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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1879-09-18
THE YAZOO YAHOOS.
THE STORY OF MRS. DIXON,
About Her Husbands Murder.

The miserable attempt Of some o.
the Democratic press to make ou
that Dixon, Of Yazoo, Miss, wal
killed in private quarrel or a stree
fight, is thus emphatioaIy answered
by the statement of his bereavet
wife, who proves conclusively tina
he was the victim Of political assas
sinahOn. She says:
Ny husband was an infdeI, say
his accusers, the Democratic Com
mittee. No one Of their falsshoods
has less foundation than this. In
the privacy of his home, and in his
serious moments, did he always
avOW his firm belief in the Christian
religion. While he was not a pious
man,
he WAS NOT A sCOFFER NOR A sKEPTIC.
No man for his means contributed
more largely to the support of the
churches of this place than he. A
few hours before his death he was
baptized in the Catholic Church, and
his last word was "Bible." When
dying he fOrgave his murderers, say
ing: 81 had rather been killed than
to have killed any of them" And at
bis bedside knelt two Sisters of the
Holy Order Of Nazareth, and offered
up prayers for the departing soul of
him who during the epidemic Of last
year had nursed their priest and as
sisted in laying away their dead.
Immediately after the shooting of
my husband kilograms were hastily
sent from this place by the Chairman
and others of the Democratic Com
mittee, stating that he was killed in
a ''street fight" personal encoun-
ter" &c. It takes two parties to make
an encounter" a "street fight" and
in this affair
THE MURDERER WAS THE ONLY ACTOR.
My husband, after being shot in
the back, with broken and mutilated
hand, and in a fainting condition,
erawled up a stairway opposite, and
fired his pistol four times, with brok-
en- right hand supported by the left
hand. Here is my husbands dying
testimony, taken by our estimable
and faithful Mayor, who was the
only officer who dared perform his
duty when the mob of the 25th of
July threatened to rush into our
home and tear my husband from his
family, to commit the deed of vio-
-ence for which they were thirsting.
At $50 o'clock on the morning Of
the 18th instant nv husband was
brought home on alounge, borne by
The pOpulace, naked to his waist, /
5he City Physician having torn off
MS clothing down the street to sz-A
mime his wounds. When placed /.
IpOn his bed, my husband gasped: /.
'Oh! I am murdered" then after a /
or so, ''for nothing. Ill
could only live long enough to tell |
t all. Then, upon the arrival of /
Mayor Holt, my husband, being /
luly sworn, made the following
.tatement: Il was walking down .
he street. As I neared McCormic's
lrug- I saw Jim BarksdaIe and /
". D. Gibbs who, by the way, is
Democratic State Senator7 standing
n the door. I thought I could get
y without being attacked (al-
hOugh for two weeks I have not
rome down the street expecting to
get back alive), when, Just as I got
opposite McCOrmick's Jim Barks-
lale rushed out into the middle Of
he street, and
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Cht 9ighIand Syetrs.
mILLsRORorGu. OHIO.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 18, 1879.
Arrival and Departure of
Mails.

R. R. mails arrive daily except Sunday, at 81
a. m: and GA p. m. Depart daily except Sunday
at $50 a. m. and l.5O p. m.
n. B. Railroad mails close 80 minutes befor,
departure of trains.
Ripley mail, for Newmarket, Sugartree Ridge
MOurytOwn, New Corwin, Emerald. &C.. arrive,
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at p. m. De
parts Monday Wednesday and Friday at 7 q. m.
Eastern mail, for Dallas, RGinsbOrO, New Pc
tersburg, Greenfield, Bainbridge, Paint, Sinking
Springs, Marshall, North Union, Carmel, &C., ar.
rivals Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, at D. m
Departs same days at a. m.
Fayetteville mail, for Nevin, PriCetOwH, Hollow.
t0gVn, Buf0rd Sicily, SC, arrives Wednesday and
Friday at p. m. Departs same days at a. m.
Belfast mail, for Berryville, Belfast, May Hill
LOvstt's, &c, arrives Tuesday and Friday at II Sc
3. m. Departs same days at 1880 p. IN.
Sabina mail, for Samantha, Highland, Memphis,
Sabina, &C. arrives Tuesday and Friday at p. IN.
Departs Wednesday and Saturday at T.45 a m.
j. NJ. BARRERE, P, NJ,
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I felt that I was badly shot, and
made for a stairway near; crawled
up, sat on the top step and fired my
pistol until I tainted" In a cross
examination, Mr.. Holt asked him if
he saw Jim Barksdale with a gun.
Il did see him with a shotgun.
Mr.. Holt asked if he saw anyone
else shoot. ct did not" Mr.. Holt
asked if jim Barksdale spoke at all,
and if Barksdale fired first. '.I did
not hear a sound, and did not
dream of immediate danger until I
felt that I was badly shot in the
back" Mr.. Holt asked my husband
if he ever threatened Jim Barksdale's
life, or made any threats of any ma
ture. ''Never in my life, and only
yesterday sent friend who told
him I was innocent of all charges.
I wrote the same to the Democratic
Executive Committee, also to John
Posey (who was Secretary of the
Mass Convention when those scurri-
Ious resolutions were read, and de
manded Of POsay the names Of the
two men who could say they had
ever heard me plotting the assassin
alton Of Barksdale. He refused
their names, saying that I wished to
attack them. I again sent to him
that I did not-had
NO DESIRE OR WISH TO HARM ANY ONE,
only wished to clear up the ground
less charges and the plot which 1
had seen gradually thickening
against me. He again refused the
names, saying that he would con
front me-" My husband said, before
dying, 81 had rather been killed
than to have killed any of them"
and when I exclaimed: "Oh, nOl I
would that you had killed them all,
and your life had been spared to
me, he said, ''NO, no, you must not
say that. He also said: Il wish
jim Barksdale was here, to see a
brave man die"
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30
bilious Rh heumatisn

Is quite common, especially in miasmatic
and ague districts. Its peculiarities may
depend on two causes: the transfer or ex-
tension Of rheumatic irritation to the liver
may derange the functions of that organ,
giving rise TO bilious vomiting from an ex.
cess of secretion; in Others to yellowness of
the tongue. conjunctiva and skin, with bill
ious urine and clay colored stools, from a
suspension of the secretions, as in jaundice.
But more frequently the rheumatism is CO.
incident with an attack of intermittent or
remittent fever. In the treatment of this
class Of rheumatism Swedish Bitters never
fail to give immediate relief-take three or
four tablespoonfuls daily until the bowels
have been we'll purged. and the congestion
or torpor of the liver has been overcome,
then reduce the dose according to direc-
tions, but continue taking the medicine
until cure is effected and the whole sys.
tenn has assumed its natural condition. The
Bitters will be sent by mail to any address
on receipt of one dollar. Swedish Medi-
cine Company, Pittsburg, Pa. Circular sent
on receipt
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Editorial EpinninQs,

The Southern moonshiners are trying
hard TO keep still about it
The cheese is mite-ier than the COW
that furnished the material to make it.
Some of the people down in Maine
think they are going to have bloody good time
it.
Better is dinner of dandelion greens
where love is than roast of Christmas show beef
with growing woman. ....
The man who was killed by an aerolite
recently in Kansas announces that he will deliver
course of lectures on the nebulous system after
the holidays
Doll dinner costumes will be worn one
eighth inch longer than last month. The anti
tiquated short dresses need not be wasted; they
may be economically worked over for the hea-
then.
Mayor Kalloch's physician in San
Francisco has cautioned him against overwork.
If some one would caution him against everyday
with the regulations Of his neighbors-it might
prove wholesome to the reverend Mayor.
The greatest danger the Grant boom
will have to contend with will be that sudden
freshet next spring may bring down some Pres-
dental timber heavy enough to tear the boom
loose at one end, and then the mischief will be to
pay, sure ...p
A scientific gentleman of this city
thinks saltpeter and salt wasted in curing beef
He has seen young man corned in hall an hour
with whisky. Our observation is. however that
you can not save him effectually without little
saltpeter-or brimstone ID
Now, haint no schollard, but pears to me,
That fellow what hassent no modesty,
And who goes round town. as such fellers do,
To make love to girls that he never knew,
And who stands on corners and winks to those
Who go traipsin by in their Sunday clothes,
And their furbelows and their frizzed hair, o..
And their stuck-up bunnits. do declare
Too ridiculous for any thing, let alone being fit
for gal who was brought up decent to wear.
Tho haint no larnin know as we'll .,4
AS "a old professor of Greek could tell gre.
Such feller, who bullies and blows his gas.
And who swears and cusses when people pass,
And makes observations on wimmin folks, ,i
Till mule would blush at his blackguard Jokes;
That cove like that, with his oaths and slang,
Isn't fit to live and haint fit to hang; a
And he'll get head put on him in short meter, if
he comes smoking round this yere shebang
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

A member of the Tennessee Leg
islature from Memphis proposes
a sweeping change of things,
being no less than abolishing the city Of
Memphis altogether and creating the
town of Chelsea from the southern por.
ton of the present city and raising the
northern suburbs into the dignity of a
town to be called Fort Pickering, each to
be clothed with separate municipal
government. 1t is none of our funeral,
but we are impelled to say to the tax
payers of Memphis simply, don't. One
swarm of flies is not so bad as two, and
the breaking up of the cormorants who
prey invariably upon corporations, into
squads, does not lessen their appetites for
plunder, but only widens the territory to
be guarded and doubles the number of
tax-eaters that is wholesome for the tax
payers to sit severely down upon forever
and forever.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

How keener than serpent's tooth il
is to have thankless child. Cockerill
no sooner assumes control of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch than he comes back at his
maternal State in manner calculated to
make her shed briny tears, metaphorical-
ly, and mourn over her uniilial son. He
says: "There seems to be no decline in
horrors in the loyal but sin-cursed State
of Ohio. This condition of facts is par
TALLY due to the competition among the
newspapers of Cincinnati in publishing
accounts of crimes. Every Cincinnati
newspaper has a telegraphic correspondent
in the towns throughout the State, who
receives fifty cents for every crime that
he sends to his paper. Of course the in
centive to these persons is great"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

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MEMPHIS appears to he given over to
the tormcntors. For the past two sea.
sois she has been almost depopulated Of
her resident population by yellow fever;
bowed to the dust with debts contracted
by her profigate former city of.
fcers she surrendered her charter and
was by the Legislature reduced from a
city To a taxing district in the vain hope
that this might enable her to slough of
her load of municipal obligations that
she felt unable to ne6 Now the Legis-
lature of the State MY been expressly
conyened to consider her case and clothe
the n,dnicipality with power to take the
steps seeded for improving its sanitary
condition in a becoming manner
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tesies that make even mothers-in-law tol-
cradle and their daughters adorable.
1t is, therefore, most ardently to be
hoped that the whole newspaper press
and the pulpit, and the lecture rostrum,
and the end men of the migratory min
strel squads, will cease to do evil, and
learn to do well, by discountenancing
any unseemly sarcasms upon these two
topics. The world has to be fitted up
with entirely new running-gear before it
can get along without Susan B. An
thony or mother-in-law, and long may
they wave!
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

A SoUTHINGToN, Conn.,, lawyer has
been tossed overheard by the Bar of his
county, because he charged client one
dollar more for collecting a claim than
the actual amount Of the claim itself
He was establishing precedent which
his brethren could not regard as safe
one, and certainly not profitable one
They had never been known to object tc
lawyer seizing upon all his client had
but when he went beyond this and laid
claims to more than his possessions he
was establishing grounds for complaint
against the profession which they could
not countenance.
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AN EDITOR.

pittsb1rS. PENN, September 10th 1s71t
convinced. For two years have suffered with
rheumatism in my left shoulder and right arm,
and last fall l was incapable Of attending to ny
duties. and lay many night unable to sleep, on
account Of the terrible pains few weeks ago .
ycvere attack Of this trouble struck me, and thts
time l concluded to try ST. Jacobs DILL must 40
knowledge with but little confidence In Its inertia
freely confess that the result has completely ~
!onished M me, The first application. relieved tAe
only two bottles has completely cured me Of Thu
chronic evil. and that after the most eminent ply.
Rcians and their prescriptions had been Of No
avail. therefore consider 1t q duty to publish
The above for the benefit OF all sufferers wits
Rheumatism and kindred complaintA"
G. A. HEILxANN, Editor Republican.
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A wounded buck was seen by a Young

A wounded buck was seen by young
man named Pittenger as it bounded
down to Mill Creek, near Williamsport,
the other day. Pittenger gave chase
and got hold of the deer, when violent
struggle on the ice followed. Joseph
Hyman appeared on the scene, and while
Pittenger still held the animal Hyman
shot it. Just then two other hunters,
Elmer and Woolever, appeared. They
had shot the deer in the first place. All
four claimed it. The deer was taken
into Williamsport and there settlement
was made, every one of the four receiv-
ing his part of the venison or its equiv
alent in money.
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A NOTARY PUBLIC.

SO Mercer street, New York, January
18th, 1871 thankfully acknowledge that the usl
}: the valuable remedy, st Jacobs Oil, has bee1
f great service to me. suffered with Rheumat
Jacobs Oil, found Immediate relief, and 1t effect
I'd an entire cure. Moved by sense of duty,
gives me great pleasure to recommend to suffer.
ing mankind the St. Jacobs Oil, as a remedy
worthy the highest praise and unlimited patron
ige. WIN. REYSCHER, Notary Public
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

TIE Europeans are being constantly
treated to surprises by the eccentric Ma
homedans. Only the other day they
sentenced man to death for translatinp
the Bible into Turkish, and more recently
number of them ran amuck through
the streets of Candahar cutting and slash
ing British officers without regard tc
rank.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

WHILE listening to Mr. Moody's ser.
mon on 'The Dying Thief" at St. Louis
the other night, pickpocket relieved a
neighboring school teacher of all her val.
uables. This demonstrates that for all
practical purposes living thief is bet.
ter than q dying one.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

THE militia of several States will
shine resplendent in glory of brass but.
tons and polished bayonets at the inaug-
uration of Governors next month. Fos
ter, of Ohio, and Hamilton, of Maryland
are promised a brilliant display in this
line,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

TALMAGE has tough time of it. The
enemies which lie in wait for him now
threaten to have him arraigned for SIAN
der.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

GEN. ROBERTS reports that he has
cleared the country of Afghans about
Cabul. Don't deceive yourself, Mr.. Rob
erts, as you have done on several previ-
Gus occasions.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

M. HUMBERT yesterday fought duel
ith the editor of the Lanterne in
France. Humbert's navy six flashed in
the pan, and the Lanterne was not extin-
guished.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

REV. Mr.. LoRIMER, the Chicago
clergyman who is charged with having
absorbed DIR. Parker's sermons and
preached them as his own, gives token
of regret. He has declined to accept an
advance of 81, 900 in his salary.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

THE County Court at Chicago has
been investigating the cause of the fail
ure of Stettauer Bros. & Co., and the
brief statement made by one of the part
ners will cover a multitude of similar
business calamities. He said: "We
dabbled in corn, pork, lard, and wheat,
and lost in ALL"
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

The loss of the train at Dundee was g
complete that divers have yet discovered
no trace of it. 1t is hoped, however,
that the number of lives lost has been
overestimated.
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wILLlAMsRURGH ATH LETIo

WILLlAMSRURGH ATH l. ETIO
ary 20. 1879 -MEssRS A. VoGELER 4 Co., Bald.
more. Md.-Gentlemcn: The pedestrian exercises
ana other athletic sports INDUCED in by the mem-
Ders Of our Club arc not unfrequently followed
oy blistcred feet and stiffness and soreness Of the
joints and muscles. 1t affords us real pleasure 70
,ay that in such cases tho application Of your
German Remedy. st. Jacobs on, has been inyari.
ably accompanied by the most gratifying and sat-
sfatory results Its peculiar soothing, healing
and Eain-extraet ng qualities can not be overesti.
mated, and we commend 1t on an article OF publi1
utility. Respectfully yours,
x. J. HUTtHINGs, President,
9. T. PETHRKIN. Vice President
z. N. CHAPEL, Secretary
L. FLETCHER, Treasurer,
OF the Williamsburgh Athletic Club
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-12-30

LONDON TRUTH, in glowing tribute
to Matthew Arnold, says he is all mind.
This, of course, must be taken fgurative-
ly, as Matthew's mind is mixed up with
meat and bones, all the same as any
other mortaPs.
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A RAILROAD MAN.

&C. II. r.. shops, Waterloo, Iowa,
January 25th, 1871 was taken " tn acute attack
,f ,frheumatism last fall and confined to bed. Atfrl
:mployed physician. without benefit: then seng
10 Wangller Bros s drug store, anc obtAined bot.
lie of St Jacobs OIL the use OF which soon gave
me relief, and cured me of the attack. can safe
recommend 1t to all suffering with Rheumatism.
Respectfully MATT. MCDERM0TT.
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ANOTHER OHIO MAN.

Mr.. Philip Ramlingey, m old subscriber 10 ouu
paper and well known in the whole surrounding
country, informed US the other day that his wife,
who for two weary years had suffered with Rheu-
matism In the shoulder, during which time she
mad been treated by several physicians without
success, had been completely cured by a single
bottle Of st. Jacobs OH. -
BuoyruA Ohio, Courier, February L. 1879