The Hartford herald., 1880-01-07
Gray son County Gossip.

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Gray SON County Gossip.
LITCHFIELD KY, Dec. % 1879.
hsiaor Herald:
Rain! Mud Fog Clouds! Marriages.
Bigamies etc., etc., Id Li6it,.m I'D
Mfnitum.
The wedding "bOom" continues. On
Rock creek, last week, Mr.. Prunty to
Miss Sadie Witen. In breckenridge,
Just across Rough creek, last Sunday,
Mr.. Somebody to Miss Hornback. In
Litchiield KY, Dec. 18th by Rev. Il. +.
Orr, Prof. John &. Myers 10 Miss Matte
f. Caplinger, ''and still there's more to
follow"
Two hearts that join In one
Twoheads to bill and coo
lis o0r soOger plum
Dos sooger plum b 90.
Prof. Myers came to Litchfield some
three weeks ago and lectured two or
three times on penmanship and soon
procured good class, composed princi-
pally of the young ladies and gentle
men of our town; he soon formed the
acquaintance of Miss Caplinger, Il very
handsome and ladylike brunette of
about seventeen, and Immediately COM
nenced his suit, and, alas, succeeded
very soon in winning her affections and
theircourtshipwas scOnsummated bytheir
marriage, when they left Immediately
for Louisville; and, i'm the mean time,
while the wedding was being talked of,
some one hese wrote q letter to Mr.. j. [.
Rogers, of Trenton, Tenn, in which he
incidentally mentioned the prospective
marriage Of Prof. Myers to Miss Cap
linger of this place and on Sunday
morning after the marriage telegram
came here nom the aforesaid Mr.. Rog-
that wedding back for u while, Prof.
Myers has > wife here ''and on Monday
mornings letter came here from Mr..
Rogers saying that Myers. about twelve
months ago, had married y Mins Brown,
of Trenton with whom he had lived
for nearly q year, till she had borne one
child, that he had treated her very
badly and that after the birth of her
child he had abandoned her and left
for parts unknown. These were both
shown to Mr.. Caplinger, the father of
the unfortunate girl, when he, with the
advice OfT.R. McBeath, Esq, immedi-
ately telegraphed to the chief of police,
i'm Louisville, to arrest Myers, and In n
few hours telegram came in return
announcing his arrest, when deputy
sheriff Gardiner went to the city yes
terday evening to bring him down.
There were perhaps near a hundred per-
sons at the depot this morning to give
the gentleman hearty welcome back
to Litchiield, when, 10, telegram from
GardInef came saying they had missed
the train and would not be down till to-
morrow morning. / suppose he will
have warm reception when he comes.
The community is thoroughly aroused
and there are some whisperingsO of coat
of tar and feathers but suppose it is all
talk, at least 1t ought to be, for, infa-
nous as the crime is, and indignant as
the community is, it is better to await
the due process of law. There is
great deal of sympathy expressed for
the faIbiIy of the unfortunate young
lady ami especially for her,and, as is al
ways tie case, a great deal of that, OF
all things else the most ungrateful SYM
pathy which always expresses itself In
the self-cOmplacent assurance, ~ told
you SOP The young lady certainly did
act very hastily and doubtless feels
more deeply than any one else the ef.
fects u her impruience, but if she were
the only one who had been imprudent,
or had made u mistake, there would be
some more reason for that special kind
of coincidence which says, Il told you
So" aud like jobs cOmfOrters leave the
cOmf0fted One so much the worse for
the comfort. One is reminded of the
prank the young saucebOx played upon
his grandmama, who was given to that
special kind of coincidence: "I.a, grand
ma the Shanghai rooster has swallowed
the gray colt" ~ told you So" re-
spOnded the old grand-dame with feel
ings Of assurance that she had actually
given specific directions that the gray
colt should not be turned into the lot
with the Shanghai rooster.
Tobacco Is coming i'm rapidly and is
commanding better figures than here
tOfOre. f...o.t
/ hear it said that the country i'm the
vicinity of Wildwood is filled with
moonshine whisky and learn that
writs have been issued for some parties,
but for some reason our officers will not
take hold of them. D, for U. 5. mar
shal. What shall be said of the infa-
nous meanness of men who, to make a
lew uiults, ttdut TIE AtWy chuolSCi
their lives and commit a crime hum
dred fold worse than murder itself, for
such is the crime of dispensing intOxi-
eating liquors, but language fails us to
express the utter contempt in which
such characters should be held by all
good citizens.
There will be an oyster supper at the
Meredith hotel on Wednesday night
for the benefit of the Methodist church,
in this place.
The protracted meeting ut the Bap-
tist church closed on Sunday night,
with no visible results.
Rev. Mr.. Walton, of the Christian
church, preached discourse at the new
Freedom church last Sunday, in reply
to discourse preached two weeks be-
fore by Mr.. Orr, on the mode OF chris
tian Baptism. 1t was suggested that
the old gentleman was on "A cold trail
as Mr.. Orr had been gone two weeks
but the old gentleman seemed to be
confident that hewOuld tree something,
so he continued his vociferous prognOs-
ticati0ns until the scattering of his
small audience reminded him that
night was approaching, when he sud-
denly concluded to desist by challeng-
ing the world. We have not heard
whether the world will accept or not,
but We suppose not. 1Df1{.f.sil-f
Pro BONO PUBLICO.
LITcHFIELD, KY, Dec. 80.