The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-11-13
KY, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1851.
STATE SUNSHINE AND SHADOW.

THERE are twenty-one persons in the
Louisville Jail charged with murder.
THE Louisville postoffice during the
month of October sold stamps to the amount
of $S3,OsO.46.
w. f. GREEN, Louisville jockey, was
killed last week in wreck on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway.
ALL the schools at Flemingsburg are
closed on account of the prevalence of
diphtheria and scarlet fever.
JAMES G. NANCY, a wealthy farmer of
Marrowbone, Cumberland county, commit
ted suicide last week by hanging.
A NEW paper called The Sun has Just
been started at Morehead, In Rowan county
Bateman 4 Bateman are the proprietors.
EDWARD BALLARD, of Christian coun-
ty, was last week drowned while bathing in
the Cumberland River, near Hopkinsville.
A NEGRO named Wood, one of the con-
victs turned loose at Briccville, Tenn, was
last week killed at Lebanon Junction while
resisting arrest.
ABOUT 100 of the Tennessee convicts
who escaped into this State after being re.
leased by the miners mob have been return.
ed TO the Tennessee pen at Nashville.
JOHN B. GAINES, editor of the Park
City Times, at Bowling Green, last week had
the misfortune to lose his barn by fire. The
loss is $1,000, with an insurance of $500.
The firm of Huguely, Buster & Rob
inson, of Danville, last week sold TO b. +.
Holloway, of Sedalia, No., the year old
trotting stallion Woodsprite, for $500 cash.
THE Kentucky Association has made
an assignment at Lexington to Gen. J. +.
Robinson, Louis Straus and Dick Stoll
Their race track and grounds are valued at
100000.
THE Court of Appeals, In an opinion
by Chief Justice Holt, affirmed the judg.
ment of life sentence against Oscar Down.
ard and Scott Whalen, for the assassination
of Marshal Samuel voglesong, of Falmouth,
Oct. Is, 1890.
OPPONENTS of the graded school tax
recently voted at Crab Orchard will offer
resistance by legal process to the collection
of the tax. But Attorney General Hendrick
says they will have it to pay.
JUDGE JACKSON, of the u. s. District
Court at Louisville, has affirmed a judgment
for $4,000 against Col. Sam Mckee, for
money he failed to account for when he was
Pension Agent for Kentucky in ls60-70.
THE sixteen head of yearing trotters,
all FLIES, shipped to Chicago from this place
by Col. r. p. Pepper, were sold in +. J.
Berry q Co.'s combination sale last Thurs.
day and brought an average of nearly 5000.
JUDGE LINDSAY. of Frankfort, says
that the new constitution will not prev, mt
Bourbon and Bath counties from taking a
vote on another subscription to the Ken.
lucky Midland road, and that new propo-
sition will soon be submitted to Bourbon.
WATER was turned on by the Paris
Water Co. on the nth of February, and they
now have one hundred and thirty custom
ers, which is sixty-fve more than they ex-
pected to get the first year. No town in
Kentucky is improving faster than Paris.
THE State Superintendent of Public
on the Treasurer for $640, 900, and checks
have been forwarded to the various County
Superintendent in the State to pay teachers
tor the first two months Of the present term.
WHILE Pat Cunningham was cleaning
out the big cistern in the rear of the post.
Office block, he found diamond pin valued
at $765. A. ID. Ruff, jeweler, who uses the
cistern recognized the pin as his own and
paid Cunningham 500 reward. Richmond
Climax.
KENTUCKY whisky will be assessed at
$500 per barrel this year, that figure having
been fiyed upon by the committee on valua-
ton, composed of the State Auditor, Treas
urer and Secretary Of State. This Is less
than twenty cents per gallon. The receipts
from this source of revenue will amount to
about $4,000.
THE members of the Kentucky Press
Association, who made forced march from
Ford to Boonsboro, two years ago, are here.
by informed that turnpike company has
been formed for the purpose of making a
pike between the two places. Judge Beck
ner is one Of the incorporators, and Capt. j.
NJ. Thomas one Of the directors, bourbon
News.
THERE are sixty miles Of turnpike
roads under contract in Grant county, and
will cost the county, when completed S45,.
900 and ,rilI mall a the loinl nnnlher of miles