The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1875-03-31

alker anu w. w. w hlte were appOlnt-
ed his assignees. Monroe Walker & Son
have field their petition in bankruptcy.
d. G. Gaines, Ezra Fiddler and James n.
Arthur are all broke. Almost everybody
in Anderson county will lose more or less
by Ripy's failure. Business Gull.
Hon. A. P. Hareourt, of Springfield,
has in his possession a large white rat,
which he captured last Friday night. The
rat is in shape like other rats, but perfect.
ly white.
On the 9th inst, in the neighborhood
of Casey creek, Adair county, two chill
dren Of Mr.. D. L. Edrington and two oil
Mr.. Armstead were badly bitten by a mad
cat. By the prompt application of a mad
stone belonging to Elder Wallace they
were relieved. Several dogs and cats
were also bitten.
Last Sunday morning about daylight
the inhabitants Of Berry Station, Harri-
son county, were startled from their slum-
bers by one OF the most terrific hail-storms
that ever visited this section. The storm
lasted several minutes. The hail-stones
that were afterwards picked up were from
the size of buckshot to that of pullet' $
egg, come of them measuring four inches
in circumference to an inch and half n
thickness.
On Wednesday evening of last week,
while Ezra Watson, young man IN the
employ off. Fl. Magruder, OF Shelbyville,
was taking the harness off horse, a cat
sprang from the stable-loft on the back
of the animal, causing him to kick young
Watson on the leg. just above the knee,
/ pr0.lnainn annnnnnnA If he
bone, which will doubtless cripple him
for life. This is the second time the
young man has been kicked in the same
place by horse
A difficulty occurred between G.. w.
O'Brian and ). D. 0'Conner, Wednesday
morning on the streets of Springfield, in
which Mr.. OConner fired one shot at Mr..
y Brian-the ball passing through his
clothes. The rencounter was hand>to-
hand, and Mr.. o Brian's clothes was con-
siderably burned by the explosion of the
pistol. The case came up before w. 7.
Burton, police judge. but he declined to
sit in the case 1t was continued until
next Thursday.
One Carter, an American citizen of AZ
rican descent, applied to his Honor, Judge
Wickliffe, at Springfield, during the sit
ting ofthe court there, for license to prac-
tice law. His Honor appointed w. B.
Harrison, ESQ, OF Lebanon, and P. II.
Thompson, jr., of Harrodsburg, to exam
inc the applicant. He didn't pass His
tutor will have to instruct him little
further in legal lore This is the first
application Of the kind ever made in the
State outside of Louisville.
A prominent citizen of Harrodsburg.
Mr.. A. C. Passmore, was found dead in
his bed Thursday morning. The cause
of his sudden and unexpected demise is
supposed to be heart disease, or a COM
gestive chill. Mr.. Passmore had been a
livery stable keeper for many years in
that place, and owner and trainer of many
fine trotters.
The sheriff of Barren county offers re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and delivery
at the Glasgow Jail of John NJ. Basham,
charged with the murder of A. L. Hawk
ins. In addition to this is the State
rev ard of $500, which sccording to the
Glasgow Times, will probably result in
Basham's capture.
Harrodsburg lays claim to the most re-
markable woman ofthe age. Mrs Sarah
Fairman, a lady who has lived half a
century in one house IN Harrodsburg. not
more than two hundred yards from Main
street, which, bisects the entire town. She
crossed this Main) street, the other day,
for the first time in thirty-seven years
When she last crossed it, it was a mud
road. Mrs. F. has been all the while in
good health. This singular home fancy is
strange and beautiful Mrs. F. has Cos
slipped very little, we reckon.
On Sunday near IL o'clock, there oc
Cured at the head of Main street, Bowl
ing Green, a sickening and shocking dif
ficulty between two negroes, resulting
fatally to one Of the parties Just under
the hill there is house where these
dusky and dark men fought Their names
were Henry Black and Albert Carpenter
They got into fracas about a negro wo-
man, and from words they came to blows
and then to knives. Carpenter made a
lunge at Black, and the latter drew
carving~knife, or shoe>knife and cut him
to death. The entrance of the blade cut
the heart clean in two, disemboweling
his antagonist. Black then went for DIR.
Porter, who Immediately saw that the
case was hopeless one. Carpenter died
almost instantly, and was buried. Black
voluntarily surrendered himself to the
civil authorities, and was taken in charge
by Capt LeGrand and J. P Bailey, jr.
The case is a very unfortunate one. On
Monday Black was arraigned before Judge.
Thos. j. Kinniard, in the Police court.
1t was shown to be a case of justifiable
homicide in self defence, and the case was
dismissed BY the Judge. .r--
We learn of the commission of a very
serious and revolving crime in Metcalfe
county. The facts are as follows: There
lives a woman in the county who be-
longed to one Of the best families there,
but who for some time has not conducted
herself as lady should. to say the least.
On the 2nd day of March She was deliv-
cred Of a child-a bastard-and deter
mined to conceal its birth. Accordingly
she placed it in a satchel and slowed it
away up stairs. During the day one Of
her daughters heard the infant cry and
mentioned the fact, but her mother in
formed her that it was something else.
The mother went from the house, and the
daughter, who was not satisfied, with her
brother began an investigation, and found
the child hid az above stated. They re-
turned down stairs and said nothing. A
few moments afterwards they saw the
mother leave the house with the satchel
in her hand, and, we believe, watched
her. She carried the child some distance
from the house, dug hole in the earth,
placed the still living child therein and
covered it with dirt and rocks. The child
was afterwards found and resurrected,
smothered to death. The mother was