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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

we could better do without railroads
than our system of turnpikes. We
learned that their roads were built
generally by the counties giving from
$3.50 to $1,000 per mile, and the citi-
zens contiguous to the roads making
up the balance necessary TO complete
them. Talk to them about our fine
lands, and they reply your lands are
excellent, but YOU have no roads.
They do not understand how it is
that civilized people should be will
ing to live in such a county as this
without better roads. Neither can
we. We have a law authorizing our
County Court to aid in building turn
pixies, and they will act whenever the
people are sufficiently educated on
this subject to give the necessary in
structions. Continued agitation OF
the subject is the only way TO educate
public opinion up to the action point
Our roads and our present system Of
woodworking are stigmas and blot.
upon the intelligence and common
sense of our people. Ii we cannot
have pixies, let us at least adopt some
system for working more eff.
cient than the present slip-shod and
antiquated method.
j. DC,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

A Washington special to the Louis
vile Post says President Cleveland
recently expressed himself in the
following words;
"To make an efficient administration
we need experienced officers. There
will be few changes. AT least the
details of the administrator should
go on, and the changes which are
made should be made in regard Sc
quence of business; then there will be
no embarrassment 10 the transaction
of business, no sudden disturbance
Of interests of the people and Govern
ment. This can be accomplished by
taking up each individual question
as it arrives.
/ wish it understood, when an Off
Ger has been faithful, l do not think
it good policy to turn him out.
This will apply in political as well
as administration sense.
IfMr. Cleveland uttered these words
it is the first instance on record
where he has failed to keep his own
cousels.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

Mrs. Grant has given her consent
to w. II. Vanderbilt's proposition to
secure to the Government perpetual
possession of Gen. Grants war relics
and the souvenirs of his famous
around-the-world journey. The rel
les were part of the security for the
$4,000 loan that Mr.. Vanderbilt
gave Gen. Grant to help out the firm
of Grant " Ward, and became Mr.
Vanderbits property when Gen.
Grant confessed judgment for thC
$4,000 on December 6. Mr.. Van.
derbilt offered to deed the relics and
other property back to Gen. Grant.
but Mrs. Grant refused to accept the
offer. When he changed the offer to
a proposition to make her trustee OF
the relics, with the understanding
that they should become the proper
ty of the Government at Gen. Grants
death, she readily consented, and on
January 16 a deed was executed
transferring the relics to her.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

Speaking of the weather, Nit.
Washington, N. H., is experiencing a
really Indictment spell. The ther-
mometer Jan. 90 marked so degrees
below zero, one degree colder than
ever experienced before. At 8
o'clock the wind was blowing 100
miles an hour, as it had been doing
twelve hours. Sleep was impossible
during the night, the chimney of the
signal station having been blown
away and the mountains showing an
inclination to follow. Fortunately
for him, the fellow who predicted
"a remarkably mild January" is
dead and gone with the jaybird to a
country much warmer than ours,
poor thing.-Louisville Times.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

The Henderson News has been re-
elected city printer of Henderson.
EX-candidatc st. John is booked
fora temperance speech at Louisville,
Feb. s.
Jas. Lindea was brutally murdered
by VIM. Caskcy, in Wolfe County,
last week.
Capt. Smith Cook, of Hatton, Ky,
is rs years old, 7 feet 4 inches tall and
weighs 800 pounds.
A Republican newspaper is to be
started at Morgantown, Butler
county.
Stevens & Bakers tobacco barn,
near Midway, was burned Monday
night. Some insurance.
Tobc Hendricks has been arrested
charged with burning a bridge, Ill
Ballard county.
Joe Free shot and killed John
Patton, at Greensburg, at a dance
Saturday night.
A l5-ycar-old deaf and dumb negro
boy was killed by the cars at Paris.
His name was Alfred Williams.
L. ID. Baxter, of Nicholas, is the
fourth sheriff to settle in full with
the auditor for 1884.
Apost-ollice has been established at
Twin Oaks, Graves county, and JAS
A. Gary appointed postmaster.
Jno. w. Arnoll's tobacco barn was
burned near Versailles, Saturday
night, by incendiaries. Loss very
heavy; partially insured.
In a drunken quarrel at Winches
ter, Chas. Brhmback shot and KILLED
his friend B. f. Webb. Drumbac'
was arrested.
Mrs. NJ. j. Pottinger, recently APP
pointed notary public by Judge Sites
at Louisville, was the first female eX
aminer ever appointed in the state
On last Tuesday Gov. Knott commits
stoned a second-Miss Sallie NJ
Barclay, of Lexington.
The members of the mob that re
Gently lynched John Stapleton, ST.
at SaIyersville, have been held t
answer to charge of murder. !
turned out that Staplcton was in a
probability innocent of the murde
for which he was hanged.
Mrs. Carrie Winslow, of Newpor
, locked her two children in her roor
Sunday and strangled her S-year-ol
boy to-death with string and the
: crushed the skull and cut the throa
of her daughter, two years oldel
; She then cut her own throat, with
razor. When found the woman an
boy were dead and the little gin
weltering in a pool of blood. Sh
may recover, though she is in a yer
, critical condition. The mother wa
lately released from an insane asylul
and it is thought she was demente
: when the deed was done.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30
Our Roads.

Ed. SOUTH KENTUCKTAN:
During a recent visit to some OF
the Blue Grass counties of this State
we could but notice the difference be-
tween counties with good roads and
our own county without roads, al
least for a considerable portion of the
year. In these counties, even during
the severe weather we have had, the
people could, with little trouble, COM
fortably seated in their buggies or
carriages, meet for business at their
county seats or go wherever bust
ness or pleasure might call them, with
not a moiety of the exposure or
trouble necessary to get about here.
We have quite as good farming lands,
just as productive, and for some
crops more so, as lasting, as easily
cultivated; standing drouth just as
well. In fact with the single excep-
ton of growing blue grass, fully as
desirable for farming purposes as the
best of these counties. Still the fact
remains, that lands in these counties
are sought after and bought at prices
ranging from $50 to 500 per acre,
while our lands equally valuable for
every productive purpose are unsal-
able at half the price. What is the
reason? We could see nothing to
iutify this great difference in price,
except the universal system Of good
roads and somewhat better farm
houses. Talk with these people and
they tell you our roads are necessities,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30
HOpkinSville Retail Market
Corrected weekly by MCKEE 4 co.

Corrected weekly by MCKEE \ co.
FLoUR-Patent process, $3.50; choice xxx
best family $3.50;
CORN MRAL-Unbolted, soc; Pearl, or bolted
Sl.lO
BRAN-75c per owt.
PROVISIONS.
Forks to lOc net; &c gross.
Bacon-Clear sides, II to le' &c; hams, 10 tolic.
Sugar cured, l5c; shoulders, 10 to lie.
Lard-Country, 10 to lie; snowflake, lsisc.
GROCERIES.
CofIee-Choce, 10 to 1890; prime, l2'S to lSc.
Sugar-standard granulated, to DC; pow
dered, III to lsKe; coffee A, ~ to Sc; rural c.
~ to Sc; extra c, to Sc; New Orleans,
6Iac.
Molasses-45 to 75c.
syrups-i5 to 5Oc; kegs, LIS to $500,
-bushel barrels, S2.lj; 5-bushel, sl.G5.
Soap-Per box, White Russian, $i.i5; Bl1e In
dia, 1925; Irish, $3.50; S, b. $500.
$l.CO; 2-ib, lightweight, sl.CO.
Oysters-Per dozen, LIB cans, full weight,
$l2O; 2-ib, full weight SS.25; ID, light weight,
Sardinos-19 boxes, 25c; French, 35c; a boxes,
lOc; French, PC; l9boxes, Mustard, 1875 to q c
Nails-S3.CO lOd. 2Sc additional smaller sizes
Soda ~ to 10:
! Candles-lS to 90 C.
| Oils-Lari oil 70
Coal oil II to zoe; Turpontlne soc.
CANNED GOODS.
Corn, doz. $l.25 to LIS; Tomatoes 10 to 5;
Pine Apples 200 to $50; Pears $50; strawber.
res LOO; Blackbc1ios 1850 Peaches 2.OO to $50;
Pickle, per gal. 80.
Checse-FactOry l9,S to IS; Young American
Is to 20; \. \. Chedda 80 zoe.
Rice-7l5 to SO
1 Lemons CSC per doz.
Oranges 80 per doz.
Teas-Choice to Fancy Csc to LOO; Mixed to
good 80 to &c.
Chewing Tobacco-Greenyillc 81 to zoe,
Gravely 50 to TOc; stoncwall 40 to SOC. HAVANA
Clippings for smoking So to lc per package.
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Blackcyed Peas $500 to 2.25
Potatoes--lrish 5Oc;N Y. State Early Rose
l.5O bbl.- 10 bu.
Eggs 2Oc.
Nelson County Bourbon $50 GAL; Andersen
County Bourbon 800; Monarch Dayless 225
Tennessee-Wo0dson's make, Sour Mash 10
$50; Browns Robertson County l,5O to e.aj.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

There are new signs Oft disturb
ance in the Tennessee Legislature,
1t is something about a four-mile
law, which, to the best OF our infor-
nation and belief, prohibits a dog
from going within four miles of a
sheep. A caucus of the Democratic
members is to be called, and the
newspapers are all in wild state OF
eruption about it.-Louisville Times.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

Near Metropolitan, Mich, an old
trapper and Indian hunter, named
Tom Dugigan, was killed and eaten
by wolves, one night not long ago
lie was returning from hunting and
the wolves pursued him to within
two miles of his camp, when the!
overlooked and devoured him. Next
morning his closely gnawed bones
were found and thirteen dead
wolves lying near him, pierced by
his rifle balls, and his Winchester
rifle was lying by his side with one
chamber still loaded. The old fel
low had made a brave ard desperate
fight, before he succumbed.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

Lieut.. Melville, of arctic fame,
proposes to make another expedition
in search of the North Pole if some
body will furnish $4,000 to fit ont
the vessel. lie proposes to write the
name of his patron across the face
af the Polar Continent. He has
volunteers for every position connect
cd with the proposed enterprise.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

Clinton G. Wells, President of the
Island city Savings Bank, Galveston,
Tex, and member of a merchant
firm also, suicided Tuesday Oh ac-
count Of the failure of the bank, due
to over-checking by his firm. The
depositors will lose nearly every
thing. Many Of them are poor people
who had saved up small amounts for
ga rainy day,"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

James G. Blaine, Jr., threw bot
tie of ink, in a Boston hotel, at man
who wouldn't acknowledge that his
father was the greatest man in
America. He certainly exercised
more discretion in the use of ink than
his daddy ever did.-Dreckenridge
News.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

r. Y. Thomas, Jr., will begin the
publication of the Argus, at Central
City, Feb. 4th. 1t will be seven
column homemade, Democratic
paper. Thomas formerly made the
Grcenville Echo Il red hot paper and
we may expect to see the Argus take
rank at once with the best country
hrnnElinc
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

A fire in the Insane Asylum al
Indianapolis, Ind, Tuesday morning
before day was gotten under control
after $4,000 damage was done. There
were LOO patients in the main build
ing. The fire was in a detached
building and no lives were lost.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

The Oklahoma Boomers, who I'M
dertook to occupy the Indian Terrific
ny in defiance of the U. S. Army,
have been forced to terms. On last
Tuesday they agreed to leave and
took the nearest route for Kansas.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

Governor Knott steps into the
Cabinet arena, as it were, and Secre-
tary of state Nc Kenzie looms up in
the shadow for the United States
Senate. All thisis without Senator
Beck's permission.-Commercial.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30
Samples Of New Crop Lies

"a lady in town not long since
put gallon of cream in churn and
commenced churning it. She was
surprised in a few minutes to find
the churn running over. Part of il
was poured off and the churning
again commenced, butso the churn
was full again. After she had put in
about two hours hard work she gave
up the job. She then had six gallons
of butter-milk and no butter"
Greenville Echo.
A report comes from Royston, Ga,
to the effect that James Sherley crib.
bed his corn and left 1t uncovered
Rain came and swelled the corn. II
exploded, so to speak, some of the
corn flying thirty feet or more. One
of the ears struck negro, killing him
instantly,-CovingtonC Commonwealth.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

Official estimates made by the
government inspectors place the
amount of pccuniary damages
wrought by the recent dynamite
explosion in London, England, at
S70OOO.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

Marriage licenses issued to three
dozen couples, during this month, by
the County Clerk, as follows:
G. W. llelsley to Julia Ann Turner.
Jno. W. Watts to Ollie Spencer.
Harvey Riddle to Sarah j. Word.
VIM. V. Bronaugh to Mary Edmunds.
JAS. Y. Good to Della NJ. Woos!cy.
Finis E, Wells to Margaret e. Wells.
L. f. Griffin to Myra L. Jones.
e.. W. Chandler TO Mamie Pope.
VIM. {. Ennis to Lille d. Wiltshire.
w. &. l.. Quate TO Mrs. Mary S. Hall.
Geo. W. Grace to LUella a. Putnam.
Lafayette Hight 10 Minerva Lawrence.
Thos. W. Long TO Mrs. Minnie Trice.
Il. NJ. Nass to Matte Carroll.
Jno. \. johnson 10 Matte Kelly.
n. Il. Wright to May Hays.
Francis NJ. Long to Julia A. saddler.
dobe Crayens to Augusta rutt.
Samuel Keeling to Drllia DObbins.
j. +. lIaskins to Annie 5. Nixon.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

The officers of the Tennessee peni-
Tertiary have sued the Nashville Ban
her for 100000 for alleged libelous
comments on the interior manage
ment of the State prison.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30
COLORED.

Sam Robertson to Ann Owen.
Abram IlopsOn to Caroline Faulkner.
S. w. COlIman to Leila Whitlock.
Pleas Pinchem to Sophie Dulin.
Ned Rollins to Harriet Slaughter.
Edmund Moore TO Babe Watkins.
Harrison Gladdish to Rachel Dupey.
Moses Boyd to Dinah Watts.
Richard Cary to Susie West.
Edward Watson to Ella Barrett.
John Gray to Elyira Stanley.
Alfred Cason to Margaret Tandy.
Huston billiard to Ida Bell Carter.
Noble Bryant to Harriet Hopper.
Thos. Hinson to Ellen Campbell.
Moses Munford to Jane Fox.
Total .................. ...................
Combined total. ................ 500.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

In the United States Court at Gin
cinnati TuesdayJudge Baxter decided
the case of the Knights of Honor VS..
Breckenridge, in which $4,000 are
involved, in favor Of the plaintiffs.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

The Bowling Green Times says Mrs.
Lucky Romans, of Warren county, is
80 years old and in as good health
and as sprightly as most persons OF
sixty years.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30
The office of the Evansville Court
err is now lighted with electric light.

Mr.. Spencer Cooper will begin the
publication of the Herald at the
mountain town of Hazel Green,
Wolfe county, in a few weeks.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

The post-ofiice committee will re-
port favorably bill recommending
the reduction of newspaper postage
from 2 cents 10 cent per pound.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

IIFI n for working people, Send 10 cents
postage, and we Will mail you free,
nf a royal, valuable sample box OF
HLLI goods that will put you In the way
OF making more money in few
days than you ever thought posi-
BILE at any business. Capital not required. You
can live at home and work in spare time only
or all the time. All of both sexes, OF all ages,
grandly successful, 80 cents TO IS easily earned
every evening. That all who want work may
test the business, we make this unparalleled Of
fer: To all who are not satisfied we will send
81 to pay for the trouble Of writing lis. Full
particulars, directions, ETC., sent free. Immense
pay absolutely sure for all who start at once.
Dou't delay. Address STINsON & Co.. Port
land Maine. Dec296m.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30
TURNING OVER A NEW LEAA

Newstead, Ky, Jan. q, 'Sj,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-30

WHISKY.
Nelson County Bourbon $50 gal; Anderson
County Bourbon 800; Monarch Davless 22j;
Tennessee-WO0dsOn' make, Sour Mash Ice
$50; Browns Robertson County l.5O 10 e.95.
The Press., 1885-06-04
HUGO's STRANGE BELtEF.

Victor Hugo was always convinced that he would meet his friendsjin a future world. He was equally sure that he had always existed from the antediluvian times whea the Creator first placed him on earth He believed that he wonld exist forever, ina : mnch is he felt ill h.s soul thousands of hymns, dramas and poems that had never found expression. When the atheists would say to him: "The proof that you will not exist Ill the future is that you did not exist in the past, " Hugo would answer s'Who told you that I dld not-.exist in the past centuries? You will say that is the legend of the ages The D Jet has writte Life IS a fairy tale twice written He might have said thousand times written There is, not an age in which cannot find my spirit You do not believe in the doc. urine of surviving personalities for the req son that you do not recollcct your anterior existence But how can the recollection of vanished ages remain imprinted on you memory when you do not remember { thousand and one scenes and events O. your present. life? Since 1902 there have been 10 Victor Hugos in me. Do yol think that can recall all their actions anG all their thoughts {? The tomb is dark, and when l shall have passed the tomb t( l emerge into light once more all these Vic tor Hngos will be almost wholly strangers to me, ,but it will always be the same soul. l M. Viennel, wag, asked Hugo one day who was the greatest poet of his time
 whereupon Hugo dryly answered "Alfre, de Musset is the second greatest poet. ''- ] Paris Eig01'O.
The Press., 1885-06-04

|. The estimable and industrious wife of E0rlando E. Jones, the editor of that spright- | ly democratic paper the Bodie Evening
 Miner, is un applicant for postmistress
 of Bodie The saMiner, " in recent issue, quite characteristfcally sets forth her claims as follows :ssWhile we shall be nn- lswervingly democratic until reform shall ! have been accomplished, we assure the people of Mono county that the unscrupu-
 lo,ls office-hunter, of whatever political
 party, shall hereafter meet with no mercy at our hands., In this connection we desire to pay a tribute where it is merited :; there-
 fore the intelligent reader will pardon our
 naodesty. It is our svivacious' wife. Dur- ing three long, weary years, from 4, 5 and 6 o'clock in the morning until sometimes
 as late as II o'clock at night, has this lady
 stood side by side with us at the case and
 at. the press, and in the, performance of
 the multifarious other duties connected
 with the publication of the Miner In
 the darkest hours she has besn most cheer full and hopeful and earnest and industri- ous, and to her mental ability and physi- cal labors is largely dne the fact that the
 democrats of this district have an organ
 to-day. We are fully prepared to publish the tMiner, just as long as we please, and the Rodie Evening Miner wiHlbe regular ly issued until the last piece of machinery from the Standard nllll and mine is loaded on wagon and started ont of town, when we may be induced to. follow '-.Sasa
 F1'I5laiscO sssEIEG21ai7aeT.''
The Press., 1885-06-04

Detroit Journal A New York Sunday school teacher told her pupils that when they put their pennies into the contribu. ton box she wanted each one to repeat a bible verse suitable for the occasion. Tho first boy dropped in his cent, saying ''The Lord loveth cheerful giver." The next boy dropped his penny into the box saying s'He that giveth to the poor lend eth to the Lord" The third and young est boy dropped in his penny, saying "A fool and his money are soon parted"
The Press., 1885-06-04
K EEf. TT PURE.
The life is the B.0Od-- Prevent Disea se a Surgery the Last VesOrt--A Telf.
 ing Letter.

Here is fact for you to think over viz: Medical science proves that diseases. no matter how great variety they seem to have proceed from comparative ly few causes. It s for ths that single medicines relieve or cure so wide range of com- psains-soine of them appearing almost directly op- DO ite in thcr natures When medical prrparatOn acts at upon the digestive and urinary organs, and also purifies the blood th. sr of difficulties sub e't m it's control Is astonishing. lSut, while many t are said to possess this yer, those which uaiiy do exert it are very rare.
 It IS conceded that DR. KENNEDY'Sg gFAVORITE REMEDY. of kOnhOut, Y., is the most effective prrpar: now in use for all diseases arising from foul impure state of lc circulation Hence it is than likely that if tie writer the follow let r had habitually taken ''FAVORITE REMEDY" ten years ago. he would have suffer, from Cancer
 PITTsrIELD, MASS, March 22, 1884. Dr. D. Kennedy, Rsadout ". Y.: Ff-t3s <, Dear Sir:-About six years ago was obliged sort to external treatment for the removal of cerous growth on my lip. On my return home, be- came sensible that my blood needed Il thorough cleans ing My whole system, too, required tOning up. While casting about for the best medicine to do this | your .FAvORITE REMEDY" was go highly com mended in my hearing that resolved to try it. did so, and the result surprised me, it effected go quickly and completely. soon got the depIes- sion produced by the operatiOn and since the ..FA- VORlTE REM MEDY,' which have continued to take in small doses. has kept in such health and strength as never had before expected to have. It is the best blood purifier in the world. of that.
 Yours, &c., MATTHEW FARRELL. 24 Adams Street.
 In al cases whema consulta'i Dn is deemed desira- 1 ble, 51lT. 1 Address Dr. David Kennedy, Rondout N r. But, if you hay. not done so adopt ..FANOkTTE | REMEI)Yo household friend
The Press., 1885-06-04

POSITIVE CURE FOR PILEs.-To the people of this of Dr. Marchiss Italian Pile Ontment-emphatically guaranteed to Cure money refunded.-lnternal, External Blind, Bleeding Itching Piles. Price soc. box. No cure, no pay. For sale by w. D. lIeald,