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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Another Imitator or OdInm.

BROOKLYN, N. Y, July 23.-At 10 O'Clock
this morning an unknown man leaped
from the roadway of the East River
Bridge at a height of 125 feet above the
water, about one-fourth of the distance
from the New York tower, where Odlum
jumped. None of the police observed him.
The man was dressed in swimming cos
tune. His hands were held at his side.
When half way down he was par
TALLY turned, and struck the water heavily
on his back. He disappeared below the
surface and has not since been seen. The
jump was seen by many people on the
ferry-boats and piers, but the bridge
police insist that nothing of tho kind oc-
CURED. At sporting headquarters no in
formation could be obtained. 1t was not
known that any man Of note in sporting
circles was intending to leap.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Louis Riel's Trial.

WINNIPEG, July 21.-Riel's counsel to-day
made application for adjournment of the
trial in order to get necessary witnessed
and documents for evidence In the defense.
They complained that they had been pre-.
vented from conversing with witnesses for
the Crown, some of whom were likely to
be called also as witnesses for defense.
They wanted safe conduct for Dumont and
Dumas from Montana and back; also, an
order from the Court to the departmental
officers at Ottawa to produce certain
documents now in their custody re-
lating to the rebellion. Counsel for the
Crown replied that the Court would aid in
obtaining the witnesses desired by the de.
tense, and the Crown would bear the ex-
pense OF bringing them to Regina, but q
guaranty Of safe conduct to Dumont and
Dumas could not be given. Production OF
documents asked forwas also denied, on the
ground that it would disclose matters which
must be kept secret in the interest Of the
State. Finally an adjournment Of one weeb
was agreed to.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
WHAT A wHoPPER.


MoUrPELmR, IND. July 22.-Groat oE-
citement prevails here about n monster
snake that was seen here yesterday morn-
ing BY Jas. Baker, near the Wells County
line. Baker Ia q business man al Keystone,
and his integrity can not be questioned.
He was coming 30 Montpelier I'm a buggy,
and, noticing a black object lying across
The road, he naturally took &c &c be a log,
supposing his progress obsuucted, but on
nearing the supposed log it raised
its head apparently about two
feet from the ground and made a
break for the Fisherbuck woods, disappear
ing very quickly. Baker and his two little
boys were badly scared as well as his
horse. Baker estimated the snakes length
at sixteen feet, and as large as a mans
body, The snake made a kissing noise
that could be heard almost a half mile, and
resembled the noise made by escaping
steam from a locomotive. Baker described
the snake as being coal black except his
head, which appeared entirely white,
donoting a new species for this coun-
try. A gang Of men, boys and dogs was
quickly formed under the generalship Iof
Uncle Henry Barkman and Bill Howard,
the latter having a widespread reputation
as a snake e-hunter, and has killed or cap
tured all the large snakes heretofore in this
country. The party were armed with
double-barrelled shot-guns and clubs.
They struck his trail late yesterday after
noon and tracked him for miles through
woods and corn-helds until night overlook
them, and they gave up the pursuit until
this morning, when still larger
gang is out to-day with the cele-
brated snake-dog True belonging TO Mr.. j.
G, Maddox. This dog has no desire what
ever for other game, and viii only hunt
snakes, and has tracked and hunted down
all the large snakes in this country, and
some monster ones have been captured or
killed i'm Blackford County in the last few
years. Barkman and Howard to-day took
out with them Darby Kritzer, boy twelve
years old, who is said by superstitious peo-
pie TO be bewitched, and can charm any
snake he runs across. The citizens are
anxiously awaiting the gung's return.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Danperous Forrest Fires.

CAMDEN, N. j., July 24.-The Jersey for
est fires are now assuming the most alarm
ing proportions, and unless a heavy rain
soon quenches the flames they will accom-
plish the destruction of a number Of towns
and small settlements among the pines Of
Camden, Burlington and Atlantic Counties.
They have never before burned so fiercely,
and not since 1898 has the country been so
dry and favorable for the spread of the
flames. Yesterday the towns Of Atco,
jackson, Sloantown, Waterford. Pestle-
town, Winslow, Weelstown, Hammonton,
Absecoa and number of other small places
in Camden and Burlington Counties, near
the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, were
surrounded by brush and wood fire. and all
the inhabitants were out figbtin" the
flames
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

The famous Panama hats are all
made in Guayaquil, Ecuador and get
their name because Panama merchants
formerly controlled the trade, They
are made Of the pita fiber, a sort Of
palm, and are braided under water by
native women Of strands often twelve
and fifteen feet long, and fine ones are
very expensive 1t often takes two or
three weeks TO braid a single hat, which
sells for five or six dollars aud lasts for
ever. A traveller speaks Of one made
Of a single straw or fiber, as fine as
thread and soft as silk. The woman who
made it was engaged four months ia
the work, and it was valued at two
hundred aud fifty dollara-M Y
Tribune.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

ASSUMPTION, Ill, July 2L- Several
cases Of meat poisoning, very similar to
that at Momence, occurred here. Yester-
day six members of the family of T. D..
Postens partook Of some ham purchased at
provision store in town. Shortly after
eating the meat one Of the children
had severe attack of vomiting,
two others were thrown into
convUlsions, and the remainder
Of the family taken violently i'll. Expect
ing to demonstrate that the meat was all
right, the dealer to whom it had been re-
turned had some of it prepared for his own
table. He and several members Of his
family ate Of it and were soon suffering
terribly from its effects. In both cases the
physicians speedily called, and succeeded
in saving the lives Of the victims, who are
now convalescent.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
No Fenr of Indian Tronbles

TOPEKA, EAs., July Ex-Governor Mar
tin has received the following telegram
from General Sheridan, dated Ft. Reno,
to-day 81 have your letters of July 10
and 90. They have been referred to Gem
eral Miles, who starts for Fort Supply to-
morrow, and viii make examinations Of
the country and points you mention as
military stations. There need be no fear
on the part of the settlers Of Southwestern
Kansas from hostilities by the Chey-
enne and Arapahoe Indians.
have gone down to the bot
tom of affairs here, and know that
the irritation was the result Of bad con-
troll and oppressive measures. hope for
correction Of the evils, and am confident
that when leave here the people in Kan
sas may gather their crops and sleep peace
fully at night, General Miles is an officer
of good Judgment, who will do all that is
necessary to restore confidence from panic
so paralyzing in its effects as this one has
been to the industries Of your State.
''P. H. SHERIDAN, General"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

CAIRO, July 2L-News has reached here
from Kassala to the effect that large
force Of rebels attacked that place and
made several desperate attempts TO carry
it by assault. They were finally rspulsed.
and the garrison at Kassala, following up
their victory, captured the rebel camp,
with two thousand oxen and sheep, and 700
rifles The enemy lost three thousand men
killed and wounded, while the garrison's
casualties were small.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Cholera scare Id Richmond.

RICHMOND, IND, July pa case Of
sporadic cholera was reported this morn
ing, the patient being Miss Nixon, pas
senger on the Anderson accommodation,
which had to be held at Hagerstown for
nearly a half hour to allow her to Sc
cure medical attention before able to be
brought here to relatives, whom she con-
templated visiting. 1t was, however, only
aggravated cholera morbus. General L.
W. Bennett, Mayor, was also taken 50 vio-
lently i'll with cramps this morning that he
could not hold Police Court, and had to be
taken home.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Regarding Postmasters, Funds.

WASHINGTON, July 21.-The law officer
Of the Postofice Department has given an
opinion to the effect that a Postmaster who
uses or converts TO his own use the postal
funds in his own keeping, although not
required to deposit them until the end
of the current month or quarter, is
guilty of embezzlement. 1t has been
supposed by many Postmasters that un-
der Section 1919 of the postal laws and reg
ulations (Revised Statutes 4Ojo) there was
no embezzlemeut by the postmaster until he
had willfully neglected to make deposits as
required by the regulations. But the opin-
ion holds that under the provisions of the
postal laws (Revised Statutes 3si6) post.
masters are forbidden to loan, use or de-
posit in unauthorized banks, or exchange for
other funds, any public money collected by
them. If a postmaster does use such money
he wrongfully converts them to his own
use, and the act of February 8, 1879, pro-
vides that any officer of the United States,
or assistant, who shall embezzle or convert
public funds to his own use, shall be pun
ished by fine and imprisonment. Under
this act any postmaster who uses postal
funds, intending to make them good when
the time for depositing arrives, is liable to
prosecution and imprisonment
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Aher Thirtv Yenrs-

SHmLEYsBURG, PA, July 24.-Nearly
thirty years ago J. R. Hick, wealthy and
influential citizen ofthis place, suddenly dis
appeared, and no trace of him was ever
found. On Tuesday last Mrs. Mary Beatty,
an old woman residing at Vineyard Mills,
made affidavit before Squire Bard, in
which she states that Hicks was murdered
and robbed of large sum of money which
he had on his person at the time, and his
body concealed among the rocEs in Ger
many Valley, this county. The murder
was done by two strangers stopping at
Mrs. Beatty's fathers house, and she al
Ieges that the threats on her life compelled
her to keen her secret until now.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

TRADE with South America is being
gradually developed. There are now
six steamers running regularly between
New York and Venezuela, three having
been recently added to a successful line.
Another feet is about to be sent to Bo-
hvia, the first steamer having already
been sent out, On the other hand, our
trade with Peru has dwindled down to
almost nothing for want of direct steam
communication.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
The Eight HourL Law.

WASHINGTON, July 21.--Secretary Whit
ney has decided the eight hour law shall
be enforced in the different navy-yards;
that Is, employees shall receive ten hours
pay for eight hours labor. Heretofore
they received eight hours pay for eight
hours labor. A general order directing the
change has not been issued yet, but infor-
nation Of the proposed change has been
received at the Washington Navy yard.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
NIackin'sC Case.

CHICAGO, July 28,-Judge Moran, of the
Circuit Court has granted stay of two
days in the case Of Joseph c. Mackin, un-
dar sentence Of five years to the State PEN
itentiary, for perjury in connection with
the Eighteenth Ward election frauds, to
enable his counsel TO Iargue a petition for
supersedeas before one of the Supreme
Court Judges.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
A scoundreI Wi Ca His Deserts

BROOKLYN, N. Y, July 22-When Julius
Lehman, aged thirty-hve, to-day pleaded
guilty to assault on three little girls, one
being but eight years Of age, and the other
two nine years each, Justice Moore, of the
Court Of Sessions, rose and said: "Such
fellows as you should be taken right down
to the jail and hung, and you can depend
upon it that when you come before me for
sentence you win receive all the law that
can give you"
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

BLOOWINoToN, Ill, July 21.-Abraham
Deuser, the German farmer who burned his
house and harn, near here TO prevent his
wife, who Is suing for a divorce, getting
any property, and was supposed 20 have
himself Porished In the flames, was subse-
quently found hiding and was lodged In
the County Jail. During the night he Inn
provised q rope from his suspenders, a
towel and a piece of cord and hung him
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Disastrous Storm in Pennsylvania

SHENANDOAH, PA, July 22.-One of the
most terrific and destructive rain and
wind storms ever witnessed in this section
passed over the Catawissa Valley yester-
day afternoon, dealing out destruction to
farm houses and crops. The rain, which
fell in torrents, was preceded by a violent
hurricane, which uprooted trees and blew
down fences and barns in its path. The
damage to the crops alone in the valley is
estimated at $4,000,
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

WHY should it not be possible to lower,
according to discretion, the temperature
of our dwellings in summer just as we
are able to heighten it in winterP
Here is a field where the inventor might
gather riches and earn the fame of be-
ing a benefactor to the human race. The
time may not be far Off when apparatus
for cooling purposes will be attached to
our houses the same as they are now
supplied for heating in winter.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Terrible ErplosioB.

HUNTINGDON, PA, July o. - Another
frightful explosion occurred on the soutt
Pennsylvania railroad, at 6heepskin Hol,
low cut about half a mile south of 1T. Lit.
tleton at a late hour last night. One Hun.
gariau and two Italians (names unknown
were instantly killed. Foreman John Mar,
tin and an unknown negro were probably
fatally injured. Owing TO the remote 10.
cality Of the scene Of the accident particu,
lars cannot be obtained.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Threnteninr Rentrtce,s Idfe.

LONDON, July PA man of short stat
ure, and between fifty and sixty years of
age, was arrested in this city this morning
on the charge of making threats against
the life of Princess Beatrice, whose mar
riage to Prince Henry of Battenberg took
place yesterday. This man has been sub
jected to medical examination, but the
doctors are unable TO determine whether
he is insane. A charge against him will
probably be made before a police magis.
tr0fa
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

FROM official reports of the cholera in
Spain it is learned that forty-three per
centof those attacked by the malady die.
This is an extremely high death-rato,
and shows either that the disease is of a
highly virulent type or tho treatment
very inefficient It is to be hoped that
a disease Of so deadly a type can be kept
out Of this country.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

july q was the twenty-fourth anni-
versary of the battle of Bull Run, when
the Union forces suffered a crushing de-
feat at the hands of the Confederates
under command of General Beaure-
gard All of the commanders of the
Union army on that day are now dead,
and Beauregard is the only surviving
one on the Confederate side
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CnnnihaI Fenst.

LONDON, July 2l.-Intelligence has been
received from West Africa, that the King
of Dahomey, with many followers, on May
10, made a raid on the villages under
French protection near Porto Novo. his
troops indulged in wholesale massacres of
the inhabitants, and burned all their viii
lagos. One thousand youths were captur-
ed and carried back TO Dahomey, TO be
sacrificed at the cannibal feasts.
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Mr.. Ponbndr Dnsirnntcd

WASHINGTON, July 28.-At the instance
Of the New York Chamber Of Commerce
tho Secretary Of State has designated Hon.
Chas. A. Peabody, of New York, as a del
egats on behalf of the U. S. of America to
the International Congress Of Commercial
Law, which is 70 be held at Antwerp Bel
gium, In September, 1885.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

THERE have been 1874 voyages and
land journeys undertaken between 1896
and 1857 by Governments and explorers
to the polar regions. Of these sixty
three went to the Northwest, twenty
nine via Behring Straight, and the rest
to the Northeast, or due North. Since
1857 up to and including the expedition
70 rescue Greely, there have been some
sixty exploring journeys
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

THE Earth to Earth Society" is an
institution lately organized in England.
They do not bury their dead in costly
and hermetrically sealed caskets, but
enwrap the body in a single robe, en-
closed in an open wioker-basket, and
bury in the dry earth. 1t is claimed
there is no fostering, no production Of
poisonous compounds, but a wholesome
mingiing Of the atoms that form our
bodies with the earth from which we
originally came.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
Change of Indian Aeents.

FIT. RENO, July 23 Following Colonel D,
B. Dyer's resignation as agent Of the Chey-
enne aud Arapahoe Indians, Captain Jesse
NJ. Lee, Of the Ninth Infantry, has been
detailed by the President to immediately
relieve him, the President having decided
that it is necessary to place the Indians un-
der military control.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29
ApneaI ION Som snnerora.

ST. PAUL, July 22.-The tornado which
swept over Central Dakota last Wednesday
left two hundred families utterly bereft Of
their earthly possessions at Highmora.
Those who escaped the worst are not In a
condition to help the more unfortunase
ones. Help is asked.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

THE Pail Mall Gazette, now so prom
inently before the public, derived its
name from a street in London, so called
from its having once been the place for
playing the game called Pail Mall,
pronounced pei mel This street extends
from the foot Of st. James street to the
foot of the hay market, and is a favorite
resort for the fashionable world and
politicians
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

THE statement of the Bureau Of Sta
tistics at Washington show that there
has been a marked increase in the ex-
ports of iron during the past month
over the corresponding month last year.
1t is also ascertained that the exports of
other products have increased. A
marked increase in iron exports will be
felt in nearly every department Of trade
in the course of time.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

NOTWITHSTANDING the doleful re-
ports about the crop prospect earlier in
the season, now that the harvest is be-
ing gathered it is found that there is no
danger Of scarcity. In several of the
wheat-growing States the crop is coming
in much better than was expected, and,
while the aggregate crop will still be be
low the average, there is evidently no
danger of a short supply for either home
consumption or any probable foreign
demand.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-29

following is the incription on the
tomb of the FIRST husband of Martha
Washington at Arlington, the
original seat of the Custis family, on
the Eastern shore Of Virginia:
Beneath this marble tomb lies We body OF
the Honorable John Gusts, ESQ.,
Of the City of Williamsburg and Parish OF
Boston, Formerly of Hangers Parish on the
Eastern Shore of
Virginia, and the County OF NOrthampt0n.
the place of his nativity
Aged Il years, and get lived but EqVen years.
Which was the spaOe of time he Kept
A Bachelors House at Arlington,
on the Eastern Shore of Virginia"
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ACCORDING to the calculations Of as
tronomers, we are TO be visited by sew
eral comets this year. Encke's comet
IS due, Uiber's comet oughtto put in an
appearance shortly, as its perodicity is
about seventy-fve years. Swift's comet
ought TO show up toward the latter part
of the year, and Tuttle's comet is due
this month.
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TEE wonderful Yellowstone region
having been appropriated for a Ma
dOnal Park, and Niagara Falls having
been thrown open 30 the public by the
State Of New York, it only remains for
the Goveumentto fence in,Pille's Peak TO
make the life of the tourist a compare
lively happy one.
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obieoted to the nEnrrinco

CAIRO, Ill. July 22.-Johu Daniels mar.
ried a daughter Of Murkens, at Mound
Junction, ILL.,, yesterday. Murkens opposed
the marriage. He met Daniels In the even.
ing and killed him. Both live at Mound
Junction. Murkens was arrested.
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Alleged Kidnapers Arrested,

PHmADELPHIA, July G.- Josephine
Grayson, aged forty and Annie VIII
son, aged thirty, both colored, have been
arrested for attempting to zidnap white
child. Since their arrest the colored bov
Strong, who was in charge of Mr.. Clax-
TOMS infant daughter at the time It was
stolen, has positively identified the woman
Grayson as the person who did the ddnap-
ing
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GRAFTON, W. Va, July 28.-Mrs. Marga-
ret Mcclure, sixty years of age, was
burned TO death. She poured oil from a
can into a mixture Of starch which she was
preparing on the stove, and the fluid ig-
nitedr scattering burning oil all over her.
Death ensued in a few hours.
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Orntion In GenernI Rnt1er.

LOWELL, MASS July 24.-General R. F.
Butler has accepted aninvitation TO deliver
the oration at the public memorial services
in honor Of the memory Of General Grant,
The time for the services has not been
fixed,