The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-03-02
GENERAL NEWS.
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March s.
Therman clubs are being organiz,i
in Ohio.
NJ. DeLosseps thu great engineer,
arrived in New York last week.
The italian Pmliment opened ON
the 18th inst.
Cuba had,another slight earthquake
shock last week.
A terrible snowstorm is reported
from the Northwestern territories.
Grant clubs and Blaine clubs are
both gctting.t thick in Illinois.
Washburn is 81 years old, Sherman
81, Blaine 30, and Grant 5S
At Erata, Miss, j. w. Musgrove
died at the age lO3 years.
Nearly 3OO,0OO,OOO postal cards
were used in the United States last
year.
The largest sugar mill in Louisiana
is at Charles parish, and was erected
ninety days.
Nashville sent to Petersburg, Va,
for an architect for her Centennial
buildings.
Several States have already engage
oil rooms for their delegates at the Gin
cinnati Convention.
Ono hundred and thirty-three grad
uating doctors were turned loose in
Nashville last week.
There are three hundred and eight
theatres in the United States, and
more building.
An eagle has been killed in Cheat
ham county Tenn, which measured
nine feet from tip to tip.
Rev. A. w. Paige, has pleaded
guilty of sending obscene literateur
Through the mails, at New Haven
Conn.
A wealthy old gentleman Of Lag
range, Ga.,-G. w. Hazelton---fell |
from ladder-in his barn and was in
s;antly killed.
Next Thursday is the 102 anniver-
aory Of Robt Emmets birthday and the
Irish of Louisville are going to csle-
brate it.
Years ago Oowley, the bad Shep-
herd, was chaplaud OH Blackvilles
Island, and now he returns as con-
vict.
A Boston negro finds himself re-
warlcd by bequest Of 1921, 900 from
a Baltimore man whose son he once
saved from drownding.
A grandson of John G. Calhoun is
attending bar in st. Louis. He poses
SEES the watch originally belonging to
the great South Carolinian.
Human blood corpuscles average
5000 to an inch, and in hogs, 1900.
But fortunately you can tell hog
without the aid of science.
A western firm named Nice & Good
have bookkeeper named Simmonds,
and he signs receipts thus: "Nice &
Good, per Simmonds."
A young man at Canton, Ohio, has
sued his own mother for $4,000 for
Islander. She circulated report that
he was drunken and thievish.
The wife of United States Senator
Wilkinson Call, of Florida, is the
youngest of all the Senator's wives,
and is said to be the most beautiful.
She was Miss Sinking, of South
Carolina.
1t has been decided by the Supreme
Court Of Indiana that the legal name
of person consists of one Christian
name and one surname, and that mac
curacy in middle name does nat iu-
validate a deed or other legal docu-
ments.
At Kansas city No., James. Rus
sell, a pickpocket, stole a pocketbook,
ran into the arms of an officer, was
arrested, tried, convicted, and senten-
ced tosix months Imprisonment and
placed in Jail in exactly twenty min
utes.
They make hangings pay in some
places. j. NJ. Keer, upon whose land
the execution took place, cleared sl0,-
600 by the sale of reserved seats and
barbecued meats. etc. at the double
hanging at Mufreesboro, Tenn, on
the Goth inst.
The negroes are slowly straying in
to the field of journalism. In North
Carolina there arc six newspapers
edited by blacks; Louisiana has three,
Tennessee and Texas two each, Vir-
ginia, Alabama and Missippi one
each.
Leadville has mad a leap-year ball
which was conducted in proper style.
The girls had three knife fights and
then general shooting affray, while
the men hnddled together in corner
and Yelled Boston Post
The walking match in Cincinnati
closed Saturday night with the follow
ing score: Vint, 432; Hartman, 421;
Guyon, Ais; O'Brien, 4O6; Meals.
1885,; Brokerage, $40; Brown, 800.
The four leading men claim to have
beaten the best time on record in a
similar match.
Constantinople, Feb. ga Greek
has been arrested here for having in
his possession an internal machine. |
He claims that z is an English sub
ject. He first admitted, then rctract-
ed, the statement that he contemplated
attack on the sultan, and asserted that
the machine was bought by his broth
er, who was consequently arrested.