The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1880-03-10
Spring poems are now ripe.


Gardening is not occupying the at
tention of matrons hercabouts.
The HERALD Office is the place To
have your horse and jack bills printed
neatly and cheaply.
Steps are being taken to secure the
turnpike from this place to Beaver
Dam. May the efforts not prove futile.
There has been but little movement
in tobacco a. yet in this place, and a
great many farmers have not yet sold.
The coal miners at McHenry, Rem
der and Taylor mines, We understand,
have gone to work at y cents per bushel.
Miss Mamie J. Ellis, of Whitesville,
and Mr.. Peter W. Brown, of Washing
ton county, Kentucky, Were married
last Tuesday morning.
"A very complimentary notice of
our old friend, Prof. w. Il. Hayward,
appears in this issue He is we'll worthy
the compliment paid him in the rcsolu-
tons.
Criminal Court draws near, with "a
full docket to dispose Of. So far we do
not know of any young men who will
have to go visiting about that time, rs
is usually the ease.
One by one the candidates are
making their claims known, and the
present indications are that pretty lively
times may be looked Tor. The more
the merrier.
II. III. Browns two RATS countain-
ing l55 logs and loaded with $1,000 feet
of sawn lumber, reached here Saturday
evening and laid here Saturday night
He had good luck up to this place.
Horace Morton, of color, while
crossing the street Monday morning
with a pig in his arms, was attacked by
vicious SOW, and would have been
torn literally to pieces, had he not re-
ceived timely assistance.
The honor of delivering the vale
dictory of the South Carrollton Male
and Female Academy has been con-
ferred upon our young friend, James
Anderson, of this place, and we feel
confident that he will acquit himself
very creditably.
We learn from parties who have
returned from Evansville, that at least
$40, 600 was lost by raftmen in Green
River last week by being unable to
manage their logs i'm the wild current.
Several parties from this county lost
heavily.
News was received here last week of
the illness of Miss Belle Barnes, a resi-
dent of this place, who is attending
the South Carrollton Male and Female
Academy, and her many friends here
anxiously await to have the glad tadings
of her recovery heralded to them.
BY an invitation of the proprietor,
MIR. j. w. Cannon, we dined at the
Cannon House Monday, and il is indeed
a rare thing that an editor sits down to
a better dinner than was spread before
us. With Mr.. Cannon as proprietor,
and Mr.. NJ. Hevrin to deal ''smiles"
to you over the office counter, this house
cannot be otherwise than popular.
Thousands of soldiers and heirs are
entitled TO pensions with payment from
date of discharge or death, if applied
for before January /, 1881 Wound, ac-
cidental injury or disease entities to
pension. Bounty and back pay collect
ed. Increase of pension secured. This
firm established in 1868. Address, en-
closing stamp, Edison Bros, U. s. Claim
Attorneys, al q. Street, Washington,
ID. G. loft
Among the raftmen who lost heav-
lily by the recent high rise in Green
river are Henry Wise and Jim Gentry,
Of the Cromwell neighborhood, who
lost $50 fine poplar logs, and John Fl.
Naive, of the Bartlett's precinct, who
lost 1903 logs, besides all his cooking
utensils, bedding, overcoats, &c. Mr..
Naive's raft was completely wrecked,
and he and his crew barely escaped
drowning. His loss is about $500,
which he will keenly feel.
We call the attention of the Road
Surveyor and Bridge Commissioners
to the miserable condition of the road
and bridges between this place and
Beaver Dam, and especially to the con-
dition of one Of the bridges ON the levee.
We make this allusion by request of
parties living along the road, as they
desire that Commonwealth Attorney
Haycraft may have safe transpOrta-
ton two weeks hence, when he will be
here in the interest of the Common
wealth.
Mr.. w. H. Moore returned Monday
evening from Evansville. He ran the
finestraft oflogs that hasgone outOfRough
Creek for years, having 200 logs that
averaged $50 feet to the log. He is
completely worn out by the long trip.
He reports more trouble and loss of logs
on lower Green river than he ever knew
before. The aggregate loss will proba-
bly, reach $4,000 caused by the swift
water and the storm of last Saturday
night. Mr.. Moore got through all safe
and sold well and made money.
Luther Duke, assistant Assessor of
the county, completed the Rosine dis
trict last Saturday, all except the stores
and few persons not found, to be as
sessed hereafter. The Rosine Magiste-