The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1873-07-04
Mr.. A. A. WARREN viii be found
ready to wait upon you at all hours Of
the night at Z. r. Chenault's.
FROM WAYNE COUNTY,

MONTICELLO, KY, June 9Otb, 1878.
Eiiiors Iniuior Joupais
The weather still continues almost unendu-
rably hot The Thermometers are getting dis
gusted trying to register its flights We never
were Of an envious turn Of mind, but il does
now somehow strike us forcibly that polar
bears and icebergs are a little favored above
the rest Of humanity
II has rained almost necessarily during the
present month, consequently farmers are "ter-
ribly" Hhind with their work. The harvest
Is now upon them, and their corn in the weeds
and II Is still mining. Wheat is splendidly
headed but is very short and thin on the
ground. Rye is generally good Corn is
very promising il il ceases raining 10 it can
get another working il will be excellent.
Oats are finer than has been seen for several
years. We have no fruit whatever but black
berries and them We have in profusion.
The ST. Johns Day celebration Sas, practi-
cally speaking, a puIm affair. And II one
earns bread by the sweat Of his brow, we
think we merited enough that day to enable
Us 10 retire from active life, but We are afraid
Il weren't credited TO Us.
The procession, mounted, moved from Mon
ticello TO the Fair Grounds, and there halted,
'broke ranks, !" and the people were highly en-
tertained for about two hours by excslleHt
orations from Joseph Bertram, - Keen and
Rev. Ballinger Wright, after which a sumptu-
Gus feast was spread and the remainder Of the
day given to social enjoyment and pleasure.
Our merchants generally did a good bust
ness that day. While in one Of the stores
that day looking around We saw a nicely,
fashionably dressed young man Of town enter
and AK for fan, he was shown a neat speci-
men, %whai's the price," sixty cents" was
the reply. "well, charge H." and out he
went. Presently young man from the
country came in and ASKED the price, sixty
cents" he laid ID back and was going OF when
the merchant, an .fiAble and obligias gentle
man, told him he might have II for -fty."
but he sill did not seem to exhibit the con-
msndable spirit Of enierpriss 20 much eEtollod
In his class. The fan vas then rated at "for.
y-fve," -forty," and ''thirty ave." then yso-
man made his hid "rii give you a quarter"
"No | can't sell ID for less than thirty Ave"
II won't give H." Then III split the differ
enoe with youi take ID for thirty" "No, sir,
| wont give bat quarter" lie got the fan.
Moral, boys Pay a. you 80 and buy at you5
price
The people are little apprshen.ive Of tho
cholera, and the mothers much 10 the digust
Of the candidates have wrapped the dear liz.
lie babies and children up In "'kdily' and gar
lie. Elscsioassriss this summer sill nearly
ali be done with thu men.
From private letter from Cea,nl Georgia.
We learn that In the neigAhorhood q Owing
Ton the sn.Il-poK has broker oat wilh oousid-
srabls fury. The erop- In the vicinity Of
COviRgsOn arc an god sxsp, cotton, which l.
considerably injured BY vet weather
MARRiED.
Al the Union Church, Monticello on the
18th inst, by Eid. y. C. sheaur, Mr. Jobs
Rigni, Of CASEY county, 10 Mn. salbs simp-
son, Of Wayne They left Immediately for
Casey.
DIED.
Al his residence, near Berryville, Nv, on
the 18th inst Mr.. John Brauiner, an GA and
esiimable citizen,
Wayne Teachers Institute conyenes al Mon-
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