NEWS: Sentinel Democrat, 21 May 1880, 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: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:00:41 -0400 From: "Elizabeth Smith" Mt. Sterling Sentinel-Democrat Friday, 21 May 1880 RELIGIOUS The Methodist Bishops tell the General Conference that the 16,000 Methodist Churches under their supervision owe debts aggregating $7,000 000. They severely censure the conduct of those trustees who mortgage the church property in order to defray the current church expenses. Rev. D. A. Walker, pastor of the colored Methodist church at this place is conducting a most successful protracted meeting at his church. He was assisted by Rev. Hall, until after Monday night. Rev. John Reeves, pastor of the Methodist church (white) preached for him Tuesday night. There have been about forty additions to the church up to this time.-Reporter - ---------------------------------------- A Curious Fish. Last week J. H. Mark, L. C. Kash, and Rid Young, of this county, were fishing in Licking below Ragland's Mills, when they caught a spoon-bill cat, or Sturgeon, which weighed 23 ¾ lbs., and measured from tip of the bill to the end of the tail 4 feet 1 inch. The bill is a long, flat, bony substance, and measured 10 ½ inches. The fish made two meals for four men, and was not all consumed. Mr. Kash, who brought the fish-head to our office says it had no bones save the back-bone, and that it was more like gristle than bone. [Could this fish have been a longnose gar?] In the same place they killed a rattlesnake measuring 4 feet and having 13 rattles. - ---------------------------------------- Thanks. Editor Democrat. Allow me to avail myself of your columns to express to the good people of Mt. Sterling, my high appreciation of their kindness to us in our recent affliction. The loss of a dear son is robbed of some of its sorrow by the evidences of sympathy which this people allows extend to those in affliction, and for which they shall always have my warmest gratitude. Very Truly, Mrs. Lon Jordan. May 20, 1880 - ---------------------------------------- Court Day Sales. 50 or 60 cattle on the market, generally of a very inferior quality. One lot of fair yearlings sold for $27.60. A mixed lot of mountain stock sold at prices ranging from $12 to $18, about $2 and $2.25 per hundred. One work mule sold for $78. A few common horses sold from $20 to $50. 1 brood mare and colt brought $150. Business generally was very dull. A good crowd in attendance. John F. Bean - ---------------------------------------- Final of the Fire. Just an hour after we had locked our forms last Thursday, the Kass case was closed, and Mr. Klass held over in the sum of $1,300 bail to answer at the Circuit Court the charge of house burning. We find, by investigation, that an entrance might be effected to Mr. Klass's store by the window in the rear, if the man were not too large. Mr. Blitz, of Louisville, became Mr. Klass's bondsman. - ---------------------------------------- A New Light. One of the latest achievements of invention is a new coal oil lamp now on exhibition at J. T. Breen's. It requires no chimney, and gives a strong, clear light, free from smoke or odor. The lamp has clock-works arranged in the bottom of a tube, running a fan, which thus creates a strong draft, causing the lamp to burn with great brilliancy. It is said to save oil as well as chimneys. - ---------------------------------------- Our Cemetery. A walk through our beautiful hill-top city of repose must at once impress one with the fact that a master-hand has it in charge. The fences surrounding the lot have been neatly whitewashed, the shubbery [sic] trimmed and the monuments cleaned and polished. It is at once a credit to the town and to the Odd Fellows, who own it. Mr. Baily now has charge of the grounds nad his work speaks for itself. - ---------------------------------------- Death of J. W. Jordan. Last Thursday evening about 9 o'clock Mr. J. W. Jordan, Mayor of Mt. Sterling breathed his last. Saturday morning his funeral was preached by Elder. Jas. Harding at the Christian Church, assisted by Rev. Wm. E. Keller, of the Presbyterian church. After the services the Knight Templars took charge of the remains, and performed their beautiful and impressive ceremonies. An immense crowd assembled at the church and followed the remains to the grave. During the service the business houses were closed in token of respect for his offical character. Mr. Jordan was 39-years of age, and leaves a devoted and loving wife, and widowed mother comfortless. In another column will be found a beautiful tribute to his memory. - ---------------------------------------- The County Levy. The County Court, Tuesday, fixed the poll tax at $3 for each male over 21 years old, and assessed 3 cents on the $100 for old railroad debt, and 7 cents on the $100 toward the Mt. Sterling, Hinkston and Bath county turnpike. [I debated about whether to include a couple of items in this column that used racist language. I decided that, since one reason I am posting the newspapers is to illustrate the times, that it was appropriate to do include them.] LOCAL PENCILINGS. Go to Bryans for frames. We've got a boom in dancing-two classes organized. Read our Powell letter. It is brim full of good things. There was more drunkenness on the streets last Monday than for months. The DEMOCRAT office printed 10,000 bank checks in three hours, last Tuesday morning. A petition is being circulated for the pardon of Fed Magowan. His term will be out in June. The Bath Reporter advocates Jno. D. Young as elector from the 10th district. It's a good suggestion. The new gallery in the Temple Hall has been completed, and the scenery is expected in a few days. The Mayor of Sharpsburg has resigned, deeming himself ineligible. He was the best officer the town had. The working model of the Strasburg clock was on exhibition Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, at Masonic Hall. It is astonishing what an amount of chin music is indulged in upon topics that the narrator doesn't understand. By mistage last week a local notice of T. G. Denton's store at Aarons Run was put in the Aarons Run items. It was our fault. Major W. H. Smith is erecting a cabinet shop in the rear of his store for the better accomodation of his cabinet workman. Wm. Campbell's handle factory moves slowly toward completion, the foreign parties delaying sending necessary machinery. Our better half returns her kindest thanks to Mr. Wm. Reese for a constant supply, since her convalescence, or the richest strawberries. One day last week some one fenced the Coal Road, and the engineer had to get out and "let down the bars" before the train could pass. Photos of Cantata at Bryan's. Henry Owens' the belegerant [sic] darkey arrested Monday by Mr. Punch, was Tuesday fined $17.70, and now languishes in the work-house. We are informed by Mr. Conlee, that five miles from his house, in Powell County there is some first-class lithograph stone, equal to the German stone. Last Friday Mrs. Dr. Bryant, an insane woman in Lexington, gave her little girl, aged 3 years, a dose of morphine, from which she died in three hours. Gen. H. P. Ranson, while training some vines on a trellis fell down some eight or ten feet, breaking his arm at the wrist and inflicting several bruises. There seems to be a couterfeit [sic] nickle manufactory near Sharpsburg, and a correspondent of the Outlook thinks a little effort by the officers will find it out. Mrs. Owens, of North Middletown lost a fine young filly some three weeks ago, and Monday found it at Mr. Miles Kash's. An advertisement found it for her. No wonder that Tom Derrickson wrote such a good letter this week, that new baby at his house so filled him with gladness that he couldn't help it. Grassy Lick correspondent ditto. The Winchester Sun, peaking of reorganizing the band there, says "there is nothing to do but get up a lip and sail in." Then she'll have a band. Her editors, we presume, can furnish the "lip." Duprez & Benedict have bills posted equal to a circus. What a treat we do anticipate on Tuesday, May 2th. Do attend the show and laugh and get fat. It will be worth the price of admission to hear Joel Fesler laugh. Se Boudolr [?-smeared] photos at Bryan's. Last Saturday a contraband stepped into Mr. Breen's drug store and asked if he had any "mustaches" for sale. Mr. Breen replied that he had but one pair left, and they were so fastened at one end that they were not saleable. Near Riley Johnson's shop in this county, a black man named Codeny, living at Mrs. Wm. Bridges, struck a white boy named Carr over the eye with a club, denting the skull and cutting a gash nearly two inches long. The boy is only twelve years old and is dangerously hurt. The negro has not been arrested. The following is the graduating class of the Mt. Sterling Female College for 1880: Misses Alice Anderson, Ida Browning, Mattie Butler, Alice Clarke, Cora Cassidy, Annie Gullion, Enola Moore, Mittie Reynolds, Nellie Shields, Maggie Whitney, Mary Winn, and Mr. Will E. Bean. We have always been blessed with the most genial, pious ministers of any place anywhere, and are glad to know that the addition of the Rev. Mr. Powers, of the Episcopal church, only widens and gladdens the circle. He is a warm, affable gentleman, fully alive to the interests of his flock, and will be greatly popular with our people when they know him. Last Monday morning as Mr. Pat Punch and Mr. Kearns were escorting a drunken negro to jail, a drunken white man followed behind, and every time Africa gave a drunken yell, drunk No. 2 would plant a No. 14 boot in the posterior portion of his anatomy. It was rather amusing to spectators until Mr. Kearns discovered the assault and stopped it. New scenic effects at Bryan's. LOCAL PENCILINGS We never knew the possiblities of grapes, until we ate some of Mrs. C. M. Slocum's grape preserves. Since then we have taken back every thing we ever said about grape preserves. If you are anxious to really enjoy one of these hot days, just get one of Messrs. Calk's nice steaks and if it don't make a fat streak clear down your back we don't know what will. Mr. A. Conner and Mrs. Eliza Owings, both of this city, left yesterday morning for Cincinnati and were married at the Burnet House. They enjoyed their honymoon [sic] at the May Festival. Among the curious and beautiful things in our merchantile stocks there are none superior to that Eastlake set of W. H. Smith. Another beautiful set is a walnut dressing case suit, the curled vaneering [sic] of which is a work of art. Some sets are imitations of the curled walnut and no one but an expert could tell it from the genuine. A young bride and groom from the rural precincts were on the streets Tuesday, and the confidence with which she clung to his arm, and the bashful manner in which he submitted to her loving twining, showed at once that he was longing for green fields and shady groves. The confidence of a young bride and the diffidence of a young groom are wonderful. New style photographs at Bryan's. - ---------------------------------------- Large Asparagus Mr. Johnson Young, brought into our office for Mrs. Garrison, the finest bunch of Asparagus we ever saw. It was as white as snow, and its average measure was 3 ½ inches around the stalk. One stalk measured 4 ½ inches. Who can equal it? - ---------------------------------------- Selfish Nearly all great enterprises are for the peculiar benefit of some one or a few persons, nevertheless the whole community has an interest in the success of every home undertaking. Therefore it stands us in hand to look after our local papers, our Short-Horns, our horse stock, our banks, in short-every-thing-that-has-an-"our" to it. If you can help along any thing in the community by word or deed, do it. If you get no immediate benefit, you can be certain to be an indirect beneficiary. - ---------------------------------------- Our Rivers. We received the following dispatch from Hon. Thos. Turner last Monday. Its contents will gladden the hearts of our mountain friends: WASHINGTON D. C. May 16, 1880. Editor Democrat. Bill appropriating $200,000 to Kentucky, $55,000 to Sandy, and $65,000 to Cumberland River and Falls has passed the House. THOS. TURNER. - ---------------------------------------- Cutting Affray. Last Monday Barney Bailey, who lives at Talt Embry's, on the Owingsville pike had some unkind words with Henry Drake, but there were no blows passed between them. Geo. Yarber happening up at the time, immediately took part in the controversy, cutting a gash with a two edged dirk in Bailey's right arm between the elbow and the shoulder, some 4 inches long and reaching the bone. Also inflicting a long gash in his hand as he attempted to ward off the blow. Yarber immediately took flight. A warrant was issued for him Tuesday. - ---------------------------------------- Murder. About 11 o'clock last Sunday night Ed Higgins, of color, who has been working at Algin Thomas's, near the Levee, went to the home of his wife near the same place, and finding Horace Ketchen there in company with his wife, he set to with a grubbing hoe and fractured his skull. Then a severe tussle ensued between him and his wife, as is evident from the surroundings, and finally with the same deadly instrument he dealt her two blows which forever-ended her troubles. The man Ketchen died Monday morning from his wounds. Higgins has not been found, but search is being made for him. No one saw the fearful struggle save a daughter of the murdered woman, some 7 or 9 years old. This child says Higgins was naked when he came in, save an old apron, and that none of them had gone to bed. Her mother was combing her hair at the time the attack was made. Higgins has been jealous of Ketchen for some time. - ---------------------------------------- Short-Horn Sale. The sale of T. C. Anderson which will take place in this city on the 28th, of July next promises to be a most important Short-Horn event. From the catalogue to which we referred last week we glean the following facts. The heard to be sold compreses [sic] 75 head of 36 different families-66 females, 9 bulls and 10 suckling bull calves, that will be sold at foot. England, Canada, and most every breeding State finds representatives in this herd. A better and more varied selection has never been offered. There is scarcely a prominent herd in America that is not represented in this sale. As this is the first important sale of Short-Horns ever announced to take place in our city, or County, we trust that our people generally will give Mr. Anderson that hearty co-operation which his enterprise deserves. There are no suckling cow calves in this lot that will be offered; in fact very few that are not in the prime of life for all practical purposes. It will be a borne in mind by most of our readers that Mr. Anderson topped most every sale during 1879, and the latter part of 1878, thus giving our people the assurance that when they buy they are getting the very best of the Short-Horn species. - ---------------------------------------- Great Sacrifice. The large stock of clothing, furnishing goods, boot, & shoes, damaged by the late fire will be sold at slaughtering prices. Now is your time to get goods at your own figures, don't delay as every damaged article will and must be sold at Cheap John's. 51 mo. J. Klass proprietor. PERSONAL. Jo Hanly was in the city last Tuesday. Miss. Emma Thompson visited the Capitol last week. Mrs. J. W. Frazier and family are visiting in Cynthiana. Miss Ellen Dailey, left Tuesday for Cincinnati to purchase the latest styles. Hon. Henderson Conlee, of Powell, was in the city and county two days last week. J. W. Kendall and wife, of West Liberty passed through our city homeward last week. Mr. Jas E. Basset who has been at the Olympian Springs some time was in the city Tuesday. Judge N. P. Reid, of Bath, and Wm. Bell, of Bethel, were in the city Monday and Tuesday. Charley Peters who has been engaged with the engineer corps for some two months, was in the city last Monday. John Thomas and sister, of Mt. Sterling were in our city last Sunday, the guests of Miss Fannie Visscher.-Outlook. Mr. Geo. C. Coleman, has been in the city several days in the interest of the K. C. The Mt. Sterling girls all travel that road now. Mrs. Georgia Turner, Mrs. V. Hanson, and Misses. Fannie Reese, and Feddie Masterson, left at noon Tuesday to attend the Cincinnati May Festival. Mr. Jim McKee, and family, of Mt. Sterling, were the guests of their mother and father, Mr. And Mrs. John McKee, Sunday and Monday last-Mercury. J. Dunlap Gay left Tuesday for Grayson Springs in Boyd county. We surmised there was a girl in the case, but Dunlap says he goes for a five or six weeks search for health. Prof. Mueller the dancing master and muscian, called on us last Monday. He is thouroughly enthused with his profession and overflows with sparkling wit nad poetry like champagne. "Andy McIntire, Dentist" is a sign hanging out of the east side of Adair & Brewington's building, and by stepping up stairs into the Doctor's room you will see a very handsome place. He is no swaddling infant in his profession, as you may see by a testimonial elsewhere-Carlisle Mercury. Mr. C. F. Hamilton, of Cynthiana, is in our city taking orders for Oil Portraits, that is pictures enlarged by the solar camera and finished in oil.paint. They are very beautiful and natural. Mr. Hamilton is a gentleman by instinct and cultivation and comes highly recommended. We take pleasure in presenting him to our people knowing an acquaintance with him will be a pleasure. - ---------------------------------------- BORN. MASON.-to the wife of John H. Mason, on May 19th 1880, a son, weight 12 pounds. Donivan.-To the wife of Jas. Donivan, on Tuesday May 18th, 1880, twin sons. - ---------------------------------------- DIED. OREAR.-On Saturday evening May 13th, 1880, near Columbia Boone County Missouri. Mrs. Fannie Orear, aged 76, years. She was the mother of Mr. J. A. Orear, of this place. - ---------------------------------------- Mr. Punch, who is kind-hearterd to a fault never lets his kindness stand in the way of duty. So Wednesday when he found his regular deputy drunk, he quietly put him in jail. - ---------------------------------------- Married Twice. James Welsh, of Powell, came here last week and procured license to marry Miss Bettie Holly, of this county. The ceremony was proceeding and the couple were made man and wife, when the minister discovered that the license had not been signed. This made a hasty visit to Montgomery necessary, and on the groom's return he was again united to his true love. Henderson Conlee says the Legislature should have sat long enough to have protected Powellmen from the necessity of marring twice when hey take a Montgomery girl. - ---------------------------------------- The Favorite for Colonists and Emigrants of all points in the West, is via Cincinnati or Louisville and St. Louis, over the world renowned Vandalia Line. - ---------------------------------------- FEME SOLE. Notice is hereby given that B. F. Wyatt and his wife Etta R. Wyatt, have this day filed their joint petition in the Montgomery Circuit Court, praying the Court to empower said wife to use, enjoy, sell and convey for her own benefit any property she may own or acquire, free from the claim of her husband; to make contracts, sue and be sued as a Feme Sole, and to trade as such and dispose of her property by will or deed. W. M. H. WINN, Attorney. STATE NEWS. Over $3,000 has been secured for a new Christian Church at Stanford. In Todd county Miss. Minnie Collins killed a snake nine feet and five inches long. Judge Durham declines to be a candidate for Congress in the eighth district and "Little Phil." Will receive the nomination without opposition. The Hon. William Crutcher Ireland, Circuit Judge in the Sixteenth district, will deliver the address of welcome to the editors at the Ashland meeting. The Rev. L. D. Jones and wife, of Calloway County, celebrated their golden wedding last week. It was attended by fifty three of their children and grandchildren. The new State Geologist, Procter, it seems, is not a graduate of any scientific school. The Maysville Republican says that he is emphatically a self-made scientist. Our people seem generally satisfied with the Sunday law, and Sunday loafers now stroll around to the various churches to see "what is doing at such places anyhow."-Mercury. James D. Hale and wife, of Letcher County, are aged respectively seventy-two and seventy-one years. Mr. Hale is cultivating, without assistance, ten acres of corn and his vegetable garden. The Frankfort correspondent of the Courier-Journal says that there are now in Kentucky ten thousand notaries public, and that Gov. Blackburn has appointed more than all the other Governors together. John Mock, of Millersburg, has gotten up a new invention for running dogs. He ties a June bug with a thread just behind a dog's shoulders and the buzzing which resembles that of a Bumble bee makes the dog get up and howl. The Richmond Register reports that E. P. Benton, of Speedwell, was out squirrel hunting last week with a rifle, and found some fish in a deep hole in Drowning creek. He fired at one and killed three, the one ball passing entirely through the bodies of all of them. A Courier-Journal letter from Arlington, Ballard county, says that a street loafer named John Kasee entered the house of Mr. McNealy while all the inmates were out but a motherless girl ten years old, and was attempting rape when he was discovered. Kasee is under arrest. Responsible parties in Ballard County propose to build and furnish a Court-house and clerks' offices and erect a County jail at Wickliffe free of cost to the County. This is done in consideration of the removal of the County seat from Blandville. The change will give the County seat telegraphic communication with the world. Representative McElroy, of Warren County, is of the opinion that the last Legislature surpassed any one held since the war in the amount of valuable and important work accomplished. He believes that when the public acts are enforced and better understood their value will be appreciated and the length and cost of the session forgotten. A little six-year-old girl in Breckinridge County, while crossing a stream on a foot-log, fell into the water, but she had in her hands a closely-covered tinbucket, which she clasped close to her breast and which buoyed her up while the current swept her down stream for a considerable distance. Finally she lodged against a dreift of logs and escaped by crawling over them. Bob King is dead. He was aged about 32 years, and died recently at the farm of William Biggs, Jr., near the mouth of Tygarts Creek. He had carried his master, pulled the ploy and buggy, for a great number of years than usually falls to the lot of a horse, and being a horse of correct habits he died full of honors and years with an unblemished body and an unstained reputation.-Independent. There was an embarrasing young man at Bowling Green, Ky., who escorted the preacher's fair daughter to church on Sunday night, and arrived just in time to hear the reverend gentleman read from the Bible as the couple marched up the aisle: 'My daughter is grievously tormented with a devil.' Which verse occurs in an account of a New Testament miracle. The congregation smiled and it would be hard to tell which felt worse, the preacher, his daughter, or the escort. -Intelligencer. A desperate affray occurred in Wayne county on Thursday night week. A masked party of six or seven men went to the house of a man named Powell and attempted to take him. He boldly resisted and with the assistance of his heroic wife killed one and wounded three of his assailants. He escaped, but his wife as shot in the arm and badly wounded. The man killed proved to be John Will Smith, who lived in the northern part of Pulaski county. In the scuffle Mrs. Powell pulled a handkerchief from the face of one of the attacking party, and says she recognized Phillips, the man who had threatened her husband if he had appeared against him as a witness in a case in which he was charged with killing a man named Hutchison. On the following morning Powell went to Monticello and procured warrants, and three of the men were arrested and are now in jail. - ---------------------------------------- An old lady in Lexington in looking among some old clothes found $276 in an old dress pocket. It was money her boy had given her when he left the state to avoid Kirby Smith's forces. He afterward died in the Federal Service, and the money was never thought of. - ---------------------------------------- Some fiend fired upon Dr. R. H. Wilson in Louisville, the ball striking and flattening itself against his gold watch. He was at work at his show window, and has no clue to his would-be assassin. - ---------------------------------------- At a meeting of the city council of Mt. Sterling, Ky., held May 14th, '80, the undersigned were appointed a committee to draft suitable resolutions touching the death of Mayor Joe Jordan, who reported the following: WHEREAS, It has pleased an Omniscient Providence to take from our midst our Mayor and brother officer; be it resolved. 1st. That by his death, we are deprived of an officer, dilligent, faithful, and true in the discharge of all his duties. 2nd. That these resolutions be entered on the records of the city, and a copy thereof furnished to the family of the deceased, and also to the Mt. Sterling DEMOCRAT, Sentinel and Republican for publication. Jas. H. Hazelrigg W. S. Thomas Jno. W. Rose Committee CORRESPONDENCE. POWELL COUNTY. Fishing Notes, Crops, Personals, &c. Our Geneal Correspondent Casts his Net for News and Mages a Big Haul Mrs. Savilla Kirkpatrick is quite low with bronchitis. Mr. James Derickson of Montgomery, is visiting friends and relatives in this county. Messrs. Thomas and Norcross are doing an extensive buisiness at their saw-mills, four miles west of Stanton. Mrs. Dr. R. F. Hood is visiting relatives in Lincoln county, and although Dr. Hood is an excellent housekeeper, he says, "Tis sad to be alone." The people of our county are very much elated on account of the great prospect for a railroad being built at an early day to extend along the Red River Valley. Born, to the wife of H. T. Derickson, on Thursday, the 6th day of May 1880, a son. Weight, 11 pounds.-On the same day, to the wife of Newton Birch, a son. Weight, 12 ½ pounds. Wheat crops are in excellent condition. Corn is coming up exceedingly well. The prospect for an abundant yield of apples is good. If nothing in the future occurs to damage peaches we will have a better crop than for ten years past. Spring is here in real earnest and our green carpeted Red River Valley, and hill sides and mountain tops all decorated with the most luxurient follage [sic] presents a most pleasing spectacle to the eye, which enables us at this season of the year to boast of as grand scenery as any perhaps, in the Union. Mrs. Sarah Blackburn, of Stanton, has an extensive and stylish supply of millinery goods, and is prepared to please the most refined taste of any lady, young or old. Mrs. Blackburn understands how to please the ladies, and her vocation will doubtless prove remunerative to herself and to those who purchase from her as she is determined to sell her goods for reasonable prices. Mr. James Deshong, of Montgomery, has introduced into this county a patent coffee roaster, which is quite a valuable article on account of its saving qualities, and also on account of its labor saving properties. Mr. Deshong cannot speak in too great praise of his patent coffee roaster, but we think he was to some extent exagerating when he remarked to a beautiful young lady in Powell that he felt sure that if she would be his bride and roast coffee for him with his patent roaster and sweeten the same by her very presence that the use of such a stimulant would certainly increase his height in ten years more to twelve feet. Mrs. Martha Crow, consort of David Crow, departed this life on Saturday morning, May 15, 1880, after a most painful and prolonged illness. Mrs. Crow was the daughter of Benjamine and Martin -----------, of this county. She was the mother of children, one of which is an infant three months old. She has for several years been a strict member of the Christian church, and died in full faith of going to an eternal and happy home in Heaven. She leaves a large train of relatives and friends to mourn her loss, and her bereaved and almost broken-hearted husband and their children have the sympathy of the entire community. On Friday, the 4th inst. Mr. Jacob Larison and his son-in-law, a Mr. Beasly, residing on the South Fork of Red River, performed a hard day's labor laying off corn ground. Late on theat eventing when the day's work was done Mr. Beasly complained of being very much wearied, when Mr. Larison, who was 68 years old, jumped up and cracked his heels together twice, and said he never felt better in his life, and remarked that he believed he was a better man than any of his sons or sons-in-law. The old gentleman went home and ate a hearty supper, making no complaint whatever, and on the next mornig was found dead in his bed. Mr. Larison was a highly respected citizen, and leaves a host of relatives and friends to mourn his death. Fish are more plentiful in our streams this spring than usual, caused no doubt by the numerous extaordinary high tides in Red river during the past winter; and if our County officials will see to it that the law for the protection of fish is enforced in the future, it will not be long until the finny tribe will multiply and replenish our streams in abundance. Uncle Jack Hoskins caught a large Pike on the 5th inst., which weighed 91/2 pounds, and on the 2d inst. Capt. W. D. Gay caught 70 pounds of Suckers. Our efficient Sherriff, Wm. H. G. Walters, has also caught a great many fish this spring. Green fishes with a dip-net for bait and if by chance he draws up a Pike or other large fish, he handles him as carefully as possible and gently places him back in the stream, unless in doing the said fish commits an assault upon him by biting or attempting to bite him or by wounding or attempting to wound him with a fin, or by slapping or attempting to slap him in the face or elsewhere with its tail, in which event Mr. Walter makes it an invariable rule to act in self-defence and cautiously but with great force strikes the offending fish on the head with a stick which prevents any further disturbance. Yours, &c., "H. T. D." THOMPSONS MILLS May 10, 1880. - ---------------------------------------- MAGOFFIN COUNTY Salyersville, May 178880 Hon. D. D. Sublett is now at home. Deputy Sheriff G. W. Johnson's wife is lying dangerously ill. Hon. A. H. Howard returned from Louisville in time to transact his business in Court. We had the pleasure of shaking the paw of our genial friend Capt. Havens, of your city, during Court. Our young friend G. W. Howard has laid Blackstone in the desk for a while, and is now selling fruit trees in Eastern Kentucky and Virginia. We wish him success. Caleb May, a respected citizen, departed this life on the 4th inst., after a protracted illness, leaving a large family to mourn his loss. They have the sympathies of this community. We will hold our County Convention the 10th of June to appoint delegates to the Paintsville Convention, to nominate candidates for the office of Circuit Judge and Commonwealth's Attorney. J. W. Walker, formerly of Kiddville, now of this place, will have his carding, spinning and weaving machine in running order in a few days. If the citizens of this and adjoining counties want good rolls or jeans, call on Mr. Walker. The farmers are backward with their farming. The ground is hard and cloddy. Wheat crops look well, and there is more growing in this county than was ever known before. Corn is scarce; worth $3 per barrel. Fruit was not injured by the last cold snap. Our Circuit Cout adjourned on Friday after transacting considerable business. Judge Ireland on the bench. We noticed the following attorneys from a distance: Hon. J. E. Cooper, Judge Lykins and Capt. Henry, of Morgan; R. S. Friend, Thos. Fitzpatrick, Ralph Booten, Walter Harkins, of Floyd; Winn House, of Johnson; John F. Hager, of Boyd; and the candidates for the offices of Circuit Judge and Commonwealth's Attorney were as numerous as theieves [sic] during the late war, shaking hands with the dear people. G. N. Brown, of Boyd, and O. C. Bowls, of Pike, are the aspirants for Circuit Judge. Either is well qualified for the position. J. R. Botts, of Carter; Mr. Kinuer, of Boyd; W. W. Mareum, of Lawrence, and R. S. Friend, of Floyd, will all be before the Democratic Convention, asking to have their claims considered. We will only speak in regard to our own county, and it will come up in solid phalanx for Friend of Floyd. Mack CORRESPONDENCE., cont. MENIFEE COUNTY. Cornwall, May 18, 1880 Born, May 12, to the wife of Wm. White, a son. Born, May 17th, to the wife of Polk Lewis, a daughter, weight 15 pounds. Geo. Botts, late drum-boss with Campbell & Lindsey, started for Colorado Saturday. He did not take the red fox with him. A great many of the young miners are putting in full time fishing during the strike, with very little success. Cause, too many bottles. Messrs. James Shrofe and R. Taber started from here a few days ago on a surveying expedition in the interest of a railroad company. They expect to do work in several of the upper counties. Messrs. Campbell & Lindsey have been propesting for coal during the last few days, and have been very successful. Mr. Ira Gillum has always been engaged in this work, and will be very apt to show a good vein. J. W. - ---------------------------------------- CAMARGO. We are suffering for rain, here. Wm. S. Wills, of Moorefield, is visiting his son, Sant. Sabbath school meets regularly at 3 p.m. for the summer. Born.-to the wife of Green Martin on Monday, May 17, a son. Ed Higgins, who committed the horrible murder on Sunday night, is still at large. Married-Mr. Jas. Welch, of Powell county, to Miss Bettie Halley, of this neighborhood. John Pendleton bought, last Monday, of Mr. B. S. J. Tipton, 6 acres of land adjoining his lott for $200. Mr. John H. Myers picked up, in his crib, a well-filled ear of corn, measuring 14 ½ inches. It was of the Jno. McKinney kind. The regular quarterly meeting of M. E. Church South, was held on Saturday and Sunday, last, at Fort Chapel, Rev. Dr. Vanmeter, presiding elder, conducting the services. There was a small affray in this place on Tuesday, th 11th inst.-something very unusual for this usually quiet little village. The parties had a trial Wednesday, the 19th. OAX. - ---------------------------------------- GRASSY LICK. May 19, 1880 Editor Democrat. Wm Patton is quite ill from rheumatic affections. The meadows will be cut short if it does not rain soon. David Hardman and John Taul bought a new threasher for $300. Mr. S. P. Hunt is making some repairs to his house in the way of a new veranda. By the way, Mr. Hunt, like the balance of neighbors, has to make room for one more. It's a boy. [The rest of the Grassy Lick column is difficult to read, because an advertisement from the reverse side of the paper has bled through.] Doc. Shipley has put a new coat of paint on his house. John Naydon[?] refused $200 for his brown mare on last Monday. Mr. Q. B. Green is digging a cellar under his house. A very useful thing[?]. M. B. Haddon had another attack last week. Cause-stomach out of fix. The much needed and looked for rain failed to make its appearance last week. Mr. H. Day sold to John Turner a suckling mule at $80[?] to be delivered October 1st. The red rust and fly are doing great damage to the wheat. Some localities worse than others. The Grassy Lick Sunday school is in a flourishing condition just now. Parents and children are turning out well. D. G. Howell, Wm. Gay and R. Gay bought of Mr. Brown, near Flat Rock, Bourbon county, three Bucks, at $20, $30 and $50. Mrs. Robert Fletcher is doing quite a lively business in dress cutting and making. She is getting ??? more than she can do. Captain Levi Kash returned Friday from White Sulphur Springs. His eyes and general health are both improved. The Captain says it's a good place for a blind man to go. Mrs. James Donivan is the champion turkey raiser. Last fall she sold 86 turkeys that averaged 15 pounds. This year she has over 100 hatched out, and a good many more to come. Mr. Wm. A. Hood sold to Jerry Wilson a three-year-old heifer that will weigh 1800 lbs at 4c. Mr. Wilson says it is the best in the county. He will kill it next Friday. All the Grassy Lickians ought to get a slice, for it will be extra. A good deal of complaint of the last planting of corn. Mr. Simeon Priest has a field that the evil worm ahs totally destroyed. He will sow millet in its stead. The planting looks well. Mr. R. Stofer has the first field in the neighborhood. G. W. Goodpaster planted over 30 acres. There was a good deal of whiskey carried out on last Monday evening, via. Grassy Lick, but all passed on to the other end of the road, as we have no drinks in this vicinity. Several were too full to ride, and had to rest by the wayside. If as many went out on the other roads as this, the whiskey sellers did a good business. Doc. Shirley is kept quite busy. Doc. says if the Democrats fail this fall in electing their Democratic candidate for President, they can elect one 21 years from now; that is if other neighborhoods are turning out voters like this. In the last two weeks about ten boys, all Democrats; Wm. H. Fletcher, a son; ?. G. Hurt, a son; S. P. Hunt, a son; J. H. Mason, as son; Samuel Donivan, twin boys; C. O. Moberly, a son; Jno. Morris, a son. Report the balance next week. NOTICE. The Democrats of this County are requested to meet at the court-house in Mt. Sterling at 2 o'clock P. M. on Saturday, June the 5th, 1880, for the purpose of selecting delegates to attend the State Convention at Lexington on June 17th. A new Executive Committee for this County will also be selected at the same time. Jas. H. Hazelrigg, Chairman Dem. Ex. Com. May 4, 1880. - ---------------------------------------- Bob Ingersoll was cleaned out by the Bishops in Louisville last Sunday. - ---------------------------------------- A lineal descendant of Gen. Knox of Revolutionary fame, is living in Estill county in destitute circumstances.-Woodford Sun. Pshaw! That's nothing. There are several descendants of Adam about here who are just in that fix. - ---------------------------------------- A Mt. Sterling man quotes poetry in declining a "many voters" call to run for mayor of that city.- Intelligencer Of course he did. When a man's soul overflows with poetry like that of Bose Chiles, of course he quotes it. - ---------------------------------------- Winchester has had the tom-cata [a play on the word cantata] of Queen Esther, and don't seem to get over it.-Frankfort Yeoman. So? We believe there was an organization in Frankfort rendered some such thing, but we did not know they had been in Winchester. - ---------------------------------------- We hope our friends in the ninth district will remember the great work Hon. Thos. Turner has done in getting appropriations for our rivers. The friends of other Congressmen may talk as they please. We know very well that nothing was ever done for Kentucky until Mr. Turner commenced his agitation of the subject. ---------------------------------------- Shorthorns in Illinois. At A. J. Struter's sale, near New Windsor, Ill., on the 4th inst., 46 head were disposed of at an average of $146 and a fraction over, 36 bulls and bull calves making $186 per head average, and 10 cows $187 average. When we consider that with the exception of one roan Duchess bull calf and one Abe Renick Rose of Sharon bull, that the entire lot sold were of the very plainest sorts of the different kinds of Shorthorn tribes or families, our readers will appreciate the great advance made in Shorthorns in the year '80 over the years '78 and '79. There has been no time during the last two years until now that this style of Shorthorns could not have been purchased for one'half the money. The demand seems to increase as the West is settled up. The whole country from New York to Iowa is being scoured for well-bred young bulls. They want them by the car load and train load. J. S. Latimer, of Abingdon, Ill., alone delivered on contract during the month of April 651 head of under-yearling bulls for shipment West, and the cry is still for more. They no longer want grades; they want thoroughbreds, for the ranchmen even have found out that the grade does not breed after or like himself, and nothing but the thoroughbred does. With a demand like the present for well-bred young bulls, the females must make a still greater advance. Many shrewd observers, and we are inclined to agree with them, think that Shorthorns have only begun a reaction. All of our farmers could raise a few, and we trust they will begin in time and take the tide. With Shorthorn bull calves of any family worth from $100 to $150 per head, on our high-priced lands, in what kind of stock can our Kentucky farmers deal to make so much money? While they can buy cows for from $200 to $300 per head, we trust they will take hold. Make the calculation yourselves. Again we repeat in what is there so much money? - ---------------------------------------- The subject of Bob Ingersoll's new lecture is "what shall we do to be saved?" Our first suggestion would be to avoid Ingersoll. ---------------------------------------- FOR CONGRESS. In another column we announce Hon. J. W. Kendall a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Congress. Mr. Kendall is well known in this District as a fine lawyer, and brilliant and logical speaker and an unswerving Democrat. He has been faithful in every position, and is qualified for any to which he may aspire. We trust the party will give his aspirations the consideration his merit entitles him to. - ---------------------------------------- Sid Baxter, the murderer of his employer in Winchester last winter was last week acquitted by the Clark Circuit Court. - ---------------------------------------- Dancing. Prof. Mueller, of Louisville and Cincinnati, who has been noticed in the Sentinel of last Tuesday, re-opens a dancing school at Masonic Hll, Mt. Sterling, on Monday, May 31, 1880, at 4 p. m. for ladies and children, and at 8 p. m. for gentlemen, to be continued til August, once or twice a week, at $10 each pupil. The pupils can participate in all the different classes; mornings from 8 to 10, for the same price. He has now ten classes in full blast-over 300 pupils-all learning the following beautiful waltzes, and the grand Society German: The graceful Wave waltz, Prize waltz, Knickerbocker waltz, Fatinztza[?] Opera waltz, Vienne Society waltz, the beautiful Telephone waltz, and the beautiful Presidential waltz of America; the new Society German of America, with 100 magnificent parts-50 of which are with favor, and 50 are without- perfectly splendid. The lancers, Quadrilles, Shottish, Polka, Esmarelda, Varsouviena, &c., &c., and all the old American glide waltze taught by request of the pupil. The whole county of Montgomery are invited FREE OF CHARGE to the first lesson on Monday, May 31, at 4 P.M., Masonic Hall.Mt. Sterling ROF. MUELER. - ---------------------------------------- In Memory of Joe W. Jordan. We cannot let the occasion go by without saying a word for our dead friend-dead and under the green sod of the summer hills, in the prime of his manhood. The charity of the grave sweetly hides his failings, and the hand that would fling a stone is palsied at the thoughts of its own sins. The son, the husband, the brother, the neighbor, the friend, the soldier, the public official-he lives in our minds as all these characters. We can recall the quiet fidelity with which he moved in the spheres of life to which he was called; the open hand always extended to assist the unfortunate; the generous sympathy that brought him to the side of a friend in extremity; the integrity that marked all his dealings with his fellow man, and the warm heart that was filled with better impulses than frail humanity would follow. Now that his face is no more to be looked upon, and the light of his eye is quenched is the gloom of death, we love to dwell upon the good that was in him; to read the bright pages in the book of his life, to recount his virtues, to forget his faults, to ponder how soon we, too, may sleep beside him-the lines fallen from our hands in the pleasant places, the silver chords of our earthly loves loosened, and the golden bowls that hold our lighest hopes, broken forever. "After awhile-a busy train Will rest from all its cares and pain. After awhile-Earth's rush will cease, And a wearied heart find sweet release. "After awhile-a vanished face- An empty seat-a vacant place. After a while-a name forgot- A crumbled head-stone-unknown spot. As, one by one, the bodily forms of our friends drop into forgetfulness and oblivion, let us set up their images in the innermost shrines of our hearts and recount their virtues, carrying both with us, as we sail, through storm and clam, tempest and sunshine, the unknown seas before us. - ---------------------------------------- Jerry Little. The trial of Jerry Little, for the murder of Judge Burnet, of Breathitt, after being ably argued by attorneys for the defense and prosecution, was submitted to the jury at 12 o'clock Wednesday. At six o'clock of the same day the jury had not been heard from. The supposition is it will be a hung jury. - ---------------------------------------- The Legislature. How long the Legislator engaged in doing very little can be gathered from Judge Bigger's closing speech, of course the Judge said all he could and it was not much: The per caput of lunatics has bee reduced from $200 to $165, and the idiots from $100 to $75, and such lunatics as are harmless and in incurable can be kept at home, and paid for by the State, and such as are in the asylums can be returned to their homes to be kept, and paid for in the same way. You made provision for calling a Constitutional Convention to change the organic law of the State, a measure of the highest interest to the people of Kentucky. In addition to this, you have endowed the Agricultural and Mechanical College, located at Lexington, Ky., and each legislative district in the State has the right to send one pupil to that college free of charge. You have continued the Geological Survey for a period of two year. You have continued the Fish Commission. You have made ample provision for the charitable institutions of you State. You have reduced the number of jurors in justices' and other inferior courts to six, and made provision to pay them for their labor. You have redistricted the State into eighteen circuit court districts, and repealed a number of common pleas, criminal and chancery courts. You have enacted more efrfective laws for the collection of the large amount of uncollected taxes due and owing, and for the collection of the large amount due from defaulting sheriffs and other collecting officers of the State. You have given authority to the Auditor to sell and convert into money the large amount of real estate now owed by the State, taken in payment of debts due the State. You have enacted laws looking to the regulation of freights on railroads in this State, which is believed wil lead to a settlement of this important question upon principles alike just to the people and the railroads feel a very deep interest. You have provided for amending the code of practice in civil cases, so as to allow parties in cases of appeal to the Court of Appeals, to amend the assignment of errors and schedule of the record ------------------------------ STOCK AND FARM Lambs in Scott County, $3.25 per head to be delivered in August. Wm Domigan has rented 15 acres of land of Josiah Davis, at $12 per acre. Rufus Lisle, of Fayette, had 20 sheep killed by dogs one night last week. The prospects for English farmers are better than at any time during the last five-years. Yearling cattle in Lincoln, $20; calves, $17; lambs to be delivered in June, 4 ½ cents. In Jessamine county, dogs killed 20 sheep, valued at $200, belonging to John Wilmore. The farm of Stephen G. Logan, in Letcher County, has on it a sheep pasture of 800 acres. There never was such a fine prospect for small grain as at present. -Nicholasville Journal. Ed. Turner, of Fayette, sold to G. Goos, of Buffalo, N.Y. a pair of fancy buggy mares for $425. The demand for good Kentucky horses was never better than during the present season. Eighteen Clydesdale horses were recently sold at Glasgaw, Scotland, at an average of over $500 each. On Monday last M. D. Faris sold a cow and calf for $40, a dry cow for $40, one dry cow for $23.50.- Reporter. A Minesota farmer raised last year seven hundred bushels of clover seed, and is now selling it at $5 per bushel. A shepherd dog belonging to Marcus Bean, of Clark County, does not allow a cow to alight upon his master's farm. A pair of 6-year old mare mules sold in Scott county for $400. They were eighteen hands high and weighed together 3,000 lbs. Friday night J. W. Peck had a cow to drop three calves, all alive and doing well, a thing almost unheard of.-Cynthiana News. The fastest time on record in a mile and a quarter dash was made last Monday at Lexington race course, by Mendelssohn. Time, 2:08. Joe Withers says his magnificent apple orchard of 100 acres, in Lincoln County, gives promise of a yield that may reach 60,000 bushels. A company of gentlemen from Liverpool are in the Blue-grass region to make arrangements for shipping cattle in good condition to England. Mr. Walker Hisle bought on Monday 500 lambs at 4 ½ cents. They are to be delivered June 20th, and are to average sixty-five pounds.-Sun. Alex McClintock, of Millersburg, has purchased the entire Maxwell Herd 14 head, of registered Jerseys, from Judge J. H. Mulligan, of Lexington. Wm. Shaw, of Bourbon, bought 120 acres of coming crop of wheat from Horace Miller, at 87 cents. The wheat crop of Bourbon looks even better than it did last year. The Midway Clipper says wheat and barley never looked more promising at this season of the year than at present. Both were well advanced, and heavy and vigorous. The tobacco crop in Christian County this year will be considerably lessened on account of the scarcity of plants. The wheat crop is also being damaged by flies and by the rust. Midway Clipper: Land is certainly advancing in this neighborhood, and the general feeling among business men is one of hopefulness. Fine crops are anticipated this year. A. J. Nesbitt sold several four-year old steers at $27.45, muley cow and calf $23.75, one bull $31.75; bay horse three-year old $58, and five head of mountain heifers at $20.50.-Reporter. J. A. J. Lee bourght last week a black mare for $65, and a beautiful bay horse for $115. Mr. Lee wishes to buy a car load of good plugs to ship South, and will pay good prices for suitable animals. Daniel Harper, who made his first appearance on the street as auctioneer since last December, reports ten yearling steers at $20.53, one yoke of work cattle $115.25, one yoke of work cattle $72.50.-Reporter. Perry Goodpaster sold his fine Indian Chief harness gelding to John Keef, of Mt. Sterling last Monday for $200. This was an excellent animal, stylish and fancy, and we think Mr. Keef got a good bargain in the purchase.-Reporter. Eminence Constitutionalist: We do not remember to have seen a finer prospect for wheat than is now promised the husbandman, but this crop has so many enemies that it is not safe to promise much until it has been garnered. W. H. Wilson, of Abdallah Park of Cynthiana, sold to Charles A. Green, of Babylon, N. Y., the celebrated trotting gelding Hamboldt, by Stocking Chief, dam by a natural pacing mare by Paris Pilot, for $10,000. Humboldt has a record way down in the twenties. Last fall Jerey Spaulding, of Ionia, Michigan, bought a large number of sheep, paying $2.50 to $4 per head, the flock averaging less than $3 apiece and fed them through the winter. April 1st he sold 600 fat sheep, averaging 140 pounds, at 6 cts a pound, or $8.40 cents per head, aggregating $5,040. At the meeting of the miller's Association at Lexington, last week, the committee which had been appointed to report the best milling wheat in Ky. Recommended Mediterranean varieties as most desirable of any raised here. A Lancaster red, which is raised in Mason and adjoining counties, was highly commended by D. E. Roberts a very desireable, long berried wheat, much sought after by the Richmond, Virginia mills. Prest. Wm. N. Potts spoke in high terms of Michigan Amber and Odessa. All agreed that Fultz was a poor wheat and Clawson white worthless. Dogs killed eight sheep for Mr. Jas. Storts last week. John Ragan sold Monday to John Hughes, a 3-year-old bay horse for $150, and to Stewart of Cane Ridge, a 6- year-old horse for $140. The Hamiltons, of Montgomery, own 15,000 acres in Western Missouri and Archie L. Hamilton, some 6,000 acres in Sangamon county, Ills. Off of which he sold 60,000 bushels of grain, last fall, bsides feeding a large herd of cattle.