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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24
CIRCUIT COURT.
Second Week.

Thos. Jcsup, tipping house. Trial
by court aud fine of $50 and costs.
Alex jenkins, breach Of peace.
Fined 500 and costs.
q INDICTMENTS RETURNED THE l4TH
JEFF Stevenson, willful murder.
Henry Duguid, feloniously break
ing store house.
John Cheaney, malicious cutting,
Sam Hatcher, grand larceny.
Jack Sullivan, grand larceny.
VIM. Woods, malicious cutting.
Harmon Stanley,)
VIM. Stanley, }
slaughter
The trial of the Stanleys is set for
10Th day of court next'Monday.
c. II. Hewlett and j. G. Bourland,
voluntary manslaughter. j. G. Bour-
land was tried and adjudged guilty
and his punishment fixed at two
years in the penitentiary.
THIRD WEEK.
"a MORE INDICTMENTS THE 22ND.
Jno. Grcenwade, malicious shoot
ing.
G GSSi S siasFes' Grand larceny.
Jno. Henry Route, grand larceny.
Miles Dunning, cutting sudden
heat and passion.
One case unlawrully injuring stock.
Jake Crunk, setting up fortune
wheel.
VIM Merritt, renting house to use
as bawdy house.
Shaunie Robertson, bawdy house.
Jack Wright, retailing.
Same, retailing.
Alfred Dossett, retailing.
Tom McReynolds,
Young Douglass
Geo. Morris, hog stealing.
Isham Patterson, hog stealing.
Jim Bradley,
Jno. Cheaney,} gaming.
Alex Lower,
John Watson, c. c. d. W.
Jno. G. Terrell,
Dan Grace,
Wesley Taylor,
Harrison Grace,
John Greenwadc, /"
win Collins,
Bob Watson,
Thos. WOotton,
THE JAIL UNSAFE.
SEPT. Is, 1856.
We the undersigned committee APP
pointed by the grand jury of this
county to report as to the condition
of the county prison, respectfully re-
port that we visited the prison this
day and find the jail clean and the
prisoners comfortably taken care of
and fed.
We do net consider the Jail entire
ly safe and some repairs are needed.
The floor and the stairway and sew
eral of the windows need repairing,
also the wall and outside door.
G. w. SHAW.
DRURY BOYD.
S. FOWLER.
NELSON Cross.
L. w. STEGER.
Sam Hatcher, COL, tried for grand
larceny and given one year in the
penitentiary.
CIVIL MATTERS.
Henry West VS.. Jno. Watt, YER
dict for plaintiff for 500.
Nathan Davie VS.. Jas. w. Moore.
Judgment for the defendants and
cause dismissed.
Il. B. McReynOlds and j. b. Dade
excused from further service as
grand jurors and j. w. Courtney and
I. B. Brown put in their stead.
JAS. NJ. Clark VS.. Major Poindexter
and others. Judgment for $l65 and
sale Of land ordered.
Jas. 4. Coleman vs.. Belle Brame
and others. Judgment for plaintiff
for $5,045 55 and cost and foreclosure
of mortgage ordered.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24
Farm For Sale!

At public auction, Monday. Oct. lth, 1856, in
front Of Court House door at II o'clock, A. NJ,
splendid tract Of land situated s miles south OF
Hopkinsville on Little River, one mile below
Stegar's Old Mill, tract ofland formerly owned
by j. N. Radford, and contains 3l2 acres. Good
house and barn. For terms and particulars APP
ply to w. Il. COOMBS,
sept2l4t Beverly, Ky.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24

Ny friends to remember that Hon.
est John Moayon has only one store
and that is on corner of 9th and
Virginia streets.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24

What Mr.. E. B. NeucOmb, a Prominent Citizen
= and Merchant Of Henderson, Writes Or.
II. N. Sherman Who viii Visit
Hopkinsville, Oct. Istand
Remain until Nov. LIST,
al Burbridgo
House.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24
EXCELSIOR WAGONS

Will run lighter and carry heavier
loads than any wagon sold on this
market, and warranted to give salts
faction.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24
Lumber! Lumber!

The largest and most complete
stock of Lumber, Sash, Doors, Blinds,
Shingles, Laths, Boards, Ceiling,
Flooring and Weather boarding ever
on this market. Our facilities for
contracting has no equal.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24
SPOT CASH!

Having done a credit business for years, and
feeling its disadvantages, we propose on July
LIST, 1886 to commence an exclusive CASH bust
us in case your order should not be filed if moi
accompanied by the cash.
Please notify your family accordingly, as VIC
do not want the disagrecable duty of refusing
to deliver coal on their orders, or return wag-
ons empty.
This rule is POSITIVE, NO EXCEPTION
Do not ask for credit, for you will be refused
and 1t will be embarrassing both for you and
ourselves. UNDERWOOD II ELLIS
FOULKs Y Son,
j. W. YANCEY,
MORROW u DAWSON.
mayll
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24
FINE Carriages,

Buggies, Jaggers, Phaetons and
Spring Wagons by the car load at
the most reasonable prices. Each
job warranted to be satisfactory.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-09-24
SPECIAL LOCALS.
The Fall Trade

Whit Stevenson has opened shoot
ing gallery in Opera house building,
where he would be pleased to see his
old patrons and friends.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
Cu1si7a0 EuiLeDsas.

At a meeting of the British Medical
Association at Brighton, Mr.. Victor
Horsley, F. r. S. Surgeon to the Ma
tional Hospital for the Paralyzed and
E~pileptic, exhibited three patients
treated in that hospital, whose recovery
may be said to mark the commencement
of a new era in surgery. They are men
who have been suffering from severe
epileptic fits, and in whom Mr.. Horsley
has opened the skull and has removed
diseased structure or new growth from
the brain itself.
In the most recent Of these three the
operation was performed on the 18th,
sc that a complete month has since
elapsed; and the patient was sufficiently
well to take the journey to Brighton.
The other two cases were operated upon,
one a week or two ago and the
other several weeks earlier; and in none
of the three has there been any symptom
to interfere with the prompt and CON-
plete recovery. So far, also, the men
are cured of their epilepsy; but a con-
siderable time must be permitted to
elapse before any claim for permanence
of result can be established. What is
actually proved at present is that it has
become possible, by the observation of
symptoms, not only to determine Its pre-
else position with such accuracy that it
can be cut down upon and removed. 1t
is also proved that considerable portions
of brain may be removed without injury,
the functions to which these portions are
subservient being performed, after a
while. very possibly, by corresponding
parts of the opposite hemisphere. LON
don Times.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
An artists Lions.

Landseer had an extreme fondness for
studying and making pictures of lions,
and from the time when, as a boy, he
dissected one, he tried to obtain the body
Of every lion that died in London. Dick
ems was in the habit of relating that on
one occasion, when he and others were
dining with the artist, q servant entered
and asked, "aDid you order q lion, sir2''
as if it was the most natural thing in the
world. The guests feared that d living
lion was about to enter, but it turned
out to be the body of the dead .Neron
Of the Geological Gardens, which had
been sent as a gift to Sir Edwin.
His skill in drawing was marvellous,
and was once shown in a rare way at a
large evening party. Facility in draw
ing had been the theme of conversation,
when q lady declared that no one had
yet drawn two objects at the sane mo.
ment. Landseer would not allow that
this could not be done, and Immediately
took two pencils and drew horses head
with one hand, and at the same time a
stag's head with the other hand. He
painted with great rapidity; he once
sent to the exhibition a picture of rabbits
painted il three-quartera Of an hour
MI. Wells relates that at one time when
Laadseer was visiting him, he left the
house for church just as his butler placed
g fresh canvas on the easel before the
painter; on his return, three hours later,
Landseer had completed . life-sized pic,
ture Of . fallow-deer, and 50 well was ii
done that neither be nor the artist could
see that il required retouching,-A.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
DG,steI Webster.

Rufus Choate, speaking of Daniel
Webster, said that he never heard him
make a speech, a great speech, whatever
were the topic or the time, that did not
leave the impression that he loved moth,
ing, desired nothing, so much as the
good and glory of America; that he knew
nc North and no South; that he did not
seem to summon around him the whole
brotherhood of States and men and hold
them to his heart. This gave freshness
and energy to all his speeches; this set
the tune to the universal harmony.
Even his studies revealed this passion.
He knew American history by heat as a
statesman, not as an antiquary should
know it. The plain, noble men. the
high aims and hard fortunes of the co.
lonial time, the agony and the glory Of
the Revolutionary War, and of the ace
of the Constitution were all familiar to
him; but chiefly he loved to mark how
the spirit of national life was evolving
itself all the while; how the colonies
grew TO regard n another as children
OF the same mother, and therefore frater-
naily' how the common dlnger, the COM
NOR oppression Of the arte. Revolution
airy and Revolutionary period served to
fuse them into one; how the, Constitu-
ton made them formally one, and how
the grand and sweet and imperial senti-
naent Of q united national life came at
last to penetrate and warm that whole
vast and various mas and move il as q
soul.-Ran Rsrlsy Pooys.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
ne Too Nahes.

s@hen I'm q man. the STRIPPING cries,
And strives the coming years to scan,
sAh, then Ishall be strong and wise,
When I'm q man"
"When I was young" the old man signs,
sBravely the lark and linnet sung
Their carol under sunny skies,
When I was young"
"When I'm a man / shall be free
To guard the right, the truth uphold"
"When / was young I bent no knee
To power or gold"
'sThen shall / satisfy my soul .
With yonder prize, when I'm a man."
"Too late / found how vain the goal
To which / ran"
"When Pm a man these idle toys
Aside forever shall be fungi
'"There was no poison in my joys
When / was young"
The boys bright dream is all before;
The mans romance lies far behind.
Had we the present and no more,
Fate were 1nkind.
But, brother, toiling in the night
Still count yourself not all unbles9
Ii in the East there CLEANS q light,
!. Or in the West
-BLacEWood's Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
PEARLS OF OUGHT.

|
Obstacles are but the rungs that form
the ladder of success.
In order to deserve a true friend you
must first learn to be one.
The tongue slow and the eyes quick.
Keep your mouth shut and your eyes
open.
/ take it to be a principal rule Of
life not to be too much addicted to any
one thing.
Were we as eloquent as angels, we
should please some more by listening
than by talking.
AS love without esteem is volatile and
caprlcious, esteem without love is
languid and cold.
Heroes are not always made on the
battlefield. They appear in the most
ordinary circumstances. Then theil
names are unmentioned in daily print,
and among mon.
Under no circumstances does it pay ia
quarrel. In the heat of anger, words
are spoken which had far better be left
unsaid, but which, once spoken, cannot
be recalled or forgotten.
No way has been found for making
heroism easy, even for the scholar.
Labor, from labor, is for him. The
world was created as an audience
the atoms of which it is made are op.
nortunities.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
En- peonEe and fluids.

The question whether water is fatten-
ING or otherwise has been much dis
cussed. Formerly it was generally
asserted that the victims of obesity should
mortify the flesh and reduce the fat bJ
abstaining as much as possible from
LIQUIDS and remaining in q continual
state of thirst. Latterly the opposite ha
been affirmed, and ! am told that a re
duction of weight is n of the result
claimed by s'the hot water cure" pro
vided always the water is taken az hot as
possible, painfully hot, and in great
quantities. Experimentshave been made
in Paris by DR.. Debove which controvert
both these doctrines. These expert
ments indicate that, provided the same
amount Of solid food is taken, large
quantities of water make a man neither
thinner nor fatter. They were carefully
made on a friend who took weighed
quantities of food daily, and while
these remained equal doubling the guam
tity of water had no measurable effect on
the weight of the body. Still, it is quite
possible that the old theory of thirst cure
and the new theory of hot water cure may
both be correct. Both violate the natural
conditions of health. Scalding hot water,
like tea OR coffee, or grog of similar tenn
perature, unquestionably injuries the
teeth, stomach, and other organs on
cerned in the early stages of digestion,
and it is very probable that deficiency OF
liquid impedes the latter stages, whereby
the chyme, by the aid of the digesting
fluids, becomes converted into chyle and
blood. A fat man may easily become
thinner by injuring his health. 'Bant-
ing" is dangerous, as many who have
fairly tried can prove. The difficult
problem is to reduce the fat without re-
ducing the strength at the same time. A
skillful trainer will undertake to bring
any man down to his Fighting weight"
j. e., to the best condition for violent
exertion, but as soon as the discipline of
the trainer is relaxed the obecity, when
constitutional, returns, and a long con-
tinuance of high training is murderous.
Perhaps tho old prescription, "keep
your mouth shut and your eyes open,"
when followed with judicious limita-
lions, is the best. Eat less, sleep less,
and walk more are safe injunctions, pro-
vided they are obeyed in moderation.
The fat mar who uses malt liquor as a
daily beverage deserves to be buried
under cross roads at midnight, accord
ing to the ancient modes of degrading
the willful perpetrators of teb de Sc
Gentteman's Magazine.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
Hooked and landed

Brides Little Brother to Bridegroom
ibid it hurt you much when she did
it?s
Bridegroom-'eWhat hurt mea"
Brides L. B.-'eThe hook. Did it &c
in your lipw
Bridegroom-"T don't know what
you mean, Johnnie.
Brides Mother-aLeave the table thi,
instant. Johnnie.n
B.'sL. B.-"What fora / only wanted
to know if it hurt him. You said ST.
had fshed for him long time but shs
hooked him at last, and WANTED to know
if
BIS Z. B. is yanked. out of his chail
and hurried from the room and tht
bridegroom becomes meditative-Bosto,
Courier.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
NeW Forks PuEattal Structures.


Go away up town, in the vicinity Of
Central Park, and look over some of The
enormous structures there, writes d New
York correspondent of the Boston Herald.
Vast piles Of apartment buildings upon
which millions and millions Of dollars
have been expended meet the eye almost
everywhere. Moreover, the fact of THEN
costliness does not go unseen. From
caves 10 cellar, from capstone to gutter,
il sticks out everywhere, 50 that he who
runs may read. There is, not a corner 81
i pillar, Or 4 doorway that does not Tell
Of vast expenditure. What il the re
sulta Why, il those great building
single suites Of apartments command
rentals that run up into the air as high as
the buildings themselves. It'll not at al
uncommon ID pay 80, 900 ! year for !
fat IN one Of these great buildings. And
that Is just where the return comes In.
There are plenty Of people, too, Who sic
wiling 70 pay for the privilege Of occus
pying any one of these great tiers Of
palaces-for they are alike palatial inside
and out. And further investigator
shows that the old apartment houses.
upon which the money was spent inside
the walls exclusively, are petering ous Ii
proportion to the growth Of the demand
for looming places Il these bigger an6
more gorgeous structures. ]
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
Moomshtntng, Past and Present.

MOonshietng, Past and Present.
Mr.. Crawford, one of the oldest anG
most efficient revenue officials of Nortl
Carolina, gave an illustration of thu
strength of this sentiment against thu
internal revenue system. Said he: 81
have seen the time when, if we sent out
a party on a raiding expedition after
illicit stills, it was necessary to send after
them supplies, ever to the forage for the
horses. Not a pound of hay or an ear Of
corn could our men buy on the way, such
was the prejudice against them. Then,
too, have seen the whole community
combine to defeat the object of the visit
to a suspected locality. A horn would
blow Or a bell ring on the approach OF
the revenue officer. The signal would
be repeated and repeated again and again
as it passed from house to house, growing
fainter in the distance, and our men
would know without a word being said
that for miles around the whole country
had been put on guard against us.
tit isn't nearly so bad as that now,"
he continued, ''but still the feeling is
strong that the system is unjust and an
invasion of rights. Perhaps the growth
OF the temperance feeling may have had
something to do with the moderation of
The opposition to work. Probably
the generally improved condition of
things and the growing respect for law
and order has a good deal to do with ito
There is no doubt moonshining is terri
bly, demoralizing to a community. /
can tell as soon as | get into a locality
whether there is illicit distilling going
on. If | see the men at work IN the fields
and everything neat about the houses,
business going on in the ordinary man.
ner, I know the people are all straight;
but if I see men loafing, women looking
slatternly and things run down at the
heel, I feel pretty certain there are illicit
stills Whereabouts "-a. Louis Globe
Democrat
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
The Most Heaomo,.s Snakes.

An English army officer tells in Cham
bers' Journal the following stories abou
the cobra, the most venomous of snakes
While at home on furlough from India
short time ago, / was much amused a
finding a very general impression among
my friends that to come across a cobra il
an everyday kind of occurrence in India
How erroneous this idea is may be gath
cred from the, fact that not many days
ago a brother officer told me that al.
though he had been about ten years ir
India, he had never yet seen a cobra
in a wild state. His is, it is true, prob.
ably an exceptional case; but. still it
shows that an Englishman may pass a
considerable time in India without COM
ing across one of these reptiles.
Cobras, however, are met with quite
often enough, and sometimes in very GU
rious and uncomfortable places. For in
stance, a young lady who had just re-
tured from a ball in a small station
in Southern India noticed, as
she was on the point of getting
into. bed, that the pillow looked disar-
ranged; aud on taking it up to smooth
it out, she discovered a cobra coiled up
underneath it. She called out for as
s%istance, and her father coming to the
rescue, speedily dispatched the obnox-
lous intruder with a stick. happened
to mention this circumstance to an officer
one day, and he informed me that the
very sam, thing had happened to him
soon after hio first arrival in the country,
and that in consequence, he never got
into bed until he had examined the pill
lows.
In the year 1873, while quartered at
Bellary, on going to the drawing-room of
the bungalow, which at that time ]
shared with q friend, l discovered a
cobra curled up on the sofa cushion. I
fastened out of the room to fetch a
stick, but in doing so, / must, I suppose,
have made some noise, as on returning
the snake had disappeared. A few
evenings later, however, just as my
'chumn was leaving the house to
go out to dinner, he called out to me
that there was a snake crawling
up to the steps of the veranda in front of
the drawing-room. / ran out with a
stick and succeeded in killing the unwel-
visitor. Tt turned out to be a fair |
~ large cobra, and was in all probability
.he. one which | had seen a few DAYS pre-
on the sofa. It is, however, in
the bathrooms of an Indian bungalow
that cobras, when met with within doors,
are most frequently encountered, as they
come there in pursuit of the frogs which
delight to take up their quarters there;
froggy is an articlesf diet to which
cobra is very partial. an officer OF
the Madras: cavalry, since deceased, told
me that when quartered at Arcot he one
day observed in his bathroom, emerging
the waste-water pipe, the head of a
which was holding in its mouth a
frog. The pipe was too narrow to admit
the snakes Withdrawing his head un-
less he released his victim; this, however,
from unwillingness to forgo his meal, he
would not do, and, in consequence, paid
he penalty for his giuttony with hi.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
SCRAPS.

An electric spark in a dusty atmoa
phere causes dust to settle, and if the al
be smoky clears it. This is proba ably on
reason why the air seems so clear after
thunderstorm, even if little rain ha
fallen.
From study and experiment, DR.. G. L.
| Fitch, for five years in charge of th'
lepers in the Sandwich Islands, has
formed the opinion that leprosy is mo-
a contagious disease, as it is usually re-
garded.
A new and plausible explanation Of
he destructive fires occurring in pine
forests is offered. The pine resin exud-
ing from the r :es is often of lens shape,
and before it thoroughly hardens fire.
quently of crystalline c~learness. 1t is
surmised hat while in that condition a
resin lens may focus the suns rays upon
some light twig or resinous point and SO
start a blaze that quickly eats up a
forest.
Metallic railway ties are now employed
in Belgium, Holland, France, Germany,
and Switzerland, and in the United
States a parer tie of the hardness of
stone and taking as high a polish as
metal, has been patented. It is i'm
pervious to dampness, and will, it is
estimated, last thirty years. The ex-
pertinent with metallic ties on the Mexi-
can railway to Vera Cruz is satisfactory.
The railway tie question is n of great
special interest where the climate rapidly
destroys the frmest woods.
Measurements have shown the thick
ness of the human hair to vary from the
two hundred. and iftieth to the sixth
hundredth part of an inch. The silk
worms thread is one-five-thousandth of
an inch thick, and the spiders web only
n thirty-thousand. Blonde hair is the
finest, and red the coarsest. Taking
four heads of hair of equal weight, a
patient German psychologist found the
red me to contain about 80, 900 hairs;
the black, 1o3, 900; the brown, 100, 600,
and the blonde, 140, 900. |
A method of sending a picture by tel
has been invented by a Scotch
man, W. Gammill, by which a photograph
taken at one cad of a wire is transmitted |
and reproduced at the other. The pic
ture is primarily projected on a selenium
cell placed in the Geographic circuit,
which, according to the degree of %inten-
of the light received, acts upon the
and through it a number of
subsidiary currents connected with an in
candescent lamp Illuminating it with
Varied degrees of intensity consonant
the strength of the current. "These
successive illuminations," according to
he Photographic Times, "would give i'm
'ges of corresponding brightness to the
points in the picture thrown upon the
cell, and the final picture, of
course, would consist of a series of these
points in various depths of shade"
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
BUSY as a Bee.

Ancient Dame-Yes, my dear, a wife
should be a true helpmate to her hus
band, and ] am glad you have no desir,
for idleness.
Modern Mrs.-Noindeed. lam Away,
busy.
when I was young, I did every bi
Of the family sewing.n
well, I haven't done any sewing yet
but ! have decorated seventeen work
baskets. "-0maha World.
The Opelousas courier., 1886-11-27
n Throne FOR Safe.

King Kalakua has been over 4 year
trying TO sell his throne for ss1A, 900, 600.
He thinks the throne. trade Is pretty
quiet. We did intend to buy it our
selves, but money will be pretty tight
with us until after election. II We %
into the throne business at ali, we
want Q corner il thrones; but we
think we . safely tell Kalakua and all
the other throne vendors that We win
bur their wares after al our subscribers
have paid UP their subseriptions.-Lgnn
Baioa.