The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-02-17

orders all dogs to be mu8zled.
The Democracy of Fulton county, on
Monday last, met and selected delegates to
the State convention. The delegates were
to cast the vote of the county |
for King for Governor and Hewitt for Au-
ditor. Governor King was present and
addressed the meeting.
Death has been busy in Georgetown in
the past few days. On Sunday three flu
nerals were preached at nearly the same
hour, and the bodies of three old citizens
were laid in the tomb; and on Monday
there was three additional burials, both
persons having passed the allotted time
three-seore years and ten.
The 9th of January and the 9th of Feb
ruary, 1875, will long be remembered as
two OF the coolest days known throughout
Kentucky during the present generation.
On the first named day the mercury IN the
thermometer, at daylight stood at lO0
below zero on the second, at the same
hour, it stood at So below zero.
Eight business houses and Offices at
Murray, were destroyed by fire Sunday af
terDoon, at II o'clock. The whole row
OF buildings west ofthe Court square were
burned, including Bourland Il Williams
drug store, post-office, R. D. Browns law
Office, tho corner house belonging to
Quarles, of McCracken county, DR.. Sher-
woods dental Office, w. T. SCOTS Office,
Dr. Eiker's office, the Gazette Office, and
Wears saddle and harness shop. Fire
supposed to have originated from defec>
tive stove pipe in Browns law office.
Loss about SIC, 000 and no insurance.
Mr.. Holloway, clerk in the Agricultural
Statistical Department Of the Auditors
office at Frankfort, has furnished the fol-
lowing total figures of the Kentucky tobac-
co crops of 1873 and 1874: The crop of 1873
amounted to 1864. las lbs; that ofl874
amounted to 167, 33S,997 lbs; the latter
showing a decrease from the former of
2,314, l48 lbs. 1t should be mentioned
that the. crop of 1873 in the foregoing
statement, 10 meant the crop of 1928;
and by that of 1874. is meant that OF
1874 The statistics of the crop OF
lS74,5-that is of last year-cannot be
furnished from the auditors books until
toward the close of the present year. 1t is
believed that the crop of last year will
not exceed 40, 100000 lbs.
Diptheria is prevailing at Client, Car
roll county, and the vicinity thereto
A lady seventy years OF age. now living
in Client, which is on the Ohio river, was
never on a steamboat, never in city, and
never saw a steam car.
Col. James Wallace, an old and es.
teemed citizen of Christian county, died
at his residence, in Hopkinsville, on the
LIST instant
The Hon. Thomas F. Randolph, cleo
ted to the United States Senate from New
Jersey, married a daughter of the lat,
Nicholas D. Coleman, of Maysville.
The Bracken Chronicle tells ofa man il
Robinson county who has married hi
fifth wife. One he married twice, anC
the last one is his first wife's daughter
A ball and chain to the leg and worl
on the streets is to be, henceforth, tn,
portion of impecunious offenders agains
the peace and dignity of the town of Car
rollton.
The chief engineer Of the Cumberland
and Ohio railroad has reported that it viii
require S3l 900 per mile to complete an,
eauip the road from Bloomfield to Emf
nence, in addition to what has alread
been SUBSIDIZED.
1.-THE late term of the Boyd count,
Circuit Court, the grand jury found s.
, indictments; large number OF fines wer
assessed, mostly for the violation of tn
whisky laws and carrying concealed dead
ly weapons.
Last Saturday son of Mr.. Lewis Cash
, who resides in Howe's valley, Hardil
county, was struck by a falling tree
which hired man on the place wa
chopping down, from the injuries @
which he died on Monday. The chill,
was about ten years of age.
One D. S. Knapp, who representa-
himself as from Chicago, and the propri
; etor of waterproof cement, victimize
: several Of the good citizens of Hop kins
vile last week. The New Era lost fou
or five dollars worth of job work on him
the hotels were swindled out of severa
!, DAYS board, and all with whom he ha
/, any transactions were the sufferers
Under the head of Pass him round,
the New Era also presents him with
fifteen-line notice gratis.
An elopement took place Saturda
Z night from Campbell county, which. ha
taken many by surprise. Miss Josephin
: Thurman, young lady Of great accom-
: plishments, daughter of Squire Murnar
contrary to the will of her father, took
! into her head to marry Joseph Ora
tiaua, man employed on the Squire
farm for two or three years past, and o
:, Saturday they eloped, went to Ohio-th
particulars we could not learn-and q
= married. They returned, however, an
! removed their effects to Ohio, where the
;. intend to reside.
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A mild form of scarlet fever has mac
its appearance at Moorfield, Nichols
: county.
q Mr.. Coleman Short, soldier of ii
> war of 1872, died in Mercer county tn
= week, aged SO years.
e There is considerable sickness in al
u about Perryville. Principally pneumol
ia, sore throat. and colds.
The Industrious Mclean county farm,
is busy preparing ground for tobacco.
some instances plant beds have alreaC
: been sown.
! The reports from all quarters continr
= unfavorable and discouraging to Il
!. wheat crop Some farmers assert tn
( "every blade is killed"
Richard Parks, colore1, the oldest ma
10 in Madison county, died near the res
- dence of Mr. Horace Parks, on Tuesdt
last, He had reached the remarkab
n. age of los years.
r. The distillery of T. ]. Vandyke, {
II Salt river, in Mercer county, was burn,
IS on Saturday night.
N The Owen Criminal Court, at the ter
just closed, melted out exact justice in eve
,e case where the law in regard to sellir