Semi-weekly south Kentuckian., 1886-07-13
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Owensboro will hold her annual
fair commencing Oct. 18th.
The Hon. Chas. d. Jacob is now in
Louisville.
DIR. and Mrs. w. f. Patton, of
Louisville, are in Washington this
week.
The "Glorious 9th" was observed
at Ashland after the most approved
style.
Elijah Brown, 4 negro boy, was
drowned while bathing at Paducah,
Saturday.
N. d. Davis and his son, aged 10
years, were killed near Central City
while walking on the railroad track.
The Paducah Standard is fussing
about the telegraphic facilities of that
place. Only one Office and one opera
tor.
Tom Sims was killed by Geo. Hay
den, at Kirbytown, Carlisle Co., last
week in free-for-all fight.
An old man named w. c. Hughes
was killed on u railroad trestle near
Bowling Green, last week. He was
70 years old.
Martin McGary, of Henderson, had
his thumb bitten by a negro man
about month ago, and last week lie
died of blood poison.
l.. b. Hughes, a brakeman, was
killed by the cars at Baxter, near
Stanford, last Wednesday night
while shifting cars.
The Law and Order Committee at
Owensboro propose to enforce the
law against saloonists who sell IL
quor on Sunday.
DIR. w. II. Wheels, of Paducah,
and his sister-in-law, while in a skifi
OH the Illinois lake fishing, were both
drowned by the capsizing Of the skiG.
A young dentist named Nicholson
suicided at Arlington, Wednesday,
by taking 10 grains of morphine.
Disappointment in love was the
cause.
Jas. NJ. Stanley, of Henderson Co
and Miss Mollie Mclean, of Evans
Vile, were married Thursday after
having been engaged 10 each other
for 20 years.
The trial at Mt. Sterling of Jack.
son Carter for the killing ofElga Roe
on the night of May 10, was conclud-
ed Tuesday. The jury found him
! not guilty.
A man named Wilson has been ar
rested and lodged in jail at Titusville,
charged with numbering the two
Miss Everharts at Lickingville, last
winter.
C. E. Weigelman committed sui
eide OH the street, in Louisville, Fri
day night, by blowing out his brainI
with pistol. Domestic and finan
cial troubles the cause.
Gen. Jno. w. Finnell, of the Gov
ington district, has been nominated
by the Republicans for Circuit Judg,
and as there are two Democrats ol
the track he has good chance to b,
elected.
A mower at work. in the meadow
of Josh and Ike Jones, on the Hang
ing Fork, ran into nest of pole-cati
Tuesday and cut four of them in two
The others resorted to their usua
means of defence and completely ov
empowered the driver, whose olfac
tories rebelled so greatly that he hat
to escape from the field 10 preven
falling from nausea. The stencl
created was so great that everybod
working in the field had to leav
and wait for a more convenient sea
son to finish the cut of clover.-Stan
ford Journal.
Bowling Green had a reunion O
the Blue and Gray on the Fourth
the Eleventh Kentucky Federal regi
ment meeting there. There wer
5000 strangers present, includin
500 soldiers. Col. Love, Federal, rea
the Declaration Of Independence
Maj. HOuchen, Federal, made fey
brief remarks, and was followed b
Capt. johnson, Federal. Col. w. Z
Hobson then delivered the first regu
lar speech, and was followed by Ger
Perry, Confederate, who addresse
the vast assemblage in very elo
quent manner, and gave an interest
ing history of the movements in fror
of Richmond just before the surrer
der, when he had command of rea
brigade on the retreat. Dinner wa
then served to the immense Grove
after which addresses were delivere
by other prominent speakers.
Dixville and immediate neighbol
hood boasts of ten persons who's
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