The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-04-20

as Russian Ambassador at Paris. The report
creates O most uniavorable impression.
THE Minister Of the Imperial house
hold has issued private circular announcing
the coronation Of the Czar TO take place in
August, and that by the Imperial command Of
an dignitariea Of the Empire they must attend
the ceremony at Moscow. Festivities will last
q fortnight and &c Is estimated the expenses
viii amount TO 100000 roubles. The cele.
bration when the late Gar was crowned lasted
a month, and cost iS, 900, 600 roubles.
DIR. HERMAN SCHROEDER, the recog-
niEed authority on fruit, says the damage to
fruit throughout Central Illinois is much
greater than is generally supposed.
THE Council BluGs Noapard publishes re-
ports Of the wheat crop from western Iowa,
which show that little winter wheat has been
soWn but the prospect is very 1attering. No
locality leports less wheat sowu than last year
and In some cases the acreage is thirty-three
and one-third per cent. greater.
Mr.. UPDEGRAFF obtained the floor
as soon as the House went into Committee Of
the Whole on the 18Th and finished his re-
marks upon the tariff question. He devoted
himself entirely to the effect Of the tariff upon
agricultural matters, and spoke especially OF
it's effects upon the wool growing districts OF
the United states. His sta ements we're
clear aud eminently practical, and his tables
Of considerable value, inasmuch as they
were obtained at the census office in advance
OF the regular issue Of the work Of that
bureau. He showed that in 1850 there we're in
the United States twenty.three millions Of
sheep which produced an aggregate OF htty-
nine million pounds Of wool, while in 1850
there we're Al, $50, 600 sheep, yielding product
I'm wool of two hundred and seventy million
pounds. In the twenty-fOur years preceding
the war the production of wool increased forty
per cent In the last twenty years, or since
1850, the increase I'm the amount Of wool,
without a corresp nding increase I'm the num-
Der Of sleep, had been over 400 per cent. In
short the improved stock and increased knOwl-
edge Ofsheep raising had increased the product
four and one-half times.
CAPTAIN HENRY HowGATE, ex-Signal
officer, who had been in jail at Washington
some months on the charge Of embezzling
large sums Of money from the Government,
escaped on the 18th, He had been allowed
frequently to go and see his family under
guard, and on this occasion was accompanied
by his daughter, and guarded by court bailiif.
While at home he stepped into another room
and was gone so long that the bailin became
alarmed, went in and questioned the daughter.
She was alone. She replied that her father had
gone out for a walk and would return soon.
The bailin rushed to the street, but could
not see his prisoner, and at once gave
the alarm 10 Lne ponce, Wnlcu WAb
communicated to other cities at once.
S. P. ROUNDS, the new public printer,
entered upon his duties on the 13 h. He con-
templates but few changes in the clerical force
and among the heads OF departments.
The Treasury Department on the 18th
purchased $4,000 ounces Of fine silver for the
Philadelphia and San Francisco mints.
The exports of domestic breadstufs
for the nine months ended March 81, 1889, was
S147, 7O1, ,367; same period the preceding year,
S2O4, ,729, ISL.