Blue-grass blade., 1891-12-19

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to say for Sodom and Gomorrow.
l think he ought to have L
have no idea that either of them
were as bad as Lexington is to-
day.
When Senator Beck got what
came to be known as Charley
Buck, appointed minister to Bra
I'll, the newspapers of this country
printed is head lines "WhO in the
hell is Buck?'
feel inclined to ask "WhO in
the--is Nelson?" l have been
around this town a good deal. My |
calling as a newspaper man has
made it necessary that l should
know, and talk with, and write
about, men and women who are in
ANYWAY connected with any finan-
cial, moral, religious, literary
scholastic or intellectual enter
prise; but this is the first time |
have ever run up on Col. Nelson;
that is suppose he is Colonel,
our men generally are. Please
somebody write me a short biog-
raphy Of Col. Nelson and send me
a photograph of him regardless of
any expense in getting it. Station
boys on the streets with kodaks
and catch him on the fly if neces-
sary, but snatch his mug somehow
and send me the counterfeit pre-
sentiment of this "another Rich
mond in the field"
] think the chances are that l
will have to set up with Col. Mel
son. Can it be possible that a rel
ative of the hero of Trafalgar has
come to Lexington as the pan
oplied champion of Mcgowan
street?
/ have heard of Rev. Nc
Garvey here for years. He is the
man who fired me out of the
Broadway Christian church be-
cause 1 was hereto, but he sized
me up right. That's what l was
and am; and l did not kick about
it. Still thing of that kind
does not generally prejudice a
man of my kind, in favor Of a
man of his kind.
But l am bound to admit tina.
for the many years l have known
him he has been "diligent in busi-
: ness, and fervent in spirit" and
that be has been ready with "good
word and work." as a preacher,
professor in the highest depart
of Kentucky University, a lect-
urer an author, a laborer with his
own hands on his small farm, and
yet has found time to deliver for
the benefit of charities, lectures in
the city and in the country around
with elegant stereoptic views of
his Oriental travels
When a man that 1 never heard
of before in my life comes into
print in Lexington paper and
says of such man as Bro. Nc
Garvey.
"The reverend gentleman's ia
nous address at the Broadway
, Christian church was as evil and
t demoralizing and vicious in its
practical effect as it was meant to
be all that it was not" and gives
: it as his judgment, in a very gran
eloquent and supercilious style,
that such women as Helen M.
, Gardner, Frances f. Russell and
Helen I.ondon-the last two mar
red women, and the first the I'M
married daughter ofa Presbyterian
minister-do not know what they
are talking about when they
claim that the young of their sex
ought to be informed about these
things as Rev. McGarve has lately
done to men only, and as Bishop
Huntington did in the Episcopal
church here to men and womeh-
: l say, when l think of all this, in
: spite of all my earnest longing to
be a better man, that newspaper
, head line about Buck runs through
my head, and l can't, to save my
t life, quit thinking Who in the
is Nelson!
Col. Nelson is an "old resi-
: denter" here, how in the dickens
: does it happen that | never ran up
on him before; and if he is 'new
r conner" here how has he learned
the ropes in this town-Megowan
r street and all-so much better
than we have, who have been
. browsing on bluegrass all our
=, lives, or been boging about this
! town up to the scar and yellow
5 leaf of INDECENT but respectable
/; senility?
We hope Col. Nelson is going
5 to give us some points on how to
i manage this town in the interest
: of good morals, through the me-
dunn of the law. lie speaks with
a great confidence on that point.
e We old stagers here had con-
cluded our officials were studiously
= devoting themselves to the science
!, of chow not TO do it."
4 Col. Nelson says.
e 'If DR.. McGarvey, or any of his in
p formations to whom he refers; will
take their tails of vice and evil-doing
s to the honorable and fearless Judge
t of the Circuit Court, and go thence to
: the honorable and unques
h tionably just Grand Jury ofthis court
, then whatever is true of all this much
bruited tale of the deprevity of Lex
ington can be and will be dealt with
even as il should be dealt with.
5 There is case here that has
= Just been in our courts that i
= would like for Col Nelson to try
f his hand on. | suppose it to be
the one to which Rev. McGarvey
I alluded in the following Ian
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