NEWS: Sentinel Democrat, 2 Apr 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: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 00:12:34 -0400 From: "Elizabeth Smith" 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. - ------------------------ 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. - ------------------------ 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 - ------------------------------------------------ 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. - ------------------------ 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. - ------------------------ 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.