The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-01-27

but one dissenting vote, a special school
tax of twenty-five cents on the 500, in adj.
dition to the regular State tax.
While r. Ii. Ferguson, of Bracken
county, was cutting ice, the other day, his
ak struck large blue catfish under the
ice, killing it instantly. 1t weighed six
ty four pounds.
Harrison Cockrill has given notice that
he will contest the right Of Hon. John d.
White (Republican(, member~elect from
the Ninth district, to seat in the next
Congress- The Democratic newspapers
of the Ninth district are unanimous in
opposing this course
William Rochester, of Stanford, was
shot and killed at Lancaster, Saturday
night, by W. s. Miller, the town mar
shall Of the latter place. Rochester was
drinking, and very desperate character.
DIR. l.. L. Pinkerton, a prominent
preacher in the Christian Church, is
hopelessly i'll at Lexington.
Gen. John G. Breckenridge is nearly
well again.
There are now 729 convicts in the Ken
lucky penitentiary. Although the whites
in Kentucky outnumber the negroes as
six or seven to one, there are SO more
negroes in the penetantiary than whites
Of the whole number the city of Louis
vile furnishes about one fifth-there be
ing about $50 there from that city now.
Young Eddie Foster of Boyd county,
and now an undergraduate of Yale, is, for
his age, among the finest scholars in the
United States. He is a natural mathe-
maticiaD, having long since mastered that
important branch of education, and an
adept in the languages, having mastered
the German, French, Spenish, Italian.
Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabian, SAM
skirt, etc.
Elder Tbos. P Dudley is quite i'll at his
residence in Lexington The Gazette,
referring to this, says: Notwithstanding
his great age and bis severe labors, in the
army in his youth, when he was with
Jackson at New Orleans and with Harri-
son in the Northwest, and fifty years of
uninterrupted pul pit services since. he
has generally been vigorous and healthy.
We have two more Jail escapes to record
this morning The Frankfort Yeoman Of
Saturday says that last Thursday two ne
groes and a white man, s. Stabball, in
Jail for borse-stealing, and John Smith
and Jim Baily, in for burglary and rob
berry, made a rush for the door, Smith
knocking Lawler down and Baily throw
ing bucket of water in his face, on their
way out. The two negroes then ran out,
and meeting Mrs. Lawler, the jailer's
wife, at the door, knocked her down
while she was in the act of closing it.
Stabball, who had been brought from
Henry county for safe-keeping, had man
aged to break the chains on his ankles,
but, in attempting tojump upon the jailer
while that officer was still down, was so
impeded by his sbackles that he fell upon
his PROSTATE body. Then, after kicking
the jailer in the side and on the head, he
jumped up and made his esca pc through
the open door, The alarm, however,
was at once given by ringing the police
bell, and Immediately some twenty per-
sons were in hot pursuit. Stabhall not
being able to make much Roadway with
the chains on his ankles, was reca ptured
and brought back within a few minutes
after his exit. The two negroes, having
better start and being unimPeded by
shackles, escaped, and have thus far elu-
ded arrest Last Monday night George
Seward and Samuel Greenhouse broke
Jail at Seottsville, Allen county, and made
their escape by pricing off the poplar
plank fencing which held in the iron bars
of the window.