Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-12-12
HERE AND THERE.

IL hNhOio anu coii iiiedt shop
ss 'R. NJ. Woodbridge, livery, feed s. sail
~ :. stable, Fritz stand. Telephone l44.'
Is Mrs. +. D. Jameson and Mrs. j. w
* Williams, Of Pembroke, were in th'
. city Wednesday shoppsng.
), Thos. Scanlin g. Son, the iron mer
II OF Evansville, failed this week, throw.
ing s5 men out Of employment.
There are nine prisoners confined
in tho county Jail, The majority Of
them were 'laid in" for housebreaking
and larceny.
The term OF Mrs. johnson, post
mistress at Clarksville, Tenn, expires
Jan. @, and she is trying hard to Sc
cure re appointment.
; There have been only twenty ar
rests mace in the city since the first
of the month and it looks now as if
last months record win be lowered.
Clarence L. Kennedy has bought
; out the Hopkinsyille Transfer bust
ness from Esq. W. S. DAWSON, and
will give his personal attention to It,
McGehee Bros, of Clarksville,
through their assignees, have settled
with their creditors in satisfactory
manner, and will at once resume bust
moss.
Tobe Smith had the misfortune to
lose another fine horse ono day this
week. This makes throe good ami
mails belonging to Mr.. Smith which
have died in the past few weeks.
Rev. NJ. W. Tabor will preach next
Sunday at tho Univorsalist Church on
the following subjects, II a. m. "Rear-
ing the Image Of the Heavenly. ~ p.
m "True and False Reviyals.o All
are invited.
The meeting of the Christian Coun-
iy Bible Society will be at the Metho.
dist church, Sunday night, instead of
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
Us heretofore published, II IL desired
that all will attend.
The cases Of Abernathy, Long, & Co.
VS.. Whcoler, Mills 4 Co, and L. u n.
Railroad Co. vs. Grant, appealed from
Christian County, were argued by II.
j. Sites and submitted, in the Super
ior Court Wednesday.
Messrs. jackson, Gossett 4 Co. arc
still selling out their general mcrchan-,
disc at Herndon. preparatory to quit
ting the business. II is not settled
fact that Mr.. G. d. Davis will occupy
their store house next year. He may
continue business at Beverly. {
Mason's implement store was enter
cd by thief one night this week, who
crawled over the transom Of the rear :
door. Some pocket knives and other
smallartic!es We're stolen. Stephen and .
Chester Haynes, two small negro
boys,were arrested and some OF the ar
ticles found in their possession |
FraukeTs Cash Store will be opened =
at Gpynn u Merritt's old stand next n
week for the sale of dry goods, cloth =
ing, shoes, etc. Mr.. j. NJ. Frankel, long /
and favorably known to the people of 4
will be the controlling II
spirit. He is now in tie east buying
\ complete stock of new goods es-
pecially adapted TO the holiday trade. =
Lem Mckee, the wide awake grocer, s
ZONES TO the front this week with n
ad. He is one Of the best n
snown Of our merchants and a, man h
sger Of the late firm Of Chss. Mckee O
y Co. built up ono Of tho best grocery I
.rades in the city. He has large
stock Of goods for the holiday trsde
snd invites his friends to cal, and see
lim. . !.
I
Tho Cowan-Prowse contest is NOV A
ng along sl,wly. Mr.. Cowan has O
been reading his depositions all this a
week and will probably finish by the b
md Of the week, Next week Mr. II
Prowse will begin reading his, which Il
will take almost as long. Then will A
,ome the speeches and the work of L
examining and tabulating, which will 9,
lake several days moro. il
The race between Gilmer M. Bell "
md James Breathitt for City Attorney q
promises to be close and exciting. Tho 7
office since Judge Brown took charge a
of the city-judgeship pays something g
like $50 month, quite nice little u
plum. Mr.. Breathitt is the present O
incumbent, who has been g
elected several times without opposi- "
lion, Mr.. Bell Is the Democratic v
nominee and is in the fight TO win. 9
Johu and Mack jackson, two we'll
10 do farmers living ten milesthis side
Of Princeton, went out coon hunting u
Saturday night. While they were v
away from home two masked men p
walked into the house, drove their
wives and children outdoors with a
pistol and robbed the house Of 5000 in d
money, which was seoretod In bu. v
reau drawer, A strong elew points 10 @
Two Of their neighbors as the robbers. ii
The Baptist church will begin a I
series Of meetings tonight. The J
meetings will be continued nightly \
until further notice. The services l
will be conducted by pastor Chas. III. p