The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1881-02-08

A Barren county groom.eiect put
ng his wedding because the roads
we're too bad to go to town after the
license
A foar year old child Of Mr.. Kid
we'll, tell into tub Of scalding water
a, Bowling Green and lost its life,
says the Gazette.
Tho money orders at tho CadiS
Postoii;ce during the year 1850
amounted to $i7,9eS,27, according to
the Democrat.
The Bards,own Item doesn't ap-
prove o the resolution Of the w. X
Z. a. to strike off from their exchange
lists paragraph plasiarists.
The wholesale grocery Of Fisher d
Paxton, paducah, was consumed by
fire last week Loss S30,0O0, insur.
ance $4,000.
The Post Dispatch is the new pa
per started ut Frankfort by Gov.
Underwood. as u branch Of the Louis
vile Post.
Tony App shot Fritz Weber in
Louisville. The wound will probably
prove fatal and was malicious at
tempt at murder.
N. j. Harms has announced him
self candidate Tor the State Senate
from the district composed Of Ohio,
Muhlenberg aud Butler counties.
Mi. J Al. Hines. city attorney OF
Bowling Green, and brother oil
Judge Hines Of the Appellate conrt,
died last week.
WIS Wilson, Of the Louisville
Commercial, has been appointed Col
lectors of Internal Revenue in the
Louisville district in the place Of Col.
j. F. Buckner.
A bus carrying Billy Arlington's
Minstrels from Versailles to George
town was turned over throwing tn
whole party into stream Of water
down an embankment ten feet.
Midnight regulators visited the
house Of Young man nsmeh Jno. b
Rule in Warren county. and free
through the windows riddling his bee
with bullets. Fortunately he was no,
at home at the time.
1t is reported thet Gov. Jno. q
Underwood will shortly start a brancl
of the Louisville Post at Franfort
and the Yeoman suggests that it b,
called the Post Mortem.
The Democrat says all applicant
for teachers certificates in Trig;
county, will hereafter be required l.
give the names Of all Governors o
Kentucky from 1892 to the presen
time. I.
| VIM. Mckinney was murdered b.
Columbus Cas-, at Somerset in
fight over an old iued. They wer
both members of the Methodist churcl
one an elder and the other y Sunda
School Sup't.
! Gov. Blackburn has pardoned Ma
thew Shannahan murderer, VIII
was sentenced to death but afterward
had his sentence COMMITTED to i'm
prisonment tor life. He had been i
Tor ten years.
Miss Cordelia Keowu, Of OH
comfy, was watching by the bedsid
Of a dying friend. she lay down I
sleep for a few minutes before the FIR
and while asleep her clothing caugh
FIRE and she was so badly burned ths
she died day or two afterwards, say
1.-THE Hartford Herald.
The Princeton Banner says Ml
Marble has at his house quite cur
osity-a lamb that walks quite we
on its two fore feet. II was Dor
during the late cold snap, and /,
hind feet and a good portion Of il
hind legs were "frozeu off," de cat
riod it nome, cared for it, and is no,
bright and lively. 1t rises up, 'ba
anees itself OH its fore feet and pace
about very we'll indeed. Barnum hs
a 800 in soak for that lamb IL
lives to be hundred years old an
learns to pace and rack well.
The Hartford Herald reports tel
riblt affair. Mr.. Wiley Embrey Ii,
ed in Butler county with his family,
wife and ten children In the nigh
Mrs. Embrey awoke aud discovcre
, the house TO be on FIRE. She and
grown daughter each seized .sma
child and escaped. The father wen
TO the. stairs to call his children n
, above. butiust then the roof fell il
, destroying him. and seven childrer
between ,hs ages of four and twent
years. MIR, Elnbry had some none
! end tho fire is believed 70 have bee
the work Of incendiaries The, u
mains Of tho eight bodies were burio
in one coffin.