The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-04-07

Henry Chisholm, Of Cleveland, has
paid the penalty for his gross assault on
a newspaper reporter little over .
year ago; first, BY an amount Of OblOquy
that fairly made him wish that he had
never been born; and, lastly, by paying
the reporter the sum Of $4,000 and all
costs to discontinue the case in all
courts.
President Haygood Of Emory college,
Georgia, says that in 1875, the imprOV-
ed lands in Georgia amounted to 28,-
737, ,539 acres. In 1880 the aggregate
had grown to 29,815, ,581 acres, the in
crease in four years being sufficient to
provide farms of 100 acres each for
nearly 1000 families He says the
cOlOred people are buying farms OF
from twenty to fifty acres and getting
excellent returns from them.
Edward G. Dennison, Of Odessa, Del,
has been awarded a premium Of 800
for raising beets producing 1885 per
cent Of sugar, which were the best fur
nished to the Delaware beet-sugar fac
tory. Other premiums Of $85, $40, 855,
$40, S25 and S15 were awarded to 9TH
er beet-grOWers in Delaware, according
to the percentage Of sugar. Seven 9TH
er producers, also, were awarded for
lots Of less than sixteen tons.
The size attained by icebergs is some
times prOdigiOus. From measurement
made upon one, DR.. Hayes estimated it
to contain twenty-seYen million feet,
while its weight must have been not
less than one billion tons. It was
grounded in water nearly half mile in
depth. What, then, must have been
the thickness and size Of the glacier
from which the mass had become de-
tached?
The committee of the French Jockey
club has Just decided that q priest may
be a member Of that institution. A no
bleman who has served several years in.
q cavalry regiment has left the servicO.
and is about to take orders; but he does
not propose to withdraw from his club,
as he desires to be able to give dinners
there to his friends If so disposed. A
member in a priests dress viii be
novelty in q club.
A reckless but ingenious Bohemian
has fed riOtOusly from Philadelphia af-
ter posting an inOfensive young man in.
Mount Vernon street as the heir to an
estate Of 81, 900, 900 left by cattle king,
in Australia, substituting a corn report
for the Bible, on which witnesses are.
sworn at the Central Station in order to
screen a man from perjury, loading a
fruit steamer with munitions Of war for
the Cuban insurgents, and palming of
upon the local press many other un-
wholesome fictiOns of q disOrdered fancy.
They had a chariVari festival near
San Diego, in Southern California, at
which the Mexicans and half-breed
Spaniards Of that region had a high
time. After imbibing largely Of meseal,
a favOrite and rather enliVening beVeT-
age, they brought out a long unused
Spanish cannon, dubbed El Jupiter,
loaded it with giant powder, stones and
other ammunition Of q miscellaneous
character, and fired it of. It burst, and
nearly everyone in the crowd was more
or less injured. One is reported to have
been killed outright.
Lord Randolph Churchill, a growing
English politician, years ago married
Miss Jerome, the daughter Of one Of the
New York JerOmes, current and mali-
cious New York gossip saying that, in
addition to making over the Union
League club house to his daughter, Je-
rome pere agreed not to visit his daugh-
ter in England. The London World
now announces that another Of his
daughters, Miss Clara jerome, is to
marry Morton FeWen, Of Derbyshire, q
great traveller, who has paid number
Of visits to this country.
A writer in Figaro deYOtes an article
to what he calls Les 1f0ndGiHes- cdHtat-
Tices, or ladies Of rank, who are more
than amateur singers. In the first rank
he places the sister Of the Marquis de
Caux, the Countess de BecUlot, who has
a remarkable soprano voice. Then fol-
lowing the Countess de BeauhaTnais, nee
SkobelefF, married to the Grand Duke
de Leuchtemberg; Nine. Fuchs, Nine.
Rene Brice, nee Camille DOucet; Mime.
Eugene HaritOff, Nine. de Boy, and
Nine. Cernadaki, that Russian beauty
about whom it is fashionable to 20 into
ecstacies.