The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1891-08-04

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Democratic party, he will not take th'
stump in Ohio or any other State this
fall.
An Atchison woman Of so recently
told her friends that she expected
young woman to come and visit her
Her friends quietly made arrange
ments to give a few dinners anc
parties to entertain the young woman
when she came. Judge of their sur
prise to learn the other day that tho
old lady's "young woman" friend is
just 70.
There was rather q lively time
Tuesday in the Louisville Board OF
Trade on account of the sale of some
bonds of the Beattyville Extension
railroad. Twenty bonds of 800 each
had been pledged to secure loan,
with the understanding that the col
lateral was to be sold if the notes
were not paid at maturity. The at
torney for the holder ordered the sale,
and Col. Thomas Bullitt forbade it..
This accounts for the low price Of 500,
which the bonds brought.
A terrible wind. hail and rain
storm visited the locality of Hot
Springs Sunday night, the hail doing
much damage to window lights
throughout the city. The mammoth
plunge bath house was damaged to
the amount of several dollars. This is
the second destructive hail storm that
has visited Hot Springs this summer.
Crops along the Cheyenne river
valley which gave promise of the
largest yield in the history of the
county, were in ten minutes time lit
orally ruined.
Every little while an Atchison man
comes back from Topeka with story
he heard Geo. r.. Peck tell. The
latest on is to the following effect:
An actress Gied in New York, and her
friends called on an undertaken to
make arrangements for the funeral.
The undertaken wanted to know how
they wanted the coffin trimmed,
whereupon the friends of the dead
woman said they would accept his
'cWell," said the under
taker, of the deceased was single
woman, l should trim the coffin in
if married woman, in hello
trope." The friends said they would
think the matter over, and send him
word as to their decision. In the
afternoon the undertaken received this
note: Grim the coffin in white, with
q dash here and there of heliotrope."
Prof. Snow, who is in Colorado to
investigate the grasshopper scare,
writes to the Kansas papers: "a
careful examination has failed to dis
close a single specimen of the destruct-
i've Rocky Mountain locust. From
today's investigation it appears that
swarms of the winglcss individuals
are marching out in all directions from
this locality as center. The few
winged ones show no disposition to
migrate. The young march rapidly,
having advanced nine miles north
ward in the last week. They feed eX-
clusively upon grasses, leaving UNI
touched the young corn fields through
which they We're seen to pass in great
numbers. Kansas need not have the
slightest fear of an invasion from this
grass-eating species"
One of the most unfortunate men IN
the world lives in Atchison. During
his married life he has had but one
ambition, and that was to accumulate
money for his wife and children. lie
is worth Il small fortune now, but in
his long money-saving life he neg
lected himself, and is as much out OF
place in the social pleasures and luXu'
ries he has gathered around his family
as bull would be in china shop
They have their parties and good
times, but he is too old to enjoy them
He is out of business, and in the
evenings he sits alone, wondering
what is wrong that now he has &C
complished his ambition, he is no
happy. His case is said to be a com
mon one. 1t is as common as that o
the woman who saves and pinche'
that her husband may grow rich, ant
who is forgotten when he has made
his money. There are so many pitt
full things about old age that it ha
| hoconna a sort of nuniShmant that only