Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-13
Kentucky Items.


To tho wife of Chas. Linsley, 81
iCovington, ky., on the ed inss.,,
itriplet sons.
Colonel Richard West, Of Scott
2countv, has sold his celebrated horse
West Wind, for So 900. 1t is ~undv7
stood that he goes to Ohio.
The revolving brecch-loading rifle
adopted by the Prussian Government
was invented by Col. John c. Miller,
of Danville, Ky.
Tho Lebanon Standard says:
"IIorsc-stcaIing is becoming painfully
frequent in this vicinity lately. Sew
eral valuable animals have been taken
in the last ten days"
In cxcavating the mud from filed
! Eup pond OH the place of John \.
EOwcns, near Lewisburg, and more
Ethan one mile from the North Fork,
Licking, which is the nearest water
: course, two large turtles were found
Embedded in the mud. alive and ready
T. to fight anything which came il,
reach.
F. a deer swan across the Ohio river
Efrom the Ohio to the Kentucky shor'
ION Friday afternoon, near the moutl
of the Little Miami river, and wa
subsequently, shot and killed by tn
men working at the pumping hous
of the Newport water works. 4
r quarrel arose among some of tn
parties about the killing of the ani
NAL, which resulted i'll one then
|breaking the others arm by strikin
it with q gun.
I.The Carrollton Democrat say!
1.-The tobacco crop of this county ia
N exceeds any ever before raised herr
SFrom the failure of this crop i'll man
Eother sections of the country, an
a from the yearly increasing dcman
for the article, we may expect I'll;
,obacco will command a good prit
q this season, though, probably, it wi
not sell quite SO high rs last year
,fn crop, and that it will bring lar:
,cE amount of money into this aud q
is >Aoinimg counties"
l.. From the Bowling Green Pant
dE graph: MIR. Jesse Sweeney and
n IL. Atchcson, of this county, .ls
lc Monday recovered from large Sill
as Jholc, thirty-tive or forty feet deep
o. aMr. Atchcson's premises, a sheep a
scHa two ycar-old steer. The sheep h
lie been in the hole about four weeks 4
hr |the steer two or three weeks. u.
,n Hwcrc alive and ate grass most rav'
iyE ously as soon as released from TIL
IL prison. The sink-holc has n so
he rock bottom and contains nothing,
a far as known OH which animal
ed could be sustained. 1t is the opini
lis of the owners of the stock that
m. lived during the whole time of
without bite Of al
ci ) thing to eat.
nd Gov. Lcslic's majority in 1871 v
hc1 6,697.
~" One firm III Grccnvillc, ,Muhlcnbv
~. Scounty. has ready for market scvc,
Fl live thousand pounds OF dried apl
n and peaches.
;,H The Postmaster General has orr
ri, I'd the ediscontinuancc OF the follow
III, postotticcs in Northeastern kcntu,
sh. Deer Greek. Carter county, and
,ry Springs, johnson county.
scd Bill Williams, colorcd, who
,in his trial last week in the Ia,
al Circuit Court for the murder
all HCharlcy Chiles, was found guilt
Sc murder i'll the first degree by the j.
D. md was sentenced to be hung
tic, Friday, December 20, next. A
ne. ton for new trial is, howe
wv q pending in his case.
o; We learn from the Gcorget,
liar Times that the new weed, tho
Int Amaranth (amaranthus spinosus),
law appeared i'll that county and is OH
bu' the introduced weeds which
II! gradually working their way W
on. ward through the country. 1t sh'
zen abe destroyed wherever found, ant
nj .i M ,yfnusinn MI ,pnpl, ~ @