Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-05-23


G division Wednesday distributing large
quantities OF cash to its employees.
) The boy Preacher will preach at
: the Court House tomorrow night
Services will commence at 1880 o'clock
: For sale cheap, or trade, good sec
. ond hand skeleton top Buggy viii
trade for u good milk cow, corn, OF
, hay. Apply to T. NJ. Edmunson, Cor
, Ninth and X. II. Sts.f
There are only four prisoners con
fined in the county jail all colored.
Three of them are charged with muir
der and the fourth with obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Mr.. Giyens failed to speak at Crof-
ton Wednesday, as the crowd was not
: large enough to justify waste of
eloque nee. He will hold forth at the
court house tomorrow at Up. IN.
Rev. John o. Rust has been called
to the pastoratc of the McFerran Me-
mortal Church. of Louisville. He has
not yet made up his mind as to
whether or not he will accept the call.
John H Milliken, Of the L. and n
was presented with diamond ring by
the Liederkranz Society, of Louisville,
in recognition OF courtesies extended
the members on their trip TO New
Orleans Saengerfest.
The school exhibition at Church
Hill academy given, by Prof. ]. B.
Fitzhugh Wednesday night, was a
success in every respect. A large
crowd was present and the program
was carried out TO the letter.
The brick building on the front
part of the Hipkins stable property
has been sold to Forbes & Bro, and
the old landmark, which has long
been used as a voting place, is now
being torn away. The property is TO |
be sold ON June 2.
In our last issue we stated that the
third and fourth weeks of the Common
Pleas Court would be devoted ex-
clusively to equity cases. This was
an error. Juries were summoned
Monday and the..regular order Of bust
ness is being carried out.
I. E. Lawson has secured two
more pensions for parties in Hop
kinsville. Mrs. Cornelia Mayes, wild
ow Of Henry Mayes, gets S2,39607
arrearages and Sl2 per month in the
future. Polk Cansler has been al
lowed S6 u month from June 1889,
under the invalid claim law.
A Hopkins county correspondent
says: Encouraged by the late do
cisions OF the Supreme Court ON the
original package question and being
born with a desire to violate our laws,
certain parties are preparing to have
to our county from another
State, liquors to be sold in violation
of the Prohibition law"
Bob Lander, Hopkinsville's colored
orator, is stumping Logan county this
week for prohibition. The "Wet or
Dry" question will be voted on to-
morrow and the campaign is at {
q white heat. Tho local paper, the
Russellville Herald, is straddling the
question and no intimation of the
probable result is given to the outside
world.
The Registration books and ccrti-
ficate blanks have been delivered TO
The County Clerk for use on June a @.
Much complaint is heard in some sec
tions in regard to the illiteracy and in I
competency of some of the colored q
Clerks appointed by tho Republican
county Clerk. AT many voting places
the Republican officers are all colored, .
because there are no white Republi-
cans in the districts.
The annual Grange Sale at Church
Hill to-day will not bc so largely at
ended as former ones, owing to the t
invitation plan adopted for feeding !.
he crowd. Heretofore the Grange
ias been imposed upon by hungry t
mob without manners or sense OF
'ropriety and the free dinners became I
90 much of burden TO be kept up =
onger. Nevertheless good crowd
will be on hand and Editor Givens /
will make a political speach, ia4
Crabtree coal mines, near Earring y
on, are all agog over the murder of 5
! child eight years old, alleged to
rave been recently committed by its 4
ather, a man named Stokes, and its y
tep-mother. 1t seems that the child
lad been severely beaten previous to I,
he murder, and that upon one occa- n !,
ion Stokes had beea heartless enough k
o hang it up with rope until life was G.
Ilmost extinct. There is doubt as d
o whether the law will be allowed to 8