The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-05-10
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Miss Ge6tgie Bowles is In Hop.
kinsville this week.
DIR. A. II. Mckee of Charlottesville
Va, returned home last week.
i Miss Sydie Crawford is improving
this week, hTVt ne
Mr.. James Bradshaw had a fine
mule killed BY lightning during The
e,orm last week.
DR.. Lindlcy and wife, nee Miss
Hart, OF st. Charles, KY, made a
short visit to the family of Mr.. j. G.
Boxley, last week.
| Cbas. Wheeler. a rising young
member Of the Paducah bar and Rev.
Morris, ofthe Hopkinsville Episco.
pal church were at the Station Tues
day.
The railroad business at the Sta.
ton, required the use OF tlirty-one
cars during April.
DR.. Floyd and his charming daugh.
ter, Miss Ella, aud Elder Mcfarland
of Henderson, spent Sunday and
Monday visiting the family OF Rev
w. s. Casky.
Newspaper solicitors have been ~
thick as bees in this locality during
the last two weeks. First came The
Republican, then tho South Kcntuck.
ian, and thirdly the New Era mar,
all wanting money.
The deputy P. NJ. was The recipient
OF all elegant bouquet of hot house
flowers Wednesday. lie blushed
and smiled when he opened the box
andii he did enter this rccapitulation
Of manilests on his daily car report
is he 10 be blamed under such cir.
cumstances?
I George Parsons, q well known col.
ored man and school teacher living
near tho Clarksville pike, removed
with his family and household goods
10 Mt Vernon. Illinois last week.
Fruit trees Of all kiuds covered
with o profusion of blooms the last
two weeks.
Tobacco plants and wheat nro look
ing wei! and the farmers are all busy
planting corn when tho weather will
admit. Last but not least, the May
apple crop promises TO DO larger than
ever. MN
Tom Garnett. claims TO haye beer
sick with pneumonia lately, but thu
marriage of ali old sweetheart re-
Gently, had more TO do with his sick
ness than pneumonia, evidently
Tom was too slow.
A dwelling owned by Mossrs. j
and J. Casky and occupied by Saral
Phelps, burned Tuesday night. NJ
lives were lost, though the furniture
bedding etc. were entirely consumed
The cause Of the, fire 10 unknown. bu
is thought by some 10 be incendiary
| Mrs. Howard, alias Moore, ALA
Sands who was stthe Station som,
time ago hunting tor some upheart
OF family, beat one of the hotels .
Greenvile out of several days boart
week before lust. Sue cluimed L
have known Urey in days lang sync
Letters for Miss Matte Brown
Miss Mollie Hickman. and william
Harrison remain unclaimed and ap
pear on the April dead letter list.
i Or the three hundred and one bird
Of various kinds which haye beef
trying TO build in the trees arount
the Station this spring there oniyre
mains, one wood peckcr minus !
tail; two lame jay birds and on
robin. The cause OF this poor show
Ing lies In the fact that our leading
merchant has breech- loading large
gun and lie will leave his dinner an,
day TO shoot jay bird. Bro
Brashoris wearing Grape for the bird
and says he would have had full
crop OF feathercd pets by this time,
IL had not been for our merchant
destructiveness. Fortunately on
merchant fails to kill nine times gu
Of ten or the four cripples remaining
would have gone over to the MAORI
~ long ago. tRs 4t''. ~ RAED.