The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1872-08-23
KENTUCKY NEWS.

it, appearance in the vicinity Of Cave
City.
A movement l. on foot TO form a new
county from portions of Ohio and Da-
vicss.
A number Of the young men Of Paris
\ will cast their maiden vote for Greeley
and Brown.
A portable saw-mill boiler exploded
the other day in Webster county, and
killed one man.
The State Teaches Association closed
It's stb annual convention on Tuesday
evening last. The convention was ex-
ceedingly well attended, and may be re-
garded rs very gratifying success in
every point of view. The 9th annual
session will I've held at Winchester on the
2nd Monday in August 1872.
Hon. ]. Proctor Knott was elected
President of the Central Horticultural
Society. Forty-eight persons were en-
rolled as members of the society. The
next meeting will take place at Lebanon
on Saturday September 9TH.
A man by the name of King, accused
of numbering a man in Nicholas county,
was arrested ia Madison county, Monday,
and brought through our city on his-way
to Nicholas. He stopped with Uncle
Tommy.-0bserper dndRepotr.
A report is in circulation that the
trustees of the Cincinnati Southern rail-
road have finally concluded to locate it
by way of Georgetown and Versailles,
leaving us out of their line altogether.
This may be true, but we don't believe
Observer and Reporter
The statement in regard to the sus-
pension of the Warsaw Ne,rs for the
want of adequate support, was wrongly
published, and Is not true. The Nees
Office will be removed to Lancaster KY,
because the citizens there have made a
liberal offer for the removal. -
While gathering berries, few days
since, little son of Judge ID. j. Mccoy,
of Greenup, encountered and killed by
the help of his dog large black viper,
measuring in length three feet four inches,
and his fangs, by actual measurement,
we're five-eights Of an inch long.
While some workmen we're engaged
in digging out spring on the farm Of
II. p. Young, on Tate's Creek, in this
county, few days since, the body of q
petrifed Indian was exhumed. It. was
perfect in form and featRre, ana will be
curiosity to many .-Kent"cky Register.
A man by the name of NJ. ID. White
side, writing to the Lebanon Standard,
from Franklin Ky, says he will take
the responsibility of collecting the Wash
ington county railroad tax; and as he has
life insurance policy on his life amount
ing to $4,000, he has no fears of the
consequences.
Lod and Josh Duke, brothers, and
merchants Of Owensboro, Ky. had . fall
ing out, when Josh drew a pistol and
shot at Lod, and then turned and run.
Lod shot at him twice, breaking his arm
and shooting him through the bowels.
Both are highly respectable, and brothers
in-law of the sheriff: The whole city is
Mortified.
The Lexington Observer and Reporter
says: Farmers all over the country are
blowing their fallow land preparatory TO
planting large crop. A number have
and we think very wisely,
70 sow the old fashioned Mediterra-
mean. Wheat, the hardest and surest
cultivated in this country.
Mr.. Harper has brought Longfellow
home from the East. We learn from
the Louisville papers that a committee
have been sent by the managers of the
Exposition to see if they can add the
horse to the other features of that occa- !
sion. No doubt he would draw large
crowd; but if we owned him, the gallant
animal should never become mere peep
show to be looked at by gaping crowds
at cents head.-0bserrer and Repor-
Ter.
The True Kentuckian says, "there are
too dog-gon many dogs in Paris for a city |
that size-that has no sausage factory"
Mrs. Emiline Northcott of this vicinity
killed twenty-four black birds the other
lay at one shot quite a number OF
,olored men have enlisted at the recruit,
ing office in this city......We are told that
9ne of our colored congregations has de-
iermined to excommunicate all members
Democratic proclivities.
The Sage of Chappaqua has been invited
TO attend our fair which comes off on the
Sd Of next month.
Reid and Watterson.