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

| capt. James IA. DlackOurn, OF w O0d'
ford, has consented to become a candidate
for the State Senate.
Capt. j. NJ. Hines, of the Bowling
Green Paragraph, announces himself a
candidate for seat in the lower branch
of the State Legislature.
The Calhoon Progress says that the in
dications now are that there will be a
larger area planted in tobacco the present
year in Mclean than ever known in its
history.
The Princeton Banner notes a report
that Ex-Governor Charles Anderson, OF
Lyon county, will be candidate for the
State Senate in his district, composed of
Lyon, Trigg, Galloway and Livingston
counties.
The Stanford Interior Journal says
that Francis NJ Cockrell, who was cleo
ted Senator from Missouri last Tuesday,
was born and raised in Laurel county,
Kentucky, and has many relations in that
part of the State.
AT meeting of the Democracy OF
Jackson, on the 4th inst, delegates were
instructed to vote for Col. Jas. B. Nc
Creary for Governor, Hon. D. Howard
Smith for Auditor, Richard Tate for
Treasurer, Richard Sharp for Register OF
Land Office; and for the other offices to
be filled they are left to vote for any cam
didate they think best.
Justice is queerly administered in Bour-
bon county. AT the recent term of the
Circuit Court, at Paris, VIM. Hukill was
sentenced for two years in the penitentia-
ry for killing Clay Richardson, while, at
the same term ofcourt, Henry Williams,
for stealing twenty bushels of wheat, was
sentenced to a confinement of three years
and six months in that institution.
A COW belonging to a colored man
named George Nuckles, on Boyd's creek,
Barren county, met with a singular mis-
fortune few days ago. She was on the
outside of stable in which was a horse,
and it is supposed that in licking through
the cracks ofthe stable the horse either
bit or paved off her tongue, as it was
found lying in the stable, and she had not
been inside Of it during the night in which
the accident occurred.
A little daughter of Mr.. F. Shader, OF
Bardstown, child about ten months old,
was last week seized with a sudden and
VIOLENT attack Of illness. The symptom;
were such that the nature of the di sease
could not be ascertained. The child had,
as has since been discovered, swallowed
needle with thread two feet long at.
tached. The thread carried the needle
through her stomach, and the child has
entirely recovered.
Mardi Gras is to be celebrated at
Frankfort this year with great ecLat.
In a fight between John and Wash
Smith, brothers, in Taylor county, John
wounded Wash severely with knife.
1t is said that Fleming county is one Of
the few counties in Kentucky completely
out of debt, and that taxes are at less
rates than in most counties.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cockrell died on the
Nth inst, at the residence of her son, Mr.
John Cockrell, near Bethlehem, in Henry
county, at the advanced age of one hun
dred years and three months.
Some butter-maker sold to Falmouth
merchant, during the holidays, a quanti-
ty of butter, one~half of which was found,
upon iclose inspection, to he lard.
The Maysville Bulletin (Dem,) speak,
ing of Harrison Cockril's action in con-
testing John D. Whites seat in Congress,
says: He was badly beaten and ought to
be satisfied with the verdict of the people
The example set by Sam. Mckee and
other Radicals, of claiming seats to which
they were not entitled, is bad one for
Democrats to follow.
Some unknown man came to A. j..
Bryants near Pribble X Roads, Pendleton
county, a few days since, accompanied by
two children, a boy and girl, aged about
eight and ten years respectively. The
man, giving some reasonable excuse,
stepped outside the house, leaving the
children, and has not been seen or heard
from since The children, who have been
kindly cared for by Mr.. Bryant, know not
where they are from or in what direction
they came, except that they crossed the
Ohio river.
1t is said that three-card monte sharps
are playing their game quite Industrious
" on the st. Louis and S. Z. r. w.
They have been quite successful, we un>
derstand, and have fleeced a number of
victims. In one case, it is said, they got
their man Tor $500, another for $500, and
we hear it said that prominent gentle-
man of Darlington lost 1925 on the queen.
Their headquarters are at Nortonville,
where the L., P. and S. w. R. r. crosses
the st. L. and S. E. r. W., and the
scoundrels, working both roads, make a
pretty good thing of 1t. The Madison
Vile Times is of the opinion that the au-
thorities should give these rascals some
attention.
The citizens of Bloomfield district,
Nelson county, have voted in favor of re-
failing spirituous liquors.
Three mammoth tobacco stemmeries
will be erected within the city limits of
Greensboro, during the present year.
The convention of the Democracy Of
Marion county has been called to meet at
Lebanon the first Monday IN February.
Sylvester Manning, who was confined
in the Lewis county jail last summer,
charged with larceny, but escaped with
Blyew, was shot in Carter county, last
week, while riding a stolen horse. His
brother, Martin Manning, was killed at
the same time. A young man by the
name of Kountz did the shooting.
Mr.. James, farmer, residing on the
headwaters of Six-mile creek, about ten
miles from Frankfort, some weeks ago
stumbled upon a forest memento Of the
great old pioneer Of Kentucky, on his
place, which, it seems remarkable, was
not discovered before. This, however,
may he accounted for by the Loneliness
and out-ofthe-way charactey of the 10.
cality. In deep dell, near the bank of
little stream which is one of the con-
fluents of Six>mile creek, he found on a
beech tree, some five or six feet from the
ground, the following deeply-engraved
inscription: Daniel Boone, July 10th
ITO" Mr.. James proceeded to cut down