Semi-weekly Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky.) 1883-1895, 1883-08-07
THE COMMONWEALTH.


DR.. j. B. KIDD, q dentist, Of Lexington,
aged abo-t thirty-fve, while operating on
the teeth of lady patient, Miss Scailor.
few days ago, fell dead from heart disease.
He was quite popular and enterprising
young man and his death is greatly de-
plored.
j. H. ODEN, Chief of Police, of Winches-
ter, Clark County, who shot and killed Will
Hayden, has been arrested on a charge of
murder, and is aow in the custody of the
Sheriff, awaiting his examining trial. Con-
siderable excitement prevails among the
colored people. The sympathies of the best
class of citizens are with the officer. Hay
den was a desperate character, and was
noted for his daring and strength. 1t is
said that he is the same negro who resisted
the Marshal at Winchester a year ago, and
succeeded in making his escape with the
Marshal's pistol hanging TO his coat sleeve,
where it had caught when the officer at
tempted to fire.
AMONG the things said at the reunion of
the Morgan Raiders, at Lexington,w was this
from a speech by General r. w. Gano:
eve failed in our defense OF principles,
and our cause was called the lost cause,
but though we suffered defeat, the great
principle of States rights remains. We
fought for our cause unaided, and while
the cause went down, the principles we
fought for still remain" General Nor
CAMS grave was visited, and flowers were
placed upon the graves of the Confederate
dead.
In Livingston County, near Otisville, on
the Chesapeake & Ohio road, nearly three
weeks ago, two negroes named Cad Maxley
and Elijah Mills deliberately murdered a
negro lad whose name is unknown The
boy had in some trifiing way displeased the
men, and they armed themselves and went
to his mothers, and in her presence sho
him fifteen or sixteen times. The murderers
were arrested and jailed at Smithland in
the Circuit Court of Livingston. They
were indicted, and on the 9th their trial
was taken up. There was great indigna-
ton in Livingston, particularly among the
blacks, over the murder, and if Maxley
and Mills are not legally hanged they are
liable to be lynched.
The following patents were issued to,
Kentucky inventors few days ago: Henry
B. Ashbury Germantown, F. A. Neider and
G. Grossman, Augusta, culinary yes
sci; John G. Herb, Newport, assignor
of one-haf to w. B. Burnett, Cincinnati,
iron railing; BenOni j. Hardin, Springfield,
bolt; Henry G. Hopkins, COvington, mount
ing wheels on their shaft: Henry c. Leon
ard, Covington, spinning machine; Walter
Y. Mcpherson, Owensboro, horse-detacherr
Fred A. Neider, Augusta, strap fastening
dow.
AN Elizabethtown, Hardin County, dis
patch of the 31St, says: "a negro named
Ed. Payne was arrested at Glendale yester-
day and brought to this place last night,
charged with committing an outrage on a
negro girl, who is said to be his STEP
daughter. He was examined at Glendale
this evening, having been taken back
there"
REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE, of Brooklyn,
n. Y, accompanied by Governor Black
burn, visited Frankfort on the 30th. Dur
ing the forenoon hewas driven over the
city, and among other places which he
visited was the Kentucky Penitentiary,
where he delivered a short address to the
convicts. In the afternoon he delivered
lecture at the Presbyterian Church, before
q large audience.
AN AGED German tailor named George
Bauerbeck, residing at Louisville, was kill
ed few days since by being accidentally
precipitated from the roof of a shed, the
back of his head striking the hook Oh the
pump-spout. He sixty-four years of age,
and has lived at Louisville thirty years.
JUDGE T. L. HARGIs, candidate for re-
election to the Court of Appeals from the
First Kentucky District, published
a card, few days ago, withdraw
ing from the contest. This action,
he says, is due to the fact that an opportun-
ity is afforded him to enter upon a lucra-
tive law practice, and his dnty to his fans
lily will not permit him to neglect it.