The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-02-24

were Klll0u ana 40 WOuhueu.
The Princess Louise lost $4,000
jewel in an accident in Canada last
week.
Hendricks, Republican has been
elected Mayor Of New York by 1000
The Territorial Governors are call
ing for moro troups to protect them
from the Indians.
Nashville offers 81, 900 for the best
rilledcompany Of citizen soldiers, at
the Exposition.
Since the Russian occupation Of the
District of Kars $4,000 inhabitants
have cmigrated.
In the car shops in Middletown, Pa,
which are soon to resume work, 300
men will be employed.
A silver mine has recently been dis
covered in Garrett County, Nd. The
ore yields $ll3 to the ton..
Arizona has produced o quality of
cotton equal to the Sea Island cotton
from seed brought from China.
The fifteen car manufacturing estab-
lishments in this country turned out
81 $50 cars in eleven months.
The lead mines near Phoenixville,
Pa, that have been idle for twenty
two years, are now being worked.
Over 1900 persons are employed in
chair making in Gardner, Mass,
turning out over 100000 worth
annually.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad is building a new bridge over
the Minnesota river that will be 1000
feet long. y
OF the 70 Senators in Congress, SO
are lawyers, and Of the 293 represen-
tatives, 2l9 belong to the same pro-
fession.
The body Of Miss Dolly Hartman,
of Allegheny City, was cremated at
her own request at Washington, Pa,
last week.
The total weight of three cattle be-
longing to Mr.. Perez Dickinson, Is
land Home, near Knoxville, is $3.50
pounds.
The n Y. Herald's subscription
fund has reached 100000, or Just
enough to last one week in keeping
the starving Irish alive.
The packages of tomatoes'put up
last year in the United States reached
the total Of 10, 969,000. of which New
Jersey put up 6,592.O00 cans.
It's estimated that $4,000 men aud
women are employed in Philadelphia
in the manufacture OF clothing, max
ing 100000 suits year.
Chicago's lumber receipts the past
year have been greater by 25 per cent,
and its shipments by l5s per cent
than in any previous year.
Illinois farm products amounted to
~ 900, 900 last year, which is double
the product Of all the gold and silver
mines in the United States,
Agents Of the Russian Governmcn
are en- route to the United States to in
vestigate the extensive counterieitins
Of Russian roubles.
1t is said that Benjamin Moran
American Minister to Portugal, is al
: most a helpless paralytic, and it i
feared must abandon his'post.
The Congressional Printer asks
deficiency appropriation of $45O,oOo
the extra session making necessary l
great amount ofextra printing.
Miss Eva Matthews, daughter..o
Stanley Matthews. made her debut i
Washington society at the splendi,
ball given by the Mexican Ministe
last week.
Bessie Turner. the celebrated wit
ness in the case OF Theodore Tito
: against Fl w. Beecher, has marie
! Chas. Walgrain, stage carpenter Q
Berry's Broadway Theater, Brooklyn
At Bruce City, D. T., Jim Sim
mons and NJ, Simmons, betwee
; whom an old feud existed, killed eac
other. They were respectively uncl
, and nephew.
: Over 500 valentines were hold f
a postage at tho Little Rock post-offic
> and the postmaster and another kline
hearted citizen paid the amount du
rather than have SO many persons di
appointed.
q Rev. Edward Cowley manager
the Shepherds fold, New. York, hi
been convicted OF cruelty and ill trea
: nent to the orphan children. Att
9 announcement Of the verdict he wei
bitterly.
( The Mormons received cold comic
from Mexico. That governmel
, agrees to protect them in their wo
ship Of Col. but will not countenanC
a polygamy, il they COLOMBO them.
!, NAsHvILLR AMERICAN. A mea
II man put sixteen hornets in whisk
: bottle and gave it to Texas man,
n the dark, to take drink out of, ar
I. though the hornets got in their wol
as they went down, the Texan remarl
cd that it wasn't real Texas whisk
: as it lacked fire.
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