Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1872-11-20
Kentucky Flows.


In q political speech in Mlysvige,
the other day, one James W. Ander-
son stated that the Republican rnrty
had discovered :!c transit Of Venus,
invrntcd the variations of the mag
mr:ic needle, and thus land titles had
hccm made secure. Aud he wssAt
joking = bit, either.
The Lexington Press cf tho 9th
says: "Thc gray colt Alroy, by
belmont. recently sold by Dr.J. w.
Whitucr 10 Mr.. Knuckols, of Wood
ford county, died Sunday morning
ut his owners, near Midway. AL
roy was considered ono of the finest
ycariings in Kentucky, having re-
Gently been bought by Mr.. Knuckols
tor $l,5)0.'
Tho prisoners in the Newport jail
we're s,iackelcd tho other day and
brought out with view to putting
them to work on thc streets, in ac-
cordaucc with resolution adopted
recently b. the council. Tools wcro
placed in their hands, aud they wcrn
ordered to commence operations in
front of the pos:-oiiicc, but. they
-;ubbornly refused 10 obey, declar-
in" they would die before thc-
would work Oh The streets. They
were finally taken back 10 Jail.
From the Owcneicro Shield: AM
drew Jones, of this county, d!s;oy-
ercd den of ratticsuakcs tho other
day numbering one hundred and ten.
Fhc largest was seven feet long and
three inches around the body, atRt
had eighteen rattios and buttons.
The smallest one was three feet loug.
rhcJ were discovered in n small
cave, where they hal taken up their.
winter quarters. In the cave wero
the skeletons OF numerous birds,
coons, rabbits, 81.
The Newport Free Press says:
son Saturday, tho 2OLh nit, lit;lo
son Of Nelson Dunn. residing near
Grants Lick, while on lis way to
mill, was struck and instantly killed
hy falling tree. Strange to say, tho
horse he was riding was not injured.
There was no storm, no wind what
eyer; and, stranger still, report has
lit that he lad prGseatimcnt for
some time past that he would bc kill
cd by falling tiinbcr and was ex :reme-
Iy cautious a6ou: veGturing out near
awocd in the time ofa Storm"
Mrs. Drake, a widow lady OF Muhl-
cnburg county, has in her posses
sion al apple which has been in.ex-
.istcncc since the beginning of this
revolutionary war. The Grceitvillo
Gazct1c gives this account of it:
The soldier. Mr. Drake, received
the apple from his bc:rothed just
as he departed for tire army or
WaShington; kept it during tile war,
returned after the Surrender OF York
town, married the fa;r donor. Tho
apple is sacrcdiy preserved in tho
family. 1t is dry and shrivelrd,
nothing remaining but tic woody Il.
bcr. The heirloom is highly priced
by every member Of the family"
A very remarkable event occurred
on the farm Of Mr.. Uriah Gartin, six
mile, eas: Of Lebauon. last Saturday
afternoon. A negro man was driv-
ing q team, consisting of two horses
and two mules, attached to wagon,
the driver being upon one of tho
horses, with a si,ecpskin ;;nder him.
q rain was coming up, and he was
driving in trot to escape tho threat
ened storm. A negro boy wason the
wagon. When within few hundred
yards of the barn tho team was struck
by lightning. Three or tho animals
were instantly killed, aud the fourth
died within an hour or two. Tho
negro man --as thrown of, consider,
ably shocked, but not seriously hurs.
He said his head felt NJ II it was
afro. but he does not think no was
rendsyed insensibles The boy on
tho wagon, seeing the wagon had
stoppcd, looked mp, and observing
that tho horses were killed, made -
rood timo as hc could for the house
badly heightened. Tho csraps of MA
drivsr, sndersths Isdnnistanc6sp y :
certainly vary rsmarkxh3s The teaM
hsilssa vras Ana on6. Worfh i6ouA