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

gates ss.OJUUuO. ANA the society has AN
annual income Of 100000 There are bnt |
twenty members left, all OF whom are men .
seventy years Of age. Spedels father and /
and mother were among tine original emil |
grants with George Rapps Society in lSO5. |
THE Committee appointed by the Con- |
vention Of members of the Kansas Legis, |
lature, held at Abilene a few days ago, to |
consider the subject of railroad legislation, !
met at Grand Junction on the 18th, and |
issued a short address, asking farmers,
shippers. and all others having knowledge
Of determinations against places or in
dividuals in matters of freight or passenger
rates by railroads, 10 send such information
to the Committee, so that IL may be laid
before an adjourned meeting OF the Con-
vention to be held at Topeka January 4,
and also submitted to the Legislature.
Postmaster GENERAL HowE has issued an
order to all postmasters, notifying them
that the section of tho postal laws govern
ing the exclusion of obscene matter from
the mails is amended 50 that hereafter
when any postmaster is in doubt whether
certain publications come within the stat
ute the question shall be submitted to the
United States District Attorney in whose
district the postoHicc is situated, instead
Of to the First Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, as has been the custom.
J. Ross ALEXANDER, of Belmont County,
Ohio who was defeated for Congress by the
late Dr. Updegraf last October, has re-
ceived the Democratic nomination for both
the terms made vacant by DR.. UpdegrafTs
death.
THE President has nominated Henry
Jessup, Of New York, to be Consul-General
for Teheran, Persia
HALE GRANGE, Patrons Of Husbandry, in
session at Boston on the 18th, asks Con-
gress to repeal the law of 1879, allowing
vinegar manufacturers to use sour mash
from distilleries.
TIE case of Mrs. Scoville, recently ad-
judged insane and then granted a new
trial, at Chicago, has been stricken from
| the docket by agreement. 1t is reported
the unhappy couple have been reunited.
DE-. FORBES, of jefferson Medical College
Philadelphia, has been indicted for com
plicity in the grave-robbing that has re-
Gently been practiced in and around that
city
ARTICLES Of incorporation of the Con-
solidated Vanderbilt Mining Company
were filed at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the
18th capital 81 ,2OO, 900, in twelve hundred
shares The object of the corporation is
to do a general mining business in New
Mexico and elsewhere.
n. W. FITZGERALD, Washington Pension
Agent, arrested on a requistion from the
Governor Of Kentucky, has been released
from custody, but will visit Kentucky to
answer the charges
THE New York Republican Central Com
mittee has referred proposition to strike
out the pledge requiring support to all
! nominees in its constitution to the various
associations for action.
THE glove match that was to have taken
place in Chicago on the 22d between John
| L. Sullivan and Jim Elliott was prOhib-
tied by the Grand Jury, and the fight is
off
The Court Of Appeals of Virginia has
rendered a decision in the Petersburg man
damuS cases, which abolished the dual
municipal administration existing there
since the 1st of last July. The decision is
in favor of Virginius Johnson, Democrat,
who contested the right of f. W. Couch,
Readjuster, for Treasurer of the city.
THRoUeH the use of $3.50, 600 of the funds
of the City Bank, of Rochester, by its Presi-
dent, c. e. Upton, to carry on oil specula-
tiOns, the bank on the Goth closed its doors.
The amount Of deposits is stated at $780,,
900, and amount Of paper held by the bank
$500, 900.
THE Grand Jury at Louisville on the
Goth returned ten indictments against par.
ties in the City Hall, alleged to be con.
nected with the fraudulent practices dur,
ing 1879
JOHN r. BUCHTEL has sold 5000, 900 worth
Of stock in the Buckeye Mower and Reaper
Works, at Akron, o., to Lewis Miller &
| Sons, in order to endoW with 100000
Buchtel College, Of which he is the
| founder.