The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-06-12
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

Thompson.
THE town of Auburn, in Lyon county,
voted down graded school by a MAORI
ty of four votes.
THE Frankfort Witness is running j.
Polk Moore as an independent candidate
for the Legislature.
BENJAMIN THoRP, a Middlesborough
merchant, has made an assignment. As
sets 1890; liabilities $4,000.
THE Commonwealth says that Hon.
George Washington, of Newport, will
take the stump for the new Constitution.
The cornerstone Of the Kentucky
Wesleyan College was laid at Winches-
ter last Tuesday with appropriate cere-
monies.
AT Inez, Martin county, recently,
Steward McNiely and Frank Hurley shot
and fatally wounded each other in a
drunken row.
THE Democratic primary in Henry
county resulted in the nomination of J.
T. Bashaw for Representative. The vote
was very light.
LOUISVILLE authorities landed twelve
convicts in the penitentiary last week,
whose sentences aggregate thiTty-four
years six months.
DEPUTY Marshal. Downey, of Mays
Vile, has been bound over in the sum of
SO, 900 to answer for the murder of Hen
ry Lewis last week.
THE journeyman tailors at Paris are
on strike for higher wages. They de.
mand an advance from $l5 TO $50 for
making dress coat.
DIR. OLIVER PERRY HIM, one of the
best known physicians in Central Ken
lucky, died at Lancaster, in the seventy
ninth year of his age.
THE Census Bureau statistics on to-
bacco show there are 81 ,64l planters in
Kentucky, cultivating 274, 5S7 acres. The
total product last year was Dol ,Ss0,30S
pounds valued at $l3,335, 297.
THE Metcalfe county correspondent OF
the Glasgow Times says the wheat crop
is less promising than it was month
ago, and that there is much complaint of
an insect that is troubling young apples
r. II. GRIMsLEY, prominent farmer
and speculator, who lives near Glencoe,
shot and instantly killed Albert Henry.
Grimsley and colored man were quar-
reling, and Henry took side with the lat.
ter.
HARRowGATE Inn, at the new noun
tain town near Middlesborough, one Of
the finest resort hotels in the South, was
burned to the ground last week. II was
owned mostly by Eastern and English
capitalists.
THE Wiggington boys-Charles, John
and Frank, Of Montgomery county, were
found guilty of putting arsenic in the
coffee of VIM. Ferguson, causing his
death, and were sentenced to imprison.
ment for life.
THE trial Of Lee jenkins, for the muir
der of Washington Ramsey, about six
weeks ago, has been concluded in the
Fayette Circuit Court, the jury return.
ing verdict of guilty, and fixing his
punishment at death.
WHILE the new Baptist church at La
fayette, was being dedicated, Miss Doss,
a daughter OF the pastor Of the church,
and Mr.. Thacker, a prominent young
man of the vicinity, eloped across the
Tennessee State line and were married
EPHRAIM WILLIS, aged 20, and Flor.
ence, seventeen.year-old daughter Of DIR,
J. NJ. Wilson, of Lyon county, eloped.
They left home on foot and had walked
seventeen miles when overtaken at Ben
ton by DIR. Wilson, who gave pursuit. In
their flight the couple had crossed two
rivers, but how IA not known. The girl
wept bitterly when taken from her sweet.
heart. Willis is an unsophisticated farm
hand and the girl is quite intelligent.
LUTHER POTTER, an inmate OF the
Western Lunatic asylum, made his es-
cape by cutting through the sash of his
window and letting himself down from
his cell, which was on the third floor, by
means of rope made out of the sheets
OF his bed He had descended only "A
short distance when the sheets tore apart,
hurting him TO the ground. One Of his