The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-04-08
KENTUCKY NEWS,

A coal mine has been discovered
near Stephensport.
The Peach crop Of Hart county will
DO a total failure.
A number of towns in the State
elected municipal officers last Satur'
day.
A Bowling Green merchant shipped
to Indiana during the month OF March
800, 900 eggs.
A considerable number Of the blood
ed horses OF Kentucky are being sold
rand shipped to Philadelphia,
Lebanon. Kentucky. has had de-
structive fire. sixteen houses being
totally destroyed. Lost s50.O00; in
surance not exceeding $4,000.
Burl. Bilbro, known all over this
part Of the world as the natural rhym-
list, died in Muhlcnberg county, dur
ing the cold weather last winter.
The Louisville / Nashville railroad
have notified all section-hands that
their wages will be ninety cents in
stead of 81 per day as heretofore.
The men do not complain.
There are forty female convicts in
our Penitentiary, Of which five are
sent for life. Only three of the whole
number are white. and they are sent
for short times.
And again another. 1t says. A
citizen in this community has coffee
mill which has been in constant use
for fifty years, and is just as good as
when he bought it.
The Sentinel says that in Shelby
county there is lady who has an or
binary brass pin that has been in use
for thirty-two years. and a darning
needle that has seen active service for
twenty-five years.
SHELBY SEsrISEL: The great NOR
tally among the convicts confined in
the Kentucky penitentiary is now sx-
citing considerable comment, and
calls loudly for some legislation in re.
gard to the matter.
Washington county comes to the
front with negro woman, Helen Nc
Elroy ll6 years old. She walks
mile to church every Sunday. and re-
members when Springfield was olly a
sugar-tree grove.
The religious controversy in the
Louisville House Of Refuge has termi.
mated in the denial OF the Catholic,
Bishops request for permission to in
troduce the confessional and mass for
the benefit Of the catholic inmates.
The Richmond Register should not
force Lence, the horse thief, to be fed
on equine steak for eight years. It
would cost Col. Smith too much. Let
him have just one sirloin from any
trading rally; Judge then he will never
look at another horse with evil intent.
1t seems to be the fate OF the ELL
lofts as well as Of the Alstons to die
with their boots on" One brother
was shot and killed in battle; one Of
the brothers killed another; another
brother blew out his own brains in .
fit Of insanity, and now the last broth.
er, Judge Elliot, has been slain on the
street. The family tradition Of vic.
lence is that the father killed man
General Murray. as Chairman Of tn,
Republican State Central Committee
has conferred with all the railroad and
steamboat lines terminating IN thi,
city, and with the Cincinnati and Big
Sandy packets, by vh;ch they hav'
agreed to issue excursion tickets to al
delegates othe Republican State Con
vention which meets here on the lott
inst.-Louisrille Commercial.
GEORGETOWN TINES. On the 1T!
-iust.. Mr. Carrick caught an otter tina
weighed ISL pounds, and measured 81
feet from tip to tip.
Mr.. Carrick otter have specimen
Of the Lynx or wild cat caught by
friend of ours in Hopkins county
few years ago which weighed thirt,
eight pounds and was very thin too
The GEoRaErows TmEs says. Oh
Monday Mr.. Henry Stevenson wa
looking at a pistol, not exactly to sc
il it was loaded. but to see how man
loads it had in it. when the weapo
8 exploded, lodging a ball in the calf @
Henry's leg. Henry is certain tina
he found one ball in the pistol, but tn
, attending physician was unable to fin
it after it entered the leg. 1t is
flesh wound, and not thought to b
dangerous.
Bo,cling Green Pantdgraph:-l
. certain young gentleman Of this cit
9 having claim against the county 10
ten dollars which he wished to collec,
went to Judge Cooksey to see abou
getting it, The Judge gave him a
! order on the County Clerk and tn
e clerk sent his claim to the State Aud
s itor. The Auditor referred him to tn
sheriff brought out an account agains
: him for four years poll taxes whic
brought the young man out two dol
airs and fifty cents in debt.
!. Rev. J. L. Davis shielded al Gergt
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