KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest	16 Dec 1999		Volume 99 : Issue 63

Message #1****************************
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:29:21 -0500
From: "Geneva Mckinney" <grogers@infinet.com
Subject: NEWS: THE JACKSON HUSTLER APRIL 24, 1891, Breathitt Co., KY
EXCERPTS #13&14

VOL.3
THE JACKSON HUSTLER
APRIL 24,1891
JOHN JAY DICKEY
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
EXCERPTS

MINING DISASTERS
Unforeseen Conditions Which Cause Death and Destruction.
A life insurance journal recently called attention to the curious fact that
the perils of the sea have been diminished one-half by the progress of
science, while the death rate from mining accidents has remained nearly the
same.Many of the worst mining disasters were due to contingencies in which
the experts were unable to foresee.A case in point is the episode of
Janesville, Pa. where the drill of a miner tapped an unknown reservoir-
which in five minutes flooded the pit with 80,000 gallons of water, thus
causing the death of eighteen men and boys. During the preceeding week the
"Mammoth Mine" of the same state, became the grave of 107 men, daily tests
having failed to discover a trace of "fire-damp, "the explosive gas which
caused the portentous disaster. The "fire boss had visited every gallery of
the pit in investigation. The proprietors of the mine had furnished all
their employees with "safety-lamps", but the miners themselves preferred
open lights much less effective for illuminating purposes, and indeed, by no
means infallible in the quality of an alarm signal. The presence of fire
damp causes the flame to burn with a peculiar blue light, but the trouble is
that a miner is too busy to watch his lamp all the time, and in less than
two minutes the incandescence of the protecting wire may cause an
explosion.--The Voice.

Where to find Contentments
The most contented people in this state are the public paupers. The average
length of life of paupers after entering the poorhouse, is twenty years.Most
of them at the time of admission, are beyond their prime and they must live
under conditions that favor longevity. When one is lodged safely in the
poorhouse they not only lay aside that ambition that disturbs peace, but are
perfectly content to stay there through life. Twenty years of content, no
botheration about money or provendor, or clothes, or rent, taxes, doctors'
bills, failure in business. It is not always bad to be a pauper in a
poorhouse after all!!--N.Y. Sun.

Gold Cake: Rub a generous half cup of butter to a cream, add a teacupful of
powdered sugar, the beaten yolks of four eggs and half cup of milk, in the
order given. Sift together a pint of flour, half a teaspoonful of salt and a
teaspoonful and a half of baking powder, and stir into the mixture. Beat
until perfectly smooth, add a teaspoonful of lemon extract and bake in a
shallow tin, lined with buttered paper, from twenty minutes to half an hour,
in a steady oven, being careful not to open the oven door suddenly upon it.
Powdered sugar sifted thickly over the top, just before baking, improves its
appearance, or you can cover it with icing. Cut in square blocks.--Ladies
Home Journal.

Lemon Pies: In response to a request we give the following recipe, which we
know to be good: one cup of water, one cup of sugar, two tablespoonfuls
cornstarch, one lemon.Grate the rind of lemon and squeeze the juice into the
sugar and water and let it boil; dissolve the starch in cold water and stir
rapidly until clear; put in a piece of butter and allow it to cool; then
stir in the yolk of one egg; bake the crust, put in the jelly, spread the
beaten white of the egg on top and set it in the oven to brown
lightly.Farm,Field and Stockman.
#13

VOL.3
THE JACKSON HUSTLER
 APRIL 24,1891
JOHN JAY DICKEY
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
 EXCERPTS

EASTER SERMON.
The text of Dr. Talmage's discourse Easter Sunday was Matthew xxviii 6:
"Come see the place where the Lord lay."
Visiting any great city we are not satisfied until we have also looked at
its cemetery. But with how much greater interest and with more depth of
emotion we look upon our family plot in the cemetery.
What shall I say of those country graveyards where the vines have fallen
down, and the slab is aslant, and the mound is caved in, and the grass is
the pasture ground for the sexton's cattle. Are your father and mother of so
little account you have no more respect than that for their bones?
Someday gather together and straighten the fence and lift the slab and bank
up the mounds,and tear out the weeds, and plant the shrubs.
If you have no regard for the bones of your ancestors, your children will
have no deference for your bones.Do you say these relics are of no
importance? You will see how much importance they are when the Archangel
takes out his trumpet. Turn all your graveyard into gardens.I cannot quite
understand what I see in newspapers,"send no flowers."Why, there is no place
so appropriate for flowers as at the casket of the departed. If your means
allow-let there be flowers on the casket, flowers on the hearse,flowers on
the grave.Put flowers on the brow; it means coronation. Put flowers in the
hand;it means victory.
Various scriptural accounts say that the work of the grave-breaking will
begin with the blast of trumpets and shoutings: Whence I take it that the
first intimation of the day will be a blast from Heaven such as has never
before been heard. It may not be so vey loud, but it will be penetrating.
There are mausoleums so deep that undisturbed silence has slept there ever
since the day when the sleepers were left in them. The great noise shall
strike through them. Among the corals of the sea, where the shipwrecked
rest, the sound will strike. No one will mistake it for thunder. There will
be heard the voice of the unaccounted millions of the dead, rushing out of
the gates of eternity, flying toward the tomb, crying,"Make way! Oh, grave,
give us back our body!
From New York to Liverpool snap! go the iron gates of the modern vaults. The
country graveyard will look like a rough plowed field as the mounds break
open. Not one straggler left behind.
And now the air is darkened with the fragments of bodies that are coming
together from the opposite corners of the Earth. Lost limbs finding their
mate-bone to bone-until every joint is reconstructed and every joint is in
its socket, and the amputated limb of the surgeon's table shall be set again
at the point at which it was severed. A surgeon told me that after the
Battle of Bull Run he amputated limbs,throwing them out of the window, until
the pile reached up to the sill. All those fragments will have to take their
places.Wake up Freinds, this glorious Easter morn. If I understand this day,
it means peace toward Heaven and peace toward Earth. Great wreaths of
Flowers! Bring more flowers!
No more red dahlias of blood. Give us white lilies of Peace. The
resurrection implies all kinds of resurrection we celebrate this morning.
Nothing to stay down, to stay buried, but sin and darkness and pain and
disease and revenge and death.  #14

End of Excerpts for April 24,1891


Message #2***************************
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:49:51 -0500
From: "Geneva Mckinney" <grogers@infinet.com
Subject: NEWS: THE JACKSON HUSTLER APRIL 24,1891, Breathitt Co., KY EXCERPTS   
7&8    VOL.3


VOL.3
THE JACKSON HUSTLER
 APRIL 24,1891
JOHN JAY DICKEY
PUBLISHER
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
 EXCERPTS

LOST CREEK,KY.
No marriages to report, but courting is going on just the same.
The new school house will soon be complete as work has been in progress on
it for quite a while.
We enjoy reading the communications from the different sections of the
county, and would be glad to see them every week.

The 10th Congressional District F. & L. Union of Kentucky met at Lee City,
Wolfe county, the 10th inst. There was a good attendance. Resolutions were
passed embodying the policy and principles of the order, bearing on the
various questions at issue. EXCERPT.

Carley in New York.
F.D. Carley has been here. He is working earnestly to get his road on its
feet again. he is not wasting any time in vain repinings. He won his fortune
by shrewdness and hard work. There are hundreds of people wh do not know
like Mr. Carley, and many have never heard of him except at the club, or at
Newport, or at Txedo. his success made him enemies. Bad luck does not make
as many friends as riches make enemies.------ Dan O'Sullivan's letter.

The plea of the HUSTLER for better mail facilities is echoing and re-echoing
through the land, and already evidences of improvement are visible. These
complaints have reached the ear of the government and her great heart has
been so touched by our tale of woe, that she holds out her hand to help us.
The time of reckoning will come, and there will be weeping and wailing by
the faithless mail carriers and post masters.

The Cincinnati Weekly Commercial Gazette is in its 98th year.

A public office is a public trust, and he who betrays that trust is Judas
Iscariot.

Making liquor is making trouble. Remember that, distiller.

Do the men who ask to be elected magistrates expect to live by their oath of
office? If they do not do it, they will commit an awful sin, and had better
remain in private life.

FAMILY GROCERIES
DRY GOODS
BOOTS
SHOES
And everything a Family uses.
I ask a share of the trade, and if low prices and fair dealing will succeed I shall get it.
SAMUEL COLE,
JACKSON, KY.                             #7


.VOL.3
THE JACKSON HUSTLER
 APRIL 24,1891
JOHN JAY DICKEY
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
EXCERPTS

At the wedding of Albert Snooks, of Eminance, and Miss Fannie Herr, of
Jefferson county, April 21, about fifty of the guests were poisoned, and
three of the number have died. The doctors have been unable to decide what
the poison was, but the weight of opinion seems to be Iin favor of the
theory of ptomaine in the chicken salad was the cause. ptomaine is a
substance produced by the putrefaction of a dead body. The people all belong
to the higher circles of society.

The last Congress appropriated to each State $15,000 for the establishmentt
of Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges for both white and colored races. 85
5-10 per cent of Kentucky's quota will go to the A&M College at Lexington,
and the remaining 14 5-10 percent, to the colored normal school at
Frankfort, to which an A. & M. school will be attached for colored people.
These appropriations are to continue for 25 years, and to be increased
$1,000 each year until $25,000 is reached.

Rev. H.C. Morrison, the celebrated Kentucky evangelist, closed a meeting in
the Methodist church in Hopkinsvile, with 115 conversions.

Some of our most efficient postmasters, are failing to perform one very
important duty, viz: To report cases of official delinquency that come under
their notice.

A man who will swear in the presence of a minister of the gospel, shows
either that he has no respect for the minister, or no sense of the common
proprieties of good society.

TOURISTS,
Whether on pleasure bent or business, should take on every trip- a bottle of
Syrup of Figs- as it acts most pleasantly and effectually on the kidneys,
liver, and bowels, preventing fevers, headaches, and other forms of
sickness. For sale in 50c and $1.00 bottles by all leading druggists.

Physicians:
J. E. Rader , M.D.
Physician and Surgeon, Jackson, Ky.
41-ly

J.S. Park
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Jackson, Kentucky
Will practice his profession in Jackson and every part of Breathitt county.
Will be ready day or night to attend to his professional calls.
Chronic diseases a specialty.

W.H. TUTT M.D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Office and residence at Judge J.W. Lindon's, Cane Creek.
All calls promptly attended to.
#8



Message #3****************************
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 19:10:37 -0700
From: "Phyllis Hill" <phill@redrock.net
Subject: WILLS:Spencer Co., KY Estate settlement, John Hopewell, 1830

Transcribed by: Anne Livingston - Livings1@aol.com
Date:  12 Aug 1999
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Spencer Co. Will Book A p. 183
Thomas HOPEWELL administrator of John HOPEWELL dec'd returned the following
inventory of accounts paid out by the estate:

amount paid David WAIDE  3.00
amount paid John H. DAVIS
amount paid Edward B.  MILLS  2.16 1/4
amount paid Henry RUSSELL  5.94
amount paid Isaac LAWSON  10.00
amount paid Hanes TICHENOR  1.57
amount paid John LILLY  2.00
amount paid McKAY & MILLS  3.75
amount paid James HOPEWELL  16.25
amount paid Clerk of Spencer Co. Court  4.41 1/4
amount paid Sheriff of Spencer Co.  1.69
amount paid Achilles EASLEY 1.50
amount paid Joseph RAY  7.50
amount paid Samuel MERRIFIELD  5.00
amount paid Benjamin DOOME  8.12
amount paid John MERRIFIELD  3.00
amount paid administrator for services rendered  11.00

We the undersigned have examined the accounts of Thomas HOPEWELL admin'r of
John HOPEWELL Dec'd as above stated given under our hands this 30th day of
october 1830
John ESTBERN or ESTBURN
VIncent DAVIS

Recorded Spencer Co. KY Court 8 Nov 1830

 

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