The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-05-15
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

PIrEVILLE has organized a volunteer
fire department.
THE Bank of Allen County, at Scott
vile, failed last week. Liabilities are
sos, 900.
GREENUP has 700 inhabitants and six
saloons. The saloons pay the town $500
each for license.
WINCHEsTER's street railway system
will probably be operated by electricity
in the near future.
THE Watts Steel and Iron company's
immense plant at Middlesborough will
begin operations July l.
A TIMBER dealer tells the Muhlenberg
Echo that the supply of good timber in
that county is about exhausted.
PINEvILLE officers are waging deter.
mined war on murderous parties there
abouts, who indulge in the practice of
dynamiting fish.
EDITOR J. w. PoMFREY, of the Second
Legislative district, in Kenton county,
is candidate for the Legislature on the
Republican ticket.
CHRISTIAN county's tex rate is thirty
one cents, and the Kentuckian says a
considerable raise will have to be made
to meet increasing expenses.
CHRISTIAN county has about $1,000
600 of property and 7,l3O polls. This
count of polls is 100 short of the regis
tered vote for 1890.
THE Herald says the Middlesborough
banks report an unusual stringency in
the local money market and that bust
ness is seriously retarded in consequence.
DABNEY MosELY was bound over at
Hopkinsville for burning barn belong
ing to J. S. Ragsdall. He confessed and
exonerated Jesse Story, an alleged &C
complete.
THE Union County Wheel recently
passed resolution asking magistrates of
the county to make straight reduction
of 80 per cent. in the salaries of the
county officials.
T. NJ. LILLARD, a wealthy farmer and
well known throughout Kentucky, died
at his home in Boyle county on the 9TH
inst, aged 70. He leaves a wife and
several grown children.
MCCRACKEN county Prohibitionists
have nominated E. S. Thornton for Rep
resentative. The Standard thoughtfully
assures tender-hearted Democrats that
the gentleman is accustomed to defeat.
A DIFFICULTY occurred recently at
Josephine between Charles Redding and
James Addison, in which the latter was
shot twice and is dead. Redding is un-
der $500 bond to appear at the Circuit
court.
KENTUCKY tobacco has a great mar
ket across the water. Several carloads
of the weed were shipped from Walton
last week, consigned to parties in Paris,
France; Berlin, Prussia, and Dublin,
Ireland.
WALSH SHUMATE, freight brake
man on the Louisville Southern, fell
from the top of caboose at Lawrence
burg and his left foot was run over by
the wheels, necessitating the amputation
Of that member.
THE valuation of property in Paducah
is 1881, 440 for the whites, and $l22,-
1870 for the negroes, total of $5,0l3,570,
and an increase of S209,703 over 1890.
There are $3.50 male citizens over p
years of age, of whom 1852 are negroes.
THERE may be nothing in signs but
faith in them does no harm when it
brings comfort along with it. The George
town Times says: "The locust bloom
will be very heavy this season, which is
almost sure harbinger of a good corn
crop"
Gov. BUCKNER has fixed the day for
The unwilling of the monument of Gov.
L. p. Blackburn on the 9th inst. The
lnveiling will be in charge of the Grand
Lodge of Masons, which meets in Frank
'oIt under the management of Master
Jhas. II. Fish. Judge William Beckner
md Col Basil Duke will deliver the adj
iresses.
JUDGE MENzIE has called a special
erm of Chancery court in the case of r.