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movt nothfnf about Il IN ary event.
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duce proof. . ~. /. - :. :
Mr.. Harrington. Very wen, you had better
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ftOa thie witness. spi'S-. - ~ -. -
p 6saator Stewart. u It necessary to hsye
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M. l6attingiy. The charge Itself 4 not
fairly wosled according to what 1as generally
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tiaeiy 70 state this TO be the s1ac. iset, fhst
they would 1t contract on street and then
charge the. taxahle property On that street,
leaving the other ont Of consideration.
Nj. Mat&inely.; That Il Il exactly r3fes
Hsnator Stewart. II the property was along
that which would be remote, IL would bear &
proportion Of that expense, but the whole street
was taxed for one third Of the special improve
ments Of the street. .ls.s.'. y ~.
Mr.. Matttngiy. That is it. tfa
Senator Stewart. Instead of the whole length
of the street. ,.s.. a.-s y
The Chairman. That charge d admitted.
Representative Hamilton. Substantially there
b no difference between counsel, a. I under
stand II. ...
Nj. Mahtngly. 1t depends upon the construc-
ton Of the charge It Is very ambtguously
worded: Under the charge you might think the
property on some other street was taxed.
MI Cnrsey. NO, wi ressnctea 70 thai.
:, MI. Mernck. IL 10 limited 70 the particular
square; say for example, square-thas y,
space from one street 70 another, and there
was exemPNeo properly upon tnat square. Inat
the assessment Of the entire improvement upon
that square was distributed upon the taxable
properly ,noioers on tnat square. -.
The Chairman. Judge Merriek, DO you claim
that this mode Of assessing property for I'm
provements was In violation OF lswi
n. Merrick. Yes, sf. $500.
Ine Chairman. very ven, then, You can
poaue out she law violated, and the facts OF
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q. We'll. nov. to revert again to this point
of sradinx. Have roo any knowledge - to
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knowledge upon The suh9eeel SaAs1 - Deeesss
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papers.
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Your menoFialists now come and move for
leayp % ~ peocpo DR. the following named
witnesses. reailI eUtkdo OF H. District Of
Columbia:
I. o. n. Quimby, DIXON, Lee county, III.
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National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-03-26


deemed 70 Do The value q III ola naateriall
A. / stated that msde out IN aoeount,
think, amounting 70 ons hundred and thirty.
three dollars and some odd ceute, and that
they allowed S12s.l5 1bs IL material which
wa used. 81 80. li'..- 49, I. .-.t
O. Do you ksowwhsthee dmilar allowsnes
vas made to other psoResty -Aosdeess a. havs
II from them, that = al; that y WHIST Induced
Ne TO mako ~ spplicatisa for IL allowancs
tsntion Of the Board Of Publie Works, - iAs q
ron know, an allovanes WIS neds 1T whai
they daened 70 BE- thu value a tAiD 1nAoRiA1
A. I wrote two lettees 70 ~ boaF6.
Q. en- not asling yoa bow MA1y 1etess yuu
wrceel A. In a1sUef IA, tAak QUESTION - n
whether when ths application vas nads y wsl
q. / ssy tAss, % q, y ysa knov, N allsv.
70 property holdefs Who asksd compensation fol
this oh materian 4, xes, ar3 . far q ! knev
q Nov, going e the p3eee q s1.dl1e pad
under youf Sdm3nistsattoa, understood xoa q
ny that there were VARIOUS peieos pad a1d
thew Was 10 uniform pFiee9. y yaxleA ~ thu
way from 10 ceuts 70 10 esues1 4. Do n0l
know that nAyv1s 1coe - lOw - 70 enes.
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The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-01-02

600; J. N. Craig's twc-story frame
dwelling, on the South side Of Main
street, opposite the Methodist church,
cost about $1,000; African Christian
Church. cost about $1,000; Addition to
old building and remodeling of the front
of property of Mr.. 7. 7. Davies, on
Lancaster street, cost about LOO; The
improvement Of the Warren House, cost
about 500; a large number Of small inn
provements, out-houscs, sidewalks, etc.
On the whole, our growing town presents
a much better appearance now than ever
before aud We note with pleasure that
by the end of the present year still
greater improvements will have been
made.
We have never been ex,ravagant in our
praises of old Stanford. There is much
about her that is deserving Of commen-
dation, and much that should remain
untold. or be severely ccnsured. She Is
up with the times in many respects and
in other respects occupies rear rank.
Some of her citizens are cntcrprisiny
and progressive. while many are plod-
ding and old fogyish. The young busi.
ness men Of the place are foremost in
matters Of improvement and growth.
The old heads, while they are in the
highest degree solid and substantial, are,
with few honorable exceptions, doing
little towards improving the town or ex-
tending its business. But il is not our
purpose, in thi- paper, to publish STAN
ford's faults or cxtol her cscellecces,
She is our own, our native village, and
we have a jealous regard for her fair
name, and doting fondness for her peo-
pie and her institutions, which make
us wondrous kind. She is poor, but
proud and honest, little but old, ugly
but smart. No one ever left her hospit
able borders who did not look back with
an almost irresistible longing to return.
She is the same dear old Stanford, yes
terday, to-day and night-beforelast. Her
friends love her and her enemies-and
their name i legion fear her, and well
they may, for, though often reviled by
ambitious and unsuccessful rivals, sht
don't stand il like a cclm May-day, or q
meek incipient ram, but wars her foes t.
/ the bitter end. Selah.
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ANTIQUITY OF MAN.

Five Hundred thousand Years ut Least
-specuiatious OF Mr.. Alfred Russell
Wallace.
In the issue of Nature for Oct 3, Alfred
Russell Wallace indulges in some specula-
tons on the probable antiquity of the
human species, which may well startle
even those who have long since come to
the cot clu,itn that 6,OO0 years carry us
but a small way back to the original home.
In fact, in Mr.. Wallace's reckoning, 6,
900 years are rs day. He begins by
complaining of the timidity of the SCI
entitic men when treating of this subject,
and points out the iallacy of always pre-
ierring the lowest estimate, in order to
be ION the safe side" He declares that
all the evidence tends to show that the
safe side is probably with the large fig
ures. He reviews the various attempts
to determine the antiquity Of human re-
mains or works Of art, and finds the
bronze age in Europe to have been pretty
accurately fixed at 5000 to 1900 years
ago, the stone age of the Swiss lake dwell
ings at 5, 900 to . 900 years land an indef-
mite anterior period The burnt brick
found sixty feet deep in the Nile alluvium
indicates an antiquity of seventy-two feet
gives 80, 900 years. "A human SHELTON
found at depth of sixteen feet below
four buried forests, superposed upon each
other, has been calculated by DIR. Bowler
to have an antiquity of $4,000 years
But all these estimates pale before those
which Kents cavern at Torquay legiti-
mates. Here the drip of the stalagmite
is the chief factor of our computations, Civ
ing us an upper floor which "divides the
relics of the last two or three thousand
years from deposit full of the bones of
extinct mamalia, many of which, like
the reindeer. mammoth and glutton, in
dictate an ariic climate Names cut into
this stalagmite more than 200 years ago
are still legible; in other words, where
the stalagmite is twelve feet thick, and
the drip still very copious, not more than
hundredth of foot has been deposited
in two centuries "a rate Of five feet in
100, 900 years. Below this, however, We
have thick, much older, and more
crystalline Il. c., more slowly
formed) stalagmite, beneath which
again, "in a solid breccia, very different
from the cave Of earth. undoubled works
of art have been found Mr.. Wallace
assumes only 100000 years for the
upper aud about $50, 900 for the lower,
and adds 10000 for the intermediate
cave earth, by which he arrives at the
"sum of halt million as representing
the years that haze probably elapsed
since fiints Of human Workmanship were
buried in the lowest deposits of Kent's
cavern"
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-01-02
Tools fur the Farm.

A correspondent of the Farmers I'm
ion writes: There Is no better way for a
for farmer 10 invest few dollars than
by buying few tools for the farm.
Much time and expense can be saved by
repairing broken farming tools yourself,
instead Of carrying them to a carpenter
and paying high price for Il job, which
perhaps you could have done as well L
not better yourself. and at a cost of less
than one quarter the price paid for the
work. There are many days Of leisure
in the early part of the winter, that you
can devote to the overhauling and re-
pairing the farming tools 10 be used
early in the Spring, and have them in
prime order when the hurry of Spring
work begins. Surprising you have a
broken rake handle; instead of throwing
il away, hay tho head by, or il you have
an old handle, put that into your good
head, and you have "a whole rake that
will last you as long as a new one cost
ing thirty cents. Ii you break pitch
fork handle, don't buy whole new fork
the next time you 90 TO town. but buy a
handle aud put the old tine into il, and
you have US good fork as can be bought
and for less than half the cost Of new
one.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-01-02

This venerable burg has increased in
wealth. population and general pr'speri-
~ during eyear. Her commercial in
terests are more ilattering for 1874 than
any previous year. She has, during the
past few years, extended her trade into
new territory, made new friends, aud,
by the fair dealing, energy and enter
prise If some of her business men, she
has won name and reputation US ira
ding point that few Kentucky towns Of
the same population and wealth can
boast. In the line Of Improvements she
has done we'll. considering the condition
Of financial matters, and the enormous
debt she has carried accomplishing
ly. Many villages would have succumb
Cd to the weight Of debt of near $500
900, due and unpaid. from their patrons.
These figures may startle some people.
but the estimate very nearly approx.
mates the debt due Stanford from the
farming community. Among the I'M
proyemsnk worthy Of note we have
space to mention the d. Van Arsdale
swo-story brick business house, on the
Southwest corner Of Main and Lancaster
streets. ons Of The hand 'omest buildings
In Central Kentucky. Gust about ss,-
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having no food upon which to work.
save those who were by f,rce of circum'
stances compelled to remain, soon run its
course. There were twcnty-onc cases
and sixteen deaths. all colorcd except
Richard Austin, Mrs. VIM. Allen, q
child Of VIM. Allen and Mrs. Joe. Ian
dram. The latter del September 18th,
several weeks after the scourge disap-
peared from the town.
In some Of the Southen cities the vel.
low fever ragged with unusual desolation
and voc. Rarely in all the long annals
of human wre,chedness has the dread
death-angel s,alked sotcrribly, so persist
emily, 50 remorselessly as il did at Mem
phis and Shreveport. For several long
wecks-wecks Of suffering and death
the great heart Of the nation beat with
sympathy for the poor afflicted people OF
these fair Southcn cities. a few fearless
souls bravcd the dangers and disputed
the ground with the appalling pestilence,
aiding the afflicted and burying the hun.
drctIs Of dead daily, while the people OF
the North, East and West were contrib
u,ing in money and food to their suffering
brethren.-thus verifying that zone touch
r N.t,,,o ,,alos tLa whnIo world hin
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THEN AND NOW.
stanford ~ u Wac ssa O..


Corr,,poadese hierig Jos-raii
Your correspondent came to Stanford
in the early par, Of the Spring Of 1857,
to become one Of her permanent citizens.
II was in March. The snow was on the
ground and everything looked blie In
deed. The old Courthouse stood like
great sentinel in the midet Of barren and
leafclcss trees. was total stranger
then. Only one tavern furnished shelter
to the traveller, and that was the old
Huffman House now the Bruce Hotel.
| walked up and down the only street in
town to see what was to be seen. Just
Opposite the Journal office where the
handsom, row of buildings now stand, in.
clrlinr the frame stores ard the Farm
er's Bank building, u long row Of horse
racks stood. aud about a score Of horses
were hiichcd, aud paving away in the
mud and water. The old brick on the
corner. called, then, Helms brick, had
opcn doors for sheep, hogs, &c, and !
found, on entering, flock Of sheep
quietly sleeping. Where the Myers
House now stands. huge, empty gully
was found. But two churches were in
town--the Presbyterian aud Christian
and both were in a dilapidated condition.
At this time your people had but three
mails per week. aud they were brought
to town by a small two-horse stage, and
in bad weather, on horseback, arriving
here at nine or ten o'clock at night.
Consequently the citizen had to wait I'M
til thd next morning for his mail from
the postoffice.
If one or more Of the citizens desired
to visi, any other point, he was compel
ell tn rise at four or FIVE o'clock in the
morning at the sound Of the stage driv
er's horn, and to hurry up at that if he
did not want to be left at home.
Thus matters went on until about the
year 1866. At this date the iron hors,
had come along, and then, behold all wa
changed. From that day to this, we cal
rise, eat our breakfast, and take tn,
train for Louisville, and reach that cit,
within five or six hours. The messy roof
have been lifted and torn away. Tn,
old, dilapidated houses have been re
moved, and general thrift is seen on al
sides. So much for the iron horse-s'
much for the improvement of the cit,
in which we live. The sheep which
heretofore found shelter in the old Helm
corner, the horse racks &c, have passe,
away, and still the word is, onwarc! on
ward!
We now have five good hotels, sever
churches, and four schools. What a con
trast between then aud now! In 1856
we had about IS miles Of turnpike il
our county; now We have owe
$50. At that date we had no rail
roads, now we have over 40 miles. witt
the prospect of % miles more. What
change! And still we say, onward! on
ward,l Our soil is as fair and good n
any in all our broad land. II those O
our emigrants who visit our shores
would consult their own interest, the
would come within our borders and max
their homes here.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-01-02

AWNING '"e ~" occurrences " 'ne
year were 'ne distressing 'H"a''ons o'
Pef'''e"'e' N''''' 'e'' uPo" some o. '"e
, NV, '"',n ''""s " '"e 'ou'" a"o
We. "n'' ,"s "ss'se' % similarly p'ecaa'
'""', ""' "'"'" !" p'"''ae 'ae sac
s" 80 ~, ,"1 .Nir''e"'e
.'ss' s .: 20 .., aa' sun "y'.
',''' 1851 ":., - , p's''s"e' o'.'en'
Wv ~" "pi'a ".', I w '"' ,'A''' ns.a''
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sPPe"'e" :" .a'"'',,e' tennessee ana
from there TO Franklin Kentucky, also
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Yes, we call them the poor bee., be-
cause they are, indeed, To be pilied. We
learn in holy writ that "God heare,h the
young ravens when they cry" and He
also "Noteth the srarrows fall" But
why lie has seen fit to fail TO furnish the
poor bees with sustenance during the
present year, and with food for the pres
ent winter store, we cannot say. He Of
ten visits men with pestilence, famine and
sword. But We do 10, wish TO preach
sermon, or appear to upbraid the Al
mighty, for we believe all lie doeth is
wisest and best. So be it. Let US not
complain. "The Eearih is the Lords,
and the fulness thereof Without wish
ing or aiming to come down from the
sublime to the ridiculous, it j. too sud
den bound, We will simply assert that
the bees all over Central Kentucky, and
in fact all over the State, 80 far as we
have been able to learn, failed to find
honey enough, in the honey season, to
feed themselves during the present Win.
ter. Consequently, many swarms have
died, and many more will die before the
blooming season of 1874. There are a
few OF our largest apiarians who have
already lost over one-hali their swarms,
and predict the day is far oft when bee
keeping in Kentucky can be made profit
able.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-01-02

TIE Hon. s. S. Cox entertained the
New Workers, a short time since, with a
lecture on lrishwit and humor, in which,
as might be expected, there where given
an abundant number of illustrations Of
his subject. One was story of the
Iri shman who, on his death-bed. sought
to Offset his confession to the priest of mum
berless crimes by declaring that he had
once converted jew who died in the
faith. The priest eagerly inquired how
that was brought about. "Well, you see"
said the dying man, II was once on a
fat boat in the Mississippi river. We
were tied up to big cottonwood tree,
and all the crew were off hunting for wa
termelons except a jew and myself. He
made me mad, | Knocked him off the
boat into the river, ON the outside. He
houndered around in the muddy water
for few minutes, and got hold Of the
gunwales of the boat to cline back. !
took his hands, and, unclasping them
from the boat, said, "Do you believe in
the SAVIOR "No, said he. Then ! soused
him under, and kept him there minute
or so. Ipulled him up by the hair of
his head. "Do you believed in the
Saviory' ! asked him again. As soon as
he had breath, he said "No,
again, and soused him under. When
| brought him up again he was sproutng,
and, when ! asked him a third time, "Do
you believe in the Saviory he answard,
as soon as he could get breath, "Yes, |
do "Then die in the faith, said ], and
soused him under again. and held him
down until he was drowned. lie never
had a chance TO recant his conversion. T"