The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-06-01
STATE NEWS.

Paducah's population is $4,000.
One of the Lexington census emu
merators is negro.
+ The Paducah News has a new
power press.
Thos. Walters, Of Russell county,
was killed by mule last week.
A jury composed entirely ofnegrOes
sat in Maysville last week.
The Logan Sentinel is out again,
having survived the fire.
Jno. Bradley, suicided by drowning
in Harrison comfy.
Jno. Gaines wants baseball club
at Paducah.
A man in Paris has lived in the
same house Tor 81 years.
The body OF little girl was found
floating in the river near Maysville.
VIM. Hesdy, of Webster county,
was kicked and killed by horse last
week.
Another coal oil accident at New
port took the life out Of Title Keifer,
age IA.
Jerry Little, charged with killing
Judge Burnett, in Breathit. county,
has been tried and acquitted.
2 One Of the census enumerators in
Clay county is a woman, Mrs. Mary
l.. White.
Mr.. J. T. Quisenberry. Of Clark,
has bough. 700 lambs at 4 cents. to
be delivered this month.
The shorthand testimony in the
Green-H.rgis case covered 5000
pages Of legal cap paper.
The General Association Of Ken
lucky Baptists met at Owensboro last
week.
! Miss May Pinkston has been sent
to the Poor house in Crittenden coun.
lty. w
| Hon. J. Proctor Knott will address
the Tennessee Press Convention at
Jackson, June 10.
The Boyd county Express says il
one week the Norton Nail Factory
made 1922 kegs of nails and shipped
100.
The military companies Of the
State, will rusticate two weeks al
Grab orchard springs in July.
Joseph Ferguson. town marshal o.
Murray, was shot and killed by Oar
Jones, saloon keeper, whom he at
tempted to disalm.
| Mr.. E. F. Madden, Of the Louis
vile Post, aud Miss Kate NJ. Sullivan
will be married in that city this even
ing at 81 o'clock.
Two little sons of j. w. Peek, o
Lyon county, were out hunting wheI
one of them accidcntly fred off his gul
killing the other instantly.
w. S. Parker Of Lewis county com
mitted suicide last week by drowning
at Vanceburg. He was 81 years old
A red fox measuring b # and 8 inche
from tip to tip was killed in Harri
son county the other day.
A. j. May shot j. B. Ferguso
four times, at Lexington, last weel
Ferguson will PROBABLY recover.
Geo. Yenowine, city editor of Mil
: waukeo paper, married in Louisville
8 last week.
Q J. w. Dodd put $50 in cigar DO
and buried it in his barn in Ware
county, and when he took 1t up 81
8 had been cut to pieces by worms.
= The first Penguin ever seen in tn
q State has been killed at Madison couI
ty. 1t is bird common to the Sout
: temperate zone. U
The body of floated was taken OF
ofthe river at Cloverport buried i
" the sand so shallow that hogs roote
! it up and ieaSted upon it. Shame O
I, the town authorities.
!. The Columbia Times lost a sui
u scription and ten dollar ad. becaul
/. be said something about old maids &
class and one Of them took it to he
It SELF R
= Two young men named Vat Bishc
y and Adam Hysinger were shot an
killed by Albert T, Fish Jr. in
bagnio fight at Mt. Vernon on Il
u 23d ult.
1t Chas. Ransdale aged %, the oldel
's Of seven orphan children, dependol
upon him Tor support, was browne
while bathing at Owenton Ky.
CYxTHIASA News: Last week, NJ
Spears Smith brought a hens egg
!. the News office. which would ha'
: been denominated large goose eg,
y but it was nothing but hens egl
: and when broken, contained larf
8 white yolk, and another common size
. egg. This is freak in nature NJ
commonly found.