The Hartford herald., 1885-07-15
RockpOrt Racket.
ROCKPoRT, Ky, July IL, 1885.

absense of almost thirty years. He
came back to old relations and friends,
as one from the dead. Social, amusing,
and man of great practical sense, it is
pleasure to be with him and listen to
his graphic "reminiscences. His sub.
tile humor aud sly wit is a constant
surprise to you. His political bias is
most pronouncedly Democratic. He
says now that the negroes will all vote
the Democratic ticket; the banner State
will roll up IA majority Of over 10000.
Said he: "the q. o. Z. promised the
negro 40 acres of land and mule, which
never materialized, then they started
an alladins Bureau, which promised
heaps ofgold for the waving of their
hand, this bubble bursted, then they
told the poor frightened negro that, if
Cleveland was elected, he would be re-
enslaved, but. To day they are as free as
Bartholdi's Statue. II is now gradually
dawning upon them that all these
promises, were cursed snares and empty
delusions To catch their votes. Mr..
Wise became at once a strong Hill and
Williams man and said after careful
canvass of the situation he could tell
exactly how many votes Hon. II. Ii.
Taylor would get, 'just y, and no
more" He is thoroughly in love with
Texas and quite sensitive TO all unjust
criticism. "Why, said he" for home
| would not have ten miles square
of Kentucky. He says he il greatly
troubled (?) about his brother Jim and
Ev Williams and fears that they will
actually starve. You must know these
two to see his meaning. He leaves to.
morrow for Texas via south western
Mo-, where he has married daughter.
He being SO years old, We have proba.
ly said the final goodbye.
DIR. Layton has bought fine piano.
Now if DIR. Layton is going to take les
sons contemporaneously with the Sui.
tan of Turkey, heavens and earth !!
Uncle BY Tichenor may as well say
good night to his rents. Fancy, If you
please, DIR. Layton, usually SO temper
ate and conservative, dissipating aud
frantically paving the ivory. Fancy
him all flushed with the halo of am.
bilious hope say alone in the shank of
the evening, when the fieecy clouds are
blushing with soft sunset tints, just
when the dapper and cruel musqmto
begins To roam, pitching his untried
bassO ruthlessly athwart the glimmer>
ing gloam, trilling and buck,jumping
in the twilight, up and down the ago.
nized gamut from high & to four de-
grees' below zero. Good God Prepare
for the worst don't you know ii will
depopulate the settlement.
Uncle Abe Kahn came down a few
days ago from Cromwell. Strange to
say, in a local option town, he imbibed
too freely. The authorities undertook
to discover where and how he got the
red liquor, and in the examination
concluded to impose small fine on
him. He was aggrieved and indignant
at the proceedings, as his drinking Il
always of the most harmless kind.
Whisky may make criminal every
six minutes, kill a man every eight,
make a widow and orphan every
twelve, but it will take earthquakes,
plaques, famines and standing army
to stop it here. Apropos when the
Indiana farmers were asked what they
would do With their corn when the dis
tillerieswe closed, they said: 1--WE will
raise more hogs and less hell"
w. +. Graves was before Judge Rob
ertson, Saturday, charged with an
assault on Henry Robertson, with in-
tent to carve him with an old razor.
The penalty was one cent and cost
Mr.. Urey WOodson, brilliant
Knight of the quill and editor of the
Owensboro Messenger, was here Satur-
day.
Mr.. Herald Moore, of Morgantown,
passed here last week with over 5000
logs.
Mr.. V. Warden has abandoned, as
Improbable, the hotel business.
To my mind the action of the Re
publican State Committee, which met
at the Alexander Hotel in Louisville
Friday, clearly indicates that the party
will be a unit for Judge +. II. Fox. This
settles it with me Pm for Tate.
In letter to friend, Mr.. J. ]. Til.
ford says: ''Tell 'Suggs' that the
weather is too hot to save the Taylor,
Meador." Just so when Don Quixot,
rushed In to vanquish the forty wind
mills, which he imagined Preston hat
metamorphosed, and ran his set lance
into sail, the result was as terrific a.
it was instantaneous. In disorder h,
|, flew upwards describing 400 circle,
: to the minute. The air was full of knight
; ly accoutrements and fragments of tn,
, Don and old Rosinante. Then shower o
the atomized combination fell upon tn,
earth that was sickening to look upon
! But the August election will presen
} scene that will beggar Cervantei
descriptive powers. Two doughty
, Knights, jay-hawked, skinned, flayed
chewed up and spit out, with all thei
gew-gaws and paraphanalia, will b'
scattered over the country worse thai
| Bill Nye's self-made Indian, blown ul
r with 800 pound seige gun. The part,
, will have no post mortem. 1t will b.
/ impossible. Not even an Anglo SaxoI
seed wart will be left in the wreck b,
which to identify the remains.
Miss Abbott, of Louisville, niece o
D Mrs. O'Laughln, is visiting here.
4 UnO Anime, SUGGs.
I Appointments.