The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1886-01-20

Ut nine LnOUbdNu Souls lL is situated
on a bluff that overlooks the beautiful
Cumberland valley for miles. From the
piazza of the Franklin House [ looked
across the now peaceful vale as the sun
OF an early southern winter day sank
behind the horizon, and mentally com
pared the scene with the scenes Of little
more than a score Of years ago. The
smoke of battle had been waited away
and in its stead a calm haze wells the
scene; the furrows cut by the wheels Of
artillery have been long since obliterated
by the tread Of grazing kline, and sup.
planted by burrows turned by the share
of the industrious husbandman; the
white tents have given place to the
planters cottage, and the marks OF
deadly strife have been obliterated and
lost beneath tie rich harvests that have
rewarded the industry of its people.
Verify time bringeth changes, and the
world do move ~ Amen
If anyone who may chance to read
this has any idea of locating in the
South take pleasure in recommending
to them this region. Give Clarksville a
trial and if you don't find its people
neighborly and their welcome sincere,
draw on my banks for all expenses in
cured. We next visit
HoPKINsvILLE,
Within the borders of the Dark and
Bloody Ground It is a lively and
thrifty town with nice buildings, and il
the seat of the University of Southern
Kentucky. Bowling Green was our
next stopping place, and here I went
up on the hill and explored the old
earthen works-relics of the unpleasant
ness-with great interest. Indeed I did
this so thoroughly that my companion
"a regular numskul I'u show him
this)-got mad at my thoroughness and
returned to the hotel, leaving me to
complete my explorations alone. I also
cut a cane from the shrubbery that has
grown up in one of the old forts, and
very promptly forgot to take it out OF
the car the next day. I imagine some
fendish L. & n. brakeman is using my
precious relic as a poker for the stove.
Our next stand the dullest town in the
State is Elizabethtown, near
WHERE LINCOLN WAS BORN.
In the humble cabin of a poor farmer
about five miles distant from this place
Abraham Lincoln first saw the light. I
conversed with a hoary headed pioneer
who had often seen the boy Lincoln
upon the village street barefooted. Can
any American think of this without
feeling thrill Of pride ? Can anyone
remember this without loving anew the
great and grand nation in which such
things are possible. OF course it is not
unparalleled in our country's history,
but it was a pleasure to walk the same
streets his shoeless feet had pressed
The tracks in the clay years and years
ago were obliterated, but we can see the
imprint of the honest farmer lads bare
feet in the grand pathway Of his after
life, and we would not if we could, for.
get that the feet which carried the noble
man up the marble steps of the nations
capitol long after, were the same which
strangers to shoes and stockings, LEFT
their imprint upon the yellow clay of q
Kentucky backwoods farm. Three days
ago stood beneath the massive granite
pile that marks his resting place, anC
looked reverently upon the marble sar
cophagus that encloses his mortal re
mains; and there 1 remembered this
The tradition of his humble birth anC
real greatness will remain monument
to his memory after that one has crum
bled and fallen
Lebanon, Danville, and Mt Sterliul
are Of no particular interest. The sam,
may be said of Paris and Versailles. A
| Winchester 1 visited a loan exhibition
ard saw the plumed chapeau and swor,
of the guerilla chieftain John Morgan
the raider, and other interesting relic
too numerous to mention, Here I ais
, found my esteemed friend George Beihn
formerly of Ripley, now foreman in tn
Democrat office. At Mavsville 7 me
Dick Bowman, at one time foreman il
the News office. When Dick last say
me I had on a dirty apron, my sleeve
were rolled up and there may have beer
some ink on my nose. The sam
"Archimedean lever" was probably ais
well distributed over my shirt and pants
and perhaps, come to think OF it,
didn't look like man who was likel
to become rich and celebrated so soon
That was five years ago, and so when
doated into Davis fine job rooms il
Maysville five weeks ago, and swoopep
down upon Dick in all my dignity and
silk tile, I rather dumbiounded him
and it was some moments before h.
could collect his shattered faculties an,
remember me as the devil of other days
At
LEXINGTON
l visited again the tomb of Henry Clay
and looked once more upon the grave
of celebrated Morgans, Criuendens
Breckinridges, and others, At
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