The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-02-13

hard like unto horn. One Of these
young ladies, on coming home one day
from a long tramp in the rain after the
cows, was standing on the hearth drying
her clothes, when her old mother dravlcd
out, SAL, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
your-foot." The girl slightly turned
her head, and drawlcd back, ",ciich--
foot, mammyS"
Gen. 8. b. Maxey who was elected
United States Senator by, the Texas
Legislature, is a native Of Monroe coun.
ty in this State. lie severved in Mexi-
co in Kentucky regiment, but suisse
quently removed to Texas lie was a
gallant soldier in the late war, and since
it, close has devoted himself TO the prac.
tice Of lawsre Ale will succeed the no.
sorious Flanagan whose term expires
MARCH, 4th, 1875. r.,
The death q Judgs Alfsed Conkling,
Ne father " Senator Conkling, was an
nouhced last Friday. He was in the
Seventeenth Congress after which he was
appointed by President Adams, Judge of
the United States Court for the Northern
district of New York. In 1852, he was
appointed by President Fillmore Minister
to Mexico. Since his return he has dc.
voted himself maialy to literary pur-
suits, having published two valuable
treatises ON law. He was eighiy-four
years old.
The French Government, acting on
the recommendation of the Committee on
Fortifcations, has determined to keep
for the next five years 5000 pairs of
carrier pigeons for breeding purposes for
service in war time. Each fortress will
have a military pigeon house, and each
pigeon house will contain 1000 birds.
Two general stations will he established,
at each of which 10000 pigeons will be
kept. The German fortresses at Metz
and Strasburg have been for year past
connected with other German forts by
system of carrier pigeons.
In the United States Senate on Tues
day last, February 3rd, Mr.. Sherman
from the Finance Committee, reported
bill amendatory of the act of 1870, in
relation to the increase in circulation of
national bank notes, and stated that the
object Of the bill was TO have a more
equal distribution Of currency, by the
withdrawal of SIS, 100000 from States
in excess, and the distribution of it in
the West and South among States def
cient He said that the bill met the APP
proval Of the Secretary of the Treasury,
the Controller of the Currency, and
every member of the Finance Committee,
aud he would call it up for action at an
carly day.
Another temperance lecture from the
Georgetown Times: Mr.. Boswell Green,
a citizen Of this county, was frozen to
death near Lees old mill, in Owen coun-
ty, on the night of the 9Th of January,
and, strange to say, nothing of his sad
fate was known until the 2ith ultimo,
eighteen days after his tragic death, when
his remains were discovered by his SON
inlay, James Mallory, at the place in
dicated. The night of the 9th of Janu-
ary will be remembered as very cold
and stormy one, and the unfortunate
nan, whom, il is said, had been drinking
too much, probably lost his way, and
thus came to his untimely end. Deceased
was in the fiity-ninth year of his age.
The proposition of President Grant
that Congress should appropriate large
area of the public lands for the purpose
of establishing a university in Washing
ton is not likely to commend itself TO
public favor. Senator Pratt, of Indiana,
has introduced bill intended to give eff.
fect to the Presidents suggestion; but in
the present temper of the people Com
gress will hardly dare to vote away a
large area of the public lands for pro-
iect which receives no support from any
one who is regarded as an authority ON
matters, and the evident
purpose of which is to benefit the rascal
ly real estate Ring which controls pub
lie affairs in the District of Columbia,
at the expense of the people of the whole
The simple truth is that a
large proportion of the grants of public
lands for educational purposes in the
past have been perverted to the enrich
ment of SPECTATORS, aud il Is time that a
stop was put to the jobbery arising from
such subsidies.
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