to
other persons. When she met a person
wnOm she mad met before she instantly
recognized him by the smell Of his hand
OF glove. If it were a stranger she
smelled his hand, and the impression
was so strong that she could recognize
him long after by again smelling his
hand, or even his glove # just taken off.
She knew all her acquaiutauccs by the
odor of their hands. She WAS employ
ed in sorting the clothes OF the pupils,
after they came from the wash, and
could distinguish those Of each friend.
If half a dozen strangers should throw
each one his glove into a hat, and they
were shaken up, she would take one
glove, smell it, then smell the hand of
each person, and urerringly assign each
glove to its owner. If among the visi-
Tors there were Il brother and sister she
could pick out the gloves by a similar
ity Of smell, but could not distinguish
the one from the other. This case fur
nishes a strong argument i'll support Of
the conjecture that dog, removed to a
distant place, finds its way home by
following backward train Of smells
which be has experienced.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

The Portsmouth Blade says that
two soldiers orphans of that city
have been expelled from the Home
at Xenia in consequence Of the ia
nous O'Connor Democratic law,
which provides that unless soldiers
widows give their pensions to the
Home the children shall not stay
there. A nice 'Home" that makes
for the orphans. It is equivalent to
saying: "You can stay here if you
pay your wa" "a proposition which
any boarding house keeper would
Make TChillicothe Register.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

Speaking of the Judgeship Of this
District, the Fayette County Herald
says: "Thus far, we have heard no
other name mentioned in connection
with the nomination for Judge Of
the Common Pleas Court, on the
Republican side, than Judge Min
shall, the present incumbent. There
may be others. Nor do we know
that Judge Minsbal desires to be a
candidate for reelection, hut, if he
does, there is no reason that We
know of why he should not be elect
ed. He has discharged the du-
ties Of the position fairly and honor
ably, and the people appreciate him
as a worthy Judge.
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Arrival and Departure of
Mails.

R. R. mails arrive daily except Sunday, at 1nIl
a. IN. and $50 p. m Depart daily except Sunday
at 6.25 q. m. and 230 p. N.
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. m. Dc
parts Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Z 8. m.
Eastern mail, for Dallas, RainsbOrO, New Pc
tsrsburg, Greenfield, Bainbridge, Paint, Sinking
Springs, Marshall, North Union, Carmel, SC, ar
rivals Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at p. m
Departs same days at a. m.
Fayetteville mail, for Nevin, PriCetOuu, Hollow
town, BufOrd, Sicily, &c, arrives wednesday and
Friday at D. m. Departs same days at a. M.
Belfast mail, for Berryyile, Belfast, May Hill,
LOvatts, &c, arrives Tuesday aud Friday at u 80
q. m. Departs same days at l2.30 p. m.
Sabina mail, for Samantha, Highland, Memphis,
Sabina, &C, arrives Tuesday and Friday at .. N.
Departs Wednesday and Saturday at T.i5 O. m.
j NJ. BARRERE. P NJ
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Young Folks Corner
TO CONTRIBUTORS

As our stock Of original matter for the "Toung
Folks Corner" is getting low, our contributors
vii oblige US by sending new supply. We pre-
fer. if possible, 70 iii the "COrner" with matter
written expressly for il, and we know there is tai
ent enough among the thousands Of yOurg people
who read the NEWS, TO keep ne well supplied, if
they viii only devote little Of their leisure time
to thinking up Problems, Puzzles, Enigmas, &C,
and writing them ont for the paper.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01
The BeIfry Pigeon.
by n. P. WILLIS

On the cross-beam under the Old South bell
The nest Of pigeon is builded we'll.
In summer and in winter that bird is there,
Out and I'm with the morning air;
Hove to sec him track the sire
With his W; ry eye and active feeti
And I often watch him as he springs,
Circlig the steeple with easy wings,
Til across the dial his shade has passed,
And the belfry edge is gained at last.
lis bird love, with its brOOding note,
And the trembling thrab IN IT'S notified throat
There's a human look IN its swelling t'reast
And the gentle curve Of its !Owly cresti
And I often stop with the fear feel
He runs so close to the rapid wheel.
Whatever IS rung on that noisy bell
Chime CT The hour or funeral knell-
The dove in the bclfry must hear it well,
When the ton ne swings out to the midnigh
moon
When the sexton cheerily rings for noon
When the clock strikes clear at morning
light
when The child IS walked with mine Mt night
When the chimes p ay soft in the Sabbath air
FIJI ng the spi.it with tones Of prayer
whatever tale in the bell is heard,
&c broods on his folded feet uustirred,
Or rising halrin his rounded nest,
Ie takes the time to smooth his breast,
Then drops again with filmed eyes.
And sleeps as the last vibration dieA
Sweet birdI Iwould that I could be
A hermit IN the crowd like theeI
With wings to hy to wood and slen;
Thy lot like mine, is cast with men;
And daily, with unwilling feet,
tread, ike thee, the crowded street;
But, unlike me, when day IS o'er,
Thou canst Is miss the world, and soar,
Or, at q half-felt wish for rest;
Canst smOo.h h the feathers on thy breast
And drop, forgetful, to thy nest.
7 would that in such wings Of gold
Icould my weary heart unfold,
And, while the world throngs on beneath,
Smooth dowumy cares and calmly breathe;
And only sad with others sadness,
And only glad with others gladness,
Listen, unstirrcd, to knell or chime,
Aud, lapt in quie', bide my time.
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NY first is in ask, but not in give,
Nv second is in commute, but not in reprieTe,
Nv third is in put, but not in take
NV fourth is in hoe, but not in rake
ny fifth is in bride, but not In gr0Omr
NV sixth is fn LATE but not IN sOuus
NV seventh is in wheat but not IN Hour
Nv eighth is in sweet, but not In sour
NV ninth is in mountain, but not i'm gen.
NV tenth is in tear, but not i'm mend,
Nv eleventh il IN pencil, bat not In chalk
Ms twelfth is IN run, but not IN walk
NV whole if the name an ancient eolllee 4-al
or public sports al Rome hALA-
LeeshuTg %.
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pnFrrcAL ENIGAIA.

1 am composed of q letters
My lst is In eagle, but not IN hawk
MY ID is in pebble, but not i'm rock
NV Sd is ia rice, but not in tea,
NY 4th is iu beau, but not in pea
nay rfth Is in right, but not in wrong,
NY 6tE is IN straight, but not IN strong
My 7th is iu Hrm, but not in leg
Nv sth is in rum, but not ia kcg1
Ny 9Th il In sharp, buI not in dull
NV IWh is IN head, but not IN SKULL
NV IIth is in deer, but not In gUals
My 18Th Is in hand, but not lu turuaIr
My 18Th is in rich, bat not lu poor
MY I4rh is in gale, but not In doJr,
My l5th il in lace, but not in squeeze
NV l6,h is in cough but not in sneezes
My 18th is iH agl, but not In peg
Aly 18th is IN plum, but not IN ns,
My 18th is iu hrIlu, but not in much5
Nv 2Uth is i'm Irish, but not i'm Dufcns
Nv 2Ist is in handle, but not In touch
My whole is the names OF gentleman ll, 9n9 l9a5
yhu reside near Samantha NOFAO
= ,rn4ufhN- o.
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| A shepherd was going TO market with some
/ sheep when he met man who said to hin, .tfood
| morning friend, with your score" mo- salq
/ rbe sbsnbgrd. Il have not a score. But if ] had
| as MANY more, half as many more, and two sheep
| and q half, 1 should Just have a score how
! many sheep had he NDf4I1-
| q
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Score one for the African brother.
When so many Congressman were
so drunk as to be unfit to lock after
the public business, during the last
night of the session, Rainey, the col
ord member from South Carolina,
saved one of the most important
bills by personally attending to
transcribing it.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

A sh1pwrecked Irish sailor was Dar-
rating how he and his companions had
fOated about at sea for twenty days in
an open boat. "And what did YOU do
for food, Pat, when the provisions
gave Out?" asked a bystander. "Shure
and we dined on one of tn officers.
'Twas the first mate we had in a
fortnight" was the reply.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

Ex-Governor NOyes having been
discharged from attendance upon
the Potter committee, viii sail for
Paris early IN August.
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cENrRAL sYNCnPArIoNs.

ITO "s .ncopate" is TO take out one letter in
thIs clse the central leiterl
I Syncouate pocticaI measure and leave Q pool,
, SJucorate fret. from dirt and leave a tribe
8. Syucopate TO divide lengthwise and leave
bar on which to roast meat.
4. Sy scopate to use with full command ana leA's
unramed.
5. Syncopate resiuous substance and leave
kind of fuei.
o. syuc0yala steady pains and leave points on
7, Svncopate to coudescend and leave to cease
going. sr-
g loud sOHud.
ieeuth part OF an ounce Youths Companion
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Governor Bishop has granted q
free pardon to the Democratic Treas
ur,r of Auglaize County, who was
sent to the Penitentiary some three
OF four months since for robbing the
County Treasury. Such an exercise
of the pardoning power is simply
outrageous.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

Beyond all doubt-even 'Dickey
Doubts" himself, the fates have so
ordered it TClermont Courier
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The English Arctic exploring vessel
Pandora is to undertake another ex-
pedition and an attempt to reach the
pole by way of the SpiCbergen, in
stead of by the Smiths Sound, route
will be made.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

Receipts from customs and inter
nal revenue for the first eight days
of July, as compared with the same
period for 1877, show the following
sa 'isfactory increase: Customs, 1878,
S2,I25,86S; 1877, S1,693,9S9 In
ternal revenue, 1878, s2,548, ,598;
1877, S2,332,844.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

The Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
70 d is reOrganized. The name is
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. Pres
ident, G. P. Huntington; Vice-Presi-
dent, Will m c. Wickham; Engineer
and Superintendent Transportation,
William S. Dunn; General Freight
Agent, B. S. Fitch.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

The travel to Europe from the U.
States this season exceeds all former
years. On one Saturday recently,
$50 passengers sailed in six steam
ships The Plris Exposition is OF
course the great attraction.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-08-01

A grand Soldiers and Sailors
Reunion was held at Newark, Ohio,
last Monday. President Hayes,
Gen. Sherman, and many other dis
tinguisbed soldiers, we're present.
About 10000 people attended the
Reunion.
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Original or selected contributions for the Young
Folks Corner" are solicited from our young read
ers. and also from such of our older readers as
have not forgotten that they were once young peo-
ple. The answers must always accompany Fruo-
lens, EDigmas, CharsdesY &C. together with the
real nsme of the writer not Tor publication, but
Tor the private information Of the editor. If