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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1877-11-14

Was admitted to college in the Asbury
University. at GreeAcastle, Ind, where
he graduated in lS49 Immediately
thereafter he entered into a course OF
reading preparing himself for his chosen
profession, that of the law. While in
college he displayed the qualifications OF
a natural orator. which brought him into
prominence after he had left his Alma
mater. In April, 1852, he formed q
partnership with the lamenIed & A.
flanagan, formerly United States Sena>
tor from Indiana. His first political OF.
fee was that of Prosecuting Attorney OF
the Criminal Court, to which position he
was appointed by Governor Joseph A
Wright He made fine reputation as a
criminal lawyer. In 1856 he Was the
Democratic nominee for Congress in his
district, but was defeated by q majority
OF only go votes; two years before that
the district gave Republican majority
OF nearly 5000 votes. This splendid race
of young Voorhees, gave him position
in the State as one of the popular Demo-
cratic leaders, which he has ever sincs
held. November, 1857, Dan removed to
Terre Haute, his present home In 1858
he received the appointment a. United
States District Attorney from President
Buchanan, in which position he added
fresh laurels to his brow as q LAWYER and
orator. In the Congressional elections
OF the fall Of 1859, '6l and 90 Mr.. Voor-
hees, az the Democratic stsndard>besrsr
OF his district, triumphantly carried the
district, although the latter race was sue
cessfully contested by his opponent, and
Voorhees,. by the most glaring frauds,
was deprived of seat in the National
House Of Representatives for the follow
ing term. In 1866 he refused to accept
the nomination, but in 1868 and 1870 he
was elected, and during those four years
was the fearless representative Of his
constituents, at time. too, when patriots
we're sorely tried. In 1872 Mr.. VOORHEES,
was defeated by the coalition Of the De-
mocracy and the Greeley reform moves
ment Since then Mr.. Voorhees, has at
tended to his practice. His career while
in Congress is well known, and his won
derful oratorical powers acknowledged
throughout the country. Mr.. VOORHEES,
is about six feet one inch tall, and
weighs over 200 pounds. He is of fair
complexion, dark hazel eyes, sandy hair,
carries himself very erect, and whenever
and wherever announced to address the
people invariably speaks to thousands,
aud hence his great influence.
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To the General Assembly Of the State o
KlutxcEu.

To the General Assembly Of the State Of
Kentxcky:
The Court Of Claims Of the county Of
Hopkins would most respectfully repre-
sent to your Honorable Body,
lat That almost all Of the railroads in
tae State have been constructed BY the
combination OF the wealth and credit Of
the counties through which they run, and
in order to secure these Improvements the
said counties have impoverished them
selves and have issued their bonds, upon
which they pay a ssmi-annual interest
and will at the maturity Of the indebted
mess so contracted eyentnslly have to pay
the principal thereof, which facts are rna>
terially impeding their prosperity and
their wealth.
End. That the State Of Kentucky, in
order to delray her ordinary expenses
and to prorid. against her constantly &C
crning indebtedness, has levied and COM
PEELED said railroad companies whose rail-
roads have been partially built by the cor
porate capital Of the counties through
which they run, to list and pay tax upon
their property at the fixed valuation OF
$4,000 per mile, and through the aid
and fundamentally Of such taxation has
enjoyed and been vastly benefited for
years by the enterprise and improve
ments of said counties.
3rd. That said counties. especially the
county OF Hopkins, are vastly indebted
by reason of the construction Of railroads
through their neutrality-suspicious. pre-
walls in all character Of business-snter-
prises and improvements Of every dsscrlp-
ton are suspeuded-emigration has turn
ed from their borders-ioreigu capital
seeks investment in other localities. High
taxation, like a cancer, eAts upon the VII
tails Of all their industries, and their only
hope lice in an appeal to the bsnifcent
and equitable aid Of your Honorable
Body.
4th. The Act ofthe Legislature entitled
IAN Act to make taxation equal and uni
form in counties where an ad valorem tax |
is levied by the county courts, approved
March 18th, 1876, giving county courts
the right to levy same tax on Railroad as
other property, affords no adequate re-
lief for the ills of which we complain.
Such taxation is both equitable and just
and ought, in all justice, to be paid by
said companies to the counties who aided
in their construction, but the imposition
upon them in addition TO that already re-
quired by the State amounts to almost en-
tire confscation ofthsir property AID de-
stroys their ability to pay to the counties
the amounts levied for their benefit.
The State is nominally out Of debt with !,
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COUNTY DIRECTORY.
CIRCUIT COURT.

CIRCUIT COURT.
H.n J,res Stuart, Judge, Greensboro.
AL. Merton, Clerk, Hartford.
HR. Nurrsll, Master COmmissioncr, har'tora'
n W Phillip.. sheriff, Hartford. DsPHites-
VI Ruuerr. Hartford, 5 p TAYLOR, Beaver
n.., & Il Cooper, POrdsVille, $ l. fulIe-'on'
Hogg's Pals.
cs,rt begins sseoud Mondays In May ana
November, and eontinuos three weeks eaeh
term. ,ov,r
Han IA Murray, Judgo, CloverpOrt.
Hon Joseph HaycrAh' attorney o"ehsoo'0'
RI Wise, Jailer, Hartford.
Ceurt begins on FIRST Mondays In April ana
ostober and continues two weeks csc" "''n'
COUNTY COURT.
Hoa. WI. Gr.r0ry. Judge, Hartford.
Can't. sau. K Coz, Clerk, Hartford.
III. sandsr(ur, Attorney, Hartford
Court begins on the hrst Monday In every
QUARTERLY COURT.
B.s,ns On Oh. Ird Mondays In Jsnusry,APr''
Jsiy shd 0stOSsr.
COURT OF CLAIMS.
R..,., O., N. Arst Mondays January and
October.
OTHER COUNTY oFFICERs.
IL. Leach, Assessor, crosweil.
q Guith Fiuhurh. Surveyor. sulphur SPTinEs.
IL.,. N. Boswell, Coroner. Sulphur Springs.
RP. Rove, School Commissioner, Hartiord'
MAGISTRATES COURTS.
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AUTCM n.
BY GEO. c. WEDDING.

The cold November winds now sweep,
The hill, the dale, aud mighty deepi
And drive away the birds that sing
In leafy bowers, in early Spring;
And gentle Isphyrs vhispsr DER
Gay, bright flowers, alas! no more.
Yes, birds and flowers, all have gone,
The E,ass is scared on the lawn,
The foliage once 60 bright and green
Lies withcrod, scattered DER the scene
It's beauty gone-thing Of the past,
And rustles now 70 Winters blast.
And DER the graves Of those we love,
whose spirits dwell in realms above,
The flower droops its withered hesd
A il TO kiss the sleeping dead;
Or waste its sweetness on the mound,
Where they shall sleep I'll doom shall sound
All things, IL seems, were made to die
Aud in aud on the earth TO lie;
Go back TO dust from whence they came,
And lose our being and our name
The soul Eloae eau death defy
The Lord has said it cannot die.
All things are passing fast away
The proud, the thOuGhtless and tie gay
The poor, the rich, the meek and low
Are Fastening on 10 veal or woe,
But IL We will the Lord obey
We need not fear The drcI6fi day.
HARrroKD, KY. October 5, 1877.
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NO. As.
To MINNIE.

A wonderful book is the book Of Life
And the lessons it teaches with good are rife.
And the precepts set forth, in letters Of xold
Are worth all the riches Of Cresus Of old.
A beautiful tablet THERE'S to be seen.
On which Is sngraV a the "mots and the beam %
And l wondered IL possible ny eye could con-
The half of that beam without giving il pain.
And a lesson 81 msskness Isarn'd from the
Add drank its sweet waters, fresh from the
Though others tread rudsly and bruiss a. ,hsy
Forgive them and love thsn-tis better I'll,
80.
do unto others as you'd have them do unto
you"
How beautiful the ssntoncs-hOu cid. y., no.
new;
What moments Of sOrrow, pain and regret
Are sa''d BY remembsring-uhy should We
fOrgetH
'fis we'll that hand reaches forth to arrest
Our wandering career, with a gentle earess,
ana bids Us to stop and give but glance
At the dangers ahead before We advance.
We know not what beings lie mid the grasses.
That cover cur path with its cooling earesse.;
what weak little life is waiting, with dread,
The crushing eject Of our msrciless tread.
Nor do We know; there's deceit among broth
era
They msy do unto Us As ws do unto others; =.
non It's better to live, forget and forgive.
And as We fbsa Uish n dia -. .ho.Il =. "a
HARTFORD, Ky. BErrIn
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To make a contrast the girls take q
handful Of starch and smear it all over
their faces, and then daub q piece of
court-p'astsr about the size of your little
finger nail on their chin. Yes. girls, it's
quite becoming, and the boys think its a
2 mole you are hidin,.
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We have lately conversed with several
members elect Of the next Kentucky
House OF Representatives, and they are
unanimous in their choice of assistant
clerk, they are all for Polk johnson, the
author of the obituary of Marshal
George Hunter and the historian Of the
battle of Big Chny. Real genius can't
be kept down in this country Elizabeth
town News.
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Memorial TO the Legislature .ef Ken
lucky, ia Behalf Ofthe Tax Ridden
COunttes.
Special Term

Special Term
Hopkins County Court Of Gains.
August Is, 1877.
Ordered that Polk Laffoon be and he 10
appointed Special Commissioners of this
Court to prepare Memorial to the Gen.
sral Assembly of the State of Kentucky,
asking the repeal Of the Act OF the Lsgis-
lsture OF Kentucky taxing railroads 10 the
State, upon the fixed valuation OF 800
600 per mile, and the passage of an Act
giving 10 counties through which said
railroads run the exclusive right to AS
sess and tax such property for county pur-
poses at a fixed valuation.
Copy Attest. c. ". CRABTREs,
G.. II. &C,
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GEO. C. WEDDING,
Attorney snd Counselor at Law,
AND .. s. COMMISSIONER
HARTFORD. nv.

Will attend 10 all business conRded 10
his care in the inferior and superior courts
Of the Commonwealth.
30 Ofics opposite Court House near
the Post OHes, n40>lI.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DIRECTORY
CHURCH DIRECTORY

R.n,,,t-haye services first Sunday and
sx.a.y hight in every month and Saturday
uIsht preceding. W. P. Bennett, pastor;
n. z. Church south-SeTv'oes tnl.u sun
dsy In every month. W. W. CooA, PAs'0r,
i1,ion sunday School every Sunday morn
lag ct half past eight o'clock.
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LODGE MEETINGS.
A. Y. NJ.

Hartford LODGE, NO. 156.
Meets third Monday night in each
month. IL. MOORE. W. II.
Secty.
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r. A. M.

KEYSTONE CHAPTER, NO. ITO
Meets second Monday night in each
posth. NE. w. H. MOORE, II. P
Comp. II. wEIESHEIMER,Se
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medical science. "-GoVsrnor ]. 6ILL
SHoRrER, Alabams,
II have used the Rsga'ator in my
family for the past seventeen years.
I can safely recommend il to the
world as the best medicine l have
ever used for that class % diseases 10
purports to eure."-H. y. THI0RHx.
President Of City Bank.
''SimnOns' Liver Regulator has
proved good aud sfies,ious msdi.
eiHe."-c. A. NUFTIxo, Druggist.
eve have been sequsinted vita Or.
Simmons Liver Medicine for more
than twsnty years, and kaov u 10 10
ths best Liver Regulator oGsrSdto The
public. X. LTos and II. L
LIOE, Bellefontaine, Ga.
8 / M M o N 3
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HARTFORD LODGE No. 1913.

Meets ia Taylor Hall. 10 Hartford,
XIV. on the Second and Fourth Saturday
evenings in each month. The fraternity
are cordially invited to visit us when con-
vesieut for them 10 do so
L BARRETr, n. q. WV. PEIPrs. SIC
B.P. BRRkYNiE. d. D. q. N.
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NSTABL Is.

COfSEABi.bh-
liz, Of the Csnstabiss Of O5ie County an
thsir Poet oaee IrSsE:
c1y,Y DIzr.IGT-se.i 4.
Wv Rsell, Resin..
c0oL ErKIl0s DisrsISf-so 4
Isaac Brown, RSckport.
eE.rIErevE BIsTEIcr-Se. 8.
n Cashier, Cersl's.
lELLs SroRH pDTRIcT-so. T.
RH csinu. B-forl.
FoRnGvILLG pIGTElCT-Eo' ,.
j. I HARDER, PsrlrNiilo.
ELLIA' 2,srEIcy-Ee.e
J. D. spSrrisr.
HAsrFosp DIsTRcT-so. '.
WI " adder, Beaver Dam.
sEoswELL pIsrRicr-Eo.h
RGHodgss' Cromwell.
EIEsV NJ DIsrRIcr-So. Q.
A. c. Rllil, Hartford.
srLParE IrRIEGs pIsvEicI-SO. 10.
To-. KHSy.
HAEzLHTr's DIsTRIcT-EO. IL.
d. y. Bartlett.
POLICE COURTS.
H.rxsrd-F.P Morgan. Judge, second Mon
days On ysnusry. April. July and Oeteoer.-
chasiss Grinsn, Asrshsl.
Beaver Dsu.-E W. Cooper, Judge, hrsi
SATURDAY. In January. April. July an October
-ThoDas Stevens, Esrshsl.
srsmssli.-A. p. Montague. Judge, second
Saturday On January, April, July and October
-sss. ". Daniel Marshal,
erslvs.-w. n. Barnard, Judge. last Sat
arSsy In March, June, September aud Deem
L~.-Daniel Tiehensr. Marshal.
Haniltsn-J. W. Lankfsrd,. Judge, post
otses address NeIlsnry, eouyts held third Sat
srtsy 10 January, April, July and ostebsr
A. ,. C1rHsH, AsrshAi, Post-ofhes sddres'
HsHenry.
ReekpOrt-J. W. Duke, Judge, Riley
Mcdowell. Marshal. Courts held frat weines
DAP in January, Apti;, July sHd October.
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CHAPTER or UNPUBLISHED HISTORY
KY the birthplace Of
POcahOnfaA

POeahOntas' Tree and Spring,
where She WAS horn and
where Herself and Hus-
band. Capt. kmIth,
also Her Faith
or sleep In
Death.
Erroneous Report .ihat Capt smith
aA1d PoeHhOntas went 60 Europe.
Jeha smith, q Grands0n OF
Posahonfas still Nv.
Ing near Hart
ford.
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LODGE NO. 70

Meets in Taylor Hall, Hartford. Ky
every Thursday evening. A cordial invi
tstion Is extended TO members of the Or
der to Welt us. and oil such will be made
welcome.
D. E. THOMAS, W. C. T.
H.B. KIxsoLvMG, W Sec.
G. B. WILLIAMS, L. D.
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a G. HuBBARo.
y D. Waikiki,
JOHN p. BARRETT,
TTOR NBY AT Law,
aud Real Estate Agent,
Hartford, KENTUCKY.

Prompt attention given to the collection Of
.lsims. wiz hoy. sen. lease, or rent lands or
mineral privileges on reasonable terms WEl
write deeas. mortgages, leases, re-, and at
tsnd TO listing and paying taxes on lands be-
longing TO nOn-rssidsnts.
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SKETCH OF Mr.. VOORHEES,.

Daniel w. VOORHEES, was born in Butts
Ter county, Ohio, September 26. 1927,
and consequently is Afty years old
When about two months old his parents
removed to Fountain county. Indiana,
ard brought up the subject of this sketch
on farm. In l845 young VOORHEES,
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-22
Mortgage.

In the whole range Of sacred and
profane literature, perhaps there Is
nothing recorded which has such stay
ing properties as good healthy mort
gage. A mortgage can be depended
upon to stick closer than brother.
1t has mission to perform which never
lets up. Day after day it is right there,
nor does the slightest tendency to slum-
Der impair its yigor in the night. Night
and day. ON the Sabbath, and at holiday
times, without moments time for rest
and recreation, the biting offspring Of
its existance, interest, goes on The
seasons may change, days run into
weeks, weeks into months and months
be swallowed up into the gray man of
advancing years, but that mortgage
stands up in sleepful vigilance, with the
interest, perennial stream, ceaselessly
running on. Like a huge nightmare
eating out the sleep of some restless
slumberer, the unpaid mortgage rears
up its gaunt front in perpetual torment
to the miserable wight who is held
within its pitiless clutch. 1t holds the
poor victims with the relentless grasp
of giant; not one hour of recreation;
not moments evasion of its hideous
presence. A genial savage Of mollify-
ing aspect while the interest is paid; a
very devil of hopeless destruction when
the payments fail. e'ag 1hi sai',f d
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-22
Saturday Night.

Saturday night makes people more
human, and sets their hearts TO beat
ing softly, as they used to before the
world turned them into war drums and
Jared them to pieces with tattoes.
The ledger closes with a crash, the iron
doored vaults come too with bmg,
up go the shutters with a will, click
goes the key in the lock. 1t is Saturday
night, and business breathes free again.
Homeward, hol The door that has been
ajar all the week gently closes behind
him; the world is all shut out. Shut
out? Shut in rather. Here are his
treasures after all, and not in the vault
and not in the book-save the record Of
the old family bible-and not in the
bank. Maybe you are bachelor, frosty
and forty. Then, poor fellow, Saturday
night is nothing to you, just as you are
nothing to anybody. Get wife, blue
eyed or black-eyed, but above all true
eyed. Get little home, no matter how
little; a sofa, just two or two and a half,
and then get two or two and half in it
of a Saturday night, and then read this
paragraph by the light of your wife's
eyes, and thank God and take courage.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-22
What Allied the (,hOSt.

Hamlet" was announced one night
lately at an Indiana country theater,
and the Hoosiers had come in with
their wives and babies from miles
around to be made acquainted with the
melancholy Dane. All went on wen
until the ghost scene; in factt, sis pater-
nal ghostship had appesrss, 80. in a
tremulous, sepulchral tore began TO
utter:
II am thy faith" when suddenly
the text gave place to series of grunts
and groans, indicative of intense bodily
pain on the part Of the appari,ion afc-e.
said.
"Go OIL Go onl" came from all parts
of the house, but the ghost didntgo on.
Some loudly whispered profanity was
heard behind the scenes, and it became
evident that there was something rotten
In the state of Denmark.
Finally the ghost seemed to brace up,
and tried it again.
81 am thy fath-ugh-oh Lordl Some
more brandy, there-quickl"
In the midst of the confusion which
ensued the manager made his appear
ance at the footiights.
my friends" said he, 81 regret to
say that the gentleman who was cast
for the role of the ghost this evening
has been suddenly attacked with cholera
morbus. Is there any physician in the
house?"
Here" said jolly, good-natured
man in the front row. I'm doctor.
Show me the patient"
They led him to where the spe ,ter
lay, out in the fly, writhing in all the
contortions of green-apple stomach.
He felt his pulse, loosened the sufferers
shirt-collar, looked at him moment,
and then smiled.
swell, DOCTOR" gasped the manager,
''and what do you make of it?"
"Make of it, my dear sir" answered
the doctor; 'why, call it clever case
of that known as clolera-in-pl.anton. v
| -P,fcl
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-22
Tunnel Under the English Channel.

Several geological surveys have been
made of the proposed route Of the tun-
mel under the English Channel, and the
opinion Of scientific men appears to be
that there are no faults or assures
which will be likely to interfere with
the work. The tunneling machine in
vented by Brunton will be used; this
apparatus works similarly to an auger,
and the pieces excavated fall on an end
less band which carries it to the cars
in the rear. 1t is stated that by this
machine drift-way, seven feet in di-
ameter, can be advanced at the rate
of about a yard and quarter per hour,
at which rate 1t would only require two
years to pierce the channel through,
the boring being made from both ends,
and provided that no delays are occa-
stoned by leakage or change in the hard
ness Of the chalk. The company is now
fully organized, and work has been be-
gun on the French side of the channel.
AS the tunnel with its approaches must
be about thirty miles in length, it is
certainly gigantic undertaking, and
its completion will be hailed as a new
triumuh of engineering scienca
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-22
Peremptory.

"May it please the court, said Van
kee lawyer before a Dutch judge i'm New
York State, ''this is case of the great
est importance; while the American
Eagle whose sleepless eye watches the
welfare of this mighty Republic, and
whose wings extend from the Allegha-
nies To the Rocky chain of the West,
rejoicing in his pride of place"
"Shtop dareln shtop say? Vat has
dis sIit to do NIT de Wild bird; it ish
Won sheepl
That is true, your honor, but my
client has rights"
"Your CLIENT has no right to de
eagle"
"Of course not; but the laws of Ian
guage-p
-,vot care / for de laws of language,
eh? understand de laws of de State,
and dat ish enough for me. Talk TO de
case"
"Well, then, my client, the defend
cnt, is charged with stealing sheep
and"
.'Dat will dol Your CLIENT is charged
nit stealing sheep. Dat is shnst min
shillins. DE court viii adjourn"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1877-11-22
Practical Education.

Education should consist much more
than il does in learning to do, to act, to
perform. The successful men of the
world are those who can accomplish the
ends of life, who can by their own en-
ergy and skill bring about grand and
useful results. Our educational insti-
tutions make us learned, cultured, but
not sufficiently actors. One reason Why
very often the young men who have
but little education from the schools
surpass those who have lived for years
in the college walls, is because they
have been trained to action-action
gives strength and health. Culture
gives ease, grace and finish. They be-
long together, but have been separated.
Let them be brought once more into
some grand scheme of education, and
we shall have men and women as the
result, who can not only accomplish
noble work, but have at the same time
fine scholars, with cultivated manners.
with grace and dignity of demeanor.