The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-02-20
CeraiSO letter.


CEEALyo, KY, Feb. Ii.
Buiness dull.
But little tobacco sailing
Wheat looks promising.
Health Of the.people good, with an oc-
casional case Of whooping-cough, which
is of very malignant character.
The log mems prayers, for big rise
in the river. remains unanswered
The students from south Carrollton
Institute, who have been home on visits
this week, have nearly all retuyned,
leaving us quite lonely. Miss Emma
Fulkcrson aad Tommie Baker will not
20 back this session.
don't know get how the fellow will
succeed hat lis said that earnest efforts
always wins aud iLiuk will tell You
all about it in my next.
VALENTINES
Some of our Young ladies received let
tiers through the po-,-o:l:cc to-lav with
turtle doves on them Ours didn't have
Z turtle dove on il. Want to hire a pu~
giiist to make bpzzard victuaIs out OF
the iei.o" that sent IT,
WONGERFUL wATCu.
Mr.. V. T. Morton owns a watch
which. according to all accounts, has
been running and keeping time ter over
a hundred years What u tale this Old
watch could tell if it could talk Doubt-
less j, often excited the wonder oi the
Red Man, who visited the pioneer cabin,
AND the deep tangled wildwood OF our
old Hcntucl,y State. 1t marked the
hcur when the old bell man in the belfry
on Independence Hall rang out the joy.-
tul news, at has passed" and was tick
ing away when Mr. CORVALLIS said,
You've damned our backs, George, and
here's my boNie-knile for you to keep
forever and ever" IL saw our ioreiathers
ninety years ago, a small band OF needy
patriots, struggling to form government,
with scarcely dollar in the treasury !;
aud it has seen our glorious republic
grow aud expand until to-day we stand
a-biilion dollars 10 debt.
II saw Hartford when it WAS but q
small village and behe!d it grow in less
than I. hundred wears 30 a town of six or
seven hundred inhabitants. IL saw the
foundation OF the locks on Rough river
falkland it saw the company's bonds
20 up, sad up, until they sold for ten
cents on the hundred dollars. 1t heheld
u vote s. tax 20 build q railroad thai was
to crcss Green River at Ceralvo, South
Carroiton, Hogs Falls and Poin, Pleas
ant, at one and the saole hmc-it saw
that wonderful railroad perish for lacl; of
fools in other counties to meet us half
way.
1t saw the great order Of Patrons Of
IIu-baudry rise aud flourish, until under
its benign iuhueuce its promises were
verified, tobacco sold at two cents per
pound, and poor middlenen could get
but one hundred and ten dollars for q
bundle Of goods worth nineteen dollars
and fifty cents. 1t saw more than this
1t saw people exchanging Old geese
feathers for nev-aud though nine long,
weary years have passed since then, it is
still watching watching the prom.
iscd return of the midilemau with the
new fathers. 1t saw the greenbacS
party. rise and proSper-il saw ii beat the
great Democratic party in Ohio county
coo votes-orer the left and then die
1t has seen all these. ami yet ticks on.
Blessed cid bulis~eys, you are a brick.
Any one can see this wonderful ticker
for the small sum-oi fifteen cents, or five
postage stamps, but owing to the prssen t
stringency Of The money market, no chro-
mos will be given this year.
Bat jesting asi'fc, il it were mine no
amount OF money would induce me to
part with it. l would treasure it in
memory of one of the truest men that
ever grac ed Ohio county with his life.
&. QUuL