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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
DINGLEY DEAD.
Author Of the Tariff Bill a Vic
tim OF Pneumonia.
Leader Of House Republicans, His
Life Was Full of Push
and Activity.

Washington, Jan. 13-The Hon.
Nelson Dlngley, of Maine, leader of
the Republican side on the floor of
the House of Representatives, and
representing the Second congress
ional district Of Maine in that body,
died here tonight at half-past 10 of
heartfailure, resulting from extreme
weakness due to double pneumonia.
He was unconscious during most of
the day, and death came quietly
without consciousness being re-
gained. There We're present at tire
time Mrs. Dingley, Miss Edith Ding
ley, Messrs. E, n. and 4. H. Ding
ley, sons Of the deceased:
His Life Full of Activity.
Nelson Dingley, Of Lewisburg,
was bornat Durham, Androscoggin
county, Me- February Il, 1882;
graduated IT Dartmouth College IN
the class Of 1855; studied law and
was admitted > the bar, but left
the profession to become proprietor
and editor of the Lewiston (Me. },
Journal, daily and weekly, in 1886,
and until his death maintained
that connection. He was a member
of the State House of Representa-
tives in 1862. 1868. 1864, 1865, 1868
and 1873; was Speaker Of the State
House of Representatives in 1868
and 1868 He was Governor of
Maine in IS74-75; received the de
gree of LII, d. from Bates College
in 1874, and from Dartmouth Col
1ege in 1894.
Mr. Dingley was a delegate to
the national Republican convention
in 1876; was elected to the Forty-
seventh Congress as a Republican
at special election on the 18th Of
September, 1881, to fill the vacancy
caused by the election of Hon Will
liam p. Frye of the United States
Senate. He was reelected a Rep
.resentative-at-large to the Forty
eighth Congress; was reelected to
the Forty-nlnth, Fiftieth, Fifty
first, Fifty-second, Fifty-third and
Fifty-fourth Congresses, and re-
elected to the Fifty-ffth Congress
as Republican, receiving 22,4O0
votes, against 8,424 votes for At
wood Levensaler, Democrat; 1904
votes for Charles e. Allen, Popu-
list; 49, votes for Edward II. Ogier,
and % votes scat
tering.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
Corporation Fined.

Frankfort, Ky, January lin
the State Fiscal Court to-day the
following corporations confessed re-
fusing to report to the State Audi
tor for assessment; Cumberland
Telephone and Telegraph Company,
Hopkinsville Water Company and
Louisville and Jeffersonville Bridge
Company.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
WON HIS CASE.
Largest Case But One Ever Tried
in Lyon County.

With one exception. the case dis
posed of at the special termof court
at Eddyville between the Grand
Rivers company and John Tinsley
was the largest case ever tried in
the Lyon Circuit Court. The jury
returned verdict for the deieud-
ant, who was represented by Judge
Jas. Breathitt. of this CITY. -----
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
Refused a Pardon

Gov. Bradley has refused an APP
plication for pardon for Charlie
Campbell and the young man, who
is now in the Eddyville penlten-
tiary, will have to serve out his
term of one year, which will expire
in few more months. He was sent
from Henderson for malicious shoot
ing, He has clerical position in
the prison Office.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
IN THE TOLLS.
Three Defendants Fined-AnOtl7er
to Have a Hearing.

In the City Court Saturday Willis
Higgs, COL, was fined $50 and costs
for drunkenness.
Walter Booth, same, same.
Jas. Brooks. COL, known as CITY
Jim,' was given 25 days in the
work house for fighting
Hattie Green, COL, charged with
grand larceny, is in jail and her
examining trial is set for to-day.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
Committee Meeting Next Tucsda,

Chairman Mocquot has called Il
meeting of the Railroad Commission
District Committee at Paducah
next Tuesday, to take action in tie
nomination of a Democratic candi-
date.
Paducah, Hopkinsville and Bowl
ing Green all want the convention.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
What we advertise
Is lust as we say.

THERE'S no humbug about it, the
Below things hecost and m m r
Job Tables We will Sill at these prices long they
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17

Rev. Chas, Nourse, of Princeton,
spent few hours in the city yes
terday.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
NO s.
IT. Wall e. Co s
Best Wishes
For a
Merry Christmas.

To many friends up to date ses the We
have had Our trade far this
season This shows goods prices gb& cot
goods the proper prices rhem So ~ m re-
qulre humbug advertisement these The
these big advertisements don't always good value
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
Died Of Pneumonia.

Willie Harris, col, wife of Tom.
Harris, die.l ia the city last Thurs
day night Of pneumonia. aged %
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17

Children's Jacket aud Pants, ages
5, 6, s and 8. These goods / EN
are worth SO, 81 and SIS, for w
Mems Wool Mkt Half Hose, the
very thing you want for cold o.
weather, worth l5c, for---- O3V
japonette Initial Haudkerchi~fs 10c
Tor $500 --------- $3.50 --------
Mems Black Cotton Mackinloshes.
fancy lining, other houses are
selling them at s. aud $50, | so
our price -------- i"V
Mems fancy Ribbed Underwear, sat-
teen faced. pearl buttons, sizes
Shirts, IS, 40, ~ and Al, worth
SOC. SEE OUR SHOW 0Ec
WINDOW for------------ ~"
9 Boys gray and brown all wool
Album Melton Overcoats, hand
somely tailored, sizes Il, Is, e IN
l6 and II, worth $40, for Jaw
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-01-17
SMALL FIRE AT KENNEDY.
Tenement House on the c. T.
Barker Farm.

A tenement house on the G. T..
Barker estate, at Kennedy, was
burned Sunday morning. The
house was occupied by Abner
Burke, white man. with his fam
lily. Thd loss was total The
house was not a very valuable one
and the damage was small.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
A REINceRNATED DOG.
He Hadn't Los His Human Traits In
the Process.

He Hadn't Lost His Human Traits In
the Process.
"You can't tell NE there is nothing
in the theory Of reincarnation." re-
marked a travelling man, "for I know
there is. l was down in Florida recent
~. and in st. Augustine I saw a snob
dog-an out and out snob. His name is
Towser. and he is just a common yell
low dog, lives in the street and belongs
to no one.
I'm the summer, when no wealthy
northern people are in the town, he
plays with all the middle class children
and dogs and will greet patronizingly
the middle class men and women who
know him. But in the winter, as soon
as the season begine, he attaches him
self to some rich New York family.
loafs in their yard, tags their footsteps
or carriages all about the city, attends
them to church and home again and
so far as he is able makes himself one
Of them. For his meals he has been
forced to resort to the back yards of a
plain. good woman, who pities him and
feeds him regularly. He is friendly
with her at his eating hours, but never
60 far forgets himself as to wag his tail
at her OF the street or when he is with
more pretentious people.
"When society functions take place in
st. Augustine, there is Towser. Golf
matches. afternoon teas, picnics or boat
ing parties, all are attended by him
with most conventional regularity. He
never greets any ordinary acquaintance
when thus socially engaged and has
even been known not to eat for several
days when a fashionable wedding was
on his mind. With the swell dogs of
st. Augustine Towser never has any
rows. having. no doubt, studied the
polite art of being agreeable, but with
commoner cuts he is irritable and de-
fensive. That dog has been human in
his time, and I'd give a penny to know
who he was."-Indianapolis Journal
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
FURNISHING. AN +
The Curious Method Adopted In
S0uth American Country,

The Curious Method Adopted In .
south American Country.
Curious methods of Furnishing indis-
Greet editors are in vogue in some coun-
tries. In ''South. American Sketches"
Nj. Crawford describes the interesting
experience Of an editor who had been
unfortunate enough to give ofense to
the ruling powers by the freedom Of his
criticisms.
The editor was arrested and confined
In a.narrow passage between the cages
OF two jaguars, notorious for their bad
tempers and their intense dislike for hu-
man society.
The Intervening space was so regulat-
ed that neither of the ferocious animals
could get its paws quite to the middle
line between the cages. SO that a spare,
active person. if very careful to follow
the classical advice about the advan-
tages Of steering a middle course, might
manage to pass without special injury.
though the achievement would be both
exciting and dangerous.
Our editorial friend happened to be
stout, and therefore was the more easily
reached by the occupants of the cages.
As if to add insult to injury, he was
given a chair on which to sit and at
the same time was furnished with q
copy of his own paper. the issue which
had brought him into trouble, in order
that he might mediate upon its con-
tents.
He tried to sit motionless and bolt
upright, feeling those sleepy. cruel eyes
fixed upon him. AT the slightest move.
ment or the rustic Of the paper uneasy
mutterings arose from the cages, and a
paw would stretch stealthily toward
him. Leaning quickly to the other side,
he was sure to be met by the ugly claws
of the second jaguar. 1t was a case of
Scylla and Charybdis.
Every few minutes the jaguars be-
came wildly excited and clawed fercely
at the shrinking editor, who, do his
best, could not escape those rending
toe nails. His clothing was torn to
shreds. but except for a few scratches
he "a not really injured.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
Cornish Diamonds.

"Please God," said Aunt Mary Bun
ny, ''if I live till this evenin and all's
well I'll send for the DOCTOR"
81 shan't name no Names" said IN
Gle Billy, ''but Jack Tremenheere's the
man."
John Carter, the famous smuggler of
Porthleah, went throughout Cornwall
by the name of the King of Prussia. A
Mousehole man, on hearing news of the
real king of Prussia's defeat at jena,
remarked: "Misfcrtunes never come
single. I'm sorry for that man. Not
more'n six weeks ago he lost 800 key O.
brandy, by information, so I'm towld."
All the crew had been saved, but one
poor fellow was brought ashore uncon-
scious. The curate turned to the by
ISLANDERS:
Elbow do you proceed in the case of
one apparently drowned?'
''S'arch his pockets. Cornish Mag
azine.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
Where the Crabs Come In.

When a school Of menhaden make
their way into a bay, they may stay
for days swimming around in n re-
gion. Larger fishes, including perhaps
some sharks, feed upon them there.
From such feeding there are more or
less fragments that sink down through
the water, and the various crabs and
other c%rustaceans come scuttling from
all parts Of the bay to get them. 1t
may be that the tide carries some of
the litter about, or perhaps the crabs
and other creatures smell 1t, as bluefish
scent the bait that is used in chum-
ming, but when a school of menhaden
are preyed upon at the surface all the
crabs in the bay congregate on the mud
below to catch the crumbs that fall
New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
AN ENCHANTED c

The Relic of a Fatality. 1t Is Pre-
served by Superstition.
About five miles from Aiken, s. c.,
on the Charleston dirt road and in
sight of the railway, is a little place
that was first christened Polecat, but
afterward changed to Montmorenci, the
French for that odorous little animal.
Many years ago a young woman came
with her pitcher to draw a bucket of
water from a we'll at Montmorenci and
set the vessel in the followed top of a
stone post that some of the railroad
men had moved there. While drawing
the water a fash Of lightning came that
struck the chain to which the well
bucket was attached, and the woman
was killed in her tracks: Her remains
were removed, but the pitcher was left
just where the dead girl had set it. To
this day the pitcher remains in the
same place, and, so far from being re-
moved, it is said that no living hand
has ever touched it save its's owners,
although near the eide of the public
road.
But the most wonderful thing is the
superstition attached to the pitcher.
There is an Undesirable influence sur
rounding it that prevents it's touch.
Hundreds of people have gone with the
firm determination of lifting the pitch
er, but when they approach it a strange
repugnance comes over them, and they
hurriedly depart without carrying out
the object of their visit.
One night a bully in the neighbor-
hood, while under the influence of
whisky, made a bet with some friends
that he would go and bring back the
pitcher. He left to do so, but soon re-
turned as pale as a sheet and empty
handed. "Boys," he remarked, emo
person alive can lay hands on that
pitcher, and I wouldn't attempt it
again for the whole of Aiken county"
He refused to tell his experience and
said he would not talk about it. Other
parties have gone to see it, but met
with the same repulsive feelings
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
o THE CANNlBALS.
A Travellers Experience With til
Man Eaters of West Africa.

A Travellers Experience With the
Ma Eaters of West Africa.
MI. P. A. Mccain has had 10 years
actual residence in west Africa. Mr..
McCann's seven years. trading and resi-
dence with the cannibal tribes of the
French Gaboon probably form the most
exciting part Of his experiences. He got
friendly with them and thoroughly
studied their habits and customs. They
quite believed that the white men ate
white men as they themselves eat their
fellow blacks. A big chief offered Mr..
Mccain the smoked thigh of a native.
This was considered a gracious act. To
refuse 1t would be u%nfriendly. Mr.. Nc
Cam was in q dilemma.
But he feigned illness, said he was
not eating just then. The chief eventu-
ally put the matter off good naturally
by saying he supposed the white man
preferred white man to eat instead Of
black man. "The Mpongwes, said Mr..
Mccain, fare in ferocious and pugna-
cious qualities second to no other tribe
in Africa. Their villages mostly consist
Of a single street from 600 to 1, 500
yards long, on each side of which are
the houses. In these houses they cook,
eat and sleep and keep their store of
provisions. the chief of which is smoked
game and smoked human flesh, hung
up to the rafters.
"Although~ ferocious and quarrelsome
to a degree, they are very industrious.
They show considerable skill in the
manufacture of pottery, and the designs
of their cooking pots, water Jars, to-
bacco pipes and palm wine bottles are
extremely artistic. In ironwork they
are also skillful workers. Although they
kill game for food, they much prefer
human meat to any Other. London
Globe,
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
Can't rwidale Their Thu-s..

The gorilla and chimpanzee, which
belong to the higher order of apes, have
many points Of resemblance to man,
but there is one thing they cannot do
that is, twiddle their thumbs.
In the gorilla the thumb is short and
does not reach much beyond the bottom
Of the first joint of the forefinger. 1t is
very much restricted in its movements,
and the animal can neither twiddle his
thumbs nor turn them round so that
the tips describe a circle.
There are the same number of bones
in the hand of a gorilla as in the hand
Of man, but the thumbs of the monkey
have no separate hexor or bending mus
Gle. This is why a monkey always keeps
the thumb on the same side as the fin
gers and never bends it round any OBJ
ject that may be grasped.
In the gorilla the web between the
fingers extends to the second joint, the
fingers taper to the tips, and there is a
~callcsity on the knuckles on which the
animal rests when walking on all tours.
There are many other strong points
of resemblance between the ape and
a but-well, we wish to be charita-
BILE to our fellow man and will there.
fore drop the subject.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
A Missing Link.

1t will doubtless surprise many who
have never even heard of the brute that
there still exists on the island of Java
an animal, or rather a reptile, which
seems to be the missing link between
the ichthyosauri Of prehistoric days and
the well known s%aurians of modern
times.
This animal is known to the Javanese
as ''linguin." It fell to the luck Of
Baron Alfonso Pereira, consul general
of Austria-Hungary, to shoot one of
these beasts some years ago. Its length
was between nine and ten feet, and it
looked a cross between a snake and a
crocodile. Though the beast was cut
and wounded in its encounter with
Baron Pereira it did not bleed.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08

the grim farce was carried out with the
most elaborate ceremonial. The imperial
domestics marched with black tapers in
their hands. and the emperor, clad in
sable weeds, himself followed, wearing
his shroud. While the solemn mass for
the dead was sung before the high altar
in the cathedral Charles gave up his ia
per to the priest, typifying thereby his
resignation Of life, and was solemnly
laid in his coffin. The ceremony closed
with sprinkling holy water on his body;
then, all the attendants retiring, the
doors were shut, and Charles rose from
his narrow bed and withdrew to his pri-
vate apartment.
The damping of the graveclothes in
duced a chill, which, aided no doubt by
the mental depression caused by the
grewsome ceremony, induced a fever
which ended in his death three weeks
later, on the 21st of September, 1888.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
A Sarcastic Congressman.

Ex:President Benjamin Harrison at
a banquet told the following story on
himself:
"Judge Martindale has recalled the
time when I was the very youngest
and very smallest elder, which reminds
me of an occurrence at Washington
when a number of very anomalous bills
for public improvements were intro
duced. l decided to veto some of them.
I remember that there was a New York
representative who had an interest in an
appropriation of $3.50, 900 for a public
building. on the Hudson. A friend
learned from him that it had been We
toed. See the president suggested his
friend. The representative responded
that that was his intention, and next
day went to the White House, where
he was informed by the secretary that
the president could not be seen. Good
graciousl' exclaimed the representa-
tive. Has he got so small as that?'"
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
HOW Geuiu. succeed..

Our paternal relatives don't know it
all. Riley's father wanted to make a
lawyer out of him; 1t was thought that
Bret Harte would make a first class
carpenter; it was MI. Glider idea that
they wanted him to be a job printer;
Hamlin Garland started as a farmer
and is still q farmer, but makes enough
out Of literature to keep the farm 60
ing. But Hopkinson Smith is of all
trades. When he isn't building a via
duct, he is painting a landscape, and
when he's tired Of that diversion he
whirls in and writes a novel which sells
80, 900 copies every 80 daya-AtAnta
Constitution.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
In For 1t.

Mrs. Chinner-Ernestine. my darling,
do you expect Constant tonight
Ernestine-Of course, mamma. Why
do you Inquirer
Mrs Chinner-n he asks you to
marry him. tell him to come and speak
to me.
Ernestine-And if he doesn't ask met
Mrs. Chinner-Teu him I am coming
TO speak to him.-Brooklyn Life.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
A JACK OF ALL TRADES.

Thu Versatility of o Frenchman of
h Eighteenth Century.
In times long gone by active men
combined many vocations. The barber
in those days vas also the dentist and
often performed other duties. A sign
discovered in southern France recently
shows how versatile it was possible for
a man to become. The sign dates back
to the last century and reads:
Isaac Macairie, barber, wigmaker, healer,
sacristan, schoolteacher, blacksmith and OBJ
stetrician; shaving, ! SOU; hair cutting, 3
sous; powdering and pomading very cheap for
pretty, well bred young women; lamps lighted
BY the year or quarter; teaches the mother
tongue In the best methods; instructs in sing.
Ing and shoes horses with a master hand;
makes and repairs boots and shoes; teaches
the young to play the oboe and 3ewsharp; cuts
out corns and applies blisters, plasters or cups
at lowest prices; supplies purging medicine at
! sou; visits houses to teach the cotillon and
other dances; sells sachet powders of all kinds
ut wholesale and retail; also all kinds Of sta
tionery, shoe polish, sailed herrings, spiced
bread, bristle brushes, mousetraps of wire
and other material, heart strengthening roots,
potatoes, sausages and other kinds Of vegeta-
bles.
One would naturally think that all
those talents and occupations would be
enough for one man. But not so in the
case of M. Macaire. A postscript on the
sign reads:
1teaoh geography and foreign commerce ev.
cry Wednesday and Friday. With Gods help,
I am ISAAC MAoAIRE.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
A TWO HOUR BREAKFAST.
1t I. One of the Institutions of New

1T Is One OF the InHtI &utt0n0 OF New
,s There is a place in New Orleans that
| strangers are always glad to have point
ae ed out-Begeuy's, owe in the French
quarter, kept by Nine. Begeuy (pro-
ed Bigaay, with the accent on the
last syllable, and famous for the break
fasts it serves at II o'clock every morn
ing.
Originally this breakfast was intend
ed for the butchers, and they contribut-
ed to it the daintiest meats that the
splendid French market in New Orleans
provided from day to day. Gradually
outsiders began to come in, and now
one must engage a seat at breakfast two
days ahead. Fhe morning the writer
was there q distinguished judge Of the
supreme court was the principal visitor,
and he. with his family and several
guests from Boston, sat at the head Of
the table.
One long table occupies the little
dining room, to which one climbs by a
rickety fight Of stairs. Every French
man, when he gets up, takes a cup of
-cofee and EeA4, and at II o'clock eats
his real breakfast. This is the meal that
Nine. Begeuy serves, and 1t costs 81.
The kitchen is right of Of the dining
room, and there is no pretense Of adorn-
ment. Everything is as plain and sim
pie as it can be. excepting the food, and
this sthe perfection Of the g%astronomic
art. A bottle Of claret stood at each
place, which, with water imported
from Germany and called sshlue label"
was all there was to drink until the lit
tie cup Of black coffee finished the re-
past.
The first thing served was duck. 1t
was excellent, and so was everything
else included In the eight II nine
courses that came on, and that con-
cluded, singularly enough, with liver,
50 cooked that the only regret was that
the piece was not larger. It takes two
hours to eat a breakfast at Begeuy's,
: and you get enough to last you for all
day. -Leslie's Weekly.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
a,l,1s Is Your Opportunity.

Tlii; Is Your Opportunity.
On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps,
q generous sample will be mailed of the
most popular Catarrh and Hay Fever Cure
(Ely's Cream Balm) sufficient to demon
strate the great n,crits of the remedy.
ELY BROTHERS,
Sc Warren St, New Jerk City.
Rev. John Reid, Jr.. OF Great Falls, Mont,
recommended Ely's Cream Palm to me. I
can emphasize his statement, sit is a posi-
tive cure for ,catarrh if used as directed."-
Rev. Francis W Poole, Pastor Central Pres
Church, Helena, Mont.
Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged
cure for catarrh and contains no mercury
nor any injurious drug. Price, so cents.
The Dickinson press., 1899-04-08
Penn.yIynnin snnd M,ne..

There are all kinds of mines in Penn
sylvania. The greatest are of course the
iron and coal mines. but few people
would guess that the next extensive
mining industry is the sand mines in
western Pennsylvania. These mines are
rarely underground, however, and many
Of them r viewed with wonder by
passengers on the Pennsylvania, ap-
preaching Pittsburg. Whole mountains
are being dug away, and the granular
rocks forming them are being reduced
to sand for the manufacture of glass in
and about Pittsburg.-Philadelphia
Call.