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The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15
TAIRv1Ew.

The early birds catch the worms.
At last two OK three bright summer
days make one dream Of spring.
Our"Towh dads" are going to
build lock up, to take care OF the I'M
iortunates who are SO unlucky as to
med their care.
80 winter, wilt thou never go.
0summer how | weary for thy com.
ing"
The young man who said our town
was improving, is dead now.
Merit always has envy swapping
and snsrling at it.
The more favor you show som,
folks, the more they expect.
Happy is he who has a large pile
Of wood and no neighbors to borrow
"Dilllon," correspondent to tn,
Nashville American from this place
says there is some talk of q narrow
gauge railroad from this place t,
Clsrksville. Pray who is "Dillion,
and where did he get his information
/ am glad to hear that Mrs j. j
Shaw, who has been quite i'll, is i'm
proving and that there is probabili
~ OF her getting well.
"Dillion" says tobacco opens VI
fat" that's the first / had heard o
it, thanks Mr.. d for the information
Mr.. Editor, l echo every word 20,
said abont the Buford trial. Ny opin
ion is that such trials are only max
ing farce OF justice, and the soone
the people and the press speak tbei
sentiments about such the safer will
be q mans life.
Iregret very much to hear Of th
serious illness of Miss Binnie Will
kins, who has been quite sick 70
some time / understand that her re
covcry is doubtful.
lambs are ripening in this section
H. b. Gray returned home to hi
many friends after spending a mont
or six weeks visiting Louisville, Gin
cinnati, New York and Nashville
on business. Harry is one Of the iol
ly boys ofour town and we felt hi
absence greatly.
The farmers are busy stripping an
pricing tobacco in this section a
country. The crop is rather small
but Of . superior quality.
! TsySJEH.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15
LINTON.

will give you a sketch of this part
OF the country t
The health of the community ia
very good, only one death in the
last month or two. Mr.. Tom Turner
died with pneumonia last week.
DIR. johnson and family, from Clarks,
vile, haze moved to their farm near
Canton, on the river.
Mr.. Morgan Hopson aud Mist
Dosie, left not long since for Clsrks'
vile &c Students.
The charming young lady Miss
Ida McNichols ia teaching school here
The Grin of Whitlsck Il McNichol,
have dissolved partnership in ths
mercantile business. ssr u
The river has been very high thi,
winter, aud bosts have had plenty te
DO. They have been delayed som,
time on account of ice.
This part of the country is very
rough; the lands are very productive
but we need q few of Christian coun
ty's energetic farmers to I'LL the sol
of Cumberland river bottoms.
Linton is business point; ",
have three dry-goods stores. one gro
Gerry, two saloons, drug store and
hotel.
DR.. Johneon's son from Washing
ton city was In our town on visit t.
his parents short time since; Ia
returned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Coombs, Of Churcl
Hill neighborhood, were down las
week on a visit to Mr. j. w. Dawes
| WoEDERER;
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MACEDONIA.

The fsrmers have been busy "trip.
ping out their tobacco for the past
few days. ff
Mr.. Dave P. Poole's little child fell
head foremos into the fire few days
since and was seriously burnt. =
Wanted, TO swap Q half dozen
shorn sheep skins for pair of good
gentle stilts.
While carrying very heavy stick
of wood few days since Mr.. Baker
the tax assessor of Caldwell county
fell and smashed his head very badly.
rrs. Jane Conner died ct the resi-
dence of Mr.. Columbus Gladdish near
Csstleberry church last Friday. She
died of Pneumonia.
Another bymenial item in Cald-
we'll. At the residence of the brides
father near Friendship, Mr.. W. G.
Rucker to Mics Nancy G. Robinson.
Miss Mary Orten, of this place who
has been o ghsstly victim Of the
dreadful consumption for several
years, we regret to say is very low
down. We fear she will not last
long, RouGH AND READY.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The Indiana Legislature is all torn
to pieces oyer compulsory educa'
ton bill. 1t provides that all chll,
dren shall be sen. to school even il
the State has to keep up their parents
Ns well as educate the children. Il
furthermore provides that all chill.
drcn, irrespective ofcolor, shall be ed
ucated together. The bill is per-
nicious one and is meeting with grea
opposition from the Democrats al
well as many Republicans, but still
fears are entertained that it will pass
the House.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15
GENERAL NEWS.

Garfield will be inaugurated OF
"haugman's day" Friday.
l4S deaths from smallpox wers
reported in New York city on the 9Th
Mrs, ]. Z. Nichols jumped into 4
well and suicided at St Louis.
Smallpox is raging in New Jersey
to an alarming extent
US. Senator elect jackson oil
Tennessee has resigned his seat in the
State Legislature.
A railroad bridge is 10 BE- bnilt owe,
the Ohio river at Henderson o,
Evansville ssnstimcs during the
present year.
The local option bill has been de-
ieated in the Ohio Legislature.
A distinctive tornado swept over
New Orleans Thursday blowing down
the Palmetto Hotel among other
buildings. 3as ae ~
Jno. n. Edwards shot and killed
JAS Champion, at Paris Tenn, for
attempting to Beecherizs his wife.
The lady reported the Improper pro-
posal, to her husband.
Four murderers will bangle from
the end Of rope at Santa Fe., N. NJ.
ON the ed inst. 5Es b4.S
A lad is years hung himself at
Milwaukee to escape linking for
having stolen IS from his father.
Peter Pelekeys murderer was hang
ed at Helena Mon. on the 9Th inst.
lie murdered and robbed his employer,
named Lacke. Of large sum OF money.
A boy who is believed to be the
yeritabls long lost Charlie Ross has
been ioRna at Ontario Can. He
remembers being abducted by two
men while he was playing the streets OF
large city, and placed in a tribe OF
ruscarora Indians until he escaped,
Recently. and is now living with a man
named Bond. He is about thirteen
years old and is a fiaxen haired gawky
youth about four feet tall.
j. A, Coleman a prom inent lawyer
aud Chas. II. Lucus and wifs Of
Evansville entsrsd into = plot to
delraud an insurance company Lusus
was to fall over board a Steamer. to
be drowned apparently, to swim ashore
in really and get large an cunt Of
insurance money The plot was car
riod out but the insurance companies
investigated bsfore paying the money
aud the game was detected and ell
hands arrested. 9,.. Ri,
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The CoyingtoR Commonwealth
wants the government to make M
appropriation for the Improvement Of
the Licking. For the benefit OF
trembling schoolboys we will explain
that the licking referred 10 Is river
of that name in this State, and not
the system of corporal punishment
which IL one Of the stern realities of
boyhood.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The votes of the several States for
President were counted by Congress
in joint session last Wednesday and
Garfield officially declared elected
President Of the United States, tor the
next four years, beginning March 4,
1881. The electoral vote of Georgia
was not counted on the day appoint
ed by law and was therefore thrown
mt
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15
Doubts have arisen as 10 the II,

Doubts have arisen as 10 the nativi.
ty Of Vice-President elect Arthur, il
having been charged with some show
Of proof that he was born in Canada
aud consequently is not citizen Of
the United States, which would make
him ineligible TO the Office to which
he has been elected. A Senate Com.
mittee of Investigation has been APP
pointed to look into the matter aud
II lie report is found to be true
he thhnot assume the Office Of Vice
FiaissaL
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15
STATE NEWS.
Kentucky has l27 newspapers.

Kentucky has l27 newspapers.
Chas. Reed has received the Dem
ocratic nomination for Mayor of Pa
ducah.
Tho jacksonville Times wants
Hopkins county people to use shot
guns to protect themselves from light
ming rod agents.
The Times complains of the bad
condition OF the plank walks in Madi'
sonville,
The Mountain Scmcher saws II. c.
Herndon will shortly begin the publ
cation OF a Paper at Hazelsrsen to be
called the Herald.
Two lads living near Louisville.
found the corpse OF a negro named
Lawrence, hall buried in marsh,
where he had been for seven weeks.
Three convicts in the penltentiary
have cut of fingers to escape labor. i
The Banner says little boy
named Frank Thomson was thrown
from a horse in Caldwell county and
killed.
The Breckenridge News calls Tom
Buford the appellate Judge eredica,
tor"
A negro named Beard shot another
named Jackson in Hancock county
last week inAicting serious wound.
AS. Farrell, the Ooving,on Post
mistress made good her sons deficits
and will be retained.
~ Capt. G. L. Allen viii be a candi-
date for reelection to the Legislature,
from Caldwell county,
The citizens OF New Castle held
protesting against unjust
freight Determinations.
Anew paper callei the Central
Courier has just been started at Mich
olasyille by SAM Owen.
A coal oil lamp explosion caused
the wife OF S. ID. Lewis Of Scott
county, to be burned to death.
The friends of Henry Grief, of Pa
ducuh, have come to grief from his
disappearance.
The Winchester Sun, according to
the Louisville Post, stole some OF its
own local items and reproduced them
IN the State News column clipped
without credit from that pepper.
The Covington Commonwealth
thinks that the special court that
granted Buford a new trial "gas
wholly unsustained by respectable
legal opinion" a
VIM. Raford, negro convict cork
ing on the Big Sandy Railroad at
Owingssiile attacked guard with a
,lnb breaking his arm in an attempt
ID escape and was shot dead.
An Ashland man. according to the
Express, will fast two weeks. "He
will lay on his back and take mo
nourishmgnt except sweetmilk."
Alex Taylor aud J. w. Meachsn,
'diiors Of the two Falton papers. the
Fultouian and the Index, met in Pa
incah one day last week and had a
light in the opera House. Meacham,
according to the Enterprise, was I'M
der the inaueRce OF liquor and was
the aggiessor
Tom Stuart, in a card in his paper
the Democrat, denounces his oppon-
ent for the Legislature and coalem-
porary editor, Mr., Quisenherry of
the SIM as "liar and cowardly pup
py," and claims that the latter has
slandered him time and again in the
canvass now being conducted.
Geo. Pieratt and his sister, an aged
couple lived alone near 0wingsville.
The sister is an invalid and one day
last week the brother tainted and fell
into the large old fashion FIRE place,
where hot fire was burning. She
dragged herself to him and pulled him
from the fire corpse and then tainted
away. The next morning they were
foRnd the sister benumbed and help.
less aud the eats had been eating the
flesh Of the corpse OF the brother.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The Columbus Times sneeringly
ca,ls tho editor of this paper "tllai
Young Solon," because lie does no,
bow down and worship Oscar Tur-
per. Without meaning TO rc,ort III
school boy fashion "you're another
wc will mildly suggest ,liat those
who cent Turner 10 Congress think
Ing him a statesman, are all"sold uns.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The long talked OF marriage of the
Observation-Disclosures, of London
TO the young American Ashmead
Bartlett took place last Saturday.
The bride lie CO and the groom is less
than half her age. The latter at tho
request Of his wife will assume the
name OF Burdeit. Coutts.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

Tho Guthrie Gazette tells how a gen.
icman OF that vicinity, mistook the
singing of o crowd of serenaders for
The warbli0g of Thomas cats and
scattered them with pole which he
threw in the direction OF the music
The mistake was discovered, the gen.
comen invited into tho parlor and in
the society, of their sweeihearts, they
soon forgot the catastrophe.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

Stuart and Qdisenberry, both edi
terra and Candidates for the Legisls.
ture in Clark couaty, are carrying on
bitter personal warfare. Quisen.
berry vas arrested last week and put
In jail, on failing TO give bond to
keep the pence. Ii they have not al,
ready had a personal encounter things
point decidedly that way.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

Tho Greensboro Messenger & Elk
aniuer has story headed "Loye III
West Virginia. Tbs story ia prob
ably based upon some OF the cxpe.
riences OF The Kentucky press gang,
Gone OF whom this scribe was
vhich') at White Sulphur Spring:
last summer.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The result of the investigation of
the bribery cases in the Tennessee
Legislature is not likely TO pan out
anything. Thus far Littleton has
failed to prove what he claimed 10 Je
able to prove and The excitement has
E6ont died away.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The train carrying Sara Bernhardl
passed Bowling Green last week.
The editor Of the Gazette says be and
she were both on ii at the same time.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

ESeLIsH FEMALE BITrERs.--As powerful
iron tonic and female regulator, This co bina-
most valuable female medicine ever offered
the public and 10 held IN high esteem through
out the country. IL cures female weakness,
monthly suppressions, painful perlods.rclicvcs
the hysterical, imparts iron to the impover-
vigsrStti NJ hss5 Ifs rsstsrstts sssiss.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The Frankfort Woman pays thii
well moriled compliment TO our able
Representative, in Congress:
Hon. Jas. A. Mckenzie ia at hi,
post in Washington in spite OF bal
health, lie is one OF the most popu-
lsr.mcn in Congress.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

Col. W. c. p. Breckenridge will
deliver an address at Helm Hall, En-
inener, Ky, to tho Bddorei0 Genera
Literary society, OF Emipence Col.
lege Feb. 22nd. As an orator Col.
breckenridge has no equals in Ken
lusky and but few any where.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The advertising sharpers are abroad
in the land and are furnishing some
fine contribulionslo our waste basket.
A proposition from one of them to
give IS liver pad for SIS in adyer-
Using was fled therein. ~.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

W. II. Miller, OF Henderson coun-
ty hss had his name changed to l.u-
Glen Simeon Clark and the Reporter
speaks of him rs the "laie Mr.. Miller
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The boy who broke his mothers
mirror thought he ought not
10 be whipped because the Bible says
.;Dlessed is the piecemaker.'
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15
dcPxINsylLLE, FEB, Ia, 1881

Yesterday was the day for the
birds TO mate.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

The dead lock in the Pennsylvania
Senatorial race still continues. Oil
yer and Grow have both Withdrawn
aud still 10 one has been elected.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

II am iu-seine, spare my life, as
Col. Buford would say" remarked
the fish when caught in the net.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-15

Some people read an editors para
graphs as csrelessiy as If il didn't
snatch him bald headed to write them.
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BErNETrsTOwN.

Mr.. EpIToA:
We are not of very literary tarn
Of mind, but events accun ulste on MS
to such an extent that we are COM
PEELED TO give vent to them, and ~
such we havessuch happy medium
(your most excellent paper through
which TO give the dear people the
benefit OF our pepcilipgs, We can hold
in 10 longer.
The dry goods business in oHr town
has been considerably paralyz cd by
the death Of our oldest msrcbaEh Mr..
Joe Brsme, on Jansary 9Th. His
emporium Tor dry goods has been
draped in mourning since. The
death Of our old aud tried merchant
has cast Q gloom over our little IOWA
that time alone can dispel. BID
Since our last Mr.. l.. Il. Allen, late
Of Beverly has opened up fret class
dry goods and grocery house here.
We heartily welcome him inio our
midst. Az an evidence of the spirit
of enterprise that's within the man
he demonstrates il BY adding to eur
already increased population in q
short time after bis arrival Ito, fine
boy. 3 sa, 9!g.e.tt
There will be good deal Of tobac-
co put up here this season. In addi-
ton 10 the Brame 4 HcGee factory
Mr.. W. w Crews has opened up one
on corner of Main and Yellow streets
and 10 daily receiving the weed.
Our old friend j. D. Pollard, the
prince of jokers, still keeps q full
stock OF notions aud groceries; tie
said he keeps the hest liquor south OF
Louisville, or west of Cincinnati.
There 10 nothing like knowing how
it is yourself, 10 il sQuire2
We are sorry 10 chronicle the desih
of Arthur Quisenberry, "a man Of
COLOR nevertheless q good mechanic
aud useful citizen. Many who have
barns to build will be sorry TO learn
of the fact.
Farmers are unusually far behind
with their business on account of the
weather. There have been very few
plant beds burnt. The wheat crop
is considerably damaged by the
freezes. NJ.
We were at the closing exercises
of Prof N. N. Edwards school al
Sunny Slope, two miles north Of
Bennettstown, Friday evening, and
were highly edited by the proceed.
inga. The children did credit both
to themsslycs and their teacher.
! psRsss.
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HONOLULU WHISKY.
How it Devastated One of the Re-
giOnS of Alaska.
Cincinnati Times-Stal

The sugar planters resident at Homo.
lulu manufacture large quantities Of q
poisonous compound which they call
rum. 1t is said to be made from the
refuse of their sugar houses. This they
smuggle into pots wherever they can,
and among the places easiest of access
are the Alaska possessions of the United
States. About year ago large guam
tity of it was smuggled into that country
for trade with the natives IN exchange
for seal and other valuable fur skins.
Tue infamous Hawaiian traders lavishly
paid out the abomnable liquor-all In
dams will drink rum and give all they
have to get it-obtaining in return valu
able cargoes. The frightful result is
briefly told in the record of Corwin' s
Arctic trip. The empty whisky kegs
we're seen strewn all about the north
side of the island (St Lawrence Island J,
where the traders landed, and all the in
habitants of that region are dead, not
one escaping The entire population,
numbering over 600, was starved to
death. The adults got drunk on the
whisky traded to them, and kept SO dur
ing the season for laying in their winter
supply OF walrus and seal When win
Ter came, cold and bleak, they had no
food, and. after eating their dogs, they
succumbed to the panss Of hunger
men, women aud children.
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Wanted to See the show.
Little Rock lark, qasetts.

A low moan caused the city editor TO
look up from the work of writing no.
tice of Colonel Bumper, who had merely
called to announce his arrival, declaring
that these newspaper fellows will find
it out anyway" Another low moan,
like the coo Of wounded dove.
Can l do anything for you, madam p
She removed tattered shawl and han.
ded the scribe paper, which, in bad
chirography, stated that MRS. Milkrip-
pie was poor widow with six chiIdrens
81 am sorry that your husband is dead,
madam. Died of yellow fever in Menu
phis several years ago, l suppose, or
was probably recognized as a st. Louis
man and shot,"
mo, sir" she answered, with sigh
t'be wss killed by mule"
"You draw large draft on my sym
pathy, madam, but am moneyless.--
You have heard of Stanton's moneyless
man2 Well, that piece OF poetic liters-
ture was dedicated to me-"
"No, sir. am poor and my children
are in need, but do not want anything
"You mistake me, sir. do not want
money"
"Then you want bacon and -four p
"No, sir. am poor and my children
are in need, but do not want anything
to eat"
"Want to get q relation out OF the
penitentiary
"No, have no relatives there"
"Then what can / do for your"
She turned loose several thimblefuls
OF tobacco spit, and said in low voice:
"You see we are denied much of this
worlds amusement, being so poor
There's going to be man hung next
Friday, and / want tickets of admission
to the Jail yard. Give me the tickets,
and my poor children will sing your
praise. We have missed all the thea
ters, and as Friday will be my son Jim's
birthday, and as am too poor to give
a suitable entertainment, thought that
I'd take the children to the hanging"
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Ulster Irish Humor.
Harper's Magazine.

In County Down countryman whose
old horse had suddenly died took the
skin to a tanner. The tanner said, in
the Scotch dialect peculiar to the dis
trict: 81 Gamma gle YOU full price for
this skin; it's over sma." The reply
was: "That's quare. The aul' horse
wore it twenty years and mair, and niver
made ony complent about it being over
sma :"
An old man married young wife,
who after some time rued her bargain,
and gave him poison. The doctor who
was called IN whispered his suspicious
to his aged patient. The young wife,
soon coming to the bedside, said be-
seechingly: sob, Bob, do you know
ne, dear? ?" mo-" said he; "but | sm
beginning to know ye."
A drunken fellow, belonging to Ban
gor, in County Down, fell asleep in the
graveyard, into which he had wandered
over night. He was suddenly reused
.ff56a sleep by the seuGd of the early
postman's horn or trumpet, which he
mistook for the archangel's trumpet on
the resurrection morn, and said -
HWhat! ne'r>a one risen here but me !
1t speaks bad for Bangor"
A hardy pest boy, with bare throat,
was driving his vehicle along an expos
ed road in the teeth Of biting Wind
A passenger suggested, as the driver
aad no neck cloth of any sort, that he
should at least fasten his shirt at the
neck with pin "a pin!' was the re-
ply; '.sure there's no hate in pin"
An old sexton a care-taker Of a
church and graveyard) in County Ar
magh was asked bv his dying vile -.
=@Andv, dear, l have just one request to
make before die " "Wbat is it, dear p
II wish you 10 carry me over to nv
own country in Tyrone, and bury me
With nv father and mother" The jour.
ney was sixty miles. "Well, Betty"
was the answer, "Tll try you here first
in our own meeting house green, and if
We give ony trouble I'll take We up and
bury We in Tyrone"
A minister had become very fat and
paunchy cob" said an observer, sits
nothing but church extension"
"What was the teyt the dav, jamie ?"
was the question asked one Sunday af-
terpoon. "Weel, it was tiat ane where
the apostle delivered Hvmenus and Phi
e,us to Satan that they might learn not
10 hlaspheme." "Noo I'm thinkin' he
could na gle them into waur hands"
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