The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-02-27
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Ex-Governor Brown, President Of the
Georgia State railroad, passes temper
ancc lecturers free.
A New York Judge has decided that a
pension is gin Of the government and
cannot he seized for debt.
The experiment recently tried in some
0! the public schools Of using a newspa-
per for reading exercises instead Of a
reading book is proving great success.
The latest geological curiosity is re-
ported from Richmond, Wa dog with
two tailsi One of them however was an
OK tail. and the dog carried It in his
mouth.
The majority Of the conservative par
ty in England, so far, is. very decided.
OF the 400 members Of the new Parlia-
ment. 227 are Conservatives and 1893
Liberals.
During the forty seven years of its
history, the total receipts of the Ameri-
can Home Missionary Society have been
Sc, 500, 900, and it has added 229, 5s5
members to the church.
Rev. G., II. Hays, of the Methodist,
and Elder Sweeney, of the Christian
Church, are to hold an eight-day debate,
beginning April I, at Hodgenville, Laruc
county on the subject Of baptism.
xThe latest new invention is artificial
butter. We have long had mauufac-
tured milk, so we may abolish the COW
altogether. They call this new butter
oleomaryarine. Fancy child crying for
piece of bread and oleomargarine.
A clergyman with an eye TO business
proposes the abolition Of golden, tin, sill
YER, wooden and other weddings, and
the substitution therefor of an anniversa.
~ renewal Of the fee to the minister
who officiated at the original ceremony.
On the occasion of the one hundredth
anniversary birthday of Mozart, recent
", it was proposed to decorate his grave.
But alas! for recognition of mans great
ness by his own age, no one was able to
point out the final resting place of the
immortal composer.
Astor, Vanderbilt and Stewart, the
New York millionaires, are all on the
verge of eighty years. What young man
&C sound buly, mind and morals with
fifty cents in his pocket, would swop hi
lusty, vigorous hopeful youth for all the
millions of the decrepit trio,
There has not for many years been 9
time when so many churches of the sew
eral denominations have reported reviv
ais, or when converts have been SO nu
merously as now. The revival spirit
is extending through all the churche'
and to all parts of the country.
| Complaint has been made that thu
, United States soldiers stationed at Sal
. Lake City are abused by the police. L
this compliant is well founded, the Gov
ernment owes it both to itself and I,
humanity to hire man to go along will
these soldiers and protect them.-C-J
The question of regulating railwa.
rates and management by law, is nov
pending in the Legislatures of Minneso
Ia, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and Kan
sas. The question is rapidly assuming {
, national Importance, and will hardly bt
settled short of the highest judicial de
cision.
The three-foot narrow gauge railroad
system is rapidly becoming popular in
this country. Within the last three oil
four years no less than 1,445a miles OF
narrow gauge railway have been built in
this country and in Canada, which roads
when completed will have mileage OF
4,562i miles, while there are 1921 miles
snder construction.
Gov. Stafford, Of Arizona, describing
the class of people that don't get along
in the West, says that 'gentlemanly
: farmers who commence without means
and have hired all the work done. will
undoubtedly be obliged to quit the bust
hess, and those who have invested the
largest portion of their crops in poor
whisky, at twenty-five cents per glass
will hardly be able to meet their obliga
tions and inspire sufficient confidence to
obtain credit in future" And the samt
IL trua of that elias of mon evaryxhara