The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-17
HAPPENINGS
OF Interest Cleaned From the
Columns Of Our Valu-
able Exchanges.
An Excellent Marksman--0hio the
Mother Of Many Presidents
Give the Boys q Chance--
Crop outlook.
THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENTS.

THE MOTHER OF PRESIDENTS.
Ex-Presidents Benjamin Harrison
and Ulysses S. Grant were born on the
banks of the Ohio river. Grants
birthplace was about as far above as
Harrison's was below Cincinnati, the
two being hardly thirty miles apart.
The Harrison home was in Hamilton
county, and that of the Grants at
Point Pleasant, Clermont count, ad-
joining Hamilton on the east. The
fact of three Presidents-one living
there and two born there-coming
from region but comparatively few
miles apart in southwestern Ohio, is
remarkable coincidence. Another most
surprising historic fact is that, with
the exception of Lincoln, the Repub-
lican party has never been able to
elect a President who was not born in
Ohio, as witness the election of Grant,
Hayes, Garfield, Harrison and Nc
Kinley. The Wings never elected
but two Presidents, William Henry
Harrison and Zachary Taylor, born on
the Ohio river and in Kentucky, a
State adjoining Ohio. Garfield was
born in the northeast corner of Ohio
and Hayes in the Central portion, in
Delaware y.-Madisonville Sun.
UNEXCELLED MARKMANsHIP.
Jack Vance, a cowboy from the
ranch of the Butte Creek Cattle Com
pany, was on trial at Alliance, Neb.,
on a charge of shooting at a brake
man on the Burlington Railroad with
intent to kill him. He had received
his pay few days before and was en-
gagged at the time of the shooting in
the picturesque pastime of painting
the county red. Vance denied any
intent to perforate the brake
man. He told the Court that while it
was true that he did take out his re-
volver and shoot after the brakeman
had pushed him off the train, he was
merely giving prearranged signal.
He and his friend had been down the
road few miles and wanted to ride
back to the nearest station to the
ranch. Realizing that if they were
found by any of the train crew they
would be put off, they had arranged
that if one was put off the train he
should notify his partner by firing
his revolver once. The trainman,
with visions of what he firmly believed
was a narrow escape from death,
shook his head and the Judge looked
unbelieving. Vance's cowboy friend
corroberated the story, but seeing that
his tale failed to receive credence the
defendant asked the Court to please
step outside. The Judge asked what
for. "I'll prove my innocence, Your
Vance said. The Court was
curious and went outside. So did the
Sheriff, lawyers and spectators.
Vance pulled out his revolver and
holding postage stamp between the
fingers of his left hand clipped off
each corner in succession. Next he
asked spectator to suspend hick-
Dry nut from thread. Walking off
30 feet he weeled and at the first shot
cut the thread. Taking six tacks he
placed them closely in a piece of
wood. This he placed against a post
% yards away. Borrowing a watch
from bystander he opened the case
for mirror, shot with his back to the
mark and drove each tack into the
wood without miss. The brakeman
had been looking on in open-mouthed
AS Vance concluded the
stepped up to the Judge
and tapping him on the arm, said
'Yer-Yer Honor, guess l was mis-
taken. That man wasn't shooting at |
e."-Denver Times.
THE SAME HERE.
Wheat plants in the vicinity of
Wilmington seem struggling with ad-
verse conditions. The outlook is very
liscouraging indeed, with little pros
oect of improvement. Meadows and
pastures are greening beautifully
md their prospects are promising.
farm stock, so far as we have been
lble to observe, has come through
he winter in fine shape. With the
outlook for the farmers OF Clinton
county seems favorable.
GIVE HIM A CHANCE.
Let the boy loose for day, once in
| while, even if the garden does need
loeing and bugs are on the potatoes,
Ind the hay needs to be raked, and
he grain shocked, and the fences
o the hogs can't get in or the cows
ret out. Give him a small load of
'r oduce occasionally when he is old
nOuph tO handle a team and LET him |