Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-07-31
HERE AND THERE.


way for sale cheapa G. w. Dncker's.*
Max lIanbery sold fine mare TO
DR.. f. ID Anderson yesterday for
$3.50.
Sheriff Boyd has paid the State all
the revenue due from this county but
SIPS 80.
Henry Wallace is the recipient of
many congratulations. Henry is
papa, you know, of fine baby boy.
w. w. Schrigly, brakeman on
this division, seriously cut a negro in
a difficulty at Nashville, Saturday
night.
Thomas Penn's tobacco factory,
near Cerulean, was destroyed by fire
Friday. The loss will be about SO,
600.
Ed. Carpenter and Miss Matte
Smith, Of the Pembroke neighbor-
hood, were married In Clarksville
Tuesday morning.
Two hundred colored excursiouists
left for GAINESVILLE Sunday morning
aud the car for white people was well
filled.
A freight train was wrecked be-
tween Pembroke and Trenton, Sat
urday morning, delaying the passen-
ger trains six hours.
Rev. Mr.. Livingston, of Indiana,
preached at the Ninth street Presby-
terrain church Sunday afternoon. lie
Is q German Lutheran.
Mr.. w. Il. Radford had 300 acres of
wheat which yielded 27Ie bushels to
the acre. This was but small part
of his crop.
The l.. & N. will sell round trip
tickets TO Dawson from Aug. 4'h 10
the 18th, good to return on Nth, for
81 90, on account of the Good Temp
lars blowout.
The colored teachers Institute con-
vcned in the court house yesterday
As strong. Prof. j. III. Jackson, of
the State Colored Normal School, at
Frankfort, is conducting the Institute
Mr.. L. l.. Graham showed us last
week sample of clover over four
feet tall. AS this has been a bad
year for clover, the growth ofhis crop
is something truly wonderful.
Mr.. w. A. Gossett, of Hopkinsvile,
has rented the building now occupied
by the Messenger, and will open up
wholesale and retail furniture estab
lIshment in it about September lot :
Greensboro Messenger.
The Louisville & Nashville railroad
has 2,022 miles of track, has outstand-
ing stocks amounting TO S30,000000,
and a bonded indebtedness of S62,-
6S3, 254. Its stock is quoted at from
fifty to sixiy-five cents on the New
York market.
Mr.. James Sizemore, of Crofton,
was In the city for the first time since
1861 last Thursday. When he ar
rived in town he inquired for tine old
land marks but they were all gone,
gnawed down by "ihe relentless tooth
of time"
John Griffith, clerk at Dixie Will
sons, hung his vest on nail in the
store Saturday. A negro came in
and while wandering aboutthe house
took Griffith's watch from the vest
and made his escape. The watch has
the initials 81. IL. g." engraved on
the back.
The fence in the rear of Judge G.
II. Bush's residence caught fire, Sun
day morning, from some hot ashes
and was in full blaze before discov-
cred. The neighbors were called in
and extinguished the flames before
any particular damage was done.
Ben Word, colored, was stopped by |
two white men, Saturday night, near
the toll gate on the Princeton road,
who presented their revolvers and
demanded his money. Word took TO
his heels and escaped without injury.
This matter Is At subject for thor
ough investigation.
Two colored men had difficulty
over cold Iless," the half-witted wo-
man who is giving the public SO
much trouble, in front of the Phoenix
about IL o'clock Saturday night.
They swore at terrible rate and
made the night hideous with their
cursing.
A white excursionists, from Penn
broke, got into fight with Clarks-
willie negro, at Clarksyille, Sunday,
and was shot at by the latter but es-
capped unhurt. A companion of the
Pembroke citizen, who was remotely
connected with the difficulty, was ar
rested by the police. We were I'M
able to learn the names ofthe parties.
In this issue appears an advertise
ment of F. Curran Il Co., No. 2l2,
First street, Louisville, wholesale
liquor dealers. This firm is agent
for the celebrated "Brehmen" whisky
and "Curran's Glen Lea Bourbon"
as we'll as many other excellent