The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-11-23
GENERAL NEWS.

contains 2S,O00 volumes.
DIR. Tanner viii soon enter upon
forty days last in London.
One of the depots with two ,passcn-
ger cars burned at New Orleans.
The population of St. Louis on
recouns Of the census is 350,9l5.
JOS. E. Brown, (Dem.) has been
reelected Senator from Georgia.
The receipts for Bernhards first
week in New York were ST coo.
= Washington barber has opened
a shop 10 be run by female BARRIERS.
Wm..E Adams. aged fifty. was
fonud dead in a cellar in Cincinnati.
The British parliament viii no,
take up the Irish troubles till Jahaa-
lry.
Thurlow W,cd is the Oldest .i,arn-
slist in the United States. lieis pas,
SO.
Jacob Francisco, Of Madison, Ind,
died from the bite OF a coiperieaa
snake. 4
Out of eleven negroes appointed to,
West Point, but one has gradusicd
with credit.
Drake, q Republican in No. is
elected to Congress BY majority OF
eleven votes.
Nicholas Gcdalia, a New York
broker, son Of a Danish Count, suicid-
ed last week. Il
Thomas W. Somer of Cleveland,
Ohio, suiciled upon the door step Of
his divorced wife.
Mrs. Samuel David, OF Patterson
n. j., was ionnd murdered on the
| porch Of her house.
The official vote Of New York City
is: Hancock, l23.0l5: Garfield.
Sl,6s6; Weaver, 6l0; Dow. 26.
S,ellarton, Nova Scotia, where the
mine disaster was. is ruined town, |
aad the inhabitants are leaving it.
Henry MorTelI. wealthy Californ-
ian, aged 10, was found DIAL in his
bell at the st. Cloud Hotel. rhiladel-
pbia.
Daniel Traulman aged 20. farm
ell Of Dunphin Co. Penn, was mui-
'iered BY burglars at the feet Of his
wife. Vi, 4
An appropriation will be asked iof |
the purpose OF substituting the cleo
trio light in the lighthouses on the
coasts.
Prince William, grandson Of Queen
Victoria will be married in February, |
to Princess Augusta Victoria, I'll
Prussia.
Margaret Roy, a negro girl charged
with inianticide has been convicted Of
murder in the first degree at Clarks-
vile Tenn.
The Booths were Jews, Sara Bern
hardt is Jewess aud many other dis
|tingnished actresses have been Of !
Jewish descent.
WIN. J. Martin, murderer, in
Jail at Lebanon, Miss., was released
by the jailer's fifteen year old niece
and both ran off.
Judge E. b. Taylor has been NOM
mated in the 18th OHIO District TO
fill the unexpircd term OF Garfield, in |
the Lower House of Congress.
Jas. B. McFerron. son of DR.. ]. !
d. NcForon, a MOTEL Net hodist
divine of Nashville, Tenn. was killed
in a railroad accident last week.
Jno, G. Calhoun has been sent to
the lunatic asylum, crazy with the
idea that be is Jesus Christ. He is a |
nephew Of the South Caroliua States
man
Anna Dickinson's favorite exercise
is roller-skating. and dramatic critics
who have seen her say that it has
given her development equal to
Rowell's,
An elopement, some what whole
sale Of its kind, occurred recently in
North Carolina. -Four couples. all OF |
whom had been forbidden by parents
to marry, met at train time ins,the
railroad station, rode to village
twenty miles away. and then stood
up in row before a clergyman and |
were married in the most approved
ocIagonAl style.
Lady Burdette Couit's marriage !
with Ashmead. Bartlett, the young |
American, has been postponed again |
but will surely be contaminated at an |
early date.
The Louisville Democrat says: A |
tie vote between the Democrat and |
Greenback candidates Tor Congress. in
the Ninth Mississippi district, will be |
decided by new election. !
Mississippi has only six Congress
sional districts.
a,
Ten thousand English miners are
annually injured by accidents, and
S59 Of these die. In Prussia the NOR
tallty is much higher, life being |
sacrificed Tor every 70,45l tous oil
coal raised. while in England the pro-
portion is only one in every S9,4l0.
A wicked Connecticut man being
recently taken i'll, and believing be |
was about to die, told neighbor that
he felt the need Of preparations for the
next world and would like to see /
some proper person in regard to it.
Immediately the friend sent for fire
insurance agent.
The New Orleans minstrcls visited
Staunton. Va, and among them was