The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-09-27
NEEGHBORHOOD NOTES,
CORN cutting has begun.

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HENDERSON has a brewery that
makes $40 kegs of beer per day.
THE Elizabethtown News has been
purchased by II. II. McCarty, of
Louisville.
PADUCAH News: The crop of corn
is so good this year that the farmers
will hardly know what TO do with it..
PADUCAH News: Large quantities
are being hauled TO this market, where
it commands from 50 cents to 81 90
per bushcl.
THE Republicans will hold a con-
vention in jacksonville, Oct. >, to Sc
lcct Il candidate for Congress in the
Second District.
PARIS Kentuckian Gen. w. T..
Withers shipped on Monday, a car
load of fine trOtters East, sold at
5000 to $4,000 per head.
UNION Local: Tobacco cutting has
began in earnest, in this county, and
our farmers are jubilant over the fine
prospects Of large yield.
The Mayfeld Monitor urges the
building of a new Jail, as no persons
with any regard for his character as n
man Of energy will stay in the pres
ent Affair more than twelve hours.
JACKSONVILLE Times: Chill pills,
ague tonic and other hot and bitter
medicines are now in demand. The
chills are getting in their work in a
very lively and vigorous manner.
THE Christian Sunday-school con-
vcntion at Madisonville, last week,
was well attended by delegates from
nine counties. The next meeting will
be held in HOpkinsville, next May.
A Mr.. TICE, down in Graves coun-
ty, is predicting the blowing of an i'll
wind for the Republican party about
November Z. The prophecy "bears
upon its face the persuasive odor of
us own PROBABILITY.
The number of hogsheads of tobac-
co of last years crop put up in the
various stemerieS in Henderson
amounted to near 5000. The capital
invested in this business amounts to
about 100000.
HARRoDsBURG Observer and Re.
porter: Some parties from this and
shelby county, purchased during
the last week in this and Boyle coun-
ty, several hundred head of hogs for
which they paid 64 cents.
NASHVILLE Eagle: VIM. II. Dur
rett, of the Washington neighborhood,
has lost more than fifty fat hogs from
cholera. Col. Goggin has also lost
several, and the farmers of that sec
ton are generally alarmed for stock.
BOWLING GREEN Paragraph: We
learn that there is more fall ploughing
going on i'll the Three Springs neigh
borhood than has been known for many
years. That is a good indication of
what the good people of that section
intend doing.
RICHMOND Examiner: Mr.. VIII
liam NJ. Thomas, of Elliston, has a
COW that has the new cattle disease
that is appearing in some portions of
the country. The tongue is affected,
besides the head being diseased similar
to distemper in horses.
MADIsoNvILLE Times The trial of
Long ended last Thursday. The case
excited considerable interest. A
great many witnesses were examined.
The defence was represented BY
Messrs. Bradley, Waddill and Pratt,
and the prosecution was conducted by
Messrs. Laffoon and Arnold. The
case was tried before Judges Sale and
Taliaferro, who after hearing the ar
guments and testimony, decided
Longs ofense to be manslaughter and
fixed his bail at the very low figure of
$500, which Long gave, and is now at
liberty.
HENDERSON has some solid citizens,
The News gives the following list of
persons paying tax on over $4,000:
VIM. S. Soapher, s30S, 400; John H.
Barrett, S303,610; Jos. Adams, $50,
400; jackson McClain. $50, 800; A.
Dixon's estate, S7S,725; w. S. Elan,
SS4, $50; Allen Gilmour, 81, 900; E.
B. Newcomb, $685. j. E. Mccall
lister, $50. 900; Joel Lambert, $50, $50;
John G. Holloway's estate, $50, 800;
Richard Soaper, $4,000; Mccormick
and Shelby, S5S, 900: total of thirteen
estates, 81, 365,535. 1t must be borne
in mind, however, that parties are
taxed in much less than they are really
worth.
HrTEsvILE correspondence. Union
Local of the 10th says:
"And so Mr.. La. Spalding is beat
en-. Right does not always comes out
Immediately triumphant, and Mr.. Nc
Kenzie is renowned rs a powerful
stump-orator; a man who flung out
n glittering language without seeming
to do so. But "all is not gold that
glitters" may, perhaps, be applied to
MIR. Mckenzie. He may be eloquent
in the tawdry gum-fOwers of rhetoric:
but was not his opponent also eloquent
in the plain practical eloquence of