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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-05-30
Town and Hinsboro P. o. Sub
anrinare
An Appeal to the "So1tant" for Air.

o sextant Of the meetin house, wich sweeps
And dusts, or is supposed to! and makes nres,
And litesthe gass, and sumtimGs leaves screw
loose,
in wich case it smells orful, worse than lamp
And yrin g the Bel and toles It when men dies,
to the grief Of surviyin pardners, ana sweeps
paths;
And for the servusses gets 500 per annum,
Wich them that thiHks deer, let en- try IT.;
Gettin IN before starlite In all Wethers ana
Kiudlin fires when the Wether is - cold =.
As zero, and ike as not green Woodfo kindlln;
wouldn't be hired TO do it for no sum-
But @ SeEtsuti there are kermOddity
Wich's more than gold, wien dOant cost uotniu,
worth more than anything except the sole OF
fmean pewer Are, sextaut, r1ean pewer. areI
Dit Is plenty out Of doors, 90 plenty It ooant
no
What on airth to dew with itself, but ays about
Scatterin ayes and hloin on mems hattsl
in short, it's iCsts as free asare' out dOreS
But o SeXtRnt in our church, it's scarce as
Scarce as bank blas, when agints beg for mis-
Wich some ssyis purity often ttalnt notbin to
me, wat give amt nOthin to nobody but,
o SeLtant,
Q she 500 men, Wfmmin and children,
Spesha ly the latter, up in te place.
Some has bad breths, none aint sweet,
Some is fevery, some Is serOhlous, some has
And some haint none, and some aint over
But every I on EN- brethes IN and out, and out
Say 90 Zines minnit, or million and half
Now how long viii a church fuI of are last at
TAX y0I-ssy Is minits-and then watts to be
did2
Why then they must brothe # all over agin,
And then a5in, and so on til eGch has took II
At least 10 times, and Ietit up agin; and watl
more
The same Individual don't have the pri, Hegs
nf brethin his own are, and No ones else,
Each 0ne must take whatever comes to hin.
o 6eXtant, dOant you no our lungs is bellusees,
10 bio the fer Of life, and keep Il from goin
cut;
snd how can beIlusseg bio without wind
And a.nt wins Ar8I put it to your COnschena
Are is he same to US as milk 20 babies,
Or water ia to nsh, or pendlums to clOT,
Or roc " and airo5 unto m iRiun doctor,
Or lite pills unto an omqpath,
Or boys to urls. Arc is for us to brethe;
Watts Poll Watts POllus 10 sinners who are
Ded for want Of breath, why seItant, when We
dv,
It's only c0z we can't breathe no mere, that's
nll.
And nov. o sextant, let me beg Of you
10 let little are intl eur church.
Pewer are IS sertaiH proper for the peWsl
And do it weak days, and Sundays tew.
IL amt much trouble, only make hole
And the are viii come of itself;
ct luvs 10 come iB where Il can git Barm)
And o haw It will rOuEe tho people up,
And sperTit up he preacher. and stop garps,
And yaWBs, q d rs It's, rs efIectOal
As Wind on the dry bOUns tn Profit tells Of.
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4 Mexican Shower,

"When I was in Mexico, " said Bijah,
looking out of the window, 81 saw it
rain just about this hard for fourteen
consecutive days"
There was an awful silence for a
minute, and then Notwithstanding
old man, who had stepped in to sell
some tOOthache drops, spit on his hands
and said:
Il also used to live in Mexico, and I
remember that shower. That was no
thing, however, to one you have prOba-
bly, forgotten. 1t began raining one
Monday morning and continued right
along for twenty-eight days. I was
then living on a prairie, and the water
rose and rose until itina ly stood forty
eight feet deep all over my land"
Bijah looked at him with scorn and
contempt, and sarcastically inquired:
"HOw did you escape?"
81 climbed a pole fOrty-nine feet
high" was the quiet answer. 81 got
my feet wet, Of course, but we must put
up with some discomforts in this sinful
world"
The old janitoT was so mad that he
wouldn't even take a bottle Of the drops
on tTial-nO cure, no pay. He said he'd
rather die Of tOOthache than to patron
ize a man who wouldn't tell the truth
when it Eankered TO be tOld.-Fres
Press. .----.----- --.--
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Gov. bishops Bad Memory

The Committee Of the Legislature,
appointed to investigate the charge
Of money having been used to Sc
cure the passage Of the Cincinnati
Southern Railway bill, failed to find
any positive evidence Of the truth of
the charge. The investigation, how
ever, brought to light some curious
facts, One is, that the grocery
house Of Gov. R. N. Bishop & Co.
have made a pretty good thing out Of
the road, having sold to contractors
$4,000 worth of supplies An
other remarkable fact developed was,
that $4,000 was reported to have
been spent by the trustees of the
road is securing legislation at Frank
fort, Ky. When asked about this
Gov. Bishop, who was the Trustee
reported to have had the money in
charge, replied that be couldn't
really remember" whether he had
paid it or not For a careful, pru-
dent, business man, as the Cover
nor is generally admitted to be, his
loss Of memory on this occasion, was
to say the least, rather remarkable.
It would seem that almost any man
could easily remember whether he
ever took $4,000 to a certain place,
at a certain time, and for a certain
purpose; but our respected Cover
nor declared be could not, and when
the question was repeated, he act
ually got little angry, and said he
had already answered that question,
and did not wish to be asked again
We are afraid the Governor has too
bad a memory ever to be President
or even Governor Of Ohio for an
other term.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-05-30
CarniveDus Plants,

The existence Of flesh eating plants
has been fully established by Darwin
and others, but it remains for an illicit
duck shooter of Long Island Sound to
astOnish the world with the discovery
Of a gigantic carBiverous sea weed, in
whose clutches he avOws that he was
caught and embraced, until by good
fortune, and a lucky wind, he was
drifted ashore and rescued, more dead
than alive.
A Professor Something or Somebody,
recognizes the plant as belonging to
the flesh eating class and says:
1T is indigenous to the OrinOceo
river, where birds, animals, and men
sometimes fall a prey to its extraordin-
airy instinct. 1t lies rolled up under
the water, out of which it lifts its head
to bloom in the air. When its leaves or
filaments are touched by any living
thing, they instantly contract like a
sensitive plant, and at the same time
the root is frequently loosened at the
bottom. The plant undoubtedly mi
CRATES, but I had no idea that it had
got so far north as this. Yet there
would be no difficulty, for there is the
Gulf Stream in which.it might float all
the distance. It is a most dangerous
plant, and propagates with fearful IA
pidity. There is no use in cutting it in
pieces, as the smallest portion Of stalk
viii sink and take root, and thus null
tiply itself. It must be taken on shore
and burnt. 1t is seldom you find the
Falisnena without companions and
kindred. It's a terrible plant, and dan
gerOus alike to man OF beast"
The sea serpent may now hide its
diminished head beneath the folds Of
this new, aquatic monster.
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The n. Y. Tribune thinks the anti
resumption and other financial her
estes havebeen shown, in the late vote
in Congress, to have their main sup
port at the South. 1t looks to a
union of the Solid South and Tam
many Hall to grasp the Government
in 1880 and it regards their attitude
toward subsidies, eztravagant ap-
preparations for internal improve
ments, and other efforts to get La k
what they lost by the war, as the
great danger ahead. Nothing, it
says, can meet this danger but the
old party of the churches and the
school-houses-and so it renews the
old appeal to the national conscience,
the national honor, and the enlight-
ened seI-interest Of the taxpayers.
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Nc Deneft Of Lnnrhine.

DR.. Greene, in his PROBLEM of
Health" says there is not the TemOtest
corner or little inlet of the minute blood
vessels Of the human body that does
not feel some wavelet from the convul-
sion OccassiOned by good, hearty laugh
ter. The life principle, or the central
man, is shaken to its innermost depths,
sending new tides Of life and strength
to the surface, thus materially tending
to insure good health to the persons
who indulge therein. The blood moves
mere rapidly, and conveys a different
impression to all the organs Of the body,
as it visits them on that particular,
mystic journey when the man is laugh
ing, from What it does at other times.
For this reason every good hearty laugh
in which a person INDUCES, tends 20
lengthen his life, conveying as it does,
new and distinct stimulus to the vital
forces. Doubtless the time will come
when physicians, conceeding more i'm
portance than they new do to the in
huence Of the mind upon the vital forces
q the body, will make their prescrip-
tiOns more with reference to the mind,
and less to drugs for the body; and
will, in so doing, find the best and most
effective method Of producing the re-
quired effect upon the patient.
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ohio Patents.

Messrs. George G. Tracy & Co,
Solicitors Of Patents, No 4 Euclid
Avenue Block, Cleveland, O.,and SO
Seventh Street, Washington, D. c..
furnish the following list Of patents
granted to residents Of this State
for the week ending April 3Oth,
1878.
MT Burke, Portsmouth, Saddle
stirrup.
o. A. Childs, Cleveland, Ice creeper
E. Cope, Hamilton, J. R. Maxwell,
Cincinnati, Valve for steam engines.
II. E. Merrill, Akron; Roofing tile.
@. Il. Burns, Hamler, Corn ploW
and marker.
W. H. Hall, Tifin, Corn shelter.
J. Heimlich, & L. o. Dehnel, San
dusky, Oscillating water meter.
NJ. a. Howe, Elyria, Churn-
F. Il. Kean, Cincinnati, Stove
brush.
J. Mackey, Stuebenville, Tuyers.
Fl. Maranville, Akron, Postal scale
and counterfeit coin detetector
W. L. Mckinney, Hamilton, Bale
tie.
CT. Gessert, Cincinnati, Railway
switch.
H. S. Grimme, Cincinnati, SOfa
bedstead.
7. II. Irwin, DennisOn, Feed water
heater for locomotives.
J. W. johnson, Cincinnati, Key
fastener.
W. D. johnson, Elmore, Barrel
hoop cutting machine.
TRADE MARK;
J. W. Gaf & Co., Cincinnati,
Whisky.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-05-30

One Of the most remarkable pictures
Of the last exhibition Of paintings in
the Paris salon, was the portrait Of NJ
Alexander Dumas by MeissOnier. The
dramatic author is represented sitting
with head inclined, and rejecting, OF
rather musing. The painting is pres
ent from the artist to the academician.
When terminated, Dumas held out his
hand to MeissOnier and said: Il have
not the pretensiOn 20 offer you any
thing in return for this work A pOr-
trait by you is without price; but I can
declare that from this day the picture
will be left by my viii to the Louvre,
which is its proper plaee!" The paint
er smiled, embraced Dumas, and sfmp-
ly said: Thank you very sincerely"
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Republican State conven-
ton.

STATE REPUBLICAN CEgTRAL AND
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE RooMs,
CoLUlBUs, o., May 1, 1878
The next Republican State Con
vention, by direction Of the Central
Committee, viii be held in the City
Of Cincinnati,
Wednesday, June 1911, 1873.
The Convention viii nominate
candidates for
Secretary Of State,
Judge Of the Supreme Court,
Member Of the Board Of Public
Works. We recommend that Efforts
be made to secure a large attendance
at the meetings to appoint Delegates,
so that the people shall be fairly
represented in the State Convention,
and that the Delegates be appointed
on or before Saturday, May 25tb.
The basis Of representation in the
Convention viii be one Delegate for
every five hundred votes cast for
General R. B. Hayes for President
in 1876, and one additional Delegate
for any fraction of two hundred and
fifty votes and upwards in each
county.
The following table shows the
vote cast in every county for Gen
eral Hayes, for President In 1875,
and the number Of Delegates to
which each county VIII be entitled,
VIZ:
(Here follows a list Of delegates,
$50 in all, Highland county being
entitled to z delegates.)
By order Of the Committee,
J. S. ROBINSON, Chairman.
J. G, Donaldson, Secretary.
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A Rover

'You seem to be a stranger in town."
remarked the court as John Hudson
slammed out in a reckless way.
John nodded.
''You probably came here to attend
the regatta?"
Another nod.
'And it looks to me as if you attend
ed a free fight somewhere. Am I
right?"
A great big nod this time.
"Ahl me, but why can't young men
keep out of trouble?' sighed the court.
Shakespeare didn't go around with a
bitten ear. Homer didn' t walk out with
his nose bunged up. George Alfred
Townsend has never been seen with a
black eye. Why can't you skull your
self into the channel of good behavior"
"FeIler sassed me-" mournfully re-
piled the young man.
Eyes, I suppose so. I suppose you
were swelling around the grand stand
claiming tOt be the head man in the
Wug-wug-HDg crew, or the best puller
in the Ka-ha-da-das, and the other chap
was swelling around in the same way.
I shall fine you five dollars, sir"
''P-please don't.
''But I must"
Don't do it, sir. I've only got three
dollars, and it costs $3.50 TO get home.
want to start right away"
"YOu are a nice-lOOking man to 60
back to your native town! Why, look
in this hand glass once and see how
badly you are banged up"
He looked. lie held the glass to his
nose, then out at arms length, and then
laid it down and said:
"Send me up for thirty days!"
Free Press.
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Correspondence Of the News.
Letter from Northwestern
Missouri.
LArHRoP. No. M 8. Is7s.

LATHRoP, Mo. May 8, 1878.
Mr.. ]. j. BoABDMAE-Dear Sir
Having recently received several
letters Of inquiry in regard to the
character and condition Of this part
Of the West, I have concluded with
your permission to answer one and all
through the columns of your popular
paper.
LathrOp is situated on a vast and
fertile prairie, in Clinton county,
Northwest No, in what we consider
the "garden-spot" of the State. It
is surrounded by an extensive region
of cultivated and improved land,
having a fine soil, and being as well
adapted to grazing and agricultural
purposes as any on the continent.
To prove this, one needs but to take
a team and buggy and ride cut into
the country a few miles, and see the
fine farms and fields of grain, and
large herds of cattle feeding on the
wide extended pastures, reminding
one Of the "cattle upon a thousand
hills"
The town is easy of access, and in
direct communication with all the
large markets, East and West. It
has two railroads, one direct from
Chicago to Kansas City, the other
from St. Louis to St. Joseph, cross
ing each other at this place, thus
giving shipping facilities unsurpassed
by any town Of its size in the West
In order that your readers may
feel satisfied that I am not over
rating this pleasant little town and
thriving country, I will give in fig
ures the numbers of carloads of
grain and stock raised and shipped
from LathrOp during the year 1877,
as taken from the books of the
freight agent:
Cattle and hogs, 275 carloads +;
corn, oats, rye and wheat, 347 car
loads; horses and mules, IL car
loads; sheep, one carload apples,
three carloads. Total, 637 carloads.
Asan indication that the country
is rapidly improving, I viii state
ths5thers were sold in this place
last year over 200 carloads Of lum-
Der.
The country is indeed going ahead
very finely, and in the course Of a
few years must be one Of the finest
in the West. Lands are changing
hands at from $40 to $40 per acre,
owing to locality and improvements.
. Business Of all classes is pretty
well represented in town, but there
is plenty Of room for more. The
town can boast Of fine graded schools
Of nearly 200 scholars, employing
four teachers, and five handsome
church edifces, viz : Methodist, Bap-
tist, Christian, Presbyterian and
COngregationalist.
But my letter has grown longer
than I intended. I will wind up BY
enclosing the cash for renewal of
my subscription to the News. B.
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The Force of Truth,

Dreadful limits are set in nature to
the powers of discrimination. Truth
tyrannizes over the unwilling members
of the body. Faces never lie, it is said.
No man need be deceived who will
study the changes Of expression. When
a man speaks the truth i'll the spirit of
truth, his eye is as clear as the heay-
ems. When he has base ends, and
speaks falsely, his eye is muddy, and
sometimes asquint. 1 have heard an
experienced counsellor say,that he never
feared the effect upon jury Of a law
yer who does not believe in his heart
that his client ought to have a verdict.
-EmerSOn's Essays on Spiritual LG,Us.
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The average educated child, as we
now find it, has a deep sense Of position
in life equal to his learning; he does
not see the use of education if it is not
to enable him to live by what he has
learned; and he has a very nice idea
about what is or is not respectable for
him to do. There is no doubt that
very much Of this morbid condition
comes from the manner in which the
child has been taught.
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An establishment has been opened in
st. Louis where thousands Of dozens Of
eggs are weekly ground to powder, by
drying. The powder is exported to
every part Of the globe, and is said to
SO nearly resemble fresh eggs, when
cooked, as to defy detection.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-05-30

Conscience is a clock, which in one
man strikes aloud and gives warning,
in another the hand points silently to
the figure but strikes not; meantime,
hours pass away, and death hastens,
and after death comes judgement.
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A lady during a recent visit in Ire
land, was aceOsted in the streets OF
Cork by an old beggar woman, who
begged for hapenny. The kind heart
os the lady yielded and bestowed a tri-
fe, upon which the Uld beggar woman
exclaimed: May you ride in your car
riage, lady, and may its wheels throw
dust in the eyes Of your enemies, if OU
have any-which you haven't" Thil
was worth tupDence-
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The experiment Of Judge Martin G..
Evarts Of Rutland, Vt, in importing
the migratory quail is proving a sue
cess. They are often seen and heard
in the woods where they have been
placed, and are now raising a large
number Of young birds, some Of the
nests having twelve and fourteen eggs.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-05-30

The pages in the Greeks seraglio are
Of Greek and Hungarian nationality,
selected on account Of their beautiful
looks. They dress like little kings, and
bear themselves in a royalty naughty
manner toward the crowd Of obsequious
servants and personages surrounding
them in the imperial household.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-05-30

Recently mosqu toes drove a Palatka
Fla preacher out of his pulpit while
he was delivering a sermon. A swarm
of PaIatka mosquitoes held in reserve
till the close of the first twenty minutes
would be an excellent corrective for
dull and long sermons. We always be-
lieved nothing was made i'll vain.-
Fetch on your mosquitoes!
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Questions of importance by a four
year old: "HOw do they get our souls
out of our bodies when we die-cut 'em
out?" "Why don't we see the yellow
cmbelOpes the telegraphs come in, gOin'
long the telegraph wires2" If the
Bible calls bad old folks goats, bad
children are kids, amt they?" us it
too late for me to have a twin brotherl"
ANY rate me and Billy Green is twin
cousins, amt weY'' "If you was me
when you was a man, would you drive
a hearse OF Join a circUs?"
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A gentleman not unknown in literary
circles was present at one Of the POpe's
receptions. The holy father approached
him and said: You're American. Are
you Catholic or PrOtestant?" Holy
Father" replied our friend, 81 am
neither a Catholic ora Protestant; I am
a journalist" His Holiness laughed
heartily and moved on to some one else.
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Nv first is in mark, but not in line,
Ny second is in his, and also In mine
nv third is in Springfield, but not in Lynn
Nv fourth is in duchess, but not in queenI
NV 9th is in jump, but not in runs
Nv sixth is in cake, but not in bun,
Nv seventh IL iu knife, but not in blade,
Nv eighth is 10 sunlight, but not in shade
NV ninth Is In Philip, bul not IN joe
NV tenth Is IN hcigh, but not in low,
Nv eleventh is in bush, but not in tree.
NV twelfth is in bondage, but not in free,
Nv thirteenth is in tree. but not in wool
nv fourteenth is In bad, also in gQood,
Nv fifteenth is in sorry, but In not bad
Iaggburg. %. LsEL.
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Ghosts should be more circumspect
and careful. One came out to frighten
lady in Homer. Louisiana, the other
night, and she fired pistol so closely
in range to the apparition that it went
away bowling and limping on one leg.
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Nothing is more pleasant than to have
a mind stored with knowledge on al
most every subject, on which we can
draw at any moment, and the response
is prompt and correct. Such wealth
can not be inherited; it must be ae-
quired by constant study and reflection.
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'Tabby cat" is all unconscious that
her name is derived from Atab, IA
nous street in Bagdad, inhabited by
the manufacturers Of siIken stuffs called
Atabi, or taffety; the wavy markings
Of the watered silks resembling pussy's
oftAf
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The human body consists Of 24ObOnes
8 kinds Of articulatiOns or Jennings, 19C
cartiiages and ligaments, 400 muscles
and tendOns, 100 nerves, brsides blood
arteries, veins, glands, stomach, intes-
tines, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, lynn
phatics, IacteaIs, and three skins.
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He who blames others the most, IS
usually the most to be blamed. Aquick
eye to detect the faults of another, has
usually blind side to its own. A sharp
tongue is moved by an unquiet spirit,
and an unquiet spirit wanteth not words
and cOmplainings.