26 Jan 1888 Part D - Green River Republican, Butler County, Kentucky *********************************************************** Submitted by: Butler County KYGenweb GRR Transcription Team Date: 11 Jun 2007 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************************** 1888 Jan 26 Part D This transcribed by Beverly Carroll Hodges from images scanned by Alice Warner To be proofread later by Alice Warner, original images available online at http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/butler/photos/grr/26Jan1888.pdf You will need Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer to open the image 1888 JAN 26 D Business Dull How is your wheat? Local happenings are scarce. Read the Commissioners notices in this issue. Read our offer of $10 in gold on the first page. How are your New Year resolutions panning out? The weather is as fickle as the whims of an old maid. Some of our subscribers, like muddy coffee, will not settle. There has been a great destruction of rabbits during the snow. What is the matter with the poultry? Hen “fruit” is as scarce as – as- hen’s teeth. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty – the price of the Republican is only one dollar a year. The “city dads” should see that a hammer and nails are applied to the court house fence in places. The most inviting and cheerful Looking object during the first of last week was a rip roaring fire. See our liberal offer to persons getting up clubs for this paper, to be found in our advertising columns. Re. John Moore, of the Rochester Normal College, was in town Friday, 13th, and took in the concert. We have a few good men in this county who, like good old Elijah, ought to be taken right up to heaven without tasting death. Very few people from the county visited our town during the bad weather, and things were rather dull here as a consequence. There will be preaching at the Baptist church, in Little Bend, (New Harmony) by Rev. R. B. Morehead on Friday 27, inst at 2 o’clock P. M. This session of the Normal gives every promise of being an interesting one. Students are coming in from all parts of the county and the attendance will be quite large. Mrs. Mary A. Rose died on the 11th instant of typho-malarial fever, at Brooklyn, Ky. She leaves two children to the care of this cold world and a number of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. The Normal school at this place opened on the 9th with twenty five students, which wasn’t near as bad a showing as the weather made on that day. The number will doubtless be largely increased on next Monday. Physicians report the heath of town and vicinity good. While this is hard on the M. D.’s it goes to prove that we have a healthy climate. If you would escape “that fatal typhoid fever” or other epidemics locate in Morgantown. The cry of hard times is heard on every land, but the cry doesn’t soften thing one iota. The proper caper to cut under the circumstances is to roll up your sleeves, button your jaw, knuckle down to business, and make the best of Things. See the point! Several persons measured their lengths in rather an abrupt and undignified manner, on the slippery white mantle that covered the earth last week. Such things on such occasions happen to the most cautious pedestrians. Don’t “get excited” neighbor over the subscription business. A string of your old patrons has recently been tacked to our list and the cry is “still they come”. There is a decided difference between a newspaper in reality, which the reading public is not slow to see and appreciate. John Snodgrass. Living on the north side of Green River near Woodbury, had his mule drop dead from under him last week while in route to this place, leaving Mr. Snodgrass mule less and afoot to pursue his weary way to town. No inquest was held over the remains, but the prevailing opinion is that the animal died either from heart disease or a lack of breath. “Tis said that hell is paved with good intentions” It makes us sorrowful when we reflect that a number of our beloved patrons contributed to the improvements of that internal region. Yet when we remember that ---- ---- pay the printer makes his final home with His ----- Majesty we cannot much blame them --- --- ---place of residence. Column 2 Work for the $10 gold piece. Nothing equals a warm friend these cold days. Hon. B.L. D. Guffy advertises in this issue two good farms for rent. Why didn’t someone rig up a nice sleigh and take the girls out riding? To the energetic we offer else where an easy way to make $10 in gold. Pull for it. J. L. Butler, representing Stern Mayer & Co. clothing, Cincinnati has been in town several days and we understand has taken some handsome orders. Cattle, hogs, and the like found it difficult to “navigate” last week. But the icy covering had no terrors for the dog creation. The canines got there just the same. Wonder if the Democracy of the county wouldn’t like to have old Butler gerrymandered? We guess they would like to have Burden’s precinct cut off. The old Bridges House next door to Ed. Harreld’s drug store, which was condemned sometime ago, is being torn down. A new building will take its place. Skating on the ice is fine fun for those who understand the ---- -----. To the uninitiated in such sport skates large enough to fit the seat of their pants should be preferable. Mr. E.T. Koons, who was in Hartford for several days under the treatment of Dr. Pendleton, is home again. His arm has been reset and is now getting along nicely. We feel sure our readers will look at our inability to print the paper last week. The weather was such that we could not get our supply paper. Each subscriber will however receive his fifty two numbers, Mr. R. S. Patton of Illinois forwards us $1. for the Republican. He is a true blue Republican and knows something of the horrors of Andersonville prison. He has been visiting friends and relatives near Rochester. It would be a great accommodation of those too poor to own clocks or watches if a regular old “grandfather’s clock” was placed in the courthouse cupola. But we must patiently await the advent of railroad fairs, ect., before we can hope to assume city airs. While others enjoying good eyesight, sturdy frames and elastic step, were falling on the right and left during the slippery days of frightful weather, Bro. J. W. Berry who is totally blind and frail of frame, perambulated the treacherous streets at his own sweet will without once getting a fall. County Clerk W. H. Tuck and Mr. P. G. Whitaker took advantage of the recent freeze to fill their ice houses. The former has stored away forty wagon loads of the icy stable. It gives one the shivers even to think of such a cold subject just now, but the burning rays of a summer’s sun will make us yearn “for a lodge in some vast ice house” or refreshing draught of cold water. The concert given by Miss. Prewitt at the courthouse on the 13th inst., was a grand success in every particular. The program was highly interesting, and executed in a manner that reflected much credit upon herself and all concerned, and gave universal pleasure and satisfaction to those who were fortunate enough to be present. We learn the door receipts amounted to $26 or $27. Thursday night week, a sneak thief within whose wicked heart no fear of God, man, or devil finds an abiding place, entered the meat house of Mrs. Nancy Porter and appropriated for his own use a large hogs head – not a species of the barrel kind, but the ------ a real -------. This was Hoggish to say the least, and the thief deserves to be run down and slain with the jaw bone of –the head be ------. Our “hump of vanity” which isn’t ----------- has been frequently tickled of late by the encouraging compliments paid our paper as to its neatness and the verity of interesting reading matter it contains each week. The work alone in our job department ----------------------------- visits, they are few and far between------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ ____________________________ Column 3 We call the attention of our readers to an advertisement of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company. In another column and we take pleasure in recommending to the general public a company whose Organs have obtained a popular reputation for their superior musical qualities, artiste beauty and general excellence. This company ranks among the largest and best in the United States, having capacity for manufacturing 800 Organs per month, and its organs are shipped into nearly every inhabitable portion of the globe. The members composing the firm of Chicago Cottage Organ Company are men of experience integrity , skilled in their line, conduct their business on an equitable basis, and their future --- to be a bright one. Blessed with the inestimable advantages of excellent railroad facilities for the transportation of freight our more fortunate brother journalist know little or nothing of the trials, tribulations and vexatious of their less favored contemporaries. In any case especially, the difference is sadly felt. Last week we were unable to get our paper either by rail or water. A journey of twenty miles to the nearest railroad point, with the ground covered with ice, snow and steel, was a perilous undertaking. and since the lock disaster near Rochester but one or two boats have put in an appearance at this wharf. Perhaps no county seat in the State feels more heavily the need of a railroad than Morgantown, and when we ----to the inducements held out by the town and county for such facilities we are truly amazed that they have not long existed. We find the present year will witness the commencement of a railroad through the county and that when finished one of its stops will be located in the corporate limits of Morgantown. As it is there is no dependence to be placed in the arrival of freight for this point and the freight rates are often extortionate in the extreme. God speed the day when our troubles in this respect shall have ended. “Dar’s Music in De Air” A Real Live Brass Band Organized In Morgantown. Hark! From whence emanate ---------------! Ah best they proceed from the rooms of the newly organized Morgantown brass band. Several gentlemen, composing the best musical talent in the town had a “private caucus” one night last week while the innocent and manifesting ----of the population were --- in “natures sweet restorer ---sleep” and resolved themselves into a brass band. They will secure upon themselves horns – little horns, big horns, long horns, and short horns. – besides other instruments of torture which in the hands of amateur blowers will be capable of sending afloat on a stilly night, such a combination of --- --- and curious sounds as will make ones hair run cold and each particular blood stand on end. They will dish out for a season at least a class of music not intended to soothe the savage beast. Music which will strike a terror to the soul like unto the sound of that which all shall hear on the final day when Gabriel blows his trumpet in the morning. But this is the dark side of the brass band. Under the careful training of a competent instructor they will in a few weeks make the welcome ring with harmonious reels of delightful music. The band is composed of a class of men who will never cease to blow their own horns until they have justly won the enviable name and reputation of “the crack band” of the whole Green River country. Keep stiff upper lips, boys, and play away: we are betting on you. MOORE”S NEIGHBORHOOD Ge Whiz! How cold and slick! Some sickness in this community, but mostly bad colds. Mr. A. K. Sublett has moved into our neighborhood: Dallas Moore and Wallie Bailey are improving. Mrs. J. T. Ward is very sick. Born to the wife of Frank Brashear on the 12th a boy of fine weight. Mrs. Nannie and Lillie Cook visited Mrs. Martha J. Moore who is feeble health, last Thursday. Not much news this time, but a little well said is better than a great deal not said well. A M M Watch for the $10 in gold. You stand a chance to get it. Column 4 Dissolution of the Commonwealth Cases Continued from last Quarterly Court to 3rd Monday in January. Co—veirth vs. Chas. And Miles McCombs for breach of peace, - Chas. Fined $25, Miles acquitted.. Same vs. Boyd Taylor for breach of peace. – fined $7.50 Same vs. Eldon Taylor for breach of peace. – fined $7.50 Same vs. C. C. Rone for using provoking language – fined $2.50 Same vs. Jac. Shillett for breach of peace – fined $2.50 Same vs. Albert McKenny for breach of peace, -fined $5.00 Same vs. Ben Wamack for disturbing public worship – fined $20 Same vs. Wash Holman for disturbing public worship – fined $20 Same vs., Lud Cohron and bob Fortner for running horses on public highway – dismissed Same vs. Obe Cardwell for breach of peace – dismissed Same vs. Curly Gabbart for breach of peace – dismissed SNATCHED FROM DEATH The Thrilling Experience Of Jailor Day White In Pursuit Of A Cow. We learned with much ----- of the narrow escape of Jailor Day from being ---- ---death by falling over the bluff near the old parsonage. It seems that his cow had slipped over the bluff and he had gone to see after her, when approaching the bluff he slipped on the ice and started skating headlong toward the terrible ---. Death seemed staring him in the face, the misdeeds of his life flashed up before him: he thought of home and friends: he saw his own mangled body on the rocks below, but on, on he sped to join his cow. A shrub! He grasps it , he swings, he holds! His lantern flew on to light up the dark cavern below, With one hand he pulled off a boot. The boot goes to join the lantern. With his penknife he digs and claws. The knife goes to join the lost. Death still seem to claim our jailor, when fortunately help in the person of Judge Taylor arrived and with a long wire Jim was rescued to sing “Piraynne Butler come, comes Piraynne Butler , come to town” for many a day perhaps. WE WOND “R” Why Joe D. visits our town so often? Why Morgantown cannot have a first class --- shop? Why –Quinn don’t level up the sign over his store door? Why there is such a sudden lull in the important railroad questions? Why the merchants do not chip in and improve the walks in front of their stores? Why our handsome P. M. don’t ---- matrimony and relieve the minds of the curious? Why some enterprising citizen doesn’t establish a coal and wood yard within the corporate limits? Why old maids do not embrace the advantages offered by Leap Year to escape the terrors of “single ---“? Why some one don’t get married, run away, or do something else desperate that ye editor may get a first class local item? Why – but wonders will never cease? CONSUMPTION SURELY CURED To our editor – Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above Med. Disease. By the remedy are thousands of hopeless cases have been cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my remedy free to any of your readers who have consumption, if they will send me their express and post office address. Respectfully, Y. A. Slocum, M. D. St. Pearl St., New York Farms to Rent If any one wants to rent the Mr. Renry & Walker farms, near Woodbury or the Chiberison farm near same place, and will give good personal security for money rent, apply to me before the 2nd of Feb. 1888. B. L, D. Guffy Work for the Ten Dollar Gold piece offered by us to getters up of clubs. Column 5 ------- --- and fall ----------------------------------by C ollins Ague Cure. It is sold everywhere at 50 cents a bottle. See Collins Present Century Almanac. For Sale by E. Neel. Liver – Spleen – Recent or chronic ---- live conditions of the Liver and Spleen are ------ overcome by Collins Ague Cure. Sold at all stores. For Sale by E. Neel., ask for Collins Present Century Almanac. WHAT BEECHER SAID ABOUT PREACHERS AND NEWSPAPERS IN ENGLAND. Bulletin Boards Used Alike By Eminent Divines And Theatrical Managers – Church Services And Circuses Advertised Side By Side. When I was in England I found on all the dead walls of London ------ declaring that Dean Stanley Chaplin to the Prince of Wales would preach at such a places. ----- -- --- the Archbishop (I think) of Canterbury, would preach at another time and place: again that an Oxford professor would preach; In short, religious notices were sprinkled in among the theater bills, and the highest church dignitaries were advertised side by side with authors, singers, and clowns. Of course, I was shocked by it, but in a moment I bethought me, if it be all right and degraded to hire a sexton to ring a bell when a minister is going to preach, it is all the same to silence the bell and hire a bill sticker to tell the same news, the essential thing being to tell the truth every time. The remedy for living advertisements is for honest men to tell the truth. When ---- cometh in like a flood, then the Spirit of the Lord lifts up the -----! A really able man, what ever his gifts, makes a great mistake if he fails to --- --gifts. Through want of advertising. What are the newspapers for if not to circulate information? What more valuable information can a newspaper give than to tell a man where he can be cured? If a man has devoted his life and labor to the ---- of a special class of diseases, the necessity of his saying so becomes all the more pressing, His duty to advertise becomes impervious. The above are the words of Rev. Thos. K. Beecher, and thousands of people might reap immediate profit if like him they would use their reason instead of being governed by prejudice. Hon. Tom Crutchfield Was known to thousands of people through out the United States, and especially to citizens of his native State, as a man of broad views, deep research, and universal charity. He was at one time Commissioner of Agriculture for the State of Tennessee, President of the bank in Chattanooga and owner of their famous farm “Anipicola”. He was also a patron and correspondent of the leading agricultural newspapers of the country, and contributed much to the development of the New South, The following letter from him shows that he believed like Mr. Beecher, that the way to benefit mankind was to make public any valuable information he had acquired. ------------------------------ February 12, 1888 To the Chattanooga M--- Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. McElree's Wine of Carlui manufactured and sold by you, has no equal as a remedy for the ailment for which it is recommended. It is surely “Wise men’s Relief” as all females who are troubled with irregularities peculiar to their sex and how few are not will testify when once they try it. The imitated modesty of women preventing her from letting her troubles be known alone prevents thousands from getting relief. All who once use Wine of Cardui, or Woman’s Relief will find it true in name, and “will have the witness within themselves” Being a family man ---- instances of wonderful effect of this great remedy “Woman’s Relief”, have come to my knowledge. It needs only to be tried to speak for itself. You can use this as you please. Very Truly Tom Crutchfield He told the writer about the time that this letter was written, that he had known several cases where ladies had been invalids for years, and could find no relief until by his advice they tried McElree’s Wine of Cardui and in every case they were cured! This wonderful remedy was undoubtedly in use fifty years ago but its great value was known to only a single family and a few of their acquaintances during all that time. Since its great merits have been made known through publication of such letters as this one from Mr. Crutchfield and other good men like him, thousands of suffering women have been restored to health and happiness./ The manufacturers have reports of thousands of ladies who have been cured after long years of suffering and whom they supposed there was no possible relief for them except in death. We know that many false representations are made by advertisers, but as Mr. Beecher says “The remedy for lying advertisements is for honest men to tell the truth.” No one will believe that Tom Crutchfield would recommend anything that he did not know was just what he said it was, and that after reading his letter any lady could confidently buy McElree’s Wine of Cardui, as she could take the medicine ---- by the --- ----- physician. If more men like Mr. Beecher and Mr. Cruchfield would tell the public the truth-- -- ---there would be -- -- done by lying advertisements. Column 6 Come And See Us We wish to say to all that visit Morgantown that we extend to all a most cordial invitation to our store, hoping at the same time that we may and believe we can offer you such inducements as to merit a liberal portion of your patronage in such as is in our line of business, Now to our old customers we return to you our many thanks for past ----, and hoping to share in the future as we have in the past, and we will promise you in return the full worth of your money. Now we wish to say to those who have never dealt with us we simply ask a trial and feel sure that by courteous attention and fair dealing we will secure you as a permanent customer. Hoping you a prosperous and happy New Year we are as ever yours anxious to please. MORRIS & SMITH ----- up as a Stray And possessed by Sylvester Flener on the Morgantown and Brownsville road near the bridge on Welches Creek, Butler County. One Salty man steer, marked with swallow fork in right ear and underslope in left, one year old and past. Appraisal by Standford and Fideiler Flener at $4.00. Napoleon Flener J. P. B. C. This 19th, Dec. 1887 Malarial Fever A few doses of Collins Ague Cure will promptly break up the world cases of Malarial Fever. Sold by dealers at 50 cents a bottle. See Collins --- Century Almanac For Sale by E. Neel, ____________________________ Loss of Appetite -----------of a –stomach---------- Sold by all druggist and dealers at 50 cents a bottle. See Collins --- Century Almanac For Sale by E. Neel, W. T. King & Sons Hartford Ky Livery , Feed And SALESTABLES And Dealers in Horses, Buggies, and Wagons Best Place to Get Horse Feed Daily Express And Pleasure Mule team to BEAVER DAM C. Kelley Agent for the Bowling Green Marble Yard Well sell Tombstones. ---, etc.---- and American marble and granite as cheap as they can be bought any where. Also Agent for --- ---- of Downer & Bros. of Todd county, Ky. All parties desiring their marble or -- --etc. – do well to see me before purchasing elsewhere. FACULTY J. A. Stewart A. B. Prin. Eudon Taylor Assistant Miss Georgia Prewitt, Music W. M. Wand, Law W. C. Stewart, Librarian C. H. Neely Eugene Brown Column 7 Beaver Dam Hotel Beaver Dam KY F. O. Austin Proprietor A First Class Hotel Where you can be furnished with First-Class Accommodations, Best of Fare Call On Him When You Are In Beaver Dam M. M. HINANT Saddle & Harness Maker Morgantown Ky. MAIN STREET OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE Manufacturer of all Kinds of Saddles Old style Side Saddles a Spec. All Kinds of Harness and Bridle made together. Repairing ----. You ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------