The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1898-08-12
STANFORD.

There was great deal OF morse
swapping and cussing INDUCED in on
jockey street Monday, and about the
usual size court day crowd was in
town.
A farmer told me yesterday that ev-
cry tree in his apple orchard is full of
the fruit on the west side, while the
rest O: the tree is as fruitless as the
Sahara Dessert.
The picnic given by Mr.. and Mrs.
George s. Carpenter in honor of the
fifth birthday of their little boy, John
ny W., was hummer, ard attended
by large crowd of old and young peo-
pie. The dinner was excellent.
A good Methodist sister here, with
sanctiication proclivities, got to study
ing the Bible closely some time ago
and ran across the word dip" SO Oft
en- she concluded she had not been
baptized according to Hoyle. Every
time she took drink of water the
dipper reminded her of the word "iip."
SO boarding the train she betook her
self to the great city of Chicago and
finding a preacher skilled in dipping, .
she was by him put clean out OF sight
under water three times face-foremost
and returned to have few friendly
scraps with her brethren and sisters
for her new tangled idea.
There is certain to be no hitch in the
tight rope performance advertised to
take place here on the 18th, and the
negro who murdered the 15-year-old
boy at Crab Orchard will pay the per-
atty of his atrocious crime. In the last
forty-fve years or more there have
been only three hangings according
to law and evidence in Lincoln, and of
course all were negroes. One of the
three seriously wounded the late Levi
Hubble, was tried, convicted and exc
cuted about 80 years ago, or longer.
Harry Middleton was sheriff then.
Jasper Rowsey, one of the seven broth.
ers who died With their boots on in
this county, was taken from the Jail
here and hung by mob about 81 years
ago. A mob about 300 strong hung a
negro near Mckinney four years ago
for assaulting a little white girl A
hanging in Kentucky every day fol
the next century would not be too ma
ny to atone for the murders, seduc.
tions and assaults recounted in the pa.
pers daily. Think of it, seventy-six
murders in Louisville alone in the last
"a months, resulting in only twelve
convictions to short sentences in the
penitentiary. The lawlessness cited
in that city prevails throughout the
state. Rev. Talking Tom Eaton says il
he had 81, 900, 900 he could with impuni
ty kill any fellow in Kentucky and &c
free. Such is lamentab BILE fact. Crime
does indeed ride high horse nova
days In Louisville alone. in the last
twenty-four months there have been
seventy-seven murders, resulting in
only twelve convictions to short term:
in the pen. The number of rapes and
seductions in the Falls City in thai
time is not stated. The lawlessness il
Louisville prevails throughout thu
state, and efforts to check such a tide
are far from being equal to the emer
gency. With the long procession o
murderers, seducers and rapists goine
unpublished, it is not amazing that thu
rest of the world very properly look.
upon Kentucky as 1.-The Dark and
Bloody Ground"
One of the most distinguished and
";abricating" visitors we will hav'
here at the hanging on the 18th, will
be Col. John G. Pulliam, of the Har
rodsburg Democrat, Cincinnati En-
quirer, and in fact, he represent
about third of the papers in Ken
lucky. The way that fellow can pain
a story is a plenty, as we'll as intense
ly interesting. SRETAW.