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THE HERALD.
vrjLLL.vn-: CiliUELLE, Ebrrora.
II !ITF0IM). 0:iIO COUXTV, KV.,
V-:DXH5D Y. FEnUfARY 3, 1875.
STOWS OF THE WEEK..
IVdlrioilny, Jnnnnrj-27.
Andrew Julniion was tlecteil to the U.
Senate yrsicnlay ly tlie Tennessee Leg
iUturo.
A fire !n the nppcr slorv of the Navy
Department lniililitis, vcMcnUy after-
ivn, uns the formation at WMsliinetoii.
The coroner's jury returned n verdict of
iliiul murder against Christopher Ma
Innr, who nUMied an J killed James Koe
irjn at Chicnso Saturday nielit.
Tlicfiiltof ThodoreTilton against Hen
rv Ward Beeclier, for poaching on his
marital preserves, h drarpine its slow
length through the Brooklyn citr court.
Antonio Vacarn, an Italian saloon keep
er ol v ickeuurz. Wi.,was found dead in
his doorway Sunday morning, having
heeu murdered the previous night, it is
supposed by eome negroes who were teen
in liis saloon at a late hour, and it was
Iviiown that he bad about 3,000 on his
jierson.
Tom .Iohnon, colored, who waa to have
lecn hung next Friday, at Montgomery,
Ala , for murder, has had his sentence
commuted to imprisonment for life.
The wife and eight children ol Pierre
Dulude, a Canadian farmer, perished in
the flames of his house, which was de
stroyed by fire yesterday in Baucherville,
province of Quebec
The Texas papers teem with fatal rases
of freezing that occurred during the late
spell.
Thomas Footman, alias Phinizee, at
Savannah, Ga., robbed a man on Thurs
day at 10 o'clock; Friday at 11 o'clock he
was indicted by the grand jury; at 12 o'
clock he plead "guilty; and at half past 12
lie was happy in the knowledge that his
appropriating disposition had brought
him twelve years in the penitentiary.
A marriage extraordinary took place
nt Jasper, Tenn., the other day, which
was a regular wedding of December to
May. The brideroom, Mr; Martin, had
attained his 7Gth year, while the bride
waa a girl of only 13. To add to the
"charms of the little, modest maiden, the
three-score and sixteen gave his bride
$3,000 as a marriage ei'.t.
About 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon,
at Memphis Tenn., Col. F. A. Tyler, while
eittiog in the Ledger editorial room, was
shot through the left thigh. The cause
of the shooting was the accidental dis
charge of a derringer pistol, which he car
ried in his pants pocket.
Capt. R. F. King, the Secretary of the
Virginia terra cotta and porcelain works,
died very suddenly at the Virginia Hotel,
Staunton, on Tuesday afternoon laBt, He
arrived in town on Sunday night, and on
Monday he was discovered to be ill. Every
attention was shown him by the officials
of the hotel, and Dr. Henkel was sent for,
hat all was unavailing, congestion of the
brain having set in, and he expired Tues
day at 3:30 o'clock. Capt. King was a
son of Maj. Gen. George Arthur King, of
the English army, and was himself adju
tant of H. B. M. 13th regiment of foot
(Prince Albert's own), in which capacity
he took a gallant part in quelling the mu
tiny of Kena Sahib in 1859. He was thirty-four
years of age, a native of India,
where his father was serving at the time
of his birth, and was a grandson of the
Countess of Mountcashel, and cousin of
Lord Viscount Lorton. He came to this
country in march, 1873, in company with
Mr. L. A. Kerans and others, landing in
Baltimore, an'd not long after took a po
sition in the Terra Cotta Company.
In the dusk of Wednesday evening of
Jasl wtek a wagon-drove out orbtaunton,
Va., with five or six men, none of whom
had any ill-feeling against the other, and
this morning one of them is in his grave,
one is in jail as his slayer, and another, a
boy, is in the cell with him as an accesso
ry. Itis what is called an everydayquar
rel, or, still better, an any-day quarrel.
The parties were Michael Livick, aged 71.
a small farmer; George Furr, a one-armed
cx-Confederate soldier, also a email farm
er, and Furr's son, a boy of about 13 years.
They all resided at Christian's Creek, and
Livick and Furr had been hauling ice
with what is called a "spike" team, that
is Livick owned one horse and Furr the
other horse and the wagon. The quarrel
came about just as such quarrels come
along with people of their station. The
boy put into a conversation between his
lather, who was driving, and a traveler
on the road. Livick reproved him with
the old saw about "children being seen
and not heard." An impudent answer
from the boy, a threat to thrash, the an
swer by the father that he would die be
fore any man should thrash his boy, the
taunt from Livick that a man whipped
himlast year and the father didn't die for
him. then dismounting by the father who
was riding one of the horses, rocks thrown
and a scuffle in which thrown tieavtty,
then a cessation, the passing of the lie, a
rock passed into the father's hand by the
boy, and the final blow all just the way
such Quarrels so. Livick alter the blow
mounted the horse and upon reaching
home dismounted and unhitched him.
Thursday moraine he walked to a neigh
bor's. complained of a pain in his bead,
went back home,, became insensible, and
Sunday died, The frontal bone was bro
ken for an fnct) and a half, and a hole was
made into the brain in which a large span
ter of the skull was imbedded.
His Honor. Mayor LOague, of Mem
phis, was so jubilant at the election of An
drew Johnson to the United Stales Ssma-
torsbip yesterday that,, in the excess of
his jov, he went fo the station-bouse, re
leased all the prisoners confined for being
drunk, owinc to imnecuniosity, and then
treated the attaches to a flowing bowl of
"hot Irish." The released want the 12
islaturc to elect a Senator every week in
the future.
Tliunwlay, January 2S.
An attack was made on the house of Dr.
Samuels, the steo-father of the James
boys, the notorious Missouri outlaws, near
Kearney, Clay county, Mo., yesterday
morning, by a party who supposed the
outlaws were there. The house was fired
on thenntaide. and a hand erenade thrown
i nlo the the family room. Not knowing
what it wo?, Dr. Samuels threw it into the
fire, wher Ucxploded with terrible results.
Dr. Samuels lost an arm, a child of eight
VPs was struck un the head by a piece
ofshcll and instantly killed, and two oth
er members of the family were tniurea.
Mrs. Kate Clark, late a scamMrets in
the famrlv of Senator Stewart of Nevada,
nt Washington, waa arrested- in Baltimore
vMtcrdnv. and tell or twelve thontand
lollars worth of plate, diamonds, laces
and othpr Turnsoles stolen from Mrs.
Stewart found in Rcr trunk. She was sent
f Wnalilupton.
General Burnridc was vcrtcrday elected
in the IT. S. Senate by the Legislature ol
Ttlimln Island.
Jia; J. 1'. Itorbacli. ofMcmijlii?, ho
recently murdered II. K. Thomas at Dal
fcis,Tex3s, has been, sentenced to six years
in tiie penitentiary.
One day last week an excitable young
man, while fording the river near Fort
Worth, Tisxas, flew into, a passipn and
struck his horse over, the head-with, his
gun, which was discharged at the moment,
the contents lodging in his bowels. A fu
neral followed.
A bill has been introduced Into the Tex.
as Senate which, in effect, declares bodies
ofarmcd strangers and Indians, who may
oe ovcruauiea wuiie stealing liorses and
cattle on the frontier, to be outlaws, and
provides that, in the name and authority
Ol tlie btate, tliey be quickly dispatched
wncn caugnu
Thursday night the body of a nesro man'
na:ned Rube was found hanging to a tree
on .Mountain creek, fourteen miles from
Dallas, Texas. The head and face were
horribly mutilated and the throat was cut.
Foul play was evident, and a man by the
name of Dill, who went to Rube's home
two weeks ago ar-ri took him out. is sus
peeled of the horrible crime, as nothing
was heard of Rnbe until his bony was
found as stated above.
Robert Moore, n Nashville saloon keep
er, committed s,uicide last night, by cut
ting his throat.
A young man named Moss had a diffi
culty atuarnesville, Ga., on Monday, with
a negro, who threw a rock at htm and
fetooped for another, when Moss cut him
in the bowels with a dirk. The negro fell,
exclaiming. "I'm dead!" when another ne
gro intervened, and made at Moss with a
rock. Moss received him on the point of
uis dagger, penetrating the jugular vein.
when he threw un the sponge. Another
sable combatant now appeared on the
field, and doubtless would have shared the
same fate had notthe marsh all iaterposed.
One of the negroes died that night, and
the other in two days. Moss made his
escape.
Friday, January 29.
Son-in-law Sartoris and Nellie, his wife.
arrived at New York yesterday. It is
hinted that they have been an industrious
couple, and where two came three will go.
Bev.-Thoa. U. Dudley, D.D., was con
secrated Assistant. Bishop (Episcopal) of
the diocese of Kentucky, yesterday, at
iiaiiimore.
An Italian fruit vender of MemDhis.
named Longonetti. was fatally stabbed.
yesterday, by a youth of the same nation
al. I - 1 1 . S T
am;, ugeu cignieen, namea uouib.
tienry 1. Martin, deputy sheriff of Al
exander county. III., committed snicide at
Cairo, last night by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver.
The late Mrs. Aim White Vose, in a
will made public yesterday, bequeathed
$365,000 to the public institutions of Bos
ton. A negro man' who fatally shot a white
federal soldier in the suburbs of Sbrevex
port. La., in a quarrel about a wench.
some weeks ago, was yesterday sentenced
- . irc
uj imprisonment lor lite.
Pleasant Philllips, a colored candidate
for the Legislature in Tattnall county, Ga ,
was defeated, since which time he has
committed suicide.
Dawson, Ga., was visited by another
disastrous fire yesterday morning, between
midnight and day, which destroyed twelve
buildings.
A dog believeed to bo mad attacked a
little daughter of Mr. E. C. Stockton, of
Houston, Texas, last Friday, and bit her
on the leg. Mr. S. succeeded in killing
the animal, and then started off post haste
to borrow a "mad stone, which he lortu
nattely heard of as being in the possession
of Mr. Andrew Hutcinson, of the Central
railroad office. By the time he secured it
his little daughter s leg had become swol
len. He applied the stone and it adhered
to the wound for two hours, reducing the
swelling and then dropped off, and was
found to be covered with a greenish eub-
stance apparently extracted from the
wound. The stone was then freed from
the adhering substance by immersion in
hot water. The little girl is about wen,
and Mr. Stockton thinks permanently
cured.
Satnrdny, Jnnnary 30.
All Oeorgia is clamoring for Ben Hill to
go Congress.
Information has reached uorpus ihris
ti, Texas, that several Mexicans were seen
hanging last week near the pasture fence
of Capt. R. King: They have expiated
their crimes in a summary manner, the
supposition existing that they were hung
ror stealing cattle.
A person professing to be a Baptist min
ister was arrested at Uearne, Texas, Mon
day, by deputy marshal Blood, and arrived
at AuRtin yesterday, charged with robbing
a postal cor of thirty registered packages.
At Jefferson, Texas, a man named Wm.
Spotts, employed on a dredge-boat down
the bayou, while carrying a can oi nitro
glycerine, by some accident caused it to
explode, and lie was blown to pieces, a
hand was found in one place, and a part
of his body in the limbs of. a tree.
The workmen in the Georgia railroad
shops in Augusta have been put on half
time, commencing yesterday, mis has
been done for the reason that all the lo
comotives and cars are in good order, there
having been no accidents on the road tor
a long time past, and that there is, there
fore, very little work to be done at present
Mr. W. J. McKic. who lived in the
Currvtown section of Edgefield connty,
Ga.. committed suicide lastSaturday night
by shooting himself in the ueau. xtc was
an ODium eater, and left a wife and four
children in destitute circumstances.
At Savannah, Ga., in the autumn or
1879 n. rolored watchman by the name of
Samuel Houston, on the steamer Maggie
Saffoia, was brutally murdered by four
negroes. The parties were arrested some
time after: one turned State's evidence
and waa released. The others were con
victad and sentenced, but counsel delayed
the execution of the law by motions for a
new trial. In the meantime one, Zeke
Jackson, died in jail, and a short time af
ter Wm. Seabrook. another of the same
Dartv. died in his cell. Jack Middleton,
the third and last, whose case was assign
ed for trial yesterday, hasTeen transferred
from the jail to tue nospiiai, anu is now
at the poivt of death.
Monday, February I.
Onfi nf the children of Letty Lotts, col
ored, near Hillsboro, N. C, died a few
davs ago from drinking milk poisoned by
- - - . - T II i 1
standing too long in a crocK, auu uvu oiu
.pa ora Tint PTTVPCted tO live.
T.ofit Thnrsdav at Dallas. Texas, when
the jury gave a verdict of six years in the
tipnitentiarv against J. P. Horbach for
of H. K. Thomas, Mrs. and
Mi Horbach were overcome by the sad
tidings, ahd their shrieks and cries rever
berated tbrougn me coun-ruum, mm ex
alted1 the pity" of every one present, and
tears at the sight were forced into cot a
As Mr. Daniel Fleming was standing
was standing in front of his store in Spar
tenBurg. 8. C. on Thursday, conversing
ifilli BAmr of his friends, several hundred
bricks became detached from the top of
he More and fell, striking a Mr. iieming
and killing him instantly.
Dainclio Luaniio. the guide of Uamil
ton, the Jersey City defaulter, ank a ref
ugire from Corpus Christi, Texas, returned
to. that city Friday. As be was entering
town, he met another Mexican named Fe
lix and shot him dead;. The murderer
was drunk.
Tnewlny, Febrnary 2.
Andrew Gano Burt, for many years &
I 1. 1 "IT , 1 , n i
fjiuiJiiucuk uuuhcr ui vincinnaii, uicu oav
urday morning, aged eixtv-tlve veara.
Capt. J. W. Groom, of Clay county, Mo. ,
wiin a posse or twenty men, surrounded
the house Samuels, the home of the James
boys, Friday forcnooon. and canturcd the
following persons, who were tuken to Lib
erty that evening, (ieorge James, idward
Miller, and Ned Samuels. The others
had fled. Miller was heavily armed, and
Dears a oad reputation.
A very sad mistake occurred at Cross
Plains, Tenn., Saturday. The wife of
Mr. Ewi'ng Burney put poison in some
meal and set in a cupboard, with a view
to poisoning mice. The cook, having no
knowled of the fact, subseauently went to
the cupboard, got the meal, mixed.it with
more from the barrel, made it into dough
and cooked it for breakfast. Mrs. B. and
child ate heartily of it, aed both shortly
after became desthly sick. She asked the
servant whether site hail wot used the
poisoned meal, who answeredin the affir
mative. A physician was speedily sum
moned, but she was past alf human aid.
She died within an hour after eating the
bread. The child is still in. a critical
condition, but hopes are entertained of its
recovery.
A man in Jackson, Tenn., baa built
his dwelling house on wheels.
The Constitutional Commission of the
State of Maine, Saturday, by ft vole of
six to two, defeated the proposition to
amend the constitution so that women, can
be electors under the same regulations
and restrictions as men.
At Richmond. Va.. early yesterday
mornining, a colored burglar named Cor
ucliua Robinson was shot dead by Rush
Burgess, Collector of internal Revenue,
while attempting to break into his house.
Saturday night James Lull, alias Slp
pery Jim, a notorious thief who was conn
fined in the Chicago jail as a witness in a
recent case of robbery,attempted to escape,
and getting upon the roof slipped aad fell
into the carridor, a distance of forty feet,
menglinv himself fearfully and receiving
injuries from which he died last night.
Mrs. Mary Fellows, wife of CoL John
Fellows of Chelse, Mass., was so badly
burned yesterday by her clothes taking
fire at the stove, that she died two hours
afterward.
About a thousand persons, including the
members of the Legislature aud the State
officers, visited the chapel of the Ohio
Penitentiary yesterday to witness the
marriage of Thos. Miles and Nancy Scott,
two convicts whose terms of service ex
pired that day. The parties were engaged
to be married at the time the burglary was
committed, and rather than be separated
from her lover the woman pleaded guilty
and consented to an imprisonment for two
years.
KENTUCKY NEWS.
Owcnsboro is talking of a public library.
Metcalfe county his instructed unani
mously for Hon. John C. Underwood for
Lieutenant Uovernor.
The Democracy of Washington county
will meet in convention at Springfield on
Monday, March 22, to select delegates to
the State convention.
Hon. H. H. Skiles nnn&unces himself
as a candidate for the State Senate in the
district composed of Allen and Warren
counties. He has served.one term in the
lower house.
A young man named Lyle killed an Ir-
shman named Conway in Trigg county,
last Saturday night. After the fatal blow
had been struck the Irishman tell in the
fire, or was thrown into it by his murder
er, and when assistance arrived it was
found that the top of his head waB sever
ely burned. Conway survived his inju
ries long enough to state that Lyle had
assaulted him with a billet of wood, and
knocked him senseless. Iiyle has been
arrested.
Some davs ago. an old-time chair, plain
and substantial, made of walnut, rectan
gular frame, and with a plain leather
cushion came to Bowling Green by ex
press to the address of Hon. J. R Un
derwood. It was the same chair used for
a number of years by Henry Clay as an
office chair; by him bequeathed to the late
Judge Robertson, and by him to Judge
Underwood. Mr Clay and judge under
wood having been associated together in
both houses of Congress, and being inti
mate nersonal friends, the Judge doubt
less highly appreciates this souvenir of
nis ueceasea anu uisuuguisucu menu.
Cantain Dick Simoson of Bowline
Green, while visiting his mother at Wood
bury, ivy., R snort lime since, juiueu a
hunting party, and while they were out,
they discovered a heavy vein of lead ore,
which has been tested and proved to be
eighty per cent, of pure lead. They have
not given any wiormauon in regaru iu
.. . . ii : : : i,
lis location, wore muu ii. io iu iuc v.iijii,jr
of Woodbury. There is great exciteraunt
in that section in regard to it. Some be
lieve it to be on a widow's farm who has
several marriageable daughters, and we
have been informed by good authority
that a young man bas actually married
nne of them on the strength of it.
One dark night, not long ago. a burglar
entered a private reaiueuce iu uuiugivu,
On ascending one flight of stairs, he.ob
served a light in a chamber, and while
deliberating what to do, a large woman
suddenly descended upon him, seized him
by the throat, pushed him down tnrougn
the hall, and forced him into the street
before he had time to think. "Heroic
Repulse of a Burglar by a Woman was
the way the story was ioiq trie next aay.
But when friends called and congratula
ted her upon her courage, she exclaimed,
"Good gracious! I didn't know it was a
lmrirlar. If I had I should have been
frightened to death. I thought it was
mv lWhand come home drunk, and I
was determined he shouldn't stay in the
house in that condition.
Onlcb R. Brooks, -a oromising youn
lawver of Owingsville. has been called
upon through the columns of the Owings
ville Ifewt. to become a candidate,
represent the counties of Bath and Rowan
in the Juower nonse oi me next .uegisiu'
ture.
Chicago will be represented in the next
Con press by two .Lexington men uon,
Barney Caulfield and Hon. Carter Har
rison.
A Varran rTiiM wftn horn s. few miles
from Columbia last Monday that had six
finder on each hand and six toes on each
foot. The doctor in attendance cut off
the extras.
A colored boy, twelve years of age,
while nlavmz ball at Mayslic, Mason
county, a'few days ago, was struck in the
face with a bat, injuring him so severely
as to cause bis death on Sunday last.
Diirinp' the nronres of a trial at 'Squire
Cram's court, in Hughes district,- Pendle
ton county, on the 21st instant, an old
man and his 6ons attempted to put a stop
to the proceedings. Quite a stormy time
was had, during which the court ad
journcd. County Attorney Simon, who
was present, in order to protect himself,
had to draw his pocket-knife.
Dr. Pratt, President of the Central
University, and pastor of the Presbyteri
an church in Richmond, recently
preacbad a severe sermon against dan
cing. The young people of his congrega
tion not paying proper attention to his ad
monitions, Dr. now publishes a card, in
which he says he will dissolve his rela
tions with the congregation unless they
discontinue the practice of dancing at
jrivate sociable gatherings.
Col. John F. Davis, ofSbelbyville, who
hits been for eome time past in the field
as a candidate lor. me nomination as
CIe.rk of the Court of Appeals, publishes
a card in the Shelby Courant withdrawing
from the race.
Un der the caption of "The Quaintess-
ence -of Cheek," theCincinnati Star re
lates t he following: Among the Ameri
cans -who attended a ball given at the
Hotel -de Ville, Paris, when John Y. Ma
son wia our minister tnere, was uacic
Spicer,of Kentucky. Jack rushed the
dress somewhat strong, and sported epau
lets on li is slr.oulders large enough to start
four Major G'enerals into business. Jack
was the o.bservedofall observers, and got
mixed up wit-h a party that his friends
could not account for. Wherever the
Marshals -of .France went, there went
Jabk; and whiin the Marshals sat down,
-lack did tt'e tiame, always talcing the
post of hont ir. The day after the ball
jack called 'On our minister to France,
who started up a conversation in the fol
lowing way; "I hear. Jack, you were at
the ball, last evening.- "i was, sir, ana
bad a high ol d time." "For which you
were indebted. . I suppose, to the high old
company you got mixed up with. By the
way, how cam e you associated with the
Marshal 'Ho b? By virture of my
office. . They -jwere Marshals of France,
while I am not hmg- els; than the Marshal
of the Republic I shewed ray position
and took post i tcco rdingly." "By right
of your office? What do you mean?"
"Read and see. '' .Here Jack presented
Mr. Masoa with a whitey-brown paper,
with a seal big ei ton gh for a four pound
weight "What in tvhe nme of heaven
this?' "My C imi msaicn as 'Marshal,
received in 18. 50, whea I assisted in
taking the census of Frankfort. "You
don't mean to say yo u travel on this?''
"I don't mean to sa y euiyth'ng else. That
makes me a 'Marsl lal of the Republic,'
and I intend to havt e tine ofice duly hon
ored. Fighting creek is the suggestive name
of a Knox county sti ea m.
Capt F. Whit Th. om as, of the Dyes
burg, (Tenn.) Progre ss, was married in
faducah last Monda y, to uiss rannie
Brown, daughter of C apt Stanley Brown.
David K. Saunders .came an the way
from Longvicw, Texas, to jret the girl he
loved in Kentucky. Tl ie old gentleman
was unwilling, bo Miss Gab ie S. Shrop
shire, of Bourbon county met David in
Lexington and the rhocc ix Jioiei was me
scene of the marriage.
There is a good deal o f er.citement in
colored circles in Woodvil le a bout a wed
ding celebrated there Sunt loy. After the
ceremony, the bride, who is a-girl about
thirteen years old, refuse, n to go home
with the groom, and no pel -sua sion could
induce ber to change her mi :nd.
St. John Boyle, Esq,, hai -ing failed to
execute bond as receiver oft he S t. Louis
and Southeastern Railway C omp.ny, the
matter was reopened belore J ud.je .Ben
nett, of the Common Pleas Co. urt a t Hcn-
ricraon hint Satunliiv. and Mr. . tiayileirri:
Shouse, of that city, was appoi. nted in his
place, lie gave bond and qua -.unra im
mediately alier his appointment.
There is preat trouble amon? the ol
ored Baptist congregatiou of F rank fort,
as lo the selection of a pastor for the en
suing year. A few five or six t 'nly of
tho more nrnminent members, d esire a
certain shepherd, while the bulk of t he
congregation oppose lnm in lavor ot ti ie
election of another. The dispute OVl T
this question grew hotter and hotter, un
til Sunday last, something like a riot oo
enrred in the very precinct of the church
it-elf, which stands at the head of Clinton
street, near the penitentiary. Some one
saw, or thought he saw, a pistol dra.wn,
and a terrible excitement JOlioweo u y a
grand scatteration, ensued. The con sta
ble of the beat thinks, if they do not set
tle the matter amicably and stop rioting,
he can effectually cool off the malconse iats
bv arresting and "immersing the wr .oie
lot under the ice in the river.
There is just this about it. If sa rv-
ice in either the Confederate or. Feder
al army is to be considered in th o
forthcoming democratic State Conven -,tion,
and the nomination conferred I
upon any man on either of those
grounds, we will oppose the nominee
to the extent and best of our ability.
If General Sorghum Williams, for
instance, is nominated simply because
he held a commission as Brigadier Gen
eral in the Confederate army and
that is the only card he plays m his
electioneering rounds and the opposi
tion nominates a good, honest, sensible,
straight-forward man, who has no mil
itary record, we will support the oppo
sition candidate against Williams.
Secession never was Democratic doc
trine. It was scouted with horror and
spurned with indignation by Jackson
whose Democracy was good enough
for us and we will never cast vote
for a man who is presented to us on
the sole ground that he distinguished
himself in the cause of Secession.
While we have supported many ex-Con
federates since the war, they wore not
running on their military records.
Whenever 0ml is made the test for
office, then we shall consider, ourself at
liberty to decline to support any one
whose course during the war did not
suit us and was in opposition to our
honest convictions of dury and patriot
ism. And we apprehend that there
are a good many thousand Democrats
in Kentucky who will agree with us
in opinion and unite with U3 in action
should the emergency be forced upon
us.
The Galaxy says (in speaking of
our country and its people) that the
faculty of storytelling has entirely
died out of us. Alas! this charge is
too true; we are too truthful-too truth
ful to live. WAsrnxGTON discovering
the cherry tree did it all.
THE TRUE STORY OF THE MODERN
RONCEVALLES.
As Told by a Candidate for the Gu
bernatorial Nomination to
an Astonished Voter.
uYou see, I was gettin' rusty, and
wanted sharp work. I intercepted a
dispatch from General Buebridqe to
General Giltner, saying that he in
tended to attack and destroy the salt
works on the 10th of October, and
gave tho number of hU men at ten
thousand.
"Dash it to dash, that wa3 tho best
news I ever heard. I had only '
hundred and fifty men all the bal
lance off on furlough but they were
regular dash-rippers, you can bet your
bottom dollar.
"I ordered a dress parade, and read
the dispatch to them. I then made
them a dash of a speech a regular
heart-stirrer, blood-boiler, such as no
body outside of dash but me can make.
I told them the dashed Yankees were
coming, and that dash would probably
be to pay. I spun to them a whole
dashed lot of eloquent stuffabout Leon
idas and his spartan band at the pass
of Trigonometry. I told them tho eyes
of their mothers, wives and sweethearts
were upon them that tho fate of the
Southern Confederacy would hang up
on their gallantry that day.
"For, you see, I knew that old Lee
had got himself cornered in a way he
could not get out of short of a surren
der. I knew that dashed fool Hood
had got the t'other army destroyed,
and I was conscious that the whole
dashed fabric rested on my shoulders.
"The boys wereust a3 wild for the
fight as I was.
"Well, the morning of tho 10th of
October, 1864, which my own good
sword ha3 cut from the calendar of or
dinary days and pinned upon the scroll
offameasthe epoch of the grandest
victory known in the history of arms,
arrived, and so did Burbridge and his
twenty thousand men.
"They hadn't more than got in sight
'till my dashed braves were spoiling to
begin the battle.
"But you see there must be system
atic work on. such occasions, and I am
a dashed of a military genius. I told
'em to wait until the dashed Yankee
had made his dispositions, and then
we would p,o in and whip dash out of
him by detail.
"Burbridge was not backward in
taking up his positions. Ho posted
ttironty-t wo. thousand Infantry on caraa
rising ground on his right. He then
put twenty-five thousand infantry in
position on his left, and held back as a
reserve force thirty-five thousand more
of infantry and twenty-five thousand
cavalry. Besides these he had two
hundred and forty pieces of artillery.
"You may well look astonished, my
honest friend. Things wore a dashed
bilious look. But then each one of my
men was equal to a thousand Yankees.
And then they knew that I was there
to head 'em. If old Bon Lee had
been in my place, he would have re
treated on Richmond, but dash my
soul to dash if there is- such a word as
'retreat' in my military dictionary.
"When I saw that the dashed Yan
kee had made all ot his dispositions, I
turned to my braves and shouted,
"Boys 1 follow me!" and charged full
upon the enemy's right, and before
Burbridge could realize what I was
up to, had routed it entirely, and cap
tured sixteen thousand prisoners and
eightyfour guns, leaving twelve thou
sand Yankees dead as dash on that
portion of the field. I then charged
lis center and reserve, and soon had
them flvintr in every direction. Here
I a iptured nearly thirty thousand pris
ot'ecs and one hundred and sevanty
fiv cannon. It was then that I dis
covered that the enemy's left, having
witnessed the destruction of their right
and center, had fled from the field and
were out of reach; leaving all their ar
tillery be liiud them, amounting in all
to two hundred aud forty-five pieces.
I had the dead Yankees counted and
buried, and they amounted to just for-
ty-fivo thousand. He also left his
wounded behind him, and they amoun
ted to sixty-eight thousand. Next
mornine I started the hundred and
twelve thousand prisoners and wound
ed, and the five hundred and forty
guns I had captured, to Kichmond, as
a present to John Breckehridge,
who was Secretary of war.
"That, sir, is the exact truth about
the battle of Saltville. It was the
greatest battle ever fought on the top
of tho earth. Julius Cesar was the
only General who ever captured at one
time as many prisoners as I did. I
am a candidate for Governor, and if
you can find a better General, and one
who has won more fame than me, Vote
for him. But I'm dashed if you won't
have a hard time scaring such a man
up. Let's taken drink, old fellow.'
"On, Willie, we have missed you,"
is what the parson, the wedding-ring,
and the cradle sing to the editor of tho
Litchfield Herald,
THE A VTHOR OF "BEAUTIFUL
SNOW."
Some of the school girls are racking
their dear little brains as to the author
ship of "The Beautiful Snow." When
they settle the question satisfactorily,
we would be glad to know the result.
For the benefit of the young ladies, we
will state that "The Beautiful Snow"
was written by Charles Faxon, former
ly editor of the Jeffersonian, atClarks
ville, Tenn. Louisville Ledger.
The Ledger is mistaken. The poem
in question was written.not by Charles
Faxojt, but by his younger brother
Henry, who died during the war in
the military hospital at Washington
City. It wa3 written and originally
published about the year 1852, in the
Buffalo BepuHic, of which young Faxon
was the local editor. Before his own
death, Charles Faxon, who "wanted
to establish lis dead brother's title to
the authorship of "Beautiful Snow,"
which had been stolen and claimed by
a rhyming fellow at the Ea3t named
Watson, busied himself ui hunting up
evidence that the poem had appeared
in print prior to 1862, at which time
Watson said he wrote it and it first
appeared in print. We furnished
Charlie a copy ot " The True. Democrat
cy," a paper we published in 1856, in
which we had printed the poem, in Oc
tober of that year, on the occasion of
the first fall of snow, and credited it to
the Buffalo paper. Charlie Faxon
died, however, before he could arrange
hU evidence for publication, and we
suppose that in a few years Watson
will be in undisputed possession of the
poem he stole from a dead man.
ANDREW JOHNSON.
J. he lennessee legislature did a
wise thing when it elected ex-rresu
dent Andy JonNSON to the United
States Senate. He i3 a man of indom
itable industry nnd energy, a man of
brains, a man of unflinching courage,
and the man for the place to which he
has been chosen.
It is true enough that in the past he
has done some things which he ought
not to have done, and leu other things
undone which he ought to have done.
But the past is past, and its deeds are
dead and ought to be buried and for
gotten. The present is what we are
living in; its events we arc contending
with; and its issues are to be decided
for our weal or woe. To battle for us
in the high places, to contend for our
rights in the strong hold of power, we
need our wisest and our best. Andy
Johnson is one of these. Again we
assert that the Tennessee Legislature
did a good thing when it returned him
to the field of his old fighting and tri
umphs. We are grieved to learn of the
death of Hattie, tlie second daughter
of our venerable friend and. olden an
tagonist, Mr. A. M. Casebolt, editor
oftheA'eica, Cape Girardeau, Mo. Sha
was a young lady of whom we have
many pleasant recollections. Mild,
sweet and lovely in disposition and
manners, affable to all, and modest as
the violet, she was a favorite with the
youth of her acquaintance. A fast
friend, nnd a Wing and dutiful daugh
ter and wife, her loss creates a vacuum
not alone in the domestic, but also in
the social circle. We condole with
her afflicted parents and husband, and,
as she was a pious and exemplary
member of tho church, confidently ex
hort them to look to heaven with the
eye of faith, for there we know their
lost one is with the angels.
It is rumored in this city that since the
announcement of the death of the Empe
ror of China, Elizabeth Larue ot the Rich-
ardtown News has put on mourning gar.
ments that is, is wearing shirts of sable
hue "in testimony of her sorrow at the
death of the chief of the nation of human
washing machines. Hopkinsvillc New
jTO.
The rumor is doubtless correct, but
our Hopkinsville gossip is incorrect
about the color. White is worn for
mourning by the Chinese. When last
we saw the charming young lady re
ferred to, she wore a shirt of snowy
whitencss, and we were astonished at
the unusual sight; but then we had
not heard of the death of the Emperor
of China.
"The price of a kiss in Barren coun
ty, is 8100 and a good licking from two
big brothers-in-law, and fifty days im
prisonment." Ah! it is much cheaper
in this connty. All we have to pay
down here is the good licking of ripe,
pouting lips and the brief imprison
ment of fair, round, rosy arms: love's
sweet, bewitching jail.
HiNC ilke lachrymal
Old lady "Hartfoeo IIieald " evinces
a characteristic abundance of belligerant
propensity. This is doubtless attributed
to the fact that she came into the field of
Journalism through the crack of a fence
backwards. She bad best straighten her
feathers, or they will be pulled out, and
her Spurs extracted. Grayson County Her
ald.
Old lady "Hartford Herald" evinces
finraMiriitfo ahundance of belligerant
propensity. Grayson County Herald.
"Belligerant is good better than
anything in the dictionary.
KICK HIM Fit 021 THE STAGE.
On last Sunday evening Genrml Jnhn
8. Williams, one of the Democratic ai-nl.
rants for gubernatorial honors, arrived in
lown ana iook up rooms at the Dudley
House. Seeing him arrive, we went over
to pay him that respect which we are al
ways in the habit of showing to distin
guished gentlemen when they visit our
town, but he did not receive us as we had
reason to expect from him. We were sai
prised to find him so full of enmity toward
the members of the Kentucky cress, and
particularly against those whom he term
ed the "kid elove" and "snobbv" nortion
of it, and of which he was so free'to place
Colonel Stoddard Johnston at the head.
General Williams is a fluent talker, and
uur rcauera can imagine me scoring we
received from him. His manner toward
us was harsh, and we parted with him ia
disgust FlemxngtbuTg Democrat.
General Williams treatment of our
good friend Ashton of the Democrat
wa3 according to the nature of the bru
tal, ai.bred, swaggering bully that he
is. aturaliy over bearing in his dispo
sition, a devoted Iotct of himself, ho
imagines that everybody else must
make it the aim and object of their ex
istence to exalt his horn. He is a pret
ty thing to talk about "kid gloves" and
"snobs" among the editorial profession
of Kentucky! He is a nice creature to
assault the good name of the Chevalier
Bayard of our tribe! He, a fellcw
who posaossps all the instincts of an aris
tocrat, but married to the manners of
a swashbuckler, the tongue of a fish-
woman, the heart of a sparrow, and the
spirit of a mouse. What a striking
contrast between hi3 treatment of Stod
dard Johnston and the latter gentle
man s treatment of him. But, then,
Stoddard Johnston is a born gentle
man. If Brother Ashton only had known
the hectoring bully as well as we do,
he could soon have put a stop to his ti
rade of abuse. A straight, steady look
in the eye, and back-handed slap on the
mouth, would have had a wonderful
soothing effect. It would have been as
the kiss of the moon on the lips of the
wave. Old Sorgitum puts on different
airs about home. There he is known
for what he is. There he is valued at
exactly his worth.
We have had enough of this farce of
Sorghum running for Governor. Wo
have permitted the oleaginous, boastful,
sack-loving Falstaft of the late C. S.
A. to stalk upon the stage, tell of his
encounter with Burbridge and his men
in buckram on the Gad's hill of Salt
ville, recount his imaginary exploits on
that occasion, and had some jolly good
laughs over it all. We have seen tho
cullerv gods and the habitues of the pit
mistake old Jack's strut and swagger
for the hero's stride and bearing, and
we have enjoyed their error hugely.
But all farces should be short to be en
joyable. Besides, the wise man ad
monishes us that there is a time for all
things. We have had enough of tho
screaming farce of "Sorghum in Search
of a Nomination." Even relaxation
hath surcease. The sterner business of
political life now demands the attention
of the people. Wc mu3t kick the buf
foon from the stage, and begin the real
drama of selecting a Governor for tho
State. We kick old Soughum from
the boards a little sooner than we had
intended; but then he presumed upon
our good nature, was growing arrogant,
and was guilty of impertinence toward
one of our guild. Farewell, dear old
Sobggy excuse this overflowing of
the lachrymal glands but a long and
last farewell! Boo-hoo-oo!
Mr. Harrison Cockrill h wreak
ing uniqnc revenge on the Democrats
of the Ninth District for declining to
support him at the polls, by publishing
his intention of contesting the seat of
his successful competitor. Whereat
the brethren up there are so mortified
that, when they go away from home,
they swear with singular earnestness
that they reside in the Ashland Dis
trict. The Madisonville Times is on tha
look-out for us to speak of a "widower
man." Well, what would it have us
call him? a horse?
If we backed into the field of jour
nalism through the crack of a fence,
how did the Litchfield Herald maiden
back into her grammar?
The modest maiden of the Litchfield
Herald calls us an "old lady." She has
never sai on our lap, you sec.
August Election, 1875.
Fayette Hewitt, of Hardin connty, is a can
didate for the office of Auditor of Public Ac
counts at the August election, 1S7S. Subject
to the action of the Democratic Contention
sailed for May 6, 187S.
JAS. A. THOXAS,
cio. a. run. ,
J AS. A. THOMAS CO.
HARTFORD.KY.
Sealers in itaple and faaey
DRY GOODS,
No Uon i f Taney Goods, Clothing, Boots and
fl IT- k. 1 1 1 A
onojsy xiftis ana vaps. a urga Mtwrimvuh ui
these goods kept contUntlj on hand, and will
be sold at thererj lowest cash price