Source: The Scottville Argus
Dated: Saturday, August 21, 1875
 

SCOTTVILLE ARGUS
Published Every Saturday Morning.
H.C. Warner. Clark Arnold.
Warner & Arnold,
Editors and Proprietors.

Scottville and Vicinity.

Watermelons are brisk now at 25 cents a dozen.
Our trustees have opened a spring in the northwest part of town.
Our farmers report that Allen will have a large tobacco crop this season.
Trials under the writ of heabus corpus are in order now, two this week.
Beecher and Tilton have been attracting great attention, but not like the cheap goods sold by Ham & Bro.
The very best drugs, fresh and new, and sold at prices that defy competition, can be had at Spillman & Carpenter's.
Esq. Peter Huntsman brought to our office the other day, a stalk of German millet which measured 6 feet, 10 inches in length.
Rounds' Printer's Cabinet is upon our table. It is one of the finest specimens of typographical work we have ever seen, and is indispensable to the craft.
Best sewing needles, 2 {????} 15 cts; soap, 2 bars for 14 cts, snuff, 10 cts; turnip seed, 2 oz for 5 cts; shirts, $1; paper col-cheap for cash, at E. Scott Brown's.

Personal.

Mrs. Dr. Shapard is recovering from a severe illness, and we hope will soon be out again.
Miss Jennie Wright, of Simpson county, is visiting her brother's family near this place. We hope her visit may be long and pleasant.
Mrs. L. Gaines, with her daughter Lula, of Gallatin, Tenn., are spending a few days in our midst, at present the guest of Mrs. G. W. Bradburn.
The pleasant face and winning smiles of Miss Mary Porter again gladdens the hearts of her numerous friends, and makes all sunshine around her.
We are glad to learn that Mrs. W. H. Read is rapidly regaining her health, at Epperson Springs and, doubtless, will soon be home again with her many friends wearing the bloom of health and happiness.
Miss Hattie Mitchell, from Louisville's far famed fields of beauty, of which she is a true representative, is spending a few weeks in our town, and playing sad havoc with the heart of a certain young man of our acquaintance.
Miss Jennie McNeal, of Bowling Green, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Marthena Carpenter, at this place, and who has been suffering with a severe hemorrhage of the lungs, is slowly improving and is thought now to be out of danger.
Miss Eliza Read is spending a few days at Epperson Springs, much to the sorrow of some of our young men, but, we guess, to the great delight of these Epperson Springs "chaps". Say, you fellows over there, look out for your hearts.
W.Ewing Mitchell, Esq., of Louisville, author of "Beautiful Snow," "Betsy and I are out," "Star spangled banner," and "Father come down with the stamps," is in our town recuperating from the severe strains on his mental faculties. His diet seems to be principally watermelons, green apples and chemical cider; his exercise is chiefly made up of evolutions on rollerskates on Manion & Welch's balcony, and lassooing wild hogs on the Public Square.
But few towns can boast of two better Sunday-schools that ours. The Baptist Sabbath-school is under the control of Dr. J. H. Burks, whose name alone, to any enterprise, is sufficient guarantee of success. This school has an average attendance of fifty-five scholars. Miss Toy Spillman, the organist at this school, is equal to any in the land, and while this department is under charge no fears need be entertained but that it will be a success. The Methodist Sunday-school under the superintendency of Dr. J.R. Temple, is in a flourishing condition, with an average attendance of about fifty-three scholars. The organist, Miss Mary Gatewood, is "par excellence," and deserves great credit for her energy and success in training the children of the school to sing.
Ham & Bro., are not quite giving away their goods, but they are selling dirt cheap for cash or better.
No young ladies toilet is complete until she got some of Spillman & Carpenter's fancy toilet articles. They are new and of the very best brands, and sold so cheap.
We are under lasting obligations to Mrs. Sylvester Welch for a basket of nice Irish potatoes. They are the finest we have seen this season; the tubers, with their large and fine appearance, are only excelled by the large and generous heart of the donor.
Another contractor began work on the C.&O.R.R., near this place on Tuesday last, with a good corps of hands. A force is now upon the road sufficient to complete the graduation and masonry from here to Gallatin, Tenn., within the next thirty days.
The Adairsville correspondent of the Russellville Hearld says the Methodist church at that place has been purchased for a tobacco factory and thinks it will be quite an addition to the town. This may be all right and proper, but it tells a doleful tale on christianity.
Every many, woman and child in Allen county ought to be opposed to the C.&O. railroad for this reason, if no other: while our neighbors along the line of the L.&.N. railroad are selling their wheat for $1.60 per bushel, we here in Allen have no railroad, want no railroad, and sell our wheat gladly for ninety cents a bushel. Who wants a railroad under such circumstances!
Bruce Atwood, charged with the murder of his wife, was arrested here last Monday on a bench-warrant issued from the last term of the Allen Circuit Court. A writ of heaabus corpus was sued out, under which he was tried Tuesday before His Honor, Judge Gilliam, and held to answer at the January term of the Circuit Court in a bond of $1,000, in default of which he was committed to jail.
We have a number of young men in our town now who will, in a few years become old bachelors, and, in fact, some of them only want a few months to place them on that list. And, strange as it may appear, we have young ladies well suited to make every one of them good wives; young ladies who have no superiors in the State. Yet, with all this, we have upon an average one wedding in about two years, only. Now, this ought not to be.

Professional
Wright & McElroy
Attorneys at Law.
Office on Summer street opposite Fountain Park.

Jno. J. Gatewood
Attorney at Law,
Scottville, Ky.

Will Practice in the Counties of Allen, Barren, Monroe and Warren, and in the Court of Appeals

H.P. Bailey
Attorney at Law.

Scottville, Kentucky
Prompt attention given to the ?????? in this and adjoining counties.

Timely Topics.

Prof. John Wise does not believe that Donaldson, the balloonist, is dead. he thinks that he and Grenwood, the reporter, have landed in the vast forests of northern Canada. In that event it would take at least three weeks to hear from them.
The New Orleans Times learns that a northern gentleman comtemplates locating there to carry on the grain trade on a large scale, being confident that with increased depth of water at the outlet of the mississippi there will be a chance for a paying business.
Rifle-shooting is the mania of the day, and the inter-state rifle match, which is being arranged for October, will doubtless be at ended by representative reflement from all parts of the country. The match will take place at the historic Creedmoor, and bull's eyes, subjects of friendly competition between, south, east and west.
Mrs. Johnson, relict of the deaceased statesman, lies seriously ill at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Brown, in Carter county, and is not expected long to survive the shock occasioned by her husband's death. Those cognizant of the deep devotion of this self-forgetting and retiring wife, will be most alarmed at her present illness.
Senator Johnson leaves a widow two daughters and one son: Mrs. Patterson, wife of ex-Senator Patterson, the lady of the White House who received and entertained during her father's administration with such dignity and grace; Mrs. Brown, formerly Mrs. Stover, at whose residence he died: and Andrew Johnson, Jr. of the Greenville Intelligencer.
It is a melancholy sign of the universality with which Americans seem to be forsaking farm work, that, even in a period when the dullness of manufactures and trade leaves thousands unemployed, the farmers find it hard to get sufficient help. The complaint is general in all parts of the country that sufficient help cannot be obtained to handle the crops with.
There is some evidence that the Mormons are going to make a scapegoat of John D. Lee, and let him be convicted, in the hope that some of the greater lights of Mormondom will escape the punishment which they so richly deserve. Brigham Young is strongly suspected of having given the order for the massacre; at least the evidence in the pending trial at Beaver points that way. The prophet's affidavit has been taken, and he stoutly denies having herd anything about the Mountain Meadow affair for some months. He stated that the reason that he did not take active measures to bring the perpetrators of the horrible deed to justice, when he heard of it, was because a new governor had been appointed, and he supposed he would investigate the matter. It does not seem at all likely that Brigham heard nothing of the massacre for some months. It is said by the Mormons themselves that he received his share of the plunder when it was taken to Salt Lake City.