The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1891-07-15

| Vllle MONDAY
| DIR. J. T. Baker has moved his family
to Glendeane.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Witt spent Sunday
in Cloverport.
Mr.. Skinner moved his family TO West
Point last week.
Go and hear the Bentley Bros, at the
city hall tonight.
Mr.. Wathen McGary and wife were
visiting here the 4th.
Mr.. Henry Harper with his family
| have moved to Texas.
Prof. Shacklett returned from visit
to Brandenburg Monday.
Mr.. Camillas McGlothlan, of Union
Star, was in town Monday.
Charley Heston and Jubal Hook have
purchased new thresher.
Mr.. Will Watkins, st. Joseph, Mo-,
was in the city on the 4th.
Miss Mary Board was here from Louis
vile Saturday and Sunday.
Miss Lizzie Smith has returned from a
visit to relatives in Louisville.
Mr.. p II. HafFey and wife were visit
ing Mr.. John Hoben on the 4th.
Mr.. VIM. II. Bell has opened family
grocery store at A. X. Kincheloe's old
stand.
Hon. L. +. Mckay will speak here to.
morrow on the new Constitution. lie is
against it.
Mr.. Milton NJ. Tate is sick at his home
in the country with but little hope Of his
recovery.
DR.. III. C. Board has gone to BeWley-
vile and Rosetta where he has dental
work to do.
Miss Blanche Beard has returned from
a visit to Hodgensville accompanied by
Miss Sadie Twyman.
Hon. Frank Straus will speak at the
Court house next Monday in favor OF the
new Constitution.
Mr.. John Monarch has rented Mr..
ROsco Eskridge's new house and will 90
to housekeeping this week.
Miss Jessie Mercer has returned from
Louisville where she has been studying
music for the past year.
Master Taylor Babbage went to Bewley-
vile Monday to visit his grandparents
Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Foote.
Henry Jolly was nominated for County
Surveyor by the Wheelers here last
Saturday, and Dick Davis Coroner.
Mr.. Gabe Mattingly sold eight sheep
last week for one hundred and forty dol
lars. lie thinks this beats the record
Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Withers have rent
ed the property formerly occupied by V.
G. Babbage, and have gone to house
keeping.
The storehouse of ]. w. Vests at
Preston, was burned last Friday night.
Supposed to be the work of an incen-
diary. No insurance.
Mr.. Bion Jolly, who has been in Louis
vile for some time, has resigned his po-
sition there and is going to Middlesbor-
ough to go into business.
If you have any notes or accounts to
be collected promptly give them to Tom
Withers. Tom has come to town to stay
and wants all the business he can get.
The juvenile fraternity were given a
party at Mrs. Laura Gardeners last Fri
day evening. Ice cream, cakes and
candy were served at o'clock, and the
little folks all went away happy and well
pleased.
The Eclipse Gas & Mineral Company
met in the bank building Monday even
ing and made another call on the stock
holders for funds. The well is now
fourteen hundred feet deep. Enough
funds were raised to go down another
hundred feet. The Indications for gas
are better than they have ever been.
The political baby born in this county
three months ago, although it grew for
awhile and gave It's admirers reason to
hope for its speedy maturity, is now sick
and we fear "sick unto DEATH" For
some time its parents and intimate
friends have been nursing it with ankle
ty, and it is now considered past the aid
of the local physicians. DIR. Geo. Mercer,
when his hope began to fail, called the
assistance OF DIR. J. r. Wheeler and for
awhile hope revived. But death seemed
inevitable, and as last resort Dr. Lee
J Rhodes, of Texas, was summoned. What
his treatment will be is not yet known,
but it is safe to presume that DIR. Mercer
will be retained as wet-nurse, Wheeler
will keep record of the circulation and
temperature, while q. p. Jolly will en-
deavor to supplement the present regi-
men with Republican soup favored
with Texas catnip. The future OF the
babe is a matter of conjecture, as the
weather from now until August is very
unfavorable for infants subject to cholera
infantum. Lately the sad discovery has
been made that the infant is blind, a
condition not unusual in premature
births.
The large crowd of people that assem-
bled here on the 4th, demonstrated pref