The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-12-03

merry OF HllisDoro. Everybody in Hills
boro knows all about Springfield, and so
I'll say no more about it,
Next we skip down through the mining
regions Of the Hooking Valley, visiting
Logan, Nelsonville, Athens, and elsewhere
and also Marietta, Ohio, and Parkersburg
w. Va. From Gallipolis to Portsmouth
we Travelled on the steamer Rosedals. The
water was very low and about two miles
above Huntington, W. Va, we got stuck
on bar, and there L saw one of the most
absurd sights 1 ever beheld. The deck
hands bad to take shovels and get out in
the middle Of the river and shovel the mud
and sand ont from under the boat, This
story will not seem so unlikely when I tell
| you that the water was only two feet deep
From Portsmouth we went to Irontou
and thence into Kentucky, visiting Ash
land, Mt. Sterling, Lexington, Versailles.
Paris, and elsewhere. At Cynthiana I met
DR.. Strait and family, formerly of Hills
boro. Mr. B. B. Strait is conducting a
newspaper, the Norning call. At Win.
chester 1 met Mr.. Geo. Biehn. formerly of
Ripley, now Of the Winchester Dem0crat
first class journalist, d member of the
present 18th Reg't Band, and staunch
friend Of Aud Lang Syne.
THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND
is not misnomer for Kentucky. The first
hundred miles down from Ashland we pnss
through the most romantic scenery-dense
forests, winding streams and towering
clifs-such as Washington Irving describes
in his story of Rip vanWinkIe-beautiful
and dark and weird if not bloody.
The election is over. Let us weep
Here goes some bloody shirt In the town
of Richmond, KY, a few days after the
election, a crowd gathered around the band
of travelling minstrel company. and amid
cheers for Cleveland and Hendricks. in
sisted that the band play "Dizie." It is
not always best to oppose a crowd Of Ken
lucky Democrats, and "Dixie" was PLAYED.
There were no calls for "HaiI Columbia.
"Star Spaugled Banner" or "Yankie
Doodle"
N. B. Don't say this is campaign lie.
The campaign is over, and wouldn't lie
any. IsAW IT!
If had never been Of Republican pro-
cliyities, my love for the Union would
prompt me to be one after what I have
seen and heard in Kentucky.
This is the country where they give
negroes their rights C?).
Iu Cynthiana, Ky, on the day following
the election, I heard nine shots between
the hour of o'clock p. m. and midnight.
One ball made hole in the window Of
room which I had just previously vacated.
inquired of a resident what the racket was
about 30, John Smith Cfor want Of a bet
ter name) was shooting at a nigger."
'Did he hit him ?" inquired.
"No; he only shot at him three times;
but he has borrowed shot gun, and is
hunting for the coon now out on the street"
"What :" I exclaimed, Mortified, ''Where
are the police.
"Pshaw!" remarked the chivalrous Ken
tuckian, with smile at my ignorance,
they won't bother him. They don't pay
any attention when a fellow kills an impu-
dent niger down here"
just where the line between "impudent
niggers" and other "niggers" is drawn, he
didn't explain to me. Further inquiry
revealed to me the fact that the would-be
shootist was a prominent Democrat and ex-
Marshal Of the place.
This was in Democratic Kentucky.
P. S. am a Republican.
THE BLUE GRASS REGIONS
form the most beautiful tract Of country
for farming and stock raising 1 ever saw.
They are Kentucky's pride, and about her
only redeeming trait Near Versailles I /
saw the farm where Maud S. and other
high steppers were raised, and the track
upon which they were trained.
While at Frankfort I visited the State
Penitentiary. It is conducted very differ |
emily from that of Ohio The prisoner.
are mostly allowed free access to the court !
yard, and there seems to be no sort Of sys-
tenn to the management. In the hospital !
1 saw the ringleader in the insurrection of |
which you read about ten weeks ago. He !
is young fellow of about q years the |.
son Of high-toned parents, his father being |
Clerk Of Scott county. At the time of the
outbreak he had served nine months Of |
twelve years sentence for forgery. He was
shot and recaptured, and have since read |
in a Louisville paper that he had died. As
I looked at his handsome face, 80 thin and /
pale and marked with suffering, and at his .
striped suit of the convict remembered |
that the way Of the transgressor is hard, " !
Often since that day have thought Of the
sad, wan face ahd-resolved to continue |
being good.
spent a week in Louisville-the Ciucin-
natl Of Kentucky-and had a very pleasant /
time taking in the sights. In a few days |
we will be up in Illinois and then will |
write again. In my next will tell you Of |
my pilgrimage to the tombs of Daniel and |
Rebecca Boone and of Henry Clay, with a .
few words about the graves Of some other
distinguished men.
Very Respectfully,
TRAMP PRINTER.
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