Semi-Weekly Bourbon News, 1883-08-28

Editor Ncwlon, of the Richmond Herald, paid us a call yesterday. Quite a party of Bourbons attended the hops at Cynthiana last week. Miss Lake Barnes will leave Saturday for Harrodsburg, to attend college. The Bourbon Hop Club's engraved tickets are out, and are very pretty. AshleyLaSalle and wife returned here from Pocahontas, Ark., yesterday. Jos. L. Taylor has returned from the Cumberland Falls, and has been quite ill. John R. Wolfe and Frank,. -Clay, of Georgetown, spent Sunday in this city. Prof. H. R. Blaisdell is holding a Teachers' Idstitute in Bracken county, this week. Our city tourists are dropping in by detail one by one all coming in to attend the fair. Mrs. Laura Garnett and daughter, of Owen county, are visiting relatives In this city. An apple tree which never bears fruit on both sides the same year Is a Bracken county curiosity. Mrs. H. H. Long has returned from Cincinnati, almost recovered from her recent is severe illness. Mr. W. P. Bogie, of Bath county, will be the guest of his aunt, Mrs. W. H. Fisher, until after the fair. Miss Mary Buford, of Covington, will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. Oscar Taylor, until after the fair. Hon. J. P. Knott and wife arc in Bath county, spending a week or two 'as "the guests of Mr. Young. Wm. Lowry and Dr. Frank Fithian are mashing (drugs) behind the counters of Dr. Davis' new drug store. Capt. Hack Skillman, of Nicholasville, passed through here yesterday to visit a sick sister near the Blue Licks. Generally speaking, outside of the legal fraternity there Is not a great deal of clothing to be found in a law suit. Dr. Sample, of Vanceburg, has stewed up two boxes of rattle snakesi nto oil and is introducing it in his practice. Solo Ausbach, a German magician, is teaching parlor tricks here to the lawyers, doctors and other professsonal men. One hundred Mississippi editors with their wives and concubines, will take in the Louisville Exposition September 7th. Miss Fannie Shropshire returned home from the Blue Licks yesterday, after spending the season at the Arlington House. A young lady in Wisconsin refused an offer of marriage on the ground that her father was unable to support a large family. When a man here in Kentucky finds the habit of drinking water growing on him, he can quit It without any great inconvenience. President Arthur still sticks to tho Yellowstone country, notwithstanding the perils of an exclusively fish and huckleberry a diet. Misses Annie Sewell and Myrtle Throop, of Louisville, who have been the guests of Miss Tura Gorham, left for their homes yesterday. Tom Allen, of Sharpsburg, left Monday for Fort Kehoe, Montana, and Henry Harris and John Howell,' of -Carlisle, for St. Paul, Minn., for recreation. There ought to be a good dude promenade stand on all the fair grounds of the State, There's nothing like giving the dudes full sway around the circle. Jake Keller of Shawhan, and James Skinner, of Ruddles Mills, have gone to take in a few fairs and make a general inspection of the country. Gov. Ell Murray, of Utah, a former tendered the Kentucky delegation of Knights Templars a complimentary ban quet and serenade at Salt Lake City. Oscar Wilde has returned to New York to supervise the rehearsal of "Vera," his new play. "Oc" now wears dude bangs and looks silly enough to scare "Old Nick." Miss Mamie Wilson, the handsome little blue-eyed blonde from Cane Ridge, has returned home from an extended visit to Scott county, minus her big, first-class heart Mrs. Taylor will movo from Woodford to Bourbon in a f ewdays, to make her home with her son William M., in consequence (of her son Lew having decided to move to Missouri. An ox team is singularly symbolic of conrtship and marriage, for it begins with a bow, continues with a tongue and ends by presenting to the world the picture of a goad ed pair. Capt. Ed. Taylor, will establish headquarters at Knoxville, Tenn., immediately after the opening of the K. C. Extension to that point, and will drum the South exclusively in the interest o'f the Shllletos. Wm. Stltt, Jr., and Hunter Brothers, of Versailles, came down to this city, on bicycles Sunday in hours, and spent the day and returned home on the cars in the evening. There's a special attraction here for the latter in way of a handsome little lady the gust of the NEWS. Capt. Thos. Johnston and wife, of Louisville, and formerly of Carlisle, are attending the wedding of the Captain's sister, tit Marietta, Ohio, this week, and Mrs. Johnston will be the guest of the News during our fair. Thos. Costello, the popular salesman for the large Wholesale millinery houses of Griffith Bro's, at Indianapolis, Ind., and Dayton, Ohio, was in our city yesterday. In looking over his large and elegant line of samples, we were lost in admiration at many of the new and handsome fall styles in straw goods in fact, the finest we've ever before noticed, and we fancy from our experience of several years in the business, we know whereof we speak. From the two large trunkof feathers of all shades and shapes, we were constrained to remark that the coming season will be a "feather" one. As usual, our toniest milliners who use none but the very best goods, sent Tom away with a f .ice wreathed in smiles, over several large orders given him. Cincinnati's annual Exposition opens Soptemher 5th, continuing until Octohor 7th. These Expositions have always been creditable, from a local standpoint, and this one j will probably prove no exception.

The Trader, Turfman, Farmer and Sportsman. George Kenney won the big prize at Monmouth Park Saturday. Longtaw, by Longfollow, dam Slipper, has been purchased by Chas. Reed. Tucker, Leontine and Pickett were the winners at the Cynthiana fair races Friday. Stovall has been relieved of riding for R. C. Pate. Blaycock, an English jockey takes his place. Parole "Has bden on the turf eight years, has started 119 times and won in stakes SS0,139 25. Jay-Eye-See trotted a mile in 2:14 at Rochester, beating the best five-year-old time on record. Lord Raglan, the well-known race horse, has been cut down and will not enter any more races this year. - English papers say that the run on Hereford cattle by American buyers at this time phenomenal, add that the like was never known before. Samuel J. Tilden has just purchased a team of well-matched splendid Kentycky horses-. That will insure the Kentucky Democratic delegates for Samuel. Sue Dudley, dam of the trotting horse Mambrlno Dudley, record 2:22, died at Wood-burn Farm August 6th, aged 24 years. She left a colt of 1873, by Belmont. Midway Clipper. The stable of Chlnn & Morgan had hardly arrived at Lexington ere itsustalned the loss of a thoroughbred, Monty, a bay geldlngslx years old, by Monarchist, dam Areola, by Enquirer. He died from lung fever. In the month of July, 35 cars of cattle, 37 of sheep, 5 of hogs, and 3 of horses were shipped from the K. C. pens at this place. From August 1st to 23rd, 124 car loads of cattle; 23 do. sheep; 12 do. hogs; 3 do. of mules; and 1 do. of horses. The Lee herd of Berkshire hogs belonging to S. M. Pryor & Son, of this county, passed on to Lexington fair on their return from the Sabina Ohio) fair, whprc they Avon six first and one second prize in seven rings last week, over 100 competitors. This we learn is the 20th successive season that these gentlemen have exhibited this stock. Regarding the injury of Leonatus, he has straincd'thc outer tendon of the right foreleg, which can readily be seen by the eye or felt with the hand. The Injury is not so serious as was first supposed. The enlargement of'lhe seat of the injury is chiefly from effusion'of serum, and with rest and cold applications by means of bandages or otherwise will, in the course of two or three months, effect a cure. Generally, however, in such cases it will take six or eight months before the tendon recovers its tone, and in valuable horse like L'eonatus no attempt should be made to work him before that time. It is the intention of his owners to let him lie over until next spring before they will attempt to put him in training, They will give the coltample time to recover from his injury, for he was one of the best and most wonderful three-year-olds that has ever appeared upon the American turf. The following are the only members of the Second Confederate Kentucky Infantry now known to be in this county, who will probably attend the reunion at Lexington next Wednesday: Capt. Ed.Spears,Capt Dan Turney, Tom York, Shiner Hite, Jno. Hlte, Jas. Mernaugh, Henry Turney, Lt. H. M. Carpenter, Jas. Price, Mike Powers, Alex. Talbott, Lafe Bills, Henry Spears, John Ross and your humble servant. Capt. Hugh Henry and Charlie Brown, of tho 4th Regiment, and Wm. Whaley and J. C. Clark, of the 9th also reside In this county. o A swarm of bees stung a mare to death, belonging to Geo. Todd, on Wm. Speakes' farm. t'm (f' $if& To the wife of Highland Graves, of this city, on Sunday last, a ten pound son, -- 4Z. Miss Allie Barnett, of Clihtonvllle, was married last week in Cincinnati, to Ambrose Weathers, of Marshall, Mo. Miss Carrie, daughter of W. P. Collins, formerly of this city, will wed Mr. Link B. Hanford, at Lamar, Mo., on the 12th of September. BOURBON FAIR LOCALS. Fresh currents, Raisins, Nuts and Pure spices, at JAS. FEE & SON'S. Good races will be given every day of the fair. , 10 lbs. Standard Oranidated Sugar for S1.00 Cash. JAS. FEE & SON. Wilfe& Trost's band will furnish music for the fair. Try Miles Jc Son's J. E. ilT. Roller patent flour for cake. JAS. FEE & SON, Agts. Gentelmen attending the Bourbon fair and hops, urill be waited on with neatness and alacrity, by the affable Professor James Frazier and his polite assistants, opposite the Bourbon House, up-stairs, " Col. O'Neal, the do-make-yourself-comfortable man of the Thurston House, announces that he Jias laid in a large supply of hams too old to talk about and other good things in proportion, and willjced his fair guests on full rations all the week. V. Boos, the confectioner, who keeps the finest Wrench candies and confections in the city, announces that he has added a line of groceries, including the finest old whiskies and wines to his stock. Give him a call if you want the pure "juice" a few above the Thurston House. 2t Rntifirfnn A James desire to call special' alien- tion of visitors to the fair from a distance to their well-known and popular saloon, on olain Street, where the oldest and finest liquors, the best and fancy drinks, cigars and tobaccos can be obtained. A fine billiard room is attach-ed and all patrons will be made comfortable a'm h'appy.

.much that the yard master of the K. C. and C. & O. will be compelled to work a force night and day for the purpose of making up trains and keeping the tracks clear. A Tennessee exchange says the following placard can be seen in a store in Paris, in that State: Peppermint He for Head ake Bellie " Tooth Nine darkies were poisoned with arsenic put in some beer and bread, by rovenge of one of their color, Saturday, at Rome, Ga. The scoundrel .who did the work pretended to have been poisoned also, but was arrested and jailed. Most of the nine died, and the others are in a critical condition. Visitors to onr fair from a distance, who are unacquainted in our city, desiring work in the tonsorial line, will find a No. 1 barber in Henry Daum. He's a good looking and clean little fellow, just opposite Odd Fellows' Hall. Joe Carter, as clever a fellow as ever whipped a razor through the air, is- his assistant. The Lexington fair commences to-day AUK. C. passenger trains will carry passengers at reduced rates from all points. Capt. Green's train leaves here at 8:30 a. m.. and returns after the fair, which exactly suits the masses of the people, besides, a freight leaving Lexington at 8 p. m. will contain passenger coaches. A passenger train ran into the rear end of a freight train at Lebanon Friday, with serious results. Ben Gifford, the engineer, was slightly hurt. David Kidd, the fireman, had his left leg crushed so badly that amputation was necessary, and received other injuries. Sam Perry, a negro, who was stealing a ride, was fatally hurt. -- Ben Paton went to Frankfort Friday to get a pardon for Tom Richardson, now in jail on a peace warrant, but the Governoi left on the same train on which he arrived there, to get a rest from the COO applicants for pardens then besieging him. The "Governor will return to-day and start the mill in motion again, and will run it to its utmost capacity until the 4th of September. A round-house for the K. C. has been staked off between the junction of the main line and the Maysville branch, near our passenger depot. It is destined to be built at an early day, and will be made to shelter fourteen engines. Several new side tracks are now being graded, and the train dispatcher being located hereKall go to indicate that the machine shops will be located here whether that land is given to them or not. On May 13th, a colored boy named Theodore Grimes, aged sixteen yearswas from his home in LexinKto'n, and it was thought that he had followed off a stable of racers on a Western circuit. On Thursday, however, this impression was found to be erroneous, as some boys while hunting wild plums on R. S. Henderson's place near town, found his skeleton hanged with a rope, where he is thought to have on account of anger to his.parents. The remains were identified by the clothing and rope. o Reunion of the Orphan Brigade. Capt. Weller has received a letter from Col. M. L. Stansel (late Colonel of Forty-first Alabama C. S. A.) stating that he would be present, if possible, at-the reunion of the First Kentucky brigade, at Lexington on the 5th of September. The matter has been well advertised in his section (Pickens county, Ala.), and it is expected that a representation from there will be on hand, in tho meantime the Lexington people are making every effort for a cordial welcome to all. Courier-Journal. At the meeting of a few members of the Orphan Brigade at Lexington one night last week, Major Joe Hlggins was made chairman, and Jake Sandusky, Secretary. Messrs. Higgins, Dudley and Sanduskey were appointed as a committee to secure reduced rates on the various railroads, John T. Haw kins on printing. Jackson's Hall, was rented for re-union services, and arrangements were made with the Phoenix to feed the veterans at fifty cents per head. Hon. J. C S. Blackburn will deliver an address on the life and services of Gen. Hanson, the former commander of the Brigade. o Inauguration Ceremonies. WP acknowledge receipt of the following invitation to the Gubernatorial inaugural ceremonies: "You are respectfully invited to witness the ceremonies of the Inauguration .of Hon. J. Proctor Knott, as Governor of Kentucky, at Frankfort, on Tuesday, oepiemuur nu, 1883, at 11 o'clock, a. m. ' S. I. M. Major, Ch'm'n. VIRGIL HEWITT, H. T. STANTON, J. ALEX. GRANT, IRA JULIAN, E HENSLEY. S, M. GAINES, L W1NGATE,' . tt ?0MAN, J. CORBETT, H. F. DUNCAN, G. L. PAYNE, GEO. F. BERRY, THOS. J. HARRIS, Sec'ty. Committee of Invitation. Our Coming County Fair. The 47th annual fair of the Bourbon Coun ty Agricultural Society will be held here next week, commencing Tuesday morning, and continuing during the week. Ample arrangements have been made for the of a larger number of guests than ever heretofore attended this fair of fairs, and it is ardently hoped that the association will not be disappointed in the least. The premium list is large and attractive, and the trots arranged for each day will be a new and popular feature of the programme. The track is a splendid half .mile one, and the grand stand will compare favorably with any in the State. Everybody who can, i,ih no, fn.il to attend the old Bourbon

i Tomatoes are selling in Maysville, at 35 cents per bushel. V o . Mfu. Eastes got his arm torn off in a thresher, at Shelby vilie, Saturday. Irish potatoes are selling at 25 cents per bushel at Midway, by the car load. Bourbon Pair tickets will be for sale du ring week of the fair at J. L. Taylor & Co.'s. Ford's Opera Company will be the attraction at the Opera House in Lexington this week. SEVERAii stacks of hay were destroyed by lightning, near Olympia, Bath county, Saturday. t Fox Springs hotel burned in Fleming county, last week. Loss 8,000, with S3,500 insurance. . On one hundred and fifty miles of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad there are tunnels. - A game of baseball will be played b.ere Thursday next, between a Lexington nine and a Paris club. -- A plying dutchman is in operation near the depot, ond is doing a land-office business among the small fry. -- Make yourself No. 1 onth,e margin of your paper, before Jumbo sits down on your pocket-book Saturday. A burglar was fired on by Chester Crox-ton, in his residence Friday night, but the two shots missed him. Capt. H. S. Parrish contemplates starting a laundry and bath house in Winchester. "Why can't Paris have one? The citizens of Lexington have subscribed $100 for the carpenters who lost their tools by the burning of the planing mill. J.W.Ferguson has. had a dining booth erected at the Fair Grounds, just under the promenade, near the Ladies' Cottage. Miss Cora King, aged 13 years, died Saturday night in the Smith Kenney neighborhood, of whooping cough and pneumonia. c The Governor refuses to pardon R. B. Chandler, a Lexington murderer, who escaped from jail and is now in South America. Watermelons, peaches, tomatoes, vegetables and fruits of all kinds are iii abundant supply in our market, at reasonable "prices. 0 If anyone has a good pair of second-hand kidneys for sale, a buyer can be found by calling at this office. A friend of ours wants a, pair. The best preventatives against disease are fresh air, pure water, cleanliness and plain living, and these remedies are within the reach of all. Dave Ford, a Cane Ridge darkey, laid down to rest and went to sleep one day last week, and a pet calf ate his straw hat from off his head. The big fish drag did not come off at the Licks on account of the leaders all backing out through fear of the law. A large and orderly crowd assembled. . Burglars went through the store of Bros., at Cynthiana, last Thursday night, and got away with all the cash in the drawer and a large lot of goods. Of Daniel Lyons and Richard Reed fell out about a horse and had a shooting scrape in Cynthiana Saturday, and Reed received a painful wound in the side. The artificial chicken hatcher is now open at the Louisville Exposition, and there is a great chirping of chickens and general excitement in the community. The public school will not open in until Sept. 15th or later, on account of the scarlet feyer, which has been raging all summer, in a very aggravated form. Lizzie Riddle, of Owingsville, while in a fit of insanity, wandered in her bare feet a distance of ten miles, and was found after several days absence, in an almost nude condition. Conductor Bob Martin, lately connected with the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, is preparing to open-a fine sample and billiard hall at Lexington. Cincinnati Enquirer. Miss Maggie Bateman, eldest daughter of Wm. Bateman, of Mason county, shot herself with suicidal intent laat Friday, and the wound will prove fatal. No cause assigned for the act. 4 Because a colored man at Midway, got fined for beating his wife, he took an ax and smashed his cooking stove, dishes, furniture and all household effects into smithereens, and got hauled up again. War. Rankin, late clerk in the Deposit Bank, was tried yesterday on a writ of inquirendo, and the verdict of the jury was that no evidence had been adduced showing him to be of unsound mind. 2 Bierbower & Co., of Maysville, will give a 5G0 cooking stove, the "Limestone," as a special premium, for the best cooked ham at the Maysville fair. Of course, "Bourbon will not let that soft snap pass by unnoticed. Frank Brown has been sentenced to but one year's imprisonment at Grayson, for ttempting to throw a passenger train from ie Eastern Kentucky Railroad, when hanging him wouldn't have been too bad for him.

JOHSSOH HOUSE, MILLiEllSBURG, KY. One squara from the depot. Good Livery Stable Attached. The kindest atteution given and gueata made comfortable. Good Sample Roouib. A table filled with all all the delicacies of the season. RATES REASONABLE. wm. Senne y, m. d PJRACT1TIONKB OF MEDICINE & SIMKRY, May be found during the day, when not professionally engaged, at Brooks & 7 Lyman's Drug Store, at night, at the residence of Prof. E. Amende, on High st. 9 CHRIS. GROSCHE, m t coraiou DKALEK IN- Fruits, Cakes, Fancy Goods, Cigars and Tobacco, &c. . Is FRESH BREAD EVERY DAY. J8&One door above the Thurhton House. NEW DRUG STORE. EC. 33- DAVIS, formerly with Davis & Lyle, respectfully Informs the public that he can be found one door above the where he has a uew and complete stock of drugs in fact, everything in the drug line as new, bright and shining as a silver dollar. Prescriptions carefully compounded at all hours, from the purest drugs. The purest and oldest liquors for medicinal purposes unly, and the finest cigars ai d tobacco on the market, kept constantly on hand. A liberal share of the public patronage is respectfully solicited. Sj B. EWALT J LIVERY SALE AND COMMISSION STABLE, High Street, Paris Kentucky. Will break colts to best advantage. Horst'S bought and sold on a small margin, also boarded on as good terms as any other stables in Paris. ' GEO. W. DAVIS, Dealer In FURNITURE, Window Shades, Carpets, Oil Cloths, Mattresses, &c., $& Special Attention Given to Undertaking and" Repairing. at Main Street, Paris, Ky. 'Kimmy' Kimbrough, Jas. S. Huff KIMBROUGH HOUSE, CARLISLE, KY. KIMBROUGH & HUFF, Prop's. o Large and Commodious Sample Rooms on first floor for commercial men. Baggage transferred to and from the depot free of charge. I T. V. HALL, AT OHITEIOT AND MECHANICAL ENGINEER formerly of Cincinnati. MILLERSBURG, - - - KY. jDesigns, Drawings and Specifications including costs on all Architecture and Machinery, ae.euratelv and promptly. sepl9v R. M. KENNEY, Paris, Ky., Will attend to all calls in his line, in Bourbon and surrounding counties, with promptness. Charges Reasonable. tf 1S83. 18S4. FEMALE COLLEGE. College is pleasantly located on Main THE street. Parte, Ky. The school-rooms and boarding department are perfect in all their appointments, ready for the ensuing term. The College opens Monday, September 10th, 1883, with a faculty of 10 teachers. A. SANDERS, Principal. Walnut and Cherry Logs. Will pay cash for logs ten, twelve and and fourteen feet long. Must be straight and clear of bad defects, and not less than eighteen inches in diameter. J. M. THOMAS. HENRY DAUM, . Fashionable Barber.. Op'p. Odd FkllowH Hall .... Parjb, Ky I

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Dick Liddle, one of the James gang, appeared at the trial of his illustrious chief Saturday with two revolvers strapped to his waist. This indicates a disagreement of the jury or an acquittal, .- The string band of ithe LaRue House, Blue Licks, passed up the road yesterday to play for the Lexington fair. The band of the Arlington House will probably leave for their homes Saturday, as the season will probably close about that time. The Winchester Democrat says that railroad matters at that place has increased .so

Cabbage, 10 to 15 cts; watermelons, 10 to 80 cts; apples, 40 to 75 cts; eggs, 12 cts; butter, 2025 cts; green corn, per dozen, 10 cts; lard, 14 cts; pears, per peck, 25 cts; grapes, 3 pounds for 25 cts; sweet potatoes, $1.50; peaches, 51.50 o S4 per bushel. Ed. Hull, for the murder of Sid Baxter, is acquitted at Nicholasville Saturday. A pecial venire of 150 men has been summon- -d fdr the selection of a jury for the trial of Vletchar, for killing Evans, and the trial willtbegln to-day.