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The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21
Alexander's Hotel.

And now we must bring this length
ened narrative to n close with a notice
of our friend, MIR. Jo. B. Alexander, the
well-known and very popular proprie-
tor of Alexander's Hotel, on the corner
of 7th and Market streets, Louisville,
Ky. We recently spent few days at
this elegant hotel and can say that
among all the hotels we ever stopped
at, none ever pleased US better Ii is
well kept, and well appointed through
out. The beds and rooms are all as
neat as n pin; the meals unexeeptiOnal-
ly good good the landlord, who ~ him.
self exceedingly polite and obliging. re-
quires all of his subOrtlinafes to be the
same, and all guests are made to feel at
home. AS a proof Of the popularity Of
the house, who has ever visited if with
out seeing ii about as full as it could
well hold? In hundreds of instances
many persons have been turned away,
for want of room. The success Of MFR.
Alexander, as n hotel keeper, has in
deed been wonderful, and the business
steadily increases. Mr.. "A. deserves this
success, he has justly and honorsbly
win il by his untiring and assisluous ef-
forts 20 anticipate every want Of his
guests. IL il said that but few men can
keep hotel and he that can IL q man
amongst mean" Mr.. A. Il one Of the
latter, as is attested by his success. His
dinner beat all dinners
we ever saw, all hollow, but as We can
not describe it, we shall not attempt it.
We wish him all success in the future.
This is not as by some may be supposed,
"a newspaper puff, in payment Of our
hotel bill. Not So We paid our bill
in full before leaving the hotel. 1t is
only just tribute TO genuine merit
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Grayson County Gossip.
LITCHFIELD, KY, Jan. l3,

LITcHFIELD, KY, Jan. IL, 1880.
Editor Herald:
We are still having superabundance
of rain. The roads are getting worse
all the time. They are in fearful cOn-
dition now, and If the rains continue
long, the roads will become impossible.
The owners of ice-hOuses are begin
ming to be alarmed for fear that the ice
crop will be failure this year. Mr..
Lem Norman has just put up new
ice house this winter. 1t will be pity
if he gets no ice.
COMMERCIAL.
Tobacco still continues to come in,
though our buyers are not buying much
now.
Litchfield can boast of cigar factO-
nv. Mr.. Gleason, formerly of Pitts
burg, Pa, and who once ran large
manufactOry of cigars and snuff there,
is making cigars here now. Mr.. Glea-
son makes very superior cigar, and is
very worthy gentleman.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
The German Bigamist, Myers, con-
fined i'm Jail here, attempted suicide
last week. He got hold of sheet, bed
quilt, or something of that kind, tore
it into shreds, tied one end to the upper
part of his cell, and the other end
around his neck and swung OFF, but a
fellow prisoner thought, an be lonely
here without thee" and SO cut him
down. So he did not get off that time.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21
"a cATHoLIc'' had a communicable

"a CATHOLIC" had a communication
last week in reply to "Pro Bono
Publico." We regret religious contro-
versy, and think the world Is not much
benefited thereby, but rs this is upon a
topic of vital interest to the world,
probably some good may come of it.
We regard education as one of the most
important subjects of the age. BY ed
ucation We do not mean simply book
learning, but We mean practical
knowledge of all things useful and nee
essary to make us better, nobler, grand
er beings. A knowledge of right from
wrong, and of the laws of nature, of
health, of charity, benevolence, and n
spirit to carry them out, and to shun
vice of every kind. An education that
teaches us that wisdom, virtue, morali-
ty, fit us for happier life, here and
hereafter, than vice, dissipation, ignor-
ance and idleness. Ii the gentlemen
could get their controversy so shaped as
to handle these questions directly or in
directly, they would no doubt accom-
plish much good, but if they wish to
narrow it down to "A religious denom-
national fight, we will send them To
some other Journal for space,
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

Mr.. HOOKER offered resolution to
the effect that, inasmuch as the calling
of the yeas and nays costs the State
about $50 each time they are called, the
members of the House be requested to
refrain from calling for the same ON un-
important votes. The member was de
elared out of order. His resolution was
good one, nevertheless. The argus
eye of the people should turn its full
blaze ON this important question. There
are members who are inclined to be
prodigal with the public treasure, now
in very critical condition. IL is the
purpose of the Courier-youSpoi to give
members guilty of dilatory motions the
benefit of u free notice i'm its columns i'm
order that their constituents may weigh
them i'm the balance. This blatant
crime, and such it is, against our invalid
exchequer, should be abated. There is
too much labor before the Legislature
this winter for its wheels to be clogged
by some smart Aleck, who comes up
pregnant with Parliamentary lore.-
COurier-JOuTndi.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

Mr.. w. j. Hale, who resides near
SorghOtown, in this county, raised TO-
54l pounds OF tobacco ON seven acres of
ground this season, an average of ], ,5o5
pounds tn the acre. The crop was sold
yesterday at Ss for leaf, s. for 1ugs and
81 for trash.
Two thousand one hundred and ten
pounds of tobacco to the acrewas raised
the past year by young Tom Likens ON
the McCreery farm, on the 1elvington
road. So much for the soil and good
tillage i'm Daviess. arr B.
Two barges containing one thousand
tons Of steel rails for the Owensboro &
Nashville railway arrived Friday, and
are being rapidly unloadesi at the foot OF
Lewis street. Work is progressing sat
isfactorily all along the line Ii is
thought the laying Of the rails will COM
mence about the 18th inst, and that by
the first of April trains will be running
through to Russellville.
Daviess county has a focal field almost
overlooked hitherto. IL Is one thousand
acres I'm extent, and lies near Vsnover's
mill, ON Panther creek, not more than
ten miles from Owensboro. The vein
Is four and one-half feet thick.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

An intelligent correspondent Of the
Stevenville Empire says: '.How anv
man can afford to be without hiscounty
paper l can in no way solve-no, not
even though he be one of those persir-
tent borrowers. He ought not to deny
himself the journals Of general intelli-
gence, nor yet those pertaining to his
peculiar faith or occupation, but he can
not afford to forego his county paper. II
is business to him-nOt only this, -
money in his pocket and brains in his
head. T.. r... L.
''It would often save number Of dol
lars to him-at other times make a.
many. IL would many a time save him
asking questions long since forgotten or
otherwise exposing his Ignorance, and
even save his friends from having to
blush for him. F1f ..e7 sie
Suppose your county officials or amy
body Of citizens, have something Of
general Interests to Communicate to
you, how can they reach you except
through the county paper, az how at AL
when you never read thai papers'
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

He shufiied off the mortal coil, but the
coil wouldn't stay shuffied.
CRIMINAL.
The thief, Prewitt, mentioned in my
last was brought to trial last Friday,
and confessed to two burglaries, but
each within the limit of the statute
for petty larceny, 30 he was sentenced
to one hundred days work on the streets
of Litchfield. Soon Monday II ball and
chain were fastened on him, and he
was put to ditching, cleaning out sew
ers, &c.
The young man Gary, who was
brought here from Caneyville under
sentence from magistrates court for
carrying and using pair of brass
knucks, was taken with n violent at
tack of pneumonia last week, and has
been very sick ever since, but Is some
better to-day. Our hO-pitable jailer
moved him out of cell into one of his
own rooms, and he is being well taken
care of. The young man appears very
penitent for his crime, AMI says he will
drink no more whisky while he lives.
We hope he will keep his word. He
was drunk when he committed the Of
fense for which he Is in prison now.
Mrs. Lowery, an old lady living near
this place, was thrown from her horse,
and her cOllar-bOne fractured one day
last week. DIR. Strickler was called i'm
and arranged the fractured bone, and
the old lady, though suffering very in
tensely, is yet doing as well as could be-
expected.
PERSONAL.
Miss Ella Pusey, of Meade county,
who has been visiting her sister, Mrs.
Gardiner, of this place, returned home
on Saturday. Miss Ella made many
friends while here, and some of them
we suspect are likely to prove very fast
friends. and one young gent since her
departure seems TO he like Mark A nthony
at C,esar's funeral, has lost his heart,
and will have To wait till at do come
back to him."
Mrs. L. s. Gardiner has gone ON Wis
it to her fathers, DIR. Pusey, i'm Meade
county.
Miss Hardie Die, of Elizabethtown,
who has been visiting here, has also re-
turned home.
Our genial young friend, Mr.. Raine,
OF Sonora, but travelling for Bacon x Co.,
of Louisville, was in town Saturday.
A U. $. Revenue officer was i'm town
to-day.
Rev. II. G.. Harrison, p. +. of this
district. Nj. +. Church South, passed
through town last week. Rev. w. B.
Barnett, p. +. of NJ. Z. Church, was
also in town last week, and is holding n
quarterly meeting near town to-day.
Pro Bono PUBLICO.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21
GRABS IN THE LEGISLArURE.
How Thrifty Member May s.Savc'
Free passes.

The Legislature has not begun to
economize ut the beginning. Economy,
like charity, should begin right ut
home, and that is with the per diem,
mileage and stationery expenses of the
members themselves. For the session
of 1S77-7S these three items cost the
State nearly $SO,0OO, and the recon-
mendatiOn of special committee of
the House that the per diem and mile
age he reduced Was voted down with
patriotic enthusiasm. IL is IA notorious
fact that the members of the Legisla-
ture, almost without exception, go to
Frankfort on free PASSES over the rail-
roads, and yet they charge the State
fifteen cents mile for the whole dis
tance Travelled from their homes to the
capitol and back again, thus making a
clear gain of what was evidently in
tended to only defray actual expenses,
and not Us an additional reward for SER
vices. The late Senator from Fulton
once declared that he could keep his
pass i'm his pocket, pay all necessary ex-
penses to Frankfort by way of Nash
vile, Tenn, and back again the same
way, and still save 500 out of his al
lOwance for mileage. Here, then, Is u
fit item upon which to begin the exer-
else of economy by the members them
selves refusing to take what is legally,
but not morally, their own, and by EN-
acting a law illegalizing the grab i'm the
future. Then, again, the per diem Is
too great. The salary of u member for
the average sessiOn-say 100 days-is
$500, or at the rate of nearly 81 900 per
annum. We venture To say that there
are not ten members out of the l3S in
the General Assembly of Kentucky
whose personal services realize such a
sum at home. In fact, members have
frequently been heard to avow their OPP
position to AN early adjournment for
the reason that they could not make s.
a day at anything else. -Bowiing Green
(Ky.) hteUigeacer.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21
Electric Light.

The stock of the Edison Electric
Light Co, is divided into 5000 shares,
whose par value is 100 dollars each.
This makes the capital 100000 dollars.
One of the best evidence that il isa sue
cess is the fact of its being worth now
4,sO0 dollars per share of 100 dollars,
having advanced from 1000 dollars per
share, in the last month. During the
same time, gas stocks have declined all
over America and Europe. We sin
eerely trust that the brightest expecta-
tions of the inventor may he realized.
A cheap, harmless artificial light will
prove one of the greatest boons imagin-
able.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21
MUHLENBERG ECHOINGs.
Umbrella. Pistol and RRxOr-Figure I'm
Skirmish nt the Junction.

What might have been, but luckily
what was not, fatal affray occurred
at OwensbOro Junction, last Thursday,
Carnahan, two well-knOwn citizens of
South Carrollton. The Echo has no au-
thentic account of the little diff
from several parties, and, while prOba-
bly, not exactly true in the minute par
ticulars, il is doubtless correct in the
main.
1t has been apparent to all who pro-
fess to he sup" in the local history of
South CarrolltOn, that, for sometime,
there has been bad feeling between
Morehead and Carnahan, growing out
of MOrehead's conduct rs Police Judge
and other matters. 1t will be remem-
bered that at the last term of Common
Pleas Court there were numerous suits,
involving fabulous sums, for slander,
damages, etc, among various citizens
of South CarrOlltOn, in which both Of
these parties figured extensively, More
head coming out victorious. On Tues
day last they were both i'm Greenville
attending Quarterly Court, ilI which
MOrehead had a suit against Canadian
Stoit hCCOuht. VII tilC ttditi, kOlnk
home that Afternoon, there was an alter
cation between them, which resulted i'm
u warrant for IA breach of the peace
against Carnahan. On Thursday Mar
shal Taylor was bringing Carnahan to
Greenville for trial, MOrehead accom-
panying them as witness in the case.
While at OwensbOro Junction the fuss
was renewed and Carnahan struck
NArab la ka.I ,.-sfh
brella, at the same time advancing upon
him. MOrehead attempted to draw
pistol from his pocket but it was dis
charged in the act. Here the Marshal
interfered and both parties were brought
to Greenville under arrest. 1t was also
discovered that Carnahan had razor
upon his person. Morehead waived
an examining trial and gave bond.
bailed on the following day.
Carnahan was tried yesterday for car
rying concealed weapons and breach
of the peace. He was held in bond to
appear at Circuit Court i'm the former,
and fined So 75 and costs in the latter.
THE CATCHER CAUGHT.
In the trial of Carnahan for carrying
concealed deadly weapons, yesterday,
Sep. Taylor, Town Marshal of South
CarrOlltOn, who arrested Carnahan and
took the razor from him, was on the
witness stand. "Have you got the ra-
zOr?" said the prosecuting attorney.
"fes sir; here it is" said the innocent
witness pulling it from his pocket. The
attorney tried to stop him but to no
avail. OF course it became necessary
to arrest him for the same offense he
was then testifying against Carnahan
in, though the sympathy of the court,
attorneys and audience was with him.
He waived an examining trial aud gave
bond. We doubt il there is u jury to he
found that would convict him.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

the Legislature to grant the able bodied
cOnvicts in thepenitentiaryas laborers, to
construct locks and dams, ON the Ken
lucky river. Asthe penitentiary is now
too small to accommodate the eOnvicts,
We think it would he economy, humane
and profitable 20 all parties to employ
three or four hundred eonviets ian carry
ing on internal improvements. Other
States have used their eonvicts in build
ing public houses and such improve
ments, and If the Legislature will pass q
well guarded measure so as not to in
vOlve the State IN debt, Kentucky
river, which is almost useless,l can be
converted into a canal that win run
steamboats, and coal barges the year
round. This h one Of the measures
that is-greatly demanded. and its sd0p-
ton viii avoid the necessity Of building
additional cells in the penitentiary.-
AqrieutwiSf Legdi Tender. iHl' a-
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21
Maryland's New Senator.
ANNAPOLIS, Jan. 8.


..1 hrr a ANNAPOLIS, Jan. s.
In the Demoeratie caucus, Tonight,
for United States Senator, A.P. German
received fifty-four votes and VIM. Pink
ney Whyte twenty-two,and =. Teaekle
Wallis three. Forty-two votes Were
necessary for choice. Hon. A. p.
German, nominated for Senator, is now
u member of the State senate from
Howard county, and President OF the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, and Chair
man of the Democratic State Commit
tee. Before the war he Was q page in
the United States Senate, afterwards at
taehe to the Senate post-offiee, and
subsequently, Collector Of Internal Rev.
enue in this Sfate. Since 1880, he has
been q prominent Democrat in the
State, and in 1872 was Speaker Ofthe
House Of Delegates
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

Monroe Boyle. the negro accused of
the murder of Henry Daneils in the
three-handed fight mt OwensbOrO June
ton, during the holidays, was acquitted
at his examining trial ON Monday after
noon, ON the ground of self-defense, the
prosecution conccding IL clear ease.
Another large delegation of negro
work hands arrived from the South
last week tO work on the d. and y.
railroad in this county. Ii is said that
there are 800 hands now at work be-
tween Owensboro Junction and brakes,
Il distance of sixteen miles, and pro-
visions are in demand.
Last Saturday afternoon, Mr.. VI. j.
Evitts, the blacksmith, started with
wagon load of baggage for point on
the q. and y. railroad near brakes
store. When within about mile of
his destination, the harness on one of
his mules became disorlered, and while
fixing il, the mule gave him very
vicious kick i'm the side which rendered
him unconscious for "a short time. His
groans We're heard by family adjacent
To the scene of the mishap, who put
him into the wagon and returned him
to- town. Ii was first thought that in
tcrnal injuries were sustained from the
kick, but we learned yesterday that he
WAS much better and i'm fair way to
recover.
BURIED ALIVE.
The partially completed tunnel on the
line of the o. K Y, railroad in this
county, being worked by Messrs. Sep
pelle and Castelle, was the scene of a
serious disaster last Saturday afternoon.
The very damp weather of several days
past has had the effect of loosening the
earth In the tunnel, composed princi-
pally of sand with here and there rock,
and at the time above stated, while the
hands were at work, n large quantity of
earth of about one hundred feet surface
caved i'm, partially burying number Of
the men. The remainder Immediately
commenced the work of removing the
debris from their unfortunate comrades,
and after vigorous labor they were res
cued without any loss of life. 1t was
discovered that the limbs of four negroes,
whose names we failed to learn, were
so horribly broken and mangled AS to
necessitate amputation. The unfortu-
mates had barely been removed from
the tunnel when another large quantity
of earth fell i'm. The catastrophe, we
understand, will occasion serious loss to
the contractors, who are working on n
very small margin.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21
a Answer This.

Did You ever know any person to he
i'll, without inaction Of the stomach,
Liver or kidneys, or did you ever know
one who was well when either was OBJ
structed or inactive; and did you ever
know or hear Of any case Of the kind
that Hop Bitters would not cure. Ask
your neighbor the same question:
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

THE Republicans of Pennsylvania
have called their State convention to
nominate delegates to the Presidential
convention, to meet February 4th. This
early day fixed is to give Grant u send
of, as the ring in that State are for him,
and want to get the State secured for
him, while they can. 1t looks very
much like Grant will be the coming
man to bear the Republican Standard.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

OUR gallant Senator, Hon. S. f. Hill,
Is trying to curry favor with the fair
ones. On the 5th inst. he introduced u
bill to permit females to practice law
i'm this State. The Senate however re-
jected the bill by decided majority.
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21
FALLEN.

The following poem, which originally
appeared in the Illustrated Nems pub
lished in Richmond during the war,
has been going the rounds of the press,
as an anonymous production. 1t was
written by Capt. III. Il. Stanton, Of the
Confederate army, and is one Of the
most beautiful and touching poems in
the English language:
The iron voice from yonder spire has hushed
its hollow tone,
And midnight finds me lying here, in silence
and alone;
The still moon through my window shetis its
soft light ON the floor
With IA melancholy paleness | have nrver
seen before,
And the summer wind comes To me with its
sad .Eolian lay,
As if burthened with the sorrows of weary,
weary day;
Yet the moonlight cannot soothe me of the
sickness here within,
And the sad wind takes no portion iron my
bosom's weight of sin.
Yet my heart and all its pulses seem 80 qui-
city to rest,
That / scarcely feel them beating in my arms
or I'm my breast;
And these rounded limbs are resting now so
still upon the bed, |lt
That one would think, To see me here, that |
What il rwere so? What IL died-died as
I'm lying now,
With something like to virtues calm upon
this marble brow?
What If | died tonight? All now this sloth-
full heart begins to beat!
A fallen wretch like me, to pass from earth
so sadly sweet!
Yet am calm-as calm ~ clouds that slow
ly float and form,
To give their fearful strength To some unpity-
ing Summer storm;
As calm as great Sahara, ere the simeon
sweeps its waste,
Or as the wide sea, ere the white waves all lis
shores have laced.
Still, still have no tears to shed these eye.
lids have no store
The fountain once within me is IA fountain
now no more.
The moon alone wecps for me now, the pale
and thoughtful moon;
She weeps for dying Mary, through all tn,
nights sweet noon.
What if died tonight, within these gilded
wretched walls?
Upon whose crimson trappings no eye Of vir
! What would its sOulless inmates do when
they had found me here,
With cheek too white for passions smile, too
cold for passions tear?
Oh! one would come and from these arms
unclasp the bauble bands;
Another, wrench the jewels of my iairer
This splendid robe another's form would
grace, Oh long before
The peaceful moonlight come again to sleel
| upon the floor!
And when they laid me down in earth wher,
pauper graves are made,
Beneath no bending willows angel-haunted
| shade,
Who'd come and plant flower DER pool
Mary's friendless grave,
| Or trim the tangled wild grass that no sum
\ mer wind could wave?
Who'd raise a stone to mark ii from the rudel
graves around,
That the passing strangers footsteps might
respect the spot Of ground?
No stone would stand above enc, no littl'
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

During last week there were several
meetings held In different counties ly-
ing ON the borders Of the Kentucky riv-
er, and resolutions were passed desiring
The Hartford herald., 1880-01-21

SENATOR Hill. has passed law
through the Senate applying to this
county stopping the payment Of claims
for plowing roads out of the county
fund. The law makes it the duty of
the surveyor, where blowing Is necessa-
ry, to employ some one Of his hands to
plow, and give him credit for 80 much
work on future road working instead of
AN order to the court of claims. We
believe this will prove to be good law,
and will eventually enable US to reduce
our poll tax. We are paying from
81, 900 to 1900 per annum for plowing
ON roads in the county, and seriously
doubt whether We get that much bene-
fit or not, because the tax payers of the
county have to pay it at last. 1t Is a
trouble to get it allowed, detaIns the
court ut considerable expense, costs to
the county for clerks feez, the sheriff
gets a commission on the money coli
lected to pay the claims with, and the
laborer generally has To wait a year to
get it. All this is avoided by this law,
and ON the first impulse we believe it
will work well if ID becomes a law.
Lets try it any way for two years
and see, and If it does not work
well We can have h repealed. We un-
derstand that the counties that have
tried il are well pleased.