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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02

There's boat down at Catfish Bar
that'll be here in less than an hour"
There was Il crowd standing around
and of course everybody yelled and
two-thirds Of the town put on its hat
and rushed down TO the lcvcc to see
the first boat come in. Hour after
hour passed by and the crowd SWELL
cd to large mass meeting, all anX-
iOus to see the first boat of the sea-
son. After awhile her lights could
be dimly seen around the point, NOV
ing very slowly against an icy cur
rent. The crowd watched her as
she struggled bravely up, lodged a
big cake of ice and headed toward
the channel again. 1t was a trying
time for those who stood there and
watched, most every one having a
large or small bet on the result. All
kinds of jokes and jccrs were swapp-
cd as the crowd stood there in the
chilly April night till nearly eleven
o'clock. Just before that hour the
steamer staggered back and steadily
lost ground, till finally she slowly re-
versed her engines; then, when she
could get room, she IDENTITY turned
about and went down the lake to
Prescott, and did not get up 10 llud-
son for three days.
So Platte lost his $ll pair of boots
and s. in cash, to say nothing of the
large sum that it cost him to keep
the town quiet enough so that he
could live in it.
hope that all Young men who
read this, and who may, at times, be
tempted to bet their money upon any
thing will call to mind this sad Incl
dent and firmly refuse to do so.
Who hath woe? Who hath sor-
row? Who hath redncss of the eyes
Who weareth his old last winter
clothes all summer? lie that look.
eth upon the straight flush when it
moveth itself Alright. lie that goeth
to seek the jack pot. lie that goetl
to seek sucker that he may
pick him up and skin him. Behold,
he himself also shall be skun.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02
J.E. LOCKWOOD,
Kansas City, Mo.
Or, II. D. ELLIS, Ticket Agent,
81 Madison Street, Memphis, Tenn
A Poets Soorn.
Address,

A tramp walked into a warehouse
on water street Friday morning,
went up to the Office window, pokcd
his head through, and said to the
proprietor of the store:
81 am Victor Hugol Look at me
well. | have been in two hundred
and eight battles and never received
a scratch"
although victor, Hugo somewhere
and soak yourself, will your" said
the proprietor.
After staggering few feet, the
tramp turned around and said
"fhat settles it, boss. was intend
ing to ask you to 1end me a dollar,
but a respectable man that can talk
to a soldier like that is worthy of my
contempt" And before the proprie-
tor could give him the twenty-dollar
gold piece he had in his hand, the
tramp had segregated toward apea-
nut stand.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02
- .
He Hedged.
Bill Nye, in New York Mercury. !

Dll NNt, III tNCN lOlh 4ltlCulg
Betting is certainly a bad practice,
and whether disastrous directly
or indirectly, it is sure to play smash
with the better and bettee before the
wind-up.'
Years ago, when the railroads had
not reached the northwest and all
travel and commerce came up the
Mississippi from ST. Louis to St.
Paul and other northwestern cities,
the opening of navigation in the
spring was a great day. When a
large city stood almost idle all win
ter, living on the profits Of the pre-
vious summer, the date when she
would resume business in the spring
was of great importance to her.
Therefore with much anxiety ev-
cry one looked forward to the time
when the ice would go out Of Lake
Pcpin and revive the dormant bust
ness. Along in January and Febu-
AIRY everybody got to betting on the
day when the first boat would get up
to ST. Paul or some other northern
point.
AT Hudson, of course, it was the
same, though we had to take some
chances on the opening Of Lake st.
Croix, OH whose banks Hudson
stands.
One winter, Coon and Platte got
TO betting on various things to kill
time, and finally wound up with a
bet on the arrival of the first boat at
Hudson. They were partners in a
large grain elevator on the lake, and
Platte wanted to bet pair Of $l4
boots that the first boat wouldn't ar
rive there before the Goth of April.
Coon took the bet and time passed
on.
On the 10Th of April no boat had
arrived and Platte began to feel sure
Of his boots. There was no tcle-
graphs then, and so there was no
way to get at the river news till late,
everything in the way of news COM
ing slowly up through the Big
Woods by stage.
On the afternoon of the 10Th,
Platte went up in the cupola Of the
warehouse with spyglass, ostensi-
bly, to look over some fife wheat, but
really to see what he could see down
the lake. About sunset he saw a
little steamer round the point at Cat
fish bar, four or five miles below, and
sticking the spyglass into a dark cor
ner, he went down and hunted up
Coon, who was on the street up town.
lie then, by easy stages, drew him
into conversation on the subject of
the opening of spring navigation.
"Tell you what I'll do. Coon,
you've got about four or five hours
left yet, and if no boat comes in be-
fore the times up, the $l4 boots are
mine"
Looks that way, Of course" said
Coon, "but there's still chance left"
eyes, there's chance, but an in
formally slim chance. What will
you take for your bet, Coon"
"Oh, | don't know. Probably I've
got one chance in three. I'll take IS
for my bet"
Enough said. Here's your IS.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02
The New Governor Of Alaska.



Mr.. A. p. Swineford, the newly
appointed Governor of Alaska, is not
a poet, but he is Michigan editor.
lie does not know a chOrrambic bal
lade from pentametcr idyllic, but
he has penned tones of scholarly and
thoughtful editorials on the peach
crop, and can tell you to fraction
how many shingles and how much
sawdust can be got out of a pine log
measuring forty feet in length and
five feet in circumference lie is
just the man TO send 10 Alaska. In
less than three months he will have
the biggest saw-mill and the finest
peach orchard in that hyperborean
Territory. A man capable of such
practical accomplishments is of much
more value to our diplomatic service
than would be man who spent his
time lollinS around on beetling ice
bergs and penning sonnets to the
aurora borealis or iambic triolets to
the dreamy fliphop of the succulent
seal.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02

The "Yellow Tiber" rolls its mud
dy waters through the City of Rome,
al times overlooking the lower part
of the city. 1t breeds malaria and
impenls the health of all who visit
the city. Browns Iron Bitters will
conquer malarial fevers quicker and
more thoroughly than any other rem
edy. Mr.. Enos Hite, 80 Court Street,
indianapolis, says, at cured me OF
chills and fever after all else had
failed"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02


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Heart Pains.
palpltation, Dropsical Swcllings, Dizziness,
indigestion, Headache, Slccplcssucss cured by
"WcllS Health Rcncwcr.'
"Rough on Corns."
Ash for Wells though on Corns." l5c Quick
cnmp'ctc cure. Hard or soft corns, warts
buniOns.
"Buchu- Paiba."
Quick. complete cure, all Kidney. BLADDER
and Urinary Diseases, Scalding. Irritation,
Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of the Bladder. 81
Druggists.
Bed-Bugs, Flies.
Flies, reaches, ants hcdbugs, rats. mice
goph"rs, chipmunks, Cleared out by Trough
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Thin People.
"Wclls Health Renewcr' restores health and
ygOr, cures Dyspepsia, Impotence, Sexual De-
bility. 81.
"Rough ON Pain"
Cures cholera. collie, cramps, diarhWa, aches,
pains, sprains, headache, neuralgia, rhCuma-
tism. zoe. Rough on Pain Plastcrs, Ice.
Mothers.
II you are failing, broken. worn out and
nervous, Use wells Health Remover" 81.
Druggists.
Life PrcserVer.
ltynu are losing your grip on life, try
"Wcls' Health Remover" Goes direct to
weak spots.
though on piles"
Cures Piles or llemorrhoids, Itching Prolrud-
ing bleeding, Internal or other. Internal and
External Remedy In each package. Sure cure,
soc. Druggists.
Pretty Women.
Ladies' who would retain freshness and vi
vaclty, don't fail To try wells Health Renew
er."
Rough ON Itch"
"Rough on Itch" cures mmors, eruptions
ringworm, letter, salt rheum, frosted feet, chill.
blans.
Rough on Catarrh."
Corrects offensive odors at once. Complete
| cure Of worst chronic cases, also unequHl a,
garglc for Diptherla, Sore Throat Foul Breath
Soc.
The Hope of the Nation.
Children, slow in developments puny
sorawny and delicate, use "Wolls' Health Re.
| newer
Catarrh of the Bladder.
Singing irritation, Inflammation, all Kidney
and Urinary complaints, cured by "Buchu
Paiba.n 81.
water Bugs, Reaches"
"Rough on Rats" clears them out also Bee
ties, Ants.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02
ssNIWEEELY SOUTH EENEvGKIAS,
NASHVILLE STREET.
HOPKINSVILLE, KENTUCKY.
CLUB LIST.
We will furnish the following papers and pc
riodicali with the SEMI WEEKLY SOUTH KEN
Tennyson's Latest.
THE FLEET.


(Oh ITS Reported Ine6cency.)
You, you, il you have failed to understand,
The fleet OF England is here all in all,
On you will come the curse of all the land.
II that old England fall
Which Nelson left 50 great.
This isle, the mighticst naval power on earth,
This one small isle the Lord of every sea;
Poor England what would all these votes he
worth,
And what avail thine ancient fame OF free,
Were thou fallen State?
You, who had the ordering OF her fleet,
II you have only comprised her disgrace,
When all men starve, the wild mob's million
feet.
win kick you from your place;
But then too late, too late.
TENNYsON.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02
Thew are Not Sorry.

There is one thing nobody ever
regrets-that is, the day they first
adopted Parker's Tonic as their regu-
lar family medicine. Its range is so
wide, and its good effects so sure, that
nothing else, except good nursing, are
needed in a great majority of cases.
Buy it, try it, and afterwards it will
not require any praise from us.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02
Papa's Pet Names for a Pair.
From The Texas siftings. /

From The Texas siltmgs.T
$50 You have got twins at your
house,"
Yes, maam, two of 'cm."
"What are you going TO call them
"rhunder and Lightning"
"Why, those are strange names to
call children!"
"Well, that's what pa called EN- rs
soon he heard they were in the
house"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02
Are You Going to Kansas
Missouri, Colorado, Cali
fornia or Any of The
Western States?

Ifyou should avail yourself Of the
advantages that are now offered by
the Kansas City Route, the only d.
rect route from the South to the
West and Northwest. This line runs
its entire trains, with Pullman Palace
Sleeping Cara and free Reclining
Chair Cars, from Memphis to Kan
sas City, saving many hours time
over any other route. If you are 60
ing you will save money by purchas-
ing your tickets via Memphis and the
Kansas City Route. Send for large
map of this Short Route mailed free,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02

m nm AAnm presents gwen away.
Will IlIIIISend Us cents postage. and
AItIl IlllIIhy mail you will get free
WL JIJIjtllIpackage OF goods OF large val
ne, that viii at once bring
you In money faster than any
thing else in America. All about the 500 900 in
presents with each box. Agents wanted every
where, Of either sex, Of all ages, for all the time
or spare time only, to work for us at their own
homes. Fortune for all workers absolutely as
sured. Don't delay, II. HALLETT Co., Port
land. Maine. Dcc236m.
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Clears out rats, mice, reaches, nies ants, bed
bugs.
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Rough on Corns."

Palpltation, Dropsica Swcllmgs, Dizziness
indigestion, Headache, Slccplcssucss cured by
"WcIlS' Health Remover"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-06-02

Ash for Wells "Rough on Corns" l5c. Quick
cpmplctc cure Hard or soft corns, warts,
buniOns.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
REFORM IN WOMEN'S DRESS.
What Boston Has Recently Evolved 1
That Interesting Line.

What Boston Has Recently Evolved In
That Interesting Line.
Speaking of unseen features of fem
mime toilets, Boston has evolved some
thing in that line. The dress reform
committee of that city are the authors
of what they call the corset-abolishing
underwear One of their enthusiasts,
Abby Gould Woolson, has brought
some of the articles to New York
for missionary purposes. She showed
them to an invited gathering yes
terday and l noticed that very
adroitly the girl who acted as a figure
model on which to exhibit them was a
Slim wasted creature, who might as
well go without corsets as not, SO good
were her natural outlines.
The outfit consists of three garments,
viz. A balmoral skirt, composed of a
deep princess waist reaching to the
knees and joined there to broad,
straight iiounce; then a suit of white
cotton cloth or muslin, shaped loosely
to the form by vertical seams and
terminating in sleeves and drawers.
With one thickness of smooth cloth the
latter garment covers the entire body
from chin to wrists and ankles. Final
ly, beneath this, wooden undersuit,
woven upon the same model, and, like
the chemiloon, buttoned down the en-
tire front. An underskirt of fitting
make may be buttoned either to the
balmoral or chemiloon, and to the inner
side of the latter the stocking support
ers are attached.
Thus equipped with four garments
a union undersuit, princess petticoat
and princess dress-you have not a
belt in your whole attire nor a bit Of
gathered fullness, save what is found in
the skirt hounce. A lift from the
shoulders meets resistance only from
the tops of the stockings, so loosely
worn and connected is your entire garb.
Summer dscards the flannel undersuit
and reduces the number of garments TO
three. Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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probably feeling hurt at the innuendo
thus anonymously conveyed to her,
although an intelligent and accom-
plished young lady and very much at
tached to her batrothed lover, sho be-
came respondent and in her despair
took laudanuu and was a corpse on the
day following her reaching Philadel-
phia. Mr. Buchanan requested per-
mission to attend the funeral as chief
mourner, but was rudely refused. Being
a man of ardent affection and entirely
devoted to mis- betrothed, Mr.. Buchan-
ans mind was nearly unhinged at the
sudden calamity which had befallen
him, so much so, indeed, that his
friends became uneasy and Judge
Franklin persuaded him to remain in
his family few days. He never forgot
his early love, so sadly terminated. -
Ben: Perley Poore, in Boston Budget.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
SPANKED THE BOY.
The Signal Success Which Attended Inter-
ference in Family Matters.


All the adult passengers in the wait
ing-room had their attention attracted
by his antics. He wanted candy, and
he wanted to see the river, and he
wanted to 90 aboard the train, and he
wanted more than any city the size of
Detroit could possibly furnish free
gratis. His mother hushed him up the
best she could. and several times he
slapped her face and kicked her shina
and got off without even a pinch. BY
and by an old man who sat near her,
and whose feet the boy had walked on
several times, began to get nervous,
and, turning to his right hand neigh
Dor, said:
"Land O MASSEY! but I've either got
to git outer here or spank that boy"
ale just aches for it! growled the
other
ale does. He puts me in mind of
my William. I've seen William when
nothing on airth but a spanking would
put good nature into him"
II say l will go!' shouted the boy at
this moment.
"Please, Johnny, be good" entreat-
ed the mother.
81 WON'T"
"Oh, do! See how they are all look
ing at u.s."
81 don't care if they are!'
With that he walked up to the old
man and made q kick, and then the cur
tain went up on the play. With one
twist and two motions he was seized,
whirled over pair of knees, and before
he could sguawk once the spanking
machine began it's work. If ever boy
of seven was neatly wound up and the
ugly taken out of him inside of sixty
seconds the work was no more COM
plete than in this case.
"Theren said the spanker as he up
ended the child and placed him on a
seat, you'll feel better-a heap better.
Hated to do it, you know, but saw that
you was suffering for it, Beg your
mothers pardon for interfering in
family matters, but you set right thar
till the train is rcadyH'
The boy "set," and such a calm and
solid peace stole over the crowd that
the yells of the hackman outdoors gave
everybody a pain. Detroit Free Press.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
Cuban Brutality.

A lady writing from Cuba says that
mercyto dumb brutes is unknown on
the island. The horses and oxen are
poor, half-dead things. How could
it be otherwise in a community where
the very highest class can exact happi-
ness from a bull-fghtP Spanish ladies
wave their parasols or handkerchiefs
with wild delight when poor dumb
brute without weapons and without any
sin on its life must suffer torture from
the weapons invented by man. Cuba
has not yet learned that man is not
only a possible angel but possible devil,
Thus brute may become mans su-
perior. What a good thing if a Spanish
bull or cab horse could carry pistol for
self-defense! The Spanish bull-tight
recalls the the saying of a Pagan:
death of brutes may be necessity, it
never can be pleasure. "-Carent.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
A Large Vessel.

The largest sailing ship but one ever
built in America is nearing completion
in Camden, Me. She is 263 feet keel, 2S5
feet over all, and 45 feet beam, with 2S4
feet total depth of hold, 81 feet of this
being tween decks. These dimensions
indicate that she will measure over $500
tons, net register. A good idea of the
vessels size and of the spread she will
carry may be had from the fact that it is
1856 feet from the deck to the main truck,
while her lower yards are about 80 feet
long. The ship is built on the owners
account, but they are negotiating with a
man who will probably become one
fourth owner and master, and rs to her
name-they have scheme for naming
vessels nowadays which kills two birds
with one stone. Some wealthy man is
invited to take up part of the vessel,
generally a sixteenth, eighth or quarter,
and the vessel named after him. Garlic
ton, Norwood q Co., the builders, have
constructed fifty-four vessels since 1854.
IN. Y. Post
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
PRESIDENT BUCHANAN.
His First and Only Love Affair and Its Sad
Termination.

Termination.
Mr.. Buchanan was regarded, almost at
the commencement of his Congressional
career, as confirmed bachelor, his first
and only love affair having had a sad
termination. The lady's name was Ann
Coleman, and she was the daughter of
a proud, wealthy citizen of Lancaster.
In 1920 Mr. Buchanan was elected to
Congress, and the next long session was
continued far into July, when he re-
turned home in the Baltimore stage,
tired and dusty. After he had washed
and changed his clothes he started out
for short stroll in his dresslng-gown
and slippers. Miss Grace Hubley, sis
ter-in-law to William Jennings, who re-
sided on the corner of South Queen
street, the terminus of the southwest
angle, happening to be sitting in the
parlor with ali the windows open on &C
count of the heat, noticing that Mr.. Bu-
chanan had returned, went to the door,
and, passing the compliments of the
evening, invited him in, with which he
complied, and they seated themselves
by large open window and engaged
in conversation. Not more than twenty
minutes thereafter an anonymous note
was handed in to Miss Coleman, stat
ing that Mr.. Buchanan was too tired to
call on his affianced, but that he could
call on and sit and chat with Miss Hub
ley.
On perusing the note Miss Coleman
was naturally somewhat troubled and
her father insisted upon seeing it. His
offended dignity was at once in arms
and within an hour the daughter was
placed in the family carriage and on the
way to Philadelphia to visit her sister,
Mrs. Judge Hembill Knowing the I'M
rele2ting nature of her father. and
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
Contrary to the Regulations.

Yesterday you were ten minutes late
at roll call. What explanation have you
to make" said a New York police cap
tain to one of his men.
81 was accompanying a young lady
home, and she lives long distance
from here and we are engaged, replied
the cop.
THAT sort of thing will never do.
Discipline must be preserved. Hereaf-
ter when you fall in love, see that it is
with some female who lives in the i'm
mediate vicinity Of The station house. "
Teas Stfiinqs
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
Every Woman Knows Them.

The human body is much like a good
clock or watch in its movements; if one
goes too slow or too fast, SO follow all the
others, and bad time results; if one organ
or set of organs works imperfectly, per-
version of functional effort of all the Or
gans is sure to follow. Hence it is that the
numerous ailments which make woman's
life miserable are the direct issue of the
abnormal action of the uterine sy stem. For
all that numerous class of symptoms
and every woman knows them-there is
one unfailing remedy, DR.. Pierce's "Favor-
ite Prescription" the favorite of the sex.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04
Extent of the British Empire.

The British Empire covers nearly a
sixth of the land surface of the earth.
The entire surface of the globe is esti-
mated at 197,0O0,OO0 square miles, Of
which little more than a quarter. or
81, 100000 square miles, are land, and
the total extent of the British Empire is
$3.50, 2l1 square miles, which may be
tabulated thus: &
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-07-04

is conferred upon that magnificent insti.
tuition, the human system, by DR.. Perce's
"Golden Medical Discovery" that fortifies
1t against the encroachments of disease. 1t
is the great blood purifier and Alternative,
and as remedy for consumption, bron-
chitis, and all diseases of wasting ma:
ture, its influence is rapid, efficacious and
permanent. Sold everywhere.
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Premature decline of power in
either sex, however induced, speedily and
permanently cured. Consultation free.
Book for three letter stamps. Worlds Dis
pensary Medical Association, Buffalo, NY.
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PIXIES ToOTHACHE DROPS cure In minute, 25c.
Glenns Sulphur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions.
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THE extreme height of misery is small
boy with new pair of boots and no mud
puddle.-PeCk's Sun. ~
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The swell of the ocean--a dandy mid.
shipman.- DdyS.
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THE man who monkeys around machin-
cry often travels incog.-Ou City Derrick.
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A KID sLIPPER-The small boy on roller.
skates. The Rambler.
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A Strong Endowment

THE circus season is upon us, the saw.
dust of the year. Washington Hatchet.