The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-03-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Catholic clergy are I'D .aVor
of taking up collections to aid Arch
bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, out Of
his financial troubles.
The Arkansas Legislature adj ourns,
by limitation, on Thursday next,
March 18th.
The widow and daughter OF Bay
ard Taylor have arrived from Ger
many.
Another Savings Bank gone down.
The "Diin." OF Yo.k Pa, this time.
The fatality Of Savings Banks has
been in the last few years more awful
than could possibly befaIl the h. L.
A. cashier, pecunMrily.
Jonas, Dem. who was elected by
the Louisiana Legislature to the
United States Senate, is aJew.
The recent Grand Jury in Collins
county, Texas, was in session nee
weeks, and found over four hun
ired bills of Indictment
Benjamin p. Judah, formerly of
New Orleans, but who located at
London, England, after the war,
deals out $4,000 worth of law an
nually. ..
A bill to license gambling houses
was defeated in the Legislature few
days ago in Texas.
Alabama taxes her people 70 cents
on the 500 to carry on the State and
county Governments.
81. Louis Grand Juries indict land
lords for renting their dwellings out
to be used rs houses of ill-fame.
What will the bloody shirt Blaina's
of the North have to say now. when
they are Informed that the Texas
Legislature unseated an intelligent
white man, and seated vulgar,
ignorant negro? Texas is recon-
structed."
Congress appropriated 100000 fol
the American Printing House for the
Blind.
The Vanderbilt contested will
case has been settled. Young
Cornelius gets Sl,O00,0O0. Mrs
LcBau, daughter Of the deceased
also received 1000, 900. VIM. H
Vanderbilt retains the bulk of his
fathers fortune, and will pay all cost'
inithe suit.
ANNA DlcKlNsoN has been engaged
to play a week in San Francisco. and
to lecture twenty times in Californi'
and Nevada at $3.50 per night.
Six thousand persons petitionet
the Swiss government for the restor
alton of the penalty Of capital punish
ment.
THoMAs JEFFERsoN's Monticell,
estate will be sold by the Virgini,
State Commissioner OIL March 90.
IT greatly annoys Mary Ander
son to be mistaken for the pedes
TRAN. She explains that she is
star" while Madame Anderson i
merely walking lady.
Sothern is coming back to the Ne,
York stage. He is in Rome. an
recovering strength and health.
Prof. Jainison, of Chicago. is lectul
ing, and has for his subject He
Closed for Repairs
The principal measures w1ic
; became laws during the last sessio
of Congress, in addition to ten ,
regular appropriation bills. are:
The bill reducing the tax on toba'
: CO and otherwise amending tho int
nal revenue laws.
q The Census bill.
The bill to aid the refunding of Il
national debt by authorizing the issr
Of small Treasury certificates.
The bill to prevent the introductic
Of infectious or contagious disease
t and bills providing for the paymel
Of arrears of pensions for service
r during the civil war.
A Chinese couple were married b
: a Sacramento Justice. who informe
them that, according to section 500
r 900 of the Code, it was necessary TIL
: the bride should be immediate
2 kissed, either by her husband I
:, somebody else. The bridegroom sa
4 it was contrary TO Chinese prophet
l for a husband TO kiss his wife befo
Q folks, but if the Justice would e
D clGde the Chinese spectators he won
f obey The law in'the presence Of Il
S Americans, whom he regarded as
no account. His suggestion w