The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1888-01-18
STATE NEWS.

A Republican paper has been started
3 at Ashland.
Brain work l. being done oa the
Fordsvile aud Beunet,sville railroad.
There was u REISSUE of Richard Gray's
pension lat Saturday. Gray lives at
Caneyvillc Ky.
Jas. III Armes was appointed post
master at Shrewsbury, Grayson county,
Ky ON last Saturday.
A po,t-oillce has been established at
Powderly, Muhlenburg county, Ky.
VIM. III Smith was appointed post
master.
An annex to J. II. Lancaster's gro
Gerry store at Owensboro was DESTROYED
by fire Thursday morning with u loss
OF 5000. No insurance.
The boom In Eastern Kentucky has
developed another newspaper, the
Stanton Monitor, published at the
county seat of Powell county.
The member from Henderson coun-
ty has introduced a bill to make mar
ried women eligible to act ~ deputies
in county court clerks offices.
Bowling Green is nursing great
shoe factory scheme, "with 500 opera
tors, which means $500 additional
mouths to feed, bodies to clothe, etc."
Mr.. NJ. Keplinger, of Rumsey and
Miss Tillie Sussengut, of Evansville.
Ind, were married on the 10Th of De-
cember. They received a number of
fine presents.
Augustus Sharp has retired from the
noted dry goods firm o. Sharp Il
Middleton, Louisville, Ky, and will
turn his attention to his Kentucky
thorouphbreds.
The Wingo Purchase, ex-State Sen
at"r Henry Georges paper, has sus-
perded. The Courier Journal gave
him the credit of printing the poorest
paper in the state.
The extension of the l.. Il n. of the
Bardstown Branch has been completed
to Springfield, and that to wn is jubilant
Regular trains are running from Louis
vile and business is lively along the
route
Owing to IA printers strike in the
office OF the Courier-Journal that pa
per, on the 18th, was made eight col
umns smaller aud misersbly blotched
w. Either the lineotypes or the prin-
tiers must 70.
Charley Cation, unmarried and %
years old, living near Greenville, KY,
committed suicide by taking an over
> dose of morphine on 9th inst. Disap-
, pointment III "A love affair Is thought
to have been the cause.
: The negroes Of sutton county. ac-
/, cordiug to the Hickman Courier, have
, organized and announced that they
/ will not vote for any man who will
r not pledge himself To secure their recog-
;. milton "a jurymeu, &c.
= The bald-headed editor OF the Louis
@ vile Commercial saws that "with few
= exceptions, all the great men from
= Caesar to Bill Nye were bald. A head
d with tirst-class brain in 1t has nc
4 time 10 grow hair"
The Kentucky Senate adjourned
Monday, Jan. 8, in honor OF Andy
Jackson, who on that day OF the
month years ago, qualified himself fol-
the Presidency by thrashing the Brit
. ish out of their boots at New Orleans
There were perhaps twenty-five PEG.
pie prominently mentioned" in con-
!, nection with the place of Chief of Po'
lice louisville Col. Casilenan wa
a appointed, but, strange t. say,d cIined
. II, evidently does DOT belong to the
cod guard"
v Mrs. John Haynes, of near Oak AND
= Station, Ky who died on Thur. day
before Christmas, weighed between six
a. seven hundred pounds. Tn flu
was 80 large hearse could rot be
a 81. She had been helpless for inur.
e teen years.
= Mira. Anna B. ChestlIam, 20 tmi,,res.
: Al Nashville, died last Saturday morn.
:, .ug at her home in that city. Her hus-
!. band, the late Gen. Frank Cheat ham
e died during his incumbency Of the
= p. toffice, and Mrs. Cheatham VA up.
: p inied to succeed him.
E The fourth banking institution -- The
b Farmers National-has just been or
!. g,niz, at Hopkinsville with capital
~ $4,000 Geo. G. Long is presid' mt
? and +. w. Long cashier. Cadlz, a
q neighbo-ing town in Trigg county, has
: $50 a new bank with $50 900 capital.
{ Adju ant, Thomas J. Wool Of the
Louisville Legion, is the latest nominal
= til. FIR Chief Of Police. He j. :, ia to
I 1T b4caed by IA number of business
I III u including Col. Csstleman, who has
: declined the position, and Judge w. o.
8 i!nlris, who has been mentioned for it,
I Va. vi ,aSs he does not want it.
! - uivmUers Of the Forty first Ken
; lucky Volunteers, organized in COving-
ton during the late war, claim that
they have never been mustered out OF
the United States service and are there
fore entitled to pay to date, for which
they ridculously propose to make ap.
,, plicsi ion. Should their claim prove
;, valid, and he successfully prosecuted,
each man will be entitled to So 500.
: Adahburg Affairs
JANUARY IA, 1888 Mr.. ] X. Wester-
! Il Id has leased farm near CrOm well,
, and together with his family moved