NEWS: Sentinel Democrat, 2 Apr 1880, Montgomery Co., Ky

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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:12:34 -0400
From: "Elizabeth Smith" <lizsmith@setel.com>

SENTINEL DEMOCRAT
Mt. Sterling, KY
Friday, April 2, 1880

NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS

BOURBON BITS
Western Citizen.

Jessie HALL was run over last Wednesday by a wagon and team, and very much injured.
Dr. BENT has 13 well developed lambs from 13 ewes.
A large eagle took a lamb from Major TEADMAN's, near North Middletown.
Rev. Mr. DEITZLER, lecture, "Ingersoll's" Infidelity vs. Christianity is highly spoken of.

The teachers of Millersburg Female College compliment Mrs. Crouch Miss PIATT and Miss STILLMAN, 
in the highest terms, and protest against the action of Dr. GOULD in dismissing them from the 
faculty.

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TRUE KENTUCKIAN

County Court day in Paris next Monday.
J. W. McGARVEY will lecture on Palistine on the 16th, of April.
A fine schoolhouse has been erected at Ruddle's Mills.
Two horses were killed by the Paris accommodation train last week.
Mrs. MOORE, of Louisville, will open a dancing-school June 1st.

H. C. BOWEN, of Ruddle's Mills, has improved his distillery and erected a new ware-house that 
will hold three or four thousand barrels of whiskey.

Rev. T. DeWitt TALMAGE will lecture in Paris April 8th.
Seventy-five chickens stolen in Bourbon in one night.

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CLARK CHIPS

STAR
A  proposition is on foot to buy and tear down the old carriage shop, for fear of fire.

DEMOCRAT

J. D. SIMPSON and D. W. MILLER purchased the BOONE Corner lot last Saturday for $575, running 
back 110 feet.  The stable lot was afterwards sold to George Walker, of color, for $300.

Wm. R. DOMIGAN, of Wade's Mill, and two of his neighbors had their horses stolen Saturday night, 
and have as yet obtained no clue to the thieves.

Capt. W. E. CURRY has an Italian violin made in 1516, and is consequently 364 years old.  It is a 
splendidly toned instrument, and he has frequently refused large sums for it.

Jack BUTLIDGE has a 31 lb, turkey.
C. C. EASTIN has rebuild his 60 feet dam, and his mill is at work.
J. V. MARTIN has secured a patent on his new Motor for Sewing Machines.
S. P. KERR bought Abner Baxter's residence. . .
The house of Mrs. CHERRY, was robbed last Friday of several hundred dollars worth jewlry, and 
goods.

Jas RANKINS, of Powell, aged 22, engaged himself to Mrs. Ed. STEWARD, a widow of 42, got two of 
her horses and sold them for ??? [ripped], and has left for unknown parts.

Buying and selling property, livestock, etc.

W. H. BARROW
W. W. ADAMS of Lexington
D. S. FOX
DODD, of Lexington
R. H. WARE
Mr. G. THOMPSON
R. ? ESTILL
Ben CLOUD
MARTIN of Midway
James HARP, of Franklin County

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Jack CLARK had 42 fine cotswold sheep, worth $25 each, killed by dogs last Sunday night in Bath 
county.


STOCK AND FARM
Mentioned
Wm. REESE
Mr. Joel GRUBBS
B. F. COCKRELL
Dr. WILSON, of Bath
Lewis CUNNINGHAM of Paris, Ky. has purchased the premium saddle stallion, Jewel.
Alex McCLINTOCK
Mr. I.N. HORTON, Camargo
John S. PIERSALL
Alex. DUKE, of Mayslick, sold his 4-year old bay gelding, Hero, to Kilgore, of New York, at $300.

The sale of all the personal property of Joel GRUBBS will take place on his farm, one mile south 
of Mt. Sterling, on Thursday, April 8, 1880, beginning at 9:30 a. m.

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COUNCIL DEGREES

Past Grand Master, Hiram BASSETT will meet with Mt. Horeb Chapter on Saturday evening, April 10th 
to confer the Council Degrees.  All Royal Arch Masons desiring to take the degrees will please be 
on hand.  H. B. FRENCH, H. P.

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A poem dedicated to the memory of Mrs. Joel GRUBBS




LOCAL PENCILINGS

Two men named ANDERSON and WEBSTER will be hanged in Louisville today for rape.
John KELLY a candidate not favored by Democrats.

Sheriff DOAN went to Frankfort last Wednesday to make a final settlement of his State revenue for 
1879.

The streets of Mt. Sterling are in a filthy condition. The City Council should see to it at once, 
ere the summer heat creates some uncontrollable disease.

Mrs. HANSON requests us to notify patrons of the Library _not_ to leave books at Mrs. CALK's 
store. Books must be left at the Library and _no where else._

Wood DICKERSON returned from Cincinnati last week, where he purchased a pair of Doves for George 
EVERETT. They are properly mated, for George says Wood attended to that matter himself.

Mrs. V. HANSON left for Louisville yesterday in the interest of the Confederate Widows and 
Orphans' Home Thus far she has been very successful in securing subscriptions, and she now says 
she has no doubt of its untimate success.

We take this method of expressing our gratitude for the delicious fruit placed on our table by 
Master Henry GARRISON, which he selected while in Cincinnati this week. Henry is a gentlemanly 
little boy and always complies with his promises. Live up to this, Henry, and you will be honored 
all your days.

Barney Campbell sold last week to Rev. G. W. GIVENS, agent for the Southern Baptist Theological 
Seminary, 3 acres of land on Winn street for $600 cash. This added to his present home makes him a 
very desirable place. He first purchased the Henry JONES lot, which was handsomely improved, 
afterwards 7 ½ acres from Geo. MILLER for $150 per acre, altogether making about 14 ½ acres.

George EVERETT has a young calf at his place, and shortly after it was dropped his mare took 
possession of it, and won't let the cow-its mammy-come near it. A night or two since he locked the 
mare up, but it made such a fuss he thought it was sick and turned it out. Immediately it hunted 
and took possession of up the calf, showing every evidence of maternal love and contentment.

Commissioner J. A. Orear has through the help of Sheriff DEAN , secured the last 60 per cent of 
the school fund due this County . . .

Mr. Adam GENSLE, who has been a resident of this city for the last five years, left Wednesday with 
his family for Louisville, where he will hereafter reside. Mr. GENSLE has made us a good, law 
abiding citizen, and has kept as orderly a saloon as any man ever kept here. He has many friends
here, who will miss his genial smile. Adam, we commend you to the Louisvillians as an honest, 
upright citizen.

Winn street has about twenty worthless curs that make the midnigh hours hideous. Saturday 
afternoon about that number attacked Mr. R. A. MITCHELL's family buggy mare in the pasture, 
chasing her over a space of five acres until she could scarcely stand alone. Then hemming her in a 
corner they bit her about the legs and face in such a manner that Mr. MITCHELL is fearful that she 
is ruined. We think it would be well to administer a few buttons.

Mr. Charlie SLOCUM is putting in his flour mill, Pynes Purifier, middling stones and all other 
necessary machinery to correct the same in order to make the new process flour. When complete this 
mill will be one of the best mills in the State. Mr. TURNER who is representing W. F. PYNE of 
Louisville, is doing the work, and Mr. Slocum says he knows more than any other man in Kentucky 
about mills. Mr. Slocum propose to give his customers better flour than they can import and 
thereby give them the opportunity of patronizing home exclusively. He will be ready for this new 
process, the latter part of next week.

The Culvert dear? Trimble & Keef's and Owings' stables is being repaired.

Adam BAUM moved Wednesday into the residence formerly occupied by M. C. O' CONNELL.

Co. George T. SHACKELFORD's residence was bid to $1,735 and withdrawn last Saturday. It will be 
sold privately.

Report comes to this office that five men were killed at Triplett tunnell on the Big Sandy 
Railroad, near Moorehead, by the falling of a huge stone.

Mr. J. BENDEL went to Cincinnati Tuesday to stock up and add to his auction sales. . .

Last Wednesday Mr. Ramey CARPENTER and Mrs. Susan JACKSON were married in the County Clerk's 
office by Judge E. E. GARRETT. The Judge's benediction was remarkably fine.

John HANCOCK, who murdered Joseph WALKER, of color, in Shelby county, for simply asking him why he 
killed his dog, made good his escape last Thursday night. His trial was to have been on Friday.

Jerry CLEMMONS, of Jackson, was in the city yesterday, returning from Frankfort, where he sold 212 
hogs at $335. He says the high waters have been of untold benefit to the mountain country.

O. G. HOLCOMB, writing for the DEMOCRAT from Little Fork, Letcher county . .


         HOME  MADE

The time was when our mothers spun the flax and wove at the loom our home-spun linen, and then with 
loving fingers cut and sewed into  ungainly coat and baggy breeches the same "home-spun." Oh, dear 
me! It  wasn't very pretty, but it was home-made!

Then later on the goods were "brought-on," and the same loving hands of  mother or wife cut by an 
old pattern the same unshapely garments and  hung them with loose ungraceful folds upon our forms; 
and that was  called "home-made."

But now things are changed, and trained skill does at less expense and  with better effect the same 
work for us, covering all our defects and  lending a new grace to every form, until now-a-days no 
one but an idiot  longs for the time when things were "home-made." We have progressed and  must 
keep up with the age. Not only in dress, but in the thousand  departments of human life, 
"home-made" things are rapidly falling into  desuetude. Even newspapers have caught the contagion 
of improvement and  are valued more for their enterprise, the *meat* and news that is in  them, 
than for the *bare fact* they are strictly "home-made." They type,  the paper, the ink, the presses 
are none of them "home-made." They are  generally "brought on," and the breeziest weeklies bring 
their most  contents from abroad.