Some one stole a hotel directory nnd
brass chain from the Nowcomb Hotel
An old colored woman, living here,
on being asked her age, said she was "75
gwine on 00."
Big Stone Gap will poon bo "cut on
to this division by wire; tho wire stretchers
havo nearly reached that point.
Mrs. Bello Burnside was called to
Garrard Thursday on account of the serious
illness of Mr. Jack Burnside, who
lives near Point Leavell.
JefrDowell, who has held successful
revival meetings in Pulaski, and other
counties, now languishes in Mt. Vernon
jail, on account of endeavoring to
get along in family aflairs without the
formality of a marriage ceremony.
The marriago of Mr. M. J. Miller,
Jr., to Miss Susie Brown, at tho rortuinn
House, in your place, Wednesday evening,
was tho happy consummation of a
long courtship and the friends of both
parties will rejoico over tho happy termination
of affairs, although nouo knew
that tho event was so near nt baud.
The citizen who refuses to subscribe
for a paper, but borrows his neighbor's,
and lifter reading it sets himself up as a
critic and censor of said paper, makes
himself ridiculous to those who know
where ho gains his information. Our
community is not clear of such persons,
though they could easily bo spared, and
there is a well founded suspicion that
the earth would actually continue to
move in its usual path.
J. W. Stephens, night operator at
Livingston, is at homo with la grippe.
