The. remaini of Mrs. Lizzie Montgomery,
(it Lexington, were brought to llii city
Tuesday morning and taken down 10
LeCompte's Bottom, on the Fannie Free.-e,
i v ititerment.in the old family buning
ground. The deceased was an aunt of Mr.
.Joe LeCompte, of this city.
We arc under obligations, to Mr. Edmond
Power lor one of the prettiest as well as the
most fragrant boquets we have seen this
m:i'.(id. His large green on the bill
niove the city are now filled with a large
jrid well selected stock of flowering plants,
uliich he is supplying to customers on short
notice.
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Judging from the way tome of our citizens
are protesting against the location of
tlie Opera House that indignntion inviting
nil! yet be held. The City Council wrestled
with the question again Tuesday night
v. ithout coming to n final vote, and laid it
over to await the return of Councilman Me-
Clure.
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Hev. Aaron Green, a colored Methodist
preacher and for many years a resident of
this city, died in Cincinnati, on the (itii inst.,
Hi the advanced age of 'Jo years. The deceased
will be remembered by our older
as "Doctor" Green, who for thirty
years was pressman at the old Commonwealth
otfice, and a man highly i expected
by all who knew him, both white and colored,
lie was laised in Lexington, being a
slave ol the family, who oM him to
ti Mr. Sayre, and was by him sold to the
late Col. A. G. Hodges, who allowed him
t. buy himself and then retained him in his
employ. As a boy we learned to respect
tins good old man, and as we grew to manhood
that feeling increased with our vea'is.
