The Hartford herald., 1885-09-30
STATE NEWS.

Owensboro fair begins Tuesday, Oc-
tober 6.h, continuing five days.
Sam Jones, the Evangelist, has been
engaged to preach in Lexington, Ky.
/ He is now in Georgia.
The damage done To the propertv ol
Hardin county by the storm last week
is estimated AT SI5,00O.
The trial of the Yelvington Ku,klux
ease i'm Daviess county resulted in an
acquittal of all the parties charged.
The Wicklifie .Jou,ndl has changed
its name to the Ballard County journal,
and appears in II new dress and enlarged
form.
Sam Curtis, Muhlenberg county
man, killed VIM. l.. Ogden. in self,
defense, AT Henderson last week. Curtis
II in Jail.
n hot spring has been discovered
near McNary's Station, in Muhlenberg
county. The water is SAID To possess
rare medicinal qualities.
The Mclean county fair will begin
October 2lst, aud continue four days.
Two hundred and lifty>thrce premiums,
aggregating $1,000, will be offered.
The Union county fair, to be held
near Uuiontown, beginning October q,
and continuing four days, offers an un-
usually liberal and attractive premium
list.
An old gentleman of Hardin county.
80 years Of age, who rode into town in
IA buggy last week, had neye: been in II
vehicle of the kind hefole Eyi-abcth-
tO,cH NeCS.
Tyler Nally killed his step>iather
Henry Ballard, in Bardstown, on Mon-
day of last week. Bad treatment of
Nally's mother is given a. his excuse
Both were under the influence of
whisky at the time.
so far as we have observed the Full.
ton FtdtOnidn and the Central City
Irgus are the only papers in Wes-
tern Kentucky that favor IA Blue grass
man for Speaker, instead of a candidate
from their own end of the State South
keRtUckidn.
Captain w. J. Barnett, farmer liv-
ing near Owensboro, has lost nearly all
his cattle from some unknown disease.
\ number have already died and sever.
al are now down with the fatal disease,
Capt. Barnett states that his loss will
average 500 per day. The cattle first
become listless, then refuse Ia eat and
death soon follows
Wilson Coleman, the twelve-year- old
son of Judge Coleman. while swinging
on the steps of IA passenger coach, at
BowlingGreen, Saturday evening drop
ped beneath the wheels. and had bis
feet crushed i'm most horrible manner.
They were both amputated Sunday af-
ternoon, and the death of the unfortu-
nate boy is probable.
Ten young men of the Utica neigh
borhOd, Daviess county. were arrested
under warrants sworn out by two col>
ored men, who We're taken from their
homes one night few weeks since and
hung for several moments, in order to
extoit from them a completely in a
recent theft. The warrants are un-
der the Ku.kluX law. They had their
trial and were acquitted.
very singular case of hydrophobia |
is reported from Meadeville, Meade |
VIM. Singleton, of that place
was bitten seventeen years ago by "A dog |
To be mad. Last week he be-
gan to show syn ptoms of rabies andDr.
Arnold was called to see him. The in-
iications of madness increased until
here was no doubt that he had hy-
irophobia. In few days the disease
developed and he died in the most ex-
agony.
The four Smiths. colored, who were
for cutting and slashing James
Pope in such IA frightfui manner, were
AIKEN before Esquire Bennett, in Muir
ay's precinct, when,upo investigation,
{ was disclosed that the cutting had
AIKEN place in Ohio county and not
within the jurisdiction of the magis'
rate. The carvers were very prompt
y sent across the line in charge of Con
table Bennett, and left with the Ohio
ounty justice to he handled Owens.
'oro Inquirer.
The Louisville Commercial, of the
I'd inst, says: "a motion was made
II the United States Circuit Court yes
erday To remand back to the State
'ourt the suit by seventy-One plaintiffs
'raying To prevent the authorities of
county from repudiaIiug
'onds said To have been issued 10y that
ounty. The motion will he argued
october 18th. A list of eight interro>
atories were filed yesterday and for
Tarded to the plaintiffs, who are nom
esidents of the State. They now live ,
n Tennessee" 4;
Near Henderson, Saturday afternoon,
bout $3.50 o'clock, John Organ had his ,
hroat cut from ear to ear by Thos. I
'urtis, dying in very few minutes
fterward. For several years past
'rgan and his wife and two sons have
cen farming on Thomas Soaper's
iver- bottom farm in Walnut Bottom,
henderson county. During portion
t the last two years Curtis has been
and boarding with Organ.
he latter became jealous of him on
ccount of his wife, and made many
hreats against his life. The men had
numerous quarrels, which eliminated .
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