The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1882-01-10
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LETTER FROM HIRAM.


Candidates are as thick as mourn =
ers around rich mans grave, or
boys around circus tent. We want
it distinctly understood that we are h
man Of much influence, and know e,
actly where we can usIHRs much Ne
ten dollars 10 the advantage Of II
q eat many of them.
do not know of anything that
wo, Ill give nc more pleasure than
to know that Sam Gaines will DO the
next Clerk of Court of Appeals,
With Jim Mckenzie in Congress !;
Sam Gaines Clerk: Jim Dreathilt in
the Legislature, aud your humble
servant in The sheriilNs Office, this
county is bound 10 go onward and
upward until she writes her name
away up where the laurel highest
waves her branch OF living green.
Circuit Court IS drawing nigh.
All those who would like to get a
Job OF jurying to do will please send
in their names as early as possible, us
we do not wish to slight any body.
Wallace Smith, colored, who was
convicted OF grand larceny last court,
and whom we took 10 the peniten-
,iary, while working ont on u rail-
roak in Clark county, made ms es-
cape few days since. We will pay
any man S25 who will deliver him TO
".
Perhaps there's not q man In this
town who misses Col. Ship more
than we For about three months
our Office was his headquarters when
lie was in town. For hours we have
sat and listened 20 him as he talked
of the grand old days OF long ago
when times were good aud possibly
men were more honest than now. To
say that we had an admiration for
the noble qualities OF his head and
heart, that almost amounted 10 wor-
ship, would not put the fact too
strongly. In our judgment more
honest man never lived, and no man
ever liyed who hated mean thing
more than he. Gen. Jackson was
his model. Of HIM he never tired
talking. The rude, strong elements
in the rugged Old soldiers makeup,
struck a RESPONSIVE. chord in Colonel
Ships bosom. Ills heart was open
as day to charity 10 man ever went
away from his door hungry /; no mnn
could look him in the face aud say he
owed him dollar When he thought
he was in the right he was unyicld-
ing in his opinions, nothing could
move him, nothing shake him. We
give II as our opinion from what We
saw and have heard of him, that
there was rot enough gold in the COT.
Icrs of the wide world. or In the bow
els of the earth TO buy him, or TO
change his opinion when he believe
he was right. A man was arrested II
few years since on warrant of bas-
tardy. Col. Ship was one of the
jury that tried him. The wronged
girl, all covered in tears sat before
him, in her arms was her worse than
orphan child. 1t looked up in Coz.
Ships face and smiled and immedi-
ately lie determined his own mind +,
that its father should pay 10 the cx-
tent OF The law FOR It's support, or lie
would hah9 'he Jury WIN go use ms
own expression) Gabriel bowed hls
horn" lie was no, what the world
called a christian, That Is nc Hih not
belong to any OF the various chnrches
and yet no man had higher regard
Tor religion ana Tor tho irnlV rcig'
ions but FOR me long-iaced hypo..
criie VINO prayed oy rote' VINO asked
his heavenly rather ior great many
things, ana never so much rs gave. a
poiato 10 the starving anu poor ne
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