Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-12-02
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Born to the wife OF John Feland
Dr., of Owensboro, a boy, last week.
RIM Woodbridge, livery, feed &sal'
stable, Fritz stand. Telephone 144.'
Miss Della Fuqua has been i'll witt
malarial fever for two weeks or more
A marriage license was issued S. NJ
Hume to wed Miss V. d. Tirray, Fri
day.
Jno. l.. Renshaw who shot and
wounded j. II. Shelton at Crofton
was tried Saturday before Esq
Lockhart and acquitted.
Mrs. MollieC McGehee, widow Of
the late John Q. McGehee, has pur-
chased Mr. A. j. Reeder's cottage on
North Main street and moved to the
city to'live.
A brakeman named Williams had
one of his hands SO badly mashed
while weighing a coal car at the de-
pot Friday that the amputation OF
three fingers was found necessary.
A protracted meeting will begin at
the Cumberland Presbyterian church
tomorrow night. The pastor, Rev.
A. G. Biddle, will be assisted in his
work by Rev. Mr.. Flanagan, who will
be here next Sunday.
Esq. NJ. D. Davie has gone to Ocala,
Fla, to represent the Kentucky State
Union in the National Union, which
meets to-day and will continue in
session all the week. Esq. Geo. III.
Myers was also appointed an alter
nate delegate but did not go.
Lev. James, the negro murderer who
was to have been hanged at Hickman
last Friday, has been declared insane
and sent TO the asylum at Hopkinsville.
James was examined by jury on the
day set for his execution and escaped
the hangman's rope by scratch
Mayfield Monitor.
McGehee Bros. have sold their Oak
Grove store to Messrs. Hugh Nc
Gehee, of Oak Grove, and Prentiss
Sallce, of Newstead. Both young
men have been salesmen in their en-
ploy for several years. This max, 9
two of their five country stores that
have been disposed Of.
Special attention Is called to the
warehouse card of Alternately d Co.,
which appears elsewhere. This
staunch firm asks share of the pa
tronage of the farmers, and will al
ways protect the interests of their pa
irons, securing best prices aud early
sales. Try them once. Their sales
will hereafter appear regularly. Lock
out for them.
The Bowling Green Times says;
~ rom all over Warren county come
tie distressing news that horses are
dying, and the only cause assigned
for their death is the new crop OF
corn which IL just now being gener'
ally used by the farmers, 1t is said
the corn is rotten and unfit to be fed
all of which Is due to the excessive
rains which fell on the grain before il
matured. About twenty horses, SC
far as heard from, have died in the
county il one week"
The Little River Baptist church
closed meeting of fifteen days con
tinuance ON the fourth Sunday in
November, The pastor, Rev. A. W,
Meacham, did all the preaching till
the night of tho ninth day, when 81
der j, II, Spurlin came to his assis-
tance and did efficient work to the
close. The result was the church re-
vived and strengthened by fifteen ac-
cessions. The converts We're baptized
by the pastor on Sunday morning in
the presence Of very large audience
The next lecture Of the Chautau-
qua series will be by John Henry
Barrows, on Dec. II, Subject, Gamer
ica, or Christianity in Our National
Life" Mr.. Barrows Ia stranger t.
the public in this section Of the coun-
try and the subject he will discuss is
one that will almost certainly lead
him into what should be the forbid
den paths of politics and religion,
upon both Of which subjects the av-
orage audience will hold great di-
versity of opinion. However, some
lecturers possess the happy faculty OF
entertaining with good judgment
even on badly chosen subjects and
Mr.. Barrows may belong to this class
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CROFTON.
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