The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1882-06-29
June %, 1882.

trade he sold one-half of his interest
to Charles Woodmansee, Of New
Lexington, who will proceed at once
to Perry county and remain in
charge Of the business Of the firm.
Leonard Pensyl, proprietor of the
general store and post office at Car
eytown, has placed the News under
obligations for the interest he takes
in its rapidly increasing list of sub
.scribers in that neighborhood. Be
sides being engaged in the grocery
trade, Mr.. Pensyl is the half owner
of a steam saw mill one mile east of
Careytown, which is at work on wal
nut and oak lumber, for Richardson
& Co., of Wilmington.
Cass Wright, so well known about
here as a fine performer on the violin,
and a genial and clever gentleman
socially, has received an offer from
| Colonel McKeever, of the War De
partment at Washington D. c., Of a
clerkship in that department, at a
salary Of Sr25 per month. He is in
debted to General Morrow, an Off
! Ger now on the staff of General
, Sherman, for the proffer Of this po-
sition, whom he served under in
the department Of New Mexico.
Mr. Wright will probably enter upon
his new duties about the first Of the
coming September.
W. B. Worrell, who will be eremem-
bered as an old clerk at s. w. Hor-
5Onan's store, has returned to this
village and engaged in the grocery
trade at the old stand of Mercer &
Co. Mr.. Worrell left here in 1871,
and removed to Pennsville, Morgan
county, Ohio, where he was in the
hardware and grocery trade until
last November, when he moved to
Bartlett, Washington county, and
Engaged in the buying of grain and
milling. Mr.. Worrell came here or
a visit, after trading his mill for the
/ Indiana lands, mentioned elsewhere,
and while here disposed Of them tc
| Jason Mercer.
Hearing reports Of the great de.
struction by the army worm in the
coming wheat crop, on the farm o.
Samuel Mcclure, just north Of town
4 your corresp0ndent- made vista tc
the fields said to be so seriously in
jured, and found the accounts some
what exaggerated. 1t was reported
that they were there in countless
numbers, but close investigation
failed to discover the presence o
the army worm, whom your CORE
E spondent Aatters himself he woulC
be able to recognize. He did see
however, about 50 or 90 caterpillars
OF cut worms, devouring the blade
Of the wheat, but in no instance die
he see them make any impression OF
the grains in the heads Of the wheat
The reported appearing and as rap
idly disappearing of the worm as
sures me that there is nothing bu
an unfounded scare in the Who'll,
business.
Our old friend, DR.. Richardson, o
Careytown, is fast becoming a notet
archeologist. His cabinet of curl
osities is daily visited by others whc
have not been as fortunate as the
f Doctor in their collections, and i
the theme of much speculation as t,
their origin, as well rs COngratula
tions for the Doctor, at being tht
possessor of so many valuable am,
interesting relics Of pre-histori,
times. Among the Doctors lates
acquisitions is a tablet, as it is called
of the mound builders, which wa
found on the Samp. Simpson, farm i
Union township, Monday, June I9
The tablet is of a kind of ston
known to geologists as churte, an,
is undoubtedly one Of their variou
modes of record or computation. ]
f is about 3 inches long by "a inche
+ wide, and has at one end two leg
about ? inches high, which incline
the face at an angle Of about As d,
, grees. The face has a turned u
r edge of an inch in hight, and has o
- either side three raised knobs, an
D., on the elevated end are eight notche
e cut in the end of the tablet Beside
Y this, there are two holes in the Ger
ter of the piece, and between tn
" knobs are also notches oflittle deptl
{ with other pecuHarities Of which W
e cannot give the particulars.