18 Feb 1892 Part B - 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 *********************************************************** 1892 Feb 18 This transcribed by Pat Mims <> 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/18Feb1892.pdf You will need Acrobat Reader or another PDF viewer to open the image Column One The Republican Thursday February 18 Will M. Moskinson Editor VC Blain Publisher $1.00 Per Year in Advance Announcement We are authorized to announce Hudson Thatcher as a candidate for Circuit Court Clerk of Butler County, subject to the action of the Republican Party We are authorized to announce James M. Bisher as a candidate for the office of Circuit Court of Butler co., subject to the actions of the Republican primary. State News The Belknap Warehouse in Louisville was destroyed last week. On Bell County, a feud has broken out between the Turners and Partons. In Danville, Wm. Smith was arrested for the murder of Robert Sanders. An inmate of the Hopkinsville Asylum, John Yocum, committed suicide by hanging himself. Marion Cornish, a farmer in Washington County, had a fit and fell head foremost into a spring and was drowned. Alfred Lewis, a driver in the mines at Mud River, had his arm broken by a fall of slate, yesterday morning. Stephen Grogan, was shot and killed at Covington by Richard Gray, whose daughter Grogan had seduced. Three men were killed and one badly hurt by the falling of the wall of an old building at Glasgow last week. At Mt. Sterling, Dr. C.A. Richards shot and killed John Samuels. The cause of the action is not known. Logan Thompson was indicted by the Grand Jury of Davies County for voting twice in the same election. At Hopkinsville, Geo. Morgan died very suddenly, and the next day his widow was gone. There are some suspicions. ??name accidentally shot and killed Dick Johnson near Middletown. They were shooting rabbits. Bob Daniel, formerly of Cromwell, but now of Louisville, is in jail at Leitchfield charged with carrying a pistol. Wm. Hessae stole a pair of pants at Louisville and when arrested became so excited that he drew his knife and cut his own throat. Two men, Jacob Glass and Day Miller, are in jail in Bowling Green for trying to pass letters under postage stamps that had been cancelled. A card from Dixie, Ky, states A.H. Tuck has recently met with the misfortune of having his leg broken, but fails to give any particulars. John F. Price, of Metcalf county, was arrested in Campbellsville last Friday for shooting and killing a Mrs. Nancy Nunn. Pierce pleads self-defense. Mr. John Manning and Miss Nancy Wall were married at the residence of the bride’s father, Mr. Stephen R. Wall, in Warren county, on Feb. 14th. by Rev.L.B. Davidson. Wm. Puckett, who was hanged at Irvine on the 5th. asked for a thirty days respite on account of being too sick to die, but the doctors decided that he was physically able to undergo the ordeal, and he went. Gov. Brown has pardoned John Hulcee, a life prisoner from Barren County, and Tom Davis, Hulcee’s nephew. The men had been convicted for the murder of Woodford Curd, in 1881. The jail home at Hartford came near being destroyed by fire last week. The fire originated in the jail smokehouse, and it was only by vigorous work that the whole building was saved from burning. It has been decided that one of the piers under the railroad bridge at Spottsville_____ be removed. The railroad company seems to be ? about this bridge It will be remembered that ? fell into the river before the train had passed. Column Two Eli Perkins ? Roger Q. Mills Charlie The Souix City Journal published the following interviews with Eli Perkins (Melville Landon) the well-known lecturer and humorist. On the Omaha train for Sioux City was Congressman Mills of Texas. With him was a bright little boy, who had been in Minneapolis school. The little fellow was as bright as his father, but did not seem to know anything about the fallacies of politics. He was ready to answer all questions and his astuteness astonished even his father. I asked Mr. Mills if I might ask the little fellow some questions and note his schoolboy answers. “Certainly”, he said “go ahead and you will find Charlie bright enough to answer any thing”. “And you won’t interrupt us?” “Certainly not”. “Now Charlie”, I said, calling the bright little fellow up to me, I’m going to ask you some hard questions, harder that cube root , and I don’t believe a little fellow 12 years old like you can answer.” “I recon I can” said the proud little Texan”. “Well Charley”, I said, “If you lived in a town where all the people went over to the next town to buy all their things, what would be the effect”? “Why’ said Charlie, “our merchants would all be poor, for all our money would go away wouldn’t it?” “Well Charlie”, I said “how would it effect a nation if it was digging $100,000,000 out of the ground and raising $300,000,500 worth of cotton and raising $300,000,000 worth of wheat over to another nation and traded them for store pay like gloves and silks and linen and tin and sugar”? ”Why, we’d be poor like the town, of course”. “Yes, Charlie”, I said but suppose our nation made it’s own sugar and linen and tin and wine and kept it’s $100,000,000 dog out of the mountains and sold it’s tobacco and cotton for gold?” “Why, it would maker our ___, Wouldn’t it?”, said Charlie. “Yes my boy, I said “it would.” “ “Again, Charlie, suppose our country had kept $100,000,000 of gold and sold over $800,000,000 of cotton and wheat and tobacco for money for fifty years, how much wealth would we have in this country?” “Why ‘ said Charlie, figuring on a piece of paper, we would have over $40,000,000,000. But why didn’t we keep it. Aren’t we never going to manufacture t “Yes”, I said, “we are trying now. “Now Charlie’, I continued, suppose they are paying _ cents a day to poor laborers in Europe for making knives laborers in Europe for making knives and silk cloth and tin, the freight from Europe is only 10 cents a hundred, and our workers were making $2 a day here, what would our workmen do if we had Free Trade?” Why they would have to work for the same wages that they do in Europe plus the freight. Of course, anyone can see that, can’t they father?’ and Charlie looked up at the father of the Mills Bill. “Here, Charlie”, said Congressman Mills, taking off his glasses and wiping them with an American “______” let me ask you a question now. Don’t you see all the pauper laborers of Europe coming over here, Charlie! Now how can we keep them back?” “Why, papa, we could take off this tariff, couldn’t we, and our wages would go down as low as theirs, out factories would stop and theirs would start up and they wouldn’t want to come here, papa, Column Three if our wages weren’t higher than then theirs, would they?” Mr. Mills didn’t answer but went into the smoker to think. While he was gone I asked Charlie what he thought would be the effect of putting a Tariff of 25 cents against the wheat, corn, rye, oats barley and potatoes raised in Canada twelve times as large as Dakota. “It will hold that stuff back, won’t it” said Charlie, and raise the price here.” “And how will that effect the price of land, Charlie?” “Why better prices for wheat would go up, too, and I heard a farmer telling people this morning that the land all over Iowa and Dakota and Illinois was going up fast…Is It?” Yes, Charlie, it is”, I said. “The farmer is getting on top again. Thousands of manufacturers are making sugar, silk, chicory line, tin, glass and pottery. They are moving over from Europe and soon our manufacturers will eat up all our surplus wheat, then what, Charlie?” Well, I guess they’ll have to papa good price for its gold, too, by ginger and tehn0that will make the farmer rich, won’t it!” And so we will have lots of manufacturers everybody will be prosperous, wages will be high, competition will make his manufactured good cheap and we will be a great country, won’t we?” “You bet we will, Charlie!" I said,” and when you get to be a man, if you are as sound on these questions as you are now, we will make you speaker of the House. Mr. Mills, cane in and said,” I must take Charlie back to Corsicing. Those Northern schoolboys talk and think too much.” Aunt Sukey Says, That she has had sort of back set of the grip for the last few days which was caused by exposing herself one cold day last week a picking her geese. And the Judge needn’t think he scared her out last week for she would have been on hands if she had been well. No, she ain’t quite ready to ___ ___ ___get. His explanation sounds mighty nice and she things the ____ may be a pretty good old jailer and all that but she believes she can do better now. That she has heard it said the post office at Morgantown is a good place to study human nature. The very ones that have the least sense and get the least mail make the most sense. That she has been thinking about that scriptural injunction about hiding your light under a “bushel” and she thinks it would apply to our surroundings and mean more if it had read under a quart. That she rejoiced to hear that active steps have been taken towards building a Baptist Church for that is her own church and the church whose spire reaches just a little higher Heaven than any on earth. And she feels that by the death of Spurgeon Christianity is almost orphaned. That she seed a number of fine dressed strange men in town last Monday and somebody told her they were “shylocks” who had met here to try to organize another Navigation monopoly for to oppress the people again. She prays for soon Jedge Guffy and Mr. T____ Herrald may rise in their might and power and rid the fair land of these monsters. And they tell her now that is well one doz’n eggs to pay the freight on a dollars worth of coffee. She is going to taker her hens to Rives the first purty day that comes. She is looking very anxious for that shower of money that Dr. Hunt has promised and she things the doctor might have added a little hail of coffee long towards the end of the shower. There is one political meeting that Aunt Sukey would like to have gone to in Morgantown. If Jedge Goffey and Mr. T____Herrald with have ____ and Peoples party National ____ ____ she will help feed em. ____ ____ would be such a nice quiet ___ and we would hate ____ _____ _____ room for them. 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