The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-10-31

scattered over miles OF vast grazing
plains. He counted his houses and
farms, too, by the score, and up to
the day of his death, kept all of his
vast possessions under his personal
supervision.
Many curious stories are told Of
the old farmer prince and his ecCen-
trio ways. He was a peasant to the
core, in spite Of his enormous wealth,
and looked it. At one time he bid
at an auction sale Of oxen, which,
according to Hungarian fashion, were
put up by yokes. There we're 500
yokes, and the old man bought the
whole 6oo beasts. The auctiOneer
was q stranger. and when the miser-
able, shabby little granger who had
bid so steadily was pointed out to
him he waxed wroth.
'Joscf Weyer," he said, "do you
not know that it is forbidden by law
to hoax a public auctioneer ?"
"Sursly, sir, surely" was the reply
"The price Of these oxen you have
bid for must be paid down Cash !
do you understand? Cash :"
The old man dived into the breast
Of his dIngy Dolman, hauled out a
ragged old blue silk handkerchief
and without a word counted ont q
pile Of one thousand gulden notes,
that made the auctioneer's mouth
water.
"Its a pity you have no more
bullocks," he said, as he rolled the
remaining notes up and stuffed them
back into his breast; Il was in
hopes to buy a thousand or So"
During the state Of siege which
succeeded the Hungarian revolution
an ediCt was enacted forbidding the
peasants Of the Thesis Valley to use
saddle horses without a special per
NIT from the military Governor.
One day some gems d'armes over
took Josef Weyer riding along some
twenty miles from Szentes, on his
favorite horse, and demanded his
pass.
at is at my home in Szentes," he
said.
Indeed And how Is it that you
venture to anront the law by travel
ing without a pass p
"Traveling2 Why I am not trav-
cling. am only visiting my
estates"
The gems darmes grnned. They
fancied they had a prize in this old
fbeggaE, who, with a sweep of his
hand, claimed proprietorship to a
| dozen leagues of land. Perhaps he
was even one of the DREADED revolu.
tionists. At any r1te they arrested
him, laughed AZ his request to send
to his house for his pass, and as the
judge was busy ordering insurgent:
of by patches TO the fortress or the
! grave, he was locked up for severa
| days He did not grumbIe, and
true to his busy instincts, pottereC
! around the jail doing light chores
till a small official who knew hin
found him cleaning 4 window.
! "Gocd heavens, Herr Weyer," h,
exclaimed, "what are you doing
/ here ?"
"Don't you see, my son ? Clean
ing the windows. The gems d'arme
arrested me because l had no pass.
The man secured his release q
once. 4 short time afterward, o.
/ the day of his marriage, lawye
handed him the deeds of a cOmfor
/ able little farm and ten COWS an
oxen. Old Josef Weyer had NO
forgotten the good turn he had don
him.
Weyer purchased his first farr
} | from Count Steven Karoly, who le
him have it on easy terms, in vie'
.of his poverty. Marshal Hayna
fined tine Count a half millioa guide
for befriending Kossuth, after tn
capture Of Ofen by the Imperi.
troops. The Counts resources weI
badly crippled at the time, and b
steward was in desp-ir at his inabi
iry TO make up tie amount of tn
imposition, when a little old mai
smelling Tankly OF dung and sol
milk, called On him and stated thi
, he had heard Count Steven wante
Ito borrow some money.
t "W4l," what business of yours
g tha. /"
s 81 thought / might help a ittl
Z sir. The Countwas a good friend
n me once-God bless him and
IS would like to help him if 1 could
e "The steward laughed heartily.
r "Why, my dear fellow, do yC
n know now much money the Cou
- needs ?"
Ir Excuse memo, sir.
"TwO hundred thousand guide
Do you know how much money tn
Isl ?"
lt 'Look Look ?" muttered the O
,T. man, scratching his ear. "Why
st haven't brought that much mon
a with me, to be sure"
r. 81 should fancy not"
lt "But here is a hundred and eigh
.e thousand. Tu go tome and bri
M the rest In the morning"
,y Josef Neyer was assassinated me
N brutally by "a drunken vagabond
he a public house in Szentes. T
p, miscreant, who was mad drunk, "