The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-10-23
Home Correspondence.
GREENFIELD.

UhEENFlELDs
Bsf that straw hat
Clay Rhoads is still on deck.
Everybody was here at the jolliGcatiOn.
esquire John Bell" How would that
sound?
The Embryo plug hats aye all the rage at
1915.
Mr.. Lon Bell, Of the HiIlsboro News
office, took in the 'time" Saturday night
Mr.. James c. Warwick, Of Mason, ILL.,,
is visiting his father, near this place.
A fine chandelier now adOrns the Shiloh
Baptist church.
There were only four arrests made Sat
urday.
Pierson is just as happy as if he was
the daddy of bouncing baby boy.
Wanted-A Republican Sheriff for this
county.
The stock sales Saturday did not amount
to much.
Mr.. Gus. Harmon, and Mr.. z. L. Board
man, ye Local of the Hillsboro NEWS, were
in town Saturday evening.
Do not let the Foster Club disband vet
awhile. There Is now and Will be present
ly plenty Of work to do.
The regular WOman's Temperance meet
ing was held in the NJ. E. church Sunday
afternoon. There was fair attendance.
Conductor-GeneraI Lewie Love, of the
procession, looked like General Sherman.
No "tafyp
Bets are freely offered that Whitley, of
Springfield, will get full control of the S.
J. & P. Ry.
Rev. jesse Meeks, of Ripley, addressed
a fine audience in the Baptist Shiloh
church, Sunday evening.
Prof. Leon, the aeronaut and gymnast,
entertained a large crowd here, with his
rOpe-walking, Saturday afternoon. He is
a good one.
Mr. James Freshour is the most ultra
Republican that this town contains. His
ideas of the Democrats are more than
most men would care to carry out.
Mrs. Mary L. Irwin, Of Main street, is
enjoying a visit from some of her relatives,
Mr.. P. Henderson, Mr.. J. Monroe and
daughter, of Carlisle, Pa.
Prof. Sam'I Major has been quite i'll the
past week. He is now BETTER and able to
attend to his duties as Superintendent Of
the public schools.
That long-drawn-out summer weather
came to an end last Sunday. The ther-
mometer at o'clock in the afternoon
registered 64o.
From the opening to the close of the
TTaoavnoFa L'-r,Dgiff,v, l., NJ e i
81 800 worth of tickets from this place
alone.
The amount of money, cigars, hats, &c.
that changed hands here on the result
of the election, is simply a matter of con-
lecture. 1t could not have been less than
seven or eight hundred dollars.
Tom Long is the only Democrat that
was saved from the wreck, but his story
is short as regards what he knows of it..
He cannot tell how it all happened. He
is surprised at himself.
Springs semi-annual show of agricuI-
tUral products has commenced. His big
gest card is a double pumpkin, and a rad
ish, two feet in length aud twenty-five in
ches in circumference. NextI
If any Of our readers has S6OO,OO loose
change about his clothes, he can buy the
S. j. & P. Ry. 1t comes pretty high, but
the present managers must have it..
But then most any fellow can raise $780,
900 in few minutes.
The sale Of the S. J. & P. Ry. to Gen.
Thomas, has not yet been confirmed. It
is to be sincerely hoped that this seemingly
interminable strife, or whatever it may be
called, will end a few days previous to the
Day of Judgment, so people will know
who the road does belong to.
1t was big time!
1t was blazing time!
1t was a mOnstrOus time!
1t was jollifying, speech-making time
1t was one Of those times that have to
be seen to be appreciated
By all this we refer to the Republican
! jambOree, Saturday night.
A new Presbyterian church has been es-
tablished at New Petersburg, with a men,
bershIp of As persons. The first meeting
of the new congregation will take place
Sunday next. Mr.. Allen Strain is the
elder. An arrangement has been made
with the Fall creek church, whereby they
combine with this church, and one pastor
serves both.
The thanks of this community are due
officer Harris, for the energetic way in
which he disposed of the rowdies and
drunken characters on Saturday afternoon.
Al 4;3O it looked as if we were going to ex.
perience a genuine old-fashioned row, with
no telling where it would have ended
That it did not assume larger proportions
than it did, our citizens can thank the
above-named officer.
The Murray and Ober Dramatic troop
opened up in the City Hall Monday even
ing to a very fair-sized house, for the first
night. Ada Murray is as bright and pi-
quaint as ever. Geo. Ober is his same old
/ self, and does the comic business so as to
bring down the house. Right here we
would like to know what is the matter
with his Walk2 Why can't he walk like
other men? They hold over until We'd
nesday evening.
During the display of fireworks Satur-
| day night, large half-pOund rocket turn
ed on the board, and went down among
| the crowd. There was no one hurt, al
though it was thought at the moment that
some one could not help but be. It struck
a man, standing about twenty feet from
the platform, in the stomach. This pro-
voked a loud grunt from the recipient,
accompanied by a few choice Bible quota-
tions. He felt better then.
The majority of the working forces of
/ the S. ]. s. P. have been suspended for
the time being. But how long this will
last, it is hard to tell. The road is in a verv
unsettled condition, and the officials, not
feeling sure where the next pay was to
come from, if It was to come at all, con
| cluded to dispense with all the men thev
could, rather than have them continue
work, with an uncertainty OF getting their
pay.
The Murphy mass meeting, which was
called for last Thursday evening in CITY
/ Hail. was, for some reason unknown to
us, a failure. It was adjourned to an in
definite time. Before its adjournment,
however, Hon. II. L. Diokey, who was
down for a speech, sent in his regrets, sta
ting that he was very much indispossd
As Mr. Dickey Is a well-knOwn Democrat,
and this happened SO soon after the eleo-
ton, it had rather significant aspect. We
don't blame him for being sick.
Last Thursday afternoon, after his cleo.
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