The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-02-25
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS,


youngest son, will enter the church OF
England.
Japan is now manufacturing boots
for sale in the United States from
leather brought from American ports.
Advertising is the oil which trades.
men put in thir lamps. They that
are unwise put no oil in.
England and Portugal have agreed
to joint operations against the slave
trade between Mozambique and
Madagascar.
The Canadian government has mass.
ed an order in Council prohibiting
the importation of American cattle
into Canada.
DIR. Lemoyne's cremation furnace
in Pennsylvania is paying so poorly
that there is talk ofturning il into a
popcorn factory.
England has concluded a conyen-
ton with Turkey. purchasing the
State domains in Cyprus. with the
exception OF the Sultan's private es.
tate.
Citizens of Omaha and vicinity
have shipped car load of flour to
Glasgow, Scotland, for the relief of
the unemployed and distressed in that
city.
Florida hopes this year to export
five hundred million oranges, and in
four years her orange crop wilt, ii is
estimated, exceed in value her cotton
crop.
james Gordon Bennsit has prom
ised the Russian government That he
will send his Arctic exploring vessel
Jeanette in search of the Nordensk.
iolds Expedition.
Machinery Hall, on the PhiladeI. |
phia Centennial Ground, which
originally cost $4,000, was sold at |
luciion Saturday, TO w. G. Allison & !
Co., for $4,000.
Bishop Dudley, of Kentucky, has !
'eceived the high honor of being in |
'iled to deliver the annual address |
before the literary societies OF the
University of Virginia.
The English government has at las
resolved TO prohibit the landing of
i've cattle from America at any Eng
ish' Scotch or Irish port after tae
18th of February.
New colors have been supplied 10
he French army, the standards hay-
llg, in place of the old Imperial ca
les, wreath of laurel traversed by
golden dart.
The State Auditor OF Virginia on
thursday informed the Joint Com
litiee on Finance of the Legislature
hat the State Treasury was entirely
eplcted, and asked them 10 devise ,
leans for filling it. L
The Secretary of State, in a letter !
the Senate recommends that as the
'idow of Bayard Taylor ia lett with
ut a support that the government
i've her on amount equal to the sal.
ry for one year Of the Minister at
erlin.
The ostrich hunters of South Afri.
}, bearing in mind the almost incred-
Ions digestive powers of the bird, ex-
act the pepsine from its stomach and
III it for its weight in gold to dys- :
optics. 49,
Chief Joseph and the Interior De- ,
lrtment have ranged for the cess
on by the Nez Perces f4,SOO square
lies in Idaho. The terms are six 8
wnships in the Indian Territory.
ID some $250,000 in money 10 be /
aced in the Treasury, and to draw 4
r cent. interest. %
The American Print Works, of Fall N
yer, Mass, the largest in the United s.
a,es, ask for an extension of two
1ars. They have been driven to this
urse by outside bank creditors call
g in loans. Capital. $l.O00O00; :
sl.300,OO0, and assets at
st return 100000. U
The House has passed what is
Town as the Mississippi River I'm
'ovement Bill, which provides for
Q Appointment of a, commission
tive. three of whom shall be army
'nneers, who shall survey aud re-
ri nron a plan for the permanent
pre- ve.nent of the Mississippi from
ion, Illinois, to the Gulf.