OBITUARY.
Iatl Ht Fraikf..rJ. Ky., ft Ex-liuv.
Rlac !ib:i ni A Sk-t. !i of His Life
Ami Work.
Frankfort, Ky., Het. 14. Ex.
Gov. LuLe P. Blackburn, the great
ly bt-love J and revered philanthropist,
pasHed quietly away at 2:30 p. in. to
dLy,'HUirounded by loving relatives
and old fnendn, after a lingering ill
ness. His death has leeu daily ex
pected for a month. Five days ago,
it is said, Gov. Blackburn predicted
he would die on a certain day at a
certain hour, and his prediction was
rifled almost to a minute. Last
Saturday, in his delirium, he uttered
ft few intelligible words: I tell you
G ;n. Cleburne, it is impracticable,"
djubtless alluding to something in
his army experience in Mississippi
when on the staff off Gen: .Price, and
when he and Gen. Pat Cleburne were
tae warmest and "most devoted
f iends. The . last, words .he used
distinctly, were uttered on Sunday
morning, when he said: "Oh, the
b uty oi religion.'' Dr. Blackburn's
d ath was brought on. by a combina
ii n of diseases, Bright's disease of
tin kidneys and ossification- of the
valves around the heart. Thus pass
e from our midst a man whose
memory will be treasured for all time
to come as one of nature's noblemen,
aid to whom Kentucky can ever
point with finger of pride.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
The death of no man in the South
w'll cause a throb of sincere sorrow
to thrill through more hearts than
Will that of Ex Gov. Luke P. Black
lu u. His has been u life of sacri
fices in the interest of buffering bu
rn uiity, which has endeared him to
all Southerners. Born eighty-two
years ago in Woodford county,' Ken
tucky, ho has passed safely through
a bloody war, seventeen yellow fever
epidemics, two cholera epidemics,
and has been connected with more
plana for the relief of human misery
than any man probably now living.
Luke Blackburn received his edu
cation in Transylvania university,
the most famous institution of learn
ing west of the Alleghanies. He be-
Can the practice of medicine at Lex
ington, Ky., soon after his gradua
tion. In 1835, cholera broke out at
Vcrsailes, Ky., and a call for help
was sent to Lexington. Dr. Black
burn at once responded, and worked
night and day with the suffering and
dying. So nobly did he render aid
to the plague stricken people that he
won their hearts, and when the
black cloud rolled away the citizens
who survived compelled him to re
main with them. He settled among
thcin, and for four years was exceed
ingly prosperous. In 1843 he was
elected to the legislature. In 1846
he removed to Natchez, Miss., where
be speedily worked up a successful
practice. In 1848 he had his first
experience with yellow lever. While
the scourge was devastating New
Orleans he was health officer of Nat
chez, and established a rigid quarau
tine which kept the disease com
pletely shut out. He was so im
pressed with the suffering of sailors
and river men that he built a hos
pital for them at his own expense.
Albert J. Brown, then a congress
aaatv called attention of the govern
ment to this act, and the result was
the establishment of the present
Complete system of marine hospitals
throughout the country. Again, in
1854, he protected Natchez from
yellow fever by his quarantine. He
wan at that time the most noted au
thority on yellow fever in the world.
In 1855 he visited Europe, going
through all the noted hospitals of
the Continent
In 185T he returned to America
and located in New Orleans. At the
leaking out of the war he went into
fhe confederate army as surgeon of
the staff of Gen. Sterling Price.
After the war he went toCanaihuand
aubsequenUy, at the solicitation of
the governor-general, to the Ber
mudas, where cholera was then w-
ir.M l TY - 1 ' i . . -
accomplished snch good that the
queen personally thanked him and
offered him honors and wealth, but
U modestly declined alL He never
accepted compensation for his servi
ces in epidemics.
Ia 1873 he returned to Kentucky
and nettled in Louisville, where he
practised his profession. When the
yellow fever broke out in Memphis
in 1878 he at once left for that city,
where he remained until the plague
was under control.
On km-oimI iLiv of May, 187'.,
an enthusiastic democratic conven
tion nominated him for governor of
Vmtitctr Tlipn. iu the midst of
AAVll a. j
his canvass, with the election but
few weeks off, he gave up everything
in rrr to Hickman. Ky.. where an
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epidemic of yellow fever had ap
peared. Here he remained for weeks
helping the ill ami easing the dying.
Th flection found him still at his
not in Hickman. He was elected
by more than 40,000 majority.
Of his career as governor but little
need be said. He found the state
prison a veritable "black hole,
where pestilence was bred and
miserable human beings died like
hogs. Between 1,200 and 1,300 men
were confined in accommodations
intended for COO. To remedy this
evil he used the pardoning power
with amazing energy, and it is esti
mated that he must have turned out
1,000 convicts during his four years
in office. After the expiration of his
term he came back to Louisville and
estab ished the darling scheme of
his old age the Blackburn Sani
tarium. For two years he devoted
his time to this, but it failed through
lack of popular support. Then his
health becran to fail and for more
than a year he slowly sank away,
Some six months ago he removed to
the home of his nephew at Frank fort,
Ky., where he remained.
Gov. Blackburn was a brother of
Senator J. C. S. Blackburn. He had
been married twice, Dr. Carey Black
bum of Louisville beinsr his only
son.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
A Few Words in Defence of His
Character.
Eighty-Two Mile; An Hour.
Wonderful improvements are go
ing on in railroad rolling stock. The
Globe-Democrat of Monday says:
Prof. Kline, of the Lehigh Uni
versity, has succeeded in driving an
engine with five cars behind it on the
Lehigh Valley Railroad at an equiva
lent of the extraordinary speed of
are: "Did bhakesneare drink?
W ill thn eC-rr m j-v vnua-t
use
eighty-two miles an hour. This
gentleman has been making a study this controversy,
of the Lehigh company s fast engine,
H. S. Godwin. He saw what he
thought was a. mistake in its me
chanical construction, and with the
view of remedying this he had the
valves changed for the express pur-
pors of increasing its speed. The
valves' were reset the other day, and I "f he was a 4ef' he was a
a trial trip was made. The run was I ebaucnee, and by a parity of rea-
The assault upon William Shakes
peare, his life, and the writings which
he did not write, recalls a similar as
sault made by Mr. Ignatius Donnel
ly some years ago upon Mr. ElihuB.
Washburne. Curiously enough Mr.
Washburne survives. So may Shake
speare. Some idiot started in sim
ilar pursuit of Sir Walter Scott the
other day. But Scott's actuality
made sufficient answer, and the
would-be sensationalist was driven
back into his hole. Nevertheless
these things make one tired.
There are books to prove and dis
prove everything. Once a good ar
gument was made to establish tie
fact that Napoleon Bonaparte hid
never lived. Did Herbert Spencer
write Dicken' novels? Who was tie
author of Junius' letters? who
struck Billy Patterson? who? Bet
what is the use? If everything that
is, is not, and nothing that has been
ever was. why anything? The true
solution is to abolish the interroga
tion point altogether.
Far be it from any purpose of
mine, either here or now, to lay any
of the ghosts raised by Mr. Donnel
ly. The name of William Shake-
speare is at least secure. It was not
born to die. It is immortal. Even
Donnelly cannot efface it from the
tablets, or the title pages, or the
memory of men still living. But
there is in the attack upon Shake
speare's morel character a meanness
which ought to be rebuked. The
man is down now iar down we
shall never know, since no one darea
to open his crave dead as Julius
Caesar. Under such a state of case,
to call him a thief, a libertine and a
drunkard is downright infamy. I
should not think safe for Mr. Don
nelly to visit Rowan county, Ken
tucky, after jumping in this way up
on a man who lies hors de combat
and has no friends. Craig Toliver
is not there, it is true. But what
would be the matter with Cook
Humphrey?
Perhaps Bacon did write the plays
of Shakespeare. Perhaps he didn't.
That is not the important part in
The real questions
and
wine?"
You see, it is, at the bottom, one of
the new issues to be sprung by the
Prohibitionists, of whom Mr. Don
nelly is a leader. If it can be clear
ly shown that Shakespeare 'drank,
HE3E I ID IE
ARE SCARCE & WANTED.
Woo
I WILL PAY THE HIGHEST MARKET PRICE FOR ALL THE
, Green and Dry Hides, Sheep Pelts,
Tallow, Feathers, Beeswax and Rag off .red, in Cash.
LEWIS HOFFMAN
NORTH MAIN STREET, BUTLER, MO.
TOR A IX DISORDERS Of
aiomaea. Liver
aim Hour
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STR1CTLYVEGETA3J.S.
wmnr not
BUY YOUR
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BOOTS AUD SHOES
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Where you can get them as represented. A large stock
to select from. Good quality, low prices,
a call will convince you of the fact.
H1PECTFULLY,
J. M. McKIBBEN.
CnreronetipAtioi. Iii.' : .vtiin.rtrMwu wd
petite. Bihonsnev
For Sale by all T"r
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pacific mmnzr , , ; c:., st. iW?
THE BUtTeJ J
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WOOLEN Wk
Bennett, Wheeler & Co.,
Dealers in the Celebrated
made from Eastonto Perth Junction,
fifty-five miles in seventy-six and
one-half minutes. The actual run
ning tune from Perth Junction. to
Easton " is an hour and seventeen
minutes, which includes three stops
and a "slow up." Between Patten-
burg and West End there is a-heavy
grade, but the Godwin easily ascend
ed it and made up two minutes lost
time while doing so. . She arrived at
Easton a half minute ahead of time.
In some part of the run the rate of
speed reached eighty-two miles an
hour. Railroad men consider the
achievement as somethin g wonder-ful."
soning the coming man will not
and shall not use wine! Don't you
see. Henry Watterson in Courier
Journal. '
Thousands ot cures follow the use ;
f Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy.
50 cents. .
Close the door gently,
And bridle the breath:
I've one of my hedaches
I'm sick unto death.
'Take 'Purgative Pellets'
They,re, nleasai.t and sure ;
I've some in my pocket
I'll warrant to cure."
Dr. Pierce'3 'Pleasant Pnrfiv..
Pellets' are both preventive and
curative.
Within five years the State of Kan-
saa will De bankrupt. Nine tenths
of her counties are now upon the
verge of insolvency. There is
scarcely one fanner in ten whose
land produces enough to make him
a living and pay .his taxes. With
her vast burden of debt, what is to
oecome 01 Jiansas wnen thi tide of
immigration ceases? When the flow
01 money from the East no longer
ieeas tne state and the population
falls back on its grain crops.the only
source of sustenance, the income
will not be sufficient to pay the in
terest on the public debt Chilli
cothe Constitution.
.Whisky and Beer.
Government, statistics find that
I since 1840 the use of whisky has
fallen off one half in the United
States, while the use of wines has
has increased from 1.36 gallons per
capita in 1840 to 11.01 gallons per
capita in 1848. This may be con
sidered a favorable showing, as there
is choice even of evils. Were those
addicted to the drinking habit to ab-
John Deer ; Bradley Stirria
jBradley, Canton. Deere and Brown Cultivators; Pattee
New Departure Tongueless Cultivators.
Deerel Keystone Rotary Drop Corn Planters,
With Deere All'Meel Check Rower with Automatic Reel.
Stalk Cutters,New Ground Plows, ri arrows and Sulkv PI .ws
Haish's S Barbed Steel Fence Wire
HALLADAY WIND MILLS, IRON, WOOD AND CHAIN PUMPS,
WAGONS, BUGGIES AND CARRIAGES.
ALL KINDS OF ftRAss STvrcnK
Hardware, Groceries, Iron, Nails, Wagon Woodwork, &c.
BENNETT, WHEELER Hi GO.
Are now ready tor busineei, SockJ
xuemion given to
Such as Roll Carding, Carding
Spinning and Weaving..
Will exchange
BLANKETS,
FLANNELS,
JEANS and
YARNS for
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A Tennesee country editor who
went off for his summer vacation left
the following notice on office door:
"Will lie gone for several davs and
have left matters in charge of the
office boy. People who wish to par
Bftj nnr wif
- nur.
I irhn wTni niTi . i.. iTr z . i
stain entirelyfrom the useof whiskev WSSSSSSSS.
VUd Liir I Hflttnu.. ... z . - - - "
wine cup or the beer xnu drunken
ness would be less frequent than it
now is. It is asserted that the po
lice records of large cities show that
the number of arrests for drunken
ness has decreased quite steadily
since lS40.Xew York Commercial
News.
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subscriptions
Those who have complaints to make -me ot Rheumatim of 4 years siand
will please go to the devil." !fg" J bIess.the &7 when I was in
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