Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1899-01-05

George b. Powers, after a short ill.,
ness Of pneumonia, died at his
home in Carlisle Saturday night
The interment took place in the
Owingsville Cemetery at o'clock
Sunday afternoon. Funeral services
wcre nnducted at the grave by
Ed =. S. Tinsley.
D,ca sed was a son of Woodson
Po p, deceased, and was born
an ylarcI r he waters of upper
Prickiy-A T. 's.-.'-. this county. lie
was 5S years u. ",r grown he
in the n c.a disc bus
iness at various plaess-among
them being Sherburne, Cariisis
Winchester and Cincinnati, finally
back to Carlisle in late
years. He was partner in the noted
New Era restaurant and saloon in
for while and Il,
his first serious -
verses of fortune, which had p
been highly favorable 2.
his business ventures. His first "
was Maria Burns, daughte
Denny Burns. She died about
years ago. About fouro five ys if'
ago he married the widow o. .
prominent man in Cincinnati, h1t
was separated from her. He lei
no children. His brother Ben re,
sides in Texas: Mrs. T. A. Snody
and Mrs. Adelisa Head, of Califor-
mia; Mrs. Josephine Moores, Mrs.
w. W. Powers and Mrs. Lou War
ner, of this town, are his sisters.
George Powers was a man that
would make and retain many
friends anywhere. He was of a
lively, friendly disposition and of
marked generosity, it being char
acteristic of his life to help his rel
atives and friends who were striv-
ing to make their way in the world.
multitude of people throughout
this country will be sorry to hear
,f his death and will remember
with appreciation his genial nature
and many kind acts.
BLACK DIAMOND r. r. SPEECH
Col. Charles Tut, of Knoxville,
Tenn, spoke to a fair-sized audi
snce at the Court house last Friday
afternoon in the interest of the
Black Diamond railroad enterprise.
He expresses himself as confident
that the Black Diamond will be
,uilt, and if so branch line from
Sharpsburg by this town and Salt
Lick to the Morgan coal-fields will
be built. 1t is well enough to be
frank. We have no stock or faith
in the building of the Black Dia-
nond road. We would be vastly
pleased to see the road built and
our belief proved wrong. But the
project has never looked feasible
10 us. For a grand trunk railroad
to 60 zig tagging over the country,
ike a seam in crazy quilt, to
wherever there was a prospect of a
good sized promotion subscription
has looked to us like a clever sort
IF bunco scheme. The projectors
IF trunk railroads costing $40, ,00O,-
300 are above such petty devices;
hey couldn't afford it. We are more
han willing to be proved wrong
in this instance, but We couldn't
.onscientiously advise any per-
son to give a dollar in furtherance
,f the scheme. We from our heart
iisclaim any hostility to any sim
,ere railroad project and pledge
,ur favor to any plan that appears
reasonable by which OwingsvIlle
may secure a railroad. But the
town is not now able, and to US it
appears will rot in the future be
able, to subscribe $4,000 nor
half that sum, to have the ben
,fit of one. And in attempting to
promote any railroad scheme We
would advise the people of Bath
county to hold to any subscription
hey may make until they are sure
beyond question they will not make
IL gift to some glib-tongued fel-
ow who makes his living through
the credulity of the people not up
to snuff.