Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-03-11
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

BANS Oh WV --hNh iho's
The Greensboro Messenger collected
nearly 500 for the flood sufferers.
Hon. Matt Adams has entered
upon the duties of the Registers Of
flee.
Stock will not be allowed to run at
large ON the streets of Cadiz in the
future.
L. w. Graves, a prominent citizen,
dropped dead of apoplcxyyat Lexing-
ington.
The Elkton Register has been great
ly improved by the adoption ola pat
ent outside.
A COW bell has been found in Madi-
son county with the date l772 en-
graved upon it.
r. Y. Thomas, Jr., late editor of
the Muhlenberg Echo, will practice
law in Greenville.
Richmond has abandoned the
standard time and set her town clock
forward % minutes.
DR.. Bullock, of Lexington, has been
chosen by DR.. Blackburn to be SUI
perintcndent of his private Asylum
to be started at Louisville.
DR.. Juo. d. Woods has sold his in
terest in the Bowling Green Gazette
to Mr. L. III. Porter the former editor,
and will move ~ Frankfort.
Humphrey Crittenden, COL, has
been sentenced to hang for the MUIR
der of Geo. Hutchinson, COL, at George
town, last October. lie is % years
old.
Mrs. Stevens, of Auburn, has just
completed a "crazy" quilt with
1929 pieces in it and Miss Lettie
Helm, of Stanford, has made one with
1880 pieces.
The Stanford Journal is twelve
years old. 1t has been a scmi-wcek-
ly for three years and is one of the
most prosperous and influential pa
pers of the state.
The Paducah journal will suspend
publication for few weeks to recov-
er from the effects of the late flood.
1t will resume again as soon as the
Legislature adjourns and Col. McCar-
ty can return to Paducah to look
after it.
On the Goth of January, Mr.. Theo.
Brussel lost q shoat. Twenty days
later, on February 10, the animal was
found imprisoned under rick of
straw which had toppled over. The
porker was greatly reduced i'll flesh,
and when released manifested mar
velous appetite, but is now very
thrittly.-Lebanon Standard.
A young man named Scott was APP
pointed depot agent at little station
on the Gu O. road in Robinson
county and the citizens took him out
and whipped him severely and o.
dcred him to leave Immediately.
The reason assigned was that they
wanted his predecessor to remain
an intended to have him or no one
at all.
At Grcenville VIM. Young has
sued the G. o. II S. w. railroad for
$1,000 for eiecting himself and wife
from a train between Greenville and
Central city year ago. Young offer
ed in payment of his fare thousand
mile ticket, which had been issued to
: him by the Louisville, Paducah X
. Southwestern railroad before that
road was purchased by the c., o. Il
S. w. railroad. The conductor re-
fused the ticket and put him of, but
it has since been accepted as fare, Mr.
Young and family having ridden
| everal hundred miles on it. The
| petition alleges that as the c., o. & s.
D w. Railroad Company are entitled
/ to the franchises of the old road they
| are also bound to fulfill all its obliga
= tons prior to the time of the consoli
= datiOn.
y The CalhOon Courier severely rep
rimands the young ladies and young
, men of that town for misbehaying il
church. 1t says Gin point Of fac
: that it is the rule and not the cxccp
Z ton that the Calhoon young peopl
) conduct themselves in a manner NOR
l. becoming semi-barbarians, than edu.
: Gated, well-bred. civilized people in {
Il peaceful christian community. X X
{ The Courier will make it poin
hereafter to fasten the blame upol
those who should properly bear il
Y and if the exposition of their conduc
o proves Intellectual, the grand jury's at
y tention will he called to the matter
p Though we are entirely unacquaint
d G | with any of the parties engaged j
J. this giggling, squirming, ETC., it i
n safe to say their eyes set very clos
J. together while their ears are tryin
1t to meet over the top of their heads.
Hzzzz.A AznznM@n
> 1t begins to look ike Jno. A. Ii
" gan, of Illinois, is to be one of I'll
most formidable Republican cand
dates for the Presidency. His force