The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-09-02

Crates are filled with door knobs, ere clay,
or some inoombustible substance and the
gas turned on and regulated to suit the
occasion, or the door knobs, etc., may be
dispensed with and the gas alone used.
For cooking the common cooking-stove or
the regular gas-stove may be used and the
heat regulated to suit the demand.
The natural gas craze has taken O firm
hold Of Ohio people in particular, and has
assumed almost the Dimensions Of the coil
orazo" Of O few years ago. Gas wells are
being sunk at various places throughout
Ohio, with a marked success and in time
natural gas will probably work as great
revolution In mechanical arts as did coal.
BY many natural gas is regarded as "some-
thing new under the sum-" but on the con-
trary It is as "old as the hills" The holy
fires Of Baku on the Caspian, and many Of
the sacred fires Of the Greeks were thus
supplied with fuel. The Chinese have for
ages used the gas which issues FROM coal
beds near Peking for evaporating brines.
II was known aud used in England in the
seventeenth century, and Fredonia, N. Y,
has been lighted with it for over fifty years.
At the Kanawhn salt-wells and various
other places in the United States It hos
long been known and used.
The natural scenery here is hne beyond
description; by many It is said to surpasa
the far famed scenery Of the Hudson, but
on this point will not venture an opinion.
East Liverpool has four weekly news
papers and two dailies-all Republican
save one the usual supply Of banks,
churches, business houses, secret societies,
ETC., and some thirty potteries. It has but
one railroad, the Cleveland & Pittsburg,
but the river is at least equal to another.
All the passenger packets stop here, and
"The Return" makes daily trips between
this point and Steubenville, o. I had the
pleasure of taking a trip, in company with
a few friends, on this little steamer, to
Browns island, some fifteen or twenty
miles below here, and the kind treatment
of Capt. Bradley, of "The Return" and
Mr.. Meiser, Of Browns island, will long be
remembered in connection with that pleas
ant excursion.
Above East Liverpool about four miles,
is Smiths Ferry in the "oil region" where
the Standard Oil Co. and several other par
ties have refneries, and Of which will
speak at some future time.
The Tri-State Reunion Of soldiers and
sailors of the late war was held here Aug.
l4th. Twenty-nine G. A. r. posts, several
old rogimentaI organizations, four artillery
squads, and twenty-five bands in oil about
$500 men formed in line of march, making
very imposing spectacle indeed. Ad-
dresses were made by Gen. Brown, Capt.
Foraker, and Major Mckinley The ar
rangements we're all complete and the
preparations for feeding the multitude was
on q grand scale, so that there was taken
up many baskets full, so many that few
days after twenty bushels of buns and
sandwiches sold for a dollar. Many who
expected to reap harvest from a hungry
host we're sadly disappointed and concluded
to leave such business in the future to
those to whom the task might be assigned.
As my letter has assumed considerable
proportions will leave the potteries till
my next. Yours truly, H. F. II.