The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-06-09
NEWS BREYTTTEs

The cultivation Of rice is attracting
attention in Louisiana.
italian labOrers for orange groves
have arrived at Jacksonville, Fla,
Austria has a petroleum region one
eighth the size Of that Of the United
States.
The Pullman car company earns on
each car about $3.50 a month net, and
has 474 cars.
A very large amount Of money is al
legged to be due to east Florida claim
ants for losses Of 1912.
The dominion Of Canada, in thirteen
years, has accumulated q debt Of $780,
900, 600, principally for public works.
On Pierce's hill, Dorchester, near
Boston, stands a house built in 1910,
and which is still occupied by descend
ants Of its builder.
A corporation is about to establish q
geological garden above Central Park,
Chicago, with an observatory three hum
dred and twenty-five feet high.
The body Of an infant was found by
the janitor Of a school in Bristol, R. I,
neatly doneup in a package and laid
on the shelf.
In Waterville, Ne, the prOhibitOry
laws are so strictly enforced that the
college professors are unable to procure
alcohol for scientific experiments,
The estimated rent Of the new build
ing on the corner of Broadway and
Wall street, New York, viii net to its
owners the prineely sum Of S180,0O0 q
year.
The total value of England's i'm
ports fer 1880 was E4O9, 100000, an in
crease Of about G4O, 600, 900 over 1879.
Living animals were imported TO the val
ue Of FL, ,245, ,9O3. The number Of eggs
imported was 747, ,412, 40, worth e.
241, 300.
Capt NV. Barnes and wife, of Wat
ertOWn, Conn, recently celebrated the
seventeen anniversary of their mar
rage. The captain is 90 years old and
his wife 81, and both are now in good
health.
Bradlaugh is a stalwart who believes
in muscle. When the authorities Of
Scotland yard rendered him detective
protection against assassination recent
", he thanked them and said he
thought he could take care Of himself
and It would be best to protect the as
Bassins.
The demand for George Ehot's books
has been so great since her death that
the London publishers have not been
able to meet it. One thousand readers
inquired for 'tAdam Bede'' in one week
at a leading circulating library. A
cheap and an expensive complete edi-
ton of her works will be issued in the
spring.
Large depots are to be put up on
Harlem river, to accommodate the rail-
roads to New England, which viii con-
meet there with the railroads to New
England. TWenty-six acres Of marsh
for the purpose has been bought for
S166, 600, and eight and a half acres
near by sold for $4,000 to another
company.
The largest deed ever put on the
records Of Naugatuck. Conn, consisted
of eighteen pages Of clOsely-printed
matter. 1t was a mortgage to the
Mutual Union, Of New York city, for
$3.50, 900 from the New Union Telegraph
company. The charge Of the town clerk
was SIS.
A man who had lived in a Boston
clearinghouse for ten years, and had
been known only as George, - was
found dead in his room recently. |
Among his effects were found papers /
which indicated that his name was Eben ]
Leman, and money, bonds, and bank
notes - the value Of S15, 900.
-Four years ago a schoolboy in
Monroe county, Indiana, threw a dead !
rattlesnake around the neck Of a little
girl, and it has made her permanently
insane. During aIsthis time she has
recognized no one, but daily sits with
her slate in her lap, making out the
same figures she had been given as 8
lesson 1t school on the fateful day,
crying out: ''Take the |
snake away"