The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-08-26
Miscellaneous Item..

tobacco buyer, who came to Louisville some
time ago to purchase tobacco, suicided the
other morning at his boarding-house by
. shooting himself through the head twice
No cause known. He is about twenty-three
years old.
The other morning at the family resi-
dence in McCracken County, small
daughter of VIM. Schmidt was drowned in
a wclL All the family but an aunt-a
young lady-were some distance from the
house at the time. The aunt says that a
man in mask came into the house and forci-
bly, took the child from her, after assault
ing her with.a stick and tearing her cloth
ing, and ran. In searching for the man the
well was suggested, and the child fshed
from the bottom. The aunt had only few
minutes before been left temporarily in
charge of the child, No trace of the man
could be found. The story of the aunt is
generally accepted, though it is questions
able one.
BY the will Of Philo Carpenter, of Chica-
go, recently probated in that city, the Be
rea College, of this State, gets $500
THE Shelby County Times has been sued
by John A. Adams for crimina libel He
asks S5,UOO damages.
THE board of temperance trustees have
begun to get in their work
at shelbyville. AT their last meet
meeting 7. A. McGrath, whose license ex-
pired that day, applied for a renewal and
it was refused by a unanimous vote. The
other saloons and drugstore licenses will be
stopped as they expire.
jim PAGE, a colored boy, fell from Ken
lucky Central freight train at Covington,
and had his leg cut off at the knee He
died next day, after suffering much pain.
IT is now settled fact that the Deuber
Watch Case Factory will be removed from
Newport to Canton, o. The doration of
100000 from the citizens of.the latter place
has been accepted Work on the new
building will be commenced at once
HERBERT B. BLAIR, of Kentucky, has been
promoted from the $1,000 to the 81, 200
grade in the Geological Survey Office,
Washington, and Edward I. Perkins, jr.,
of Kentucky, from the $40 to the $500
grade,
PINK BINFoRD, popular young man re-
siding at Fulton committed suicide few
days ago. He left note saying that the
world is full of care and trouble and he
had enough of it.
ROBERT l.. EVANS has been commissioned
postmaster at Kensee.
LEVI GAsTINEAu, well-to-do farmer in the
northern part of Pulaski County, commit
ted suicide the other morning. Marital in
felicity the cause.
UNDER direction of Colonel John F.
Davis, Commissioner of Agriculture, Hor-
ticulture, etc, of Kentucky, an exhibition
OF fruits grown in this State will be held at
the Southern Exposition at Louisville on
September and 2. The exhibition will be
divided into eight classes, including apples,
pears, peaches, grapes, plums, wine and
cider, honey, evaporated apples and
peaches. Prizt5 ranging from $40 to 80
cents will be awarded in each class Each
class will be divided into several rings.
PATRICK NASH, night watchman on Muld-
raugh Hill, near Elizabethtown, on the L.
and N. road trestle, sat down on the side of
the track at the end of one of the trestles,
the other morning, and went to sleep. He
was struck by train No. ~, and killed.
THE fifty-eighth annual Council of the
Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky will meet
in st Paul's church, Louisville, on Wednes-
day morning, September %.
TEERE is aprospect for heavy fall trade
for the Louisville merchants, and they are
displaying more than usual enterprise in
endeavoring to bring customers. A num-
Der of the largest firms on Main street have
dubbed together, and bought over $1,000
worth of railroad tickets, which they will
distribute among merchants doing business
at points where other cities compete with
Louisville for business. This plan was tried
once before, and was quite a success. The
merchants are also cooperating with the
Exposition in inducing the Southern people
to come to Louisville.
THE following Kentucky postmasters
were appointed on the nth; VIM. H. Day,
at Kings Creek, Letcher County; o. l..
Bollinger, at Lair, Harrison County; l.. A.
Owen, at Lockport, Henry County; John
W. Rusk, at Peach Grove, Pendleton
County; s. II. Rose, at Saltwater, Wolfe
County. The postoffice at Jarrett, Logan
County, has been discontinued because of
the resignation of the old postmaster, and
there being no candidate to succeed him.
The troops at Camp Hindman, Crab Or
chard Springs, struck tents on the nth and
took up their march for home after the most
interesting tour of duty they have ever
been called upon to perform. The encamp-
ment has been success, the conduct of the
troops admirable and the entire affair
high credit to officers and men alike.
The Rev. George o. Barnes well-known
all over Central and Eastern Kentucky
and in Ohio as "Brother Barnes, the Noun.
tain Evangelist arrived in Louisville the
other night, after his tour of the%sxorld.
He evangelical extensively in England and
India, and has returned believing in the
Church of England.
DURING the storm the other mofning the
barn of J. NJ. Armstrong, at Benton Sta
tion, Kenton County, was struck Ny light
ming and was entirely destroyed, together
with the contents. 1t was a new building,
and was filed with farming implements
and sixty tons of hay.
CHARLES PARKER, colored, was killed al
Olympia by a train Of coal cars running
over bim