The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-03-20
EDITORIAL NOTES.


fins will be more prcfusely decorated
than ever this season. Wonder if il will
be fashionable also TO die?
The primary election is the favorite
mode Of selecting Democratic candidates
in the State this year, very few counties
adopting the old convention system.
Judge b. +. Graves, Of the Fayette
County Court, died at his residence in
Lexington, on the 18th inst. He had
been dangerously i'll for months past.
The contracts for material and work on
Central University at Richmond, Ky,
have been awarded, and the building will
soon be finished. We hope to see the
University in operation in the Fall.
The Kansas Legislature recently pass
ed a resolution submitting To the people
an amendment to the Constitution au-
thoriling woman suffrage; and now little
Rhode Island has been guilty of the
same indiscretion.
Dispatches from Northwestern Iowa
report great suffering among the settlers
on homesteads in Osceola, Lyon and
other counties in the extreme Northwest,
caused by the failure of crops. Contri-
buttons are being solicited for their re-
lief.
Three men, Daniel Durbin, james
Turpin and Jauncoy Harrison, of Casey
county, were charged with Illicit distill-
ing, and held to answer at the October
term of the United States Court at Lou
isvlle, and admitted to bail in $500
each
The Bishop Cummins dissenters from
the Episcopal Church have organized the
first congregation of the reformed body,
called the First Reformed Episcopal
Church Of New York. Bishop Cum
minis wanted it called the Church of
the Savior"
A desperate and bloody encounter
is reported in Davies county, original.
ing in love, seduction, abandonment,
and the usual consequences. The par
ties 10 the contest were Baxter Davis
and Louis Sublett weapons used. an axe
and fence rail. The first named was
slain.
Saul and Nancy Seals. Of Fast Ten.
ne.see, aged respectively 80 and 81 years.
have eleven children--nine girls and two
boys-all married but one son. They
have 81 living and dead grand chill
dren, AMI I great-grand children. The
Oldest son found shuck of corn equally
prolific. For he got seventeen ears out
it.-Echo.
The London Daily advertiser says
there is more coal in Alabama than
would supply the world for 2Oo0 years,
and that il will, in the future, produce
NOR iron than is now made in England,
Sc Land and Wales combined that
Tennessee has more coal than Alabama,
and Kentucky more than both. What
a truth for emigrants TO contemplate!
We were in error last week in stating
that a committee of the Northern AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church and
one from ne Southern wing Of the
Church were in conference in New York.
on the subject of union Of the two
branches of the church, 1t was u com.
mittee from the Reformed Dutch
Church and the Southern Church, en-
deavoring to form an organic union.
A negro man, namel John Broils. is
announced in the Springfield kentuckidn
as a candidate for Jailor of Washington
county. Our Radical friends who boast
of the anticipated increase of their party
by the influx Of negroes on the {. ;. X. II.
in this county, need not be surprised il
their negro allies claim some of the spoils
of office this year-provded that negro
railroad laborers are legitimate voters in
August.
The Board of Trade, of Louisville, is
Just now awaking TO the fact that the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad is fixed
enterprise, and that, when completed,
will drain a large section of our State
whose trade properly belongs to our own
metropolis. We wish that all of Louis
vile were as wide awake rs her Boasd of
Trade, and would finish the Knoxville
Branch. They can have il done il they
will use their great influence with the
l.. IL n. X. II. Co.
Congress is TO be asked for an appro-
priation for the purpose of irrigating the
Great Colorado Desert. About six or
seven hundred thousand millions is
thought to be ample to make the prelim-
mary surveys, and by the time the free
holders of the settlements can make
sale of their property and transfer the
proceeds 20 the general government, the
project will be matured and the second
installment may be paid. Those who
pay no revenue can go out and help dig
the bitches.
Beck gave Garfield something besides
tobacco to smoke in his pipe the other
day, when he told him that the actual
stealings during this administration have
been quiteA as much as was required to
sllppOrt the administration of Washing.