The Hartford herald., 1885-04-29
STATE NEWS.

| ne shioDl Keepers OI nOpkiISNllle
have consented to close up on Sunday.
Miss Mary +. Rutland has been ap-
pointed Postmaster Of Scottsville, Ky.
The wheat crop in the Purchase is
turning out better than was first ex-
pected.
The Prohibitionists carried the town
election in Marion, Ciittenden county,
last week
ID. r. Francis, the newly inaugurated
Mayor Of st. Louie, is a native Of Rich
mond, Ky.
The Sunday Critic is a new paper
started at Bowling Green by s T.
Breeding 4 Co.
Two or three mad dogs have been
recently killed In different sections of
the county.-7odd Progress.
There have been twenty murders
committed In Rowan county since the
war and not single hanging.
A Washington special says Hon. Jas
+. Clay was rendered good position in
the Federal service, but declined.
Hogs are dying at fearful rate from
Cholera in Mason county. Over 200
have died within the last four weeks.
John Spelment, OF Campbell county,
celebrated his Tooth birthday last Sat,
urday, and is a well-preserved man
Ii is probable that Hon. j. +. Clay,
of Henderson, KY. will be appointed
second Assistant Secretary of the In
terror.
A Stanford man bought an eagle for
81, and has just sold il for 800, making
something more than the Dutchman's
one per cent.
Potter's clay In large quantities and
of superior quality has been discov-
cred near Wickliffe, and pottery will
soon be established there.
We hear that the peach, pear and
plum crop Is not entirely killed as was
supposed, but will be an unusual good
yield. Princeton Banner.
Mrs. Ed Sears, nee Miss Katie Lam
drum, formerly of CalhOon, died In
Florida last week. Her remains were
inferred in the cemetery at Calhoou.
The prohibition law goes into effect
in Ballard county the lst of May. Az
ter that time no liquor can be sold
within the county without violation
Of law.
Gus Finley was hanged at Preston.
burg last Friday for the murder of Jas.
Hunt i'm August, 1883. This was the
first legal hanging that ever took place
in Floyd county.
Eighteen years ago the store Of Bert
Thomas, of Dyersburg, was robbed of
$1,000. He was recently called to
Arkansas, and received 81 800 in pay
ment of the sum stolen.
Gov. Knott has reappointed DIR.
James Rodman as Superintendent of
the Western Lunatic Asylum, at Hop
kinsville, KY. DIR. Rodman has held
this position for % years.
Champ Gist, tried at Madison Vile
last week for the murder of Winstead.
The jury found him guilty of mau.
slaughter and fixed his punishment at
two years in the penitsntiary.
Priest Norman, formerly of Owens.
boro, is in trouble at DuvalPs Bluff,
Arkansas, for stabbing man. He has
telegraphed w. T. Owen, of OVENS
boro, to come down and defend him.
Two negroes were arrested at Lex
ington Saturday for robbing the post
office there. They had keys to 20
boxes, and had stolen 1000 of checks,
money orders and warehouse receipts.
Three small children Of Esquire Dun
can, near I@wisburg, were poisoned
last week by eating polk root through
mistake for parsnips. A physician was
summoned and the children were saved.
Near Warsaw, Saturday, Jessie Peak
killed Henry Darger with An ak, nearly
severing his head from his body, and
then fled to Indiana. They lived on
neighboring farms, and Peaks chick
ems had got into a sack of Darger's
oats.
Ballard is stirred by apprehensions
of an out break of SMALLPOX. DIR. Nc
COrmack, of the State Board of Health,
was at Wickliffe last week to aid the
local authorities in the adoption of the
requisite means to prevent a spread of
the disease.
North Middleton Is the most temper
ate town in Kentucky. A druggist is
not allowed TO sell whisky even for
medical purposes. An election was
held in that village recently to again
take the sense of people for and against
the sale of whisky and only four votes
were cast for its sale.-Cldrk County
Democrat.
The body of a man, supposed to he
that of Joseph z. Dotson, was found
last week by w. w. vaught, about a
mile and u half from Skilesville. He
had been dead several days. An inquest
was held, which developed the fact that
the deceased had come to his death by
intoxication and exposure. Dotson was
II years old, was born i'm Garrard coun-
ty, and was painter by trade.
The Baroness Fannemberg, nee Miss
Ssllie Strother, of Lexington. died at
Cannes, France, on the 18th, leaving an
estate worth more than million dol
lars. She was a grand daughter of
John w. Hunt, and relative of Capt.
Charlton Morgan, Mrs. Basil Duke