The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-02-11
HAPPENINGS OF
SIXTY YEARS Ago
REVEALED BY COPY OF NATION
AL DEMOCRAT PUBLISHED
IN GREENSBORO.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Little Difference In Prices of Produce
in Those Days and
Present, ag

The greensboro Messenger OF Sun
day prints the following story which
will be of interest to Ohio countians:
A copy Of the National Democrat
Of March %, 1855, weekly paper
published at that early day in Ow-
ensboro, is still in good condition
and shows many things OF interest.
though news is, as was the case with
all papers of that day, very scarce.
One ]. p. Hawkins was the publish
er and Clinton McClarty, brother of
Mrs. M. e. Hart, the veteran teach
er of Daviess street, was the editor.
The motto OF the paper was THE
Union Must Be Preserved" The ed
itorial policy of the paper was Wig
orously for Democracy and against
Knownothingism, which was then
rife in this State and the whole
South.
Even then Daviess county had a
noted agricultural fair which was
duly advertised in the Democrat. An
unusual entry was 'spayed heifers
and highest premiums were awarded
to owners of the best yoke of oxen.
Here are now unfamiliar. articles for
which premiums were offered:
Homemade jeans. negro peans. lin
sey, colored linsey, wooden hose,
rag carpet, jeans coat, cut and made
by lady, wooden shawl. linen or cot
ton skirt, silk quilt, silk vest, cut
and made by lady; fancy bonnet.
fly brush, tow linen. fax linen, sew
ing thread, side sole leather, pair
mems boots, pair lady's boots,
coarse shoes. side calf skin leather,
stone pottery. rife. cooking stove.
wheat fan. corn shelter. straw cutter,
Shanghai chickens. pair game chick
ems. These were the only offers in
poultry. The offers to horsemen we're
in the following classes: draft. blood
ed, harness, saddle and there were
fifteen premiums of $40 each to
these classes.
There was little difference In the
prices of produce in those days and
the present except in the matter of
whiskey, corn and meat. Meat and
corn were much cheaper. Here are
few of the quotations given: Su-
gar 10c, coffey 15c, molasses SOC
salt soc bushel, -four 81 barrel,
pork 4c a pound, beef sc, butter
zoe, lard loo, wheat 81. corn 25c,
tobacco 81, whisky SIC gallon,
green hides 4c, and sailed hides SC.
The late Capt Frank L. Hall was
then a prospecting merchant here and
was referred to in the following COM
plimentary news item: "Our ener-
getic and enterprising townsman,
Capt. F. Lockett Hall. has just re-
turned from New Orleans with a
large and superior stock Of sugar and
coffee which he is selling cheap.
Capt. Hall is a trading man and a
benefit to the community. A few
more such and the old fogyism which
fingers In our midst would be dis
persed." 800
Some other local news of that
date follows: The Messrs. Ogden had
recently erected a three-story. brick
| flour mill, the previous Monday was
easter holiday among the negroes
with cock-fghting at the halfway
house ON the Hartford road" one DR..
Kellar was selling his household and
kitchen furniture, pavement was
badly needed In front Of the Presby-
terrain church because the editor
adds, "after the late thaw we had
a fine time wading." Rt. Rev. ]. M,
Spalding. bishop, of Louisville. was
soon to pay an episcopal visit to st.
Stephens, the one Catholic church
here then, the steamer William Gar
win had left this trade and gone
into the Memphis trade and the only
boat left running here then was the
fleet Reindeer" which soon after
exploded at Hawesyille with direst
results, killing many Of crew and
passengers and totally wrecking the
boat: DR.. l.. H. Naghel was recon-
mended to chose whose grinders are
bad" and one DR.. ]. w. Compton
was announced as having abandoned
the credit for the cash system.
The Kentucky Colonization society
had notice published In the paper
telling that 1t had chartered yes-
sci which would sail from Baltimore
1 on the first Monday In May. 1855,
with emigrants bound for Liberia,
the negro republic In West Africa.
The state of Kentucky had -appropri-
ated $1,000 to pay the passage and
hix months support of all free me-
groes wanting to go to that country.
They were promised house rent tand
physicians help free for that time.
Ia an admit WAS m Ia uivou five acres