THE ELIZABETHTOWN NEWS MARCH 8, 1889-ELIZABETHTOWN, KY TYPED AS PUBLISHED & SUBMITTED BY Laura Frost Wright STITHTON JOTTINGS Rev. MARION LAWSON, of louisville preached at the methodist church last Sunday to an attentive audience. Dr. MENFANGH, of Tom, Ky has located here. Messrs. JONES, MILLER & STITH are fixing to put up a saw and grist mill at this place. We understand Mr. C.M. BRADLEY of Leitchfield is coming here to go into the drug business. Luck to you CHARLES. Miss ELLA TARPLAY, of bloomington, is the guest of Miss MATTIE CARICO this week. Mr. SAM STITH spent several days in Louisville last week. Mr. ANDREW COLEMAN, and wife and Miss TERRY, who is teaching school at Tip Top was the guest of Miss SALLIE RESSOR Sunday. Uncle JAMES CARRICO, gave the young folks a dance Thursday, which all enjoyed hugely. WILLIAM BROOKS went to Louisville monday on business. H.C. MOSSBARGER shipped a carload of hogs Monday. FELIX SAMUELS near this place happened to quite an accident Thursday, he was splitting rails and the ax slipped cutting his leg badly. ROSE BUD BIG SPRING NEWS We had a nice quiet little wedding on the last day of february, at the residence of Mrs. ELIJAH BEWLEY near Big Springs, when Mr. STEPHENS KLINGSMITH and Miss MINNIE BEWLEY were made man and wife by Rev. R. G. KIMBLE. They are both nice clever young people, and have the best wishes of all thrie friends for a long properous journey through life. Death has again visited our neighborhood, this time it claimed for its victim our old and esteemed friend JAMES W. WITT , who was sick only a week with that dreaded disease pneumonia, He died at six O"clock March 2nd. 1889. He had been a member of the baptist church about 18 years and lived close to his faith, he was converted under the preaching of Rev. HENRY COFFMAN at new Salem. Deceased was a warm hearted, generous, kind man and had a great many friends who mourn his loss and deeply sympathize with his wife and children. We enjoyed a very pleasant visit from Mr. JAMES CARLTON , County Surveyor of hardin county on last monday. he was here doing some surveying for E.W. JONES, also run off a lot for W.H. DORAN. JIM is a talker from a way back, and knows every time what he is talking about. J.M. OSBORNE and DOLPH HILL, were over from Guston on Sunday, they report the town on a big boom. Dr. J.R. GRAY is on the sick list. Mrs. J.W.H. is not at all well. Mrs. JOHN W. WITT is quite sick. Mrs. WILL CARNABAN is complaining. Mr. BEN S. CLARKSON is just back from Louisville, where he has been with a car load of cattle and sheep , he reports the cattle market flat. Good sheep doing well. JACOB COLLINS, of garrett, Ky, a nice, clever young man who parts his hair in the middle and is very fond of playing " Jacob and Ruth" and dont mind a little hugging occasionally, is at work in W.H. DORAU"S wagon and plow shop. This is the fifth day of March, 1889, and Uncle BEN MILLER is in town early, and says "he feels a great deal better since the Republican administration commenced and that the last four years have been right hard to pull through" He is about the happiest man in town. W.H. PARTICULARS OF THE DEATH OF DR. GEORGE R. BROWDER EDITOR NEWS: Many of your readers have seen in some of the Louisville papers an account of the death of my brother, Dr. GEORGE R. BROWDER, of Fairview , Ky, in which notice there appeared that his death was possible from suicide , It is to correct this unfounded statement that I ask a space in your column. I wish to say there is no ground whatever for the least suspician in the matter. Any conjecture that he died from else than natural cause is unwarrented and out of place. My brother did die suddenly and in a room by himself, but it was the result of an aggravated case of Bright"s disease of the kidney"s, which had produced valvular disease of the heart , which was the immediate cause of his trouble and death. two weeks previous to his death he spent a day and night with me in Elizabethtown on his way to Louisville to seek medical advice. Dr. J.M. RAY, of Louisville, voluntarily wrote me that him and Dr. COTTEL had made a careful examination of Dr. BROWDER and found him to be the victim of an advanced case of bright's disease, and that death was inevitable in the near future, and he was not at all surprised at his sudden taking off. My brother reached the home of my brother at Ormstead, on Sunday evening, Feb. 24th-then in a dying condition, though his friends did not apprehend the seriouness of his trouble. He purposely avoided breaking the news to his mother of his approaching end requesting them with whom he talked not to tell his family, as they had trouble enough to bear, and he would not add anything to his mother's burden. He was a successful phycician with a large practice, a devoted christian and steward in the M.E. church south. A citizen of great influence in his community, and no one who knew him well, would attribute other than the purest motives to him. I have felt it important to say this in vindication of the character of a noble brother, who now sleepth and cannot plead his own case. R.W. BROWDON BUFFALO BREEZES T.B. UPTON and H.D. HANLEY of Uptonville, have bought the stock of goods of the late firm of A. H. DONOHOO & Co. We are glad to have them with us as they are good business men alive to what is going on around them. They are quite an addition to our place, we predict for them success far beyound their expectations, for with the location of their business and the experience which they have, they are bound to succeed. The burr mill here known as the Brownfield mill was sold last Saturday at auction. Mr. J. F. SALFEE a former partner in the mill being the purchaser, the price paid was $ 2,676 The sale was not a forced one as the firm was perfectly solvent and the mill doing a good business, but was sold to close up a partnership which had become obnoxious to both parties.Mr. C.W. MORRISON of the firm retiring, has been in the mill for a long time and will be greatly missed by some of its old patrons. Mr. MORRISON is a splendid citizen, a good business man and the community would feel the loss should he decide to leave us. We hope though he may find some business here suited to his taste and decide to remain with us. The gentlemen who now own the mill are good citizens and successful business men. we therefor predict for them success in the future. There was quite a little stir at the school-house not far from here a few nights since, caused by the rattle of stones on the roof. the congregation was quite a devotional one but they did not like the music on the roof. So they dispersed very hurriedly without singing a hymn or even a benediction. the miscreants are suppose to be another congregation. DAVID L. MAY is a cannidate to represent the twelfth district composed of the counties of Hardin, Meade and Mullitt in the senate in the August election. W.CARPENTER is a candidate to represent the twelfth district composed of the counties of Hardin, Meade, and Bullitt in the Senate in the august election. MRS. NANCY BURDETT Mrs. NANCY BURDETT, died at her home near Elizabethtown, Hardin county on Feb. 24th, 1889, after an illness of one week of that dread disease pneumonia. She was born in Lincoln county, kentucky in the year 1820 , being in the 69th year of her age. She was the daughter of JOHN HOCKER, and was married to Mr. FRANK BURDETT, of garrard County Kentucky in 1843. She was a member of the Methodist church for a number of years before her death. Monday morning at her late residence the funeral service was preached by Rev. SAMUEL WILLIAMS, after which the body was intered in the Sandige buriel ground on the ARNOLD farm, to await the resurrection morn. She leaves three sons and one daughter to mourn her death. Weep not for her, she has gone home to rest, prepare to meet her in that better land J.F. R. Miss ANNIE HELLER Miss ANNIE HELLER, daughter of JOHN HELLER, died at her home in Cecilian last Saturday morning of consumption, from which she had been a sufferer for two years. For the past three months she had been confined to her bed and gradually grew worse, until the family had bit little hope of her recovery. Her death was a painless one and she died as she had lived a devoted and consistant christian. Her cousin stood at her bedside as the lamp of life went out and ministered to her dying wants. The deceased was in the 21st year of her age and was a young lady of attractive manner and many charms, both of mind and person. Those of her family and acquaintances who came in daily contact with her were devoted to her, while she had the esteem of all who knew her. The funeral services were conducted here Monday at St. James catholic church and the interment took place in the catholic cemetery. NIPPED IN THE BUD An attempt was made by some parties to run an illegal whiskey den in the MONAHAN House this week but it was rapidly knocked in the head by Marshall COMBS. Mrs. MONAHAN was brought before the police court and gives to understand that unless she gave the parties notice to move at once she would have to suffer the penalty for renting her house for an illegal purpose. She was getting $30 a month rent for a resturant but saw that the authorities meant business and the red liquor boys had to move out. ED BATES was brought here Tuesday from Raneyville for selling whiskey and put in jail to await his trial HOWES VALLEY LETTER Our little town has been very quite during the past week, everything seems to be harmoniously working on. Spring time once more gladens the hearts of the farmers, and the warbles of the lovely birds are heard again. The fields are putting on their robes of green, and everything seems to be sending up praise to the natural origin. The Mormons have left us at last, and we have nothing of very much importance of which to write. Quite an amusing epidemic broke out last week in our quite little villiage. the medical board on investagation found that the disease contained symptons of liver complaint.All the cases are reported as convelescent at present. no physicians are needed. live to win, is our motto. No one ever finding it necessary to reverse it. Not long since it was rumored through the county and appeared in some of the papers that PARK PETERS, a former resident of Howes Valley attempted suicide. The report died away uncontradicted leaving his many friends, whom he had contracted by his gentlemanly ways, to beleive in the correctness of the statement. For the releif of his friends, we present the news with a card slipped from the christian Advocate. " For the benefit and comfort of my many friends, who are sorry for me, I wish to say that the report which was published by many of the secular papers in the country, that my son PARK PETERS, in a jealous love fit had attempted suicide at Greenville , Ky ( some of the papers had reported that he had died of his wounds) is false from beginning to end. My son is well and happy and says he would like to live always, he says he is neither jealous nor love sick. Praise the Lord! T. C. PETERS A ball was given at french"s Hall on the evening of march 2nd. and all enjoyed it gloriously. Mr. HARDIN ALLISON and Miss MARY NEAFUS visited friends in the famous clifty on the 1st inst. Miss ELIZA HARNED, who has been teaching school at Buras, breckinridge has returned home. Thanks to J. W. H. for his kind invitation to come over and sup. We gladly accepted, but as the time is not set when we shall come, we suggest that we delay our coming till 1890, his silver wedding. So we can heartily comply with his wishes, and be the first to cast in that reception vault the first fruits of all our labors. Bye Bye for now my honey Old Codger TUNNEL HILL LETTER The weather is heavy Some sickness reported in our midst. TONEY DAVITT, little son of PAT DAVITT, is very sick with pneumonia at this writing. JOE SHOUSTON, of near here has been dangerously ill with heart trouble. FRANK KELLER is visiting relatives at louisville and Anchorage. J.H. STEWART, who has been attending court at Louisville for some time has returned home. Miss MAGGIE DAVITT, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs. STEELE at Stanford was called home last week on account of her little brother"s sudden illness. SAIN BUSH, of bardstown was down to see his parents one day last week. GEO. FOWLER took a short trip to New Haven, Lebanon and Rowland last week. W.H. EDDY spent a few days in Louisville last week. As news is scarce I will cut out. MACK UPTONVILLE LETTER This week Messrs T.B. UPTON and D.S. HANDLEY, for many years citizens of Uptonville, will become residents of buffalo. We take pleasure in commending these gentlemen and their famalies to the good people of laRue and assure them they will have no cause to regret their coming among them. Messrs UPTON & HANDLEY are experienced businessmen and go to buffalo to engage in the goods business. The trading public will find them honest conscientious merchants and will soon realize our loss to be their gain. A Mr. EDWARDS, from the sunny south, was thrown from mixed train No. 74 at this place last Sunday and seriously injured. to the carelessness of the young man the accident is attributed. A shooting affray occurred near powder mills in hart county, March 1st. between BUCH SHAW and BILL SKAGGS. Last fall SKAGGS and SHAWS wife left for parts unknown together and since their return a few weeks ago have been in the same vicinity in which they formerly lived. Friday was the first time SHAW and SKAGGS had met and a shooting scrape was the consequence. Nine shots were exchanged one only taking effect and that in SKAGGS leg. More and serious trouble will doubtless follow. JOHN SIMPSON The story is sent out from Harrodsburg that the skeleton of JOHN SIMPSON, who has been missing since 1873, was found in a hollow tree near the washington county line. It was identified by his watch. PERSONEL Mr. HORACE LOGSDEN was called to Munfordville last week to see his brother-in-law, Mr. JACK CRADDOCK, who was struck and seriously if not fatally hurt by train No.74 Mr. JOHN MINTON and wife from Texas, are visiting relatives here. Mr. HARDIN NELSON having accepted a very lucrative position with a Louisville house will go on the road now. Miss IDA RENFRO a very charming young lady of Millerstown, returned from a visit to her sister, Mrs. JOHN HUGHES, of Alabama last Sunday. Capt. J. R. FARMER was called to Louisville, Friday, to be present at the funeral of a little grandchild, the seven months old babe of Mr. and Mrs. JAS FARMER. Last Sunday our clever hotel man, Mr. HARDIN NELSON gave to a few invited guests a very excellent dinner, which all enjoyed heartily. Mr. NELSON may rest assured that all appreciate his kindness but more yet, the good "grub" set before them. Long life to the hotel man!! L.E. NORE TONEY HOWLETT and his son OLIVER, two negroes of this place , shot and wounded another negroe in Louisville Tuesday. TONEY was arrested and put in jail and his son OLIVER was captured here Thursday morning by Marshall COMBS and carried to Louisville. At Blue Ball church Wednesday, Mr. NOAH W. KLINGSMITH and Miss FANNIE NALL, daughter of JOHN WILL NALL, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony. The ceremony was very imposing and was witnessed by a host of relatives and friends. The bride was beautifully dressed and looked extremely handsome, while the groom looked as proud and happy as he ought to be. The young couple start life with the good wishes of all. FOUND AFTER TWENTY-FOR YEARS "TWO BROTHERS FIND EACH OTHER BY AN ADVERTISEMENT IN THE NEWS" Mr. J.W. SHAW, a shoemaker here next door to J.W. SLACK"S, had a small advertisement in the News last week. The paper fell into the hands of ALEXANDER SHAW, of Henderson County, a brother of SHAW"S . The brothers both fought in the war, J.W. on the confederate side and ALEXANDER on the federal. They met for the last time at the battle of perryville over twenty-five years ago. Since that time each supposed the other dead. Through the advertisement of Mr. SHAW"S business in the News, ALEXANDER discovered that his brother was living and immediately wrote him a letter. Both of these old soldiers are delighted to have found each other and the news is delighted to have been in the medium of discovery. 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