NEWS: 14 May 1880, Sentinel Democrat, Montgomery Co., Ky *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ********************************************************************** Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 00:10:12 -0400 From: "Elizabeth Smith" Sentinel Democrat Friday, 14 May 1880 WIND DIET. Mr. J. W. Hedden left Wednesday for West Liberty, in the interest of the DEMOCRAT, which has been run on wind and promises for some time. We trust our Morgan friends will send Mr. Hedden back with lots of cash. - -------------------- LOCAL PENCILINGS Mr. H. C. Brown is standing his horse at his home stable, instead of at Owings' stables, as heretofore announced. Dick Everett, at the O. K. barer shop says he hates to close his shop, but will keep open the later Saturday nights. Mrs. Florence Finley More, of Louisville has engaged in the Masonic Temple and will commence a class there at once in dancing. Jas. McKee has just added four bran [sic] new buggies and a new buck wagon to his livery stock. He can furnish some tiptop turnouts now. Last Monday morning our enterprising hardware merchants Messrs. Hanley & Fesler, sold in Lexington a steam thresher and separator. Chas Russell, of the Estill Furnace, was in the city last Tuesday. He fire up his furnace last Saturday, and expected to put on the blast tomorrow. T. Corwin Anderson traded his fine trotting stallion "Bob Strathmore," to E. P. Noell, the great Short-Horn man of Tennessee, for $2,000 worth of Short-Horn cattle. The School Commissioner requested the chairman of each committee in each district in the county to call and get blank notices and fill them for the election of trustees. Henry Senieur last August set out some good sized apple limbs that had been cut from the trees, and this spring the limbs put forth leaves, bloomed out and now have some little apples on them. The old reliable "Blue Grass Route" will run excursion rates to the May Festival, at Cincinnati, May 18th to 21st inclusive. Round trip from Lexington only $3. The Kentucky Central is strictly reliable, and a very pleasant road to travel. The turnpike election at Sideview for selection of officers of Mt. Sterling and North Middletown Turnpike Company resulted as follows: C. O. Moberly, President; Sim. Priest, Treasurer, and Jno. H. Mark, John K. Arnold, Charles Gilkey, and Robert Gay, Directors. Wm. Reese has laid upon our table Branlard's Musical Review for May 1890. It includes the songs "Keep the horse shoe over the door." "When you and I were young" and the "Let's be gay waltzes" [quotes misplaced] by Strauss-copies can be obtained of Mr. Reese at 5 cents each. Mrs. V. Hanson, recently purchased in Louisville a large number of Juvenile books, expressly for the young folks and children. It is earnestly to be hoped that parents will take an interest in this interprise [sic] and see that their children embrace the advantages it offers. The Musical Society last Monday night week, re-elected its entire old board of officers, and has resumed its regular meetings for practice every Monday night. Now that the Society has become something of a success it is in order for those who want to aid in making it a permanent institution, to take honorary memberships. We call attention to the advertisement of T. C. Anderson's sale, of Short-horns, which appeared last week, and will appear again next week. This is one of the best herds in the United States, and those interested in developing the interests of Montgomery County, cannot do better than give this sale a wide notice. Mr. T. C. Anderson has presented us with a catalogue of his herd of Short-horns, to be sold at his farm at Sideview, in this County, on Wednesday July 28th 1880. Embracing some 75 of the best bred Short-horns in Kentucky. The catalogue contains some 82 pages and gives each pedigree inf ull. Copies can be obtained by addressing him at Sideview. Mr. J. W. Harrah, alls your attention to a new line of goods this morning and asks a call. We take pleasure in mentioning his large and choice stock of drugs, medicines, paints, pocket cutlery, and especially his very superior flavoring extracts. Mr. Harrah is a liberal dealer, a fine druggist, and strictly reliable in every respect. In prices his goods will compare with any house in the State. Messrs. Berkley & Orear call attention this week to their immense stock of hardware, tools, grates, mantels, agricultural implements, etc. These gentlemen always keep their stock full and fresh and sell as low as the lowest. We would call the particular attention of those contemplating building to their photos of new styles of mantels. They are full in every respect, and will give one all the information needed on this subject. - -------------------- H. L. Stone and the Hargis Case. The numerous friends of Captain H. L. Stone will be gratified to learn that he will have the most time allotted to him of any of the attorneys for the defense. He is expected to consume two days, to-day and tomorrow, or Monday in the argument, his speech being an elaborate revies of the facts in the case. Those who know Capt. Stone feel assured that he will add new laurels to those he has already won. - -------------------- PERSONAL Mrs. Sallie Oldham has been very sick but is improving. Miss Lou Barkley of Bath, is the guest of Mrs. H. L. Stone. Mr. Edd Fogg is delighting his numerous friends here with a visit. H. C. Duff, of Grapevine, Perry County, called on us last Wednesday. Rev. S. F. Taylor, of Paris, has been called to the 2nd, Baptist church at Lexington. Mr. Mason Williams and daughter of Frankfort, are in the city at Joe Jordans. Mrs. L. T. Chiles left yesterday at noon for St. Louis to visit the family of Thos. Metcalf. Mr. R. A. Hurst and Miss Mary Hurst, of Stillwater, Ky., honored us with a call last Wednesday. Judge H. R. French and Mr. A. W. Hamilton are in Louisville attending a meeting of the Grand Commandry. Miss May Horton, of Mt. Sterling, is visiting her sister, Miss Lillie Horton, at B. W. Couchman's.-Winchester Sun. Miss Florence Barlow, one of Richmond's most amiable and popular young ladies, is visiting friends in the city.-Lexington Transcript. Mr. J. G. Trimble, left last Tuesday for Somersville Tenn., Hot springs and Fort Smith, Arkansas. He expects to be absent some 3 weeks. Cards are out for the wedding of Miss Lillie Hilyard Tenny and Joseph Ballister, Russle May 20th, at Wilmington Del. We wish Mill Lillie the most unbounded joy, she is one of the most intelligent and accomplished ladies we have ever met. Our genial young friend, Squire Turner, returned Wednesday from Washington City looking remarkably well. Squire is a genial, wholesouled fellow and will receive a warm welcome from his many friends here. Rev. E. L. Southgate returned to his home in Mt. Sterling Friday morning after preaching in the Methodist church every night for nearly two weeks. Hope he will return soon.-Flemingsburg Times. The beautiful and accomplished Mr. F. C. Barnes called at our sanctum door last Wednesday. He is selling tickets for Dan Rice's Big Elephant Show, John Robinson's Tall Woman Show having given this town the go by. Mr. W. S. Fant has bought the mill belonging to Marshal Hurst, of Mt. Sterling for $1,000. Charlie Dudley left Thursday to take charge of it. Charlie will come home frequently, we expect, to see the "girl he left behind him.-Flemingsburg Times Mr. J. H. Roberts returned from South Carolina last Monday, after a protracted stay of four months. He says he did well with stock and made some money. Crops with the exception of wheat look very well but wheat is consumed by the rust. Oats yield 100 bushels to the acre, and one man got 127 to the acre. Crops of barley have already been harvested. Mrs. Gen. Hanson, who has been canvassing in Louisville and other portions of the State in behalf of the Confederate Orphans' Home is in the city. Mrs. Hanson has met with gratifying success so far, and proposes to continue her laudable efforts in this enterprise. Mrs. Charlotte C. Stockwell, wife of Samuel Stockwell, Sr. died at her home on April 23rd, in the forty-ninth year of her age, after an illness of several weeks. Mrs. S. will be sadly missed around the sick bed, where she was ever ready to minister to the wants of the afflicted. Her funeral took place from her late home Sunday afternoon; services by Rev. E. L. Southgate, of Mt. Sterling.-Flemingsburg Times. Monday's Fire. Last Monday night about 11 o'clock the alarm of fire was sounded, and in just five minutes the R. Apperson, Jr.. had up steam and was throwing water upon the fire, which originated in the cellar of Mr. J. Klass, better known as "Cheap John. The fire was very inaccessible, and it was with great difficulty the pipe-men could reach the flames. Nevertheless the fire was confined to the cellar, and in less than an hour extinguished. The joists of the floor near the door are badly burned, and the floor about ten feet from the door was almost burned through. It was the almost universal belief that the fire was not purely accidental, and on Tuesday morning the street rumors terminated in the ARREST OF MR. J. KLASS. His trial commenced before Judge Garrett Wednesday morning at half past 10 o 'clock, the accused being ably represented by Col. W. H. Holt Maj. O. S. Tenny and M. S. Tyler. The prosecution was equally well conducted by Messers. A. T. Wood, A. B. White and Henry M. Woodford. From the testimony it appears that the fire originated in two places in the cellar about 15 feet from the front. One about the middle, at which point the fire burned through the floor, and about 5 feet from that point. The coal chute, which is a small opening on the sidewalk, was stopped up with a box from the inside and the surrounding cracks stuffed with rags. A basket was also discovered immediately under the stairway covered with loose paper and containing three packages of loose cotton twine and an old hat saturated with coal oil. It was also proven that there was no other entrance to the cellar save through the store, and no entrance to the store save through the front door. The trial continued until 3 o'clock yesterday when the testimony was all in and an adjournment had until this morning for argument. Mr. Kass is under charge of Mr. Jno. Kearns, as guard. He was insured for $5,000.00. - -------------------- Our Schools. We are sure that a series of entertainments are in preparation that have never been surpassed in this town. At the Mt. Sterling Female College, we anticipate a better time than ever; while Mrs. Harris will be fully equal to the emergency and will give a series of exercises that will be very interesting. - -------------------- A Treat of Minstrelsy. Shakespear says something about a man smiling and being a villian; be that as it may, the man who don't [sic] laugh is to be watched. Those who do laugh will bo to hear Duprez and Benedict's Minstrels on the 25, and get fat [?-poor printing]. We have perfect assurance in saying that this troupe will furnish more genuine healthy fun than any organization that has been here lately. - -------------------- SELLING SHORT-HORNS ABROAD. Montgomery Short-Horns. We have frequently asserted that Mt. Sterling is the Short-Horn centre of Kentucky, and this is not seriously denied; now if this is so, why not do as T. C. Anderson proposes to do, sell at home. If stock is carried away and sold in Paris, Lexington, Winchester, these places get the credit and not Mt. Sterling, or Montgomery and Bath counties. If our stock raises would draw trade to this point they must first make us a reputation by having their sales at home. We glory in Mr. Anderson's spunk. - -------------------- Dr. J. F. Jones. This gentleman was born and raised in this city, studied his profession and graduated with high honors in Louisville Kentucky. For some time he has been located at Wades Mill's [just over the Montgomery Co. border], and has there been unusually successful. In a recent dangerous and critical case Dr. Jones managed it so skillfully that the consulting physcian called, (a man of large experience) not only suggested no change in the treatment, but added that all had been done that was necessary. It affords us pleasure to note his success, and to commend him to our people as worthy of their confidence. ----------------------------- STATE NEWS. A wrestling match at Sharpsburg wound up with a broken leg for Charlie Frazier. South Carrollton has had "Pinafore" by a local organization, and has gone wild over it. A Mayfield cat-bird picked the hair off the back of a live calf for nest-building purposes. Every bridge in Franklin County has been damaged or washed away by recent floods. Maysville has located her fair-grounds on a tract of sixty acres, purchased at a cost of $6,400. In Madison County a little daughter of William Hardy was instantly killed by a branch falling from a tree. The noise of the saw and hammer are still resounding at the Blue Licks. Look out for big things the coming summer. A Negro woman in Winchester is the mother of a child that weighed twenty-four pounds and had several teeth at its birth. John Bradley, an insane son of Rye Bradley, of Claysville, Harrison County, jumped from a ferry boat and drowned himself. Near Bowling Green McClellan Garrison grew 2,000 pounds of white Burley tobacco per acre, and sold it at $11 per hundred pounds. In Laurel County an unknown party went into Hiram Taylor's stable and stabbed one of his horses so badly that it had to be killed. Two-thirds of the Republicans of Madison County are negroes, but they are not thought of in the nomination of candidates for office. The coupons attached to $6,000 of the city bonds of Bowling Green were destroyed by the Council this week, and the bonds canceled and filled. The contributions for benevolent purposes by the Presbyterian church at Ashland for the year just closed, amounted to $13.tt for each member. The Richmond Register reports more coal and lumber floated to the market by the raftsmen on Kentucky river this season than ever known before. Madison County pays $300,000 in taxes to the Internal Revenue Department, and the Register asks in return a $30,000 post-office building for Richmond. That Sunday law is not worth a continental fiddler's dam. The glory of making a law is one thing and the glory of enforcing it is an other.-Hawesville Ballot. There is no one in Lewisport pious enough for a Sunday school superintendent and the children there are not taught the way they should go.-Courier Journal. An artesian well at Winchester has been bored to the depth of 650 feet and still progressing. A Cynthiana firm has contracted for one to be bored 2,500 feet deep. Rev. George S. Savage has been Superintendent of the American Bible Society in this State for fourteen years, and has distributed during that time 270,000 Bibles and Testaments. J. M. Thomas has just received a large brick-making machine which he will put up in his lumber yard near the depot. It will be in operation in a short time.-Winchester Sun. Johnathan moore [sic], of Henry County, accidentaly [sic] shot himself with a shot-gun, while hunting squirrels, and is not expected to live. The gun was discharged by his dog leaping against him. There has not been a licensed saloon in Morgan County for the last twelve years and it is believed that a pack of cards has not been sold in the County during the same time.-Courier-Journal. "May be there isn't any God for the United States," said a Canadian-Mayor to Colonel Robert Ingersoll, "but there's one for Canada; and you can't have any hall in this town in which to defame him." "The penitentiary question has been settled at last. The warden system was adopted, and Colonel Stone, of Owenton, elected to the position. Colonel D. Howard Smith was the contending candidate. Mr. James Walsh, the wealthy and generous distiller of this city, has in addition to $9,000 given to Newport charities, just lifted the debt of $10,000 on a church of the immaculate Conception.-Commonwealth. We have no idea what a "continental fiddler's dam" is but we know that the enforcement of the Sunday law will save many a young man from damnation, and dam up a stream of intemperance.-Capital Gazette. A meteoric stone, weighing about 300 pounds, fell into the bed of Caney creek, near Millwood, Wednesday night after which it crumbled away, similar to lime. It attracted much attention.-Maysville Bulletin. 'Squire Sprig, the suposed [sic] leader of the Lawrence County regulators, has been arrested and is in jail at Cattlesburg, awaiting trial. It is believed that the regulators will attempt his rescue, precautions have been taken. [I looked up Regulators in the Kentucky Encyclopedia. They were a group of vigilantes, which had its beginnings in Elliott Co. The uprising spread to other counties in Eastern Kentucky. Evidently, things came to a climax in 1880.] STATE NEWS. (continued) J. N. Williams, a cattle-drover, allowed a shepherd dog to follow him off. A warrant for his arrest was served on him in Casey County by the city Marshall and $5 was handed him to have it dismissed and the dog returned. James H. Love, at first sentenced to death in Madison County for rape, but afterwards sent to the penitentiary for twenty-five years, has been pardoned by Gov. Blackburn, after having served twelve years of his term. He has been a well-behaved prisoner. In Allen County James C. Moore, while at work about his saw-mill, had his head sawed half in two, widely scattering pieces of his skull and brains. Mr. Moore was a very powerful man, and did not lose consciousness, and was living when last heard from, three days afterward. [For some reason, I doubt either the veracity or the accuracy of this report.] J. N. Winn has in his yard a pear tree which will measure fully 15 feet in circumference. It is taller than the average forest tree, and is believed to be the largest tree of its species in the world. Jim Jr. says it bears about two hogsheads of pears annually.-Winchester Sun. Woodford County farmers, having tested the valuable fertilizing qualities of salt are sowing it on their land. Kentucky farmers are awakening to a more thorough and scientific mode of land culture. The old and exhaustive methods will finally be abandoned by all.-Lexington Transcript. As a freight train on the Cincinnati Southern Railroad was passing through a tunnel in Jessamine County, a rock weing about five thousand pounds, fell on a car loaded with oak staves, and crushed through the staves to the bottom of the car and was landed safely at the Nicholasville depot. A vicious bull that kept guard at Headley & Peck's distillery, in Fayette County, was struck by lightning. The benefits resulting favorably to suffering humanity would have been a thousand fold greater if the lightning had struck and consumed the distillery instead of the bull.-Good Templars Advocate. Capt. B. B. Gray has a bantam hen that whips the cat off her kittens and sits on them the same as her chickens. Last Thursday evening we saw her sitting on three chickens and four kittens! Occassionally a kitten would crawl out, when the old hen would scratch him in position, spread herself out, and set down on him.-Henry County Local. A diary for 1880 was picked up in front of the Courier office yesterday. Upon the first page, under the date of January 1st, appears the following: "I shall struggle to be strictly honest this year; but it will be just my derned luck to miss it." "C. J." The owner can have the same by calling and proving property, and paying for this notice.-Williamstown Courier. John P. Flanagan drowned himself in the Rolling Fork, last Saturday night, near his residence at New market, in Marion County. About midnight his wife missed him from the house, and diligent search was made for him. At daylight his body was found in the river near by. He had tied his feet together with a rope, attached the end of the rope to a stump and then jumped into the water. He was supposed to be unsound in mind. - -------------------- Big Sandy Railroad. The following is the report of the Clark Committee, appointed to examine the condition of the work on the Big Sandy road. The report is rather cheering: WINCHESTER, KY, May 10 '80. We the undersigned committee, appointed by the Clark County Court on the first Friday in April, 1880, to go along the line of the E. L. & B. S. railroad and report the result of their observations, do report as follows: We started from Mt. Sterling May 5th and went along said line to Mt. Savage furnace, distance 65 miles. We found at work between these two points, as we learned from the managers along the line, or contractors, or walking boss, 872 men and 356 horses, the main portion of work being done at the most difficult point. We saw large numbers of railroad ties from Casey's Gap (a point 15 miles east of Mt. Sterling). From thence on eastward along the line we saw said ties and poles to erect a telegraph line. Telegraph had been built six miles from Mt. Savage toward Mt. Sterling, and the contractor is required to build one mile per day until finished to Moorehead when the headquarters of the company will be moved to that point, which will be about the 15th of June next. The estimates for work done in the month of April were light, being about $29,000, there being only twelve working days on account of rain and high waters. None of this road already referred to can be used to go down the Ohio River. >From Mt. Savage we went to Ashland and from there to Huntington, W. Va., where the Chesapeake and Ohio road terminates. We traveled along the line of said road and found the piers for the bridge across the Big Sandy river completed and ready for the iron. The bridge when finished will cost about $72,000. We found the work going on all along between Ashland and Huntington; distance between those two points, 14 miles. From Ashland to Mt. Savage is 22 miles, 14 of which has been built by the company of which John Means is President, and known as the Lexington and B. S. R. R. The eight miles of road imcompleted, are under contract for the price of $240,000, to be completed by the first of December next. The right of way as some of us have learned from Dr. Geo. C. Graves, has been settled and paid for from Mt. Sterling to Cattlesburg, except about 2 miles near Mt. Sterling and 2 or 3 other unimportant points. We learn from Chief Engineer that 150,000 road ties have been contracted for, 60,000 of which have been paid for. Cost $12,000 or $15,000. The engineer corps cost the last month $2,200 or $2,300. We are informed by the railroad manager at Huntington that two new locomotives have arrived there for the use of E. L. & B. S. R.R.. No 1 and 2. We confidently believe that the Company is in good faith and intend to build the road. James Chorn. G. E. Farney. Robert B. Graes. John M. Rainey. Sentinel Democrat Friday, 14 May 1880, part 5 STOCK AND FARM. Lambs in Clark $3. Wool in Clark is 35 to 41 cents. Shorthorns are advancing in price. Bourbon charges $1.65 per month for grazing cattle. The Hamiltons sold 65 Shorthorns at Chicago at an average of $217. Joe Chrisman, of Jessamine, has sold 250 lambs at $3.50 to be delivered in May. Price McGrath, of Fayette, sold 10 Southdown ewe lambs to be delivered at weaning time, at $15 per head. At the Jordan Mullins sale in Garrard, sheep sold at $7 per head; horses $60 to $80; hogs $5 per head; cows $25 to $30. Walker Hisle bought on Manday 500 lambs at 4 ½ cents. They are to be delivered June 20th and are to average sixty-five pounds.-Richmond Register. Robert Crooks sold to A. W. English last week, a mare mule for $156 and to Geo. Whitney of Montgomery a mule for $110.-Outlook Chas. Harper bought four yearling steers Monday for $20 each, and three for $57 the bunch. He sold on Friday fourteen yearlings for $20.50 per head.-Outlook. John T. Hughes, of Fayette, has sold to Governor Routt, of Colorado, a pair of chestnut geldings seventeen hands high for $1,500. Rose Bud 8th, bought at Bow Park sale for $600 by Messrs. Hamilton, was re-sold at their sale to S. E. Ward, of Missouri, for $1,300. Garrett Elkin bought for B. F. Robinson, of Lincoln county farmers, 1,500 lambs for May and June delivery, at 4 and 4 ½ cents. Standford Journal. W. N. & M. G. Thompson have sold since our last report 85 work mules to the farmers of this and adjoining counties at $110 to $140 each. Winchester Democrat. Geo. Whitney bought in Bourbon last week twenty mare mule colts, ranging in price from $50 to $60. Mr. Whitney handles nothing but the very fanciest of stock, for which he always pays liberally. On the 20th of March a ewe belonging to Mr. J. J. Tebbs, who resides in this county, dropped a lamb, which is a double buck and ewe. This is considerably more of the hermaphrodite in the animal than we have ever heard of before.-Cynthiana News. We are credibly informed that John Hogan has sold his hemp, upwards of one hundred tons, at ten dollars, to Sparks & Co., of Nicholasville. This amount was the accumulation of some four years, and the most of it very superior and all very good. Kentucky Gazette. Mr. A. J. Alexander's sale of thoroughbred stock, at Woodburn farm, will take place this year on Wednesday, May 26th. His catalogue embraces 19 thoroughbred colts and 21 thoroughbred fillies.-Blue Grass Clipper. T. M. Jones sold for Jesse Powell [I believe these names are correct-there is a black line that goes across all copies made on the microfilm printer that I use.], of Turner's Station, his crop of tobacco, consisting of four hogsheads, at the following prices: $21, $20, $19.25 and $14.25. He also sold the crop of James Crim, of this county, at $20, $18.75, $18.50, $17.50, $9 and $8. The sales were made last Saturday.-Henry County Local. Some of the farmers have been fearful that the depredations of the fly have materially injured the tobacco crop of this season. But we are pleased to learn from reliable sources that the injury will be very slight, many having used straw in covering their beds, with satisfactory results.-Hopkinsville New Era. RICHMOND COURT DAY.-R. E. Edmonson, auchioneer, reports Monday the dullest Court-day he has ever seen here. The farmers were largely detained at home on account of backwardness in crops. About 100 scrub cattle on the market, selling at 2 to 3 sents. Several buyers for fancy saddle and road horses, but only a few changed hands, owing to the owners holding for large prices. Only a few sheep.-Richmond Register. The price of wool still hangs at 35 cents in this locality, but holders are still reluctant to sell at this figure. We were at Harrodsburg on last Monday, but could not find that any sales had been made. The same is true with regard to Standford while nothing is doing here. Holders are confident of their ability to realize 40 cents for the best.-Danville Advocate. Cincinnati Gazette: The condition of the wheat crop throughout the district immediately tributary to Cincinnati was never better at this season of the year. The acreage is the largest ever known and the groth thus far has been almost phenomenal. Our advices are that other crops are almost as promising. Unless unforseen [sic] damage occurs, the harvest of 1880 in this section will be unprecedented. There was a good crowd in attendance at Norvel Benton's Administrator's sale yesterday, and everything offered brought a good price. Twenty-three head of two-year-old cattle sold to Joe Quisenberry for $53 per head. Two head of yearling cattle brought $33 per head. Cows brought from $26 to $56 per head. One extra lot of sheep brought $33 per head. Cows brought from $26 to 56 per head. A few sows and pigs were offered and brought good prices. Twenty-two share of Clark County National Bank stock sold for $150.25 per share. Five shares in the Winchester and Mt. Sterling turnpike road sold for $50 per share. R. E. Edmonson made the sale. The Messrs. Brent estimate that the wool clip of Bourbon for this season will yield $150,000 to $200,000. Thomas Davis purchased of Charles Scott, of this place, two Short Horn bull calves at $50.50 each-Citizen. HON. A. W. Bascom sold to P. P. Ewing, Saturday, nine hogs weighing 214 pounds, at $3.60 per hundred.- Outlook L. A. Goodpaster delivered to J. A. J. Lee Saturday, fifteen hogs, averaging 174 pounds, at $3.50 per hundred.-Outlook Small chickens are selling at $2.50 per dozen in this market. They are not much bigger than partridges.- Yeoman. The farmers of Mercer County are planting sorghum for fodder. It is said to make excellent feed for mules and cattle when green. The return of April 1st to the department of Agriculture shows the increase in the acres sown in wheat last fall to 13 per cent, more that the fall previous. Dr. W. C. Sweeney, of Ash Grove, Mo., has purchased fifteen young graded and thoroughbred bulls in this and Boyle counties, at prices ranging from $40 to $90.-Stanford Journal. Lexington Press: There has been no change in the price of hemp. There is but little left unsold, and still elss changing hands at present. The nominal price still remains at $8. Will Burgin has a ewe which has given birth to lambs three times in fifteen months. She had two at a time. We will bet on this sheep against the field.-Richmond Herald. Tip Bruce sold for S. D. Hinkle to Mr. Shuline, of Louisville, one sorrel coach horse, 5 years, at $250. Also a black road horse for C. I. Pittman, to Barney Crossen, for $400-Advocate. Now is the time to sow cabbage seed for fall cabbage. Sow broadcast thinly in a well prepared piece of ground, rake in the seed and water every afternoon with a sprinkler until the plants get strong. Richmong Register: Mr. Jason Walker, as agent for his mother, Mrs. Nancy Walker, sold on Saturday last to Col. W. M. Irvine 160 acres of land lying on the Barnes Mill turnpike adjoining the latter's Caldwell Farm, at $60 per acre. Messenger and Examiner: From four sheep James stone clipped fifty pounds of wool this spring, and yet Daviess county is not reconed among the greatest wool-growing counties, although she might become so with great profit to the people. Several farmers in Clark county contemplate planting early amber sugar-cane this year, and the purchase of machinery for making molasses and sugar next fall. This variety of sorghum has been very successfully grown in Minesota for the purpose of making sugar, and experienced men from that State will be employed to superintend the work. [Kentucky-made sorghum molasses is delicious, especially with butter and biscuits!] A summary of our crop reports for the week past gives the following results: Wheat, without exception, unusually promising. Grass in good condition. Considerable complaint of damage to tobacco plants by the fly. Generally a fair prospect for fuit; in a few localities the crop will be light.-Commonwealth Those of our farmers who had planted their corn previous to the late heavy rains have now the prospect of having to furrow out some of it and plant again. The ground is covered with a stiff crust of an inch thickness, which prevents the plant from penetrating the surface. Some are giving theirs a heavy harrowing with good results. A good soaking rain would of course set it aright. The Spring meeting of the Kentucky Association will commence on Saturday, the 8th, with the most flattering prospect for a brilliant meeting. The number of horses in training is unusually large. There are 140 now in the association stables, and 100 more are expected, which will make at least seventy-five horses more than have ever been on the track at any preceding meeting. A plan is on foot to build a tobacco warehouse in this city. It is estimated that 2,000 hogsheads of tobacco will be shipped from this depo next year. The astonishing increase in the amount of tobacco planted in this section fully justifies the building of a a warehouse. The area of the crop in this, Woodford, Anderson and Owen counties has been more than doubled already.-Frankfort Yeoman. Many unfavorable reports from the wheat crop are reaching us. One of the best producers in the county says the fly is very generally and vigorously at work, and except when the ground is strong enough for both the grain and fly, there will be no yield of the former. Colonel Mottley made a thorough examination of his big crop Thursday and found some rust upon the blades, but it is hopeful of 20 bushels to the acres from 100 acres of early wheat. The fate of the late sown he considers more problematical. He found no fly in any of it. Warren county is involved in the serious trouble by the destruction of tobacco plants all over Southern and Western Kentucky. Many planters tell us there can't possibly be over half a crop set. We are inclined to think, however, that it is not so bad as that. The biggest tobacco grown in Christian declares that he has never known a season during 40 years' experience that something dreadful was not reported befallen tobacco plants, and yet there had been but one season that the crop was materially shortened by lack of plants. Miss Cornie Oldham sold last week the cottage house on Clay street, adjoining R. A. Mitchell's residence, to H. W. Bain, at $1,500. A Press telegram says: Intelligence from different sections of the State reports that a greater scarcity of tobacco plant is unknown in the number of years, those growing being rapidly destroyed by the tobacco fly. Farmers are so discouraged in many instances that ground prepared for tobacco is being planted with corn and peas. It is not thought that more than one-quarter of the usual crop of tobacco will be made this year. It is now agreed that the fruit crop of this section will be unusually good. This applies not only to apples, pears and peaches, but to grapes, strawberries and raspberries as well. It is very rare for fruit to be seriously damaged after the 4th day of May by frost or freezing, although such cases have sometimes occurred. On the night of the 16th of May, 1846, there occurred a frost that not only killed all the fruit, but the corn eighteen inches high, and in many instances the trees of the forest. -Lexington Press. On May the 5th, a sale of pooled wool took place in Cynthiana, and realized as follows. A lot of black wool to Joshua Woodhead of Falmouth, for 31c per lb. A lot of delaine at 38 1/2c per lb. A lot of fine merino at 28c per lb. A lot of No. 2 clothing at 34c per lb. A lot of tags at 15c per lb. It will be seen that an advance was made on black wool, as the highest market price is 28c. We quote an advance in yesterday's sale of 3c. There was a very small part of the wool sold; as the buyers and holders could not agree in their notions of the price of wool. Therefore the following wool remains to be sold: Twenty thousand pounds of No. 1 Combing wool. About five thousand pounds No. 1 Clothing wool. Three thousand pounds No 2 Combing wool. Printing-Office Secrets. A properly conducted printing-office is as much a secret as a Masonic Lodge. The printers are not under oath of secrecy, but always feel themselves as truly in honor bound to keep office secrets as though triple oathed. Any employe in a printing office who willingly disregards this fact in regard to printing-office secrets would not only be scorned by his bretheren of the craft, but would lose his position at once. We make this statement because it sometimes happens that a communication appears in a newspaper under an assumed signature, which excites comment, and various parties try to find out who is the author. Let all be saved the trouble of questioning the employes of the printing-office. They are know-nothings on such points as these. On such matters they have eyes and ears, no mouth, and if they fail to observe this rule, let them be put down as dishonorable members of the craft. It is the same in job printing. If anything is to be printed and kept secret, let proper notice be given for the desire for secrecy and you might as well question the Sphynx as one of the printers, so that even the secret books of the lodges are printed without fear.-Ex. - ---------------------------------------- The Cantata of Esther. The Clark County Democrat expresses the sentiment of her people: The coming of the Mt. Sterling Musical Society to render the beautiful "Cantata of Esther" had been heralded but a short time before our people, yet they were greeted with one of the largest and most appreciative audiences that ever assembled in the hall. The part of each performer was executed to perfection and in a manner that would have reflected credit on any of the eastern troupes of far greater pretensions. The costumes were elegantly gotten up and the scenery was particularly attractive. The tableaux were very fine, and the one in act 5th scene 1st, we have rarely seen equalled. Where all did so well that it would seem invidious to particularize, yet we cannot forbear mention of the names of Prof. J. W. Crum, Mr. G. Ed Matthews, L. B. Dickerson, Judge Garrison, Miss Hattie Fitch, Mr. L. F. Bosworth, Miss Nettie Howell, Miss Carrie Voris, Misses Cheatham, Miss Emma Thompson, Mrs. Turner, and Mrs. Strossman, and the fine playing of the pianists, Mrs. Kirkpatrick and Mrs. Connelison. The gallant guards and the chorus of children should also not be forgotten. Judge J. J. Eubank, of this place, filled the part of Haggai very acceptably. Indeed, we think our Mt. Sterling neighbors should feel proud of the hearty welcome received from their Winchester friends, all of whom join us in a unanimous request for them to "come back again." The party came down on a special train at 5 o'clock in charge of theat cleverest of conductors, Capt. C. C. McMichael, and returned the same night. The total receipts were about $185. ---------------------------------------- Williamstown Courier While two boys, named Joseph and Thomas Heinrich, were feeding the stock in their barn, near Crittenden, during a thunder storm early Monday morning, last week, a bolt of lightning struck the barn, killing the boys, also two horses. - ---------------------------------------- Flemingsburg Democrat: Don't bother your boy when he has a corn knife. The other day Jacob Gossett undertook to chastise his boy who had one of these implements in his hand, and young Moses, for that was his name, went at the old man just like he was cutting up corn. The old man lives near Sharpsburg, and is doing as well as could be expected under the circumstances. - ---------------------------------------- LIGHTNING'S HORRIBLE FREAK. From the Mt. Olivet Correspondence to the True Kentuckian:--A terrible thunderstorm passed over this place last Sunday afternoon. About five o' clock a bright flash of lightning seemed to penetrate every house, momentarily blinding many of the inmates, followed by a dull, heavy crash of thunder. In several portions of the town the smell of burning sulphur was very offensive, and many persons at once expressed a fear that lightning had "struck" some near object. The screams of a servant girl living at Rev. J. S. Ruggles, at the M. E. parsonage, soon told that their conjectures were only too true. Upon repairing to the parsonage, a scene of horror and wreck met our eyes unsurpassed, except in number, by the demolished forts on the gory battlefield. The lightning had struck the northeast corner of the parsonage, directly under the eaves, scattering shingles and weatherboarding for many yards, passing along the outer rafter to the cone of the house, thence down the chimney apparently dividing, one bolt discharging its force in an upper room, making a perfect wreck of everything in it-pictures, clocks, furniture, plastering, glass, pieces of weather-boarding and joists covered the floor with ruins. Imagine a twenty-four pound shell exploding in a furnished room, and you will have some idea of the scene; the other bolt passing down between the chimney and weather-boarding to the room below, on its mission of destruction and all probability death. Mrs. Ruggles sitting in front of the grate with her oldest child in her lap. Her babe, about three weeks old, was lying on a bed to the left of the gate, their servant girl was sitting on a lounge to the right, Mr. R. was in his library. Without any warning, instantaneously with the blinding flash, the oaken mantle- piece was torn from its place and dashed violently against the face and forehead of Mrs. Ruggles, producing fractures of the temporal and frontal bones, driving in the nasal spine causing the left eye to protrude from its socket nad otherwise disfiguring her face. Drs. Ismael, Holmes, Wells and Wood were immediately called in and rendered the suffering woman all the relief in their power. After putting her under the influence of chloroform they removed several pieces of the fractured bone. At this writing (Tuesday night) she is in a comatose state, and no hope of her recovery. No one else was harmed in the room, although framents of furniture, casings and brick and mortar were scattered in every direction, literally burying the child on the bed. How this child in its mother's arms escaped is a mystery. Hearing the crash and fearing the house would fall, Mr. R. rushed into the room and with great difficulty, made his way over ruins, and blinded with dust, took his child and started from the house, calling for his wife to follow, and may we never know his grief when hearing no response, he turned and saw her mangled face and almost lifeless form. Mrs. Ruggles was an exemplary woman, a kind mother and a devoted wife, and the hearts of our people go out to her in sympathy for her suffering and to her husband in his affliction. - ---------------------------------------- Consoling. Before they (the Legislature) dissolve we wish to say a word in their behalf. The Yeoman takes three-quarters of a column to say its word. All that can be said in behalf of the Legislature may be said in a half-a-dozen words: It is barely possible their acts were not as bad as they might have been.-Commonweath. - ---------------------------------------- NO, SIR! The people of Mt. Sterling are "everlasting opposed" to the Sunday law.-From various papers. The above is a slander on the decent law-abiding citizens of Mt. Sterling that should not go unrebuked. Our people do not favor a fanatical construction of the Sunday law, but are decidely in favor of its enforcement according to its common sense interpretation. - ---------------------------------------- STATE ELECTOR. No man in our opinion would lend more dignity to the office or carry more weight with him as Elector for the State at large, than Hon. Thos. Jones, of Newport. As a politition [sic] he has no superior, as a Statesman he is broad and comprehensive in his views, and as a Democrat he is unswerving in his devotion to the principles on which the party is founded. He has been tried in public trust and never failed. He was opposed to the Electoral Commission fraud, and his record shows him worthy of every honor, Mr. Jones rises above any thing low or pettifogging and should receive the solid vote of Eastern Ky. He would be a power in the fall election. - ---------------------------------------- Legislative Tribute to Hon. Thos. Turner. Mr. Johnston, of Fayette, having previously entered a motion to refer the House joint resolution of thanks to Hon. Thos. Turner to the Committee on Federal Relations, proceeded to advocate his motion, on the ground that there may be other names of Kentucky Congressmen who ought to be added in this resolution, and therefore he thought the Committee on Federal Relations ought to take the motion under consideration and decide the matter. Considerable debate of a very desultory character ensued, which was made not exactly red-hot, but warm, by a very earnest speech from Mr. Johnson of Montgomery, who claimed that Mr. Turner had taken the lead in procuring from the General Government appropriations for the improvement of the navigation of Kentucky rivers-in fact, was our recognized champion of river improvement in Congress-and that it didn't make any difference whether the resolution originated with a Republican or a Democrat-(It was reported on the floor of the Senate that John D. White, of Clay, was the author of the resolution in the House)-it was a just and every way worthy resolution, and therefore every Democrat in the Senate ought to vote for it. Mr. Johnson opposed the reference of the resolution, because at this late hour of the session, reference or amendment was virtually defeat. He advocated the resolution, moreover, not because it came from a Republican (who was Thos. Turner's political opponent), but because it was just and well deserved by Mr. Turner. That gentleman has certainly been a most faithful Representative, and he hoped that the resolution would not be referred, as proposed by the gentleman from Fayette. After Mr. Johnson the debate was continued by Senators Berry, Mitchell, Hays, Mize, Blackburn, Carpenter, White and others. Mr. Hays offered an amendment to include all of the Kentucky members of Congress in the compliment by the House to Mr. Turner, which was finally adopted. - ---------------------------------------- Hon. Thomas L. Jones, whose handsome presentation of himself in the late race for Governor, will be remembered by our people, is spoken of as a suitable Democratic elector for the State at large. His ability, learning, eloquence and manly bearing eminently qualify him for such a position. Few men in the United States could better fill or more deserve such a trust-Owensboro Examiner ------------------------------ CORRESPONDENCE JOHNSON COUNTY. Flat Gap, Ky., May 3, 1880. We learn with pleasure of the work on the railroad, and hope the contractors may complete their work. Wheat crops are looking better here than I ever saw them in this section before, and there is a larger acreage than usual. Grass and clover are earlier than usual, and farmers are planting corn with all haste. Some are nearly done. Stock is bringing very good prices. Sorghum is attracting the attention of many of our farmers and they are planting large crops. Mr. A. Holbrook, one of our most enterprising merchants, has just returned from Cincinnati with a large stock of goods of all kinds to suit the country trade; but we have heard o talk of cheap goods, for they all go the highest notch here. The Regulators have got Judge Stewart worked up now, and we hope something will be done, for we can do better without them than with them. They took two of their men from the jail at Louisa during Criminal Court. One of them was put in for refusing to answer what the Judge decided to be a competent question, and the other for an indictment for conspiracy, and they wrote the Jude (Stewart) a letter in a rather threatening manner, and he has ordered an extra term of Criminal Court. [According to The Kentucky Encyclopedia, the Regulators[ were a group of vigilantes, which had its beginnings in Elliott Co. The uprising spread to other counties in Eastern Kentucky. Evidently, things came to a climax in 1880.] Our county Democratic Convention was held yesterday, and instructed for Hon. G. N. Brown, of Catlettsburg, for Circuit Judge, and Mr. Kinner, of the same place, for Commonwealth's Attorney. Not much excitement. It is with some feeling of pride that the people of this mountain section witness the progress that our people are making on home improvements, and in the developments they are making. While our farmers are giving more attention to grass and stock, they are developing the fact that this is a fine grazing country; and it is the opinion of many men of experience that this is one of the best sections of the country for sheep raising that can be found in Kentucky. Our mountains also abound in the finest quality of coal and timber, and iron ore is found here in great quantities. Our school here has been prosperous this session, and will close with an entertainment on the evening of May 28th. Prentiss & Co. are moving their oil-boring machinery from here, and from this we infer that oil is a failure here for the present. W. J. - ---------------------------------------- CAMARGO May 12, 1880 Editor Democrat. Mrs. R. G. Salyers, who had been ill for several days, died on last Friday. The whole community sympathise with the bereaved husband and motherless children. It is feared by some who are ontemplating the cultivation of tobacco that the continued drought will seriously hinder the plants from attaining sufficient size to transplant. Several gentlemen of this place and vicinity, started on a fishing expeditin to Red River last Monday. Eddie Kissinger and his beautiful and accomplished wife have been visiting friends near this place for several days. Most of the wool in this section of the County, not previously engaged, has recently been sold and delivered about 35c per lb; a smart decline from 40c; the boom in wool as well as iron lasted a little too long and attained to much attitude. A Sabbath school was organized last Sunday at the M. E. Church, South of this place and I. N. Horten, elected superintendant. Our farmers are generally done planting corn. Freighting on our pike like the Coal road has come to a stand still. The former on account of taking too much toll, and the latter on account of changing too much freight. So we go, and while negotiations are pend-ing, a number of working men and starving women and children are suffering. O. A. H. - ---------------------------------------- GRASSY LICK. May 11, 1880 Items are very scarce; people to busy to tell what they know. Rev. E. L. Southgate preached at Grassy Lick church last Saturday and Sunday. Rev. John Walker, a brother of H. P. Walker, preached here Sunday night. Mr. Walker is stationed at Mt. Zion this year. Although young in the ministry he is a good speaker. G. W. Goodpaster has been unfortunate with his feeding cattle, having lost four head since the first of January. Causes unknown. Mr. Wm. Gay sheared a sheep last week that weight 95 pounds, and the wool that came off it weighed 14 pounds. Preaching at the Grassy Lick church the 5th Sunday at 11 o'clock a.m. The prospect for wheat never looked better at this season of the year. A good deal of it has already headed out. This section of the county will have a large surplus of fruit. Some of the farmers are complaining of their corn not coming up on account of a hard crust since the last rain, but there is a prospect of a good shower that will bring it up. Miss Ella Strode, of Clark county, was visiting Miss Fannie Hunt last week. Professors Crum and Mackie, of Mt. Sterling, attended the Sunday school at Grassy Lick Sunday evening. Mr. Crum had sent out an organ the evening before for the church to try,a nd if they liked it to make a sale. You may guess there was plenty of music. Mr. Mackie did not play nor sing, but looked a good deal at Miss - ---------------------------------------- AARONS RUN May 12, 1880 Editor Democrat. Considerable angling at Henry's mill for "chubbs." Mr. Jacob Johnson who lives near this place, cut open a pumpkin a few days ago, that was as sound as the day it was pulled off the vine. On [End of column-next column starts a new paragraph. This paragraph seems to be completed several paragraphs later.] Mr. C. Bybee has some twenty-four papers of winter cabbage seed, and proposes supplying this neighborhood with plants. A few days ago Dr. Jeffries brought to our "city" lettuce and asparagus for sale. Doctor says it was his first trip marketing vegetables. I had the pleasure a few days ago of eating fried chickens with Mrs. Ann Caywood. It was the first "ripe" chicken I had seen this spring. Mr. White solicitor and collector for the DEMOCRAT was here a few days ago strictly on "biz." T. G. Denton, has insured his store house and goods in the Insurance Co. of London, and Liverpool. Having been burnt out once, Tom knows the value of insurance. Mr. George Whitney has bought several mule colts in this neighborhood. He paid from $50 to $70 each for them. Mr. Daniel Henry informed us that he is still using the same coffee mill that he bought when he first went to house keeping 27 years ago, and says it grinds well yet. [This seems to be the end of the incomplete paragraph, above] opening it he found three vines growing inside, two of the three were 6 inches long and the other 8 inches. Mr. Thorton Johnson had a valuable mare to die with colic last Tuesday morning. On last Saturday evening Mr. Leslie Greene's horse attached to a spring wagon ran away, upsetting the wagon and breaking both shafts, after becoming detached from the wagon it ran a mile or more before it was stopped. It became frightened at some wool Mr. Green was unloading. The horse was but slightly injured. Thos. G. Denton, has completed his new storeroom, at Aarons Run, and has received a full and complete assortment of new spring and summer goods, consisting of dry goods, groceries, clothing notions, queensware and etc, which he is selling at panic prices for cash. He intends keeping a full supply of every thing that should be kept in a country store, and will sell the same as cheap as any other house in Kentucky. His terms are cash, or country produce, such as bacon, butter, eggs, rags, feathers, old iron, and etc. Give him your trade as he is worthy of your patronage. - ---------------------------------------- Big Sandy. Greenup Independent: Vinson & Converse have pitched there [sic] tent near Mt. Savage furnace, and are hard at work stretching the wire for the railroad telegraph line C. F. Weaver has been appointed inspector of this part of the Railroad Company'' work. The contract for the building of the Morehead depot has been let. A lot of cement was shipped from Louisville to the Licking River bridge Monday. Work along the line is being pushed. McMahon & Green have 280 hands at work; as many as they can atvantageously [sic] use; the other contractors on the Eastern part have about 220 men while 550 are at work on the portion west of Triplett's tunnel. - ---------------------------------------- Hon. Thos. Turner. Hon. Thos. Turner is doing valuable service in Congress to his State and his constituents. He did more than either of the other Kentucky Congressmen to get the appropriation of one hundred thousand dollars for the Kentucky river, which is now being expended; and he has just persuaded the Committee on Commerce to recommend an appropriation of $210,000 more to this river. The people of Kentucky will honor Mr. Turner for his practical, sensible, benificial course in Congress. He has spent very little time in talking, but has worked like a beaver for his constituents. That $210,000 will open the Kentucky river to the mountains and elect "Tom Turner" to Congress again.-Capital Gazette.