Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-05-28
KENTUCKY KNOWLEDGE.

Col. Thos. L. Jones, of Newport, is
seriously i'll.
The editor of the Interior Journal
has seen strawberries as large as
mans fist.
A number of families OF Swiss i'm
migrants have just settled in Lincoln
county.
The body of Andrew T. Cox, who
suicided at Maysville Jan. lst, has
just been found.
Mad dogs are creating a good deal
of excitement in the Horton neighbor-
hood of Ohio county.
IIenryLossie and Miss MaryBrooks,
of Greensboro, eloped TO RoCkpOrt
and were married Sunday.
Rev. G. G. Rupert, 7th day adj
ventist, is preaching at Russellville,
attended by a party of his adherents.
D. r. Edwards and Miss Willie
Macy eloped to Jacksonville from
Versailles and were married Mon
day night.
The Democrats of Garrard county
have endorsed Judge Durham for
Governor and called upon him to
proclaim himselfa candidate.
An aged negro named King, to-
gether with his great-grand child,
was burned to-death in a cabin near
Louisville. They were sleeping in
the loft and could not get out in time.
Mrs. w. G. WEIGH publishes card
in the Stanford Journal stating that
her brother was raised by prayer
from a sickness "nigh unto death"
and that his recovery was not due to
the skill of any physician.
The Southern Presbyterian Church
in Kentucky has Just come into pos
session of $4,000 bequeathed by VIM.
Workman, who subsequent 10 the
making of his will beclme insane
and died a lunatic in 1882.
]. c. Munday, aged "a, and Chas.
Baber, few years younger, were
drowned while seining in the Ken
lucky river near Richmond. Baber
was drowning and Munday went to
his rescue and he too lost his life.
VIM. Alexander, a clerk in the
Louisville post Office, has been caught
robbing the mails, by marked bills
designed to trap him, and is Ian
guished in Jail, being unable to give
a bond for 81, 800. lie is a married
man.
The G. A. r. post at Mt. Vernon
N. Y, has asked for the resignation
of S. NJ. Saunders, one of its mem
bers, because he offered a toast to the
health of Hon. Jefferson Davis, dur
ing recent visit to Savannah. AL
the fools are not dead yet.
At Stepstone, in Bath county, Wed
nesday, Jackson Carter shot and kill
: ed a man named Roe, with whom HI
had quarreled at Mt. Sterling during
the day. Carter was afterwards sho
by brother of Roe, but escaped tC
Morehead, Rowan county, where 1t
was arrested. Winchester Sun.
AT Carrollton Will Il. Whitehead
fatally shot Miss Laura Harwood
: through the head, just after return
ing from a drive. He then shot him
| self in the head. The lady who wa
a governess in the family, died in q
minutes, but Whitehead was in dy
ing condition at last accounts. TIL
affair is involved in deep mystery.
Two remarkable cases of petrifica
ton have lately been discovered a
the old Western cemetery at Louis
vile. In one case the body was bur
led in 1910 and was perfectly natura
: and very heavy. The other was
, babe of Ii months, and had bee
3 buried 90 years. Several persons
n among them mother of the child, sa,
q the body and say that it was perfect
O ly natural aud appeared to be sleep
ing.-Winchester Sun.
Nose Dawson, a drunken negr
y hoodlum, refused to pay his fare o
e o. 81 N. road Saturday night and tn
d conductor, with the assistance of !
Z G.. Clinton put him off. Dawso
d opened fire from the platform shoe
% ing Clinton and perhaps fatal
d wouniing him. The fire was returne
a and the negro shot in the neck an
Of badly hurt. Clinton is young farm
is er of Adairville. Dawson is in Jail
Of Bowling Green for safe keeping, as
mob was feared at Russellville.