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Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03

I'LL kinds of Repairing
done in the very best
manner at McC0n1y,
Bonte & Cos. Carrja9e
Factory. Pric es lou
GolOn.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
Strange Case Of a Wife's Devotion

A sensation was caused In police
circles in Richmond, Va, by the dis
covery that one of the prisoners in
the city Jail, who was attired as a
man, was a woman. The name of the
prisoner is Henrietta Hix. Her hus-
band deserted her in Boston a few
months ago. Learning that he had
gone to Richmond the wife donned
male attire and shipped ON board of
vessel at Boston as cook about two
weeks ago. Upon reaching Richmond
Mrs. HiX discovered that her husband
had been arrested and committed to
Jail for robbery. Determined to gain
access to him and share his prison
cell, the woman stole a small amount
of money. She was arrested, and
without arousing the suspicious of
the authorities as to her SEX, she
was placed in the same cell with Xix.
The ruse was discovered, and the hus-
band and wife placed in separate
cells. Xix confirms the woman's sto-
ny, and says they were married in
Boston about two years ago. 1t is
probable Mrs. Xix will be pardoned
by the Governor. She is young and
good looking.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
Revolutionary.

The proposed sovereignty convcn-
ton for changing the constitution OF
Kentucky is called revolutionary.
Any plan, to succeed, such are the
provisions of our organic law on the
subject must go in a measure con-
trary TO the constitution. Violence
to the sanctity of constitutional pro-
visions can only be forgiven when it
is done through power higher than,
because it is the source of, the consti-
tuition itsclf-the power ofthe people.
1t has been proposed to draft new
constitution and submit it to the peo-
pie for vote. If the adoption of
such a draft were to be dependent
upon the methods already tried UNI
successfully, and required large ma
jority of all the legal voters of the
State, the result would be a failure as
befroe. If the adoption of the new
instrument were sought through any
other means, differing ever so slightly
from the constitutional plan, a revo-
lutionary plan is inaugurated. If, as
has been suggested, the question of
calling convention be submitted to
the vote of the people and decided by
the majority of the votes cast, the
constitution is abandoned and revo-
lutionary means resorted to. The
alarm al the idea of revolutionary
measures is ill-grounded. The con-
stitution can not be changed but by q
departure from its own provisions.
A constitution drawn up by a sover-
eighty convention and adopted by
vote of the people would be the work
of the people themselves, and would
be submission of the whole matter
to the decision of those who alone
have absolute power in our land
the voters. To be alarmed at the
suggestion of Revolutionary meas
ures" is to be frightened at shadow.
Inquirer.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
The Purchase.
Hickman Courier. |

The counties in Kentucky known
as "The Purchase" are so known be-
cause they were included in the ter
ritory purchased from the Indians in
the year 1928. The purchase was
made by Gen. Jackson, acting as
commissioner for the United States
Government, and the price he paid
the Indians was $4,000. The terri
tory bought included the Kentucky
counties west of the Tennessee river
nearly all of the West Tennessee,
and large portion of North Missis-
sippi. 1t was owned by three tribes
of Indians, the Cherokees, Choctaws
and Seminoles, and these tribes had
previously exchanged their "reser.
vations" in Alabama for it. Why
the name of "The Purchase" adhere.
to the Kentucky counties, and not t
the Tennessee and Mississippi terri
tory obtained by Jackson in the same
transaction, we can not explain, un
less because local politicians have
kept it alive in Kentucky. Tire
years before the war, the Hickman
Courier advocated the organization
of new State out of the portions o
Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippi
described in the purchase by Jackson
and the proposition was general,
discussed by the press and very gen
orally favored by the people of tn
territory to be embraced in the pro
posed new State. After the war tn
proposition was revived and pro
crossed so far that a delegate convcn
ton was assembled at Jackson. Tenn
which took the initiatory steps 70
forming the new State, and resolved
to call it the State of Jackson. TIL
known opposition of the then Con
gress of the United States to the ad
mission of a Democratic State, sum
msrily, absolutely, and perhaps for
ever, sQuelched the movement. l
anyone knows anything more, o
different as to the history of eth
Purchase let them speak out.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
Forty years ago the most prominer

Forty years ago the most prominent
man in Virginia politics was William
Smith, known every where as extra
Billy" Honored twice by election to
the governorship of the State and
repeatedly elected to Congress, he &C.
cupied high place in the estimation
of the people who delighted TO vote
for him. The old gentleman still lives
and few days ago celebrated his
Goth birthday. A writer says he
goes over his farm near Warrenton
daily, and is as erect in carriage,
prompt in speech, clear in faculties
and perfect in health as ever, and
does not present the appearance of a
man of more than sixty.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Christian county ranks twelfth in
point of wealth, according to the re-
port of the Board of Equalization.
The Republicans of Massachusetts,
have unanimously renominated their
present ticket of State officers, head
ed by Geo. Robinson as Governor.
The Court of Appeals has over
ruled the petition for rehearing in
the case of George Strickler, sem
fenced to be hanged in Whitley coun-
ty for the murder of Bette Hall, in
that county.
Last Friday Capt Emile. Ruff, of
Dubuque, Iowa, landed at this place
for a few minutes. He has been
travelling in a canoe for several
months and has been all over the
lakes and rivers of the north. Two
weeks ago he launched his canoe at
Pittsburg and has since been trave-
ling at the rate of 60 to rs miles a
day. From here he goes to Cairo,
thence up the Mississippi to st. Paul,
Mimi, then doubling back down the
river he goes to New Orleans, thence
to the gulf and across to the Florida
peninsula and around the Atlantic
coast to New York. The journey has
been made twice and he will make
the third to go the round trip. His
canoe is sixteen feet long, of red &C.
dar with mahogany deck, and air
chambers at each end. These make
it impossible for the craft to sink
and the secured ballast will right it
when it is turned over. The oars work
with joint and the rudder is worked
by the feet. lie carries his cooking
utensils, provisions, ETC., and also a
rubber bed which he initiates at night
and fastens the air in until morning,
when he takes off the cap, lets the air
out and rolls it up and puts it in the
boat. lie is fixed up for living pref
ty well, but after all must have
pretty Ruff time of Understandings
News.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03

Printing used to be called the black
art, and the boys who assisted the
pressmen were called "imps," AS the
story runs, Aldus Manutius, a print
err of Venice, took little negro boy,
left behind by merchant vessel, to
assist him in his business. 1t soon
got wind that the Gimp" of Aldus
was black, and a crowd gathered
Therefore, showing the limp" he
said: "Be it known in Venice that l,
Aldus Manutius, printer to the Holy
Church and the Doge, have this day
made public exposure of the 'prin-
ter's devil All who think he is not
flesh and blood may come and pinch
him" Thus originated the term
printers devil"
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1885.

The October number of Demorest's
Monthly Magazine is, as usual, very
entertaining and instructive. AS a
family magazine it is worthy of hon
orable mention, The present number
is filled with readable articles, among
which are "Three Days at ChamOu-
Nix" "The Poet Milton.," and "Ram-
bles About Criefl." All the articles
devoted to fashion and the adornment
of home are very suggestive, and the
stories, poems, and various depart
ments furnish agreeable and instruc-
tive reading. There are some good
illustrations, and the frontispiece is a
fine steel engraving. This number
completes Vol. XXI.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
The Issue Of Cents.
tChicago Journal
AUNTIE.

The first coin ever issued in this
country was the old-fashloned cart
wheel cent. The first issue was in
1893, and there were three dies made.
With the single exception of the year
1915 there has been no break in the
issue of cents from that time to the
present. The labor required to Sc
cure sample of the three varieties
of cents made in 1893 is very great,
and they bring from So to IS each.
The cent of 1894 is a trifle more COM
mon and can be bought for about 60
cents, while sample Of the issue of
1875 is worth $l.25. 1t was in this
year that the liberty cap was changed
to the fillet head, and these were is.
sued regularly for thirteen years,
when the Goddess of Liberty APP
peared on the face Of the coin, with
thirteen stars surrounding it. A
cent of the issue of 1899, in good con-
dition is worth $40 or $50.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03

The seven attaches of Doris circus
who robbed four young men who
had been permitted to ride on the
circus train, near Frankfort, and
made them jump off the running train
at the points of pistols, have been ar
rested and jailed at Frankfort. Their
names were VIM. Carroll, ofNorwich,
Conn. Richard White and John Mar
tin, New York Paul McQuade, Prov
idence, r. L.; Jacob Bovd, of New
burg, Pa. Geo. Miller and Par
rine. All but the last named were
arrested in Louisville. Parrine was
caught at Lafayette, Ind. The young
men who were robbed were named
Turner, Miles, Schofeld and Weber.
All but Turner had limbs broken
when they jumped from the train
and Weber is still in a very critical
condition. The whole gang will prob
ably be convicted and sent to the PEN
itentiary.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03

Peterson's Magazine for October
makes us marvel more than ever how
50 beautiful monthly can be pub
lished for so low price. The prin-
cipal engraving on steel, "The Star
of the Night" is a portrait of one of
the loveliest of women, and looks as
if painted from life. There are two
colored patterns in embroidery; a
mammoth colored fashion-plate; a
story profusely illustrated and some
fifty wood-cuts of fashions, work-ta-
BILE patterns, ETC., etc. The powerful
novelet by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens,
which has awakened such interest all
the year, grows more absorbing as ii
approaches the close. Josiah Aliens
Wife" has one Of her unrivaled hu-
morous sketches Frank Lee Benedict
begins new novelet; and there is a
little sketch, "That Horrid Dress, y
which every lady ought to insist OH
her husband reading. But enough
the best thing to do is to write for q
specimen of Peterson" which will
be sent gratis, and compare it with
others, when you will be certain tc
subscribe, or get up a club, for 1886
Now is the time for this. The price
of this gladys favorite" is but two
dollars year, with great deductions
to clubs. Address Charles j. Peter.
son,3O6 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia,
Pa.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
Botheration Among the Doctors.

There is breeze in the st. Louis
medical society, over certain breaches
of the code. Several physicians had
"specialties" and avertised them.
This being contrary to medical ETH
quette, necessitated the resignation
of these people. How queer it seems
that when a good means of cure is
found, anybody should object to
making it public. 1t is no secret
that many physicians use Browns
Iron Bitters in their regular practice,
with the happiest effect. DR.. M. E..
Dougherty, Franklin, Va, says, T am
highly pleased with Browns Iron
Bitters, and believe it to be superior
to all other iron preparations"
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03

"Csn any little boy or girl tell me
why the lions would not hurt Dan
lei ?" SAID gentleman addressing a
Sunday-school.
II know" said one bright little fell
low, holding up his hand.
"And what was the reason, my lit
tie man ?" said the speaker, stepping
forward, with his face in a joyous
glow. "Speak up loud, so that all
may hear you; why wouldn't the
lions bite Daniel ?"
81 guess it was COZ he b'longed to
the circus"
The sedateness of the occasion was
interrupted Chicago Ledger
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
SPECIAL LOCALS.

SPECIAL LOCALS.
GRAND OPENING this Week AZ
The Old Reliable
NJ FRANKEL & SONS.
We have received our
entire stock of Fall and
Winter Goods, consisting
of Dry Goods, Clothing,
CloakS, Boots. Shoes,
Hats, Caps, Furnishing
Goods, Trunks and Va
Uses, and offer extra in
dUceMents this 1Ueek.
Our Clothing cannot
be surpassed in style,
quality and price.
Our Dry Goods are
cheaper than any in the
city and the largest Stocb
to select from.
Our CloaBS we're made
to our order and 1Ue SholU
the greatest variety in
the city at the loWeSt
prices.
Our Hats and Caps are
the latest styles.
Our Boots and Shoes
defy competition.
Our Furnishing Goods
can not help but please
the most faStidiouS.
Our Trunks and TdLi-
SeS are better made than
any to be Sho1On in this
city and same prices as
inferior goods. Call on
US for bargains and you
shall 90 array WeU pleas
ed.
NJ. FRANKEL & SONS.
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03
A New GTOceTv2 Sa|OOR

A New Grocery Sa|oon
Let Everybody Come.
Ihave just opened
my new store, and ex-
tend my old friends
and the public gener-
ally a cordial invita-
ton to come and see
me, promising to sell
you nothing but the
very best goods at the
lowest living prices.
In connection with a
new and complete
stock Of Staple and
Fancy Groceries. Pro-
visions, etc. I have
fitted up in the best
style, a Saloon, where
I propose to keep a
full line Of Whistles,
Wines, Brandies, and
everything usu ally
kept in a irst-olass
saloon. I am located
on Nashville St., op-
posite Lewis House,
in the new buildings.
I have a full line Of the
best ig ars ever
brought to this city.
My stock is fresh and
new, and if you want
the best goods at low
prices don't fail to call
on me.
Very Respectfully,
0. S. Stevens.
AWbinds of Repairing
done in the very best
manner at McC0Doy,
ID O. nJ n. n
Daily south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1881-18??, 1885-10-03

Come in and subscribe for SOUTH
KENTUCKIAN to-day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-21

A IIixton correspondent describes
the Price farm in that town, as a "big
plantation" The tract is consolida-
ton of dozen or more farms, embrac-
ing 1888 acres, of which 800 acres
are under cultivation. TO inclose and
Subdivide it, necessitated the building
of 40 miles of fence, at cost of $4,000.
The correspondent adds: "The work
ing force is from 80 to 40 hands, who,
at the close of each season, are en-
ployed in the logging camps of Mr..
Price. The average yearly products
may be summed up as follows: Hay,
from 800 to 1000 tons; wheat, from
1000 to 5000 bushels; the corn crop
has varied as the season was favorable
or unfavorable. The past season the
yield was 5000 bushels of ears, or 5000
bushels of shelled; the crop of beets
raised was between 1000 and 5000
bushels The yearly revenue for the
sale of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs,
is over $4,000. The stock now on
hand, and being wintered over, is 1OS
horses, GO COWS, and % heifers, the
latter coming in next spring; also 81
breeding sows and 500 shoats, averag-
ing 6 months old. For home use are
kept a thousand hens. over a hundred
geese, and nearly that number of tur-
keys. During the festive holidays high
livlngis had at the Price farm and log
ging camps. The machine work OF the
farm requires three mower, two reap
ers, two self-binders, one hay fork
operated by horse power, and one hay
press. A creamery operated on one OF
the sections, turns out a superior ar
ticle of butter-equal to any made in
Jackson county. This product is most.
ly consumed on the farm, and in the
logging camps" -Mil,oaukee Owls.
Sentinel.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-21
Pain and the Weather.

1t is generally known that depres
sion Of spirits and rheumatic pain
have long been associated with a falls
ing barometer and storm-brewing
condItion-usualiy severe neuralgia
attacks coinciding with usually intense
storm development. To establish in
his own case this relation of pain and
weather, Captain Catlin. of the U. S.
Army, made a regular and detailed
record, in connection with the weather
variations, of the variations of his
neuralgia pains. From the published
account, Captain Catlln's foot was
crushed by shot in 1864, and it was
necessary to amputate his leg below
the knee. He continued to experience
sensations of pain, as if in the lost
member, these sensations being great
er or less, according to the atmospher-
ic disturbance. Arranged in months,
March naturally took the lead as
pain producer; then came, in order
January, November, December, May
February, April, August, October
September, July and June. He trace,
the average distance of the storm
centre at the beginning of the pail
attack, by investigating sixty well
defined storms in ten CONSECUTIVE
months; it was $50 miles, rangin,
from two to 1920 miles.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-21
The Home of the Earthmake.

South America along the line of the
Andes is the home of the earthquake
on the continent, and hardly day
passes but one or more shocks are expe-
rienced in some locality. The city of
Caracas was destroyed in less than
forty seconds by three distinct shocks,
thousands of persons being killed; this
was during the war of 1872. In 1859
the city of Quito, in Ecuador, was de-
stroyed with hardly any warning, and
in 1868 large part Of Ecuador was
demolished by shocks so terrific that
they were felt all up and down the
ocean front. Peru has often suffered,
and in 1886 Callao was completely de-
stroyed, the shock forming tidal wave
one hundred feet high. Again in 1746
it was destroyed, and in 1868 africa
was visited by shocks that produced
sea waves Of the most appalling di-
mansions. So enormous were these
waves that they were felt all over the
Pacific They left AREA on the 18th
of August, arrived at Hawaii on the
14th and reached Yokohama the next
day, being felt later in Australia and
Alaska.
In the Gillian earthquake of 1870
there occurred permanent elevation
of land amounting to about five feet
over one hundred thousand square
miles of surface. At midnight, on the
Goth of February. 1855, the city Of
Conception was ruined before the un
fortunate inhabitants could realize
what was the matter This was the
fourth time, and for two weeks after
its destruction over three hundred
shocks were felt. During this earth
quake a tidal wave forty feet high rost
near Juan Fernandez, and rolled to
ward the continent, and near the island
fire burst from water that was known
to be four feet deep Here and nea
Conception the water was black, ant
all living things persisted.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-21
Inventive Genius Shown in Artificial
Limbs.

attempts have been made to fol-
low the mechanism of Nature very full
ly," said an artifcial-limb maker.
"Some years since a hand was devised
which by series of concealed springs
and cords possessed the power of grasp
ing and retaining with some slight
amount of force any light substance
placed in contact with it, the govern
ing power being the fall of a column
of mercury placed in a tube within the
arm part of the apparatus. The OBJ
ject in view was that the elbow being
flexed and the lower arm being held
at an inclined plane, the gravity Of the
quicksilver, acting upon kind of plug
to which the centre cord was attached
should at once produce closure Of
the fingers, whilst the return of the
mercury to the lower end of the tube,
upon tho arm being lowered, would
permit light springs to bring back the
fingers to their starting-point. This
plan did not succeed, as the joints had
to be made so loose that they gained
a lateral motion, thus giving anything
but a natural appearance to the fin
gers, and the metal constantly escaping
rendered the continuance useless"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-21

Inotice, says Chicago lady, that in
all of this talk about what is designat-
ed as womep's labor the everyday
routine work of the housekeeper is ig-
nored. There is no reference to the
work of the women whose lives are
passed in home making and home
keeping. They are not considered as
active workers. They are regarded as
negative, non-productive class. Yet
the profession of the housekeeper Is
regarded as the most natural and
proper avocation of women. There is
no other trade so complex. None
more difficult. Add to this the cares
of motherhood and what else can a
woman engage in which will as COM
pletely absorb every energy of which
she is capablea To be good house,
wife and mother is by no means the
occupation of an idler. Perhaps my
notions are obsolete, but l think the
woman who creates comfortable
home and raises children worthy man
hood and womanhood is the noblest
work of God, and is quite as much of
producer as the woman who writes a
book, invents some machine, or fol
lows a profession.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-01-21
A Pitiful Scene.

A pitiful story comes to us of a
scene in a Philadelphia police station,
where rough tangle-hairel woman,
who had been arrested, had fought like
a fury, and stormed at the officers in
three Languages, was followed up a
few hours later by little tot of girl,
who looked from one officer to another,
and asked them if they had put her
mother in Jail. She was so little that
the policeman had helped her up the
steps; but here she was, in search of
her mother the degraded woman heard
her voice and called to her. So they
swung open the door and let herin, and
the little thing asked her mother, who
had shrunk back, ashamed, "why moth
er, are you in jail?" Then the baby
dropped upon her knees on the stone
floor, and began to pray: "Now l lay
me down to sleep, and l hope my
mother will be let out of JAIL" There
were tears among those rough men at
the sound of that innocent voice; and
when the case was brought into court
the Judge whispered to the woman to
60 home and try to be a better mother.
1t was the drink that made the troub.
le-Si1nnI