The enquirer southerner., 1874-05-01
Firste Sttlement of Kentucky.

Firste sttlement of Kentucky.
It is just one hundred years ago
since the first settlement of Ken
lucky. In April, 1774, the terri-
BILE massacre of the Logan family
by the Indians took place, and
Daniel Boone, who hated the indian
as much as he loved the
Indian life, was longing for revenge,
when messenger came riding
down the valley Of the Ohio with
his steed in foam-a messenger
from the royal Governor Drnmore,
Of Virginia-seeking one Boone, a
woodman, who had been in the west,
to 90 westward to the falls of the
Ohio, to conduct surveying parties
and protect them as they went.
Boone started on his perilous jour-
ney on the 9th Of June, 1774,
reached and reconducted the survey
ors in safety to the settlements, the
distance being eight hundred miles
and the time two months. The
Governor rewarded Boone by em>
ploying him on a larger scale for
settling the west. James Harrod,
the founder Of Iiarrodsburg, built
the first house in what was then
termed the west, a log cabin,
raised in the forest, in April, 1774.
Queen Venice.
In entering this quaint old city
built in the sea, one is struck with
it's qnietness, so marked, coming
from the hustle and noise of city
life, accustomed to the rumble of
wheels and the clatter Of horses
feet upon the pavements. meeting
groaps of noisy and merry laughing
girls, hearing the cry Of the boot
black, or shouts of the willy news
boys, anxious to sell you the fifth
edition. Here, all these, and more,
are wanted. One never sees a
horse nor hears the sound Of wheels,
and children are rarely met. The
boot black and newsboy are novels
ties yet to be introduced. Settled
by a hardy race of men who fed to
the lagoons of the Adriatic for safety
more than thirteen centuries ago,
they and their descendants have
built city of royal palaces, mang.
nifcent churches and elegant man~
sions, which to>day are the pride
and wonder of the civilized world.
A MULE KIcK.-Two Irishmen
engaged in peddling packages of
linen, bought an old mule to aid in
carrying the bundles. Each would
ride q while or "ride and tie" as
the saying is. One day the Irish.
man who was on foot got close to
the heels of his muleship. when he
received kick on one of his shins.
To be revenged he picked up a
stone, and hurled it at the mule,
but by accident struck his COM
panion on the back of the head
Seeing what he had done, he stop
ped, and began to groan and rub his
shin. The man on the mule turned
and asked:
What's the matter
"The cratur's kicked me- was
the reply.
BE jabbers,' said the other,
he's did that same to me on the
back of my head.
! PATENT RAT-TRAP.-The local
editor of the Burlington Iowa
Hawkeye says man has invented
a patent rat>trap that does not
require any bait, and will fetch a
rat every time it reaches for him.
It operates on the principal of a
stomach pump-the inventor is a
"retired ply sician, the SANDS Of
whose life have nearly" &c.-and
the trap is placed at the mouth OF
the rat hole. When it is wound up
and the suction begins the rat
comes. He may hold on to the
ground with his teeth, and humb
his back and paw dirt, and weep,
and yell for the police all he wants,
he comes out of that hole backward,
is dragged into back compartment,
where a steel glove drags his hide
off and lays 1t aside for o kid. glove
manufacturer, while the carcass is
pushed into a little furnace and
incremated.
THE NEGRo's LOCAL OPTION
There is en- old darkey in Maryland
who lately voted for local option, as
he understood it, but not as the
public generally understand it,
The story "a true one runs thus
AT a recent election, a friend asked
the old man how he was going t.
vote.
"Oh,' he replied, "the Republi
can ticket always vote tha
ticket"
"But how are you going to vot'
on local option p
The darkey, looking up, asked
"What's dat?"
Why, local option is putting
down liquor,' was the reply.
" Lors massy.'' said the darkey
"of course l vote for local option;
votes to put down liquor to the oil