Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1890-01-28
AERE AND THERE.

new brick house on Jcsup Avenue.
Buy Eureka coal Of Jas. Phelps
Wheeler, Mills & Cos warehouses;
RIM. Woodbridge, livery, feed q sale
stable, Fritz stand. Telephone 144.'
The dirt roads are all very muddy
and in some places almost impossible
| The cold spell was severe enough to
kill all OF the fruit that had begun to
bud out.
There is no material change in the
condition of Major Rust, who was re-
Gently paralyzed.
Moselcy & Tribble are paying high.
est prices for all cattle. Headquart-
ers at WHY & Burnett's.+
"Janc Eyre" was presented at the
Opera House last night by the Char
lotte Thompson company.
The Nat Gather Co., tobacco ware
housemen, insert their card in this
issue and their sales will hereafter APP
pear regularly.
Rev. H. A. Macdonald is sick and
Ed. ]. Z. Scobey preached at the
Christian church Sunday morning.
There was no preaching at night.
See tho card OF Messrs. Wheeler,
Mills & Co., tobacco warehousemen
and commission merchants, which APP
pears elsewhere in this issue. Look
out for their sales in Fridays issue.
7. X. Torian, of Cadiz, killed FIVE
hogs fourteen months old last week
that aggregated 1912 pounds, an
average OF 1881 pounds. Also four
pigs seven months old that averaged
1879 pounds.
Tho subscriptions to the electric
light project have now reached $50
lights and Mr.. S. H. Turner says the
plant will soon be in operation. The
subscription 80 far is confined to the
business houses.
There was no preaching at the Bap-
fist church Sunday. Rev. Mr.. Phil
Ups, recently called as supply for
five months, has declined to accept
and the church is stili without a pas
tor.
Bro. Moacham, those nine "spud"
sellers did not come from our town,
as you tell your readers, but from
Madisonville, our "elite" county seat,
The law is strictly enforced here, at
least bettor than at any other place
in Hopkins county.-Earlington Bee.
Joel Burton, ''trusty" patient at
the Asylum, has been made violently
insane for the first time in l5 years
and has to be kept confined to keep
him from shedding blood. He has
been trying to investigate the Quaite |
ghost and this is believed to be the
cause Of his spell.
So far as the KEsTucKIAN is advised |
nothing has ever been done by either
the last Council or the present one in
regard TO the bequest Of Mrs. Roach
to establish public fountain for the
city. There is limit to the bequest
and unless the money is appropriated
in specified time it will 60 to other
legatees.
AT a meeting Of the congregation Of
the First Presbyterian Church last
morning, Rev. j. S. Philips,
was unanimously called as the stated
supply Of that church. Mr.. Philips,
who is now visiting his mother in
Philadelphia, will in all probability
accept the call. He preached several
sermons during the first of the month,
and so well pleased was the congre-
CATION with him that as soon as prac-
Iicable he was called.
John Peden, Of this county, who is
subject to fits of insanity, became. in
sane while on a visit to Glasgow, Ky,
a few days ago. He became quite
violent and with broad-axe theatened
10 kill every body he came in contact
with. He was finally secured and re-
turned to this county and on Friday
was examined before Judge Win
Tree and committed to the Western
Lunatic Asylum. Mr..
Peden's home is in the Fairview vicin-
ty, some eight miles from the city.
Esq. Alex Campbell has in his pos
session large hunting knife presented
o him by Gen. Weightman, a Federal
officer, several years ago. 1t is the
same knife Weightman used when he
killed f. X. Aubrey, the great western
explorer and frontierman, at Santa
Fe, New Mexico, in 1851, while in
row. It is well preserved and is a
weapon. On the blade,
which measures ten inches from hilt
o point, is engraved the figures of a
number of wild beasts, Indians, etc,
Rev. F. T. Lathe, who recently
,losed successful series Of meetings
It the Universalist church, has been
,alled to the psstorate. Mr.. Lathe
S forcible speaker and an able ad-
,ocate of his church. All who have
leard him speak in high terms OF him
IS a preacher. The church here has
lone well to secure his services. Dur
ng the recent meeting the following
persons joined the church: Willie