Local News

Dances are becoming decidedly more fashionable.
Wedding rumors are as thick as flies on a bob-tailed cow.
Take to your covers, Oh, ye quails and quail! The huntsman cometh with his leaden hail.
Mr. T. J. Sullivan, proprietor of the Stave Factors, is reported to be confined to his home in Delafield, by sickness.
We regret to learn that Mr. Clinton Porter is quite sick with malarial fever at his residence on East Chestnut Street.
Jim Blakemore and Turner Lazarus exchanged shots over the possession of a child, near Horse Cave, recently. Both were wounded, but neither fatally.
A party of gentlemen from this city, will go to Scottville to-morrow, to be present at Court there Monday. There will be a large crowd in that city on that day.
There will be a total eclipse of the moon on the night of Sept. 23rd. It will enter the penumbra at 11 p.m., passing into the umbra at 12:13. It will pass out of the umbra at 3:20 a.m. and out of the penumbra at 4:35 a.m.
At the Greenwood Union Church to-day there was a big basket meeting by the Methodists, this being their regular quarterly conference there Dr. H. M. Ford conducted services which will also be presided over by him to-morrow.
This is the month for Magistrates' Courts, and you may just venture the assertion that the boys who want office get to all of them. It is quite pathetic and really romantic to see the frantic and expiring lunges of a few of the applicants for the favor of the dear people.
The Tompkinsville Banner of this week contains an interesting and instructive address delivered by Prof. Peterman, of this city, before the Monroe County Teachers' Association at Beech Grove, upon the subject, "What literary works should the teacher own and why". His suggestions are wise and should be heeded by every teacher.
On Thursday night the 24th inst., at the Odeon Hall, the order of Railroad Conductors will give a grand ball, which will be a perfect success judging from the well known ability of the gentlemen who are at the head of it and the preparations that have been made. About 500 invitations have been issued, and every arrangement made necessary to make the affair a grand success.

Hung by a Mob.

Recently a negro named Scales, who had just been discharged from the Cincinati work house and had obtained employment on a farm in Boone County, Ky., made a brutal assault and rape upon the five-year-old daughter of a poor man named Lunsford. The negro knew that the child was alone in the house before he entered it. Having threatened to kill her is she told, the little one did not tell her mother until her pain compelled the disclosure. Scales was arrested and with difficulty taken to the Burlington jail. There have been rumors nightly of attempts to lynch him. Thursday night at midnight a mob gathered at Florence, and in Wagons and on horseback, went to Burlington, broke into jail, carried the negro to a dark woods on the turnpike and hung him to a tree.

The Franklin Shooting.

Wm. Beall, Sheriff of Simpson County, who was shot at Franklin, recently, while arresting parties for carrying concealed weapons, is said to be in a very critical condition, and his recovery is very doubtful. The ball passed through the right lung and came out near the spine. Gilbert and Fugate are doing very well, with the chances of recovery in their favor. The community is very indignant over the affair and the young men will be strongly prosecuted.

Allen County News.

Mr. Thomas Brown is among the announced candidates for Jailer at the next election.
Ex-Sheriff Calvert is spoken of as a candidate for County Judge at the ensuing election.
Young Wm. Ham has left for the Park City where he will enter Ogden College as a student.
Mr. John E. Dalton will have a colt show in Scottville next Monday. There will be several entries.
Rev. George Mitchell, of the Methodist denomination, an old resident of Allen, died recently aged 74 years.
Gibson & Logan have taken possession of the livery stable in this village, since the charnge in proprietors.
Our town has been favored with a visit this week from Mr. Spradlin, Chief Engineer of the C & N. Railroad.
Among the visitors to our town at present is a Miss Harris of Tennessee, who is the guest of the family of Em. Read.
Mrs. J. J. Spann fell down a flight of stairs, one night recently, and was considerably bruised from the effects of the fall.
Mr. John H. Collins, the school teacher, has been so sick for the past few days that he has been compelled to dismiss his school.
The saw mill of George P. Dalton was totally destroyed by fire, one day recently, having caught from a spark from the smoke stack.
Rev. Mr. Keen organized a Northern Methodist Society at the Presbyterian Church, in this place, last Sabbath, having secured the use of that house awhile for that purpose.
It is with regret that we are called upon to announce the serious illness of Miss Lou Edmunds, who has been sick some time with typhoid fever. Her condition is considered critical.
Mr. William Tabor and Miss Reynolds, of Warren County, passed through Scottville last Sabbath en route to Tennessee, where they expected to be united in the holy bonds of matrimony by Esquire Fize, of our sister State.
Rev. Randolph Wright, of Houston, Texas, and Miss K. Barlow, of Scottville, were married at the church in this place on Sabbath last, when the ceremony was performed by Rev. Mr. Chandler in the presence of a large congregation.
The Allen County Sunday-school Convention will be held at Bethlehem Church, on the Glasgow road, 2 ½ miles northeast of Scottville, the 4th Saturday in September, beginning at 10 a.m., Sunday school workers are earnestly requested to be present. A large crowd is expected.
Programme.
How to organize a county for efficient Sunday school work - E. Scott Brown and J.C. Garrison.
How Sunday-school in the country may be continued during the winter - S.C. Mottley and J. Buchanan.
How and what to teach in the Sunday school - Rev. Tobias Ham and Rev. J.S. Chandler.
Sunday-school work - Dr. Jerome Glaze and Prof. J.E. Pace.
J.C. Garrison.

There was a very pleasant dance at Nick Heminger's last night. Friends were invited and the sport was kept up to a late hour. Everybody in attendance reports a good time.

Hit in the Head.
Sam Young Severely Hurt by His Son-In-Law
Wm. Woodall.

A day or two since, in the Richardsville community, occurred a disturbance that came near ending fatally. Sam Young, the old ferryman, and a well known resident of that community, was struck by his son-in-law, Wm. Woodall, and was severely injured. It seems that old man Young had let Woodall have his way on to do some hauling. The old man shortly after, while standing near where the wagon passed, noticed that it was loaded very heavily. He spoke to Woodall and told him he thought the load was too heavy for the wagon. Woodall replied that he did not think so. They talked about the matter on awhile when Young told Woodall that if he did not lighten the wagon he (Young) would take it away from him and not allow him to have it again. Woodall told him 'twas none of his business how much load was on the wagon. Woodall finally became very angry and struck Young on the head with his whip or something else, and felled him to the earth, knocking him senseless. A physician, examining the wound found that it was cut to the bone of the skull and was about two inches long, by one inch in width. Mr. Young was removed to his home and is all right now.