Local
News.
J. M. Goodwin
was sworn in as attorney at the Russellville bar, recently, and has entered
in the practice here as well. We are glad to welcome Mr. Goodwin to our
bar.
They are not in favor of the whipping-post for wife beaters in Georgia.
They have recently, by experiment, found hanging to be a better treatment
for such brutes.
The doctors agree in one thing, at least, and that is in saying that the
weather, though hot, has been productive of less disease than any similar
heated term ever known.
Reports from all over the State show the most corrupt use of money and
whisky on election day Monday. Kentuckians seem to violate the law against
bribery as shamelessly as if there were no such law
The big $2,50 steam plow that was engaged to plow the land at George Mitchell's,
near the city, tried to work yesterday, but the ground was too hard. The
engine went to a neighboring pond to get some water, ran in and was mired.
In the attempt to extricate, part of it was broken and it is still in
the pond, unable to stir.
The most interesting case before Quarterly Court this term was that of
A.T. Young vs. W.E. Runner. Young accused Runner of having taken away
a cow while she was in his (Young's) possession, and claimed damages.
The case came up yesterday and was decided this morning in favor of defendant.
The other cases were of minor importance.
It is said that the boys and girls, or rather the young ladies and gentlemen,
all take the Long Branch style and go in swimming together at Blue Spring.
They all have bather's costumes, such as father and Mother Hubbards, and
they make the water splash and the welkin ring with their merriment. Gypsies
are permitted to enjoy themselves any way they see proper.
Free Barbecue.
The people
of Richardsville will surpass all former efforts in the line of barbecues
by giving a real, great, big, plentiful, free picnic on that order at
Richardsville, August 29th. nearly all the people of that vicinity have
made up their minds to help. Various sheep and hogs have been volunteered
by neighbors, the candidates will all be there, there will be music and
dancing and a day of fun. It will doubtless be the biggest thing in the
barbecue line that has happened this year.
A Marvelous Tale.
A correspondent
of the Elizabethtown News, tells a marvelous tale about a wonderful breathing
cave at Nebo, Ky., where the air is said to rush out of a hole in the
ground in the summer months with such force that no one can walk against
it. And says that in winter there is a suction equally powerful, and animals
are drawn into the cave, where they perish, and their bones are thrown
out in the summer sometimes to a distance of a mile from the cave. Where
is Joe Mulhattan?
Killing
at Lancaster.
Monday night
at Lancaster, Ky., Henry Clay shot John Hunt through the heart, killing
him instantly. Both were negroes. Clay was a special Deputy Town Marshal,
and claims that he was trying to arrest Hunt. The latter's friends say
it was a murder. Clay is in jail.
River
Side Bubbles.
The rain
came just in time to save the gardens in this section.
Miss Ella Davenport was in our community a few days since visiting her
many friends here.
Mr. Aaron Taylor, of your city, was in our burg a few days since, on business
unknown to your correspondent.
J. Roland Madison and wife, of Trinity vicinity, was visiting their many
relatives and friends here last Sunday.
Most all the schools began last Monday and Tuesday in this section. "Go
it", teach the young minds how to shoot.
The vote polled at Green Castle was not as large as was anticipated. Peace
and quietude prevailed over the election.
The quarterly meeting was a success; a large congregation, and Dr. Ford
preached an excellent sermon on Sunday.
Miss Annie Board, of your city, who has been visiting her many friends
in this community, just returned a few days since.
Tobacco has come out wonderfully since the latest showers. Corn was suffering
severely but is doing well under the circumstances.
Mr. Jeff Galloway was with us last Saturday, telling his friends that
he was a candidate for Assessor. He has many friends in this vicinity.
Misses Eliza and Laura Phelps were the guests of Miss Ermine Scott last
week. The Butler girls have made a favorable impression in this vicinity.
Barbecues still raging in this section. The one Saturday, August 1st,
was one of vast importance. There was the largest crowd at Richardsville
that was seen there before.
Edmonson
County News.
E. M. Harvey,
Democratic candidate for the Legislature, has carried this county over
Webb, Republican, by from 150 to 200 majority.
Henry Hazelip shot at Alex Houchins here yesterday without hitting Houchins,
although within a fewfeet of him. Then Houchins' son struck Hazelip in
the back of the head with a rock, causing a severe wound. It was the outgrowth
of an old grudge. Dack Hazelip and Willis Merideth also had a fight which
grew out of the Hazelip-Houchins fight, without either one of them being
hurt. There were also two or three boy fights. None of the trouble over
the election. I will send you official vote as soon as possible.
An Acquisition.
Dr. W. H.
Johnson, of Urbana, O., but who has been at Nicholasville, Ky., for some
time past, has accepted a position in Dr. G.E. Townsend's drug store.
Dr. Johnson comes well recommended from the place mentioned, is a graduate
of medicine and a pharmacist of some eight years' experience, and with
his knowledge of prescriptions and the drug business will be a valuable
acquisition to the house mentioned. We congratulate Dr. Townsend upon
having secured such aid, and Dr. Johnson upon having taken the position.
Allen
County.
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Election
Returns.
The Allen
County Institute will meet at Scottville on Tuesday, August {?}8.
Mr. Peter Huntsman was elected Magistrate of the Scottville district on
Monday last.
Bryant's flouring mill is in full blast now, all the new machinery being
in position.
Misses Beulah and Pear Wren, of your county, are on a visit to friends
and relatives in Allen.
Mrs. John Blackburn and daughter, of Woodburn, are on a visit to the family
of J. W. Collins.
Mrs. Lucinda Phelps, of your city, is here at present on a visit to the
family of Mr. E. G. Mitchell.
I am glad to be able to say that Mr. L. M. Sears, who has been sick so
long with rheumatism, is able to be out again.
Mrs. Bates, of Glasgow, has arrived in our town and will remain several
months for the purpose of teaching music.
Millard Lawrence, of your city, a former resident of Scottville, has been
here for several days circulating among his old friends.
Miss Sallie Edmons, of this village, has been engaged as matron at Cedar
Bluff College, and has left for that place to enter upon her duties.
William Mitchell, of Bowling Green, is on a visit to his former home to
spend a week or two during the dull season of the heated term.
There was a very pleasant picnic gathering last Tuesday at Mr. Lay Walker's
given in honor of Miss Alma Hendricks of Bowling Green.
The election passed off quietly in this county. Dr. Samuel's majority
for Representative in the Lower House of the Legislature over Erwin is
326.
The railroad is making business lively. State & Boyd have just closed
a contract to furnish the railroad with a large amount of heavy timber
for trestles and the like.
It becomes my painful duty to announce the death of Mr. Samuel Oliphant,
who died last Tuesday night from the effects of a cancer in his face.
He had been a great sufferer for a long time.
A difficulty occurred in Scottville last Monday between two negroes named
Dick Thompson and Ed Follis. Whisky was at the bottom of it. Follis attacked
Thompson with a razor and cut him pretty badly.
The following is the official vote of Allen County:
Scottville - Samuels, 206; Erwin, 133, Tate, 187; Fox, 62
For Sale.
My farm
of 108 acres, situated on Bowling Green and Barren River Turnpike, four
and a half miles east of Bowling Green, one and a half miles south of
Bristow Station. Will sell on reasonable terms. For further addesss,
J. R. Kimbro,
Bristow Station, Ky.
Fatal
Shooting at Franklin.
Last Saturday
night at Franklin, Ky., Hise Edwards shot and fatally wounded "Dump"
Whitesides at a negro picnic. Both of them were colored men. This makes
three negroes who have been shot in that town during the past week.
Death
of Mrs. George.
Mrs. George,
mother of Charles George, a tenant on Dr. James Briggs farm, died yesterday
afternoon, about 2 o'clock, from general debility and old age, being in
her 78th years. Her funeral took place to-day at 3 o'clock from her late
residence, when the services were conducted by Rev. Jesse Grider, and
the remains were interred near Barren River Church. Mrs. George was a
most estimable lady, who moved to this city from Virginia many years ago,
and first lived with her family on the farm of Capt. Edwards, and more
recently at Dr. Brigg's where her son had charge of the Doctors vineyard.
Drowning
of a Balloonist.
One evening
recently a young man by the name of Peter Carroll, made a balloon ascension
in Henderson. The balloon shot up in the air at a rapid rate and {???}
directly up the river for nearly two miles, when it descended {???} alighting
in the river near Henderson towhead. Mr. {???????} the young man's partner,
{????} with a conveyance to assist Carroll, but upon his arrival he found
a fisherman who heard Carroll's cries for the {????????????????????????????????????????????????????}
telegraphed Caroll's mother in St. Joseph, Mo., notifying her of the accident.
Carroll was 20 years of age and has been making ascensions but a short
time.
Divorce
Suit
Filed in the Circuit Court
Clerk's Office Yesterday
Evening.
A Wife
Sues for Divorce from
Her Husband.
Cruel
and Inhuman Treatment.
Mrs. Ellen
D. Holland, of Warren County sues for a divorce from her husband David
J. Holland, who is now as Graysville, Ray County, Tennessee.
The Petition.
"The plaintiff, Ellen D. Holland says that on the ______ day of ___,
1865 at the county of Smith and State of Tennessee, she was lawfully married
to the defendant. David J. Holland, and from that time to the ____ day
of ____, 1883, lived with as a chaste, dutiful and affectionate wife.
The plaintiff will in due time file a duly attested marriage certificate
between her and the said defendant, and asks that the same be taken as
a part hereof. She says that for more than six months prior to the said
___ day of ___, 1883, the defendant treated her in such a cruel and inhuman
manner as to indicate a settled aversion to her and to destroy permanently
her peace and happiness.
She says that for more that one year before the said ____day of ____,
1883, the said defendant was in the habit of getting drunk and of wasting
his estate without making any sound provision for his wife or children.
The plaintiff says further that on the said ___ day of ___, 1883, while
the said plaintiff and defendant were living in Warren County, Kentucky,
the said defendant left his home and went to the State of Tennessee, and
has never since returned, nor has he ever since that time contributed
to the support of this plaintiff or her children.
She says she has two children by said defendant, who have always lived
and are now living with this plaintiff. She says that her husband's postoffice
address is at Graysville, Ray County, Tennessee. The plaintiff says she
has resided in Warren County, Kentucky, for more than four years next
before the commencement of this action, and that the foregoing causes
of divorce occurred in this State, and within five years next before the
commencement of this suit.
Wherefore the plaintiff asks for a warning order against the said defendant
and upon a final hearing hereof she prays for a judgement of divorce a
vincule matrimonil against him, and for her costs, and for all proper
and equitable relief."
B.F. Harrison
Dead.
Last night,
at his residence in this city, B.F. Harrison, more familiarly known as
Frank Harrison, died, aged about 43 years. The funeral services will take
place at his late residence to-morrow morning at {??} o'clock, Rev. Jno.
A. Sidener, of Tennessee, preaching, when the friends and acquaintances
of the family are invited to attend. Deceased was raised in Allen County,
but has lived in this city several years. For some years he has been in
the grasp of consumption, the disease that caused his death. He leaves,
besides a wife and five children, a goodly number of friends to mourn
his early taking off. Everybody who knew the deceased liked and respected
him as a man who was quiet, orderly, gentlemanly and attentive to his
own affairs. By his uninterrupted good humor he made and kept friendly
a large number of acquaintances. His death has been expected for some
weeks to occur at almost any time. He was a member of the Knights Universal
Brotherhood and his life was insured for $2,000. We, in common with other
friends, sympathize with the bereaved family in the affliction in losing
the head and support of the house.
Delafield
Dots
Born to
the wife of A. J. Wolverton, yesterday, a boy baby, weight, 13 pounds.
Howell's distillery is in full blast. They are making brandy and have
more apples than they can grind.
Chas. Lucas has a registered Yorkshire boar pig, a present, which will
not weigh more than 25 pounds and he has refused $15 for it.
Steamer Longfellow will leave tomorrow for the Rochester (Ky.) locks and
dam. She will take a crew of repairers to attend to those constructions.
Joe Schneider will make about five barrels of Blackberry wine and about
30 barrels of grape wine this year. There is evidently lots of fun in
store for the Delafielders.
Fred Woerne has a fine two-year-old bay mare, valued at $200, that was
bitten by a snake recently. The wound is in the animal's head and that
part of her body is very much swollen.
Cutting
Affair
On Main Street Last Night.
Ed. Higgins Stabs W. B. Grimes.
Badly
Wounded.
A difficulty
occurred about 10 o'clock last night on Main street, near the corner of
Adams, between Thomas Higgins, Ed. Higgins and W. B. Grimes, during which
the latter was stabbed three times.
The following is the account of the affair as related by Mr. Thomas Potter,
proprietor of Mechanics' Hotel, who gives Grimes' statement as detailed
to him by the wounded man who is stopping at the hotel:
"W.B. Grimes is from Butler County and has been engaged here in dressing
mill-stones at Morris' mill. About 10 o'clock last he walked from Mechanics'
Hotel to the corner of Adams street to enter DeVries' confectionery to
purchase some filberts. Before reaching that point Tom Higgins tackled
him and asked him why he was following his sisters Sunday. Grimes told
him he was mistaken in the man he was a stranger here and did not know
anyone and had not followed anybody. Higgins called him a d___n liar and
hit him with his fist. Grimes then took hold of Tm Higgins and threw him
down. Ed. Higgins, the 15-year-old brother of Tom, then slipped up and
stabbed Grimes with the small blade of a pen0knife three times, cutting
him once on the right shoulder blade and twice on the right side between
the ribs."
Dr. Claypool was called in and dressed Grimes' wounds, which, though not
pronounced to be serious, are pretty bad. Grimes complained of his breast
paining him through the night but was resting easy this morning.
Tom Higgins was arrested and put up his watch as security for his appearance,
but Ed. Higgins is said to have run off and had not been caught at midnight
last night.
Any further developments in the case will be given in the proceedings
of the Police Court elsewhere in our columns as soon as the examining
trial takes place, when it is possible more light may be thrown upon the
matter. Mr. Tom Potter says that Higgins made substantially the same statement
that Grimes did.
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