19 Mar 1891 Part A - 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 *********************************************************** 1891 March 19 Part A This transcribed by Tamara Kincaide < > 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/19Mar1891.pdf You will need Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer to open the image 1891 MARCH 19 GREEN RIVER REPUBLICAN VOL 6 MORGANTOWN KENTUCKY THURSDAY MARCH 19 1891 Page A Column 1 H E RIVES EDITOR J T RIVES PUBLISHER $1.00 Per Annum in Advance For Governor W. O. BRADLEY of Lancaster We are authorized to announce A. J. SNODGRASS as a candidate for the Legislature of Butler and Edmonson County, Ky. subject however to the action of the Republican party. In one thing at least the last session of the fifty first Congress did not disappoint the Republicans of the county-it died on the day it was expected to die. For that much thanks. Mr. CLEVELAND has not written a letter for nearly a month but perhaps he thought it wise to let up for awhile after perusing the last one. He should write one more addressed jointly to DAVID B. HALL of New York and HENRY WATTERSON of Kentucky Are the Farmers Alliance and Knights of Labor fully committed to woman suffrage, One would naturally suppose so from some of the speeches made at the Woman Suffrage convention recently held at Washington. This question is asked in no spirit of eruptions opposition but from an honest desire for information. How many people know that the present silver law is practically free coinage of all silver produced by American mines, that is to say that the 4,500,000 ounces of silver bullion which the Treasury Department is compelled by law to buy each month is more than the average amount produced by all American mines. That shows how unfriendly the Republican Party is to silver doesn't it. We desire to specially call attention of our Democratic free trade friends to a few solid facts which like all other facts present the only convincing argument known to poor weak doubting human nature. When the MCKINLEY bill was pending and indeed after it had become a law you insisted that it was absurd to put a tariff on linen, because this country could not build and successfully operate linen mills. The tariff was put on the linen and the result is that three linen mills are already in operation in the New England States while others are being built and equipped as rapidly as possible at Minneapolis, Minn. at Eau Claire Wis. and Sioux Falls South Dakota. So much for one free trade prediction. Now for another: All during the last campaign the working men were told by the Democratic editors and orators that the tariff on tin plates put a tax upon his dipper and dinner bucket not withstanding they knew or should have known that the tin plates section of the MCKINLEY bill would not become law until July 1 1891. Now for the effect of that law upon American industries: Before its enactment not a pound of tin plate was made in the United States, now American mills are turning it out by the ton and more than a dozen large mills are in process of erection in various sections of the country and the tin mines in this country are being for the first time profitably worked and most important of all the price of tin plate is to day in Chicago and New York twenty per cent less than it was last September and dealers are predicting that it will be still cheaper after the new mills get to work. This is campaign bluster but it a plain statement of hard solid facts which can be fully proven. Page A, Column 2 CARDINAL GIBBONS seems to be level headed on the women question, Here is a bit of advice he gave them in a recent sermon: I said you are the queen of the domestic kingdom-If you would retain that empire shun the political arena avoid the rostrum beware of unsexing yourselves, If you become embroiled in political agitation the queen aureole that encircles your brow will fade away and the reverence that is paid to you will disappear. If you have a vain ambition of reining in public life your domestic empire will be at an end. The Democrats are howling themselves hoarse because the Republican Congress which believed in keeping the money of the country in active circulation not in hoarding it, to the public injury as the CLEVELAND administration did has made liberal approbations. The howls are not worrying the Republicans who know that the country will get full value received for every dollar appropriated and that the money will do much good circulating among the people than lying idle in the Treasury and who are perfectly willing to let the people render their own verdict on what they have done. DR JAMES one of the Republican members of the Constitutional Convention said yesterday that he was glad the times was fair enough and penetrating enough to see and publish the political phase at the Legislative appointment matter, I came here he said as a Republican politically and a Campbellite, religiously but with no other determination than to work for fair play to the whole State without respect to sect or party. The leaving of the appointment matter to the Legislature however means nothing else but that our party is to be gerrymandered out of what little representation it is entitled to. It is natural for the Democratic Party or Legislatures to do it. It is the duty of the convention to see that fair play is provided for, If they think I can't see how they can expect anything but that every one of the 145,000 Republican voters in the State will oppose the new Constitution and how with these added to the disappointed element in the Democratic ranks, they expect their work to be rallied, I for one will oppose it and I believe all the people of my party in the convention and out of it will and should do likewise, Louisville Times JUDGE FORGY the delegate from Butler is an old fashioned gentleman after my own heart in the matter of “punkin pies”. That is to say he is fond of them and is not ashamed to say so. He came from the Frankfort Capitol office a few days since and gave me the following from a Texas paper which he requested should be published as a compliment to the MERIWEATHER HOTEL whose pumpkin pies he says are unsurpassed, How dear to the heart is the yellow backed pumpkin when orchards are barren of stuffing pies when peaches and apples have both been a failure and berries of no kind have greeted the eyes. How fondly we turned to the fruit of the cornfield the fruit that our children are taught to despise the old yellow pumpkin, the big bellied pumpkin, the mud covered pumpkin that makes such good pies. Of course the manager of the MERIWEATHER will not hesitate to say our bill of a dollar per line for this advertisement of his house. NOTICE All persons knowing themselves indebted to me by note or account are requested to call and settle at once as I must have the money, E. WAND, M.D. WOODBURY KY Salary $25 per week: Wanted Good agents to sell our general line of merchandise, No peddling, Above ---- will be paid to LIVE agents. For further information address, Chicago General Supply Co. 178 W. Van Haren St. Chicago, Ill. Page A column 3 People's Party Meeting Pursuant to a call signed by many voters of Butler County a meeting was held in Morgantown, KY March 9th 1891 for the purpose of organizing a Peoples Party in accord with that organization in other states. The meeting was called to order by JUDGE GUFFY, THOMAS J. WARD was elected president and J. W. FOSTER chosen secretary, JUDGE B. L. D. GUFFY, T. D. HARRELD, W. H. WHITE, J. A. GARDNER and J. D. SHARRER were appointed a committee on resolutions who after retiring reported the following which were unanimously adopted: Resolved 1st that we demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver the same as it was before it was demonetized by the act of 1873. 2nd we are opposed to banks of issue, no more should be organized and those already chartered should be discontinued as soon as possible under the law. 3rd we favor the enactment of such laws as will effectually prevent dealing in futures of agricultural and mechanical products. 4th we are opposed to the alien ownership of lands. 5th we are opposed to any and all systems of taxation, state or national that has for its object the building of one class on interest at the expense of another class. 6th that the means of communication and transportation should be controlled by the government in the interest of the whole people. 7th in as much as the burdens of the debtor and harboring classes have been greatly increased by legislation. It is therefore indispensable that the government by some well guarded plan loan money to the people at not exceeding two per cent, interest in sums sufficient to enable the people to recover from the effects of unjust financial policy therefore imposed on them. 8th we believe the government should pay to each Union soldier the difference between currency and specie at the time he was paid in paper money with interest added to meet such payment. Congress caused to be issued a sufficiency of treasury notes, making them full legal tender for all debts, public and private except bonds heretofore made payable in gold and silver, such payments to the soldiers would be only just to them, and would be a great blessing to the people at large. 9th a convention is hereby called to meet in Morgantown KY the second Monday in May, next to nominate a candidate to represent Butler and Edmonson counties in the next general Assembly. 10th we suggest that a state convention be held in Covington KY the 20th of next May to nominate a Peoples candidate for Governor and other state officers and all other voters of this county who endorse the foregoing resolutions are appointed delegates to such convention if it be held: J. M. COOK, JUDGE B. L. D. GUFFY, R. V. JENKINS, A. K. SUBLETT, MORGAN COOK, N. C. FLOWERS and all other voters of this county who endorse the foregoing are hereby appointed delegates to the National convention called to meet in Cincinnati Ohio the 19th of May, 1891. J. E. SHARER, J. M. COOK and T. D. HARROLD are appointed a provisional committee for this Congressional district with power to take the necessary steps to perfect our organization are invited to address the committee at Woodbury, Morgantown, KY. or Davenport, KY. Resolved that a copy of the foregoing proceedings be sent to the Courier Journal, Green River Republican, Morgantown Gazette, Rochester Sun, Ohio County Farmer, Missouri World and Farmers Home Journal for publication. On motion the meeting adjourned. F. J. WARD, PRES. – J. W. FOSTER, SECRETARY. Asleep eight months HITAM MCCONKEY of Springport, Mich, has been fast asleep for eight months, Last July he lost the power of speech, was taken sick, went to bed and has not spoken or opened his eyes since. The other night blood began to flow from his eyes and ears, and suddenly he came to his senses. The doctors are dumb founded by the phenomenon and explain it by the supposition that some blood became clotted in his brain which prevented it from becoming active, He remembers nothing since he went into the sound sleep, but can recall everything previous to that time. During eight months the functions of his body remained quiescent the man neither opening his eyes nor speaking a word. MCCONKEY is a married man and has of late been granted a pension in the War of 1812. Page A, Column 4 Camp Fire Column This column given to the soldiers of the late war, and for which we solicit contributions. It is our desire to make this column an interesting feature of the paper, and we hope to receive incidents and stories of camp life from ex soldiers each week. NETTER'S RAID His attack on Whippoorwill Bridge, December 1861. It was M. E. CARTWRIGHT who rode ahead and ordered supper at farmer GODARDS, CAPT. NETTER wore a slick cap on the raid, During the fight the rebels shot it off his head. The Johnnies in their sleeping apartments fired through an opening at the bottom of their shanty. It was JOHN RICHMAN of CO. E. who went in and threw the rebels out, like throwing rats out of a corn crib. JESSE EVERLY was shot in the foot, R. M. GRABLE in the stomach, JOHN ARMSTRONG in the left arm, MART CARTWRIGHT in the right side at the waist, JOHN MAHAN in the right knee. That night we rode up to MR. RANDOLPH’s house for the purpose of leaving me, MR. R's son who belonged to the 11th KY. INF. Was at home spending the night. You could have played seven up on his shirt tail as he went across a ten acre lot in his night clothes, bare footed over frozen ground. Comrades you must not think we were low spirited or down in the mouth, While we were concealed in the cliffs it was not the case, We enjoyed ourselves hugely except comrade EVERLY, who took a hearty cry everyday on account of his wife and children. DR. CRITTENDEN of Gordonsville treated us while we were in the cliffs wounded. MRS. ISAAC NEELY the best lady in the world at that time came once a day with warm water and sponged and poulticed our wounds. The rebels got struck on us, they offered large rewards for us, but we were not for sale. An ex rebel soldier told me that there were 10,000 men in pursuit of NETTER when he crossed Green river. None of our boys exhibited the white feather, NETTER would have attacked five hundred rebels the same as he would twenty five. Let's hear from some of the boys who were there. Brooklyn, KY As I have been living in Kentucky since 1861 I consider myself a Kentuckian by adoption. I enlisted in Kansas and as the Republican has offered us more than any paper in the state, I thought I would pitch on some brush to make a light. As we were after Morgan's guerillas we had stopped to water our horses and old RED SHIRT as we called him came running down the point asking how far ahead RILEY'S men were. L J. FREEMAN asked him to surrender, He drew his gun and I drew mine. FREEMAN caught RED SHIRTS gun and he let loose and surrendered. Let us hear from you JIM through the Camp fire. J. L. SALING KANSAS DRAGOONS HUFF, KY. Look out boys those in blue of the 17th KY Cavalry especially. Here I come with a load of old dry rails to light up the Camp fire to illuminate the dreary years of the past, Boys of Company G where are you? Do any of you know the doctors name and address that doctored us at Hopkinsville in June and July 1865? Where are the boys of the Green River Battalion? Now boys when we ate hardtack and sow belly together it made a strong tie of friendship that will last until death. Let every comrade write through the Camp fire. JOHN D METCALFE CO. G. 17TH KY CAV. Notice Granville Allen Post No 73 G.A.R. meets at Morgantown Saturday before the second Sunday in each month. A full attendance is requested at each meeting. N. C. FLOWERS, Commander of the Post Page A Column 5 Life of GENERAL SHERMAN No literary announcement of the year is of greater interest to the general public than that of a comprehensive Life of GENERAL SHERMAN, which is about to be published and sold through agents by the noted house of Hubbard Brothers of Philadelphia. Admirable biographies of GRANT and SHERIDAN complete to the time of their death, are already familiar to the public, but a life of the third great commander, to finish the series has been lacking. The various biographies of SHERMAN hitherto published have necessarily been incomplete; and even his own memoirs written in 1875 said almost nothing of his intensely interesting early life, and not a word of course of the more than twenty years of social activity and fraternity with old comrades since the war. The work which is now to be issued will splendidly supply the widely felt demand for a history of the great strategic commander. It is being written by GENERAL O. HOWARD, a man of the time literary attainments, who knew SHERMAN better than any other of his comrades now living and ranked next but no one to him in the army and by WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON, whose ability as a historian is familiar to the reading public of America through his former unusually popular works, which have had millions of readers, and sales of their last editions enriched an army of book agents. That this history of SHERMAN the last of the great generals will surpass all others in popularity is not to be doubted. The story of this great general’s career is of a marvelous march from the mountains of time to the sea of eternity. Of the three Great War heroes, SHERMAN was by far the most interesting personality. He was the best known in the public and the best loved for his genial disposition and warm sympathy with the popular heart. He has joined his illustrious compeers in his eternal bivouac of the dead. His is the life to study to emulate and is a profound inspiration. The fourth coming volume will tell the whole story of his marvelous career and from authorship engaged upon it we are assured it will be told in a way that will enthrall the attention and interest of every reader from the first to last. It is a book every American will want and one every American youth should read. It will doubtless be the best life of the greatest chieftain published, and we predict for it wonderful popularity. PROFESSIONAL CARDS W. S. TAYLOR Attorney at Law Will practice in the Butler Circuit Court, Special attention given to the collections of Claims. County Judge's Office. R B MOREHEAD, M.D. The oldest Physician in Butler County is still engaged in the active practice of his profession, Office at his residence, Charges very reasonable. JOHN M CARSON Life and Property Agent. Apply to him at the Morgantown Deposit Bank and have your Life and property insured. He represents old, tried and trusty companies. S. JAY THOMPSON Attorney at Law. Will practice in the courts of Butler and adjoining counties and careful attention given all business. R. S. RIVES Lawyer, Will practice in all the courts of Butler and adjoining counties. Collection of claims a specialty Office with N T HOWARD. G. B. PHELPS Attorney at Law. Will practice in all courts of Butler and adjoining counties. Will do general collecting making criminal practice a specialty, Morgantown, KY. N. T. HOWARD County Attorney will practice all the courts of Butler and adjoining counties. Special attention given to collection of claims. Office County Attorney office near Court House. I have some good farms for sale, also town lots Pensions and patents procured at reasonable rates. JNO. C. MOREHEAD M.D. Physician and Surgeon, Morgantown, Kentucky. F. W. CROSS Boot and ---- Markers, Morgantown, KY. Page A Column 6 ROUSING CROP OF CORN We have over half a car load of Metcalf's Corn Fertilizer on hands for early planting and have already begun filling orders. The great and increasing desire for this fertilizer clearly proves it the best suited to our soil of any that is made, Bring in your wagon and secure your fertilizer before it is too late. Our second shipment will be too late for early planting. $10.00 IN SOLD FOR ONE EAR OF CORN-- Here is your chance to get your money back. We have at considerable expense procured a lot of fine seed corn of the early Mastodon variety and will give a package of it with every order of fertilizer. The farmer exhibiting the largest ear of corn at our corn show in the fall raised by this seed and from this fertilizer to receive $10.00 in gold premium, Order at once and try for the premium. H. B. MOREHEAD Morgantown, KY Ask for COUSSONS HONEY OF TAR, Cures coughs, colds, consumption, a celebrated remedy has been used with success for the last 20 years, For sale everywhere, Prepared By RICHARDSON TAYLOR MEDCO, ST LOUIS MO. The Morgantown Seminary and Teachers Practical Institute, Morgantown. KY. A school for the masses. Progressive, Through, Practical and Cheap. Our advantages are unsurpassed; We guarantee satisfaction to all earnest students. For particulars send for circular. E. R. RAY, Principal, J. C. GLASGOW Assistant Principal. BANK STATEMENT Statement of the condition of the Morgantown Deposit Bank at the close of business Feb 28, 1891. RESOURCES Bank furniture $580.00, Real estate $3004.25, Bills discounted $86,240.51, Cash on hand and due from banks $5766.73, Total $95,813.19. Liabilities Capitol Stock $50,000.00, Surplus $13,000.00, Dividends unpaid $875.00, Dividends NO 21 $2800.00, Deposits $30,618.49, Total $95,618.49. JOHN M CARSON, CASHIER ------- and sworn before me this --- --- 1891. S. JAY THOMPSON P.-.M. END OF PAGE A ---------------------------------