Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-09

under 10 years of age.
S. NJ. Boone, of Somerset, has
brought $4,000 libel suit against
the Richmond Register.
Jordan Neal has lived for sixty
years within thirty miles of Mt. Ster-
ling, but never saw the town until
last week.
Paul MCQuade, another of the cir.
Gus train robbers, who escaped and
was recaptured has been given two
years in the penitentiary.
Congressman Laffoon has had Joe
B. Cabell, of Henderson. appointed
postal clerk ON the route from Evans
vile to Nashville, at a salary of$l 900.
Louis L. Allen has retired from the
editorial management of the Central
City Argus, and is succeeded by G.
H. Mathews, late of the Hartford
Herald.
Jno. V. Lovely has been appointed
postmaster at Paris. Mr.. f. L. Nc
Chesney, of the Citizen, was one of
the defeated applicants.
Laban Phelps, a son of Mr.. J. S.
Phelps, the Louisville tobacco man |;
was married on the 3rd to Miss Laura
Pryor, a daughter of Judge Pryor of
the Appellate bench.
Maj. j. f. Maury, Jailer of Bath
county, died last week. ]. T. Kim
brough has been appointed to fill the
vacancy, and has consented to give
the salary to Miss Mary Maury, sister
of the deceased.
Mrs. Alexander Campbell, wife of
the founder of the Christian church,
has moved from Wheeler's Station,
Ala, and will make her home with
her daughter, Mrs. Virginia Thomp-
son, Postmistress at Louisville.
Will S. Hays, the song writer,
made his debut on the minstrel stage
in Louisville Friday night to crowd
ed house with the Mcintyre &
Heath Company. He impersonated
"Old Ike" the negro character he
has made famous through the river
columns ofthe Courier Journal. Hays
has not yet signed with the show,
but it is thought that he will.
An attache of the Messenger Office
bought three shares of stock in a Da-
kota mine two years ago, at So a
share, and had almost forgotten the
transaction until yesterday, when he
received a dividend of $45. His
friends are now sitting up with him
and have strong hopes that he will
recover from the shock.-Owensboro
Messenger.
The cases againsts Wash Davis,
Charles ShreYe and Jesse McComb,
for the brutal assault on Mr.. Joseph
Altsheler last Thanksgiving night,
were called in the Louisville Circuit
Court Monday morning and the de-
PENDANTS were fined 1915 in the ag-
gregate. Howard Davis, the fourth,
skipped his bail bond.
A young man by the name Of
Clarendon Young, married and with
two children, killed himself with a
shot gun Monday night. He was Oh
the bond of negro for 500, for some
small offense, and neglected to have
the negro appear for trial, and was
summoned to appear to show why
the bond should not be forfeited
This so preyed upon his mind thai
he killed himself.-Lexington Ga
zette.
Mr., Henry Watterson is seriously
ill at his residence, at First ant
Chestnut streets, TO which he has
been confined for the last four weeks
He contracted violent cold at Col
ombus, where he went to speak OF
the 9Th of January, eliminating il
congestion of the kidneys His pres
ent trouble is acute insomnia. Dl
Roberts, his attending physician
thinks his strong constitution will
, prevail over these maladies.-Louis
vile Post.
A Wabash, Ind, special 10 tn
Louisville Commercial says:
The action for breach of promis
, brought by Miss Annie Messmor
against Ed. T. Green, a prominen
merchant of Louisville, comes u
= next week in Circuit Court, and al
ready the attorneys for the plainti
have 300 love letters written by Gree
! to the young lady, which alone wi
prove the existence of a marriag
contract Three days will be cor
sumed in presenting these mlssivt
to the court. In his answer to Mis-
Messmore's complaint Mr.. Green at
mits that he promised to marry he
, but says that the wedding was not
occur till after the demise of HI
mother. This is regarded as a shall
by pretext, as Mr.. Green's mother
not yet dead, and the gentleman is a
ready linked to a handsome woma
from Pennsylvania. II is expecte