The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-09-20
STATE NEWS.


A weekly paper will soon bcstaricd at
Burksville, ~ X. Z. Blkcr.
Hog cholera has made It's appearance
near lIustonvile, in this county.
| A ono days horse fair will be held near
Georgetown. on Saturday the 2Sth.
A national convention Of shorthorn
brccdcrs assembled at Lexington yester.
day.
The drought is severe in Fayette.
Scott, Shelby aud other counties in the
State.
The Colored Fair of Madison county
cleared some $500. despite the slim at.
tendance.
Judge Samuel Miller. Of the United
States Supreme Court, is visiting Madi.
son county.
Dip,heria is prevalent in Harrison
county, and flux and typhoid fever in
Grant county.
james Christian, formerly a saddler
Of Carlisle, is now wealthy lawyer Of
Lawrence. Kansas.
James W. Bullock announces himself
as an independent candidate for Congress
in the Tenth district.
Col. William Duke, Of Bowie county,
recently purchased a $4,000 farm of
974 acres in, Missouri.
There are now but four newspapers in
Kentucky which use the patent orI
"ready-made" out-sides.
Judge Appcrson, of Montgomery |
county, has document hearing the sig |
nature of George Washington.
The trial of J. NJ. Sinclair. for killing
Elijah Romans, in Scott county. resulted
in the acquittal of the defendant.
Hon. J. NJ. Bigger has been appointed
Elector of the First District in place of
Hon. o. A. King, recently resigned.
There are GA couvicts in the peneten-
tiary at Frankfort, Of whom majority
are negroes. Forty-three are women.
w. p. Campbell, a former citizen Of
this place, now in his 9th year, Is judge
OF the Walnut Valley district Of Kansas.
Woodford county has bachelor who
has courted one lady unsuccessfully for
twenty-seven years. This will do to
tell the Marines"
The Woodford Weekly says Versailles
has a working mans club. composed
chiefly of men who never did lick OF
work in their lives.
In the Louisville Exposition there lisa
piece of human hair seventy inches long.
II was cut from the head of peasant
girl in Switzerland.
The order of Good Templars now mum
bers 22,300. a gain ofovereighty per cent
during the past year, g. W. Balm, G,
W. c. T., has instituted 100 lodges and
initiated 1000 members.
A reward of $3.50 is offered by the
Governor, for the arrest of Lewis Jones,
who murdered Michael Dunley, in Pen
dleton county on the 25th of July last.
Tn Lexington Press says at the late
Annual State Mission of the Christian
Church, the members were about equally
divided on the question Of organ music
in the church.
William Showers. Of Elizebethtown,
who visited Cincinnati week ago with
nine or ten thousand dollars on his per-
son, is missing, and is believed to have
been murdered.
Bill Carter the negro who killed a SOL
der in Lexington last spring, and who
was convicted of murder, has been SEN
fenced to be hung on Friday, October
llth, in that city.
John Utterback, of Fayette county,
lost his Blackwood colt, by pneumonia,
for which he had been offered 81, 200, and
which took premiums at the recent Emf
hence and Worlds fairs.
The negro who shot Miss Saunders at
the toll gate near Nicholasville some time
last wear, was arrested in Cincinnati II
few DAYS ago, and will be returned to
Jessamine county for trial.
The Clark county Democrat says a fine
bull belonging to ID. A. Gay was stran'
gled by the fumes of lucfer matches,
while being transl orted on the Big San
dy railroad, few day ago.
james Sapp of Marion county, aged
y married Miss Peggy Brown Of Taylor
county, aged 70, last week. "No goose
so gray but soon or late, will find some I
honest gander for mate" j
According to the Lexington Gdsett',
the apple crop of Northeastern Kentucky
has been larger than during the present
season. There being no accessible mar
ket for the fruit, most of it is manufactur-
ed into brandy.
Kentucky civilization has again been
belied. A man in Henderson received
thirty-nine lashes on his bare back the /
other day for some trifling ofIense. The {
law permitting such an outrage is attro-
cious and Disgrace to any code.
Hon. John d. Young was nominated
by reclamation in the Democratic Con