Subject: KFY: MT VERNON SIGNAL NEWSPAPERS/ROCKCASTLE -------------------- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 1998 From: DBXP64A@prodigy.com (C.L. C_R_A_W_F_O_R_D) -------------------- FEB 28, 1900 (CONT) POSSUM HOLLER (Level Green) Dear Editor, Through the mercies of a kind providence and yet on prayin in grounds ?? pleading terms with the higher courts and Supreme Judge while many of our fellow creatures ahve been in the last few days called to answer before that Supreme Judge of the world, Indeed, the last week has been a harvast of death...three funerals at Flat Lick, Sunday; Mrs Georgie Smith, Mrs G.W. Barnett and H.F. McKinney. Mr McKinney was a leading citizen, and prominent Mason of Woodstock lodge, having filled with distinction and credit all the improtant offices of his lodge Mrs james Prewitt and Emauel Ferrell also died and were interred on last Sabbath morning. Wm Prewitt seemed to improving at last accounts Such suden and severe changes in the weather as we've had this winter causes sickness and death. so our doctors say' and especially among the aged and infirm The elect on muddle row seems to be virtually settled. So let our law makers get down to business and give us a good school book law and such other changes as will help all classes, a change in election laws if they can be bettered, out hold to the Goebel law until it can be done. Good schools, chaper books, better roads and free and fair elections will insure good times in Kentucky if our criminal and penal statutes are enforced I am not a politician or an office seeker, but an humble and lawabiding citizen, delighting in the education and up building of the masses and classes and the general happiness and prosperity of all alike; and for such I have always labored, and so long as I live and am physicallya ble will continue to labor A.J. Sears our merchant has been negotiating a sale of his property and store here to some parties from abroad Robt Sears has returned from rowland and settled down with us again. Some of our citizens are preparing to migrate to Ind. Better stay here in Kentucky its the best country in the world and especially this part of Kentucky The thermometer registered 4 degrees below zero Sunday morning, Whew..cold HORSE NOTICE..I wish to know whereabouts of one dark brown horse 5 or 6 years old, red nose, 14 1/2 hands high, natural running walker, slim neck, short head, 3 white spots on back, one on side two on the other; wears a No2 shoe. Was traded to Geo Hasty at Mt Vernon first day of Court. I have mortgage on horse. Wm. T. Brown, Livingston, Ky D.P. BETHURUM Accused of Trying to Bribe a Juror The following affidavit was filed Wednesday mornign, in the Circuit Court by Commonwealth Attorney Sharp: "The affiant, Elisha Bullock, says that at the present regular term of the Rockcasle Circuit Court he was duly empanneled as one of the standing petit jurors for sad term; that about noon on Wednesday, February 14th, 1900, while affiant was serving in such capacity, D.P. Bethurum approached this affiant near the corner of old brick hotel, now occupied by S.W. Davis; that the said Bethurum requested the affiant to go around to Davis stable with him, that this said Bethurum requested him to take a drink with him, which he did, and then requested the affiant to come to the Miller House, that night and he and this affiant would talk awhile on the incoming county elections that this affiant went to the said hotel that night and was in the public room and the said Bethrurum came in and took him out into the garden and that said Bethurum then and there said to the affiant that it was no trouble for the affiant to win the nomination for jailer if he had two hundred dollars in moeny; that he had always been for the affiant and he would not himslf be a candidate, and the he could do something for him. That he offered and gave affiant a drink of spirituous liquors, and then said that the boys had been in the habit of cutting the affiant off of the jury but the he, Bethurum, was to select the jury in the F.K. Wilson case; that they had left that to him, Bethurum and that old man Wilson has lots of money and we will take you on the jury and if you will stick to us we will reward you with a hundred dollars. The affiant says that thre was at said time a prosecution pending in sadi court, wherein The Commonwealth of Kentucky was plaintiff and E.K. Wilson, defendant, wherein sad Wilson was charged of the crime of murder and which said prosecution was on the next day thereafter to be called for trial. That said Bethurum was at the time interested in the defense of said Wilson. Elisha Bullock Subscribed and sworn to by me Elisha Bullock this Feb 21st, 1900, J.F. Griffin, C.R.C.C., A copy attest: J.F. Griffin C.R.C.C. by W.T. Short, D.C. Commonwealth Att'y Sharp moved the court for a rule against Bethurum, returnable on the 1st day of the May term to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court and disbarred as an attorney which was granted ORLANDO James Hamm who has been confined to his room with rhuematism is now out but he carries a cane as a reminder of bygone days Miss Ida Childress is on the sick list this week Geo Johnson, D.B. Langford, A.J. Mason and others are attending court at Mt Vernon this week A.J. Moore has bought the Langford mill and will move it to Jackson county in the near future J.B. Childress ??? Deputy Sheriff was here serving warrants on witnesses who failed to answer at circuit court J.B. 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