The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-07-17
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Flour barrels are now made of paper
instead Of wood, and they are said to be
very excellent barrels.
We arc to have two weekly medical
journals il a short time; one to I've pub
li.hcd in Louisville, and the other in
Henderson, Ny.
Two more females have been burned
to death with coal oil since our last.
Alas for the ignorance and carelcssness
Of the human family.
Lightning struck seven boys in lndi-
ana, the other day, killing one Of them.
A white man in Atlanta, Georgia, was
also killed by the same strange power.
Philadelphia has increased $4,000 in
population during 1913. No other city
in the world dr more. st Louis and
Chicago are the next highest Oh the list,
having increased about 81, 900 each.
Mr. John Mcleod. formerly civil en-.
ginccr on the l.. n y. Il. H.. has been
chosen Superintendent Of the Louisville,
Lexington Il Cincinnati Railroad. The
compliment was quite worthily bestowed.
Goldsmith Maid, the gteN trotting
mare. has met with "focman worthy
Of her steel" in u little horse over in
IIoo,ier called Red Cloud. lie beat her
in one heat and came near doing 80 in
two Others.
a professional balloonist thought he
had invented real flying machine,
which he attached to his air.ship, and
when up far in the air cut it loose, and
down he came like rock, and was kill.
ell instantly.
James Gordon Bcnnett. jr., Is very
good newspaper man, bu, a very poor
shot at pigeons on the wing. lie was
foolish enough TO bet 5000, the other
dav. tina, he could heat wcll-known
crack shot, aud got beat. Of course.
Queen Victoria rules over about 24O,-
0oo, ,0oo of people. Her dominions com.
prise over about one-third Of the globe.
England, Wales. Ireland and Scotland
are hut petty divisions. comparatively.
in square miles, of her yast possessions.
There i. negro lecturer who intends
giving lectures in tn. State and in lndi-
ana, for the purpose of showing the dar.
kies that they were responsible for
Charles Summers advocacy Of Horace
Greeley for the Presidency. What will
that amount to?
\ New York physician has succeeded
in curing case Of hydrophobia by TAX
Ing large quantity of blood seventy
two ounces from patient. The patient
fully recovered. Perhaps this will solve
the great question A. 10 whether this dis
ea-e is eursble ~ not.
There has been genuine case of Asi-
attic c,olera in Louisville, aud one in
New York. The case in Louisville orig.
ina,cd in the same locality that the chol.
era of 1851 did. Let us not be alarmed,
but le, Us clean up and thoroughly disin-
feet our towns and premises, SO Us to
ward of scouree.
Bcccher has demanded an invcstiga-
iion "fthc charges preferred against him
10y Tilion The committee are at work
pn the ease aud We will souu have q full
rcport. We may expect that he will be
exhoncrated by the committee. who are
members of Plymouth Church, and were
selected by Mr. Bcecher.
Senator Stevenson, of Kentucky, was
was one Of the 33 Senators who voted to
gag the press by passing law allowing
libel suits to he brought in Washington
against distant editors by serving process
on agents or correspondents merely.
Shame on YOU, Senator. The press of
Kentucky will remember you.
4 number of Kentucky towns have
decided to vote on the local option law
next August, at the regular election.
Falmouth voted in favor Of allowing sa-
looms TO he licensed, and the Board of
Trustees fixed the tax at three hundred
dollars each. Several oi them were
olcned ncNt day At this price.
The great steel bridge over the Mssis-
sippi at It. Louis cost ZOO, ,G00, and
the tunnel nov under construction there
will co.t over half as much more. 1t is
the finest bridge in the world, and it is
said to he the grandest piece Of engineer
ing skill ever exhibited. Col. james b.
Eads was the architec, and engineer, and
il Will reader his name immortal.