The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-12-27

, The Public Schools closed Yesterday until
/ Tuesday Jan. 2, 83, and the children are
! happy. The afternoon was spent in appro-
| pirate literary exercises and distributing the
numerous presents from the Christmas tree.
+ This coming week is the week Of james Tay-
lor's regular annual visit to everybody IN town
/ and vicinity, to collect the salary Of the iani-
| tor Of the church. SO pull the weasle and
/ shell out the scheckles. for James is a good
| hand TO beg money for such things
A Mrs, Haines daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs
| Elias Easter died Of consumption at the resi-
dence Of her parents, south Of town on the
! Hlllsbur0 pike one day last week and was bur
| led IN Fairfield cemetery on Thursday She
leaves a husband 20 mourn her loss
The breaking Of a car wheel about one mile
west OF town last Tuesday morning, caused a
wreck Of car load Of hogs belonging to some
| Cincinnati gentleman. several Of the hogs
| were killed and the train which finally made
the siding here was delayed several hours by
| the accident.
Samuel G. Teter has kindly furnished us the
following statistics concerning the shipping
from this point during the year Just closing:
Cattle shipped since January Cd 1916: Hogs
| $500; Sheep B 45O. Charles Turner shipped Oh
this number; Cattle S7O; Hogs 8 $40; Sheep
l53J. Since the above was completed there
have been several car loads Of stock shipped.
We understand that the colored folks intend
| having Christmas tree at their schOol-house
south of town next Monday evening, and that
there will also be festival given at the same
time. 1t is to be hoped that it will pass of
without any fighting this time The colored
people here seem peculiarly unfortunate in
That nearly every festival or entertainment they
have the affair winds up with one or two
mashed heads and general fight.
The community was considerably shocked
last Sunday evening by the sudden death of
: the wife Of James otoOp in the 6Sth year Of
81 h4I ufEHn hoo 4
o. afterwards lay down to take a nap. At eight
{ O'Clock thinking that she should be walked up,
some OF the family went to her bed room
where they found her a corpse. The funeral
I services we're conducted at the NJ. E. church at
Ceuterteld on Tuesday by Rev. W. H Sanders
after which the remains were deposited in the
2 Crispin cemetery.
some strange freaks Of nature have been
occurring in TINS community of late. such
things fodder shocks, corn and the like,
. have been taking unto themselves feet and legs
! and walking away in the night time, and dis
= appearlng as securely as the negroes used to by
means of the underground railroad. Nathan
Chalfant has been SUFFERING from such strange
freaks lately. A short time since one of his fat
hogs, weighing probably three hundred and
nifty pounds, spirited away and failed to
return. one day this week as a couple of men
/ were hauling some straw from rick on his
farm, they uncovered the head and hide Of
said hog in the straw. The fellows that stole
it could not 80 the whole hog.
The criminal carelessness displayed by the
. lpOBtal clerks almost every day ON the fast mail
trains that pass through here is causing much
! comment Every few days some one narrowly
p escapes injury from the mail sack as it is
thrown of while the train is passing at the rate
Of about forty miles per hour. few days
n since Joshua Manifold, an aged man residing
! on West Main street, was standing on the plat
r form at the depot when the East bound fast
lime passed. The mail sack was thrown of and
Igfrilrrg4u with f1TIl fHrra knocked him
platform, and he fell cutting his face in ter
10 rible manner, breaking one or two ribs and
lcau7ing some Internal injuries, 1t Is feared.
T., | lie has been confined to his room most of the
Il time since. Every few days package Of pa
Il pers or a mail sack is hurled at some one, and
r it is hign time something were done to prevent
lit.
Under the stern hand of the law last Satur-
- day after we had mailed our letter, solomon
~ ilascuck and wife, whose hair IS all sllyered
b DER for the grave, and bending under the in.
hrmities Of more than eighty summers and at
" many winters, were placed with their house
D, hold goods in the street in front of the house
d IN which Mrs. @. has spent the past fifty years
e. Of her life. As the aged couple stood beside
their goods that stormy afternoon with the
: mercury twenty degrees below freezing poorly
NJ clad houseless and homeless, without the
s means TO buy loaf of bread and seemingly
destitute Of friends. they sadly called to the
mind of the passerhy viii Carletons popular
lg poem cover the Hills to the PoOrhOuse," and
n .uuld the parties who have been instrumental
"a bringing them SO low have such a thing a.
~ conscience in their make up, it surely die
\, suffer some pangs when they witnessed thu
IN sight Nh. Abner Smith, nephew of Mrs
!" Us, is now entertaining her at his residenc,
north of town, while Mr.. GlGsCOck is living il
ne 4 warehouse here in town.
''u 1t becomes our sad duty to record the deatl
~ f another one of our substantial farmers
George Ludd, only son of Jacob Ladd, wit
n lied Of heart disease last Thursday evening a
he | lis home one and a half miles south Of town a
he | Jhe age Of A years One Thursday Afternoon
ne had made two trips to town with his hogs
M, which he was delivering ut the atockyards here
M While having the last bunch weighed late il
~ the evening, he was attacked with heart dis
rr .ase, with which he had been troubled cOnsid
- -lUhly during the past year. He recoyere
efficiently to go to his home, but in less tha
lE ten minutes after arriving he dropped dea
ls from his chair. surrounded by his WIFE, Chi
o. Iron and aged parents, who resided with hin
Mr.. Ladd was @ kind father and husband, an
to rhu only stay of his parents, who are now tot
is -ering under the lnhmahes Of old age. As
he man of business he was upright and prOmp
ls and by his square dealings and manly depOr
-, ueut had formed a large circle of friend
y The funeral services were conducted by JOsep
~ | Wright, of New Vienna, at Fairfield Friend
~ meeting house, of which church he was a men
Do Der by virtue of his birth. His father, Jacu
Ladd, is at the head of the meeting here. III
he funeral was largely attended considering II
on inclemency of the weather.