The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1885-04-15
STATE NEWS.

Gov. Knott and family have returned
from the South.
Il. l.. jenkins fatally shot Jack
Grady at Covington, Thursday.
Miss Mary F. Rutland has been ap.
pointed Postmaster of Scottsville, Ky.
The wheat crop in the Purchase il
turning ont better than was first ex-
pected.
Mrs. J. :. Naught left Monday morning
/ To visit relations in Hopkinsville and
! Christian county.
/ VIM. ii. Elkins was arrested in
Louisville and taken to l.etcher county
Oh charge Of higamy.
Two ar three mad dogs have been re-
Gently killed in different sections of the
county - 7odd Progress.
Henry Y. Saunders, of Louisville,
has been appointed Bank Examiner for
Kentucky and Tennessee.
There have been twenty murders
committed in Rowan county since the
war and not a single hanging.
/ Mr.. Il. Y. Bush has quit editing the
! Hawesville DcmOcrm To run for the
Legislature in Hancock county.
There is "a colored child on the farm
of 10 ID. Smith, near Bowling Green,
that has six fingers on each hand.
Henry Martin shot and seriously
wounded Wiley Hutchinson at Hop
kinsville, on Sunday night, April 9Th.
sam White. foreman OF the Lexing.
ton Gdsoftc, suicided by putting II piss
years old.
Mrs. Dunlevy mother of Gen. d. &.
Buell., who resided near Paradise, died
last week at Aurora, Indiana, in her
s6th year.
We hear that the peach. pear and
plum crop is not entirely killed rs sup
posed, but will he an unusual good yield.
Princeton Banner.
Moses Cation, who was convicted of
the murder of his wife and sentenced to
be hung, will be executed on Friday,
the Sth day of May, at Morganfield, Ky.
James w. Ashby died at > o'clock
Tuesday evening of general anasarca,
aged IS. He was buried yesterday in
Ohio county.-LrermOre CorrespOn-
dent Of Inquirer
Joe Rhea was arrested in Hopkins
county on Sunday of last week for the
murder of Sam Knight, at Scots Mill,
Christian county, recently. He is in
Jail in HOpkinsville awaiting trial.
Capt. b. l.. Duncan, of Owensboro
has sued the NJ +. church south, OF
this city for 5000 money he claims to
have advanced for the construction of
the building. -Breckenridge Ne,cs.
The indications point to preparations
for large tobacco and corn crop for
1855. A large oat crop has been sowed
in Todd county, also large acreage OF
clover has been seeded. Todd Progress
The jury in the case of James Sparks
and w. G.. Graves, for the murder of
Walter Wilson, at London, Ky, found
the accused guilty of manslaughter, and
fixed their punishment at u years in the
penitentiaiy.
4 barge containing 800 bushels of coal
belonging To Capt Nj. Stanley, near Is
land Mclean county, capsized in Green
river near Wrightsburg, ON Sunday night
of last week. The coal was for NJ. G..
Ashby, of Beech Grove.
Hyland +. Lyon, son of Gen. II. b.
Lyon, of Eddyville, was killed on Sun-
day of last week by the accidental dis
charge Of a shot gun in his own hands.
He was nearly p years of age aud was
one of the most popular and promising
young men in that vicinity.
At negro church in Gordonsville
Saturday night a young negro named
Morrow shot another named Miller,
seriously wOunding him. Both We're
drunk and they quarreled over some
trivial matter. Miller has zone bad
wound in the breast and may die Nor
row has fled the country.
Judge b. l.. ID. Guffy, county Judge
of Butler county, has filed suit against
James ID. Render, Circuit Clerk OF same
county, for money spent 10y Guffy for
said Render few years ago, when
Render was elected TO the Office he now
holds. The case will be tried in the
Circuit Court now in session.
The body of colored boy was found
in Christian county recently, which
proved to be that of VIM. Bailey who
had been missing since February 9Th.
The boy was subject TO fits and it is
supposed he took tit while on his way
to school house i'm the vicinity aud
the weather being cold, froze to death.
Yesterday was day of casualties.
Willie Hulsey, son of Thomas Hulsey,
while fooling with a pistol, accidentally
shot himself in the left hand. A ply
stefan was called upon TO dress the
wounded hand of man who didn't
know it was loaded" il being pistol.
In addition to these two, to bring the
number up to lucky three, a son Of
tea MISTER Coleman fell from his fathers
wagon and broke his ARM Greensboro
Inquirer.
Our friend, d.. V. NJ. Taylor, has
sold his nav residence on Dutch street
to DIR. c. A. Stricken for 81, 4a0, and
will give possession next week. He
will leave Immediately for Texas and
California with the view of selecting a
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