The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-12-29
Kentucky Items.

THE Louisville Courier Journal
very appropriately calls the Seymour
Vigilance Committee the Indiana Kg
Klux.
WE see by the Louisville papers
that all the gentlemen recently mar
ried in that city are genial and popu-
lar, and the ladies beautiful and ac-
complished.
GENERAL WAGER SwAYNE, of
Ohio, and Miss Ellen Harris. of
Louisville, were married In the latter
city last week. The wedding was a
notable affair in the upper circles. !"
Mrs YELvERToN is now engaged in
giving readings in the prominent
Kentucky towns.
Rev. DR.. billiard has been forced
by old age to retire from the pastorate
of East Hickman Baptist Church,
aud has been succeeded by Rev. G. e.
w. Dodd.
A PRoTRACTED meeting of three
weeks at Campbellsville resulted in
eighty conversions.
THE first velocipede ever propelled
through the streets of CovingtOn
made its appearance there on the 10th
inst.
THE contract for supplying the fur
niture for the new Gait House of Lou
isvilIe has been awarded to John
Shrader & Sons, of New Albany.
Seven hundred rooms are to BE- fur
nished-
&vUrE Uv CaKen on tue nrSJ
Saturday in January in Frankfort on
the city ordinance appropriating bonds
for school purposes.
Miss PRISCILLA Talbot, an aged
and estimable lady of Frankfort, wat
found dead in her bed on the Odd
instant.
THE Louisville Democrat has leased
the old Journal building in Louis
vile, aud will move therein on the
first of January.
A REPORT is prevalent in C;nein-
natl to the effect that HOWARD ToDD,
the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Ken.
lucky Senate, was lost on board the
United States in the late disaster.
THE following items we clip from
the louisville Courier Journal:
EAST Mlysville is to be lighted BY
gas.
SQUIRRELS are plenty in the woods
in the vicinity of Glasgow.
CORN sells at - per barrel In Dam
vile. Large quantities are coming
into that market.
A RABID dog bit several animals
near Marysville last week. He was
still at large at last accounts.
CAPT. DODD has retired from the
editorial charge of the Glasgow Times
and will practice law in Nashville.
Mr.. THos. ANDERSON. of Garrard,
has cow four years old in Septem-
Der last, that has given birth to FIVE
calves.
The farm of Thomas Smarr, in
Scott County, was sold at public auc-
LIO1 VI ANSoOaJ ~ 0OAu AASOuE AOE
500 600.
Mr.. GEORGE o. YETsER sold his
farm in the neighborhood of the
Forks of Elkhorn, in Franklin Coun-
ty, for the sum of $4,000 cash.
A LARGE white swan, from Ten
nessee, designed for Robert Scott,
Esq, of Franklin County, was receiv-
ed at Frankfort on Wednesday.
ALFRED STILL and Miss Mary i. G.
Wear, aged, respectively, eighteen aud
fourteen years, eloped from Millers-
burg last Tuesday. aud were made
one In Aberdeen, Ohio.
LAST week Madison Worthington,
of Mason County, sold to a trader
of Bourbon County thirty-one mules
at 1922 30 per head. Richard Kirk
sold to the same party twenty-tour
mules at $136 per head.
Two soldiers of the detachment Of
the Twenty-Second u. s. Infantry,
stationed at Lebanon, attempted to
Ku kiux a saloon-keeper in that
place the other night, for which they
are serving a term In the county jail.
THE overseer on the farm of Capt
Harry /. Todd, near Frankfort, shot
an American Eagle few days since
that measured eight feet from tip tt
tip of his wings. The shot was from
a rife at distance of one hundred