The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-11-24
ALL SORTS.

A bald-eagle was recently caught at
Wilmington, Del, while trying to car
~ off q large Newfoundland dog.
Thirteen hundred sheep, with their
shepherds, were recently overwhelmed
by an avalanche, near Brigel, in the
| GrisOns.
The majority of the girls married in
| Warren county, Kentucky, last year
were mere children, their ages running
from 13 to IS.
The Washington telegraph Office
sent 30, 81 words for the newspapers,
ana 10, 223 private dispatches on the
/ dav of the presidents assassination.
Fred Lulzman, a survivor of Water
loo, died recently at Louisville, Ky, ut
the age of "a years. At the battle of
Waterloo he received bayonet thrust
in the side.
According to the Cyprus Times, To-
Gusts eggs, which would have pro-
duced 2, $50. .472, 500 live insects, have
been destroyed in the island during
this year.
A man in Hyde Park, Pa, has three
wives living in the town. He is es-
| tranged from one of them, but lives
amicablY with the other two. and no
body seems to think anything of it.
The Wheelwright estate of Newbury-
| port will soon be settled. Mr.. Wheel
wright left 100000 to form a scien-
tifc school there, but the estate has
deprecated till hardly 100000 will be
realized,
A blacksmith in TitusYille noticed
oil in his potato patch, and dug several
holes in which it could accumulate.
For several days he has been dipping
/ from two to three barrels of oil out of
these holes.
Nevada, which has been backward in
the raising of vegetables, and which
has had few such gardens as may be
seen in Utah, is beginning to furnish
| garden-truck which is superior to that
sent from California.
An old lady at Wheeling, w. Va,
| dying a short time ago, cheerfully
! promised her children that she would
come back to them. Now they have
moved, bag and baggage, out of the
house, as the spoOks have made it q
kind of rendezvous.
On a cliff near Rincon point, in
Ventura county, California, the rocks
are so hot as to be unbearable to the
naked hand. Sulphur fumes are also
noticeable in that locality, and from all
indications fierce fire is raging below
| the surface.
As considerable doubt is still enter.
tanned as to whether the late sultan
was really murdered, it has been suE-
! gested that his body should be exhumed,
| in order to ascertain whether it bears
the marks of violence described in the
evidence given at the trial.
The seed of the beautiful wild flower
generally known as the shooting star
or prairie pointer, have little vitality
and will not ordinarily germinate IF
kept from the time they ripen until
planting time in spring. They should
be sOwn as soon as they ripen on we'll
prepared ground.
A somewhat erratio correspondent
OF New Hampshire paper at the state
capital says that the present is the first
! legislature he ever saw in which there
are absolutely no party lines. SIT is
very much like the Massachusetts as
selnbly," he says, ''in which twO-thirds
of the republicans are democrats, and
all the democrats are two-thirds repub-
/ licans."
Mr.. Ayrton, formerly commissioner
of works in London, has attained the
distinction of having his effigy placed
in st. PauI's Cathedral during his life
time. He had a dispute with the late
Alfred Stevens, the sculptor Of the
Wellington monument in st. PauPs,
and the artist took a savage pleasure
in making the face of ''FaIsehOOdn in
thot work reprAseDt Mr.. AYrton.