The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-06
: STATE NEWS.

company.
Hopkins-conntY greenbackers con,
vene on the 18th.
burglars are getting troublesome III
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Hopkinscire,sit court began yester
day, Judge Grace presiding.
Elkton has been supplied with street
lamps, says the Register.
Joe Blackburn, is a candidate for
reelection to Congress.
A new and strange disease is taking
off the cattle in Grayson county. .
Richard Roe an ex-convict was
killed at Versailles, Sunday b, VIM.
Thomas. ric, 1i.'. ''
Judge Henry Pir;le, one of the old
est lawyers in the State died at Louis
vile last week. p
A Mason county man made 900
rails and IL cordS Of wood out of one
Patrick Murray was knocked
down and robbed of $25 near May
field last week. M
Five men were killed by, the falling
of a rock in the triplet tunnel at
Owingsville. - sts.;
The railroad bridge over the Ken I
lucky. river has swagged four inches
and is considered dangerous to cross.
Jno. A Hall, another one Of tho
eight prisoners recently sent to the
penitentiary from McCracken has died
The prisoners in the Lexington Jail
tried to kill the deputy jailer last
week and make their escape, but were
foiled. "ae.a' Hil i}t at a,. 4
Miss Bcsbie the elocntionist was
voted the use Of the hall Of Represen-
tatives to read in wilhelm Frankfort
last week. r..
Uriah Gaady and Bailey McClcl-
land, moonshiners who escaped from
the Louisville Jail last week have been
lecaptured. ttic a,t r.,
Frank Wheeler had his throat cut
from car to ear in a bawdy house fight
in Louisville by VIM. Alfred Sunday
night. '". -.
The Ashland Republican was
awarded the premium, fine editors
chair for publishing the best notice OF
Jno. P. Morton's Farmers Almanac.
Tho Southern Baptist Convention
meets in Lexington May 9Th 1t is
estimated that one thousand strangers
will represent. ,,s.a,s
Caldwell Campbell who died in
Madison county, leaving an estate
valued at 100000. bequcathed $lO,-
0Ooto Centre College, Danville, /
A woman was rocking. child in
her lap in Dasiess county, when the |
front legs broke off the chair and pre-
cipitated the child into the fire severe
ly burning it before it was rescued.
During the last ten years Hardin
county has paid premiums on 3.24S
fox and l6 wild cats scalps. The
amount paid exceeded $1,000.
The Kentuckians interested in the |
"Miner Boy" mine at Leadyille, in
GLIDING H. c. Clay and w. G.. Ham
ilton, Of Lexington. have sold out to
Now York parties for 100000.
A man named Lewis, a drummer OF |
the house Of Armstrong & Co. Louis
attempted to suicide BY taking NOR
phine at Madisonville, last week. |
He had lost $50 of his employers
money at cards. .4s 81 sa-
Ben johnson a negro was lynched
at Winchester. Thursday night for
having attempted to rape the dalght-
or of a respectable white gentleman,
on the public highway in broad day
light. I'a ~ -,F /
10. Hawley's fine expired on last
Tuesday,, and he was released from
four years confinement in the peniten-
tiury. The next day he was put in
Jail for grand larceny. ,.A 81. 4
Mrs. Jas. Singleton of Lexington
was in a carriage with her husband
and tho horses became frightened anil
tried to run away, which scared her so
badly that she tainted and did not re-
cover.
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One mile Of wire on the Paducah |
and Elizabethtown Road, near Cum
berland River. was melted by light