NEWS: Mt. Sterline Sentinel Democrat, 9 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 23:35:18 -0400 From: "Elizabeth Smith" Mt. Sterling Sentinel Democrat Friday, April 9, 1880, part 2 LOCAL PENCILINGS Hog cholera in Clark county. Theodore TILTON had but 60 auditors in Richmond. The fire engine was out filling cisterns Wednesday. Col. HOLD has invested $1,800 in a Florida orange grove. Everything indicates the early completion of the Big Sandy [railroad]. Jas CLARKE has taken charge of the toll-gate on the Levee pike. Ninety acres of tobacco will be raised in the vicinity of Camargo this summer. Mr. Richard REID's Alderney cow dropped a fine thoroughbred bull calf on March 29th. Dr. C. W. HARRIS has been confined to his bed for two weeks with something like pneumonia. A new post office has just been started in Wolfe county, near Campton, to be called "Lane." J. M. BERKLEY has engaged his crop of wool . . . Mrs. J. H. GILMORE, of this county, is 108 years old, and her "eye is not dim" nor her "natural force abated." D. Clay TATBOTT, who is selling the White sewing machine for Phil REESE made quite a sucessful trip through Fleming County, last week. Jno. W. JONES has finished fitting up his jewelry store, and has just put in a new safe. It is one of the cosiest places in the city. Mr. HURST has given the Montgomery mill's a coat of white paint . . . Dr. Wm. VAN ANTWERP sold five swarms of bees at $5 each, the result of a notice in the DEMOCRAT. He has five more stands for sale. Last Friday week, we had the pleasure of meeting Esq. BLOOM, of Winchester, and Jno. P. SAYLER, of Magffin County, who was on his way to Washington City. A rabid dog was killed in Sharpsburg last Sunday. . . Asa BEAN will be prepared to furnish lake ice to his patrons this season . . .. Mr. George CARROLL brought to the city last Wednesday a fine lot of new Irish potatoes . . . Sheriff DEAN informs us that if all taxes due are not paid by next County Court-day, he will immediately levy and sell their property to make the taxes. He means what he says; so look out. Marshal PUNCH went to Cincinnati last week, and by hoor or crook, succeeded in getting Taylor BOWEN over into Covington, where he arrested him and brought him here for trial. Taylor is charged with shooting Sany OWINGS and jumped his bail. Geo. W. DENTON received, on Saturday last, from A. T. MITCHELL, agent of the Travellers Accident Insurance Company of Hartford, Conn., $575 damage on his leg, which was broken las October by a horse falling on him, the rate was $25 per week during disability. Now, that Winchester talks of investing in a fire engine, We commend to their consideration the "Button Engine," as the best for use in a country town, for three reasons. It is the cheapest. It is just as powerful. And it is always ready for use. After a years experience Mt. Sterling would not change. Mr. Wm. CAMPBELL begun the erection of a plow handle factory Wednesday on the lot adjacent to BENT's rock mills. . . A Handsome Present. Mr. Richard REID presented his charming and accomplished wife with a lovely phaeton, the most handsome vehicle of the kind we have seen in this vicinity, for a birthday present. Beat This. A chicken was born to a hen belonging to Mr. Henry SWOPE last week, which has three legs and four feet. The chicken is alive and well.-Henderson News. We give it up. That is the first _born_ chicken we ever heard of. Score One for Tommy Mr. T. F. ROGERS is the first man to come up and plank down $2 for the fourth volume of the DEMOCRAT, and this before it was due. . . - -------------------- BORN STEPHENS-In Menifee county, 26th March, 1880, to the wife of Geo. C. Stephens, a daughter. VORIS-In this city, 4th April, 1880, to the wife of James E. Voris, a daughter. - -------------------- MARRIED GIBSON-HANKS-At the residence of the bride's father, Mr. Van Hanks, in this county, on the 31st day of March, 1880, by the Rev. Benj. Enzer, Mr. John Gibson and Miss Belle Hinks [sic]. All of this county. SHULTZ.-At the Ashland House, Lexington, Ky., Tuesday evening 6th April, by Rev. J. Pike Powers, Mr. A. J. Shultz to Miss Mary Wilkerson, of Kiddville, Clark County. - -------------------- DIED THOMPSON.-In this County, on Stepstone, 4th of April, 1880, infant child of Wm. Thompson, of whooping cough. CORRESPONDENCE AARON'S RUN April 8, 1880 Dr. JEFFRIES sold to Wm. DENNIS four acres of land at $40 per acre. Mr. KETCHEM, of Breathitt county, is visiting the family of Mr. Wm. DENNIS. Mrs. Jane BROCKWAY is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Matilda WHALEY at Clintonville. Mrs. E. P. TURNER, of Lexinton, daughter of Mr. Colby BYBEE, is visiting her father's family. Miss Bettie HENRY began teaching a subscription school at the Henry school-house on Monday last. M. W. J." the Middletown correspondent of the True Kentuckian, was here on yesterday, and spouting as usual. Mrs. RYON, who was visiting relatives in Owingsville and Mt. Sterling for several months, has returned home. Mr. Sam T. GREENE is confined to his bed by what he at first thought to be a stroke of paralysis, but which has proven to be a severe attack of rheumatism. Thos. DENTON began the erection of his store-house on last Monday. . . - ------------------------- ANNOUNCEMENTS For Sherriff of Wolfe County: . . .s. m. TUTT, a candidate . . . - ------------------------- STOCK AND FARM Jno. T. SPEAKES sold his saddle stallion "Glenwood" to a Western party for $265. Mrs. James WHALEY sold 80 acres of land on the Redmon pike to Charles REDMON, Sr. Jno. McDONALD, of this county, had a Cotswold ewe lamb born on his place Friday which weighed 18 pounds. Ira F. PENN, of this County, bought of Burgess & Alford five head of work mules, 17 hands high, at $163 per head. -Paris Citizen. Charles KAHN, Jr., purchased of J. B. DAY, of Hillsboro, Ky., the trotting gelding, Dahlman, for $1,250. He trots in 2:30.-Kentuckian Adam JUETT, of Harrison County, reports that his tobacco crop five acres, grown in 1879, brought him a net profit of $217.78 per acre. A Short-horn Young Mary cow belonging to E. S. CUNNINGHAM, had her leg badly broken on Monday last. She cannot possibly recover. Glave GODDARD and H. L. McELROY sold to L. MILLER of Marysville, Missouri, their yearling Costwold ewes at $1 7.50 per head. -Harrodsburg Observer. In Shelby County, last week, Col. C. BROADHEAD who lives about 2 miles from Shelbyville, had 31 out of a flock of 55 fine sheep killed one night by dogs, loss over $130. W. H. WILSON, of Cynthiana, purchased of James MILLER, of Paris, the bay brood mare Fancy, for $800, the bay mare Forest Lilly of same place $2,000, and an own brother, Forest, four years old, for $600. Messrs. HAMILTON of Flat Creek Herd, Mt. Sterling, have sold to L. B. BALDWIN, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, the two-year old bull Sth; Duke of Sharon, by 4th 1750 Duke Geneva, dam Mayflower 7th, by 646 Airdre 3d, for $1,050-Live Stock Record. [This is, after all, genealogy. ;o)] Major S. M. HIBLER on yesterday sold on Cheapside for Mr. Wm. Walker, of this city . . . cow and calf . . .-Lexington Press Mr. Robt. HANCOCK, who lives just beyond Hardinsville, has sold his fine stock farm, of two hundred and fourteen acres, to Mr. Charley Julian . . ..-Frankfort Boundabout J. T. CLEMENTS, of Grant County . . . Clark County Democrat: Livestock sales and purchases-Henry MILLER, Robert PARKS, John A. JUDY, Phil. RUTLEDGE, Capt. D. C. MUNDAY Hog cholera is alarmingly prevalent in portions of Scott County. Capt. Jas. FRANKLIN has leased his brood mare Glen ROSE, by Lexington, to P. LORILLARD for $1,000. W. T. BAUGHMAN sold his jack [a mule] recently purchased for $305 in Boyle to Mr. RUSSELL, of Alabama , for $450. R. S. STRADER . . . John T. MAGOWAN, of Montgomery County . . . A ferocious canine belonging to W. M. BECKNER attacked Prof. A. FLEET and N. T. BUSH, on Main street, last Saturday. Prof. FLEET was badly bitten on the leg, and his clothes torn. Mr. BUSH escaped with very slight injuries. -Sun Some of the newspapers have erroneously announced the case against ARNOLD, for killing R. E. LITTLE, was changed from Richmond to Versailles. Gov. PORTER, who is one of the counsel for the prosecutor, says the case will be tried at Nicholasville, and is set for the second day of the August term of the Circuit Court.-Woodford Sun. W. L. SYDNER says that his mare Ned, Postboy's dam, dropped a fine mare colt last Monday morning, by Steinway, the celebrated three-year-old stallion. This mare is probably the best brood mare in the country, every one of her colts making fine trotters. PARIS COURT-DAY.-Maj. HIBIER reports . . .; A. W. LYDICK reports . . . STATE NEWS John T. HINTON selected democratic nominee for Mayor of Paris, last week, by large margin Thomas STONE, for shooting and wounding John CURD in Madison and Callahan SMITH for hog-stealing get one year each. The body of Amos WHITNEY was found in a ravine near Greenville, Ky., on Friday, with his head cut off, and near by lay his own broad ax, with which the act was done. His employer, a man named TALEY, and a friend named BOUGH, have been arrested on suspicion. A. T. MITCHELL has resigned the Cashiership of North Middletown Bank on account of his large and increasing business as proprietor of "Dobyns Sure Cure," and will move to Covington to carry on its manufacture and sale. W. W. HEDGES has been elected Cashier in his place. . . The people of Owingsville, in Bath county, seriously contemplate building a branch road from that place south to the Big Sandy road, a distance of five miles, $75,000 will probaby be raised by the citizens and Mr. HUNTINGTON will give $25,000, which, it is thought, will build the road. Isaac SALYER, confined in jail at Louisa, Ky., for burglary, has confessed that he is the murderer of an unknown peddler, who mysteriously disappeared near there three years ago. His confession was verified by finding a human skeleton where SALYER said he hid the body. BUSINESS REVIEW DRUGS One of the most attractive places in Mt. Sterling, is the remodeled store of Mr. J. T. BREEN. His room is large and airy, and ??? [film is dark here] in pure gloss-white and presided over by one of the cleverest gentlemen and finest druggist in the State, a visit to it cannot fail to be interesting. Mr. BREEN carries a full stock of drugs and medicines, fancy articles, paints oils, lamps, books, stationary, &c. also a full line of samples of wall papers, and his prices will compare favorbly [sic] with any drug store, any where. There are some firms, that it grates upon our conscience to commend very liberally, but we have no hesitation whatever in recommending Jas. T. BREEN to our readers, as every way worthy of their support. GROCERY For energy, pluck, and business too and enterprise, commend us to J. S. BOGIE and Bro., the grocers who occupy the spacious room under Bristow Hall. This firm, as will be seen by their advertisement in an other column, deal in all kinds of groceries, and in addition thereto, in country produce, bacon, lard, feathers, old iron, rags, beeswax, hides, butter, eggs, in fact every thing that a farmer wants to sell can be traded or sold to this firm. They are live men [I would hope so!] and can be relied on. Their stock is large and complete, and their courtesy extends to all their patrons. CONFECTIONERY F. SCHWANIGER, an expert baker and confectioner, does business on the east side of Maysville street, and is prepared in the best style of his trade to cater to the wants of the public. For parties, weddings and festive occasions he is equal to every emergency, and is strictly reliable. His stock of confectionaries is unsurpassed. SEWING MACHINES This business is one of gigantic proportions in our town, and for its magnitude Mr. P. L. REESE is entitled to all the credit. Of indomitable energy and pluck, versed in his business, a practical mechinist [sic], he has perambulated every hill and dale and canvassed along the meandering course of every brook and stream in this and surrounding counties, until the White Sewing Machine, which he represents, is in every house almost in the land. This machine is unrivaled in beauty and finish, runs easily, and is unsurpassed in all the qualities that make a first-class machine. Mr. REESE runs four wagons and a half-dozen hands constantly selling and delivering this justly celebrated machine. He is the most enterprising man in Eastern Kentucky, and we wish him success commensurate with his efforts. SCHOOL The educational advantages of Mt. Sterling, were never better than at present. And among the most thorough and accomplished of educators stands Mrs. L. L. HARRIS. She has long been known in this section as a mistress of her profession, and her return here was hailed with delight by her many friends. Mrs. HARRIS employs several assistants, but gives personal attention, and her own indivdualy [sic] to all the teaching. This year she has been ably assisted by Miss HERVEY and Miss HARRIS', while the music classes are presided over by Miss Addie STOCKWELL, who is thoroughly accomplished and is making a fine reputation. MERCHANT TAILORING Among the best institutions of Mt. Sterling, stands "Sam BATES the tailor," than whom there is none better in Eastern Kentucky. It don't matter to Sam what the form is, under his manipulations it comes out perfect. He understands his trade and works at living prices. We take pleasure in calling attention to his location, corner of Main and Maysville street. Sam does his own cutting and employs first-class labor to do his work. With such an artist in Mt. Sterling, it is utterly useless to go away from home to have fine suits made. Give Sam a chance. - ------------------ NEWS FROM OUR NEIGHBORS CLARK CHIPS The following committee has been appointed to examine the Big Sandy road, to ascertain the amount of work done and report at a future meeting of the court.-Judge F. S. ALLEN, chairman, and Messrs. J. M. RAINEY, R. B. GRAVES, James CHORN and G. R. SNYDER, with W. M. BECKNER and G. E. FARNEY as alternates. 'Squire CHORN was appointed to notify Montgomery of the action taken by the court.- A seven year old son of Mrs. Maria PAYNE, near Stony Point, had his thigh bone broken, by running against a gatepost, while playing with his brother one day last week. Judge W. M. BECKNER was sworn in as a practicing attorney in the Supreme Court at Washington last week. A. STRAUS, of this place, has paid over $50,000 to the government for stamp since he has been engaged in the cigar business here. BOURBON BITS Two hundred and fifteen seats sold up to Wednesday, for the TALMAGE lecture. A. T. MITCHELL and family on yesterday, moved 412 Sanford Street, Covington, where he will carry on the manufacture of "Dobyns Sure Cure" on a more extensive scale. At his sale, on Saturday last, his personality sold low, the residence did not sell and is for rent. In North Middletown on Saturday last, the town election for Trustees, Marshal and Police Judge passed off quietly. Noah S. CLLINE was elected Police Judge, Thomas P. GAITSKILL, Marshal, and John B. STRIVERS, Dr. B. E. BEAN, A. DEETWILLER, Robt. ISBELL, and Sam MONTAGUE, Trustees. PARIS CITIZEN: The residence of Mrs. Maria PAYNE, near Stony Point, was destroyed by fire Wednesday night about two o'clock. Everything was destroyed except the bed clothes and her wearing apparel. She also loses a handsome diamond ring and gold watch. The watch was afterwards found, but utterly ruined. No one was in the house at the time but Mrs. PAYNE and Miss Annie BENNETT, of Georgetown. The loss is estimated at $2,000. No insurance. PERSONAL Mrs. A. G. PETERS, Jr. who has been quite sick for several month's [sic] is improving. Jno. B. BECRAFT left last Monday for Columbus Ind. If the country suits him he will make that his retirement home. Squire Jno. STEEL returned from Midway last Tuesday week, where he had accompanied his grand-daughter Miss THOMPSON to school at Midway. There are now 76 pupils in the school. The Squire informs us that that was his first ride on a railroad and he must be 55 or 60 years old. W. C. CATRON Esq. Of Blackwater, Wolf county, was in the city Monday, _en route_ to Cincinnati to buy a stock of spring goods. Jno. H. WILLIS, of Salisburg, Chester county, Missouri, son of Jas. WILLS, returned to Missouri Tuesday, after a months visit. Isaac ELKINS of Campton, passed through the city Tuesday on his way to Cincinnati to purchase goods for the firm of J. R. ELKIN & Bro. Of Campton. Capt. Geo. A. KNIGHT, formerly river agent O. & M., has been appointed Gen'l South-Eastern Passenger Agent of the Vandalia Line, via Cincinnati or Louisville, to St. Louis, to all points in Texas, Kansas and the West, with Head-Quarters at N. E. Cor. 4th and Vine. Sts. Cincinnati, where he desires all his friends to call and see him. Mr. Otis W. SNYDER, the most thoroughly advertised man in Kentucky, was in the city last Monday and made us a brief call. Henry GREENWADE has returned from Missouri. Mrs. Sue BARRE is visiting friends in this section. Miss Marry LYNCH, who has been absent for some weeks, is again in the city at P. T. MARTINS. John G. COHEN, one of the best men that ever did business here, was in the city from Friday until Wednesday noon. Mr. COHEN has a host of friends here who always welcome him. He informs us that his beautiful little daughter, who was so seriously injured from a fractured jaw, has almost entirely recovered. Sheriff ARNETT, of Magoffin, was in the city this week. Jas. H. HAZELRIGG returned last Sunday from a three week's trip to the mountains, looking after the J. W. HAZELRIGG's estate. Ed MATTHEWS, of Sharpsburg, passed through this city last Tuesday _en route_ for Lexington to purchase machinery for their woolen factory. Mr. Harrison PLANK and wife, Flemingsburg, were in the city this week and the guest of Mrs. Jane Q. PLANK. T. J. BENDEL and family were in the city this week, visiting relatives. Mayor JORDAN is again able to be on the streets, although he is looking pale and thin. The telephone from CHILES, BEAN, & Co. store to the Star Planing Mill has been completed, and now you can stand in one place and talk to persons in the other with perfect ease. The Parisian Troubadours gave an entertainment Wednesday night. The shooting cracker dance was the best thing offered. Miss Addie JONES has just received a letter from Miss Addie WHITE, formerly of this place, but now at Parksville Platt County Mo., in which she says she could not get along without the DEMOCRAT. That is the way your friends abroad regard a local paper, hence the importance of telling the editor every thing of interest. The infant daughter of Mrs. Bettie DAVIS was stricken with a lock jaw Wednesday night and its recovery is very doubtful. It is only one week old. Dan HURST's hen laid 96 eggs without an intermission. She is now setting. Mrs. Addie CHINN accompanied by Mr. Mag RAGAN, went to Louisville Wednesday after spring goods for Mrs. CALK & Co. Mrs. CHINN will remain there awhile visiting her sister Mrs. HENRY, who is now there. Mr. T. P. MARTIN and wife are in Cincinnati and will purchase a handsome stock for their house.