Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1890-11-01

was growing in great luNurlance
all around the old building. aud
when they came to name the pre-
ciuct my friend and kinsman W
VI. Moore, said "Call it Dog Fen
mel. and il was so chrjstcucd,
Since then the voting place has
been changed to Il nice school
house II mile oil. where they have
school through the week and sun
day school on Sunday.
Major John Wallace aud other
staid and digniiicd gentlemen,
thinking the name was reflection
on the country. got an act 4 i.cg,~-
lature to change it. and fora while,
or possibly now. il was, or is, call
ed something else ON the poll
books, but though | live in it. |
don't even know the new name,
and ! don't believe there are twcn-
~ men in the precinct who do, and
she j. Dog Fcuncl allie samce. and
that is what YOU have to- call her
if YOU want anybody around here
to know what you are talking
about.
Now | am going to tell YOU why
it is thai anything that Dog Fen
nell may do, is of more impor-
lance than ANYTHING that any other
country precinct in the State may
do.
It, her record. When go for
mans record | start with him the
hour he was born, and don't let up
on him until the hour he dies. |
believe in pcdigrcce for men, Just
like my horse ncighbors believe in
pedigrecs for horses. and if public
sentiment would let me, | would
start mans record two or three
generations before he was born,
but they quote the Scripture which
says. "Let every tub stand on it
: own bottom and being bred to
, theology, | can't 90 back on that.
| will look ont of the window
; at which | am writing, and start
! Ing due north, swing around the
points of the compass, starting
west, and tell YOU what there Is,
t partly in sight and all within two
. miles of where write.
: No. |. My fathers old home,
t now the property of my sister, des-
{ troycd by fire during the war, and
= rebuilt on smaller scale Rev.
: William breckenridge built the orr
gnal house Tor Il theological semi
E nary. ] used to sleep, when little
! boy. in the smallest room in the
| house, at the head Of one Of the
{ three stairwavs that it had. The
= little room was called John {.
] Breckinridge's room, because in
that room the original of the
bronze statue on Cheapsidc, once
lived with hi. mother, and was by
, her trained by a slipper and a cat
| cchism into the kind Of man he
! was. -
- No. ,. Res denceSt Gen. jack
. Flournoy. He was the great and
"only original temperance apostle
= of this bailiwck, after the plan OF
the present zcalou, but misguided
. Mr.. Murphy, who is Temperance
lecturer that fights Prohibition.
Mr.. Flournoy said the reform
, ought be brought about by neral
suasion. He poured all the wine
out of the communion bottle at
r church, and had raisins soaked in
water for sacramento purposes.
Old Brother Johnny Giltner. his
fellow deacon, threw all of the
soaked rai,ins out of the church
? door, and the little niggers ate
them up, and then Bro. Giltner
filed up the bottle with wine again,
: and it has run on that way clean
down to date, where the Democrat
ic deacon aforesaid still hands it
around.
Old General Flournov wore Il
gold medal all his life, that good
old Father Mathew, the great Irish
Catholic temperance apostle, gave
him. The General died bache-
Tor. He had a love affair in his
Young days, and wore green clothes
/ all his lite, winter and summer
Green means "for,aken.' He died
at Il green old age, leaving more
drunkards around him than he
started with. He was the first
crank that ever lived in Dog Fen
mel, and was the on Y member of
the order here, to whose memory !
feel constrained to dotf my cap, a.
to a superior officer. lie was the
same kind Of II man they used to
burn for herctics.
The people did not know what Il
crank was in General Flournoy's
day, and they settled his ease by
calling him crazy.
No. 3. The Valley School
House" where pcripatetic pcda-
gogucs caught the young idea how
to shoot (marbles), and where the
plastic mind of John G.. Simral
was partly shaped to make him