The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-27
GENERAL NEWS

Veu 70 hang eighteen persons.
Lord Lyttou (Owen Meredith) has
been created Earl ofLytton.
Three murderers are to DO hanged
IN st. Louis next Friday.
Thursday was the 18th anniversary
ofthc killing Of Abraham Lincoln.
There are $4,000 office holders In
the service Of the Government.
1000 600 people speak the En-
glish language.
The Tennessee press convention
meets at jackson June 10th. .
Geo. A. Pease clerk at the Maxwell
House, Nashville died Friday.
Jay Gould's income is $1,000 pei
day. ours is hardly that much in u
month.
In Emanuel county, Georgia, mar
and his son are attending the same
school and are in the same class.
A man in Moore county, N. c.,
sixty-one years old, is the father oil
,torty-one children.
The General Assembly ofthe Pres
byterian church (Southern) will meet
at Charleston, May 20.
The clip Of wool for 1879 is tho
lsrgcst ever shown in this country,
amounting to 233. 900. 900 pounds.
Wilmington had $4,000 fire
Sunday. A falling wall killed one
man and wounded several.
100000 gallons of petroleum
were exported from this country last
year.
At Waco, Texas, Sunday night
VIII Hardwick killed John French,
his rival in love affair, and then COM
United suicide.
The railroad from Quincy, Massa.
chusetts, to the Underwater was built in
1926, and was the first railroad in the
United States.
Hon. J. w. Perry has brought suit
against the Cincinnati Commercial Tor
$4,000 for libel on account Of the
Adams case. 4
Otero, the young Spaniard who at
tempted to take the life of the King oi
Spain on the 30th Of last December,
was executed at Madrid yesterday.
1t is estimated by the Detroit Free
Press that handsome woman weep
ing before q jury has more effect in
tive minutes thaRtwo hours talk.
In Jefferson county, Miss, a man has
been fined $l00 and imprisoned for a
short term for killing a deer in viola
tion Of the game laws.
The Catholics have now two congre-
cations. one convent, one girls school
Of high grade, one public library, one
free hospital and a population Of 5000
in Atlanta.
Jas. Farris a toamster with Cuup's
circus was shot and killed in Linck's
Hotel at Nashville by Geo. Petway on
the 18th inst. The murder was en-
tirely unprovokcd.
A planter in North Carolina has
made a tobacco hogshead by hewing
ii out Of the trunk Of large tree. No
hoops are required to hold it togo.
ther.
GAINESVILLE TOBACCO LRAr:-Dick
Williams, at the Eclipse stable, has
an old barlow knife bearing the date
Of l776, which, he says, belonged to
Washington in the Revolution, and
was used to make the pen that signed
the declaration Of independence. W.
suppose this is correct, as Dick is
truthful fellow, and that the knife was
presented to him by Washington on
solid merit.
COURIER JoURsAL:-The United
States Government has ordered that
twelve girls and twelve boys OF the
Cherokee Indians, residing in the
more western counties Of North Caro-
lima, be educated at the expense ofthe
Government at the Asheville Female
and the Weaveryile College, the
girls to be taught at Asheville and the
boys at Weaverville, for the purpose
Of enabling them to instruct their own |
people.
John Smith and Martin Broderick,
convicts in the Missouri penitentary, |
got into quarrel when Smith struck
the other on the head with spade in
fiicting a wound from which he died
in an hour. Smith then attempted to
pass the guards and escape but was
killed by them, as he attacked them
with his spade raised.
During the performance of the May
Fisk Blondes at the Academy Of |
Music in Logansport, Ind, Saturday
night. Walter Lands, city editor Of
the Journal, was cowhided by May for
an article he had published. He
IEade no resistance, and tried to get
away from her. but the manager pre-.
yeI.ted his exit.
A young Maine farmer, whose new
wife, highly cultured Boston girl,
well up in geology and mineralogy,
disappointed him by rambling over
the farms, pecking away at the rocks
instead ofattending to the milk and
Eggs, experienced a complete revolu.
lion in his feelings when she discovered
gold, and lie was told that his farm
vas worth $50.
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