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.
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