The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-11-24
GHLAND COUNTY, OHIO THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24 1881

Six hundred and fifteen out of one
thousand one hundred and seventeen
Boston teachers have replied to a cir
cular asking their opinion of the ad-
visibility of forming q relief assOcia-
tiOn for aged and infirm teachers. -Four
hundred and twenty-eight favor it, but
only two hundred and twenty are will
ing to join.
A successor to the title and estates of
the late earl of Mar has appeared in
the person of q young workman in the
car-shOps at London, Ontario, by
name John Francis Erskiue. He is
said to possess strong evidence to sub
stantiate his claim, including various
physical characteristics corresponding
to the traditional strawberry mark. He
has visited Scotland, and there obtained
sufficient encouragement to warrant
him placing his case in the hands of
the lawyers.
A report comes from the west coast
of Africa that severn men have been
sentenced to death at Old Calabar for
murders committed under most afro
CiOus circumstances. The men in
HAI9LAcAA8 WIZ OLC LAtLbA q Va lLAG JAttNDs
dressed themselves in tigers skins and
lay in wait for their victims. whom they
killed with great brutality. This sys-
tom Of mL5ly-, - has been going on for
some time, and the Pc se.t.,'otOrs are
called ''men tigers"
Miss Jean Burnside (Carr), the ac-
tress, is mentioned as one of the few
heirs of the estate of S5,000,00O of the
late John Burnside, of New Orleans,
who is believed to have left no will.
Mr.. Burnside was an eccentric old
bachelor, who was thought to be mi
serly by some of his fellOw-eitizens,
because he didn't contribute to every
charitable project mentioned to him.
He once gave, however, S5OO,0O0 to
the state Of Louisiana, to be devoted to
charitable purposes.
The Charleston Is. c. WeWS: ''TEe
two battle-hags which were displayed at
Fort Sumter during the great sixty
days bOmbarlment, while Capt. HUI
gUenin was in command, were sent
away with his private baggage on the
night preceding the evacuation, and
are now in the custody of the Wash
ingtOn light infantry and the Sumter
guards Of this city. The flag which
was set on the last day that the fort
was held, and was lowered on the
evening of the 18th, upon the firing Of
the sunset gun, and which had never
been fired at by the federal batteries,
was turned over to Capt. Huguenin's
brigade commander, Col. Alfred Rhett,
at Strawberry Ferry, where Capt. HUI
guenin reported to him for duty"
An English provincial newspaper
announces that one of the numerous
journals of London recently
had a staff dinner, an accurate account
Of which would be much more enter
tanning than anything which has ap-
peared in its columns. The feast be-
gan with every mark of amity, and
ended amid q shower of tunblers, wine- /
glasses, and fragments of broken
chairs. A distinguished and popular
journalist who had recently joined the
staff was severely maltreated. The
question upon which the company ap-
Dealed to a crockery and furniture war;
fare was whether Mr.. Edwin Arnold
is or is not a poet. War is the court |
Of last resort, but unfortunately in this
Instance the world does not know
which side won. L
Rhode Island is no longer q sort Of
Iretua Green where people can marry
in haste to repent at leisure. The new |
law requiring a certificate,
which IS only granted after a strict eI-
animation as to both of the contracting !
parties, went into operation on the 1st
nst. Old hands at the game of matri-
nony approve of the law, and march |
Up to the registrars Office without a
remOr, but young and bashful lovers !
Ire generally unserved by the ordeal, !
md it is rUmOred that several have re- |
reated ANONYMOUSLY almost from the
steps of the altar. Fugitive lovers
rom other states, who have hitherto
Ouud q Rhode Island justice of the
peace an accommodating and efficient |
lccompliCe, must needs look elsewhere !
or an easy and convenient statute.