Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-01-06
TOBACCO NEWS.

'"N'' ~ A'sbio MUS uului
1857, constituted the receipts.
Reports from San Domingo rep
resent the new cron as abundant il
quantity and superior in quality.
Sales have been light OH our mark
ct for aOme weeks, but more of thu
crop is expected TO move in a fen
days.
Some cigars manufactured on the
Congo have been received at Brussels
and are pronounced by the Fumeul
to be of excellent quality.
The British North Borneo Com
psny, in its report for 1886, shows u
sum of 1867 received from tobacco,
against e2,G03 received in 1885.
Harris Goldstien, Isaac Wolff and
Adolph Silverstien, the latter New
York detective, have been convicted
of smuggling tobacco into Liverpool
inside ofcotton bales and fined $4,000.
The Commercial Society of Ant
werp IN its report for 1856, comments
on the continued ill-effcct upon that
branch ofcommorce of the rise in the
Belgian tobacco duties in 1888.
A veteran smoker and beer drinker
has just paid the debt of nature at the
ripe age of ninety-one, at Alti. Be-
tween the ages of eighteen and ninety
he is computed 10 have drunk six
hundred barrels of beer, and smoked
eighty hundred-weight of tobacco.
The tobacco season of 1887 closed
at Louisville Dec. q. The total sales
OF Louisville for the year amounted
to l35,l0l hogsheads, the greatest
number ever sold anywhere in one
year. The sales of Louisville for
1885, Jubilee year." were l26,677
In Paraguay, where the climate
and a peculiar deep red ferruginous
vegetable soil found in certain dis
riots are peculiarly well adapted to
obacco, there is now a large and ris-
ng export. The average annual pro-
iuction is estimated at 100000
lilogs, 100000 cwt.)
Statistics collected in connection
With the late proposal to establish
obacco Reggie in Russia show that in
European Russia the manufacture of
obacco, cigars and cigarettes gives
employment, in round numbers, 10
10000 persons. The number oil
manufactures is given at 425.
The new Statistical Yearbook of
he German Empire, gives the ssti-
,ac,,.y- NAT neriod dtrease appears A.
a r1ees-..asIntEpllA In the financial N
ScoJ-S6, the proportion was 2.S :,
; per head, against lbs in 1SSI-S5. :.
Denmark imported last year $780, III
1000 lbs of raw aud manufactured n,
oaccoS, against 7,407,OO0,0OO Id, in TO
50. The imports were chiefly from
rmany, Holland, and the United
ties. The exports, which were G,
efly to Danish settlements further w
rth, amounted TO 100000 lbs in IN
u, against 10000 lbs in 1885. an
The Louisville marketreports large phi
reduced offerings and higher prices ed
Burleys; increased speculative WI
Ting of common to good Green co
'ers, Burley substitutes and dark da
at higher prices stronger mark
generally, with extremely cold
ather, were the leading features
week
THEY GAVE UP TOBACCO.
VILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, Dec. 24.-The D..
d that habit has on the average 80,
Il, is well testified to by the result =,
tontino agreement entered into 10,
20 representative young men of I
city year ago. They were all =,
icted 10 the habitual and Excess
, use Of tobacco in some one of it's A.
ms, and they agreed 10 test their IT,
lily TO abstain from its use by -.
sing TO smoke and chew on the ,y,
day of January, 1887, the agree On \
1T to last one year, each party to Ia,
paying into a common fund SO r
~ month so long as he had lived Nh
10 the agreement, the fund at the
of the year to be divided equally "a,
ing those who had kept the agree mas
It to the end on affidavit to that and
It. or tho 20, only four have been 10 !
to resist their longing for tobacco. lie
man struggled through eight and
this without his cigar, then sue per
bed. Two succeeded in getting p p;u
6 two months. All the rest gave Y
with one months trial. Tho Mr..
unit paid into the fund is $3.50. KIM
will give each Of the four men W., wnt
kept the agreement $54.75, or an con,
IS OF slS.75 apiece, over the s36 mor
each paid in, independent of the hoa'
ago amount of SITS that repre-
} their individual savings, by the -
use of tobacco for the year. Ia
'E OF Ono, Cry OF ToLEDo,(
LUCAS COUNTY, S. S. Il
ANK j. CHENEY makes oath that
the senior partner OF tho firm of TIL
CHENEY & Co., doing business III
Q City OF Toledo, County and