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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

Ex-Governor Seymour said recently
that ''the spirit of gambling is the
greatest evil q farmer has to contend
with. Take hops, for instance That
is an extreme case. More men have
been ruined by holding their hops for
higher prices, when they could have
sold at so cents o pound, than have
been hurt by selling in season when
the market ruled at 10 cents per pound.
So with wheat. Farmers are always
holding ont for higher prices. This
peculiarly seems to be confined to tie
native or American farmers, and that IS
the reason why they are put at @ dis
advantage when they have 20 compete
with German and other f0rcign-bOu
farmers, who sell whenever they can
realize q fair profit. Not until the
American farmer rid5 himself OF this
gambling mania can he compete on
terms of equality with. his neigh5ors
abroad"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22
Across the Isthmus.

Among the many suggestions that
have been made by civil engineers and
others who have contemplated the pro-
ject Of building a ship canal across the
Isthmus Of Panama, one has Just appear
ed in q letter written in the Panama
Star and Herald by q former resilient
Of this city-W. C. Quinby-n0W en-
gagged in mining at Caipileo, Chill.
Mir. Quinby advances the scheme Of
wearing away the hills Of the Andes by
what is known as the hydraulic mining
system. The theory Is based upon the
truth that 1900 gallons or 2, $50 cubic
feet Of water, having a weight Of 139,-
500 pounds, with q sufficient pressure to
force it through an inch aperture in
twenty-foUr hours (called q miners
inch of water) viii carry of, at q grade
of four inches to the rod, ten tons Of
gravel to a distance of ten miles every
twenty-four hours.-E0cbesier Demo
CTdL
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22
The Pregidsnt handleg pOlYgamY

The President handles polygamy
without gloves, OF the several rec
concentrations for its suppression,
contained in the message, the most
important is the passage Of an act
providing that in the Territories OF
the United States the fact that a
woman has been married to q per
son charged with bigamy shall not
disqualify her as witness upon his
trial for that ofense. In many cases
this would render the conviction OF
Offenders an easy matter, and would
be a strong weapon in the hands Of
the Govsrnment.-[Times Star.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

And Washington Irving, too! A
writer in the San Francisco Chroni-
Gle, who has wandered through the
mRzes of Japanese legendary litera-
tnre, makes the somewhat surprising
announcement that G popular and
charming legend ofLuwins the wood
cutter, bears such a striking resem-
blanee to rip Van Winkle," that
the latter appears to be a plagiarism
of the Oriental tale Times Star.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22
Given Away.

We can not help noticing the liberal
offer made to all inYalids and sufferers by
DR.. Kings New Discovery for COnsumP-
tion. You are requested to call atiSey bert
& Co.'s Drug Store, and get Trial Bottle
free Of cost, if you are suffering with Con-
sumption, Severe Coughs, Colds, Asthma,
Bronchitis, Hay Fever, Loss OF Voice,
HosrE0neHs, or any affection of the Throat
or Lungs It viii positively cure you.
dsc22tne17chW
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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

The Hebrews of New York propose
organizing an emigration society
equal to the task of providing for the
Russian exiIes who are arriving in
great numbers from Europe.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22
Mistaken for Consunlnrton.

We have known persons to doctor for
years for consumption, all to no effect.
Though they had a cough, felt pains in
the lungs, were depressed, weak, with
many other symptoms tending to that
disease, yet there was ne structural un-
soundness Of the lungs. These symptoms
were ali the painful ofsprings of a torpid
and diseased liver We could fill a voInme
with testimonials of thor ads so affected
who were permanent cured By taking
Simmons Liver Regulator.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

In a collision Sunday night on
the Toledo, Delphos gnd Burlington
Railroad, near Frankfort, o., a bad
wreck was caused. A fireman, Smith
ers of Madison, Ind, being killed, and
Joseph Redduck, Of Wilmington, o.,
.atally injured.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

The feeling of hostility against
citizens of Hebrew extraction seems
to be very violent in Russia. Sarah
Bernhardt's performance in a theater
at Odessa was stopped by a mob,
and the carriage in which she drove
and the hotel where she was stop
ping stoned, solely on account of her
descent.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

"A successful case of sKin-grafting
was done in NewbUrg, N. Y, recently.
DR.. Dey Invested the skin from q NUM-
Der of healthy persons and placed it on
a young girls arm, which had been
badly scalded, and now the engratLed
arm is entirely well and without scar or
hIemish.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

A Rochester strest-car horse shot
out with his heels the other day and
hit the driver with one and the cash
box with the other, and an investiga-
ton showed that he had kicked six
dollars into the drivers oYercoat
pocket. Such wonderful sagacity on
tho part Of the horse caused the dis
charge of the driver,-[Detroit Free
Press.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

According to returns made to the
Commissioner Of Internal Revenue,
up to May 81, 1881, Cincinnati pri-
vate banks had g capital Of 1924, =
317, deposits S5,421, 1858 National
bank capital S4,225,OOO. The CleVe-
land banks have capital Of S3,700,-
600.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

uIELsBU ROUGEL. OHIO.
THURSDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1881
Subscription Terms.

fragment invariably in advance. No papel
sent by mail longer than the time paid tOr.-szl
- an extra copy will be sent gratis, for every
cluhOt 10 subscribers at the above rates.
~ The above rates include postage prepaid al
tuis OCe on all papers sent to subscribers outside
Ol Highland county.
Subscribers who receive their papers 8 q
Isl with an marked opposite their name5 "
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20 All pOstmGsters are authorized to act as
Agents for the NEWS, to receive and forward sub
sCriptiOns.
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can renew their subscriptions conveniently by
handing the money to theirp postmaster.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

UNOR sALE-A New Cabinet Lathe, large size,
II suitable for Cabinet-Makers. Carpenters or
ChaiT-Makers. Made by Ephraim Brown, Lowell,
Mass. A Machine Shop, Carpenter shop snd
Turner Shop, all In one on wheels. A Patent Fret
Saw, Circular Saw, Boring, Drilling, Polishing,
Grinding and SCrew-Cuttiug Machine, combiu-
ed. Regular Manufacturers price, SO VIII he
sold for S3p cash. Apply at this Office. 6u
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

We usually leave il 10 doe
tors to recommend medicines, but Park
er's Ginger Tonic has been so useful in OUr
family in relieving sickness and suffering,
that we cannot say too much in its praise.
~ TSalsm Argus dse22W4
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

F. B. IilIey, an e1-Deputy Auditor
Of the .. S. Treasury, has been in
dicted for taking bribes, andG. E.
Brott for rendering them. These are
the first Star route indictments,
others will probably follow.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22
Correspondence Of the NEWS.
LETTER FROM AN OLD HIGHLANDER
IN MISSOURI.
HE CAN'T DO WITHOUT THE
NEWS.
DARLINGTON, Gentry Co., Mo,
Dec. 4. 1881.

DARLINGTON, Gentry Co., Mo, !
Dec. 4, 1881
EDITOR HIGHLAND News u once
knew lady who, in view of thefact
that she was getting no younger,
WAS continually speaking, even in
prayer meetings, Of "an aching void
in her heart, and as my memory
now serves me, her eyes at srch times
were generally directed toward some
manageable young man. I am in
her fix, fguratively speaking, for my
HIGHLAND News failed to appear last
week, and unless you have been
subscribers to so good paper, which
I doubt, and have missad it semi
occasionally, you can hardly realize
what an "aching void I feel. I
could not well do without the News.
After spending my youthful days and
the prime ofmy life in Highland and
Adams counties, where I always read
your paper, it seems to me like get
ting letter from home every week,
and before I send in my subscription
for next year, I will see how many
others can solicit to take the paper.
And now a word for Gentry coun-
ty, Missouri. The soil of this coun-
ty produces corn, wheat, oats, pota-
toes and grass. It is 9 good country
for fruit, yet fruit has failed this
year. The country has been rapidly
improving for the last five years, Two
railroads cross near the center of
our county. Many fourishing little
towns have sprung up at the differ
ent depots The town ofDarlington
is situated at the crossroads, and
would be a nice little townif all the
whisky-shops were taken out of the
place. I am sorry to say that they
sell and drink a great deal Of whisky
in this beautiful country, and many
ofour young men and boys are fast
travelling to the drunkard's grave.
Yours truly WIS CAMPBELL.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

The druggist who hOsitates now is lost
for the winter. Ho should sling togeth Ter
gome sweet oil and Hquorics and bring out
his cough cure at once. DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup does net pay him enough profit.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22
THE BEST REMEDY
Diseases Of The Throat and Lungs.

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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

4 lady, while gossiping with another
lately, said: ''WelI, She may say
that 1 have not been away for the sum
mer, but I've saved enough money for
the haudsOmest seal-skiu cloak on the
block"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

It would be supposed from its popu-
lGrity that only one substance is now
known to the world for the relief Of
rheumatism, and that is st. Jacobs OIL
TSt. Louis MOI DiEpatch.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

Many Wonder How. Parksr-s
Ginger Tonic can perform such varied
cures, thinking 1t simply essence Of gin
ger, when in fact 1t is made IRON many
valuable medicines which act beneicially
on every diseased organ. See other column.
deC22wt
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

The jury in the GUITEAU case con-
tains not a single ofioe-hoidef or
ofloe-seeker. The opinion seems to
prevail that it is an excellent jury,
much better, and composed of more
intelligent men, than the average
Jury.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

ssThere are Christian families"
saws the Examining Committee of tho
Boston Public Library in its last report
in which the Old Testament Is Tor
bidden book to the young
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

THIRTEEN colOred men will take
their seats in the Virginia LagisIa-
ture, a result of the recent Readjus-
ter victory. Their presence will make
the Bourbon Democracy sqUirm.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

WOMEN EVERYWHERE use Parker's Gin
ger Tonic, because they havelsarned from
experience that it overcomes dependency,
Indigestion, weakness in the back and
kidneys, and other troubles of the sex
Home Journal, decIW5
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

The Naval Advisory Beard after a
prolonged session, recommends steel
cruisers for the sea and iron-clads
for harbor defenses. S3O,OOO,OOO
will be asked to carry out the plan.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

The highest hopes and interest Of the
race rest on the purity, health and strength
OF womanhood. We take, pleasure IN re-
ferring our readers TO the remarkable eff
eacy Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound in all that class of diseases from
which women suffer so much. dec8W2
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

In Louisville, XIV, a committee Of
the Board of Trade met and adopted
resolutions recommending the intro
duotiou Of the penny system into
that city. At present the nickel is
the smallest coin in circulation there.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

The highest hopes and interests of the
race rest on the purity, health and strength
of womanhood. We take pleasure in re-
ferring our readers to the remarkable eff
eaoy Of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound in all that class of disease from
which women suffer SO much. decl5w2
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-12-22

A Statement from the Mayor.
MOLINE, H., July "A, 1881.
II. II. WAREEE & Co. Si-s-My wife
and self both unite in ProuOuncing your
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure the best
medicine we ever used.
dec22wI S. W. WHELsCE.
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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-10
OREGON.
kdyicss from cortland.

PORTLAND, October 9sh.-Edward Man
ming, sailor on the City of Chester, was
seized with commissions Friday, and died at
ST. Vincent's Hospital to-day of paralysis.
Nathan Burchard, residing six miles west
of this city, picked up giant powder cart.
ride yesterday, not knowing what it was. and
started to examine its contents BY cutting it
open with his pocket knife. He is short one
thumb and finger, and may lose his left hand.
A suit fer Islander in the sum of $4,000
has been brought by Katie thinner. a young
woman, against Mr.. and Mrs. j. L. Cham
pin, for utterances OF the latter through
which the betrothal of Miss thinner was
broken off.
On account Of the failure eff the builder TO
get the machinery done in the time agreed,
the Government dredger has not been able to
work this season. Consequently the bar at
the mouth OF the Willamette has grown
larger. Tie obstruction is only seventy FIVE
feet long. The Oregon Railroad and Navi-
CATION Company, at the suggestion Of Captain
Charles Powell, in charge OF the engineers
cfiice, has tende,ed the use Of the steamship
George W. Elder free for the purpose of
dredging this point, provided the expenses OF
fuel oil, etc, are paid. The Board of Trade
tomorrow night will consider the matter, and
probably appropriate sufficient amount to
clear this obstruction.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-10

SLAUGHTERING THE UNITIEs. the
drama of Gun Patriotic" now running at
the Gate in Paris, which is close adapsa-
ton of Cooper's Spy" a Lieutenant
Duncan escapes through the Introduction
into his guard house, in Westchester
county, of two monks, who. however,
prove to be his disguised friends. One of
these friends is negro slave, by the use OF
whose gown and cowl the escape is effected.
This, however. is no more absurd than was
Arditti's opera of La Spia, produced at
the Academy of Music about quarter of q
century ago, and in which General Wash
ington was basso and the Continental
troops constituted a chorus over British
wrongs in the Italian language It's music
was meritorious, but the "slaughter of
the unities compelled the most patriotic
auditors to roar with laughter in the
most pathetic parts of La Spia, which
was soon withdrawn. Bristow's Opera of
RIP Van Wrinkle" with hbretto by son
of Bishop Wainwright, and interpreted by
the Pyne- Harrison troupe, followed at
Niblo's Garden, and it received little
more regard than "La Spia." However
the rip" was in English, and the Dutch
ghosts of the Catskills sang in that language
very exceptionally. The same theme is to
be presented next November at the Folies
Dramatiques at Paris, and the opera is an
nounced as Rip Van Wrinkle, " its hbretto
by Meilhac and the music by Planquette.
What if the French should take hold of
Metamora," or " The Wept of the WISH
wish, and allow Partisan audiences to
enjoy aboriginal choruses and tender arias
from the dusky "maidens Of the forest %
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-10-10
A WaIrE ELEPHANT.

About three months ago the King Of
Siam received word from one of his pro-
vincial Governors that new deity, in the
captured in an outlying district OF the
kingdom, and was then on its way to
Bangkok. This glorious intelligence was
received with tnmultuous enthusiasm at
court. and his Majesty at once set out with
his Ministers, grand officers OF State,
and several Of the reversed clergy, to
welcome TIE approaching divinity. Not
far from the capital the two cayalcades
met. The King approached the elephant
with profound salutations, kneeled
and placed the creatures trunk upon his
head and then upon his shoulders, In token
of his homage and as a supplication Tor
blessing. After these touching cere-
monies had been concluded Q procession
was formed, with the King on the deitys
right flank, carrying drawn sword, and
priest on the left bearing a golden wand.
Thus the cortege entered the city. amid
salvoes Of artillery and general salute
from the royal troops, who were
drawn Up on either side Of the route
leading to the palace. Having es-
ccrted the elephant to its apartments,
the King formally bestowed upon his sacred
guest the rank OF "reigning monarch,
and decorated it with the Grand Gordon
of the Siamese Order bearing its own style
and title. The household OF the new deity
has since been organized upon truly royal
scale. Every article dedicated to the white
elephants use and service is of massive
gold or rare porcelain, and popular otfer.
ings to the value Of many thousands OF
pounds were deposited at its shrine before
it had been established forty-eight hours
in its splendid quarters Immediately ada.
cent to the Kings own private suite OF
apartments.