The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-05-15
EDITORIAL NOTES.

sicians, Is now in Rome. giving concerts.
There Is nothing in oil Rome to equal
them.
Barnum has gone up in balloon sew
ersl times himself, but il was not one Of
the kind used by aeronauts. He got his
in Wall street.
Scientific men say that last month was
the coolest April we have had for thirty
six yours. There can be no doubt Of it,
for vegetation is fully two weeks behind
time.
Over $4,000 worth Of books were
sold during the month of February last,
by the various State agencies of the
American Bible Society. The bu,iness
is certainly lively.
That infimy, the Centennial 81, 000,-
600 bill, was defeated in Congress, but
there is to be another efioH to revive it..
Let honest Congressman bury it so deep
that it can never be resurrected.
Mr.. II. ID. Newcomb, President Of the
Louisville a Nashville Railroad Com
pany, was recently stricken with para
lysis of the left side. but is not now con-
sidered in dangerous condition.
Now that the grcapracehorse Harry
Bassett has been permanently retired
from the turf, we would be glad if some
of our lovers Of the sports of the turf
would purchase and bring him back to
his native heath.
Barnum is back from Europe and ex-
plodes the report that he intends TO have
the ocean crossed in balloon at his ex-
pense, unless it can be reasonably de-
monstrated that il can be done without
serious danger to the aeronaut.
The result of the late Ashantec war
was less profitable than our own civil
war, and not much either. England ex-
pended in that war nearly FIVE millions
, of dollars, and succeeded in capturing
the black Kings umbrella and burning
his capitol.
They have cat in the Courier Journal
Office which plays base ball with the
paste cups, after having been confined in
drawer without food or drink for ninc
, days. If it was our cat we would Iii
, it certain, on account of its fondness fol
, the game of base ball.
A Mr.. Warren of 40 kin to our "AP',
, gave dinner at fancy restaurant il
e New York city, and expended 5000
for flowers alone. Shame on you, Mr.
I Warren, with ten thousand hungry
, mouths in your city, and.one hundred
/. thousand starving people in the over
: flowed regions of the South.
The Democrats from all sections Of tn,
, Union met in conference at New Yorl
, onjhe 9TH Of this month, apd exchange
congratulations on the success of thei
principles, in SO many recent elections
! and in places which hsyaepr so long &
, time been emkittered against them.
{, Surely they have case for jubilee.
"A sensibie physician who lives in Col
orado sends word to the Eastern doctors
that it is folly to send consumptives il
the advanced stage of the disease to tina
climate, as all such die sooner than the,
would at home, and then they assert tina
the climate is not good for such disease
If they would 60 in time many would
! be cured.
By invitation of the Alabama Edito
; rial Association, the New York editors
are now on an excursion South. They
were in Louisville on. Wednesday last,
and of course Jared sumptuously. They
visited Mammoth Cave, and have had q
! perfect ovation wherever they have gone.
Success to them. May the trip prove
both pleasant and profitable.
There is a man in Montgomery county
Kentucky, who wants to go to Congress
on the independent horse He says he
will not submit to parties, rings. primary
elections, caucusses or conventions. w,
will bet our new suit of clothes against
a one-cent cancelled postage stamp that
he will be defeated, as all such indepen
dent, high-mettled steeds should.
The Northern Conference sent three
special delegates to meet the Southern
General Conference at Louisville. The
delegates were, Gen. Clinton b. Fisk
Chas. III. Fowler, ID. d., of New York
and A. S. Hunt, ID. ID. They wer'
kindly received, and made eloquent res
ponses to their hearty welcome. What
, effect their visit may have we canno
tell.
Bismarck is rendering himself yer,
: obnoxious to civilized people by usin.
a fraudulent means of all kinds to preven
Germans from emigrating to this conu
try. He has had orders issped from
\ Berlin to the police to prevent the great
exodus Of their people to the United
States. Such conduct on the part Of
the German government renders it al
2 the more obnoxious to its citizens.