The Hartford herald., 1879-12-10

Quite number of our citizens left
yesterday for Louisville To attend the
Grant boom.
A little six-year old girl living four
miles from Madisonville vas burned to
death a few days ago. Her dress caught
fire and burned her to death. When
will people learn to he more careful?
Quite large number of the citi-
zens of this county have petitioned
Hon. w. a. Stewart to appoint Musker
l.. Heaverin L. :. Storekeeper
DR. w. J. Berry has purchased of
Tho's Stevens his house and q acres of
land in the Southern part of Beaver
Dam, and will take possession about
thd 10th inst.
The Madisonville Times SAYS: "A
Mrs. Lamb, living just beyond the Hop
kinSville county line, in Caldwell cOun-
ty, one day last week, cut the throats of
her two children and then killed her
self in the same way. She had been of
unsound mind for sometime"
John Wesley Wright, living near
Hines Mill, sold his crop of new tobac-
co recently for 81, 515and per hundred.
Jack Wright, living i'm the same neigh
borhood, sold his crop at 81, . and per
hundred. This tobacco was purchased
by parties in Whitesville.
Under the water i'm the name of the
Lord went 10 persons at Beaver Dam ON
Sunday. Rev. ID. ]. X Maddox has
been holding a protracted meeting at
Beaver Dam with fine success. We are
glad so many of the Beavers are going
under the water. and we hope they may
keep their Dam in good state of repair
after this.
A company of lawyers went to
Fordsville this week. Chas. NJ. Pendle-
ton, III. B. Kinsolving, A. Jones, s. p.
ltoby and {. w. Massie We're the num-
her. Ii is said that when the first
hat was seen over the top of hill
the citizens took fright and left town.
There could not be men enough found
to make up a jury, so what few cases
there We're had to be heard by the Judge.
Who is responsible for that pig sty
on the side walk south of Ford's Drug
Store: 1t seems To us that the Marshal
or some one else in authority should try
and abate that nuisance before long.
II certainly is a novel feature to have
pig sty and great bed of straw on a
side walk on Main street. We predict
that if some farmers horse should
chance to get ON the walk he would he
seized for breach of town ordinace, and
yet bed full of fat lazy porkers are per-
mitted to sleep and eat unmolested.
This should not be. -t
The energetic committee, Mrs. Me
Henry, Misses Annie Lewis and Mag
gle King, attained $2S as bait for the
fish pond. The pond Is designed for
the small children of the Sunday School.
We suggest the propriety of leaving the
Christmas tree to the town; as this
would relieve the school of great re-
sponsibility; which is almost sure to
incur censure from somebody. 1t is
commendable in the Sunday School to
put forth an effort to please the little
folks, and encourage them by Christ
mas festival. But the traditional tree
has grown old aud common, and we
might say has degenerated into an in
stitution of rivalry i'm making personal
and expensive presents. We suggest
to those interested that good pond for
the children with an appropriate SER
vice, will he better than tree i'm con-
nection with it.
-Enoch Bennett, wild buck of Beda
neighborhood, had arranged to leave the
community this week, accompanied 10y
mans wife. 1t seems the woman's
husband had agreed that if his wife
loved "a handsomer man than he" she
might go to the ID. But when she
went to pack her traps they split as to
the divide of the property-that is, she
wanted one of her boys to go, to which
the husband demurred. The faithful
wife could not leave her baby hoy, so
she repented and staid at home This
is rather a strange affair. How is it
that married woman suffers herself to
become enamored of another man?
There seems to be a general badness i'm
the country. What are we coming to.
Bennett left Beaver Dam on Monday.
1t is supposed that he went to see Grant
and may the Lord Grant that he may
never return to these parts.
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