The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-01-06
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A MAN in Brooklyn. N. Y, was trying
to sell a horse the other day, and while
swearing that it was the gentlest creature
in existence. the animal, to prove how im-
possible 1t is for an auctioneer 10 tell the
truth. bit large slice out of his cheek.
CHRIsrEN q monkey Sir John Smythe,
and turn HIM loose in New York some
Monday morning, and by the end Of the
week he will become the husband OF some
fair Fifth Avenuedle.
UP in Lexingtonthe fell scourge Of mat
rimony devaststes whole families at one
fell swoop The other day two brothers
were married to two sisters, and one we'd
ding sufficed for both couples.
TIE printer who was arrested for theft
in Louisville the other day, gave his name
a. James g. Bennett, and claimed 10 have
worked on the late Essning Tribune, must
have given false name. We have excsl-
lent reason to know that there were
thieves about the Tribune Office, but none
of them were named Bennett.
TIE difference between the Rev. Dr..
Coon, Of Washington City, and the Rev.
DR.. Beecher, of Brooklyn, N. Y, is this;
The former stole his neiehbor's books. was
detected, and, from very shame, killed
himself. The latter stole his neighbours
wife. was detected, and, from very efftont.
cry. continues to-l;-e. - ..., 80,
L TIE Small Talker OF the Courier-Jownal
10 willing to perpetrate bisamy with Vim
ME Ream. The Small Talker is a nephew
of Brigham Young, and has q natural
taste for bigamy; but for our life we can't
zee how he can pass over the morning
glory charms of the young and gushing
Sukey Anthony and fix his mormonic AT,
fections on old and ugly Winnie Resm.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston Neps
describes q touching interview between
Mrs. Tilton and Mrs. Harriet Beecher
Stowe, the sister OF her seducer. The cor
respondent makes Of the latter an angel of
goodness and sympathy. We have no
patience with those people. A woman
capable of writing such . book as that
about Byron cannot be & good woman.
She has to be devoid of heart and soul.
or, if she has heart, it is "a hell 90 deep
and dark and foul" that Satan himself
would shrink back appalled, from it. Bad
as Beecher. and the Tilton woman both
are. they are immaculate by the side of
:thia she ghoul. .- -.
/ THERE 10 "come out" in the Missouri
children after all, despite their fashion of
wearing tow hair and freckled faces. The
other day little four year, old over there
shot and killed grown man named An
derson; and his mother is now: the proud.
est woman in Pike county because "baby
has slowed his man."
AKENroN county woman has the vest
Ten. Israel PUTNAM wore at the time he
gallopsd down the fight Of stone steps to
escape the British; and North Carolina
woman has the quilt Lafayette slept under
during the seige of Yorktown. A hun
dred years from now we shall have some
one stepping to the front as the owner OF
lthe moccasins worn BIZ the Digger squaw
win whom Capt Useless Grant foregafh-
cred in California, at the time he was dis
missed the military service for drunken
ness and immortality. ',.'...'
Mrs. PEGaT HANGER, Of Riverheads,
Va, was a hanger-on to life until her
neighbore began to think she had made
up her mind to sit up for the millennium.
But she finally gave up the job, and pass
ed in her checks, last Thursday, at the
age of one hundred and ten years.
TIE Paducah Kentuckian gracefully re-
tracts the charming little canard il origi-
mated 10 regard to. the destitptien Of the
aunt of Col. Stoddard Johnston in that
city. We disputed it at the time, because
we knew that the lady was living with
loving relatives, and wanted for nothing.
Other tactics will have to be pursued to
head. off the Colonel.