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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
RRrriere.

Barriere, the French dramatist, who
died a few weeks ago, once met a pretty
actress whose protector had deserted
her, and, opening the door of her coupe,
did all that was in his power to console
the unhappy woman, who was sobbing
in a corner Of the seat. But she would
not be comfOrted. mo, no, :" she cried,
81 can never smile again. I must
drown myself" Every WE'LL" said
Barriere, calmly shutting the door; ''we
shall meet at the Morgue. COachman,
driveNJhis lady to the river"
And yet Barriere meditated suicide
himself once upon a time, had his Dis-
tOl loaded, and called in a friend to re-
ceiVe his dying wishes. The friend
did not attempt to dissuade him, but
calmly jOtted down his dying wishes;
then, while Barriere was writing a fare
well letter, took up a pistol and began
examining it. 1t was cooked, and the
muzzle was pointing directly at Bar
riere. The intended suicide ducked
under the table with remarkable agility
crying "LOOk Outl The id thing is
loaded You'll be shooting me the
first thing you know"
BarrieTe was once ambushed at a
restaurant by a couple of young ac-
tresses, who wanted two seats for the
first night of one of his new pieces,
where seats were valuable. A friend
who was at a table with him, knowing
his weakness in such matters, stepped
on his toe as warning. mot neces-
5arY," said Bdrriere; II had already
stepped on it myself"
A poor woman called on him one
day, told her tale of suffering, enlisted
his sympathies, and gOt ten francs from
him. After she had gone he saw some
thing sparkling on the table where she
had sat. He examined it. "a tearI"
be said, ga real teaEI I should have
given her twenty"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26

a raw boy coming into a printing Of
fee to learn the business, the fore
man asked the question: Have you
ever set any? meaning type of course.
set? reckon I kin; haven't 1 set all
our old hens; and didn't every one on
'em hatch out every egg put under 'em
except old speckle, that went off and
left her nest-consarn her old picturl"
you'll do" said the foreman. -
don't want you to set hens, but to set
at that stand"
"Waal that's quare: you want me to
set at a stand, like them set Of feIlers
piekin' up them little jigamarees, do
you. Waal, here goes"
John went to work, and learnt his
'letters" at the case, until he could
compose and punctuate correctly-so
that he is now first-rate setter and
DOilter
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
Resumption q Fact!

Secretary Sherman has issued the
following circular, to the Treasurers
and assistant Treasurers of the q.
States, by which it will be seen that
they were ordered to commence re-
deeming greenbacks in silver coin,
on Monday last, 18th inst.
Treasury DEPARTMENT, Sept Z, rs.
Hon. James GiIfIlan, Treasurer
United States
On and after the 18th day of this
month you are authorized, at the
Treasury at Washington, and at the
several Sub-Treasuries in the Uni
ted States, to exchange standard sill
yer dollars for United States notes.
Very respectfully,
JOHN SHERMAN, Sec'y.
Thus it will be seen that while Mr..
Dickey and his party are demanding
the repeal of the Resumption act, as
being improbable and unwise, the
Secretary Of the Treasury has actu-
ally commenced executing the law,
nearly four months in advance of the
day named for resumption, January
Ist, 1879.
In consequence Of this order Of
Secretary Sherman, the premium on
gold dropped last week to 3-16ths-
the lowest point touched since the
war, and no doubt this small premi-
um will entirely disappear as soon
as the government commences re-
ceiving silver for customs, as there
will then be no demand for gold for
that purpose.
Resumption is therefore practical
ly an accomplished fact, Hurrah
for Secretary Sherman and honest
money
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
Raneft Of Being Knocked About.

It is a good thing for young man to
be knocked about in the world" al
though his soft-hearted parents may
not think so. All youths, or if not all,
certainly nineteen-tWentieths of the
sum total, enter life with a surplusage
Of self-conceit. The sooner they are
relieved the better. If, in measuring
themselves with wiser and older men
than themselves, they discover that it
is unWarranted, and get rid of it grace
fully and Of their own accord well and
good; if not, it is desirable for theiI
own sake, that it should be knocked
out of them. A boy who is sent to a
large school soOns finds his level. His
will may have been paramount at home;
but school boys are democratic in their
ideas, and if arrogant, he is sure to be
thrashed into a recognition Of the
golden rule. The world is great pub
lie school, and it soon teaches a new
pupil his proper place. If he has the
attributes that belong to a leader, he
will be installed into the position of the
leader; if not, whatever his opinion
of his abilities, he will be compelled to
fall back in to the rank and file. If not
destined to greatness, the next best
thing to which he can aspire is respeC-
liability; but no man can be truly great
or truly respectable who is vain, pOmp-
Gus, and OYerbearing. BY the time the
novice has found his legitimate social
position, be the same high or low, the
probability is the same disagreeable
traits Of character will be sOftened
down and worn away. Most likely the
process Of abrasion will be rough, but
when it is all over, and he begins to see
himself as others see him, and not as
seen in che mirror Of self-cOnceiU, he
will be thankful that he has run the
gauntlet, and arrived through by a
rough road of knowledge.
Upon the whole, whatever loving
mothers may think to the contrary, it is
a good thing for youths to be knocked
about in the world. Il makes men of
them, fits them for the rough and tum-
BILE life they will have to take in
this world.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
Little Isaac.

The tree-frcg cannot be called an in
sect, a reptile, or one of the winged
host; he has four legs, the two foremost
short. with claws as sharp as those Of a
squirrel; the hind legs five inches long,
and folding by three joints. His body
is about as big as the first joint Of
mans thumb. Under his throat is
wind-bag, which assists him in singing
the word Isaac all the night. Whep
it rains, and is very dark, he sings tire
loudest. His voice is not so pleasing
as that of the nightingale, but this
would be a Yenial imperfectiOn if he
would but keep silence on Saturday
night, and not forever prefer Isaac to
Abraham and Jacob. He has more
elasticity in his long legs than any
other creature yet known. BY this
means he will leap five yards up a tree,
fastening himself to it by his fOrelegs,
and in a moment will hop or spring as
far from one tree to another. 1t is from
the singing of the tree-frOg that the
Americ9us have acquired the name Of
Little Isaac. Indeed,s like a certain
part of them, the creature appears very
devout, noisy, arbitrary and phlegmat-
&c. and associates with none but what
qgree with him in his ways.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
Uses of Telegrapmo Cables.

As soon as cables are laid giving tel
egraphic connections between new
points, an opportunity is afforded for
determining the longitude Of the sta
tions. This is by far the simplest and
most accurate method Of determining
longItudes that has ever been invented.
All that is necessary is to have cOrrect t
local time at each station, and to note
the time accurately when the signals
ire sent. The difference Of local times
is practically the difference Of lOngi-
tude. There is a small loss of time in
the transmission of the signals, but the
error that this might occasion is entire
Iy eliminated by sending signals both
ways over the wire, and computing
from a pair of signals. The submarine
cables Win the West India Islands have
been recently employed for this pur-
pose, and several lOngitudes Of lOcali-
ties in Trinidad and Barbados ascer-
tanned. The longitude Of the stations
is thus determined within five cards,
equal to the hundredth part Of a second
Of time.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
APestlIent pemagogue.

Ben Butler processes to be q great
friend of ''the poor laboring man,
but it has Just come out that he took
S142,O62 as a fee for professional
services in aiding to secure $780,
900 prize money due to Farragut's
officers and men in the capture of
New Orleans. Ben is also q 'bloat-
ed bondholder, and has written to
Secretary Sherman demanding the
dismissal of an employee of the de-
partment who, he alleges, has be-
trayed the secrets Of the department
by furnishing the fact that Butler is
the holder Of a large amount of reg
istered government bonds. Ben
wants the fact concealed while he is
playing the greenbaeks and working
mems role-denouncing bondhoId-
ers and cursing capitalists.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
More BIackmaII.

An oldish man, having an apple
stand on Woodward avenue, was ap-
preached by a hungrylooking lad, who
asked:
"Say, amt you goin' to gimme an
apple?"
"I'u give you to tho Station frstI"
was the gruff reply.
"You declare, war do youP All right,
old buckshotl III stand right here
for the next hour and tell everybody
that you spit on your apples and then
burnish 'em on your greasy old coat
sleeve! Well see who'll come out ahead
in this mad STRUGGLED"
The boy did. He got his apple in
eve seconds.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26

Poor fellowI I can never forget he
saved my life once"
The sort rustic came nearer, and Net
tie was looking down at me, When I
opened my eyes. She was startled, but
only showedit by faint flush on each
fair cheek. Her voice Was quiet as she
said:
"Can I do anything for you?"
won't you please fan me?" I said,
after trying to think Of an occupation
that would keep her near me. Still she
famed in hasty way and I said:
"You have not improved since last
summer. You made fan initiate the
pentlest of summer breeZes then"
ZIP Inever famed you befOrel"
"Once before" 1 said, ''you famed
me. bathed my forehead, and pillOwed
nv head on thisg" and drew out from
my breast pocket a dimsy handkerchief
marked Annette Raymond"
But Nettie was only bewildered. The
gentle act Of pity and charity 1 had
cherished as memory almost sacred
she had almost forgotten.
''You did not recognize me" 1 said,
81 am the sailor you thought dying in
the cars last summer"
sit cannot be pOssiblel" she cried.
''It is trueI Nettie, +" I continued, i'm
ploringly catching her hand as she was
going to arise, ''why must all your gen
tleness and pity be kept for beggars2
Cannot you give one little corner TO a
rich man who loves you? See how 1
need you as much rs 1 did last summer.
when you thought was a pauper and
dying. Now my heart is dying for
your love, Nettie."
She was trembling, blushing, yield
ing, and did not spare my pleading
With all the eIOquence at my command
I woOed her, and at last the little hand
In mine struggled for freedom no long
er, and Nettie consented to be my wife,
nv ministering angel for life!
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
The Great Seal Of the United States.

The Great Seal Of the United States.
Soon after the Declaration of Inde-
pendence the subject of a seal for the
States came up for discussion, and a
committee was appointed to prepare a
great seal for the young republic, but
their device being unsatisfactory
another committee was appointed with
ike result, and then third committee,
whose report being rejected, the whole
matter was referred to Charles Thorn
son, then Secretary to Congress. From
John Adams, then in London, Mr..
Thomson received a suggestion which
was given him by Sir John PrestWich,
a barOnet of the West of England, who
was an accomplished antiquarian and
an ardent friend Of the infant republic.
His simple and appropriate device was
approved and adopted. 1t consisted
of an escutcheon bearing thirteen per-
pendiCular stripes, white and red, on
blue field, displayed on the breast of
the American Eagle, whose right talon
held an olive branch, his left bundle
Of thirteen arrows, and in whose beak
was a scroll inscribed with the motto
E PLlsriJus Unum. For the crest, over
the head Of the eagle, which appears
above the escUtcheOn, a golden glory
breaking through a cloud, surrounding
thirteen white stars in blue field. On
the reverse, a pyramid unfinished. In
the zenith an eye in a triangle, sur
rounded with rays Of light. Over the
eye, the words Ann1tit COeptis-"GOd
has favored the undertaking." On the
base of the pyramid are the numeral
Roman letters MDCCLXXVI, and un-
derneath the motto NOvIS Ord0 SectOT1M
IA new series Os ages"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
Persian Stoves.

I've Just heard Of the queel |ay the
Persians have of keeping themselves
warm in their houses during cold
weather. They place in the middle of
the room a pan of burning charcoal un-
der a sort of table or frame which holds
up a large wadded quilt that reaches the
door on all sides, like a tent. This must
iook almost like keeping the fire warm.
Then the family sit around the drOlI
stove, with their legs and arms under
the quilt, and when they wish to go to
sleep, they put themselves half under
the quilt, and so keep nice and warm
until the morning. That's easy enough
for Persi ms to do, because, as Pm told,
they never undress at night, but just
roll themselves in coverings and lie
down anywhere.
Perhaps you would not find such ar
rangements in your homes quite as
comfortable as soft beds and cOzy
blankets in weII-warmed rooms. How
ever, the Persian winter is not as cold
as ours, I suppose.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
The Golden limestone.
By 4. ". LoNoFEIIow.

Leaflets are the trees; their purple branches
Spread themselves abroad like reefs OF coral
Rising silent
In the red sea Of the winter sunset.
From the hundred chimneys Of the village,
Like the AIfreet In the Arabian story,
Smoky columns
Tower aloft into the air OF amber.
At the window winks the Glckering hrellght
Here and there the lamps Of evening glimmer
Social watchnres
Answering one another through the darkness
On the hearth lighted logs are glowing,
And like Ariel In the cloven pine tree,
For its freedom
Groans and sigbs the air Imprisoned In them.
By the Areslde the old man seated,
Seeing ruined cities in ashes,
Asking sadly
OF the past what It can ne'er restore them
by the 1reside there are youthful dreamers,
Building castles far, with stately stairWays,
Asking bllndly
OF the future what it can not give them
By the iregide tragedies arc acted,
In whose scenes appear two actors only
Wife and husband,
And above them God, the spectator.
By the nreside there is peace and comfort;
Wivcsan children, with fair, thoughtful faces,
Waiting, watching
For well-knOwn fOOtstep in the passage.
Each mans chimney is his Golden Milestone;
Is the central point from which he measures
Every distance
Through the gateways Of the world around
him
In bis farthest wanderings still he sees It.
Hears she talking fame, the answering night
wind,
As he heard them
When he sat with those who were, but are not.
Happy he whom neither wealth nor fashion,
Nor the march Of the encroaehing city,
Drives an exile
From the earth OF his ancestral homestead
We may build more splendid habitations,
FIJI our rooms with paintings and with sculp-
tures,
But we can not
Buy with gold the old associations
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
ADVERTISING RATES.

The above scale Of prices is for ordinary single
column display advertising. Solid Legal, Official
aRd Tabular advertisements will be charged at the
legal rate for space occupied. Rule and Figure
work so per cent. extra,
SPECIAL NOTICES, advertisements in other than
single column measure, and those in a prescribed
location, 25 per cent additional.
LOCAL NOTICEs-15 cents per line for first, and
cents per line for each additional insertion.
CARDS in Business DireCtOry-One inch, year
80: months, Sc; months, g. One-half inch
year, So 90; mos. 50; 3 mos. 81.
OBITUARY NOTICES (other than simple announce.
ments Of deaths,) Tributes Of Respect, Cards OF
Thanks, and announcements by Societies. cents
per line.
Notices of Marriages, Births and Deaths-When
furnished by proper rauthOrity-free.
Attachment, Divorce, Administrator and EXeCu-
tors Notices. must be paid for before insertion
as also Foreign and Transient Advertising gener
ally.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
Arrival and Departure Of
Mails

R. R. mails arrive daily except Sunday, at IO.l5
q. m. and $50 p. IN. Depart daily except Sunday,
at 525 q. m. ard 2.30 p. m
n. B. Railroad mails close 80 minutes before
departure Of trains.
MOurytOwn, New COrwin, Emerald, &C., arrives
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at Z p. m. De-
parts Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Z q. m.
Eastern mail, for Dallas, RainsbOrO, New Pc
tersburg, Greenfield, Bainbridge, Paint, Sinking
Springs, Marshall, North Union, Carmel, &C, ar
rivals Tuesday Thursday and Saturday, at p. N,
Departs same days at Z a. m.
Fayetteville mail, for Nevin, PricetOwn, Hollow
town, Buford, Sicily, &c, arrives Wednesday and
Friday at 5 p. m. Departs same days at a. m.
Belfast mail, for Berryville, Belfast, May Hill,
LOvGtts, &C., arrives Tuesday and Friday at II 80
2. N. Departs same days at 1880 p. m.
Sabina mail, for Samantha, Highland, Memphis,
Sabina, &C, arrives Tuesday and Friday at p. m.
Departs Wednesday and Saturday at 10 a. IN.
J N. BARRERE, p. N.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
A New Fairy Story.

A lazy girl, who liked to live in COM
Fort and do nothing, asked her fairy
godmother to give her a good genius to
do everything for her. On the instant
the fairy called ten dwaTfs, who washed
and dressed the little girl, and cOmbed
her hair, and fed her, and so on. All
was done so nicely that she was happy,
except for the thought that they would
20 away. ITO prevent that" said the
godmother, 81 will place them perma-
nently in your ten pretty little fingers" !"
And they are there yet.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
A Boy.

One OF the best things in the world to
be, is boy.
Boys have always been so plenty that
they are not half appreciated.
A boy is willing to do any amount Of
work if it is called play.
The feeling of boy toward pumpkin
pie has never been properly considered.
a boy furnishes half the entertain
ment and takes two-thirds of the scOId-
ing of the family circle.
1t is impossible to say at what age
boy becomes conscious THAI his trouser-
legs are too short, and is anxious about
the part Of his hair.
In fact, a boy is hard subject y get
q moral from.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
The COquitO Palm.

InChilia a sweet syrup, r1ieL de palm, or
palm honey, is prepared by boiling the
sap of the ju51a spectabiIis TO the con.
sistence of treacle, and it forms a con.
cradle article of trade, being much es
teemed for domestic use as sugar,
The sap is obtained by the very waste
full method of Telling the trees and
cutting off the crown Of leaves, when
it Immediately begins to flow, and con-
tlnues to do so for several months,
until the tree is exhausted, providing 3
thin slice is shaved off the top every
morning, each tree yielding about SO
gallons. The small nuts, which re-
semble miniature cOcOanuts, are used
by the Chilian cOnfectiOners in the
preparation of sweetmeats. and by the
boys as marbles.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
Let Old Soldiers Read This.

Ross County Register: When the
.O'Connor bill to ''reorganize" sol
diers' orphans at Xenia was under
discussion by the Legislative Com
mittee, Dalzell, the Republican mem
Der of the Committee, opposed the
bill strenuously, and showed the in
Justice it would work to dead sol
diers and their widows and orphans,
whereupon one of the Democratic
members responded: Damn the
dead soldiers, and damn their wild
ows and orphans they can't UOte j11
October" And the brutal remark
was greeted with a laugh by the 9th
er Democratic members. And yet
they have the cheek to appeal to liv-
ing soldiers to vote with them and
keep them in power.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
My Kingdom in the Clouds.

I sat and gazed into tho burning sky
Where, like some dying king, the parting day,
In calm majestic precience Of decay,
Lighted his pyre, that he a king might die,
And I, whose thought upsOars on wider wings,
Since thy pure soul has breathed into my life
A Aquickened kinship with diyiner things
buildcd there, remote from din and strife,
A spacious solitude, where thou and I
Might reign untrOubled by the pace Of time,
How with thy heetest wish the cloud would
thrill
And, like some sweet. unmeditated rhyme,
Bend with melodiOus impulse to thy will!
And ]. strong in thy love, Unquailingly
You'd greet the gaze of dread eternity.
[SCribucr
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26

"Seeing that the atmosphere Is forty
miles deep all around the globe" says
IL GRACE Mann, sit is a useless piece Of
economy to breathe it more than once.
If we were obliged to trundle it in
wheelbarrows in order to fill our
houses, churches, school houses, rail-
road cars, and steamboats,, there might
be some excuse for our seeming parsi-
mony. But as it is we are prodigals Of
health, of which we have so little, and
niggards Of air, Of which we have SC
much.n
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-09-26
Actresses Expenses.

BOucicault being interviewed said:
I think the ladies are uuderpaid. A
leading actress provides OF an average
three new dresses for ea3h new play.
If five new plays should be produced in
a season she must purchase fifteen new
dresses. These on an average cost
SI25 each, including shoes, stockings
and hats. Here is an expense of 81, ,675,
making in a season of thirty-six weeks
$50 week to be expended out of her
salary on dressing alone. The actor
requires no such outlay. Therefore,
if leading actor receives $50 a week
he gets half as much again as a leading
lady at the same salary. The New
York audiences require finer scenery
and costumes than the London public
are cOntented with. Mr.. WaIlack spent
$1,000 on the scenery, furniture and
costumes of my eomedy-"Marriage. s"
The profits of the first eight nights re-
paid the whole of it.