Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-30
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Legislature in Harrison county.
]. j. McAfee, of Louisville, is can
lidate for Register of the Land Office.
Counterfeiters are showing bogus
half dollars in Bowling Green.
Sixty.five marriage licenses were
issued in Jefferson county last week.
War has been declared upon all I'M
dogs in Mayfield.
Jasper White died from injuries
received by the cars, at Ashland.
Twelve shorthorn cattle were sold
at Mt. Sterling at an average of $54S.
NJ. V. Bostaines stable burned at
Carlisle and ten horses persisted in
the flames.
NJ. V. Viyion's barn in Mercer Co.,
was burned Saturday night. Insured
for $500.
Howard M. Davis was fined $500
for stabbing Joseph Altsheler a Cou-
rier-Journal reporter, at Louisville.
VIM. Kinney bit Off VIM. Melon
AIDS nose in the Coyington Jail, where
they were both confined.
Elisha Nix has been sentenced to
GO days imprisonment for voting
twice at the late election in Paris.
A negro named Collins killed Mat
McCurd, white man, in Whitley
county. Collins was arrested.
DR.. Atkinson dentist, of Owens
boro, got on spree at Central City
and was robbed of 1925, last week.
Walter F. Hockersmith and Mrs.
Nellie Stuart, of Frankfort, eloped 10
Jacksonville and were married Fri
day.
Thomas NJ. Curd and Addison
Stonee, of Mercer county, lost their
tobacco barns with their contents, by
fire.
Burglars entered the Frankfort
postoffice Wednesday night and stole
81, but did not interfere with any
mail.
There were eight Thanksgiving
weddings at Louisville and scarcely
a town anywhere failed to report one
or more.
John Hanahan, pauper of Ander-
son county, committed suicide in the
poor house by cutting his throat with
a razor.
December 4, Mercer county will
vote upon a proposition to subscribe
$4,000 to the capital stock of the
Louisville Southern road.
Isaac Shelby, only son of Ken
tucky's first Governor, who bore the
same name, died in Boyle county
last week, aged 80 years.
Gov. Knott has declined to inter-
fere in the case of Harvey Pash, the
Bardstown murderer, and the con-
demned man will hang Dec. 10.
A. E. Wilson will contest the cleo
ton of Congressman elect A. G.
Caruth from the Louisville district.
Caruth's majority was lao.
Maj. P. P. johnson wants TO repre-
sent Fayette county in the next Leg.
islature and Capt. Grubbs is willing
to perform similar service for Boyle
Their election would mean two votes
for Beck.
, A Louisville Company is negotia
= ting for a body of $4,000 acres of fin
, walnut-timbered land in Rowal
county at less than $l.50 per acre
There are but 100000 acres of land il
the county.
The Standard says thousands 0
dollars are sent annually from Pa
, ducah to buy tickets in the Louislan
: Lottery. Only one prize of impoI
> lance has ever been drawn in the cit
= and that was several years ago.
Mrs. Ellen Kelly, Fairfield, ILL.,, in
c vites correspondence with view t
a matrimony, through the Henderso
e News. She is 10 years old, was
: wife three months and has been
widow one year. Prefers widowt
with small family.
o Geo. Owsley and Minnie Blancl
= ard, Of Hardin county, HE'D then
selves to Jacksonville and wei
, spliCed last Friday. They were pu
. sued SO closely that they abandone
: their buggy and slept in hay STAG
=. till daylight and then walked fiy
miles to reach a railroad station
They were very happy when til
: knot was tied.
l., The Davies county court of Claim
has settled troublesome matter tn,
threatened to cause endless litigatio
by allowing Geo. w. jolly fee {
S $1,000 in the railroad bond cases,
d which he represented the count,
+ Mr.. Jolly first asked for S25, 900, the
4 fell to $4,000 and finally agreed
e take the $500, which was Above
by vote of 10 to 8, the amount
i come out of the railroad tax to b
collected in 1887. The court was
session nine days before the matte
reached a settlement.
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