The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-10-21
Miscellaneous Items.

AT Louisa, Belle Leavisy and Lille
Bolts, colored, quarreled, when the for
mer whipped out revolver and shot the
latter in the abdomen, inficting mortal
wound. Leavisy was jailed
THE trial of Shade Chapman for the muir
der of Dave James, in Martin County, in
| 1884, closed at Inez the other day, the jury
sentencing Chapman to the penitentiary
for life. He has been conveyed to Frank
| fort.
A HARD wind-storm prevailed throughout
the State the other morning, but no special
damage is reported The wind started
freight car from a siding near the old de-
pot, Louisville. 1t ran onto the main
track and was run into by a south-bound
Louisville and Nashville freight, causing a
wreck Two unknown tramps stealing
ride on the cowcatcher were killed.
Miss Lulu SMITH, ayoung lady who had
been engaged in teaching school in Meade
County, drowned herself in a pond. No
cause is assigned for the act.
CHAs. RAMSEY was convicted at Mays
vile of shooting and wounding VIM. Ben
nett, and given one year in the penitsn
tiary.
The roof of the Christian Church at Dam
Vile was blown-efE-b5 high wind the other
morning, and carried rs yards from the
building.
PROHIBITION was adopted in Simpson
County the other day, by majority of 800
votes.
In the United States Court, in Louisville,
Robert L. Lee, of Knox County, was ac-
quilted Of the charge of "moonshining, ''the
principal witness against him being Stone
wall jackson.
JAsPERV YATES and Maud S. Ward, an
eloping couple from Upton, crossed the
river a few days ago. and were married in
Jeffersonville, Ind. The BRIDES parents OBJ
jected to young Jasper and forbid his at
tentions to their daughter. The young
couple decided to elope, and the young
man drove up in front of his sweetheart's
residence in a huckster's wagon, in the
rear Of WHICH was large chicken-coop.
While Jasper proceeded to interview the
old gentleman with a view to securing the
daughters hand in marriage, the latter
slipped out to the wagon and climbed into
the chicken-coop, Wh,n the old man re-
fused, the young lover said; "All right,
didn't want her, anyhow and drove
away, In short while the girls alb
sence was discovered, and an ex-
citing chase took place, in which
the whole neighborhood took part. Pistol
balls whistled through the covered huck-
sters wagon, but only had the effect to
accelerate the speed of the foam-covered
steeds. Reaching the depot at Nolan, the
train coming in, they abandoned the
wagon and fagged-out horses and boarded
the cars The pursuers reached the plat
form just as the train got under Roadway,
but the expectant groom explained mat
ters to the CONDUCTOR and no amount of
signals had the effect of stopping the
train.
HueH EDWARDS, JEFF Jarrett and Bud
Croutcher are in the Mt. Vernon Jail
charged with the murder of Elias Searcy.
The theory of prosecution is that
Searcy, having first been made drunk, was
poisoned for the purpose of securing thirty
dollars which be had upon his person.
THE Kentucky Grand Lodge Of the indie
pendent Order of Good Templars com
pleted its work few days ago, and adj
journed to meet in Louisville ON the second
Tuesday in October, 1887. r. S. Easton, Of
Spottsville, was elected and installed a
Grand Chief Templar and Alex. Lusk, of
Gum sulphur, Grand Counselor,
AT Eminence, the case of the Common
wealth against Harry Scott, colored, who
blistered his two-year-old child with fire
and then dashed it to death with whip,
has been tried. The jury returned ver-
dict Of guilty and ten years imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
BucKNER a. WOODBRIDGE, proprietors Of
one of the largest tobacco houses in South
Kentucky, made general assig ment for
the benefit of their creditors the other day
The failure is rather bad one, the nominal
assets not reaching the liabilities by more
than one third.
THE jurles in the Henry Circuit Court,
sitting at New Castle a few days ago, had
a good deal of fun with the boys who went
from Louisville to that county last March
to witness the Warren Barnes prise-fght.
The fun was ladled out to them at from $40
to $50 each, with added trimmings in the
shape OF costs
j. A. HOFFMAN and Charles Wortham,
ir, have been appointed storekeepcrs in
the See md DISTRICT,
COLONEL JAMES H. DUNCAN, Of Loais-
vile. has been appointed to position in
the folding department Of the House Of