Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-17
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE

Harrodsburg Is to have a skating
rink.
A. $4,000 college is to be establish
ed at Mayfcld.
The Semi-Wcekly Union Local
grows better each issue.
A "faith cure hospital has been es-
tablished at Richmond.
j. W. Bell, of Shelbyville, has gone
to Holland to import a lot of Holstein
cattle.
In Nelson county a farmer named
Hardin Hill shot and killed his wife
on account ofjealousy.
The tobacco barn of. p. Chinn,
near Harrodsburg, was burned by an
incendiary one night last week.
VIM. NJ. Smiths residence at May
field was destroyed by fire last week.
Loss $4,000; insurance $500.
Mrs. VIM. Grinstead, of Somerset,
caught her dress on fire from an open
fireplace and was fatally burned.
Mr.. Lew Il. Brown, a reporter Of
the Louisville Times, was married
Wednesday to Miss Emma Struby.
Jesse Eastwood, of Boyd county,
has just been paid a back pension of
$l0,452.30 and given an order tor $72
a month during his life.
AT Mt. Sterling, Gertrude Evans,
a little daughter of Chas. Evans,
caught her clothes on fire and was
perhaps fatally burned.
John Graham, the English athlete,
defeated Duncan G. Ross in a wrest-
ling match in Louisville last week,
for 5000 side and the door receipts.
Mrs. Elijah Burdine, aged 80, was
burned to-death in Jassamine coun-
ty. She caught her clothing on fire
while standing near an open fire.
place.
Alta dance near Somerset, A. J.
llansforth shot and fatally wounded
Jas. Mulany, who was just out of the
penitentiary, having served 4 term
for murder. Hansforth pleads self
defense.
The wife and child of VIM. Dud-
geon, young Hart county farmer.
died last Wednesday and the young
man deliberately suicided by cutting
his throat. The three bodies were
buried in one coffin.
Richmond is excited over a matri-
monial sensation. Miss Lizzie Che
nault was announced TO wed Rev.
II. 7. Daniels on Thursday. The ex-
pected groom had engaged two min
listers to officiate and had bought
two tickets to New Orleans, but the
lady went back on him and the day
she was to have married Rev. Dan
iels, she welded Daniel Iarber, a
young farmer, instead.
Some enterprising people of Rich
mond, Ky, are taking steps to i'm
port a number of domestic labor
ers from England to serve as cooks,
house servants. etc. Lexington la
dies have imported English girls at a
cost of $36 each, to whom they pay
$6 Der month. The price of the pas
sage is being deducted from the wa
ges of the first year. In neatness Of
person, willingness to work and de-
votion to duty these English domes-
tics are said TO be unsurpassed.-Har-
rodsburg Democrat.
Wicklifle Journal: A singular
freak of nature is shown in the case
of Mrs Polly George, a lady well
known to many citizens, who lives
two miles from Milburn in this cOun-
ty. Mrs. G. is rs years old, the moth
er and the grandmother of a large
family in the county. During her
life she has cut and shed her teeth
twice, and now has commenced to
cut the third set, having cut four
teeth within the past mOnth-two
above and two below. She did also,
a little over year ago, shed her hair,
which was white with age, and it is
now replaced by a suit of black hair
with an occasional SILVER thread only.
In certain counties in Eastern
Kentucky scores of girls are SAID to
marry at the age of twelve or thir-
teen years, and by the time they
should first be thinking of sweet
hearts are often mothers of large
families. A recent traveller who
went through much of the country
on foot says that men, too, as soon as
they can raise cash enough to put up
a cabin and buy stuff enough to make
a living on if possible, are ready to
assume the duties, trials and cares of
married life, and many of them find
wives before their beard begins to
sprout, or before they know where
the money is to come from TO buy
food for the wedding feast.
Col. Thomas Buford, brother of
Gen. Abe Buford, and the slayer of
Judge Elliott, of the Court of APP
peals, died Friday morning at the
Anchorage lunatic asylum, after a
long illness of chronic disease. 1t
will be remembered that Buford shot
and killed Judge Elliott for render
ing an adverse decision against Bu-
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