Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-01-13
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

SloNeI roTh, HdrldH county,
The Messenger says Greensboro
has bonded debt of $43,500.
T. Il. Marshall, of Augusta, is a
candidate for Consul to Havana.
Dr.. Vaughn, ID. Howard Smith
and j. Ii. Parker all want to be PEN
sion Agent at Louisville.
The Mt. Sterling Gazette discards
the patent outside and begins the
New Year in an improved form.
At Greensboro Vim. Hester and
Miss Minnie Lander were married,
the bride being only ii years old.
The Local says six families, aggre-
gazing 80 souls, left Union county on
the same boat for Missouri last week.
The libel suit of A. Wolf against
the Courier Journal for $1,000 has
been decided in favor of the defend
ant.
An old man named John Staple
ton was lynched at Salyersville, Ma
Coffin county, because his son killed
a man.
JAS. Burton, an illegal whisky deal
er, was shot and killed at Mt. Vernon,
while trying to escape from a posse
of officers.
The defalcation of Scrugham, the
Lexington bank cashier, has been
found to exceed 100000 and may be
even more.
Major Reed has appointed j. Ii.
Whallen, of Buckingham Theatre
FAM, Chief of Police, of Louisville.
He succeeds Gen. T. II. Taylor.
Jno. Il. Gaines and E. II. Porter,
editors of the Times and Gazette. are
candidates for the Bowling Green
postofliee. Boys, keep out of politics,
The barns of N. w. Frazier, Gym
thiana and j. |. McGinnis, Eminence,
were burned by incendiaries Friday
night. Aggregate loss $1,000 above
insurance.
The Princeton Wooden Mills, own
ed by Myers & Wyatt, were burned
Friday night. The fire origina' ed in
the engine room. The loss was $35,-
00; insurance $4,000.
The truant school boys of the coun-
try press, who locked their readers
out during the holidays, have all re-
turned to their work, excepting two
or three who lost their books.
c. S. Oifutt, Paris; I. G. Bell, IIar-
rodsburg j. c. Wicklifie, Barsdtown;
j. M. Bigger, Paducah; &. S. Wall,
MaysviIle, and Jos. IIaycraft, Ovens
boro, are some of the applicants for
l.. s. District Attorney.
The Catlettsburg Democrat says
VIM. Meals father-in-law and his
wife are circulating a petition to
have Gov. Knott commute his death
sentence TO Imprisonment for life.
They met with poor success.
The body of Morris Goldsticker, a
young jew who died in Louisville
last week, was stolen by body-snatch-
crs. A detective was given the case
and found the body in the Medical
University and the students just in
the act of beginning their work of
mutilation. 1t was placed in vault
TO await the orders of Goldsticker's
mother.
j. II. kuttner, Dock Laws and G. |
G. Barbee, of Georgetown, held a
fifth interest in the ticket that drew
$4,000 in the Louisiana Lottery in
December. They were paid their
premium-$30,0O0. Kuttner and
Barbee have invested their shares in
a tobacco factory and a hotel in
Georgetown andLaws will buy farm
with his third.
The Baltimore Manufacturers Record
in its annual industrial review, shows
that 1865 manufacturing and mining
enterprises were organized in the
South during the past year, with the
enormous capital Of $l05,269,000
The most surprising and gratifying
feature of the review is the fact that
kentucky leads the list, with invest
ments of $21, 1852, 600 and 1877 new en-
terprises.-Ex.
A prominent real estate dealer tells
the Messenger that there is a greater
demand for small farms among the
young men of the county than was
ever before known. Young fellows
with from 5000 to $500 in there
pockets, who were never known to
have money before, are on the look
out for places of their own. This
proves what the Messenger has before
said, that the farming people have
been doing'exceedingly well in the
past year or two, and that there is
plenty of money in the county,
Greensboro Messenger