The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1878-07-03


Editor Herald:
Some time since / took the liberty
TO send you a short letter which you
was kind enough To publish, and also
to send me copy of the HERALD,
which was gladly received. Seeing the
familiar face of the HERALD made me
feel as though was at home in Ken
lucky instead of on the frontier in Tex
IS. As you was kind enough to pub
lish my first letter, | take the liberty
to send you another. concerning, as the
talented Modoc puts it, "craps and
things Crops in this section are fine
especially the corn crop. The carly
part of the season was rather too dry,
but we are having plenty of rain now
and every thing looks promising. The
wheat crop is all harvested. and
large portion of it is thrcshed. 1t is
said TO average about twenty bushels
per acre. To a Kentucklan there is
something novel about harvesting
in Texas. The work is all done
by machinery. To see harvester run
ming, and two men riding on it and
binding, would be rather n strange
sight in Ohio county, and to see one
cutting and binding too, faster than four
ordinary men, would be still more
strange. The crops are pretty well all
Ia Il by now, and most of the farmers
will have nothing to do until gather
ing time. There is no tobacco to worm
and sucker. no briers to cut, no fence
corners to clean out, and no barns to
build or repair. Most of work that
will be done from now until September
will be gathering beef cattle, marking
and branding yearlings, &c. Our Dis
trict Court is just over. Sent five new
representative 10 the General Assem-
bly,, at Huntsville. There were twel-
ty other candidates, and for fear that
they would not declare themselves
candidates at the next regular election,
they were all sent TO the County Hotel
for safe Keeping. Our county was Wis
tied last week by the original owners
of the county. 4 party of seven In
dian chiefs made their appearance in
full Indian costume at Red River Sta
ton, ten miles above he.e. They were
friendly Indians, belonging to the Paw
nee tribe, and were travelling under a
passport. One of the number could
speak English, and said he had attend
ell school in Iowa. A small herd of
buffalo passed through here last week.
Indians and buffalo, both at once, re-
minded the settlers of the days not very
far gone, when the Indians and buffalo
were almost the Possessers of this
county.
On the oath Of this month there is
to be at this place grand barbecue
where the fat of the land will be served
up in style. At night there will be
a grand hop at the hall. The hall is
the only public building our town af-
fords, and is used for various purposes,
such as a church-house, school-house,
and Odd Fellows and Grangers' hall,
dancing hall, &c. 1t sometimes oc-
ours that there is an appointment to
dance and preach in the house at the
same time. In such case the major
iiy rules, which is generally the dane
ing crowd. They have way of get
ting rid of troublesome characters in
this country, which works like a charm.
They just get up crowd and go and
give him a serenade; the instruments
they use are revolvers, Winchester III
Aes, shot guns, &c. The person sere-
naded seldom needs Il second warning.
He generally makes it convenient to
move to some other part.
Esq Wagnon, our Justice of the
Peace. had his mule hung since l have
been here. The Esq. irterprets that
the next animal hung will be likely to
have ears somewhat shorter than the
mule One of our leading physicians
had his horses name and tail shaved
a few nights since, hut tails quiet on
the Potomac" now.
For fear 1 intrude on your space I