The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-08-11
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The following report Of the uni7ersi-
ty bOat-race appeared in q Constantine
pie journal: ''Putney Races. The
horse Cambridge won by q neck"
A number Of Germans living in Utica
have organized a society whose object
is to make Sunday trips on foot into the
country to enjoy the fresh air.
The furniture in the Washington
dwelling Of the late Fernando Wood
has been sold at auction It brought
about one-third the prices originally
paid for it.
Shakspeare's works are being rem
dered into the ElalO-Russian language
by a well-knOwn writer in the dialect,
N. Kulish, who has already completed
q translation Of six Of the plays.
Partial record Of the livestock inter
ests Of Texas show a yearly yield Of
something over 4OO, 900 head Of cattle.
Eight dollars per head is about the av-
erage market price at San Antonio.
The report that the Empress Eugene
recently passed through Paris on her
way to Milan Tor the unwilling Of the
statue Of Napoleon III, Is untrue. She
has not left England.
The oldest postmaster in The union is
Edward Stabler, of Sandy Spring,
Montgomery county, Nd. He has held
that Office ffty-one years, and has been
under eighteen acknowledgement
He is 81 years old. and still lives in the
house in which he was born.
Herbert Bismark, for whom the dip
lomalic cloak Of his father is intended,
has been induced By the remonsrances
of his family to abandon the wife
of Prince CorOlath Benthom. with
whom he ran away. The erring lady
is in Venice, living, or rather, it is
said, dying, in a small hotel.
Mr.. J. Pettibone, Of Baltimore, has
sued the American Rapid Telegraph
company for $4,000, claimed rs dam
aces for the nOu-deliyery of q telegram
| in Washington. It's said that the mes
sage was given to 8 boy in Washington
to deliver, but the boy got into a fight
on the way and lost it.
A New York paper says that SalYini
has broken through a rule by permit
/ ting an artist Of SclT5Hei's to take his
portrait for that magazine. Whether
| this be true or not, q remarkably strik-
ing photograph Of the great Italian,
| taken by GuteSunst, of Philadelphia,
has long been in existence.
At the depot in Wes. Cornwall, Ny,
recently, people were stupeHed at see
I ing q young woman attempt the diff
cult feat Of entering the car through
the window She had never before
seen a railroad train, having lived in
the inland country, and said she thought
| that was the regular method Of ingress.
She is about 20 years Of age.
Several of Gounod's operas were writ
ten on subjects suggested himself A
good librettO, he declares, is one (which
excites my mind, feyers it until It
brings forth a work" The ''Reine De
de saba was written because one day
the name Queen Balkis struck him
and reused in him a whole world Of pO-
etieal and symphonic Thoughts.
One Of the youngest church ediices
in the United Utates has the oldest stee-
pie. 1t is the Episcopal church ut Ia
cunsia, Washington Territory. The
building is Of logs and the tower is a
tall fir tree which has been cut Of forty
feet from the ground, on the top Of
which is a cross and bell. The rings OF
the tree show 1t to be three hundred
years old.
The St. Petersburg correspondent Of
the London Standard writes: &c
where you viii, from the White ses to
the Black, from the Danube to the
Amoor, the peasants arc awakening
/ from the deathlike slumber Of centuries.
The springtims Of national life is dawn
ing. The trees still look withersd and
dead; the winter snow yet whitens the
ground; chilly slset hustlos through the
branches; but the sap is rising; leaves,
blossoms, and fruit viii soon spring
forth. What the crop viii 10 depends
mainly on the decisions that must short.
lY be takeu."