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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27
He Won His Bet.



Marsh Davis, the comedian is tell
ing the following good one on him
self. lie says: "One Sunday morn
ing recently, while standing on the
post-office corner with Bill Gruber,
the latter remarked: "Marsh, I'll
give yol 81 for every white person
that passes along here in the next
half hour if you'll give me fifty
cents for every colorcd person that
passes" "You're foolish" said
Marsh Il know my biz said Bill
is it a go?' All right; start now,
said Marsh. Five white men came
along. Bill gave Marsh a flyer
Then three more and two ladies
Another five. Then two cOOns
Marsh gave Bill back dollar. Then
Marsh heard a band, a big colored
funeral turned into Fourth from
Race, and Marsh was bursted before
the procession was half through
Did Gruber know the route of this
procession
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27
The New Exemption Law.

The following is the full text Of
the new exemption law just passed
by the Legislature.
SEC. |. Be it enacted by the gen
eral Assembly of the Commonwealth
of Kentucky. That section 6, of arIi-
Gle ID, chapter SO, of the General Stat
utcs be, and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows, to
wit:
The following property shall be ex-
empt from execution, attachment.
distress or fcc-bill, against a bona
fide' house keeper 18th family res
ilent within this Commonwealth,
viz: two work beast or one yoke Of
oxen, if not on hand, other personal
property to the amount of $50: two
plows and gear, or in lieu of each if
not on hand, other personal property
to the value of 81 50; one wagon and
set of gear, or cart or dray if not on
hand, other personal property to the
value of $50; two axes, three hoes,
one spade, one shovel two cows and
calves if not on hand, other personal
property to the value of $25, in lieu
of each cow or COW with calf: beds,
bedding and furniture for each, suf-
ticient for family use one loom and
spinning wheel and pair of cards
all the spun yarn and manufactured
cloth manufactured by the famil!
necessary for family use zone cooking
stove and all cooking utensils; all the
table wore and cutlery on hand tOl
family use; on table; all books, not
to exceed $50 in value; two saddles
and their appendages; two brides
six chairs, or so many as shall not eX
coed $S in value; one cradle all thu
poultry on hand ; ten head of sheep
or, if not OH hand, other persona
property not to exceed - so in value
for each sheep; all wearing apparel
sufficient provisions, including bread
stuff and animal food, to sustain thu
family one year; if not on hand, 9th
cr personal property or growing crop
not to exceed $50 in value for eacl
member of the family; provendc
suitable for live stock, if not on hant
other personal property not to cxcce'
$40 in value; all washing apparatu
not to exceed $50 in value; one bu
rcau; one wardrobe one washstand
one gun, not to exceed $50 in value
all arms ammunition and equipment
of militiaman; one sewing machin
and all family portraits and pictures
SEC. 2. This act shall not tax
effect until the first day of june
1884, nor shall its provisions appl
as against any debts contracted bcfor
that date; bit for debts cDEtracte
before that date the present excmp
ton law shall apply.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27
CLUB LIST.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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WEEKLY SOUTH KENruCKIAN circulates. Give
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igibly, without needless comment or rhetorical
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Use but one side of the paper and write as often
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of
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27
YENTILATING RAILWAY CARS.

Everybody who has travelled by rail-
in winter has suffered from the horrible
ventilation, or rather the want of venti-
lation of, the ordinary passenger car.
It is to all cause of great annoyance
and suffering, and to many of serious
illness, If not permanent ill health. A
gentleman of this city, who travels a
good deal, has hit upon an effectual
means of relief from the evil. He states
it as follows:
"When 1 find the air in the car be-
coming oppressive, I listen for the loco
motive to give the signal of our APP
proach to station. AS soon as l hear
the whistle, I take my station at the
rear end of the car, and watch for the
conductor or brakeman to make his ap.
pearance, as I know he will presently
do. at the other door in the front end.
As he opens the front door, open the
back door. The motion Of the train in,
stantly causes the cor to be flushed anG
swept by a food of outer air. In five OIL
ten seconds-just while the doors are
casually open-all the foul air is ex
PEELED, and the car is filed with pure
cool, fresh air from without. When thu
conductor shuts his door, I shut mine
IF somebody squalls out for the door t.
be shut, promptly beg pardon anc
shut it. Meantime the business hai
been done, and all arerelieved and bene
fted. I repeat the trick at every sto
ion or two, or as often as is necessary
md nobody so far as 1 know has eve
suspected the design" 1t works like
charm, and have escaped, in this way
many a cold and sore throat, and many
hours of half suffocation and suffering.
Indianapolis Herald.
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"Girls these days hain't at all like
they usel to be in old times. All they
seem to think about now is dressing,
remarked grandmother Goodheart
Sunday evening. Wonder if the old
ady had reference to the of days Eve
State Journal.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27
TIE IDIOT Earl OF DRUMLANR1a.


Connected with the Dukes residence
IN Queensberry House, against which
the whole fury and maledictions Of the
mobs were directed at the time Of the
Union, there is a tale of awful mystery
and horror. His eldest son, James Earl
Of Drumlanrig, is simply stated in the
DID peerages "to have died young" 1t
is now proved, however, that he was an
IDIOT of the most wretched kind, rabid
and gluttonous as wild animal, and grew
to an enormous stature, as his leaden
and unornamented coffin in the family
vault at Durisdeer attests at this day.
This monstrous and unfortunate Great
ure was always confined in a ground
floor room OF the western wing Of
Queensberry House and "till within
these few years the boards still remained
by which the windows of the dreadful
receptacle we're darkened to prevent the
idiot from looking out or being seen."
On the day the Treaty OF Union was
passed all Edinburgh crowded to the Vi
cinity of the Parliament House to await
the issue of the final debate, and the
whole household of the Duke-the High
Commissioner-we thither en- masse
for that purpose, and perhaps to prevent
him from being torn to pieces by the
exasperated people, and among them
went the valet whose duty was to watch
and attend the Earl of Drumlanrig.
Hearing all unusually still in the vast
house, the latter contrived to break out
Of his den, and roamed wildly from
room to room, till certain savory odors
drew him into the great kitchen, where
little turnspit sat quietly on q stool
by the fire. He seized the boy, took
the meat from the fire, stripped and
spitted him, and he was found devouring
the half-roasted body when the Duke re-
turned with his train from his political
triumph, to find dire horror awaiting
him. "The common people, among
whom the dreadful tale soon spread, in
spite of the Dukes endeavors to sup
press it, said that it was judgmentupon
him for his odious share in the Union.
The story runs that the Duke, who had
previously regarded his offspring with
no eye of affection, Immediately ordered
the creature to be smothered. But this
is a mistake; the idiot is known to have
died in England, and to have survived
his father many years, though he did
not succeed him upon his death in I'LL,
when the titles devolvce upon Charles, a
younger Enthusiastically Old and
| NeD,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27

Miss Prudence Tompkins, a Gin
cinnati girl undertook to walk back
wards down stairs. She rolled to
the bottom at the first step, and, with
a display Of Prudence rarely ever
seen, gave UP the job.-Glasgow
Times.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27

Mr.. S. A. Young, Of lIend crson,
has been commissioned Colonel by
Gov. Knott.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27
FOR SALE.

/ have for sale a very desirable
house and lot on South Main street,
in Hopkinsville. The house has
rooms, with a good cellar and all
necessary out-buildings. The lot is
large enough to be divided. The To-
cation is one Of the best in the city.
W. w. TWYMAN,
IF 26tf] Hopkinsville, Ky
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27

The stock of the Dayiess and Ohio
county fair companies is worth 2596
premium.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27

books from those recommended by
the State Board of Education, and 10
change shall be made for five years.
| County Courts may make an appro-
priation for supplying indigCnt
children with books. A text book
on the laws of health is required TO
be used.
There are many other minor
charges. The leading educators Of
our country look upon the new law
as a vast Improvement. 1t certainly
adds considerably to the school fund.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27

RREA MONTH and BOARD for three live
POoGoung Men or Ladies' in each county.
Address +. W. ZIEGLER n Co, Philadelphia,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-05-27
K I d A II,

4 good second hand Mccormick Binder, aud
twO-horse wagon, cheap. VIII be sod LIST
Monday June on credit Of 90 days il desired,
&. W. SMITHSON,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-28

to national and only incidentally to local
affairs; and the greater should, as a
matter of regularity at least, control or
direct the latter.
1t is the most supreme folly for a
small organization in a limited COM
munity to even attempt to designate
what the qualifications for membership
in great national organization shall be.
The formation of clubs is proper enough,
because they tend to discipline and regul-
arity; but for them to attempt to or
take from the grand articles of faith
upon which the structure as a whole
depends, is like King Canute sitting in
his chair at the seaside and
Commanding the tide to recede.
A Democratic club should be
Democratic club and nothing more
or less. 1t has no right to go further or
do more than simply to require of its
members fealty to the party in its ma
tional sense, any interpretations of a
social or religious nature which the
peculiar views and rancorous discon-
tent of some of the members may
prompt them to advocate, being SO
much for themselves and nothing for
the body of the party.
Let US have Democratic clubs by all
means; the more the better. But
Democracy means more than mere
name, and its principles can neither be
controlled nor overcome by a mere
handful of factious malcontents here
or elsewhere; it grasps the whole situa-
ton, or it grasps nothing.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-28
Farms For Sale.

- 500. A nice place-fve acres OF
ground and a house in Sugarhouse Ward
young orchard; cheap.
10 900. A bargain. Four acres of fine
farming land in Sugarhouse Ward.
~ 1900. A fine orchard on the State
Road, 215 acres.
Ia 100 an acre for rs acres of fine cm-
tlvated land ON the Jordan, only ~ miles
from Main street.
IL 1000. Twenty acres of good farm
land, Is acres in lucern, will exchange for
city property.
~ 1880. A nice farm of thirtv-four
acres across Jordan; fine place; two good
houses and barn. all under cultivation, ex-
cept a small piece of pasture land.
A LSO a number of good farms at easy
perry.
Houses to Rent.
A nice new four room brick house, neatly
furnished, on Second South street, with Civ
water; rent cheap.
A five room adobe house. full furnished
for housekeeping, on Seventh East street,
with City water; q neat place.
Two rooms close by, for light housekeep-
ing, neatly furnished
A nice large house on Main street, in a
choice location.
A new FIVE room brick cottage on Fifth
South. '"
Two rooms furnished for light housekeep-
ing, on Second West street.
FURNISHED rooms near Catholic Church.
Finely furnished rooms close by.
A four room house and summer kitchen.
on Sixth South street; cheap.
An eight room house, half block from
Main street.
-, Three rooms in brick house, on First
West street.
Four rooms in Seventh Ward, brick house,
cheap.
IL We have also long list of houses
for rent in all parts of the city. Call on US
before renting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-28
REPUBLICAN TRICK.

Postmaster-Gen Hatton is re
ported as saying that the President and
his Cabinet have hit upon a plan by
which they expect to do much in the
way of bene6ting their party and at the
same time injure the Democrats. The
scheme IS to appoint Republicans to
every office, and where the term is
within year of expiration the incum-
bent is to be reappointed, SO that com
missions will run as long as possible.
Advantage is to be taken of the civil
service law, which makes it difficult to
remove certain officials, to handicap
President Cleveland for a considerable
portion OF his term with Republican
officials. Mr.. Hatton may talk without
authority, but the fact that he talks at
all tells plainly enough that the admin
istration has been thinking of the mat
ter, and the other fact that President
Arthur is making many nominations
nowadays, suggests that he is acting
upon the Cabinet resolution. Under the
it is fortunate that COM
paratively few executive officials come
within the operation of the civil service
law. President Cleveland may suffer
from annoyance through the malicious
ness and trickery of the present admin
istration, but it cannot amount to
enough to bring failure to the reform
policy that will be inaugurated after
March 4th.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-28

A GOOD thing is always good, no mat
ter how close to home it hits. During
the late campaign in New York, some
witty Republican made hit which has
not been told about in print. Just after
the Ohio election in October, the Cleve-
land barbecue took place in Brooklyn,
and was grand affair, as our tele-
graphic account of the time told; on
the return of the New York City con-
tingent to the barbecue participants.
they were greeted by placard near the
City Hall, bearing the ominous words !:
&" You may roast your OK, but Ohio has
cooked your goose" 1t wasn't true,
but it was good, and the Democrats had
to laugh with the Republicans at the
wit of the latter.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-28
DEMOCRACY.

THE HERALD is, as it always has been
and hopes ever to be, an advocate OF
the advancement of young men IN po-
litical, legal, social, ecclesiastical and
general information. If its endorsement
of any movement looking to any such
end may be the means of aiding ,encour-
aging or advancing, it viii be given
freely, at all times and under all proper
circumstances. But tlse mere fact that
a combination whose principal claim
to public support is the assumption of
a name which its precepts and declared
principles do not sustain, is no reason
Ehy we should "toss the ready cap in
AR or lift the voice in servile shouts" at
the mere parade of the effigy. There is
a great deal more in the ele-
ments comprising the undestroyed
and 1ndestructibIe Democracy than
is dreamed of by young men
who seem to look upon a name as
all that is necessary to right wrongs and
remedy evils. Democracy refers directly
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-28
FRUITLEss DISCUSSION.

The cattle men might as well cease
the discussion of the proposition adj
vanced by some and opposed by others
that the public lands be leased at a
nominal rental. The public lands have
been squandered so lavishly upon indi-
viduals and corporations during Repub-
lican misrule, that no Congress would
dare entertain the proposition noted.
All the cattle men in the country, with
all their cattle on the thousand hills,
their money and their influence, could
not bride, coax or threaten Congress
into giving up any more of the public
domain to the injury of the people
who are beginning to make it
felt that they have right
in the soil that even the ma
tionallegislature must not barter away.
The discussion that has been aroused
by the action of the st. Louis convention
is proftless, for nothing can come from
it, save the stirring up of ill-feeling, and
that is worse than profit
less. Monopolists and big monied cor
porations and associations have had
their day in Congress; they
have ruled and robbed for years.
and grown fat and saucy on
the nations generosity but a change has
come over the people and they have de-
termined that a new order must be
instituted, and Congress will heed the
people rather than the rich and grasp
ing who are ever reaching out for more.
THE HERALD is good enough prophet
to feel confidence in the prediction that
the cattle kings who expect to lease
government land Will be disappointed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-12-28
No Soap Given Away

With Spanish Clippings" Smoking To.
bacco. as when once tested it will sell
without premiums thrown in, +" and the
price, SOC. per pound, is within the reach
of all. For sale by
SAM LEVY,
Cigar Manufacturer.
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Houses and Lots For sale

Houses and Lots For sale.
| ~ 700. A new two room rustic house
adobe lined, summer kitchen, well, lot 2x1C
rods, Eleventh Ward
E% $50. A good stone house of -four
rooms, and 3x10 rods of ground, on First
| South street.
~ 500. A two room rustic house and
3119x10 rods of ground, in the Eleventh Ward.
| EEf- $50. A new rock and brick house,
| three rooms, cellar and stable lot S13X10 rods,
| Twenty-frst Ward; very cheap place.
~ 600. good two room rustic, adobe
lined house and rock cellar; lot 215x10; cheap;
good garden; Eleventh Ward.
E- 300. A neat, new rustic house of
two rooms and 213x10 rods of ground, on
Tenth East.
EG- $50. New two room brick house
hard finished and built in frstclass style,
2x10 rods of ground, close to Brigham street.
IL 300. A two room adobe house and
nice garden under cultivation and 3x6 rods
of ground, on Captain Hooper's street.
IL 100. Two room frame house, with
two porches and in good order; lot 315x6
rods; very cheap; Nineteenth Ward.
~ 5000. new brick house of nine
rooms, very close to the business centre, with
2x9 rods of ground and the right of carriage
road; house cost $500 to erect; good bar
rs 1000. A good five room adobe
house, barn, ETC., and 4x10 rods Of ground,
two blocks from Main street, in Seventh
~ 1900. A FIVE room rustic house,
buttery, etc, with plenty of fruit trees and
5xlO rods of ground, cheap, on Seventh East
street.
E~ 1000. A new six room brick house,
large cellar, good orchard, lot 3x1O rods, in
the Ninth Ward.
~ 2,25O. A nice four room brick
house and 5x10 rods of ground, all well i'm
proved, on First South street, Eleventh Ward
ER- LOGO. A fine 5x5 corner lot and
four room adobe house, on Third South
street, Twelfth Ward.
~ 1850. A new three room adobe
and frame house, a good barn, 1Oxl2 store
etc, and 5xl0 rods of ground, in the Second
Ward.
Ia 1900. A nice place on State Road,
new brick house offour rooms and Outhouses
very convenient, lot 3x712 a bargain and
5x1O rods OF ground on Brigham street
~ $500. a new brick house of six
rooms, bath room, cellar and basement, two
story, occupies 23X32' lot 4x10; very cheap;
house cost s., 900 to erect.
IL 400. Adobe house of four rooms.
barn, cellar, granary, well, ETC., on car line,
corner lot, 5x5, all in frst-class order, in the
Eleventh Ward.
~ 1850. An adobe house of five
rooms, good cellar, barn and spring only %
blocks from Main street, lot5X20, EighthWard,
on car line.
WE have a long list of properties at this
w office that we cannot publish for want
of space, but will be pleased to show you on
calling.
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