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The Hartford herald., 1879-07-09

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Perhaps YOU never heard of TINS beau
tiful little town. 1t has two stores, one
blacksmith shop, one doctor, and two
churches, one BY the name Of West
Point church United Baptist; the other
church is known by the name of Rose
vile United Missionary Baptist. The
members of the last named church have
built a nice house, and il was dedicated
on last Sabbath. There were between
800 and 500 persons present. The meet
ing was conducted by Arnold of Owens
borO. There were two hundred and
forty dollars subscribed, which will pay
all Indebtedness against the building.
Corn looks well; wheat Is good; tObac-
co looks fine, and is growing; oats are
not good.
There is a small trade i'm yearling
calves and milch cows. Mules and
horses are dull.
There once lived at this place a man
by the name of w. III. Lyons, who was
the life of this town i'm games and
amusements, but fate decreed that he
should be taken away from US and the
last tidings We had from him he was
saving near Elm Lick, i'm Ohio county.
We have lost his whereabouts and we
are very anxious to hear from him and
Perry Phillips and George Spurrier and
John Steel and young and handsome
man by the name of Oliver Jones, who,
| think, has a tendency to try to get
family and move to Elm Lick and keep
pickings for the above f.iends. Hew
pleasant il would he to see our dear and
lamented and lost friend, w. III. Lyons.
God bless our sister county that she may
ever be grateful to old Hancock for one
of her noted and loved citizens. There
once lived a man by the name of Rogers
in this county who was a bad man; a
man who lives where Rogers did live,
thought the house was haunted. They
raised the floor i'm day time and COM
menced diggingin the ground and struck
a box and raised it, and it contained a
dead mans bones, supposed to have
been killed about ) years ago.
Yours truly, n. F. SPRAGENs.
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DIXON, KY, June p, 1875

DIXON, KY, June p, 1879.
Editor Herald:
The Republicans of Webster county
met last Monday, 10th inst, at the
court house being county court day. to
nominate a candidate to represent Web
ster county in the Lower House of the
next General Assembly of Kentucky.
After a few preliminaries, John Nisbet
was declared the unanimous choice of
the convention. Mr.. Nisbet, i'm a brief,
but appropriate (?) speech accepted the
nomination; after which he introduced
Prof. Malcolm Mcintyre, of Ohio county,
candidate for Superintendent of Public
Instruction. Whilst Mr.. Mcintyre
makes no pretention as an orator, or
even as public speaker, yet all were
favorably impressed with his speech,
especially wheu he alluded to the inn
portanee of electing practical teacher
to that Office. He also evinced that
high bearing, characteristic of a gentle
man, and an erudite scholar, who alone
should aspire to such a high and respon-
sible Office. We would all say hurrah
for Nc. were il not for his political pro-
clivities. Next in the stand was Mr..
Hubbard, a leading lawyer of your
town, who delivered the speech of the
evening. Ii was, indeed, an intellectual
feast, notwithstanding we differed very
materially with Mr.. III. save on 'sthe
financial question" His views on that
subject, and the way he presented them,
We're the best we've heard. How such
talent can be retained in a party so cor
rupt, is one of the few mysteries that
remain to be solved.
Yesterday Saturday was a gala day
at Dixon, "Enterpe," "CalliOpe," !" s%Cu-
pid" and 'TerpsiehOre, were exalted to
the seat of royalty, and invested with
sovereign authority. Bacchus being
superseded. Ii was, i'm fact, a grand
affair, Masonic celebration, procession
and barbecue. The reason for its having
been the custom is mainly from the
fact that our State Senatorial Conven-
ton comes off ON 9th at Shady Grove,
in Crittenden county, and many Of our
citizens wishing to attend both, Occa-
stoned the change. Hons. j. +. Clay,
of Henderson; Sam f. Hill, of Hart
ford, aud Polk Laffoon, of Madisanville,
were invited as the orators of the day
the latter only accepting. To attempt
to furnish you anything like synopsis
of his speech, would unless clothed in
the exact language as it fell from his
lips) fall far short of its true merit and
worth It was one of those rare, intel-
lectual treats that will not admit Of
comment. Though Mr.. Laffoon is conn
paratively young man. He is Idoaeus
homo, a man of known ability. At
night our Dramatis Personae gave us
"Maud's PERIL" elosiug with a very
amusing Farce, "rhe Mischievous
Negro" NIEMAND.
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GREENvILLE, KY, June q, 1879.

GREENvII.LE, KY, June q, 1873.
Editor Herald:
The health ofour little town is not good
just now. Mrs. Eaves, the wife of Hon.
Chas. Eaves, Is very sick. Eddie Rey-
nolds, son of one of our prominent mer-
chants, is seriously ill of typhoid fever.
Doubts are entertained of his recovery.
There are several other cases in town;
one in the family of your correspond
ent-in fact, the health of the town
was never worse at this season of the
year than at present.
We had tight rope performance by
Mon. LIE. Roy, on Tuesday upon a rope
stretched across Main street. II was
hugely enjoyed by the Juveniles and the
colOred population. 1t did not pan out
well for the professor, receipts of the
entertainment 75 cents. Served him
right-tOo much of this kind of vaga-
bondage and humbuggery practiced, or
attempted to be practiced, upon the peo-
Pile now, which believe is the fererun-
ner of rascality. The people would do
right i'm not patronizing or giving en-
couragement to such.
proved looks of the Herald. l suppose
~ 10 O"ihS w thC lCW lOhCl Dltco a-
well as the get-up of the management
and editorial corps. / hate flattery, and
you, MIR. Enitor, must not take this as
such. 1t is a frequedt remark here by
those who see your paper that it Is one
of the best country weeklies i'm the State.
/ see by the record of the proceedings of
the press meeting at Bowling Green,
that you and your wife were ON hand.
n L. aI a
having seen you, or any information re-
ceived from "Urey, of the Echo,". He
is reticent in regard to 'press matters, 7"
seems low spirited, not, presume, that
his spirits were high at Bowling Green
on account Ofa fine flow of spirits there,
a grand, '.high old time," and all ''free
gratis for nothing" My humble judg-
ment is that it is lucky for us that press
conventions" are like Christmas, "comes
but once year." if they were oftener
we would have cause to lament a want
of high spirited ability to conduct the
management of our newspapers. Why,
Mr.. Editor, it is horrible to contemplate
the state of affairs that would result
from want of editorial ability i'm con-
Quoting the newspapers of the State.
Our wheat crop is splendid, and har-
vested and being threshed. The grow
ing corn looks better and in better con-
dition than il has been since 1861, pros
poets are good for fine yield.
The legislative canvass wakes warm,
but all things are lovely for the Demo
cratic nominee, ID. b. Roll. His elec-
ton, think, is assured. No disatisfac-
ton, and the elements of the party that
have been heretofore disaffected are now
reconciled, and Muhlenberg will this
time, send a Democrat to the Legislature
with her accustomed majority. Mark
that! SPLOvE.
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An Ex.Priyate's Views.

POINT PLEASANT, KY, June IL, 1879.
Eiifor Herald:
Believing that an honest interchange
of views between representative men of
the different parties and classes in this
country would be interesting, and also
beneficial, and believing that the man
who will inaugurate or devise a system
by which such class of men may COM
municate with the public, will achieve
a glorious fame as the pioneer in a laud-
able and useful enterprise, and being
cognizant of your courteous, liberal, and
enterprising spirit, / take the liberty of
offering an idea or two, which, if after
reading you can afford to publish, do so,
with the assurance that this article is
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Peak gets through with Cox & Trout
mans, and MIR. X. Peak paints them,
my notion ''am" that the whole thing
will be well pointed.
/. The singing class under charge of
Higgs and Peak at Leaehman's church,
IS the most thoroughly trained class in
the county. The Misses Locket, Miss
Gillie Leachman and Miss Sallie Shack
elford are extra think this class un-
exeelled, according to practice, and will
make II very warm for somebody at
their next convention, which meets
with Buck Creek class 9Th Sunday in
August. Each teacher viii be required
to give thorough exegesis of the part
assigned him. Boys, post yourselves.
Who ever saw a partridge eating hop
per grasses. MODoC.
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LIGHT AND LOVE.
Thoughts as They Occur On the
Corners.
BY DIOGENES.
No. IN.

ANO. La
Honesty, punctuality and industry,
! are the three legs of the tripod upon
which good character rests.
Solomon said, "There is time for all
things" Most Of our mishaps and mis-
fortunes originate from getting these
times mixed and not used i'm their prop
er places. Thus the mechanic gets his
time that properly belongs to his shop
mixed with grocery and street corner
time; the farmer gets the time for his
farm labor mixed up with lying in the
shade time, talking with or of candi-
dates time. Lawyers and doctors get
their time for study mixed with gam
bling. street loafing, hunting and fish
ing time-and the ladies-God bless
them-well, how can they have any
time for any thing, when they have
have nothing to wear?
1t is "a remarkable fact that the great
est literary productions have been pro-
duced at the first dawning of learning
in any country. Homer, EsOp, Ossian,
Shakespeare and Spencer are strik-
ing examples of this fact. Is it that the
trimming and training of the critic and
Belle Lettres Scholar clip the wings of
young genius and keep it from soaring
to the grand and sublime.
Instead OfgrOwing angry and resenting
tric -rc~uu,so os ~ssss -, ss'''s r'"'rr, we
should consider ourselves cOmplimented
at not being of their sort.
"On me, when ounces are satiric
take il for panegyric."
In my intercourse with men, l am
frequently reminded of Fielding's story
of the Wiltshire thief, who fled from
London. Three men started in pursuit.
No. quite silly man, No. . man of
good, strong, practical sense, and No. 3
Il cute, cunning, conniving man who
prided himself on being sharper than
any one else. On the road from Lon
don to Wiltshire was tavern kept by a
Wiltshire man. When the pursuers
got to this tavern, said No. l stop here,
the thief has no doubt stopped with his
countryman. No, said No ,, he would
know that every body would suspect
him for stopping here, and as he is SEN
sible fellow, he, of course, would hasten
on. OF course, said No. 3(the smart fel-
low)he would know that almost every
one would think just as you do, and
therefore he would stop and let us pass
him. So No. and decided to stop;
and, while searching the house, the
thief, who at that time was but Il short
distance ahead, and might have been
caught, made his escape. Moral. Fol-
ly and cunning may be considered as
the extreme ends which meet and form
the ring of social intercourse. Craft and
cunning often misses the mark, whilst
plain common sense drives the cen-
ter.
1t is said the biggest fool in the world
always thinks he knows best how to
raise the best potatoes. And the crab
idest old folks i'm the world, who have
no children, know exactly how to raise
| them.
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Editor Herald;
Farmers are done cutting wheat in
the Neck and the yield is better than
was expected. They are up with their
work and ere the blaze of this Torch is
seen i'm public, they will be done plow-
ing corn. They are i'm high glee, for
corn and tobacco both look well.
Ii will not be long until the hum of
the thresher will be heard in the land.
Then to mills of toll
The wagons will roll
"Ragweed," that was buster you
told about the chickens, but that's
nothing to what we have down here.
We have chickens that can stand flat
footed and pick acOrns out of the top of
the tallest oaks, and as for egg-shells,
the farmers use them for grain-tubs and
ash-hOuses. The shrill voice of the
chanticleer can be heard for miles. The
young chickens are as large as turkeys
and sell at 80 to 75 cents each.
BIRTHS.
Born, to the wife of ID. T. Patterson,
June 26th, 1879, a daughter-Cordelia.
Her papa is happy as big sun-fiower,
That mods and bends in the breezes.
SICKNESS.
Mrs. Isaac Shown has been very sick
for the past two weeks, but l am glad to
note that she is better.
DEATHS.
regret to chronicle the death of
Samuel p. Tinsley, which occurred
Thursday morning, June 26th, 1879, at
the residence of Mr.. George w. Smell.
He had been sorely afflicted for several
wears and the emaciation of his physi-
cal organism told as time winged its
flight, that his pilgrimage in this world
would soon be over. The misery and
suffering he endured was very great, but
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LODGE MEETINGS.

A .M.-HARTFoRD LODGE, No. l56.--
"A. Meets third Monday night I'm each
MONTH WM. ii. MOORE, W. NJ.
ii. WEISsHEIMER, Secretary
II A. M.-KEYSTONE CHAPTER, No.
HI. llO.-Meets second Monday In each
MONTH VI. r.. NJ. MCISTYRE, III. II.
II. WEISsHEIMER, secretary.
O.G. T-HARTFORD LODGE, No. r.
l.. Meets i'm Masonic Hall, Hartford, KY
every Thursday evening. A cordial invitation
is extended To members of the Order 10 visit
us, and all such will made welcome.
CLAUDE j. lAGER, W. Z. t.
GROSS WILLIAMS, W. Sec.
ID. +. THOMAS, l.. ID.
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HancOeh News.

LYoNIA, KY, June 18th, 1879.
Editor Herald:
| hope you will not think that this
piece is suitable for your waste-basket,
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he bore it with grace and fortitude until
the Angel of Death came and relieved
him. His remains were inferred i'm the
graveyard near Beda, on Friday, June
9th.
OF INTEREST To FARMERS.
MIR. w. p. Bennett, sole agent for
Sutton's Reversible PlOw, is meeting
with some success i'm the sale of these
plows. Farmers, try them.
POLITICAL SPEAKING.
The candidates for Representative,
will speak at Beda, (Buckhorn) on July
the 9th. Turn out and hear both-Oh /
mean all three sides of the question dis
cussed.
Success to the Herald, is the wish of
TORCH.
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CHURCH DIRECTORY.

Baptist-Services first Sunday and.Sunday
night i'm every month and Saturday night
preceding-W. =. Bennett, Pastor.
NJ. r. Church South-Services third Sunday
and Sunday night in each month-Rev. i. j.
Randolph, Pastor.
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THE FINAL conquest.

The glOries of our birth and state
Are shadows, not substantial things:
There Is no armor against fate;
Scepter and crown
Must tumble down
And I'm the dust he equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.
Some men with swords may reap the field,
And plant fresh laurels where they kill,
But their strong nerves at last must yield,
They tame but one another still.
Early or late
They stoop to fate, -
And must give up their murmuring breath,
When the pale captives creep to death.
The gartands wither on your brow,
Then boast no more your mighty deeds;
Upon deaths purple altar now
See where the victors victim bleeds;
All heads must come
To the cold tomb.
Only the Actions of the just
Smell sweet, and blossom i'm the dust.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
DIRECTORY.
COUNTY DIRECTORY.

COUNTY DIRECTORY.
CIRCUIT COURT.
Hon James Stuart, Judge, Owensboro.
A L. Morton, Clerk, Hartford.
Err. Murrell, Master Commissioner, Hartford.
O. W. Banger, Hartford :. p: Taylor, Bea-
yer Dam; r. IL. Cooper, FordsNtlle; :. l..
Fulkerson. Ceralvo.
November, and continues three weeks each
term. -
CRIMINAL COURT.
Hon ]. A. Murray, Judge, Cloverport.
Hon Joseph Haycraft, Attorney, owensboro.
r.. l.. Sullenger, Jailer, Hartford.
Court begins ON fourth Mondays In March
and September, continuing two weeks each
term. -
Ben. Newton, Judge, Hartford.
Capt. Sam. X. Cox, Clerk, Hartford.
]. 2. Sanderfur, Attorney, Hartford.
Court begins ON the first Monday In every
QUARTERLY COURT.
Begins ON the third Mondays i'm January,
April, July and October.
COURT OF CLAIMS.
BEGINS on the first Mondays i'm January
OTHER COUNTY OFFICERS.
Armistead Jones, Assessor, Hartford.
Col. W. II. Porter, Surveyor, Cromwell.
A Il. Baird, School Commissioner, Hartford.
POLICE COURTS.
Hartfori-W. ii. Cummins- Judge, second
Mondays in January, April, July and october.
X. &. Hardwick, Marshal.
Saturday i'm January, April, July and October.
Thomas stevens, Marshal.
Cromwell-A. z. Montague, Judge, second
Saturday in January, April, July and octo-
ber. q. {. Butler, Marshal.
Ceralvo-Henry Tinsley, Judge, second sat
urday In January, April, July ana octooer'
Vacant, Marshal
Hamilton-wm. Hamilton, sr., Judge, post,
office address, McHenry, Courts held third
Saturday In January, April, July and October.
vacant, Marshal, post-office address, Nc
Henry.
RoskportJH; Q; RoIy Judge, ,si psn %;nr.d", Tshs,
i'm January, April, July and October.
Rosine-R. r. Wedding, Judge, J. +. Lewis,
Marshal. Courts held first saturday in Janu-
AIRY, April, July and October.
JUSTICES COURTS.
FoRDsvILLE.
.P.wmhers-Junei Dec. sept.s
James Miller, +"
p. ID. Taylor, June II sept. 10 Dec. 10
]. ID. Holbrook, Is II Il
A. Il. Bennett, June 10 sept,s Dec.
J. ID. Byers'
W. L. Rowe, June . sept. q Dec. q
A. y. Brown, NJ
RosINE.
VIM. Cannon, June Is sept. Is Dec. Is
j. ID. Miller, Is IL IL
CROMWELL.
r. %. Porter, June - sept. 10 Dec. ~
Melvin Taylor" q ~
CoNsTABLEs.
Forisville-George Bradheld, Post-office
address, Fordsville.
Buford-Nacant.
Hartford-H. b. Taylor. Post-office Beaver
Dam.
Rockpor-T. r. Bi ishop. Post-office Center
town.
Rosine-w. W. Ezell. Post-office, Rosine.
Cromwell-J. W. Daniel. Post-office Crom-
well.
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BIRTHS.

Born, to the wife of ID. T. Patterson,
June Goth, 1879, a daughter-Cordelia.
Her papa is happy as big sun-fiower,
That mods and bends In the brcezes.
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CONSTABLE

Forisville-George Bradfeld, Post-ofiice
address, Forisville.
Buford-Nacant.
Hartford-H. b. Tay lor. Post-office Beaver
Dam.
Rockport-T. r. hi shop. Post-office Center
town.
Rosine-W. W. Ezell. Post-ofiice, Rosine.
Cromwell-J. W. Daniel. Post-office Crom-
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Mrs. Isaac Shown has been very sick
for the past two weeks, but am glad to
note that she is better.
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1t is said the biggest fool in the world
always thinks he knows best how to
raise the best potatoes. And the crab
idest old folks in the world, who have
no children, know exactly how to raise
them.
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purchase there less prices than
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-16
The Excess of Books.

The excess of books is nearly as en-
barrassing to the men of the nineteenth
century as the deficiency was to those of
the ninth. The mass is over-mastering,
The very number of the volumes puts
it out of our power to read all. We are
driven to select. A few samples from
the best are positively all we are able to
open and examine; aud even of this
selection we are able to make CAREFUL
study OF only part. The 81 ght of a
great library would be absolutely dis
heartening did we not also know that
the mass of that knowledge is summa-
rized in few small volumes. In any
such collection there are many stalks
and husks; the seed corn is found in a
few golden ears. Turn over the husks
to the cattle; preserve the ripe ears
ZS0n's Herald.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-16
Cash baIauce
trensnrv
5 4s,A99 20

lnese figures, together with the auditors esti.
natss o. receipts aid expenditures, show the ne
ttesny 1or cautious appropriations and the con.
tlpued ne ed of retrenchment and economy In leg.
islation, which have Eecn 1epeatedlv nrped. Il
Will be seen that the balance in the treasury A. the
elose OF the year was but $4s49s. 20 belonging in
.na parCeis 10 ten different funds, and that
the general revenue fund is overdravn to the
amount Of $24, 461.lO. ~ -0
The auditor states that the outstanding warrants
against the revenue fund at the close OF the wear
together with overdrafts, make total fioatimo Gah,
amounting to 1922, COZ "a and that siuco the old
days OF deprecated state warrants the treasury
has not been in so depleted condition.
This is owing to the disbursements for seed grain
and other extraordinary purposes amountine to
about sl00U0 for the year, and to the receipt
OF the expected income from convict labor which
mates j. appears that with careful management,
WITHOUT ANY extraordinary expenditures, the re-
cepts OF the present year may be expected to meet
.1 n;. EXPENSES and ray eff the floating debt,
lnt sound condition with the be ginr Ing of an
year. N which event the receipts and dis
OF $lO,OO0. Every consideration therefore. of
SOUND ana prudent fnancierinR demsDds that
10 appropriations for extrsordi-
draughts upon the treasury during The nresent
year. o PA0son'
reiterate my condemnation of the nr,ct,c. ~
making appropriations in authorization ~ raco;nt.
into The state tire ssury. 1t is offensive to correct
business principles, forces the state into scraSt
abs competition for money accommodations. and
cesstie' justify. 1 have found che practice 40 An.
noying and detrimental to the public interest that
l feel it my duty to disspprove Of appropriations
drawn on the treasury In excess Of its receipts
curing the year 1879.
solicit yourcarefuf attention to the various I'm.
os1s subjects y. discussed by tho auditor, and e..
to.e1t - nis remarks and the acton Of the state
nr.sent e2osh1stien respecting the evils Of the
pFe'ens system OF tevnship ssseoGmsnts. Tho pro-
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-16

GEO. p. RowELL & Co.'s American
Newspaper Directory for January, 1879, has
made its appearance, The total number of
periodical publications in the United States
are % daily and 1925 more weekly news
papers than were reported in the edition
for January, 1878. The total increase of all
sorts is 469, the largest in any year since
1873 The Centennial year, 1876, has been
the only one within the period covered by
the eleven annual issues OF the Directory in
which the number of publications has not
increased
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-01-16
Temple.
A LOVE STORY.
BY THE RIGHT HON. BENJAMIN DlsRAEu.
Earl of Beaconsfeld.)
"Quoih Sancho, Read it out by all MEANS for
nightly delight in hearing OF love Stories

"Quo,h Sancho, Read it out by all means; for
nightly delight in hearing OF love stories"
The WEEKLY WISCONSIN for Wednes.
day, November eth, contained the first
chapters OF this greatest Of Love Stories,
written by RIGHT HONORABLE BENJAMIN
DIsRAELI, Earl of Bsaconsiield, one Of the
greatest statesmen and diplomats of this or
any other age. But in no field has his great
gifts and commanding genius won more dis.
tinct!on than in the literature of the Eng
lisi, language. in this charming Love Story
of HENRIETTA TEMPLE, the great Pre-.
mier has shown hun self master Of the finer
sentiments Of the human heart.
This story will occupy about 100 columns
of the WEEKLY WISCONSIN, and will be
continued from week to week for thirteen
weeks-comm encing, as we have said, No.
vcmber27. The back numbers will be fur
nished all new subscribers desiring them,
on notification at the time of making SUBJ
scripiion.
~ Sample copies sent to any address,
free