The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-03-30
STATE NEWS.
Hemp IS still fiuctuating..


Rnssellville has organized mill
tary company. H. III 8.tieaa :. (
. Owen county has instructed for
Tilden. y7t.~~-cr,r-
The new jail at Franklin, has 10
prisoners in it. os -.
Logan and Warren have Joined
the Grant counties. ilf 74t.
A family in Franklin Is on the
verge OF starvation.
Fal,on county is out Of debt and
and has lnoney in bank. i.e
The Burksville Courier has sus-
pended.
Built. county has instructed for
Grant. u sl
The Crittenden Press publishes a
poetical obituary of horse. hf'!
The authorities are after tho Union
county regulators. 5a ,.,, ia,
Que ofothelittle girls ofthe Riley
triplets at Princeton, died last week.
Several families have left Bath
county. for Appleton City, Mo. q.
Theodore Tilton, spoke in Louis
vile Sunday night OH the Human
Mind. "irnollaVa aA tilFatH vi
Josiah Clifton an old citizen Of
Henry comfy shielded BY hanging,
last Thursday. --'''''
Mr.:A. G. Woods has superseded
the former editor Of tho fJessamine
Journal 'a4pjr.uIr sdioi eaN -
Miss Lulie Clay Begbie, % the eloca :
ZIONIST will read in Frankfurt tom or
row night. : '"' ''' ''"
Two young ladies' were expelled
from Russellville Female College last
week. ,,a.-t q. -ais GoiM1..asa'
The uniform Of the State Agri
cultural and Mechanical College has
been changed from grey to blue.
Cal. Harris seriously stabbed A. b.
Hudspeth, at Pennington, Graves
county, last week.
Frank Pooley aged IL. Of Louis.
vile, shot himself, seriously, with d
pistol, with probable suicidal intent
A lady oigood standing attended
the performance Of the May Fisk
Blondes in Owensboro, dressed in male
attire.
H. Victor Newcomb has been elect
cd president of the l.. Il N. Railroad
company, vice DR.. Standiiord who re.
signed.
| Ex-Governor McCreary has beSn
invited to address the students o
Vanderbilt University on the 30th o
May.
| The Blandville Press has discov'
cred chicken that is covered with
hair resembling human hair, inlieu
of feathers. al .. .s
| Brakeman and James got into
shooting scrape in Adair county, las
week and Brakeman received thre
painful though not serious wounds.
| Jno. and Lee Border accused o
countcrfeiting, were arrested nea
Glasgow last week by a U. 5. detect
i've and taken to Louisville.
Thirty six out of62 counties l,av
instructed Tor Grant. Twenty one d
the remaining counties did not imstruc
but sent Grant delegates.
Miss Lonisa Collins, aged Is sui
cided at Gilnion's Point nesr Louis
vile, by shooting herself with a sho
gun. Cause; disappointment in love
A Widow, Mrs. Hirsch, and thre
children were poisoned in Louisv'll
by eating prunes which had bee
wrapped in TN foil last week. b,
iint ofhard labor the physicians save
their lives. ~"ff gre
!. George, a little son Of J w. Pi,
inan, of Graves county was Ii led o
the Is. He was engaged in grindiu
clay for his father, who is a potter
and was caught by the lever an
mashed to death. ....
Elk Gov. Brown, Of Georgia. Ina
! given $50, 900 to the Southern Bar
fist Theological Seminary, of Loui,
. vile for the endowment Of PROBES,
orship. euea.i-a.-e ..A 80
j. II. Arnold the murderer of Littl
at Richmond has obtained change
venue to Jessamine- county; and wi
be tried at the August tenn. Co
/ Breckenridge and ex-Gov. McCrear
f will assist in his defense.
An old gentleman named Wr
Sugg came near being run over by ii
!. train In Madisonvile last week. u
slipped and fell in crossing the trsc
S and a negro boy pulled him off ju,
in time to save his life. He gave ii
boy new pair Of shoes. Hp
The dead body of Elijah Whitne,
who had been missing some time fir,
e Greenville, was found near that pla,
: last week in sink hole covered wit
! about inches of dirt. The head ha
b been nearly severed from the bod
Q with an axe, Bard Baugh and All,
l. Tooley were arrested on suspicit
% when Tooley made full conlessi'
o saying he killed him in sell deiens
: Baugh confessed that he helped
conceal the body.
The Princeton Banner reports
brutal murder as follows.
or just as we so to press we learn tn
,e a young man by the name Of McCC
,e mack residing near Lamasco was sh
s. and instantly killed yesterday NOR
st ing by a negro man. AIcCorma