The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-11-24
KenfmckY Ifems.

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A New hotel building in Paducah
is nearly completed.
The rolling mill in Paducah is
being repaired.
THE new depot in Henderson IS a
substantial building.
THE Bourbon House, in Paris, is to
be sold at public auction.
The Newport Nesos is the name Of
a new weekly paper recently started
at Newport.
UP to Friday last. 10, 337 hogs had
been killed at Louisville since the
opening Of the season.
HENRY f. SHAFT, a keeper of
news and literary depot in Louisville,
was arrested on Wednesday last on
charge of forgery committed at Lock
port, N. Y, four years ago.
Mr.. JAMES GORE, a proprietor of a
cigar stand at the Spurrier House,
Louisville, committed suicide on
Thursday last, by blowing his brains
O1t.
WILLIAM GREEN, aged 10. while
riding along the road in Henderson
County, last week, fell from his horse
and broke his neck.
THE Paducah Herald has been de-
voting considerable space to the dis
cussion of that new and very interest
ing theological question. Infant
Baptism"
A MEETING of the stockholders of
the Evansville, Henderson. & Nash
vile Railroad is to take place at Mad
isonville, on Saturday, the 9th inst
THE town of Henderson has six.
teen large tobacco factories and stem.
meries. All the tobacco passing
through these establishment is is sent
to a foreign market.
| A RAILROAD from Louisville, KY.
to Vincennes, Ind, is beginning to b
talked ofin Louisville. They wish tc
fortify against the effects OF the Ev.
ansville and Nashville Road.
The Louisville Democrat says I,
Hoosier, from the vicinity of Thorn
town, in this State, recently brough
to the former city nine wild turkey
and 308 squirrels. One of the tur.
keys weighed nineteen pounds.
A MAN named F. T. johnson wa
snot and killed in Mercer County
last week, by Joseph Debond. Th'
murder was unprovoked, according t
. the statements given. asst
A CONVENTION of the press of Ken
lucky, to meet in Frankfort on tn,
9th of January next, is being favor
ably considered by the papers of tn
State.
THERE was less stock on the Dan
vile market last county court da,
than usual, but what was sold brough
!. better prices. sF
: Mr.. CHURCH YEAGER, of Merce
County, sold four hogs recently tina
. averaged five hundred and fort
pounds. One of these little pet
weighed six hundred and fifty-fv
pounds. A
THE progress made by the Republ
. can party in Kentucky, is shown b
the following exhibit:
lS60-Republican vote for President l.
lS64-Re publican vote tor PreStdent..ZI,n
lS6I-Republican vote for Congress ...-.29,O
lS61-Republican vote for Governor...55,9,
, lS6S-Republican vote for President..-4O,N
The day is not far distant, we trus
when the vote of 1868 will b
doubled, and the power of moder
Democracy be gone forever.
+ E., H. & N. r. Rive learn frol
the Hopkinsville Conservative ths
the Board of Trustees. at a recer
! meeting, considered a petition numer
5 Ously signed by citizens, praying tbs
n an appropriation be made for th
completion of the road into the city
distance, we believe, of about mil,
$ We hope to hear that HopkinsyiIl
:. may soon enjoy the cheering and en-
ivening influence of the putting steal
car, as Henderson has done fo
, months past. The snort" has
}, a sort of rejuVenating effect, as GU
HopkinsYille friends will realize.