The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-07-28
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other kind. Keep plenty of disinfectant
on hand, and use il freely.
Wheat crop badly damaged by the
long rains; that in the shock during
the rains is badly sprouted, and great
deal in the stock became heated, and is
badly injured.
Farmers are making hay this week.
Meadows are tOlerably good in Gray
son.
Last Monday was the day for the Ma
tional Greenback party of Grayson To
hold their meeting. | don't know
whether the call was for convention
or not, any way they held none, but
about two dozen of the faithful, with IL
small sprinkling of Democrats and Re
publicans, come together in the court
house after dinner, and regular Green
back love feast was held, or rather "a
love Greenback feast, for where is the
man who don't love to have plenty of
them? Mr.. Lev Green, our ex-repre-
sentative from GraysOn, opened the
"meetin" and took the stand, and re-
freshed the brethren for about AN hour
with the rehearsal of the most OrthadOx
fiat money principles. MIR. Green took
the position that the redeemable quail
~ OF II bank note was not what made il
valuable, or give it the quality of mon
ey, but that il was the stamp of the
government and the law making il le-
gal tender. He illustrated this by IA
reference to gold or silver in the bullion
form before it j. coined, then il il not
money nor legal tender, and you can't
force man to take it. That is the logic
of it. Now about the facts: III Mr..
Green was right that it takes the stamp
of the government and legal tender law
To make money out of either paper or
gold or silver, then suppose that one
would he just Us valuable as the other
without that stamp, but | apprehend
Mr.. Green would have to- labor hard to
induce men Ia sell gold or silver bullion
for its weight i'm paper bullion. The
fact is, the paper of any individual, cor
pOratiOn, or State, is not valuable nor
can il be made 80 without the promise
to pay or redeem, and the specie back
of it in sufficient quantity To make
the promise good. After Mr.. Green
was through, the crowd called for Ham
Parrish, Esq, but Uncle Dave Mercer
was already ON the stand and loaded tn
the muZzle with II speech, and rs he
had the advantage in being on the
stand, he beat Mr.. Parrish in opening
fire, 50 sam had to subside till Uncle
Dave got through, which was when the
crowd got tired and retired all but few,
who remained to call Mr.. =. out, he
now took the stand and delivered IL
forcible speech in advocacy of fiat mon
ey he took the same ground with Mr..
Green, but he and Uncle Dave did not
agree, and when the truth came out,
Uncle Dave was on last Years platform.
He had not seen the confession of faith,
when Mr.. Parrish brought that out
Uncle Dave grew sour and left the
room. Mr.. Workman was also called
out and made rOusing speech for
greenbacks, and Uncle Dave came i'm
and took the stand again, but being a
year behind his party, he was cried
down. The district convention of the
Greenback party will meet at Elizabeth
town next Monday to nominate n cam
didate for Congress. lie is thought MIR.
Green, of this county, will probably be
the candidate.
The enumeratOrs for Grayson county
have not all brought i'm their books Vet,
but enough have done SO to enable us
to make an estimate of the population
of the county. Ii will be not far from
fifteen thousand five hundred-an ill.,
crease of about four thousand since 1880.
Suppose every county i'm the State had
increased at that ratio, the total increase
for the State would be more than 400,-
900, but instead of that, / have seen the
statement somewhere that the pOpula-
ton of the State has decreased since the
last decennial. If this be so, what's the
matter? If Texas could increase her
population more than million i'm that
time, why should we with unlimited
resources of soil and minerals and TIM
Der and with more navigable rivers
than any other State in tine Union.
Why should We decrease? | state the
question and leave it to statesmen and
politicians to answer.
The newly elected board of trustees
for our town have this week purchased
the old stone Jail from Mr.. Grayson,
and intend tearing it down and using
the stone on the streets. The trustees
will receive the gratitude of all the citi
zens of our town for this polite action.
AS Mr. Grayson has for long time in
total disregard of the sense of decency
and good morals of the community
kept u family of prostitutes in the old
building under the gllise of their having
bought the property from him. The
community will now be rid of this den
of infamy. Thanks To the board of
trustees.
Hon. Ed. Butler, of Brandenburg, has
withdrawn from the race for Common
wealth's Attorney.
George Cubbage has withdrawn from
the race for Clerk of the Circuit Court.
Mr.. &. says he withdraws, not at the
solicitation nor in the interest of either
option. That is right.
Hon. Mr. Mercer, of Hardinsburg,
was in town this week, and also his
competitor for Commonwealth Attor-
ney, Mr.. Mcintyre, of Brownsville.
Hon. Will Haynes, of this place, run
ming for same Office, returned home
yesterday evening.
Young Manix, mentioned i'm my let
ter last week rs low with typhoid fever,
died last Friday morning. The family
are certainly deserving of the sympa-
thies of the entire community, as this
is the second son they have lost this
year-bOth of them young men about
grown to manhood.
The construction train on the Z. x +.
railroad has been at work here for a
week past grading dirt road at the
side of the switch, so that freight can
be loaded or unlOaded into a wagon
without the wagon standing across the
railroad track as has been heretofore
the case.