The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-08-21
CANEYYIhLE LETIER.

CANErvTLLE, KY, August u 1873
Editor Herald:
As We have seen nothing for some
time in your valuable paper from
Caneyville, we have come TO the con-
clusion that your correspondent from
these parts is little negligent of duty,
and have concluded to send you a
few notes curself. The election passed
off quietly, and every body seems to
have willingly accepted the result,
and have settled down to business as
usual.
Local option carried in this voting
district by fOrty-nine majority, against
forty-four in favor oft sale Ofthe ar
dent two years ago, showing that a con-
siderable revolution has taken place
since that time in favor of morality,
and a better time coming.
A party, composed Of j. I. Neal,
Isaac Maiden, Cicero Eskridge and
several young ladies from this place,
have just returned from a trip 10 the
Mammoth Cave, whittier they have
been rusticating for a few days. They
report a gay time and lots of fun.
Caneyville is fast growing into no
tice as a business place for commercial
travellers, though none as yet have
been murdered or scalped, as was
nigh the case with Smith of the Com.
mercial, who came here in the night
drunk, and imagined every body he
met to be in the same fix. Should be
come again the "bOys of town" will
give him a warmer reception than they
did before, and if the weather should
prove favorable, with plenty of rain
and mud, they have limited that they
might take his photograph and send il
to the Commercial for the benefit Of
some of its readers who are not &C.
quainted with the little town of Caney-
vile. Call aud see US again, Mr..
Smith.
We suspicion that there will be q
wedding soon from some observations
we made at Wilson Bros store on
yesterday. If so. in our next We will
give you full particulars.
NJ. j. Shaffer, our clever and eff
cient agent at this place, is now en-
gagged in the hotel business, and will
always be pleased to see the many
friends of the Sandusky House, who
have so literally supported the same
in the past.
On yesterday a young lady drove
into town with an OK wagon, all alone,
ten miles. witha load of watermelOns-
seventy -five-fOr which she received
81 so. She said she had raised them
herself, and had ploughed and tended
forty acres of corn, and had two acres
of nice growing tobacco. We recon-
mend somo young man who wants to
marry and get some one to support
him, TO this young lady. She says
though if she ever clutches" she'll
learn her "ouP man how to work.
On last Sunday we visited old Pine
Knob, the scene of so many romantic
incidents connected with the Browns,
of GraysOn county, years ago. The
old house in which old man Brown
was killed, is still standing. The sur
rounding ruins all 60 to show that at
some time in the past this was favor
lite place, and a great resort for the
Browns and their followers. We were
startled at the Kissing sound of a large
as we approached the graves
(Which have been sadly neglected for
the past twenty years.. While stand
ing around the graves every thing of
which we were familiary connected
with-their lives and tragic end-cane
wildly before us. The lofty pine,
signing a mOurnful requiem, and every
thing surrounding US with thoughts
and reflections, of which We will speak
more fully in our next. $3.50.