The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-07-03
LINCOLN COUNTY.


STANFORD, KY, June 20.
Rarely does it happen that a CONNER
cial traveller manifests a solicitude to
gather the local news OF the country
through which he passes. In the olden
times. before mail facilities blessed the
world. it was the business of the pilgrim
and wandering minstrel to subserve
the useful ends of mail-bags, and a
nights lodging, with cheerful fire and
bounteous repast, was never refused one
Of these peripatetic post.ofiices. Not SO
now, and "more's the pity with COM
mercial travler. He has no news to
hash out that isn't stale from oft read
ing in daily and weekly sheets; the
wherefore of which is, he pays for bread,
meat and bed at the highest market
price, and goes forth from dearly bought
refreshments to the labor Of 'dunniDg" a
delinquent customer, or, still worse,
"druming" for a new one. So it is that
this business is gen orally his business to
the exclusion of everybody elsee business.
If countryman deign to engage him
in a conversation at all, it is, at this
period of time, a bout the rain, or rather
the drouth, and the crop prospects in
other parts Of the State.
The good folks of Lincoln, Garrad,
and Boyle counties furnish no especial
exception to this rule though if one is
mind to listen to them they will dis.
course nerr-endingly ab, ut bluegrass,
blooded stock, and local politics. ! find
among the people of Lincoln strong
feeling of provincialism. They are thrifty
shrewd, aud honest They would not,
brook the antithesis impelled by connect
ing the last two descriptive words by the
conjunction bat instead OF the copulative
and; for tn rift and honor are regarded
rs inseparable by community that
idolizes industrious habits as one of the
chief virtues say the people OF this
county are provincial. This results
largely from ancestral country pride.
They omit not to mention the historical
fact that Lincoln is one of the "orignal
three :" that she gave to Kentucky her
first Governor, who,e country seat, Trave-
ler's Rest, still stands within few miles
of her county seat; that, save Lexington
and Harrodsburg, Stanford is the oldest
town in the State: aud, not saving those
two, she has more to boast of on account
of the heroisnl, courage, and endurance
Of her pioneers, the Logans, Baileys,
Carpenters, and others, than any town
between the Ohio river and Tennessee
line. There is, indeed, historical ro.
nance connected with the very name of
this town. Some tine, the date OF which !
do not remember, the Indians from Ohio
made grand incursion into Kentucky,
and captured Boon's, Bryant's, Harrod's,
and in brief every other station in the
State, except Logan's Fort, situated just
one-half mile from the courthouse of
the present county seat To this fort
they laid siege. but were defeated in all
their assaults upon the works by old Ben
Logan, aided by his warrior men and
women, for they all fought with equal
skill and gallantry. The siege continued
until Logan began to feel alarm for the
supply of his powder and ball lie
therefore quietly stole one dark aud rainy
night through the lines Of the besiegers,
and made his way through Cumberland
Gap To the llolston river in Tennessee,
where he procured full supply Of am
munition, with which he safely returned
TO the fort in the almost incredible space
of one week from the day be left. This
enabled him to raise the siege, and his
ows e.. was ,he c.,y ore le.. s..rd;rg