The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-07-17
KENTUCKY ITEMS.

The Carroll County Agricultural Fair
meets Tuesday, Oct. Is.
Two more cases of Asiatic cholera have
occurred in Louisville.
Thomas NJ. Egington has been appoint
ed Register in Bankruptcy lnthe 7th Ken
lucky District. .
A bob-tailed dog, in Greene County, has
killed no less than fifty sheep. The citi-
zens of that county are clamorous for a
dog law.
They are getting up "morning hops at
Richmond, Ky.-a new and delightful
thing, 1T is said.
A fire occur. ed at Paducah last Thursday
morning, in Keller & L .urie's store, re-
sulting in the loss of about Sll 600 worth of
property.
A convention of ministers and elders of
the Christian Church was held in Paris,
KY, last week. The object OF III is conven-
ton was a consultation and general inter-
change of views upon subjects of general
interest to the church., especially such as
pertained to Individual duty and a more
active piety in the churches elsewhere.
Mr.. Cape Kern, of Bourbon County, KY,
had his pocket picked in Cincinnati, on
Monday last. of sl3,9S0 dollars. He had
been to Buffalo, where he had disposed of
a lot OF cattle. He also had IS 1000 in gold in
Cincinnati, which he had EXCHANGED for
greenbacks. He got the money from the
safe at the Gibson House, and went to the
ex press office to send it to this place, when
loI upon reaching the office, he found his
pocket had been picked of the contents.
On Saturday evening last, on Mr.. Carter's
farm, near Mount Sterling, a difficulty oc-
CURED between two negroes, Bob Woods
and Joe Carter, resulting in, perhaps, the
fatal shooting of the former. On Monday
last Joe Carter was tried before His Honor,
Judge Garrett, and released on giving bail
to the amount of 500.
A.dificulty occurred at a drinking saloon
a short distance from Louisville, last sum
day night, il which a man named George
Off was killed. He was stabbed four times
in the right side. and died almost instantly.
The deceased was a young man o
twenty five years of age. He leaves a
young wife,, and a child but a few days old.
Atthe fire on Thursday morning, we are
informed, q file of soldiers were marched
down and one squad stationed at the fire,
and another at the engine to work.
After the soldiers got to work at the en-
CINE the citizens commenced dropping off
one by one, until the machine was nearly
deserted by all except the soldiers, who
worked hard and faithfully. The officer
of the guard, seeing that it was a one
sided business, took the soldiers from the
Pdiucdh Herald.
What can be the matter with the Padu-
cab people? Are they too lazy to work
and save property from destruction by
fire, or do they hate Federal soldiers so
bad that they had.rather see their'property
destroyed than work alongside them ?
That officer was a plucky fellow.
The ing Observer says:
"There appears to be a gang of horse
thieves i'll this section, who steal horses
here and run them over to Indiana and a
gang in that State, who bring their stolen
horses here to dispose of Them; and we
doubt not that the little brown mare and
no-top buggy belonging to Dr.AD. L. Price,
which were stolen last winter and have
never been heard of since, are rendering
some person valuable service in the Hoo
sier State" IL. 80 Y