The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-08-12
WEEKLY REVIEW.
Germany uses glass millstones.

100 grains.
The South lost $4,000 person from
yellow fever last year.
The Afghan warts still giving Eng
land serious trouble.
China seems to be preparing for a
war with Russia.
The oldest paper in Arkansas is but
thirteen years of age.
The grass hoppcrs are dcvasting
the Northwestern portion of Iowa.
Fifteen hundred million of bushels
is the estimated wheat yield of the
world this year.
The Supreme court of North Caro-
lima has decided that dogs are not
property.
The quarantine between Texas and
New Orleans is so strict that the
papers are not interchangcd.
Capt Eads is a year and half
ahead of his true limit in his work on
the Mississippi River jetties.
The arm of Gen. Longstreet is par
alyzed, as the result of old wounds
received in Confederate service.
Admiral Bsloh, the new Superin-
tendent of the Normal Academy at
Annapolis, is TenneSsean by birth.
Zululand will probably be divided
up into three or four principalties,
each under the rule of a separate
noble.
The Emperor William, of Germany,
is said to be suffering from Justification
of the brain and that his memory is
already gone, in toto.
j. A. Whalen, of Killona parish
Louisiana, has been denied new
trial of his charges against Gen Sher-
idan, for damages by trespass during
Wv low W al
Ex-Minister Stoughton says that
the annual work to be done by the
American minister to Russia could be
done in one week. Rather expensive
a luxury.
Brigham Young Jr, together with
the other executors Of the will of old
Brigham have been proceeded against
by contestants of the will. They are
charged with reckless guardianship
and an improper use of money.
Being unable to give bail they have
been incarcerated in prison.
The Indian chief, Spotted Tail, has
written beautiful love letter to Scc-
rotary Schurz, over his X"mark say
hing that his tribe is being contami-
mated by whisky obtained from the
Federal army and that but for this
everything would be lovely. He
wants peace and good will, and re-
quests Carl to visit him The Secre-
tary has answered the note saying
that he would comply late in August.
A writer in the Philadelphia Times
says: "Col. P. w. Alexander, who,
as p. W. A. was the best known of
Southern war correspondents, lately
gave me a "reminiscences Of Gen. Long
street. He says that the night be.
fore the battle of the Wilderness he
slept in the same room with the Gen
eral. After he had gone to bed Gen,
Longstreet came in. He undressed
and then kneeled by the bedside and
engaged in the most devout prayer
While his words were not audible, it
could be seen that he was very much
affected-was literally wrestling in
prayer. He remained on his knees
for full half hour, Col Alexander
watching him by the starlight that
crept through an open window. By
the way, it is notable fact that the
South lavish, reckless, imperious in
all her ways, sent her armies to the
field under the leadership of God
praying and God fearing men, while
the decorous and straigh-laced North
did no such thing. 1t may be that
the land of sentiment believed in
prayer, while the Ian of cold reason
put its trust in artillery and preferred
that its leaders should look to the con-
dition of their troops rather than in
dulge in petitions to the Divine Arbi-
ter, that after all, is. said to give vict-
ory to the side having the most men
and the heaviest guns. Lee, Jackson
and Longstreet were men of prayer il
the fullest sense of the world. Bragg
was baptized in the presence of his
army. Ewell became devost Chris.
tian. Albert Sidney johnson never
went into battle without going dowr
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