The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-06-03
Racket from Rockport.

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JUNE lst, 1885.
Editor Herald
Mrs. Bentley, her niece, Miss Nor
row, and Mrs. r. Y. Morshead left on
the 18th inst, the first two for Russell-
vile, the last for Paducah.
Mr.. Lum Williams bought house
and lot Of Mr.. Campfield, on Main
Street, between the devil and the deep
blue sea, mo allusion to any one), and
will repair the building for the cabinet
and undertaker's business.
Still the convicts haven't come. One
escaped at Arid lie last week, aud has
not been recaptured. He priced the
window bars apart and let himself
down by means of blanket. IL il re-
ported currently that cOnvicts will be
worked i'm the Echols mines. The Cen
trail City Argus says SO convicts will be-
quartered i'm a 12x30 house at Airdrie.
Now give the devil his dues; the fact is.
! the house is not only much larger, but
has four floors.
A picnic was given at Mr.. A. Il.
Browns last Saturday.
Mrs. Nat Wise and Mr.. Cash Wake
land and her children arrived from
Texas last week. The latter, having
enough of that country, will stay in
good old Kaintuck.
The late rains put the broadcast pat
tern of smiles all over the lGgmen's ia
ees, but Layton's Baptist" farm is
threatened with submersion.
1t il said Mr.. Smith, of Louisville,
will build a saw-mill here soon. With
every facility and many superior adj
vantages, there IL no earthly reason
why half dozen large lumber mills
should not be here.
Only the rural ink singer fully
realizes what dearth Of news means.
There are times 40 barren of suitable
material for "my letter" that he gets
desperate and will run phantom item
of interest down with the Juror OF a
mailman; then, to make matters
worse, "a constant tax upon his imag-
ination induces feverish, morbid
state, and he can see in an ungainly
wine-bag the giants and scimetars OF
MlcOmicon. A few days ago while
labOrinK under one of these lucid inter-
walls, rs it were, the RockpOrt cores
pendent of the Breckenridge NeWs
rushed up to me, under u fever of ac-
cumulated excitement intensified by
weeks of cropping around for something,
just anything, and told me that at last
the opportunity of our lives had come,
for he had "lead," the sensation OF
the times, before which the convict
business would pale and dwindle into
pygmean littleness, and which would
not only beggar all the COMPOUNDED
snakestories and dogfights extant, but
immOrtalize us as photographers. From
his dOorsteps he had seen away in the
suburban distance, where the golden.
hearted daisies wave and bloom, VIVA:
he took to be nine huge savage bears
and fourteen fierce barbarians of Egypt
fresh from the land of mummies anG
pyramids and fresh from by-gOnt
Thebes and Memphis, whose villain
Gus ancestry murdered Pompey, anG
who had trod the same sod as Menes
six thousand years ago and breatheC
the same air as matchless Cleopatra
This motley band was In a mutinou:
riot. and desperate hand-to-ha
conflict was raging upon the out-skirt:
of our town. Some were seen carrying
water to the wounded and dying while
others fought like demons in the
melee. | tumbled, and inspired by the
hope of witnessing a modern matinee
i'm a laudable pursuit Of the usually
coy ems, We made frantic dash fol
the scene. No Theban, Spartan OF
brat of Isis was there; no falchions
helmets or lances glistened in the sun.
light ; no nothing, but a man unani-
mously, overwhelmingly drunk, liter.
ally spread out over about two acres o
ground, and his two friends who wers
carrying water to soak his befuddled
head. Thus vanished another will-o'.
the-wisp of an item IN thin air, thank.
to the deception which distance and 8
morbid laundering after thrilling new.
lends to the reportorial view.
Despairingly,
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