The Bourbon news. [volume] (Millersburg, Ky.) 1881-1883, 1883-07-10
NITLLERSBURG.

Miss Allie Miller has gone to Midway, to
make visit.
Smedley & Butler are arranging for an
auction at Mayslick.
II. H Hunt has % hours watch. 1t takes
the other hour to wind it.
Prof Milan, of Winchester, has arrived
here to visit his cousin Bob.
Thos. Thorn and Thos. McClintock bought
80 broke mules in Mason county, last week,
by raking and scraping.
"Bonner'TCarpenter has arrived from At
lanta to spend three weeks. He says it is
hotter here than in the South.
Mrs. Henry Mari and Mrs. Julia Anderson,
of Hawkinsville Ca, have arrived to spend
the summer with their sister, Mrs. T. c. Col
liver.
Fowks Fleming has been appointed lamp
lighter for the town. On the, night of the
4th, his first night, his ladder fell with him
and bruised his face very badly.
Silas Paul sold IS hogsheads Of tobacco in
Cincinnati last week at from $40 to S22.75,
all principally low grades. James Roberts
also sold q hogsheads of low grades at from
$40 to $22.1O.
Speaking of Millersburg girls wearing
night gowns for bustles, one of them says
that's nothing, that only year ago when
large bustles were worn, it was the custom
to wear entire suits of undercloths for bus
ties.
John and Charlie McClintock, Forrest
Robertson, Ed Ingels and Bruce Smith start
ed for the mountains yesterday to be gone
three weeks on drowning expedition
while boating on the Cumberland and Rock
castle rivers.
Several of the signers of the DIR. Gould's
testimonial card sustaining him as teacher
and endorsing his action in the Green diff
Guilty, say that they are "for Gould right or
wrong, that his college is the life of the
town and it must not go down."
Prof. w. D. McClintock left to-day fol-
Chautauqua, N. Y, to teach in the Summer
! School. Miss Sue Burroughs, of this place
Miss Matte Stephenson, of Harrodsburg and
Miss Lily Smith, of Lexington accompanied
| him as pupils in the School of Languages.
Harlan Vimont resigned the Office of con-
stable yesterday, and Judge Turney has or.
dered an election to be held at the August
election to fill the vacancy. The reason the
Corporal resigned was that the position as
guard at the distillery is the more remuner
ative of the two positions.
Society among the young ladies here is di
vided into three grades-the Thorough
breds," ''hfgh-grades" and "cattle." One o
the thoroughbred" girls made slightly
remark the other day about q flock of thu
! 'highgrades," who, on hearing of it, retOrt
ed by calling the thoroughbred" "knock
kneed, bow-legged, noticed, darned old h
cat"
At AIillersburg Friday evening, tn
NEWS was very Hospitality entertained a
the old and reliable Johnson House. w. B
Conway clerk, and w. II. II. Johnson, pro
prietor, vie with each other in entertaining
guests and making them happy. In littl
stroll around the town, the NEWS was pleas
ed to observe the spirit of improvement il
regard to residences, business houses, &c
The Joe Will Miller block has been Target
improved, and now has several handsom
store rooms. The DR.. Smith property ha
also undergone several mprovements-th
: handsome little flower park on the Mai
q street side adds several hundred dollars
, the appearance of the property. "Banan
Row." too, has much the appearance of
o city block, while all over the town can
seen that some much-needed changes haN
: been wrought.