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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
Extremely SILLY.

There is silly attempt made by
some Republican journals 10 spread .
report that Gov. Tilden win promise
in his letter of acceptance not to re-
move any Ofice-holdsrs in case he e
elected. One of the chief purposes Of
his election Is the turning out Of he
innumerable scoundrels who have
grown fat and insolent in Office, add
dishonest through the temptations Of
the Office. Tilden is going to reform
the Government, and If he should bind
himself to leave the rOgues that have
got the places In them, there would be
no possibility of reform and no neces-
sity, for opposition to Hayes. No. gen
tlemen, the democracy are fighting to
oyerturn and root out Grants infamous
administration; add the fact might ss
well be understood at once. There
shall not be one stone ystleft standing
upon another.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
Some Sensible Talk.
[Madisonville Times.1

There is no good reason why a liber-
al, conservative, intelligent Southern
Republican should not support the NOM
inees of the st. Louis Convention. The
men are all that could be desired. Their
acts of the past are guarantee of what
may be expected of them in the future.
These, with the positive and unequivo-
cal enunciations of the platform, should
be perfectly convincing and satisfac-
tory. Our Republican friends who
desire honesty, retrenchmsnt and re-
form in the administration of public
affairs can best attain that end through
the election of Tilden and Hendricks.
Throw aside your former differences,
rally around common flag, and fight
for a common cause-liberty, peace,
reform, good government, prosperity,
and all that is desirable in politics.
Your best interests all lie in this direc-
ton. The election of this ticket will
restore peace to the now torn and dis
tracted Southern States, arrest the
tide of corruption that is beginning TO
inupdate the land bring back the pros
perity that has been wanting 80 long,
secure good, honest government, fix
deeper and broader the foundation of
civil and political liberty and integrity,
and work a revolutions and publication
in the present corrupt and degenerate
condition Of affairs; and to the accom-
plishment that end, of all good, honest
people, of whatever former political af-
filiatiops, should unite their best efforts.
Judging the candidatesof the st. Louis
Convention by what they have done in
the past we can look hopefully to the
future, feeling that a new and bright
era of peace, prosperity, good feeling
and reconciliation will rejuvenate, re-
store and rehabilitate our beloved coun-
ry. So be it.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
An Incident that should be Read
by Married People.

Not very long ago was riding in
the cars and an incident occurred that
seemed to me so beautiful that 1 want
to tell it for the encouragement of wo-
mankind. There we're two old men
sitting behind me, strangers to each
other, but like little children com pairing
ages and their lives. They were
seventy and seventy-fve years
old, both farmers, and both had
recently lost their wives-one so recent
ly that his heart was full of his sorrow,
and his eyes overfowed as he talked.
They are uncultured men, and of course
used no fine language. Said one:
"She never spoke an unkind word
to me in all the fifty years lived with
her. Ihave been visiting my children
and going from place to place, but l
am lonely all the time, and 1 miss her
so much"
The other old man said his wife was
sick for many months, "but," says he,
"my success in life is as much hers as
mine. She was a faithful, true wife,
always busy, always doing her part /;
and now she is gone. l am so restless
all the time, and can stay nowherelon
1 hope 1 shall soon go to her, for life is
so dreary and lonely"
And so they talked, comforting and
sympathizing with each other. What
testimony to the lives of those two
women, farmers wives, who had lived
quiet, humble lives, performed their
daily duties, brought up their children
and left this monument in the hearts Of
their husbands. -[Chicago Tribune.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
Big Words.

Big words pass for sense with some
people, and sometimes may be very sue
cessfully employed when nothing else
will answer. As when a man in great
alarm ran to minister to tell him he
could see spots on the sun. and he
thought the world was coming to an
end. r
"Oh, don't be afraid" said the good
minister, ''it's nothing but q phantas-
magora."
''Is that alli" said the frightened
man, and he went away quite relieved.
A very smartlawyerin Washington,
N. c., had the misfortune to lose suit
for a client who had every reason to
expect success.
The client, a plain old farmer was
astounded by the long bill of costs, and
fastening to the lawyers Office, said /:
81 thought you told me we shoulc
certainly gain the suit?"
$50 / did," answered the lawyer;
"but you see when I brought it up be-
fore the judges, they said it was quo
rum non judice.
"Well, if they said it was as bad as
that" replied the oldfarmer, 81 don't
wonder we lost it," and he paid the
costs and a big fee besides without an
other murmur. $500.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
STATE WE'VE

Flemingsburg Democrat-A very
distressing accident happened to Mr..
John II. Grain, Of HiIlsbOro, On last
Monday morning, which will probably
result in his death. It seems that Mr..
Grain and his family had been troub-
led for several nights previous with the
barking and bowling Of strange dogs
in their yard. On last Monday morr-
ing, about sun up. Mr.. Grain got up
and went to to his kitchen for the pur-
pose Of building a FIRE IN the cooking
stove, and bearing the dogs making .
noise IN the back yard. he got his ps-
toll and started out 70 shoot At them.
When he went out the dogsrR To-
tween the smoke house and the ssncs
and he followed-whsn he got TO shss
point he turned to 90 to the other cor
ner of the house to get a better shot.
in making the turn he slipped and fell
and in the fall the pistol struck tho
side Of the smoke house and was dis
charged-the contents entering hin
stomach just below the navsk The
wound is said 10 be q very dangerous
one, his physicians having no hope Of
his recovery, and doubtless before this
reaches our readers death viii have
ensued. Mr.. Grain Is gentleman
widely known in this and surrounding
counties and Is one Of the best, most
influential and highly respected citi-
zens in the county. He has married
twice and has Eve children. HIS frst
wife was Miss Sallie Smith, daughter
of the late ThOs. b Smith. BY whom
he has one child. His present .wifs
was Miss Mary Barnes, daughter %
the late George Barnes, BY whom b
has four children.
LATER-Sinee the above Vas p1f
in type, we learn that Mr.. Grain died
on Tuesday morning about 8 O'Clock.
His remains we're brought to FEM
ingsburg and his funeral took place
from the Methodist Church on yesssr-
day. He was inferred in the family
lot in the cemetry. ..,r-- @
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
What the County Papers do.

An exchange combats with consider
able vigor the argument that city pa
pers are cheaper and better than the
county because they give more columns
of reading for the money. Do the city
papers, it asks, ever give you any
home news? Never. Do they say any
thing about your county? Nothing.
Do they contain notices of your schools
churches, meetings, improvements and
hundreds of other local matters of in
terest, which your paper publishes
without pay? Not an item. Do they
ever say word calculated to draw at
tention to your county and to its thriv-
ing towns, and aid in their process and
enterprise? Not a word. And yet
there are men who take such contract
ed views of this matter that unless
they are getting as many square inches
of reading matter in their own paper
as they do in city paper, they think
they are not getting the worth Of their
money. 1t reminds us of the person
who took the largest pair of boots in
the box, simply because they cost the
same as the pair much smaller that fit
ted him.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
New Postal Law.

The following sections Of law have
been passed by Congress and approved
by the President: "i
Sec. Is. That transient newspa-
pers and magazines, regular pubIica-
tons designed primarily for sd-
vertising purposes, or for free
circulation at nominal rates, and al
printed matter Of the third class except
unsealed circulars, shall be admitted
to, and be transmitted in, the mails a.
the rate ofOneeent for every two ounces
or fractional part thereof, and one cent
for each two additional ounces or tract
ional part thereof; and the sender OF
any article of the third class Of mail
matter may write his or her name or
address therein. or on the outside
thereof, with the word {" from above
or preceding the same, or may write
briefly or print on any package the
number and names Of the articles en-
closed. Publishers of newspapers and
periodicals may print on the wrappers
Of newspapers or magazines sent from
the Office of publication to regular sub
scribers the time to which subscription
therefor has been paid. and address
upon postal cards and unsealed cirrp-
lars may be either written. printed, Or
affixed thereto. at the option of The
sender.
"Sec. 16. That all acts, or parts Of
acts, in conflict with the provisions Of
this act are hereby repealed
On unsealed circulars and all mail
able matter of the third class other
than that designated in the foregoing
section, postage viii be charged q
heretofore, one cent for each ounce o.
fraction thereof. -'''-j '.'-
The above statement is Official
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
As Much Opposed to two Terms
as Grant was.

The second pledge of Mr.. Hayes is
amusing. He states his inAexibls
purpose, if selected, net to be a can
didate for election to a second term"
This will sound well in New Jersey.
or for foreign countries where Hayes
isn't familiarity acquainted. But Mr..
William E Davis can explain how
Hayes once solemnly promised not to
be candidate for Congress; but be
was. There Is q member of Grants
Cabinet Judge Taft-who remem-
bers how Hayes sacfedly promised not
to be a candidate for Governor in
1875, and how he broke his word. 1t
is known to Ohio that Hayes never
held but one Office to which he did not
ride over broken pledges. His
promise not to accept the Presidency
the second time will be deemed ludi-
crous in this State.-GCincinnati En-
quirer
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

an open barrel of golden syrup, that
thou might dip thy finger in us and
lick it-wOuld We were coronet, that
we might rest upon that brow-would
we were a roll Of greenbacks that we
might stay in thy pocket-would we
were n brindle dog that we might
guard thy wigwam-would we were
a big black ROSTERS tail, that we might
dangle near thy face-would we were an
Injun Chief" Thus far we spaketh, and
sighed. Her ruby lips did part, and
she spaketh. eff you are done wood
ing up, we'd better let in, for the mu,
sic is wasting away" We let in, and
We wasted away. Our two hearts
beat with such responsive throbs, that
a creased. case-knife could not have en-
tered between the throbs. 1t seems as
if ten thousand catterpillars were emf
grating up our backs, and turtle doves
were picking meal bran out of our ears.
Huge sighs of the size Of rutabaga-
turnip escaped our lips; heard muir
muring brooks, whispering boughs,
and warbling birds. and tinkling cow
bells, and we ffoated far away on
feecy cloud of one hundred dollar
greenback bills. The music ceased, but
the Washington Hall kept on waltz
ing. The Indian maid sought her ma
tive forests, and we were carried by
our friends to the Times Office, with a
cramp in the bottom of our feet, and
eyes turned wrong side outwards.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
YOutll and Age.

1 often think each tottering form
That limps along in life's decline,
Once bore heart as young, as warm,
As full Of idle thoughts as mine
And each has had its dream of joy,
It's owa uneQu&lld pure romance;
Commencing when the blushing boy
First thrills at lovely woman's glance.
AID each could tell its tale of youth.
Would think it's scenes Of love evince
More passions, more unearthly truth.
Than any tale before or since.
Yssl they could tell of tender lays
At midnight penned in classic shades,
OF days more bright than present dsys,
And aids more fair than modern maids
or whispers in a willing ear,
OF kisses on q .blushing check;
Each kiss, each whisper, FAR too dear
Our modern lips to speak.
OF passions too untimely crossed,
Or passions sighted or betrayed,
or kindred spirits early lost,
or buds that BLOOM but to fade.
OF besming eyes and tresses gay,
Elastic form and noble brow.
And forms that have all passed away,
And left them as we see them now
And is il thus, re human love
So very light and frail a thing?
And mset youths brightest visions move
Forever on tines restless wingi
Must all the eyes that still are bright
And all the lips that talk of bliss,
And adj the forms 50 fair TO sight,
Hereafter only come to this
Then what are esrth's best visions worth,
I've at length must lose them thus ?
II all We value most On earth
Ere long must fade away from usf
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

llhc W COIue dCTOsS man WIN the
tOOth-ache. There is something 50
pleasant about advising him TO stuff
cotton in it, to use camphor, creosote,
peppermint and "relief," that always
feel better after giving it.
1 have been there-had an aching
snag, and know Just how it feels. 1t
used to wake me up nights, and make
me mad at noon, and set me to swear
ing. Ididn't meet man or woman bu:
what they advised me. One said that
hot knitting needle pushed down the
root was excellent; another said that
opium was an excellent thing; and
others said that it must be dug out by
the dentist.
If 1 sat down to dinner, that old
tooth began to growl. If / went to
bed, or got up, or went to a party, or
stayed at home, it growled just the
same.
1t was not always a growl; some
times it was jump that made my hair
stand up, and again a sort of cutting
pair that made me make up faces at
the baby, and slam doors, and break
windows. l ate cotton, peppermint,
camphOr and opium, until 1 got black
in the face, and that old snag kept
right on. / put bags of hot ashes to
my cheek applied mustard, held my
head in the oven, took sweat, and the
ache still ached. ("
After the third week neighbors did
not dare let their boys pass my house,
and tin peddlers and book canvassers
went around on another street. 1 was
becoming menagerie, and atlast 1 de-
cided to have my tooth out. l decided
to, and then I decided not to. I
changed my mind four times in one
afternoon, and at last went.
The dentist was glad to see me. He
said if he could not take that tooth out
without hurting me he would give me a
million dollars. I got easier as he
talked, and l concluded not to have it
pulled. / rushed down stairs, but a
jump caught me and 1 rushed back.
He said he would look at it; perhaps
it did not need pulling at all, but he
could kill the nerve.
By dint of Aattery he got me in
the chair. Then he softly inserted a
knife and cut away the gums. I look
ed up, and said l would kill him, but
he begged me not to-; said the cutting
was all the pain there was to it. He
finally got me to lay back and open my
mouth, and then he slipped in his for
ceps. aDd closed them around the tooth.
Observation-Disclosures cried
but he didn't pay any attention to it.
He drew in full breath, grasped the
forceps tightly, and then he pulled.
Great spoons but didn't it seem as
if my head was goingl 1 tried to
shout, grappled at him, kicked, and
then he held up the old snag and said ::
"There, I guess you won't feel any
more aching"
1 leaped down and Rugged him. 1
promised him ten million dollars. 1
told him to make my house his home
forever. I Rugged him again, shook
hand with everybody on the street,
kissed my wife, bought the baby a dOz-
en- rattle-boxes in heap, and it seemed
to me as if the world was too small for
me, / was so happy.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
a Dance With an Injun.
Iron VickburgHerald.l


On account, perhaps of the mani
field duties always pressing upon us,
we have never learned to waltz-we
have never placed our arm around a
fragile, fairy, feecy fuctuating form,
and whirligigged around loose, but at
the Grand Masquerade and Fancy
Dress Ball, on last Tuesday night, we
happened to express our regrets at
this deficiency in Our education to a
young, plump, fresh and closely-domin-
oed Injun girl, while We were prone
nading the vast hall with the luscious
humpsy-dumpsy. She sw eetly init
mated that the hubbub of such an &C.
casion, when tntr pas would scarce
ly be noticed, was the very best time
in the world to learn. We would not ac-
knowledge our name if we had backed
out from such an offer, and as mat
Ter of course, We very shyly request
ed her TO afford us the sublimely per-
pendiculsr pleasure of small lesson,
merely for the purpose of getting &C
qnainted with each other, and giving
us relish for our victuals at supper.
Sweet and gorgeous aborigine-with-
out swearing she'd ne'er consent-she
consented-dry so. Gently, delicate
lY, fastidiously aud timidlY we placed
our arm around her plant waist-and
almost wasted away. Her long ra-
ven locks tickied our elbow. Thou
sands Of millions Of spotted beads vi
brated aud tinkled around her fairy
form, as her bosom rose and fell to
give thea melody, like an Eoliar
harp upon the heaving sea. Her hand
was in ours-as soft as pussy cats
back asshe. silently watches a mouse
hole at the soft and witching hour of
twilight Her left foot was against
our right boot The gaudy feath-
ers upon her mocasins tickled our
manly knees Our eyes met Two
soft and melting glances shot out of
the holes in her domino-SRd coming
together in the middle emitted sparks
like the Z. E Lee rounding to at Will
liams wharfboat on dark night in
the latter part Of December. Music
arose with its voluptuOus swell, and
drew nearer to us-and we arose with
our vOluptuous swell and drew nearer
unto the female red man Her warm
breath was upon our fingers and her
long raven hair went fippy-ty flop
over our shoulder. We had not yet
waltzed an inch, and we didn't care a
Confederate bond if we never moved
from that spot, till the editor of the
Vicksburg Herald joined the Sons of
Temperance. We shook back our
yellow locks, and Immediately the air
was laden with the balmy odor of Mar
tina Washington Hair Restorative, for
sale by Hardawsy & Co., and all re-
spectacle druggists. We bowed low
our editorial head, and whispered in a
voice whose dulcet and melliAuous
notes would have melted the heart of
a deputy constable-"Gorgeous child
of the forests, whose ancestors discov.
cred Columbus, would We were glove
upon that hand, that we might
touch that cheek-wouId we were a
pair Of moccassions upon those feet
that We might caress thy corns- would
We were hank of yarn strung with
spotted beads, that we might encircle
that fsrm-wsuld We were q long
bunch of raven hair that we might
foP around that neck-vould we were
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

A wELL-KNowN Memphian who at
tended the Cincinnati Convention,
says that when he heard the delegates
denOunce Southern people in unmeas-
ed terms all over Cin., he came home
a confirmed Southern Democrat, and
he wished that every Southern man
had been there to hear the New Eng
land and Western Republicans express
their hatred of everything and every
body South.-[ Memphis Appeal.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02
still They Come.

Gov. Sam Bard has quit the Repub-
lican party and come out AatfoOted for
Tilden and Hendricks. Gov. Bard
has been faithful Republican since
1868, and has held various important
Offices under General Grant during
that time, among them Governor of
Idaho. In his paper, the /" Campaign
Globe" he says:
"NO moderate Southern Republican
can consistently object either to the
platform or the able and patriotic can
didates placed upon it. Ii freely and
fully accepts the Constitutional Amend
ments. together with all the legitimate
results Of the late unfortunt, war.
Upon this all important and vital
point conservative Republicans can ask
no more. The people know we have
worked with an unAagging energy for
the entire consumption of this most
desirable result, and as the great Ma
tional Democratic party now stands
where we stood eight years ago, we
fail to discern even the shadow of q
solid reason why we should not prompt
ly and boldly return to the field we
felt forced to leave at the close of the
late disastrous war, which left our
brave and gallant people PROSTATE in
the dust of misfortune. and We may
add abjecr poverty. We honestly
gave in our adhesion to the National
Republican party mot State factions)
as a sacred duty to the South as well
as to the whole country, but nOsO, that
it is no longer specially potent for the
present and future welfare of the ma
ton, we bid pleasant and kind fare
well with no feeling Of regret for the
past We have tried to do right, and
it should not be forgotten that he only
is brave who dares to do right. For
such as continue with the Republican
party, from a high and exalted sense
of duty, we have not an unkind word.
We are by far too catholic in our views
to prescribe or ostracise men for opin-
ions sake. 1t Is this narrow standard
of craftsmanship which has continued
bad feeling and poverty within the
borders Of our once happy and pros
porous South.
GAS heretofore we shall demand the
largest liberty of thought and freedom
of speech known to American citizens
ship, either at home or abroad.
"NOw that the National Democrat
ic party has boldly and safely reached
the highest altitude of q broad and
comprehensive Nationality, we think
IL not improper TO ask all moderate,
well meaning Southern Republicans,
of both races, to act in the future with
the Democratic party as the best and
surest road to the present and future
welfare of the whole nation.
Hon. Fred Haasaurek, the most
prominent and influential German in
Ohio, has retired from the editorial
management of the Volksblat, because
the owners of that Journal were not
willing to support Tilden.
Three-fourth of the German papers
of the United States are now heartily
supporting Tilden and Hendricks.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

AMONG the superstitions of the SEN
eca Indians was one remarkable for its
singular beauty. When a maiden died
they imprisoned young bird until it
first began to try its powers of song,
and then, loading it with messages and
caresses, they loosed its bonds over her
grave in the belief that it would not
flop its wings nor close its eyes until,
it had flown to the spirit land and de-
livered its precious burden of affection
to the loved and lost.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

HAYWOOD GRANT, who was hanged
at Rome, Ga, on the 14th, confessed
to having killed four men, one of
whom was General Hindman, of the
Confederate ARMY, at Helena, Arkan-
sas. f.. ttfE st}t st...
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

In Kentucky there are published 0
daily papers, 8 tri-weeklies, 100 week
lies, 5 semi-monthlies, 8 monthlies, 1
bi-monthy, and l quarterly. making
total of lao.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

AFTER all the brill ant achieve
ments of Gen. U. S. Grant during the
war, it is pitiful to reflect that he was
at last vanquished at the battle of
Brandy Wine Monitor.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

What is nothing? A footless stock
ing without leg.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

A 6rstrate Assou-a man should
ALWAYS grind his own axes -
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1876-08-02

HAYES is against a second term.