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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-31
Release ofFenian Leaders.

Condor and Melody two of the
Fenian leaders, who were captured
in their invasion of Canada about Il
years ago, and have been in prison
in England ever since, were released
on the 5th of September, through
the efforts of our minister to Eng
land, Mr.. Welsh, aided by the Presi-
dent and other high officers of the
Government Condon's home is in
Cincinnati, where he arrived safely
on the 5th of this month. A grand
public reception was given him at
the Highland House, on his arrival,
about 1000 people being present.
Welcome addresses were made by
Mayor Moore and Judge Fitzgerald,
to which Capt. Condor replied with
true Irish eloquenee, expressing his
gratitude to the friends whose IN
firing efforts had secured his release,
his joy at being once moro permitted
to breathe the free air Of his adopt
ed country, and his still undated
hopes for the ultimate independence
of his native ireland.
Gov, Bishop was also present and |
welcomed Condor in a highly com /
plimentary speech, and he was called
on during the evening by Senator
Ex-Governor Young, and
other distinguished gentlemen.
The reception closed with a grand
ball.
Capt. Condor is tob congratulate
ed on his safe return home, and it is
10 be hoped that he will have the
good sense to stay there and keep
1ut Of Canada in future.
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A Sharp SwindIe.

A new development in the check-rais.
ing line has been manifested within the
past few days, and enc of our city banks
mourns the consequences. The trick Is
original, altho, Oh but an adaptation of
very old ole, and so far the guilty
parties are at large. As usual in such
cases the simplicity of the scheme proved
to be the cause oc the success, and, un-
less the operators should give themselves
away, a wide field lays before them.
The nodUS Operandi was as follows 4:
A decently-dressed man, got up to rep
resent a travelling salesman, entered a
country bank and bought a draft on
Chicago for $1,000. Later in the day
another customer turned up, and he
wanted a draft for. SIS. Both received
the documents, paid the charges, and
departed. On the following day draft
for 81 5000 was presented at the Chicago
bank. The teller telegraphed to his
country correspondent to know if such
draft had been issued on that date, and.
of course, received an affirmative reply.
The money was paid over, and the re-
cipient walked off with it.
On the following morning the pur-
chaser of the $1,000 draft returns to
the country bank, and with some little
irritation states that he presented it in
Chicago, and was met with a demand for
Identification, with which he was unable
10 comply. He, therefore, wants his
money back, ard, commissions being de-
Quoted, il is handed to him. Not for
three days was it discovered that the
draft presented in Chicago, and there
honOred, was the SIS one, deftly raised
to 81 900, and by that time the swind-
lers had ample opportunity to cover up
their tracks. On whom the loss will fall
is an open question, for both banks en-
forced the usual rules in such cases made
and provided, and it would be difficult to
prove neglect on either.-Chjcqg0 TE4-
bme.
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miscellaneous.

JEFF. Davis only scn died of yel.
low fever at Memphis.
Cronin, the man who figured in
tbe Oregon electoral squabble, is
dead.
All the Catholic Sisterbood Of
Mercy at Memphis have died of yel-
low fever.
Bret Harte, the author, has been
appointed U. S. Commercial Agent
at Grefeldt, Prussia,
Newspapers are used in many
public schools of the West instead
of books for reading lessons.
The girls of Tuscola, Illinois,
place a blue ribbon and a mitten on
the table when their lovers come. to
visit them, and say "Choose.
care you the mate of this ship?"
said newly-arriyed passenger to
the cook. ''No, sir. I am the man
that cooks the mate" said the Hi
bernian.
The London Times, in a two-col-
umn review of American machinery
at Paris, frankly admits the pre-em-
inence Of the mechanical genius Of
the United States.
Paper, sir?" asked the newsbOy
'sNo, I never read, was the blunt
reply. 'Hi, boys, come here, called
out the gamin, ''here's a man as is
practisin' for the jury"
The Hawkeye tells of a Green
backer who applied to a Burlington
dentist and insisted upon having his
teeth filed with greenbacks, declar-
ing them as good as gold for all pur-
poses.
The new criminal code of Virgin
la, establishing the whipping post,
has gone into operation. Stripes
are to be inflicted upon persons con
victed for the first time of petit
larceny.
John, did you take the note to
Mr.. Jones q Eyes; but I don't
think he can read it. "Why so,
John?" Because he is blind, sir.
While was in the room, he axed
me twice where my hat was; and it
was on my head all the time.
At the session of the Friends
yearly meeting at Philadelphia,
answers to the accustomed queries
that the FRI, nds are neglect
ing the weekday meetings on ac-
count of the 'cares Of the world,
and that they are departing from
that plainness of speech which the
society eniOiDs.
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Political Items.

West Va. has a reduced Democrat
ic majority.
Iu the Columbus Congressiona
district, Converse, Dem, was elected
by a majority of 288. Last year
the district went 5000 Democratic.
The Democrats redistricted Ohio
so as to let the Republicans get only
five Congressman. Their calcula-
tons were slightly upset.
The Republicans must elect the
Ohio Legislature and undo the in
famous redistricting accomplished
by the present legislature.
Tom Ewing was elected by less
than 500 majority, though the O'Con-
nor Legislature had so gerrymander-
ed his district as to give basis to ex-
pectation that be would get near
5000 majority.
Sunset Cox, now that Sayler is de-
feated for Congress, announces him
self as a candidate for Speaker of the
FOrty-sixth Congress.
The one man whose position be-
fore the country has been improved
by the Potter investigation is Presi-
dent Hayes.
Buenos Ayres is trying "fat" f
nance, and wants to trade eighty
millions of her bonds for three mil
lions in gold. No takers.
Columbus is ahead of both her
rivals, Toledo and Dayton, as a vot-
ing precinct. At the State election
the vote stood
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LitteII's Living Age.

New VOLUME.-The numbers of
Llttel's Living Age for the weeks
eading Oct. 5th and 18th, have the
following noteworthy contents: Hen
II GreviIle's Sketches Of Russian Life,
Nineteenth Century; Cyprus, Mac
milan Mr.. Froude's ''Lifeand Times
# Thomas Beckett" Contemporary
Eeview +; The Chinese as Colonists,
Nineteenth Century An IndiscretiOn
in the Life of an Heiress, a story,
New Quarterly Review; The Public
Career and Personal Character #
Francis Bacon, Fraser; ChiId's Play,
Cornhill Selling the Soul, COntem-
! orary Review; A Fetish City, Black
ood Sark and its Caves, Gentle
mems Magazine The Relation Of
Memory to Will, Spectators The Hab-
j of Reading, Saturday Review Gar
den Parties, Spectator An American
Eollverine, Pail Mall Gazette and
choice poetry and miscellany. These
are the first two numbers Of a new
volume and aregood ones with which
30 begin subscription. For fifty
Two such numbers, Of sixty four large
pages a year (more than 5000 pages
d year), the subscription price (S8)
is low ; or for SIO5O any one of the
American "a monthlies or Weekies
is sent with the Living Age for a
year, both postpaid. Littell & Gay,
are the publishers.
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Arrival and Departure Of
Mails.

a. m. and $50 pm. DEPART dsilv eTceDt Sunday
at 6.25 a. m. and 2.30 p. m.
n. B.. Railroad mails close 30 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 a. 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, at p. m.
Departs same days at q. m.
Fayetteville mail, for Nevin, PrfcetOwn, Hollow
town, BufOrd, Sicily, &C, arrives Wednesday and
Friday at p. m. Departs same days at 7 am.
Belfast mail, for Berryville, Belfast, May Hill,
LOy0tt's, &C, arrives Tuesday and Friday at 80
3 m Departs same days at l2.8O .. m.
Sabina mail, for Samantha, Highland, Memphis,
Sabina, &c, arrives Tuesday and Friday at 5 D. m
Departs Wednesday and Saturday at T.45 a. m.
.--. J. M.BARRERE, p. NJ
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Life Aims.

Every one should try to better his con-
dition if he can. The poor man should
Try to increase his means; the sick man
to improve his health; the ignorant man
to acquire knowledge; and the foolish mar
to get understanding. In such matters
the great question is whether the desired
improvement is within our reach. To
long for what we cannot attain, or to
grieve because it is unattainable, is sim
ply to play the part of the child that
cries for the moon. Let US know cur
selves and our position. Let us know
what We have and what we want; and
then, let us next inquire whether what
we want can be got by striving for It.
If it cannot be got, let US think Of it no
more, or endeavor to compensate for the
want in some other way. A short man
may wish to be tall but he cannot add an
inch, anymore than a cubit to his stature.
He may, however, be a very worthy and
respectable man, for all that, if he con
ducts himself with propriety and simple
ity, and docs not, as short men some
times do, render his diminutive size more
conspicuous by conceit and afectation.
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Too Old to Study.

Cato at eighty years of age commenced
to study the Greek language. Socrates
at an extreme old age learned to play on
musical instruments. Pultarch, when
between seventy and eighty, commenced
the study of Latin. DR.. johnson applied
himself to the Dutch language but few
years before his death. Ogilby, the trans
lator of Homer and Virgil, was unac
quainted with Latin and Greek till he
was past fifty. Franklin did not COM
nence his philosophical pursuits till he
had reached his fftieth year. Drayden,
in his sizty-eighth year, commenced the
translation of the Had, his most pleasing
production. Boccacio was thirty-fve
years of age when he commenced his
studies in polite literature; yet he be-
came one of the greatest masters of the
Tuscan dialects, Dante and Petrarch be-
ing the other two. Sir Henry Spelmau
neglected the sciences in his youth, buy
commenced the study of them when he
was between fifty and sixty years Of age
After this time he became a most learneI
antiquarian and lawyer.
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The Jewel and the Casket.

The casket is pr1zed because of the pro
lection it affords the jewel From the
dust and corroding influences of the at
mosphere, it protects the precious gem it
contains, and that it may accomplish its
purposes, it is carefully watched and care
fully protected itself The immortal soul
of man is the most precious jewel that
sea Oh sky or mountain ever boarded, OF
that casket ever held, and the human
body is the most delicately constructed
casket ever made. Yet the great major
ity Of men and women appear to have
but slight appreciation Of the worth of
the jewel or to think it worth their while
to bestow much care on the casket. And
yet the welfare of this jewel depends more
upon the preservation of its sasket than
that of any other jewel in the world.
The casket may crumble about the dia
mond and the ruby but they will remain,
and not even their beauty or usefulness
will be permanently effected. But knowl-
edge is what makes the soul beautiful.
So long as there is possibility of acquir-
ing knowledge there is a possibility Of its
being still more beautiful, and there will
be this possibility aD along the ages Of
eternity When the evening Of life shall
cast It's shadows and the midnight shall
approach, the souls requirement viii at
best seem meagre beside the volumes of
that it has not learned. The fields, the
mountains, the waters and the skies viii
then have yielded up to the soul but few
Of their mysteries and beauties The
flower will not have told all that it has to
tell; the stars Will yet hold a universe of
beauty and fact which the soul has not
grasped, and even In the three score yeaIs
and ten the soul will have scarcely begun
to expand and to beautify itself.
What then are the natural inferences
from these facts Why that the harder
we study, the brighter and better be-
comes the soul. But the mind cannot
work to advantage in weak body. It
cannot strain its energies while the head
aches or the limbs tOtter. If in a debil-
itated body mind has accomplished results
Of which : and the world have been proud,
it is only Necessary to say that in a sound
body it is reasonable to suppose that its
would have been greater
and grander. Build up the body, there
fore. Care for it in every possible way,
md avoid every excess, remembering that
nothing will SO much tend to physical
health as temperance in all things.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-10-31

No Fun in Him.

One of the members of the Methodist
Conference, recently held in Detroit
Mich, was out for a walk at an early
hour one morning, and while on Howard
street he encountered a strapping BIG
fellow who was drawing a wagon to- the
blacksmith's shop.
"Catch hold here and help me down
to the shop with this wagon, and I'll
/ buy the whisky" called the fellow.
81 never drink, solemnly replied the
good man.
Well, you can take cigar"
/" "Inever smoke"
The man dropped the wagon-tongue,
looked hard at the member, and asked
" Don't you chew ?"
" No, sir, j" was the decided reply.
+" You must get mighty lonesome, -
mused the teamster.
I guess I'm all right; I feel first
rate"
"I'n bet you even that I can lay you
on your back, remarked the teamster,
come now, let's warm up little.
I never bet. "
"WeIl, let's take each other down for
fun then. You are as big "a man as 1
am, and I'll give you the underhold.
81 never have any fun" sOlemnly
answered the member.
"Well, I am going to tackle you any
way Here we go.
The teamster slid IN and endeavOred
to get a neck-hOld, but he had only Just
commenced to fool about when he was
lifted clear off the grass and slammed
against a tree-box with such force that
he gasped half a dozen times before he
could get his breath.
Now you keep away from mep
exclaimed the minister, picking up his
cane.
"Bust me if 1 don't, replied the
teamster, as he edged of. What's the
use in lying, and saying you don't have
any fun in you, when you're chuck full
Of it, You wanted to break my neck,
didn't you? Youjust hang around here
about five minutes you old Texan, and
I'll bring on feller who'll cave in your
head"
" I never hang" said the minister, as
he sauntered of; and the teamster leaned
upon his wagon and mused.
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Pictures from Life in the Black
Hills.

The poet-novelist of the Blank-blank
school will find in the Black Hills
characters for his romance sitting astrad-
die of stumps, dealing cards or shooting
anybody down on the spot. Petite Kit
tie, the Jig-dancer, with Roman nose and
cold, gray eyes, marrying three times and
dying at twenty-eight, is a promising
heroine. She first spun her delicate web
about a gOOd-natured German miner, who
was doing well with his wash, and when
he had poured $4,000 in gold IN her lap
and confessed that his claim had petered
out, she beat him over the head with a
bottle and drove him from her door. To
one and another was she married, and
when their money was gone she got rid
of them. Her third venture was unfor-
tunate. She said she would not live with
him, and he killed her and shot himself.
Another nice girl is Calamity Jane, a lit
tie creature Of twenty-five, whose move
ments have an unstudied grace, and whose
eyes emit a greenish glare whenever she
is very mad. She has been a scout in
the army, has dressed in soldiers clothes,
has gone horseback over the mountains
and fought with Indians, and is now
dancing in a hurdy-gurdy house in Dead
WOCd. Then there is Monte Verde, witk
4er dark eyes and tresses, who on ner
Trival in DeadwOOd stood upon a board
and was borne through the town on the
shoulders of four strapping miners, and
who now deals "21" and dances a jig
with far-ofF look in her left eye. Cap
tain Jack, too, Is poet and a musician,
as well as a frontier scout. He rides his
horse like an Indian, and he has a pathos
in his voice, so that the miners, when
they hear him sing, do sniyel like chill
dren. Aunt Sally, colOred woman as
broad as she is long, rolls up her big eyes
and mutters: Use the first white
woman as en- come into these ere Hills"
(FoundatiOn for humorous charactcr.)
Finally there Is, or was, Wild Bill, who
always made it point to kill his man first,
but who turned his back upon the door
one night, and as he stood at the bar,
asking his friends if their glasses were
charged, gave stranger a chance to shoot
him in the back, and who now lies buried
a stump with his epitaph
painted in red letters on a pine board,
The rising young genius who wants to
achieve fame in literature at one yellow,
cover, will please take the first train p
.4e Hills.
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

n Extra copies of the NEWS can be found ev-
cry week at George Bowers News Depot, and also
at this Office. Price cents.
II 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.
z 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 thaH any other paper, and among
the best class Of readers, is the best advertising
medium. Business men will please note this
fact, and act accordingly.
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Attention is called to the success
OF American writer's in England.
Bret Harte has one of his dialect
stories in Belgravia Mark Twain's
articles are regularly reprinted in
London; ". W. Story is a regular
contributor to Blackwood Henry
J tmes Jr., E. S. Nadel, Mrs. Louise
Chandler Moulton, Rev. Leonard W.
Bacon and Mrs. Burnett, are on the
sraff of the writer's in Maemillan's;
Bayard Taylor and Edgar Fawcett
are writing poetry for the English
the new Encyclopedia
britannica depends 10 some extent
upon American writer's.
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Ohe gighIaud gews.
nILLsnOROUGm, ONO.
ADVERTTNING RATES.

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column display advertising. Solid Legal, Oficial
AID Tabular advertisements will be charged at the
legal rate for space occupied. Rule and Figure
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ally.
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curIous LECTION ReauIts.

Curious Election Results.
The late election in this county
was probably without parallel in
the history of the county, in one
respect, viz: that while the Demo
Gratis carried the county for State
officers, members of Congress and
Judge, by majorities ranging from
lat to 256, the Republicans elected
three out of the four county officers,
and those the most important ones.
But our county was not alone in
curious results, as will be seen by
the following from the Lebanon
Star:
There were some close shaves on
county officers in several counties at
the last election. The Republicans
of Clermont, with the help of the
Nationals, elected the Clerk, Audi
tor and Commissioner by small ma
jorities, although the general Demo
cratic majority was 500. The Demo
Gratis elected a Sheriff in Republican
jackson by 43 majority. The Re
pubicans elected nearly all the coun-
ty officers in Democratic Ross by
small majorities. The Montgomery
Republicans elected their Probate
Judge by 40 majority and their
Sheriff by 400. But the closest
shave was in Fayette, where the
candidate for Sheriff
in by 1 majority. In Clinton
theRepubGcan candidate for Clerk
got less than 200 majority.
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The following is a neat thing in
the way they did business like adver-
tisementsa half century ago. It's an
epitaph in a London Church "Here
lies Sarah SmiJhers, The loved wife
of Thomas Smithers, marble cutter.
This monument was erected by her
husband as a tribute to her memery
and a specimen of the art. MOnu-
ments Of the same style S25 eleb."
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American Fiction

DR.. Holland has an editorial in
tle forthcoming number Of Serbner
On "The Magazine, " in which he says
tat Seribneris Monthly saw that ''it
could do no better for its own cOun-
trymen and for American literature
tan to discard utterly the British
novel, and get the best American
novel it could, to take its place.
The result, " he says, sis already most
encouraging. The names Of several
writer's will occur to our readers who
have been developed under this pol
icy. There is but one English writ
era woman-who can command a
better audience in America than the
woman whose novel will begin in the
present issue of the monthly wo-
man first made known to the world
through these pages. The next
three years are likely to furnish fur
tDer instances of this developement
Of writer's upon our soil, working
with material furnished by our own
American life. It is certainly graft
fling to witness the growing inter
est in home writer's. and TO inditfOr
the interest ofbOme magazines to dis
card the foreign writer, OrtO give him
the subordinate place WhichheOught
5I hold among American readers Of
current fiction. " The allusion above is
b Mrs. Burnett, whose Glass O
Lowrie's" has had so wide a success,
and whose new novelof ''Haworth's"
Is begun in the November Scribner.
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There is always room for man of
force, and he makes room for many.
Society IS a troop of thinkers, and the
best heads among them take the best
places A feeble man can sec the farms
that are fenced and titled, the houses
that are built. The strong man sees the
possible houses and farms His eye
makes estates as fast as the sun breeds
clouds.