Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-01-12

Thos. CroftOn in bar-room fight at
Ludlow on the LIST.
The Clinton Democrat is the only
paper we have observed, that is still
published in 1885,"
Hon, Polk Laffoon has had W. H,
Shackelford, of jacksonville, ap-
pointed postal clerk.
Frank Pasteur, Clerk of Caldwell
County Court, claims to be nephew
of the French scientist.
Judge Simrall, of the Louisville
Law and Equity Court, has resigned.
w. o. Harris succeeds him.
Rev. j. J.Porter, of Gallatin, Tenn,
is conducting a great revival at the
Baptist church in Somerset.
Nat Randolph, COL, was killed on
the Cincinnati Southern road while
on the track in a drunken condition.
VIM. Sharpe, one of Owensboro's
oldest merchants, made an assign
ment Saturday for the benefit of his
creditors.
Chas. Beasley, aged 10, and Miss
Baker, aged II, ran away from Lex
ington and were married in Aber-
deem, Ohio.
Short murderer in the Richmond
Jail, BACKED his face and so deceived
the keeper as to get out as a "trusty."
He escaped.
In Breckenridge county, Dec. Is
John Brown killed Louis Love, col.
Brown was acquitted OH a plea of
self-defense.
An unknown stranger, about so
years old, was found frozen to death
on the highway in the suburbs Of
Newport Saturday morning.
Mrs. De Garmo. young widow,
cowhided Jas. Qualls, at Paducal =,
because he made damaging remarks
q hnnf ba,. x,;..f,,a
Sampson Douglass, aged Is, was
shot and killed in Whitley county by |
man whom he tried to make kneel |
at the point of pistol.
Mrs. M. E. Smith has rendered her
resignation as Circuit Clerk of Larue
county since the Court of Appeals |
has decided that women cannot hold |
county offices.
The Greensboro police went snipe
hunting last Saturday and captured
Jack and Jesse Snipe, colored broth
ers, wanted at Henderson for shoot
ing with intent to kill.
Bob Story, turbulent character.
shot and killed James Moore, in his
own house near Ashland, while the
latter was ejecting him for boisterous
Senator D. II. Smith will introduce
a bill making gambling of all kinds
felony, punishable by confinement in
the penitentiary.
S. S. Ratliff, a wealthy Bath coun-
by farmer, held family reunion the
other day at which he distributed ,
checks for $1,000 to each of his six
children.
Dr. H. X. Pussy, Superintendent
Of Anchorage Asylum, is having a
beautiful artificial lake, ten acres in
area, constructed in the grounds of
hat institution.
Harrison Peck, aged so, killed his
nephew Otis Mitchell, aged Is, in
Livingston county, because the young
mans stock got into his uncle's field.
Mitchell had only been married a
hort time.
Asbury Crisp, who shot and dan
wounded Craig Tolliver,
he notorious desperate, about ten
lays ago.. was captured in Scioto
)ounty, Ohio. He will be taken to {
elliott County.
j. q. Fenton, postmaster at High
irove, Nelson county, has been ar
ested by a U. S. Marshal for viola
ing the law by refusing to turn over a
he office to his newly appointed sue fl
essor, j. q. Mccormack. t
The Henderson Journal says the
'arret House, Henderson's new ho- N
Ell, is the finest hotel in Southern
kentucky. The building is a three
tory brick with 10 rooms and stands Z
ust opposite the Court House. IL
Mrs. Sallie McGruder, colored, of |
'helbyville, is 100 years old. She is
till youthful, sufficient to walk with
nut assistance, and is thought to be
gradually petrifying. She moved +!
rom Maryland to Kentucky, coming
ia Louisville, when there were but
wo log huts in the now metropolis of
he State. She was married at the
ge offifteen, has had fifteen children,
Il of whom died of old age, and one 4
'et living, who isso old that he hasn't \
card it thunder for five years.-Lou.
lines,