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The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-01-21

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CAIRO

Like its namesake, is a queer sort Of town,
built on low ground and very much scat
tered. The principal building is the Halh-
day Hotel and the only object of especial
interest to me during my stay was it's din
ing-room. The situation Of this place
gives it its business, as it is a sort Of a
steamboat centre. The buildings-many
Of them, at least-are built upon stills so
as to be out of the food that is inevitable
here every spring I am told that there
was an eEpause Of water twenty miles
across, just south Of the city last spring, aud
Judging from the looks of the surrounding
land, do not doubt it.
The railroad towns of Illinois are all
alike. I can describe DuQuoin, Centralia,
Pana, Lincoln, aud many others by saying
that the streets are of black mud, the
depots have little parks around them "a re-
deeming feature), a few houses, aud an
apparently limitless supply of level prairie
all around.
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Be loving and you will never want for
love be humble and you will never want
for guiding ID. ". Mul0ct.
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The jewel for frilled shirt is diamond
in the ruff.
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In territorial times the seat of government,
is now place Of about 2, 500 people. It is
celebrated principally by having a railroad
line named after it. Streator, where 1
ohewed my Thanksgiving turkey, is q nice
town, with an elegant hotel and other nice
buildings. The same may be said of Pom
tiac, LaSalle and Monmouth. Morris,
Pekin aud Canton are good towns Braid
wood is a typical mining town and sends
out a great deal of coal It will be remem-
bered that terrible mine disaster by
which half hundred miners lost their lives
occurred here some two years ago. Men
dota is 80 near no place that won't men
tiOn it. Joliet, the namesake Of an early
French missionary and explorer, is live
town aud the seat of the
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ILLINOIS PEN1TENrrARY,

Which, from the outside looks to be the
finest and strongest prison 1 ever saw.
The grounds are elegantly kept, and the
high walls are of stone, and three feet thick
at the base, narrowing down to about foot
at the top. The town seems built upon
one immense stone quarry. Quarrying
stone Seems to be the principle Industry,
aud is carried on to a great extent. Peoria
is fine little city, with lots Of enterprise,
and is known to the world as once having
been the home Of Bob Burdette, and as
making a large per cent. Of all the whisky
distilled in this country. As you cross the
river you look up it for a loug distance and
the bauks are fairly lined with distilleries.
Now we bid goodbye to the sucker-stute
and go over into the
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venerate him, and so does everybody.
Where iG there o home in this country
where his name 10 not known2 We all feel
as il he is an old acquaintance Of ours, IL
not relative. And it is a tradition 10
journalistic circles all over America that
certain Peoria journals has been kicking
himself for years as he observed the Bur
lingtou Haoteys enjoying the prestige and
raking in the shekels he might have had.
Burlington has q nice union depot and is.
after all, not bad place, but don't see
how any man could stay there ten years.
ike Burdette aud continue being funny.
Bob, only q few months ago retired to
Ardmore, Pa, and now writes for the
Brooklyn Eagle, but he has made the
Ha,Okeys what il is-the model journal Of
the West.
/ will not say what think Of Iowa, for
l would make your Iowa subscribers mad,
and you might think me prejudiced. It is
plaguey cold and disagreeable out here.
The depots are all out Of town aud you
have to walk about mile at every place
you visit or surrender up all your salary
for bus fare. The side walks are slippery.
and the wind--well, I'll take q Kansas
cyclone in preference every time The
only reason everything in the State isn't
blown away by the winter breezes is that
everything is frozen so hard that it can't
be blown loose. The inhabitants seem as
constitutionally opposed to putting ashes
on the slippery walks as they are to whisky.
Why, at a little town where we stopped a
few days ago, the porter Of our hotel, in
cleaning out the stove, deliberately carried
the pan Of ashes across sidewalk so slip
perry that be could scarcely stand on it. and
dumped the ashes in the gutter I smiled
sarcastically but held my peace. q had
fallen down on the same walk but few
minutes previous.)
Business is very dull out here, corn hav-
ing been as low as 10 cents per bushel 1
have been month in the state, aud in a
different town each day, and everywhere
energy seems dormant
Of the places we have visited a few
seemed to still be alive, pleasing contrasts
to the majority. Among these I may
enumerate Atlantic, Ottumwa, Washington,
Muscatine, Davenport, lows City, Oska-
loosa, Boone, and Marshalltown. Also
Anamosa, where another State prison is
situated, and Clinton and Lyons, on the
Mississippi.
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For Rheumatism, Lumbago, Neurnlgin.
Cramp and Collie there Is no remedy superior
90 the genuine Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil
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Bathing dresses Ia adam are still fash
ionable in some parts Of the country.
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An admirable biography Of the eminent
Unitarian minister, the late Warren H.
Uudworth, of Boston, prepared by his sis
ter has Just been published by d. LothrOp
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The elephants sleep but six hours at
night, sometimes getting up for a little
lunch They also snore awfully.
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Never interrupt any conversation but
wait patiently your turn 10 speak.
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D2e5 q General BGHktHg and BB5haRge
BuSiH6ss. gODeTRmsHt and County
BORds bought and cold.
fsb6yI.
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and six months interest due with the bond,
March 1st, 1890.
Said bond will be sold to the highest bidder,
and for not less than the face thereof, with
any interest that may have accrued thereon,
and the privilege is hereby reserved of reject
ing any or all bids. WILLIAM CAREY
J. d. WRIGHT.
JOHN MORROw,
Commissioners Of Samantha Short Line Free
Turnpike, No. A. ian7w9
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Elias Ovorman, John L. West,
r. /. Bumganer, O. M. Overman.
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o. M. OVERHAN, JACOB PUasLEY,
President. Yice-President
o. 8, Prior, Cashier.
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Formerly bearing the prefix Fort" is q
hne little city, with an elegant State House
aud other public buildings, and is situated
at the junction Of the Skunk aud CI belisve)
the Des MOinss rivers. During the past
twenty-five years its population has in
creased from less than 1000 souls to over
ten times that number. I spent New
Years Day there.
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HiIIsboro Prices Current.

Corrected Weekly by h. ROADS Co., Whole
sale and Retail GrOcerB and Produce
Dealers.
BUYING PRICES FOR COUNTRY PRODUCE
Hillsb0rO, Monday, Jan. 10, 1855,
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Sale Of Bond.

CEALED PROPOSALS for the sale Of a Two
- Hundred $4,000 Dollar bond of the Samau-
tina Short Line Free Turnpike No A. will be
received at the Office Of the County Auditor, in
Hillsboro, Ohio, until Thursday the 22d day Of
January, 1886, at one o'clock p. m. Said bond
is dated the 10Th day of January, 1885, and
bears interest at the ate Of six per cent, pay
able semi-annually. and is issued by authority
Of Section 4SOS Of the Revised Statutes Of
Ohio for 1880, page IT'S, and described as
follows:
No sc for 5000, with coupons attached as
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DRHIs SPECS,

VIII now give his entire time to the praotic,
Of hia profession. He has had extensive ezpe
rienos, aud will give special attention to tn,
treatment Of Chronic Diseases. OHice-In Nc
Kibbon'E New Block. up stairs, High street
Bouidonoo, No. 81 North High street, door
north Of Clifton House, formerly occupied by
Hugh SWesringen, HillsbOro, Ohio. jull6yl
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COUNCIL BLUFFS


Is opposite Omaha, and situated on the
Missouri river. The place was originally
settled by Mormons when they were driven
from more Eastern points, and in its early
days was called Kanesville. It has a popu-
lation of 5000, but seems dull and quiet.
It was a boastly cold day when I was there,
and could scarcely venture out Of the hotel
without fear Of freezing to death. I wanted
to run over to Omaha and see Billy Furay,
but the intense cold kept me indoors.
Iowa has been experimenting with pro-
hibitory liquor laws, and the people Of
Iowa just now are the most disappointed
and disguised people imaginable. I have
been all over the State, and as I wanted to
find ont whether prohibition prohibits or
not, I have been unusually observant in
this respect and I am compelled to say
that it is delusion aud a snare. have
been in but two or three towns where
liquor was not sold under some disguise OF
other Anybody in Iowa will tell you the
same thing. The people-whateve they
used to think-are clamorOus for their re,
peal, and are petitioning for a special ses.
sion Of Legislature to repeal them. The
next time a temperance lecturer comes ia
Hllsboro and says that prohibition is q
success in Iowa, tell him that 1 say he lies
for know better, They now want strin
gent license laws out here, and will un
doubtedly get them at the next session Of
the Legislature.
Dubuque is a nice place, very much lik,
the other large river towns Of the State
One thing must mention is a public foun
tain erected in public park, by DR.. Cogs
we'll, a citizen Of San Francisco, CAL, qnt
presented to the city Of Dubuque as
memorial to the bravery Of Kate Shelly, tn,
little heroine whose bravery saved a trair
load of passengers from destruction when
severe storm wrecked a railroad bridg,
about three years ago. Everybody is fami
liar with the story Of how she made he
way through the storm and sleet with he
lantern and sigualed the engineer to stop
which he did just in time. It isa fttinl
tribute to one Of the noblest girls il
America.
Dubuque is our last stand in Iowa, and
leave the State without regret. Tomorrow
we will be in Galena, Gen. Grants forme
home. In about three weeks We start on
tour to California and old Mexico, and un
less our route changes unexpectedly I vii
hnd plenty TO write about.
For the present adieu.
TRAMP PRtErER.
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wv v. SHEPHERD, ND,
PHYSICIAN ANb SURGEON,

Ohce-On Short street. two doors west Of
High street. Once hOurs-FrOm tU Q A. NJ,
90 2P. H., z 10 8 p. NJ, aud all day on Satur-
day. dec2yl
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OF Hillsboro, (

Citizens National Bank,
OF Hillsboro, o.
Capital, 100000. Surplus, s5O, 900.
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Published EveryWednesdaY
BY THE
Highland News Publishing Co.

J. L. BoARDMAu, Managing Editor,
GHo W. BARRHnE Business Manager aud
Local Editor,
BEnHE BAnRnRE, Manager Printing Dept
Building. 2ud story, 81 door
West Of Kramer House.
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Dealers are paying the fOllOWln
.he variDug aruCles named
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DB NTISTS,
HuL8BORO, OHIO.
Omoe-OPposite DR.. Hoyts, West Nam st.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-31
CHAPTER II.
A FAMILY OF POSITION.

Be It remembered that Oakbury is not
Blacktown. Many of its inhabitants are
greatly ANNOYED when they hear it called
suburb of Blacktown. Oakbury is near the
large city, but not of it. Although the fact
cannot be ignored that the existence of the
many charming country houses which adorn
0akbury is as much due to its contiguity to
The dirty thriving town as to its natural
oeauties--and although certain proportion
If those desirable residences has been pur
chased by Blacktown's successful traders, the
most aristocratic inhabitants of Oakbury look
with indifference on the good and evil for
tunes of the city They, the aristocratic in
labitants, are useful to Blacktown, not
Blacktown to them. They are out of its dis
sessions and struggles; better still, beyond
The range Of its taxation. They are Of the
county, not the town. So they head their
etters ''Oakbury, Westshire; and, as rule,
decline intimacy with any Blacktown trader
lnder the rank of banker or merchant prince.
Besides Lord Kelston's we'll known country
eat, there must be in the parish of Oakbury
some 20 or % gentlemen's residences. They
cannot he called estates, as the ground at
tached to each varies respectively from three
10 fifty acres, but not a few Of them might
Law claim to be described by that well-round-
d phrase, dear to auctioneers and house
agents, "a country mansion, fit for the occu-
patton and requirements of a family Of posi-
ton" They are not new, speculative, jerry
built houses, but good, old-fashioned, solid
affairs. No painted and gilt ratings surround
them; thick boundary walls and fine old trees
hide them from the gaze of inquisitive holt
day folks. As the country around is very
beautiful and richly timbercd as the prevail
ing wind which blows across Oakbury comes
straight from the sea, pure and uncontam-
mated ; as two Of the best packs Of hounds
In England meet within an easy distance;
and, prejudice Notwithstanding, as the con-
yspisncss offered BY > large city are 80 close
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CHAPTER III.

AN ARGUMENT AND AN ARRIVAL.
On the night when the down train carried
the golden-headed child to Blacktown, the
Talberts had dined at home, without COM
pany. The two men were still at the table,
slipping their claret and smoking cigarettes.
They were neither great drinking men nor
great smoking men. If such habits are sins,
the 7 berts might have gone on as they were
going for many years and then made atone
ment very easily. 1t is needless to state that
the two brothers were faultlessly dressed in
the evening garb of the nineteenth century
1t will also be guessed that the dinner table
was most tastefully laid out. In spite of the
season being midwinter, it was gay with
flowers. Quaint antique silver spoons and
forks did the duty which is exacted from the
florid kings pattern and the ugly fiddle pat
tern denominations of our day. The napery
was of the whitest and finest description
the polish on the glass such as to make the
most careful housewife or conscientious SER
want wonder and envy. There is tale con-
nected with the glass.
Once upon a time lady who was dining at
Lakewood House asked her hosts, with par
donable curiosity, how they were able to in
duce their servants to send the decanters and
wine glasses to the table in such glorious
state of refulgency. Horace Talbert smiled,
and answered with exquisite simplicity:
1--WE should never think of trusting our
glass to the hands of servants My brother
and see TO it ourselves"
Thereupon the lady, who had manageable
sisters, and was no doubt keenly alive to the
fact that her hosts were eligible bachelors,
said: 'sIt was very sweet of them to take so
much trouble" but her husband, who heard
the question and the answer, burst into a fit
of uncomfortable laughter His was low,
coarse, commonplace mind, utterly unable to
divest the ideal from the material To such
grovolirg nature the picture of these two
six-feet, brawny men washing and rubbing
their rare and costly glass seemed intensely
comical.
The Talberts showed no signs Of annoy
ance; they even smiled gravely in response to
his vulgar mirth; but Lakewood House knew
that person more.
| But the wretch took his revenge after the
manner Of his kind. Unluckily, In spite Of
bis faults, his position in the county was not
to be despised. and more unluckilv he Dos
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at nanc-lJ Is no wonder that the rector OF
Oakbury numbers many families Of position
among his parishioners. If mine were fam
lily of position, it should most certainly oc-
cupy a pew in that fine, old square-towered
church.
After this description il will be easily be-
ieved that the Oakbury people are somewhat
exclusively the Oakbury people are meant
the inhabitants of the aforesaid twenty
houses; the manner of the villagers and other
small fry who constitute the residue of the
population need not be taken into account.
The Oakbury people proper are very particu-
Lar as to with whom they associate, and the
most particular and exclusive of all are two
gentlemen named Talbert, the joint owners
and occupiers of Lakewood House
Their ultra-exclusiveness was but the nat
ural outcome Of the position in which they
were placed. The fact that their income was
derived from money made by their father in
timber, tobacco, soap, sugar, or some other
large industry of Blacktown-people have
already nearly forgotten which it was-must
be responsible for the care the Talberts were
bound to exercise before they made a new
acquaintance.
Because, you see, in their opinion at least,
the faint Of trade still chung to them. They
were but a generation removed from the
actual buying, selling and chaffering. Meta
phorically speaking, their own fathers hands
had been hardened by the timber, stained by
the tobacco, lathered by the soap, made
sticky by the sugar, according TO the particu-
lar branch of trade at which he had worked
to such advantage. So it was that upon at
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sesSeu a certaIn amount or nuInOr or the low
class He was brutal enough to nickname
our friends the Tables" and, appropriate
or not, the name chung to them, and will
cling for ever and ever. This is but another
proof of how careful man should be in the
selection of his friends.
Although tonight the glass was as radiant
as ever, there at present no one to admire
it save its owners and caretakers. BY virtue
of his year of seniority, Horace Talbert sat
at the head of the table. Herbert was at his
right hand The two brothers were strangely
alike both in figure and face. They were
brown haired men, with long, straight noses,
calm. serious eyes, rather arched eyebrows
and average foreheads. Each wore a we'll
kept beard and mustache, the Sbeard clipped
close, and terminating in point at the chin
"a fashion which suited their long, oval faces
remarkably well, and, perhaps, added kind
of old-world courtlineSs TO their general APP
pearance. Their looks may be summed up
by saying that the Talberts were men who
one felt ought TO possess picture gallery of
distinguished ancestors. The absence of such
a desirable possession seemed a heartleSs
freak of nature
The room in which the brothers were sitting
was furnished with bold mixture of modern
and antique. Where comfort and utility were
the first consideration, the modern prevailed;
where ornament or decoration had to be sup
piled, the antique, often the grotesque antique
was called into requisition. On the high,
carved mantelpiece stood Oriental bronze
vases with bideous dragons creeping round
them, and gaping, grinning kyEns, who
looked mockirgly and fearlessly the fierce
metal monsters. They knew-old china
figures know more than people suspect-that
the dragons were welded to their vases more
irrefragibly than Promotions to his rock.
Here and there was plate Of rich-colored
dOiSsonne enamel, piece of Nankin china, a
specimen of old brass work, a bracket of real
old carved oak, an antique lamp, or some
other article dear to the collector. Some half
dozen medium-sized but valuable paintings
hung upon the walls. The floor was covered
by sober-hued Persian carpet, and of course
a roaring fire filed the CRATE.
The Talberts looked very grave--as grave
and solemn as Roman fathers in high debate.
They were, indeed, discussing weighty mat
rose and walked to his brothers side. The
two looked critically down the table. They
went to the bottom and looked up the table.
| They went to the sides and looked across the
| table; they even sent glances diagonally from
corner to corner.
'It is certainly great improvement" said
Horace, with quiet triumph.