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The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

WALLACE GRUELLE NORRIS is the
name of a young gentleman who has
just made his entrance upon the stage
of life in Hardin county. He is rep
resented to us as being hale, hearty and
handsome. We congratulate the hap
py parents upon their treasure. We
congratulate ourself upon the fattering
compliment they have paid us. And
we congratulate Master NORRIS upon
his good luck in christening. We shall
watch his future career with interest.
We prophesy great things of him. We
can see him, as We scan with prophetic
vision the years that will unroll before
him, respected, happy and useful cit
izen, loved and hOnOred by his country
men, progressing from one lofty po-
sition TO another, until we see him COM
fortably seated in 1.-THE Chair of State"
at the White House. And why not?
If a babe "cursed with the damnable
cognomenation" of ULYSSES SIMPSON
can achieve the Presidency, what is to
mar the fortunes of one bearing the mel
lifiuous name of WALLACE GRUELLE,
each syllable of which falls from the
tongue with the hepurling, tinkling, ,silvery
sound Of water dropping from amimic
cascade into the pellucid pool ofa sum-
mer brook? At allevents, gOd-son, We
hail thee, and, lii the language of honest
old RIP VAN WINKLE, Heres to your
good health: may YOU live long and
prosper
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

l wonder if they call her Annie mp
there? And here is a watch, still as the
heart which stopped beating under it be-
fore l was old enough to know the mean
ing Of the word fatherless.
And here is a baby's silken curl! Lit
tie Willie-.My head droops lower as
lay it back and take out the old fa-
miliar gray>brown suit. InvOluntarily L
stroke the sleeve. Each touch is a ca
ress-a tender, lingering caress, with a
quick quiver of pain running up the arm
to the very heartl All! how sharp the
pain grows! The tongh tightens to a
clasp! -"Oh my boyl" Not in words.
No, no! A dry rattling in the throat,
with strong effort to swallow something
which is choking, and the words which
would have been a wall are stitled! But
bent lower over the trunk, face all
drawn with weeping is buried in the
breast of that poor empty coat, and lips
that make no moan press passionate
kisses on the gray-brown garment which
four years ago covered heart so tender
and true, 30 noble and pure, that angels
were sent to take him up where the pure
in heart see Cod
Ali mothers, sisters, you know, you
who have been through many such
house-cleanings,
"There's not fold howe'er attended,
But one dead lamb is there;
There's not a freside, howe'er defended,
But has one vacant chair"
Shut the trunk. Close the drawer
God knows it all. We would not bring
them back. Not now. No. no. There.
no house e-cleaning up there. No tears
No heart-ache.
Slip out quietly and bathe the red eyes
Wash out the tear-stains. Smooth the
face. Hasten back and get things tc
rights, for supper-time is coming, Sucl
is life.
LEBANON KY, June, 1915.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
For the Hartford Herald.
The Wandering Judge.

South CARRoLLToN, KY, July 5.
EDITOR HERALD:-In Louisville Central
Park, it so happened that we observed
man who, assumed the appearance of
Hartford Judge. We said maxwell,
he did have some oil the features of a man,
but he more resembled a brewery, for his
beer capacity is unsurpassed by hogs
head.
The Judge had a couple of kegs of his
favorite "picnic water" emptied into his
elephantine stomach, and then began 10
sensibly realize the heat Of the day. Ap-
preaching some of his more experienced
"puss-gut" friends, he asked if beer ever
clabbered and event back on fellow 2
They replied that it would ferment and boil
over if exposed to excessive heat. Where
upon the Judge purchased hogshead of
ice-water and had his unlimited bowels
well bathed, and then took lone passage
on a street-car for Hamberger's, to get
further information in regard to his stom-
ach. Having returned from the Park, we
felt curiosity TO know the result OF the
two kegs of beer, and followed the Judge 8
footsteps 10 Hamberger's. There sat the
Judge, making a strange noise. first
thought he was braying !or Will Hays
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

SEC. I. Be IL further enacted, That il
shall be the duty Of each Assessor of tax.
who shall be in office in the year 1875. as
soon as he shall be advised of the passage
of this act, to 60 before justice of the
peace and take the following oath: do
sOlemnly swear | will to the best ofmy skill
and Judgment, fairly ascertain the num-
Der of qualified voters in the district In
which | was elected for the year 1875,
and report the same, with my book made
as Assessor oftax, before the first day of
May, 1875.
Sec. 3 Be Il further enacted, That the
Assessors of tax may, and they are hereby
required to examine on oath any person
in relation to his right to vote for Repre-
sentatives, when he has doubts as to his
right to vote; and any person who shall
knowingly swear falsely before the asses
sor, and shall therefore be convicted, shall
be subjected to all the pains and penalties
of the crime of perjury.
SEC. 9. BE IL further enacted, That the
assessor shall write ''sworn" opposite the
name OF each person who may be sworn
by him.
SEC. 10. Be ii further enacted, That it
shall be the duty of the Public Printer to
print five hundred copies of the seventh,
eighth and ninth sections of this act inn
mediately after its passage. and deliver
them to the Secretary of State for the
time being, who shall transmit them
forthwith to the county clerks, to be de-
livered by them as soon as possible to the
assessors of tax for the year 1875.
By authority Of the GeaeraL assembly.
g. w. CRADDocK, Secretary of State.
Approved December 18th, 1873.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
For the Herald.
HOUSE CLEANING.
by QUITS.

Out with the chairs! Out with the
beds, mattresses, steads and all! Take
down the pictures from the walls! Up
with the carpets! Blessed are the women
who have no husbands hanging around
in the way, grumbling at the dust and
discomfort of housekeeping time.
If men just had to clean houses once
wouldn't it learn them TO be patient, and
make them lenient to delicate, nervous
women, who are irritable from over.work
and scold from too heavy tax on nerve
and brain? | guess it would! If they
only had to clean out, dust, mop and put
to rights the presses, closets and ward
robes for an ordinary family, do you
think they could get everything back in
place again and keep in good humor all
the time?
These house~cleanings! What world
Of work and WEAKNESS the words suggestl
Dust, dust everywhere, pals and mops
and scrubbing brushes! So many things
to be aired Furs, blankets and woolens
to be packed away Trunks, chests and
drawers, wherein sacred treasures are
locked year after year, must be opened.
Keepsakes, garments that are needed no
more, relics that take us back to the past.
Here is a dress that she used to wear
We kiss it silently as we lay ii out. Kiss
it with a mist of tears dimming our eyesl
Here are the gloves her dear hands, nev-
er weary in well doing, had shaped! The
slippers her weary feet wore last. Feet
that have climbed the beautiful hills
beyond the River" where the green
pastures lie, and the still water flows be-
side Our Fathers house of many man.
sons.
Here is an auburn curl and broken
ring. Twenty years ago they were put
away. Twenty years ago
-"God's plying angel
Looked upon US all, and loving her the most,
Took her soolcst home"--.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

celebrated jack. This seemed perfectly
natural to him. 1t next seemed that he
was initiating that renowned goat. One
would have thought him BILLY" by
birth. his mimicry was so perfect. We
afterwards learned that the Judge only
had one of those severe cases ofhiccoughs
that we have on certain occasions. We
truly hope the Judge has recovered from
the hiccoughs, and especially from that
nervous debility which caused him, at
Millwood, on Saturday. to overturn the
plate from which South Carrollton Pro
fessor was enjoying a delicious dinner.
Judge we hope we may meet again on
St. Johns day, and dine together once
more at Millwood.
The SOUTH CARRoLLroN PROFESSOR.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
THE PADUCAH HERALD REDIV

THE PADUCAH HERALD REDIH
IVUS-A BACKWARD GLANCE
We are in regular receipt of the Pa
ducah Daily Herald, which has been re-
vived by Col. JonN c. NOBLE, and
takes the place of the defunct Kentuck-
ian. OF course the Herald will become
a power in the party, for Col. N. is
one of the foremost political writers in
the State. He has ever been an UNI
swerving Democrat, and proved him>
self in many a hard-fought and desper-
ate contest a fearless, sagacious and
trustworthy leader. We gladly wei
come him back to active service, and
hope in the years to come to march by
his side to many a glorious victory.
As we hastily glance back to a quar-
ter of a century ago, when we first
donned the editorial harness, of all who
then constituted "the fourth estate" in
Kentucky, JOHN c. MOBILES battle
SCARED figure is the only one we can
recognize of the "Old Guard in the
ranks of to-day. Let's see: COLLINS,
of the Maysville Eagle, is dead. PIKE,
of the Maysville Flag, is dead. LIND
sEY, of the Mt. Sterling Wing, is dead.
WICKLIFFE, of the Lexington Observer
d Reporter, is dead. TAYLOR, of the
Lexington Statesman, went to st. Louis.
FRENCH, of the Georgetown Herald, is
dead. LYLE and WALKER, of the Paris
Citizen, are both dead. ATKINSON, of
the Cynthiana Nc,rs, is dead. CAMP.
BELL, of the Covington Journal, is dead.
FINNELL, of the Covington Register, is
dead. ZIMMERMAN, of the Danville
Tribune, is out of the business. GLIB
BoNs, of the Harrodsburgh Plough Boy,
is dead. TANNER, of the Frankfort
Yeonu,, is dead. MoREHEAD, of the
Frankfort Commonwealth, is dead, and
Col. HODGES is out of the business
MIDDLETON, of the Shelbyville Ne,cs,
is out of the business. PRENTICE,
PENN, and HARNEY, of the Louisville
press, are all dead. HUTCHEN, of the
Henderson Reporter, is dead. RHEA,
of the Russellville Herald, is out of the
business. And so on down the entire
line. And of all the old familiar faces
of twenty-five years ago, that of Col.
NOBLE is the only one that greets our
vision. And of all the political leaders
of that day, whose plumes we all fol
lowed or opposed in the fight, but one
survives, the venerable ARCHIE Dixon,
of Henderson. Alack-a-day! time is
indeed a whirligig, and right glad are
we that, with all its changes, the Pa
ducah Herald and its gallant editor, un'
scathed and undaunted, are still con
spicuous in the vanguard of the army
of constitutional liberty.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

We hold il to be absolutely essential to the
preservati IN of the liberties of the citizens that
the several States shall be maintained in all
their rights, dignity and equality, as the most
complete and reliable administration Of their
own domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks
against anti-republican tendencies. Every
attempt on the part Of the Federal Government
to exercise a power not delegated to it in the
Constitution, or to exercise a delegated power
in any manner not therein prescribed, is an act
Of usurpation, demanding the instant and un-
qualified condemnation Of people jealous of
their liberties. And we hold that any uneon>
stitutional interference by the General Govern
ment with the local affairs of any State 20 any
extent or under any pretense whatever should
be at once condemned by all classes of every
section of the Union, as all such acts tend to
the destruction of our Federal system and the
consolidation Of all power in a centralized des-
pOtism
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
For the Hartford Herald.
LONG AGO.

Backward, turn backward, Time in your
flight" is a sentiment that often finds a
resting place in our hearts.
For the long ago, with its shadows ard
lights mellowed by distance, is fairer and
sweeter than things which the present only
half How often we hear it MUIR
INJURED: "If it could be as it was long ago,
how much happier would l be-how diff
ferent would be my life! If could but
recall my childhood, and live my life oven
again, would control my acts and deeds
so as to render the remainder of my days
happy and peaceful.
We often hear the drunkard speak Of
the long ago, as he reels from side to side.
In time past he was noble and promis-
ing youth, with everything in his favor,
and with but an effort he could have at
tanned for himself happiness and honors
that are well worth striving for. But,
poor, degraded wretch. he is cared for by
none; he is cast aside by every bysfander,
and the finger of scorn is pointed at him.
Often do we see the once loved and
cherished daughter sit and weep over the
long ago. How we'll can she remember
when, at the knees Of a loving mother,
she was taught the first lessons oil life; and,
as she advanced in years, listened to a
mothers good and cheering advice, and
TIE praise and honor of noble father.
Now she sits lone and weary, dreaming
over the long ago, and of the sad time
when the last ties that bound her heart to
earth were severed, and when, by the grave
of the dearest object to her on earth, she
touched the hands that were clasped in
death, and pressed last kiss on that brow
which was go cold and pale. Now she is
as it were, on the stormy ocean Of time
left to battle with its waves and reefs ant
shipwrecks alone.
Thus we often hear some afflicted ont
murmur, as he lies upon his bed of pain
dreaming over his misspent life and hi
childhood days which were passed in idle
ness. And now he only asks for his you'll
back again, that he may improve his time
and 'make his acts most potent for good.
But can bis youth be restored? The an
swer is emphatically, No!
The days of the Long Ago are now oh
scure. They have passed from us. Blu
how easy in fancy to wander back, AM
imagine ourselves almost as we were il
the past and whether our lives have beel
spent proftably or not, whether we cal
reflect back upon the long ago with pleas
ure or sorrow, Memory, one of the great
est gifts that God has bestowed upon man
will stand before us with the past STAN
ped upon its every feature. A. E. W.
CANEYvILLE, KY, June. 1875.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

THE COuricr-JOmndl of Sunday gives
the details of the assassination of the no
torious WILLIS RUSSELL at Monterey,
Owen county, last Thursday night
He was sitting in a room at his board
ing house, about nine o'clock, reading,
with the door partially open. The as,
sassins stood off about twenty feet from
the door, where they had good view
of their victim, and fired upon him with
II shotgun, the charge, consisting Of
siugs, taking effect on his head, shOul-
der and upper portion of the body, pro-
ducing weunds from which he died
between eight and nine o'clock next
morning. The nurderers, GREEN
BARR and GEORGE MEFFERT, as soon
az they fired the dastarily shot, mount
ed their horses and made good their
escape. This murder is but another
bloody episode of the feud between the
WALKERS and SMooTs. Owen county
would have been the winner in reputa-
tion, and the State saved round sum
of money, if our disinterested advice OF
three years ago had been followed, viz:
To turn all parties concerned into a
field with orders to shoot each other to
death. After the determination of one
-idc, if there were any survivors on the
other side then hang them 10 the near
81 :rccs
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

The jury in the TILToN-BEEcHER
case have been discharged, it becoming
manifest that they would never come
TO an agreement. This is virtual con-
demnation of BEEcHER, but he propos-
es to run Plymouth Church hesame,
there being plenty Of women connected
with it who are more than anxious to
take the place of ELIZABETH and re-
spOnd to the ''true inwardness" of their
lecherOus parsOn.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
FROM A SUBSCRIBER.
Two MILES WEST OF MCHENRY,
Ohio Co, KY, June %.

Two MILES WEST OF McHENRY,
Ohio Co, KY, June %.
EDITOR HERALD:-Having seen nothing
in YOUR valuable paper from this vicinity,
l will try in my feeble and awkward man.
ner to write something about the pros-
poets of the crops, if you think it worthy
a place in your columns.
Corn, wheat and oats look fine The
wheat is nearly all ripe enough to har-
vest. One or two crops were harvested
last week, and, if we don't have too much
rain, everybody in this neighborhood
will get done this week. If it continues
wet, as it has done for two weeks, twill
injure wheat in the shock.
Corn is growing very fast, and the
weeds equally as fast-for it has been too
wet to plow for some time, and the weeds
have got very good start of some of our
corn.
The rain on last Monday night washed
the ground considerably, and swept every
fence 'clear and clean" wherever there
was a branch. 1t was the most rain
that was ever known to fall in one nights
time in this neighborhOod. 1t was an
eight inch rain.
Your paper is welcome visitor every
week to me, and hope when times get
better to get up club.
Last Sabbath we had the pleasure Of
hearing an elegant sermon delivered by
E. V. Phipps, at the Central Grove
Schoolhouse, near E. Miller's.
SUBSCRIBER
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

A man up at Hartford awoke the other
night under the impression that the spir-
its were tickling him, but after little pa,
tient investigation discovered a pioneer
bed-bug Only this and nothing more
Cdloon Progress.
There is something more, however.
1t occurred here; the man came from
Calhoon; he brought the vermin in his
hair; and We don't call 'em bed.bugs,
up here, either.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

LAST Monday a Mclean county
Granger, with the fingers ofboth hands
tightly clenched in his hair, rushed in
to Klein q Bros hardware store, cry
ing out: "Here mister, / want ra,
ker, quiek!' "a hay-rake?" asked
GEORGE. "Hay-rake h-l!" shouted
the desperate customer, 81 ,cant a fine
tooth comb"
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
For Sale.

A house and lot in Beaver Dam, containing
ona acre paled in, comfortable house with
four rooms, good stable with five stalls and
corn-crib, a good young orchard OF peach.
apple and cherry trees, in all about seventy
FIVE trees, selected fruit. The place has a well
of never failing water. l will sell on reason
able terms, Mrs. Z. l.. BARCLAY.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
NOTICE.

Wanted to borrow $1,000 for two or three
years, for which ten per cent. interest will be
paid-payable semi-annually-note to be due
if interest is not promptly paid. and will Sc
cure the lender by n mortgage on real estatei
an / as an additional security will give him to
hold as collateral real estate lien notes worth
at least $4,000. Address "M0NEY," care
HERALD office, Hartford, Ky.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

THERE arc ten thousand store clerks
in Kentucky whose salaries averagefive
dollars a week, but they couldn't part
their hair in the center and whisper in
church if they were working on farms
or at trades for two or three times the
money.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

SOME one defines a real poet as ga
singer whose verses haunt your twi-
lights" This is undeniably good def
milton. 1t includes the musquito and
the Leitchield Herald's pet warbler.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

A CalhOon man, who doesn't belong
to the temperance society, found a
twenty-four foot snake coiled around
his wife's neck the other night, as he
was about to get into bed. Springing
back he seized a chair and tried to
knock the serpent off. For the space
of half an hour the neighbors thought
they were manufacturing earthquakes
in that house. He + confined to his
bed, and regales sympathizing visitors
with the particulars of an imaginary
wrestle with a mules heels, while his
wife dances about the house with a
strip of court-plaster on her chin, a
springy step, sparkling eyes, and every
once in a while motion of her elbows
as though she were about to flop her
wings and crow the cock-a-doodle-doo
of victory.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

An anecdote for the Leitchfeld Her.
atfs poet: "Sir, you arc nogentleman,
said an irate person to DIR. JOHNSON.
"Are you one?" asked the gruff old phi
losopher. "Yes, sir, / am" was the
response. "Then / am not" said old
SAM.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
a(iK!lIH
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Plain solid 1s-kt. Gold Engagement and
Wedding Rings furnished to order promptly;
also Set Rings with Amethist. Garnet, Topaz,
Moss Agate, Pearl or Diamond settings. Plain
Gold Is-kt Rings from So to SIS each. In or
derng, measure the largest joint of the finger
you desire fitted with a narrow piece Of paper,
and send us the paper. We inscribe any name,
motto, or date free of charge. Rings sent by
mail on receipt of price, or by express, with
bill to collect on delivery of goods Money
may be sent safely by Express, Post~ofhee
Money Order, or Registered Letter.
Refer to George W. Balm.
C.P. BARNES & Bro,
Jewellers, Main ct. bit. 9th &7th, Louisville. Ky
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

Ir is said, and pretty generally be-
lieved, that women dress to worry them
selves and make other women unhappy.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET.

For Governor,
JAMES B. MctREARY.
of Madison county.
For Lieutenant Governor.
JOHN q. UNDERWOOD.
OF Warren county.
For Attorney General,
THOMAS f. MOSS.
.of McCracken county.
For Auditor.
ID. HOWAD SMITH.
Of Owen county.
For Treasurer,
JAMES w. TATE.
of Franklin county.
For Superintendent Of Public instruction,
III. A. VI. HENDERSON.
of Bourbon county.
For Register of Land Office.
THOMAS ID. MARCUM.
Of Lawrence county.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

HARTFORD LODGE, NO. II, 1. o. g. r.
Meets regularly every Thursday evening in
Taylor's Hall. Transient members Of tho
order are cordially invited to attend.
B. P. BERGMAN, ". C. T.
WILLIE LEWIS, W. Seey.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
Railroad Timetable.

The down train for Padueah leaves Louis
vile, daily except Sunday at $50 D. m.and ar
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
ELECTION NOTICE.

DY virtue of an order of the Ohio County
I'D Court, made at the July term, 1875, Of said
Court, there will be polls opened in
DISTRICT NO. G, CELLIsO,
and
DISTRICT NO. II, (BARTLETT's),
Ohio county, on the first Monday in August,
1875, to elect a Constable in each of said DIs>
tricts, to fill vacancies eaused by the failure Of
the Constables elect to qualify. Given under
my hand this 9Th day of July, 1875.
mite T. J. SMITH, soc.
The Hartford herald., 1875-07-07

Trains run daily, Sundays excepted.
r. 5. TRIPLETT, Gent Manager.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-02-20
Wanted-A-- Leader.

For the first time in its history the coun.
try is leaderless. Usually there is no lack
of leaders. 1t is the following, not the lead.
ership which commonly falls short. But
now we look valnly from one end of the
country to the other, in Congress and out
of Congress, and, even among the few per-
sons of admitted ability, we fail to discover
one single born leader. Such is the barren
ness in this respect, and yet such the popu-
lar desire, that the more eager and deter
mined hero hunters, for every leader is a
hero, are temporarily solacing themselves
with q vague fancy which comes to us
across the mountains and prairies, making
a golden image of the Senator who is about
to come in from California. Assuredly
Governor Booth will enter the national
arena at 9 propitious moment he be really
the man Of genius he is described to be. Il
is the period of partisan dissolution and po-
litical bushwhacking; and the opportunities
for statesmanlike combination are MANY
and rare. But something more than com.
mon-place idealism and mediocre character
will be required to organize the mass of in
cOngruous material. The new Senator from
California will encounter great risks and
undergo sharp ordeal. But, if he is the
man bis friends say he is, he has golden
chance.-LOaiscillc Courier Journal