The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1893-12-13
Kentucky News.

The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners have submitted their annual re-
port to Gov. Brown upon their assessed
value Of railroad property in the state.
The value of railroad property as re-
ported by them amounts to $55,3l6,03S,
being So, 100000 more than the valua-
ton given by the roads.
A call has been issued for a meeting Of
the Kentucky School Superintendents
Union to be held in Louisville, Decemb-
err 2Sth.
Mr.. Alex Montgomery's son, of Eliza
BEETHOVEN, has been appointed a book
keeper in the Office of the Sargeant-at-
Arms OF the House at Washington.
Fifty Il lsand bushels of coal he's re-
Gently been purchased by Mayor Tyler
for the poor in the city of Louisville,
The members of the Watterson club
are making extensive preparations to
celebrate Jackson's Day. A number of
noted speakers will be present on the oc-
casion.
The Governor and Attorney General
are not agreed as to how legal proceed
ings shall be instituted to prevent the
consolidation OF the Louisville and Nash
vile and Newport News railroads.
Louis Hancock, editor OF the Hender-
son Courier, sold nine hogs weighing
1900 pounds for six cents per pound,
bringing him $l74 for the lot Who
furnished the country editor with corn
for this purpose is not stated.
The Rev. DIR. Talmage lectured to an
audience of 5000 people in Hopkins
vile one night last week.
|, The Kentucky members OF Congress
express hearty approval of the Presi-
dents message They had better get
down to business too pretty soon or some
of them may experience some trouble in
getting back there.
Peter Frakes, reputable farmer liv-
ing in Meade county, found a box Of
poison, known as "Raticide" near his
spring few days since and he thinks an
attempt was made to poison himself and
family. Last summer some one set fire
to Mr.. Frakes' wheat crop in the stack
Messrs NJ. P. Mattingly & Coz large
distillers of Greensboro, have started
up their big distillery for the season run.
1t is the first to open up.
Albert SCHNEIDER, of Brandenburg, fell
and ran nail in his hand. The wound
apparently heale1 for time, but blood
poisoning afterwards set up and it is
feared he will die.
Editor John B. Gains has leased his
newspaper, the Bowling Green Times, to
S. F Breeding.
Mrs. Josephine Harroll, a young wild
ow, fell dead of heart disease while plant
ing rosebush on her husbands grave
in the cemetery at st. Vincent, Union
county. -
Mr.. A. ]. Stark, of Louisville, has lost
wife and eleven OF his twelve children
from consumption within the short space
of two years.
Mr.. J. Y. Moore, young college stud
ent at Palo Alto, California, received in
juries while playing in game of foot
ball from which he died The young
man formerly lived in Greensboro, Ky.
Charles Kreamer, for twenty years a
wharf master at louisville, and a PROM
inent local politician of that city, is dead.
Col. w. N. Haldeman, it is said, has
abandoned his idea of starting a new
daily paper at Nashville in connection
with the Courier-Journal
II you have anything you don't want
to sell, or something your hogs won't
eat, why in the thunder don't you bring
it to this Office and apply it to your sub
scription? If you don't read, and have
no use for the paper, take the stuff to
the preacher, he comes next.-Mountain
Monitor.
There are thousand of people and
many pretended business men who will
send their printing to some snide con-
Germ because they think they can get it
done five cents cheaper than at home.
They do not think the express comes
extra, but in every case it costs them
more than to have it done at home.
They seem to lose sight OF the incidental
advantages OF the home printing concern
and home paper to them or their bust
ness by giving them "write up" men
tioning them personally in connection