Scottville Argus
Volume 1, Scottville, Kentucky, Saturday, October 2, 1875, Number 27

Scottville and Vicinity.

Call at Sheppards, B.Green, if you want heap Stoves, Tinware, etc., Stage St.
All our doctors are kept busy at present waiting on the "shakers". Quinine versus chills.
Throw your cob pipe and new tobacco away and turn your attention to Canada's cigars.
The time of year has arrived to see that your tobacco is housed and the Argus subscribed for.
Miss Bettie Lyle, one of Nashville's young ladies, is visiting Mrs. Virginia Welch of this place.
The arrangement of the bouquet presented us by Mrs. Mulligan, speaks highly of that lady's floral taste.
Bowling Green is trying to get up a Beecher scandal; only it's a lawyer this time instead of a preacher.
A Scottville old maid says she has one consolation; that she has seen the time when she was as young as anybody.
Our estimable friend, Jo. M. Dunavan, is clerk at the Morehead House in Bowling Green. ?????
Willie Collins brought us a very fine specimen of beans last Wednesday, the pods of which measured twenty-eight inches in length.
The Pantagraph since resuming business has been very much improved in appearance, and is a paper that Bowling Green can justly feel proud of.
Quite a controversy is going on in the newspapers as regards the man who killed Tecumseh. It would be just as easy to find the author of the "Junius Letters."
We have been so unmercifully kicked by the relentless mule of circumstances, that we are compelled to offer one year's subscription of the Argus for two loads of wood.
Our popular young druggist, Clay Mansfield of the firm of Mansfield & Read, is now in Louisville laying in a new stock of drugs, which will be sold cheap for cash. Give him a call when he returns.
Mrs. G. W. Bradburn illustrated the kindness she feels for the impecunious last Monday by sending us a basket of very fine apples, which places us under many obligations to that estimable lady.
We publish in this issue a very interesting letter from a Colorado friend, in which a Colorado crop report is given. Such letters are always welcome, and we would like to hear again from our newsy friend.
When you wish to go Gallatin, don't fail to call on T.N. Bradburn. Mr. Bradburn is as accommodating a gentleman as ever hurried a passenger to his destination, and even the most parsimonious are pleased with his rates of fare.
When farmers, come to town they would confer a favor on us by coming to the office and giving us such items of news as they may be in possession of. We haven't the time to go through the county, and unless neighborhood news is given us we have no means of obtaining it.
We have received a copy of "Wide Awake," a beautifully illustrated monthly magazine for boys and girls. Edited by Ella Farman. This magazine presents a fine collection of literature calculated to interest and instruct the young and would prove a profitable visitor in any family.
The other evening as we were going to supper, several ladies sitting on the front steps of a residence on Main street, pumped such a violent cyclone at us through a damaged accordeon that our ear for the sweet sounding is ruioned; not even being able to appreciate the dulcet strains of the long eared music box. Music will awaken no more of a thrill in our bosom now than if we were a turtle, and we hope those ladies will loose their musical taste, as Ward would say, "accordingly".
Correspondents will please bear in mind that we don't want communication long enough to make a six weeks continued story of, and we don't particularly desire an over rush of poetry either. We advise those who are troubled with the poetic muse, to drown it out with Extract of Bu?bu.
We have several very enterprising men in Scottville; one old gentleman in particular (weight 250) who might properly be considered an ultraist. When he takes up a principal he shoves it like a crosscut saw - in fact he always pushes a measure to extremes - especially a measure for a pair of pants.
A man claiming to be a resident of Franklin, Ky., applied at Mansfield & Read's drugstore this Tuesday, and tried to get whisky on the pretense of being a physician. Upon being questioned he showed such a decided ignorance of the people of Franklin and the medical profession, that his little scheme failed to work.
Atwood & Canada have our tanks for a choice piece of beef, which was brought to our office last Thursday. We can't say we are epicures - having had no chance to be - but somehow we possess a sort of bankering for good beef, and the kind brought in by Atwood and Canada suits us. These gentlemen and their beef can be found on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at Canada's Corner.
Mr. George Bradburn brought us a sweet potato last Monday, measuring four feet eight inches in length. It was raised by that gentleman on what is known as White Plains, near town, and, from what we understand, on a farm not celebrated for fertility. While the potato was on exhibition one of our wags remarked that it had started out in search of better soil which caused its immense length. We hardly think this was the case though, for it started out with this intention and had persevered, what a long time Mr. Bradburn would have been digging it! Where would we have put it? Shocking contemplation.

Scottville and Gallatin
Stage Line.

Stage leaves Scottville every Friday at 8 o'clock a.m. Arrives at Gallatin at 4:30 p.m. making connections with passenger trains both north and south.

It is the only line from Scottville that makes connections with the trains both North and South.

Charges moderate.

Professional.

Wright & McElroy.
Attorneys at Law,
Bowling Green, Ky.
Office on Summer street opposite Fountain Park.

Moore & Chapman,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law
Will practice in all the Courts of Warren County, and the Circuit Courts of Allen, Simpson, Logan and Todd counties.

H.P. Bailey
Attorney At Law
Scottville, Kentucky
Prompt attention given to the collection of claims in this and adjoining counties.

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.

If you want good and cheap flour
Buy from the Butlersville Mills
Kept by Ham & Bro., and E.S. Brown

Merchants Hotel,
Corner Main and Green Streets,
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Armstrong & Bissett, Proprietors
Rate per day: $2.00
This House
Has been thoroughly repaired and newly furnished. Rooms large and well ventilated.

E. Scott Brown
Scottville, Ky,
Is Closing out his Stock of
Shoes, Boots Notions and Jewelry
At Cost!
Give him a call before the stock is exhausted.
All Persons indebted to him by Note, or otherwise, are requested to come forward and make Payment, as he desires to pay and be paid.

National Southern Kentucky Bank!
Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Capital (limit) Half Million Dollars
Directors:
J.D. Duncan, H.T. Clark, H.C. Hines,
C.A. Nazro, H.L. Underwood.
Transacts a General Banking Business
(Our rate of Discount is 10 per cent per year.)
Money left on deposit for a specified time will draw interest 6 per cent as is.

Personal.

Hon. Jefferson Davis arrived in Denver last evening, accompanied by his son Jeff Davis, Jr., Col. J.W. Keiting, of the Memphis Appeal; and the following ladies and gentlemen: Judge J.P. Devereux and wife, of Lawrence, Kansas, Dr. J.M. Wood of Kansas City; Hon. A.M. Broadwell and wife, of Louisiana. Mr. Davis will visit the different watering places of Colorado before returning to his home.
We had a very pleasant visit from the following persons of Bowling Green, Ky: Mr. Jos. B. Stubbins, Mr. J.E. Ewing, Miss Mary Ewing, Chas S. Ewing and B. H. Garvin, all of whom returned to their homes last week.
Sheppard will give bargains in Stoves, Tinware, Queensware, etc., sign of the large Tea Kettle, State street, Bowling Green, Ky.
If you wish to sell your butter, chickens, eggs, feathers, [?????] and, in fact, all kinds of produce for a good price, bring them to [????]Canada's store or his peddling wagon.
H.C. Hines & Co., Bowling Green agents for H.N. Martin's Greenville tobacco, Ralph's Scotch snuff and Oriental Gunpowder mills.
Buy your school books, pens, ink and paper at E. Scott Brown's. He sells the best and on the lowest terms.