The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-08-16

Kelly and S. W. Horseman.
Trustees Of Cemei9y-Jos. Cohn, r. s.. Bo-
ner and j. D.. Ladd
Post WdSitY'-JOs. tOhu.
Mail Carrier john Ursel
Manager Omnibus Line r. Mercer Con
ductor. v. Mercer.
Sapt SchOois-D. s. Furgersou
Pastor NJ h. ChJUo, ,-Pev Black.
Old corn is very scarce among the
farmers now.
Dr. Patton has his eye out for a To-
cation for a store.
Elijah Vanpelt will not teach
school this fall and winter.
The show at Washington c. H. :
o., Friday, drew a few from this
place and adjacent country.
Some of the wheat going to mar
ket is in damp condition, and the
sellers are being doCked therefor.
David Johnson and wife, of near
Samantha, visited their daughter,
Mrs. John Sylvester, in Sabina, last
week
The beautiful and accomplished
daughters of Mr.. Jacob Iilliard, of
Leesburg, were visitors in our city
last Friday.
William Sanders, editor and gen
eral manager Of the Sabina NszUS,
favored this city with his presence
last Thursday.
Emmit Snow, Manassas Borer and
TWO or three companions from up in
the edge Of Clinton county, were in
town last Saturday evening, and all
drunk.
Frank Woodmansee talks of going
to Kansas to see if Greeley knew
what he was talking about, when he
said "Go West! young man, go
West !"
The little boys of our village are
reaping harvest, burning wool for
Joseph Cohn. They receive five
cents per fleece, and by this means
will be able to attend, all shows o.
the season.
In the rear of the Friends Church
is the commons. About seven after
moons out of every week, the "bricR
pressers" of our burg, while away
'life's happy hours" playing croquet
Go it while you're young
Mr.. Autram, Of the firm Of Antran
& Eyke, Washington c. H., O., wa
in this neighborhood last week, look
ing after some large lots of unsolc
wool. Mr.. Antram is working fo
the Commission House of Harring
ton & Simonds, Boston, Mass.
We can not help wondering VIII,
it is that all the beer drinking dom
in this place is always saddled off OF
one or two poor devils, who werI
never taught a better way. Two o
three fellows can't drink all the in
toxicants shipped here. Surely Their
is a le7k some where.
We presume our city will be rep
resented at Wilmington this week, a
/, the fair commenced there Tuesday
J 18th inst. The Sabina Fair take
place next week, and as it has such
good reputation, it is bound to draw
immense crowds of people from al
parts of the State.
\ Our worthy marshal, Charlie
Z Clark, undertook to arrest Johl
Robinson one night last week, 70
4 drunkenness and disorderly con
3 duct, and it appears the undertaking
so gobered Robinson that he becam
, all at once very fleet of foot, and s.
\ great was the elasticity of his hee
J that it enabled him to get away.
One evening last week, just as tn
great King of Day was throwing hi
last rays Of golden light and dazzling
sunshine over the ripening earth, owe
fields of corn and wheat, over hill
locks rich in bloom and fragrance
with the wild for-get-me-nots Of sum
mer, filled with dewy tear drops, re
necting on the leafy trees and tipte
sky, the glorious beauty of the man
culorg of the rainbow ) as the cul
!. ieu toled the knell of parting days i
that serene and placid hour, III
rumble and rattle Of a wagon, tn
click and clang Of upshOdden hooi
4 were heard, The gentle zephyrs c
the south which were tanning ava
the bIistering heat Of this dying sum
mer day brought to our ears the TO
lowing melodious strain, rendered a
it were, by'a grand chorus of hur
dred voices
"Satan grabbed, but he grabbed in vain,
put on the golden shoesi
, He uCber grabbed at me again, TO put on I'll
} golden shoes.
Den knelt down to say my prayers, to pJ
ON the golden shoes,
And walked right up de golden stairs 70 pJ
on the golden shoes
At this juncture the wagon and il
duskey-hued occupants drew u
alongside Of US, and we were thereb
enabled to take a fore and aft vie,
of the whole riggin." In the fore
ground sat the father and mothe
will a child upon each knee; benin
Them in the bed of the rickety wago
.,d stood childran of y,