The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-15
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.

lie Orte mas ueclueu 10 make new
proposals to Greece for a cession OIL
territory in Thessaly and Epirus.
Mayor elect Jacob, Of Cincinnati
has pledged himself to inforcc the
Sunday law.
The New York Sun says that 70,
months and months past gambling.
houses have been almost abandoned
by New Workers.
Passenger rates from St. Louis to
New York are cut down to $l2. A
still further cut anticipated daily.
At meeting of General Ticket
Agents at Atlanta, Ca, general re-
duction OH through rates was agreed
on. The extent of the reduction has
not been reported.
President Hayes will be invited to
deliver the opening address at the
Saengerlest, of Cincinnati, June IL.
1t is rumored that the marriage Of
King Alfonso, Of Spain. to the Arch
duchess Marta, of Austria, will take
place in July.
The money loaned by Horace Gree
ly to Cornelius Vanderbilt, with inter.
est, amounting to about $50, 900, has
been paid to the daughters of the dead
journalist.
At Chicago, John w. Gregg, Su-
p,rintendent Of the Money Order De-
partment of the Postoffice, has been
found guilty of embezzling SIS, 900.
Rev. John Miller, D. d.. late pro-
fessor in the Theological Seminary,
at Princeton, has been formally de-
posed' from the ministry, for heresy.
The Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road became the purchaser of the
Tennessee division of the St. l. and
S. Z. Railroad, from Guthrie toNash-
vile, amount paid $4,000.
The Pope has refused to accept
Archbishop Purcell's resignation on
the ground of his long and meritorious
services to the Church in the United
States.
One by one doth the old Turkey
gobbler shed his feathers. He will be
as naked as a new born babe before
the nations Of Europe finish the job of
feathing their nests.
A Turkish bath has just blown up
in Minnesota tearing the premises to
pieces and severely scalding the fool
operator. Such fortunate accident are
always sources of enjoyment to civ
ilizcd world
At New Orleans twenty days quar-
antine has been established against
all vessels from or touching at West
India, Gulf Of Mexico, South ofTexas
or South American ports as far as
Buenos Ayres.
Recent statistics show that in the
German Empire about a half million
gallons less of beer was consumed last
year than during the year previous.
This of course means falling off in
dead weight.
AT meeting Of the colored citizens,
Of New York, on the 10th, subscrip-
tons were taken up for the relief of
colored emigrants to Kansas, now
starting all along the line of travel to
the West.
Certain ladies Of Cincinnati having
formed themselves into an Aid Society
have determined to give series of
popular Concerts for the benefit Of
Purcell's more needy
creditors.
The Merchants, Of st. Louis, have
held a meeting looking to a reduction
in freight rates from the East to that
city. 1t is asserted that nearly all
The cities Of the West have more ad-
fantageous rates than she.
The celebrated Allen Print works,
1t Providence, having become fnan.
tally embarrassed, ask for three
years extension. If prices on prints
10 not advance shortly there will un-
loubtedly be other works to ask SINH
ar indulgence. |
In Virginia the other day man
md woman were committed to the
Penitentiary for marrying. The
groom was black and the bride white.
They were arrested as soon as the
ceremony was performed, the law
icing explicit in such cases.
The will Of Madame Elizabeth Patti
'rson Bonaparte dcvises all OF her real
md personal estate equally to her
srandsons, Jerome Napoleon, and
Charles Joseph Bonapartc. who are
'lso made executors, The real estate
$ devised for life to her grandsons,
ind afterward to their children.
The wife Of a printer in New Haven
las applied for divorce, on tho
,round that her husband had no style
bout him: he wouldn't brace up, had
10 dash, cut no figure, had no point,
lived up to no rule. was of bad form 1
md makeup, wasn't a man Of letters
n up to the period, was a poor type
i the genius, was out of quoin, and
ouldn't impose on her any longer,