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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-20

eight characteristic illustrations. Mu-
sical readers will be much gratified
with "The Message of Music to Man."
Meyerbeer, Lindpaidter and Volli-
mann in "The Sacred Musicians
Series" "The Bach Bi-centennial," !"
"The Music of The Rose of Sharon"
and "Mr. Gladstone on Sacred Music"
DR.. +. W. Conrad, of the Lutheran
Observer, is the representative relig-
ious journalist depicted IN this num-
ber. Buddhist Worship and Lit
urgy" is an exceedingly interesting
article, and many will be interested
in "Bcaconstield and Gladstone" in
which these two English statesmen
are compared and contrasted. DR..
Talmage has characteristic sermon,
"From Dungeon to Palace" on the
subject of Joseph, the same subject is
treated in the "Glances at Bible His
tory" There are many other good
articles and poems, and fine illustra-
tions, which we have not the space
to particularize. Published by Mrs.
Frank Leslie, So, So and 81 Park
Place, New York, at % cents a num-
Der, or $3.50 year postpaid.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-20
CHURCH HILL.
Ed. South KENTUCKIAN :

Ed. SOUTH KENTUCKIAN:
note in a recent number of the
SOUrH KENTUCKGAN your Newst1ad
correspondent j. ID. g. writing urg-
ing the Importance of good roads.
1t is lamcntable fact that the citi-
zons of Christian county are very
much behind in progress and | foar
they will not realize until too late,
the Importance of little thrift upon
their part. Good road make in part
good homes. They build up the
county towns, they enrich the farm
ers, they lend to all branches of in-
dustry. Thereby contributing to our
home wealth and prosperity. There
are some who oppose every spirit of
public enterprise, but this is not the
age for that class. Fossils should be
laid upon the shelves with relies ofthc
past and give place to those represent
ing new era. hope for the sake
of the county as well as for the con-
veniencc of the travelling public that
ere long every important thorough
fare will be put under contract for
macadamizing either by taxation or
Stock Companies. If it is a county
undertaking we share the advantages
alike. If it be private enterprise
we pay for the benefit we derive there
from. We may be sure ofone thing
and that is tins new line Of railroad
being put through, and lIopkinsville
will find very large part of its to-
bacco, its wheat and its trade gener-
ally, will have gone to other points.
| repeat unless measure, very active
measures are taken, before two years
llOpkinsville will wake up some
morning and find that it has been
stripped of its best plumage. Let us
have the pixies. lIopkinsvile and
the county will then wear the face of
prosperity, manufacturing enterprises
of all kinds will speedily follow, our
merchants will do a large business,
our warehousemen will be encour-
aged, our town will take on new life,
all classes of trade will be benefited
in measure never experienced be-
fore. Let each businessman feel it
incumbent upon him to make an eff
fort, il is of vital interest to all.
Mr.. John Mclieynolds has closed
his school at Church Hi Academy.
All the patrons were highly pleased
with his system of teaching. Good
luck to him. Church Hill is sadly,
in need of a good, well organized,
well managed school. We are at the
junction of three Districts, none OF
which support good school, but If
all three could be concentrated at this
point we would have school that
| would justify the employment of sew
eral good and thoroughly qualified
teachers, to say nothing Of the schol-
ars from distance. l have been in
formed that 81, 10000 have been sub
scribed with a donation of one acre
Of land, why not begin with the
amount subscribed and if the enter
prise prove success it will be an easy
matter to add two or three more de-
partments. i hope the matter may
be considered by all interested and
pushed through at an early day
Quite a number from this neigh
borhoed are attending the New Or.
leans Exposition. Gus very efficient
constable Mr.. Gordon Hanbery, after
Il stay of some weeks in Texas, re
turned with his family last week
We hope he may find all here that he
could ask or expected else where.
w.
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Lost One Bride, But Captured
Another on the Spot.
[From the Hartford Times. |

A couple of our folks tell of we'd
ding they went to in their younger
days, when the expected -to-be bride
astonished the wedding party by
answering, when the minister asked
her if she would take this man to be
her lawfully welded husband, "No l
won't. ! am not going to marry
him." saying which she walked off
without giving any cause for the act.
The clergyman, amazed, turned to
the groom, who had already assentcd
to take her to be his lawfully welded
wife, and asked in tone of embarass-
ment, "What can Ido?" The groom,
nothing daunted, spoke up "Is there
a woman in the room who will mar
ry mc?" A modest, pretty woman,
about twenty years of age, with
bowed head and blushing cheeks,
stepped forward, the groom met her
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The I. A. q T.

Tobacco Leaf.
Yesterday the first passenger train
OH the l. A. n 4. II. II. running on
schedule and for the transaction of
general business, passed between
this city and Kennedy, the station
three-fourths of mile from Hensley-
town, Ky, and in future, train will
run daily, Sundays excepted, be-
tween these points. A timetable
will be found in the proper place on
the first page.
Kennedy, al present the terminus
of the road, is fourteen miles from
Clarksville. The station was named
in honor of Mr.. d. N. Kennedy, OF
this city, who is one of the largest
subscribers to the road and has been
one of its staunchest friends. Al
present there is only one station be.
tween Kennedy and Clarksville,
This is Glenellen, ten miles out, on
the farm of Maj. Thos. Henry
Glenellen was named for Miss
Ellie Henry, the Majors oldest
daughter.
There is now force of fifty mer
engaged OH the road, and track lay
ing, which has been greatly retarded
by the severe weather, is being
pushed rapidly and Maj. Gordon ex-
poets to have the cars running tC
Garrettsburg by the lst of March.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-20
A Druggist for 25 Years.

AUBURN, ALA, Sept. s, lSS4-I am
an old pharmacist, and have had to
do largely with blood diseases for
over twenty-five years. have dealt
in all kinds of blood purifiers, and do
not hesitate to say that Swift's Spe-
ciflc is the best and has given more
general satisfaction than any other |
have ever handled. Swifts Specific
is an excellent tonic, and as an anti
dote for malaria has no superior
Many ladies are using it as a tonic
for general debility, and find it the
most satisfactory one ever used.
have been dealing in Swifts Specific
for five years or more, and am sahs'
fled that l do not place too high al
estimate upon its merits.
G.. w. Dixon.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-20
OBITUARY.

On February 1lth, at 3 p. NJ, Char
Icy Watkins yielded to the sum-
mons, took his flight beyond to bet
ter world. A young man who had
just ushercd into manhood, full of
promise beautified with every char
acteristic the make up of a gentle
man, he sought at all times to render
his associates happy and contented.
SOrcly afflicted Tor several months,
yet he bore his Affections with forti-
tude ;he passed away as quietly as the
mornings dew. His demise fills the
entire community with grief and sor-
row. Every attention and comfort
was given by his aged christian fa-
ther and mother as well as friends.
1t is really a sore aflliction to his
father and mother, who are
left to grieye for the loss of so prom
ising and noblea a young man. The
writer of this can but shed a tear
over the death of so kind and gener-
Gus a gentleman. No young man
ever developed more good traits and
qualities than did Charley Watkins.
"Whom the Lord loveth he chasten-
eth" early in life. His parents receive
my greatest sympathy. MACK.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-20
! Feel Better.

How cheerful a man looks when he
is saying these words! And what a
delightful thing it is to help to make
him feel betterl And what a privi-
lege to know that ten thousand peo-
pile all over the United States are to-
day saying, II feel BETTER" because
they have been taking Browns Iron
Bitters! Mrs. j. A. Edison of 3S
Medford ST., Chelsea, Mass, writes
that she suffered with kidney disease
aud blood troubles, and that she used
3 bottles of Browns Iron Bitters.
AS the result of this treatment she
says, II feel better than ] have for a
long time, and / believe I am cured"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-20
When Tried Always Preferred.

When they once become acquaint-
ed with it, ladies invariably prefer
Parker's Hair Balsam to any similar
preparation. 1t makes the hair soft
and glossy, arrests its falling of, pro-
notes new growth, restores the orig
inal color, and has no rival as dress
ing. Not dye, not oily, highly per-
fumed. Only Soc. at druggists;
no. 14-1m,
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-20
Prescribed By Physicians.

/ have prescribed Swift's Specific
in many cases of Blood Poison and as
a general tonic. and ithas made cures
after all other remedies had failed.
r. M. STRICKLAND, M. D..
Cave Spring, Ga.
Treatise on Blood and Skin Dis
eases mailed free.
The SWIFT SPECIFIC Co., Atlanta,
IA
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Frank 1eslie's Sunday Magazine
For March.

Begins a new serial story entitled,
"What she Made of Her Life" espec-
tally written tor its pages by Mrs.
Lydia lloyt Farmer, of Cleveland
Ohio. This story will continue for
about eight months. A notably in
teresting and timely article is "Alas-
ka, Past, Present and Future" with
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-20
The Great Blood Purifier

DR.. Samuel Hodges Alternative Compound Sar-
saparilla with Iodide Patash. The Compound is
purely vegetable, each article of ingredient is
perfectly harmless in itself, having been selected
from roots and herbs possessing great medicinal
properties, when combined forms most power
full efficient, and pleasant medicine for the re-
moval and permanent cure of all diseases arising
from an impure state of system, viz: Chis,
rheumatism, Scrotua or Kings evil, Scald-
head OF letter, Chronic Sore Eyes,
Old or Chronic Sores Of all kinds, Bos, Pmpes Syphlitc
Rheumatism. Primary and Secondary syphilis Nervous De-
by, Liver Complaint inflammation Of the Kidneys and Bad
der renovates vgorate the system; gently the
bowels appetizer and forkgenera bilty, isl most
excellent remedy.
CAMPBELL BROTHERS, druggists,
Sole Manufacturers.
For sale by all druggists. Price 81 per BOTTLE or for S.
Liberal discount TO the trade.
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with a smile, led her to the clergy
man, and in five minutes from the
time of the interruption they were
made man and wife. 1t proved to
be good match.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-05
LATE NEWS items.

Mr.. JOHN MCCULLOUGH is @ hopeless lu-
natic. He has glimpses of reason during
which he is conscious that he is under
duress, and pleads pitifully to be released.
BY the State census returns recently
made the population of Iowa has decreased
since 1880.
THE belief is growing among the military
and other friends of General Gordon that
he really escaped alive from Khartoum
and succeeded in fleeing to the equator.
So strong has this faith become that mis-.
sion has been organized to search for and
rescue him.
yellow FEVER is raging on the Pacific
coast Of Mexico. Late reports from Vera
Cruz say the scourge is continually spread"
ing, notwithstanding the untiring efforts OF
the authorities to check it.
JOHN RosENMEYER, living near Weis-
burg, Ind, while bordering on delirium
tremens, on the Goth, piled bedding and
furniture ON the floor of his room, fired it
and then mounted chair on table in the
middle of the room, and armed himself
with shotgun, bade defiance to his i'm.
agiuary tormentors. When the neighbors
rescued him his eyes were burned out and
he was otherwise so badly burned that he
cannot live.
EIGHTEEN bales of cotton had been re.
ceived at Vicksburg up to the Goth.
JOHN BROOKS, aged eighty two years,
was sentenced TO two years in the pen1ten.
tiary in the Criminal Court of Independ
ence, Kansas, on the 10Th, for horse steal
ing.
THERE were 3,575 new cases of cholera
and 1,190 deaths from the disease reported
throughout Spain on the Goth.
Mr.. JOHN W. FOSTER, United States
Minister to Spain, babe adieu to King
Alfonso on the 10Th. Mr.. Foster is about
to return to the United States.
THR State Department. received q cable
gram on the 18th saying that cholera had
broken out at Nagaski, Japan. The death
rate is reported to be large.
THE Prohibition candidate for Governor
of Ohio has challenged the Democratic
candidate to a joint discussion.
LUcIEN A. WHITE ism jail in St. Louis
charged with being implicated in the coun.
terfeiting Of Brazilian treasury notes.
TIE startling rumor comes that Preller
the man supposed to have been murdered
by Maxwell at the Southern Hotel, st.
Louis, is alive.
A FREIGHT train on the l., N. o. and T.
road was thrown from the track near Mem
phis on the 18th by running over COW.
Nine cars were demolished and negro
brakeman killed, and the fireman. white
man, seriously injured.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-05
SMALLPOX IN CANADA.


The Scourge Abating, But Repressive Meas
ures Still Active Hopes That the Epi-
demic May be Soon Stayed.
MONTREAL, CAM, August 29.-The
citizens yesterday were in far better
spirits here than for some time past
on the news gaining currency that
there was a great reduction in the num-
Der of deaths from smallpox Thursday
as compared with the previous day.
The total number reported was only
three against nineteen for the preced.
ing twenty-four hours. The falling of
was as marked in the total of new cases,
there being only five as COM
pared with seventy-dye the pre-
vious day. If this change
continues, there is little doubt felt BY
medical men that the progress of the
scourge will soon be permanently stayed.
There will be NO relaxation in the efforts
Of the health authorities and on the part
OF the citizens to eradicate it altogether
from the city. The opening of ali the
public schools in the city has been post
poned for fifteen days, and the cheap
theaters will be kept closed until the cpl
demic is arrested permanently. The dis
C@So 40 FGEy Uau III 3D. Jean
Baptiste village, the filth of
the place and neglect of pre-
cautions by the inhabitants rem
dering all efforts futile to stop it's
progress. The municipal authorities are
now alive to the crisis, and have appoint
ed an energetic health inspector, who is
actively engaged in using disinfectants
Ia che houses and all other proper means
to stay the disease. The health officer
reports the deaths since Saturday at
twenty, and the number ILL at Afty-four.
Several denials came yesterday from the
Mayors OF villages outside where it was
reported the disease had appeared.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-05
A NEW DEAL.

Mexico Considering the Removal of Some
of the Excessive Import Duties and the
Collection of More Taxes on Rea4 Estate
Ell PAso, TEX, August 28.-Senor
Riorson, the newIy-appointed. Governor
Of Lower California, was interviewed
here yesterday on Mexican affairs. Gov
ernor Riorson says that American bust.
ness men and manufacturers look for
decided reduction of the exorbitant du-
ties that now prevail in Mexico and OBJ
struct her commerce. President
Diaz informed him that ne fa-
vored and would urge taxing
real estate heavily to enable this
reduction of duties on imports, and would
bring his personal influence to bear upon
the Congress about to assemble to bring
about this change. Real estate IN Mex
leo is taxed very lightly, while import
duties are relatively more burdensome In
Mexico than in any other country in the
world. The Governor believes this re-
duction will be brought about this year.
Pierson is native of Texas, and enjoys
the confidence Of Diaz to a very high de"
gree.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-05

The report that Germany has estab-
lished a protectorate over the whole terri"
tory between the Tanna and Juba rivers
is confirmed.
The seasons exercises at Chautauqua
were brought to close on the 28th.
The run on the Spring Garden Bank at
Philadelphia, Pa, has subsidized.
The German Lutheran Synod began its
annual conference at Rochester, Mimi,
on the 28th.
IT is reported that Russia is making
overtures to Turkey for an alliance.
8 A GREAT boom is reported in the Bear
Mountain mining camps. recent runs of
metal assayingsvery satisfactorily.
SUB sCRIPTIoN lists have been opened in
Galicia for the benefit of the exiled Poles.
A TELEGRAM was received at the De-
partment of Justice on the oath from a
man in West Virginia, asking if he could
kill man for drunkenness.
TIE Treasury Department paid out over
$40, 100000 Of pensions during August. It
is therefore expected that the decrease of
the public debt for the month will not be
as large as usual.
BUSINESS failures throughout the couns
try during the seven days ended on the
2Sth were: For the United States, 1855;
and for Canada, "a; or total of 189 fall
ures, as compared with the total of 1T
the week previous.
A PETITION will be presented to the
Home Secretary of Great Britain, praying
Tor the suppression of the sale of obscene
prints.
THE Iowa State Veterinarian has been
ordered to investigate what is supposed to
be Texas cattle fever in Pottawatomie and
Harrison Counties.
HUNDREDS of laborers have been swim
died in Chicago by labor agencies who
sent them to the Canadian Northwest on
false promises of work to be obtained
there.
CoLoRED soldiers at Fort Meade, Oak,
who undertook to wipe out the town of
Sturges because of the lynching of Hall,
were captured and returned to the fort.
THE crew of the whaling brig Isabella,
crushed in the ice July Goth, 1884, arrived
in Halifax on the 28th with the loss of
only one sailor, who died of scurvy on the
voyage home.
The Treasury accountants are expected
to make some startling objections when
they reach the accounts of the Fish
Commission, the Geological Survey, the
Weather Bureau and others.
IRISH agricultural statistics show that
there are 100000 acres of land under
crop in Ireland, an in crease of 81, 900 over
the acreage Of 1884; that there are 10, $780,
900 acres of grass land, a decrease Of 20O,-
900 acres, and that bog, barren and noun
tain land has increased $4,000.
The revised estimate of the losses by the
recent storm at Charleston, s. c., is ST.
900, 900, including 100000 along the
wharyes and $3.50, 900 of private property.
The remain der includes losses on ship
ping, $20O,OO0; on SuIlivan's Island, $780,
OOO; cotton presses, $50, 900, and city prop
erty, churches, railroads and phosphate
mills, $4,000 each, and miscellaneous,
$l55 600. The work of PREPARATION is so
active that all business now offering is
fully accommodated, and in the next ten
days the facilities will be as good as ever.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-05
Caused By Dynamite.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August 28.-Chief
of DectiVes Kelly received an anonymous
note this morning in reference to the ex-
plosion on the steamer FELTON,, as follows:
The FELTON, explosion was caused by dyna-
mite. The people who had it did not intend
to explode it, but were on the boat at the
time, and were. taking it home to use. 1t
will be impossible forsayou to discover them,
but to remove suspicion of evil intent from
others this statement is made. Your inves-
tigation should be to that end
The note is evidently written In dis.
guised hand.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-05
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS
The Marine Hospital Bureau is notified
that $50 cases of small pox, and 115 deaths
have occurred in Toronto, Ont, since Au-
gus 1st.
The total value of exports OF domestic
ca tile and hogs, and of beef, pork and
dairy products, is as follows: July, 1886
So, 49,, 579; july, 1884, $10,278, 049; seven
m onths ended July 81, 1886, 500, 904, 1863;
ditto 1884, $54, Ali, 1855. Beef and pork
products for nine months ended July 81,
1885, $67, 706, 092; ditto 1884, $65, 470, 1850.
Dairy products for three months ended
July 81, 1885, S4,O81 ZIG; ditto 1884, S., 2e4, :
$50.
THERE were 1859 cases of cholera and
1,547 deaths from the disease reported in
Spain on the 25th. In the twelve hours
ended the evening Of the Goth, fourteen
new cases and fourteen deaths were re-
ported in Madrid. Suspicious cases Of
sickness are reported at Malaga.
POLISH subjects, without regard to con.
dition, are being expelled from Austria.
SERIOUS agrarian outbreaks arc re-
ported in County Kerry, Ireland.
TIE Lafayette, Newtown & Wabash
River Railway Company, capital 81, 900, :
600, has been incorporated at Indianap-
oils, Ind.
A NUMBER of opposition papers in Spain
have been seized by the Government for
their vigorous attacks on Germany.
ADvIcEs have reached Washington to
the effect that the German Government
has recently sent to South America COM
mercial commission with the same object
in view that was sought by the United
States Commission who have recently re-
turned from the continent.
THE contract for the construction of a
Courthouse and Post -office at Denver,
Col, has been awarded to Hayes & Nc
Gurey, of Colorado at their bid of $780,
600. Armago (CoI stone has been select
ed as the material to be used.
The Italian wheat crop of this year Is
reported, in an oficial document to the
Department of State, to be about twenty
per cent. less than the average crop. The
silk crop is about one -third less, but SUI
perior in quality to the average crop.
THE Treasury Department has been mo-
titled that party of armed Cubans have
LETT the Island of Cuba for the Florida
Keys, and it is supposed that their object
is to organize a flibustering expedition
to overthrow the Cuban Government. In
structions have bsen issued for the raw
enue cutters to look out for the party and
prevent their landing.
On the Doth there were 4, III new cases of
cholera and ]. 1873 deaths from the disease
reported throughout spain.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-05
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE at Fer gus Falls, Mimi, on the 26th
did So, 900 damage.
THE Union Building, containing NUM-
Der of factories at Troy, N. z, was
burned on the 26th Loss, SIS, 600.
Ar Philadelphta, Pa, on the Goth, an
attempt was made to blow up the saloon
Of ]. B. Rogers with dynamite.
DANIEL CHrLDERs. near Vanita, T. T.,
killed his sister in law, and was after
ward killed by George Perryman.
Two thieves named Frank Elwood and
Joe Wilson, under arrest in New York,
have been identified "a participants in
burgIaries committed In Toledo, Detroit,
ST. Paul and other pl aces.
AT the State encamp lnent of Knights
of Pythias at Rocky River, o., ON the
26sh, H. 7. Sandman, OF Cincinnati, and
G. b. Farnan, of Covington, KY, were
drowned while bathing in Lake Erie.
Farnan's body could not be recovered.
TIE piunbago cructble works at Bat
tersea, on the Thames, were destroyed by
fire on the 26th. The loss is 100000.