The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-01-26

THE annual product of precious met
ais in the States and Territories west Of the
Mississippi river, including British Columbia,
and the receipts at San Francisco from the
west coast Of Mexico, reported to Wells, Fargo
q Co., Is as follows: Gold S31, 1856, ,6S6; silver
$45, 40, 500. California shows an increase in
silver and a decrease in gold; Nevada shows
falling OF; Utah, Colorado and Arizona an
increase.
The General Assembly of Virginia APP
pointed a committee on the 18th to consider
the advisability Of abandoning Richmond,
owing to the smallpox scare.
A FIRE at Indianolia, H., on the 10th,
destroyed all the business houses on the west
side Of the public square.
GENERAL JAMES S. NEGLEY, Presi-
dent of the National Union League Of Amer
lea, has calleda meeting of the National Com
mittee of the League to meet in Washington
on the 9TH Of February. The meeting is an
nounced as an important one.
SECRETARY FRELNGHUYsEN received
cablegram on the 18th from the United
States Minister at Paris, in which he states
that the Under Secretary Of State thinks the
bill introduced In the French Chambers on the
l4th will result practically in the free admis-
that it would pass both houses at an early
date.
CONGRESSMAN FARwELL introduced a
bill on the 1sth to repeal the law imposing
taxes upon the deposits and capital Of
banks.
A DELEGATION of Miami Indians, from
the Indian Territory, is in Washington, en-
deavoring to secure legislation looking to
the allotment Of their lands in that territory.
THE Department of State has COM
munication from the Secretary OF State for
South Australia announcing that under an
amendment Of the medical laws of the colony
holders of foreign diplomas are entitled to be
registered there as duly qualified medical prac-
titiOners,
JAMES A. WMMOT, a farmer living
about two miles from Lancaster, KY, murder
ed his wife, mother aud two daughters, on the
18th, and eliminated the awful act by hanging
himself.
JAMES T. WILSON was chosen as
United States Senator from iowa on the 18th.
JACOB CHAPMAN, a colored man, SEN
fenced 10 be hanged on the Goth, escaped from
the Bellevue, La, jail on the 18th. He was
aided by friends on the outside.
KoURsE's Touring mill, at MiIlhau-
sen, seven miles south Of Greensburg,
Ind, was burned on the 18th. Loss $1,000
no insurance.
HmLIARD & STEWARDS foundry, a
three-story iron-clad building, $50 by so feet,
at Pittsburgh, was totally destroyed by fire on
the 17th
The mercury was twenty-four degrees
below zero at Concord, N. H., on the nth.
The fourteenth annual convention of
the National Woman Suffrage Association be-
gan its session at Washington on the 18th.
The attendance Of delegates was large, twenty
states and several Territories we're represent
ed.
The President appointed John A.
Bigelow Marshal Of the Consular Courts Of
the United States in Turkey on the 18th.
DIR. DE WOLF, Health Commissioner
Of Chicago, said on the 18th, that unless the
people Of that city protect themselves by vac
cinatlon not man, woman or child will be
safe from the disease.
THE Grand Encampment Of Ohio Of
the Grand Army Of the Republic, met at Gin
cinnau on the 10Th. The following officers