Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-08-28
GENERAL NOTES.
Adam Forepaugh's show was at.
tached for an old railroad debt.

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tached for an old railroad debt.
A. c. Isaac's job printing and
binding Office was sold last Friday
at Evansville, for 81 1915.
The newspapers and their outfits
in the United States are valued at
500, 50O,56O. &
There are now one hundred and
ninety-one cotton factories in opera
ton or in course of erection in the
Southern States.
The French manufacturers last
year made $G,000,000 worth of UNI
brellas. Turkey is their best foreign
customer.
Ex-Treasurer Adams, of the Saw
ings Bank, at South Pennington,
Mass. who was a defaulter, cut his
throat with a razor Monday evening,
A countrymm, named Jcptha Nor
wood is in Jail at Birmingham, Ala,
for criminally assaulting his seven
teen-year-old daughter.
An inclined railway is being built
up Lookout Mountain, by which pas
sengers will be easily taken to the
summit.
The embellishments, defalcations,
and robberies in the Federal offices
at New Orleans since the close of the
war foot up over $1,500,000.
There were heavy wind and rain
storms both north and south Monday
evening, doing great damage to prop
erty.
There will be reunion of soldiers
of the Grand Army of the Republic
at Boonville. Ind, the second week
in September, commencing the 9th.
The Sylvan Cotton Mill has just
started with one hundred hands, and
will run one hundred and four looms,
which will consume twenty-five
hundred pounds of cotton daily.
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The issue of standard silver dol
lars from the minis during the week
ended Aug. %, was $5l3,5l9. The is
sue during the corresponding period
of last year was 1901, 497.
The Eleventh Cincinnati Indus
trial Exposition will open September
., and close October 6. II is a ma
tional exhibition of industry and art
on a large and comprehensive scale.
The first Presbyterian church, Rich :
mond, Ind, was struck by lightning
Friday night and set on fire and de-
stroyed. Charles Hessman, John
Estell and Jesse Mccullough were
injured during the fire.
One hundred and fifty employees of
the Queen and Crescent route struck
Monday at Meridian, Miss, for back
pay. The pay car left Cincinnati
the same day and no further dam
age is apprehended.
About noon of the Dist five negroes
were killed by lightning at st. Chas
Parish, La. They were working in
a rye field, and had gathered under a
tree for protection when the tree was
struck, with the above result.
Joseph Lipscomb, young farmer
of Cedar Hill, Tenn, while hauling
some heavy timbers across Miller.
Creek at an unused ford, Monday
evening, turned his wagon over, the
load falling upon and killing him.
The ShelbyviIle Spoke and Hui
Factory will turn ont per day about
four hundred hubs, five thousand
spokes, sixty sets of rims, and eighty
dozen handles, employing between
twenty-five and thirty hands.
Chinese labor is about TO be intro
duced into Brazil. Twenty thousand
!. indentured laborers are to be landed
, at Rio at cost of little over tel
dollars head. They will be pait
about thirty-two cents day an(
will have to provide their own food
A freshet in Givily's Run Monda,
!, night, caused by cloud burst, nea
J Evergreen, Pa, flooded twenty-five
: houses, washed away thirteen rail
road and township bridges, ant
drowned large lot of livestock
The damage will reach many thou
sand dollars. No lives were lost.
At Salem, Ind, Sunday night, Free
! Berkey shot Miss Laura Klerne
twice because she refused his atten
tons. In making his escape he sho
three other men, and then suicidet
himself. The young lady will recov
er. Berkeley was a dissolute, no &C
count fellow.
The Worlds Industrial and Cont
mental Cotton Exposition of New Or
| leans has recently been incorporated
for ten years. The exhibition is t,
cover not only matters pertaining t,
, cotton, but the products of agricul
, ture, mines and industrial arts of al
sorts.
Artificial marble is now being ex
, tensiveIy made of paper. 1t ha
r about the weight of poplar wood, j
5 far more tough and durable thai
, slate, and cannot be dented or other
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