The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-01-09
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Nilsson was in Cincinnati last week.
It is reported that Mrs. Laura Fair,
the lovely murderess, is again married.
rs public virtue declinings" asks an
exchange. No; when it got to the bot.
tom it stopped.
One Of the propositions which are to
he submitted to the Georgia Constitution.
al Convention is revival for imprison.
ment for debt.
The smallpox is still raging in differ.
ent portions Of the South, although
many Of the reports in the Northern pa
pers are greatly exaggerated.
A Tennessee mule has been out of the
State only once in tweuty years, and
his hoofs have grown twelve inches long
and his name reaches the hcor.
A Georgian was cursing an editor the
other day when he fell dead. This
should be a warning to those who are
guilty Of committing the unpardonable
sin.
Mrs. Samuel Colt, widow of the orig
inal manufacturer Of the celebrated
Colts revolver. now supcrintends all the
immense business of her husbands foun-
dry.
"Mrs. Asa, of Kansas, is twsnty-nine
years old and has fourteen children"
Fourteen Asas! Hcaverl what u pro-
digious poker.hand that woman does
hold.
An appropriation by Congress of
nearly s2,00O,000, in gold, will be re-
quired in satisfation of claims allowed by
the late United States and British Com
missions.
The United States has not lost a frig-
ate-built vessel since 1898. The Irsur-
gent, captured from the French, was fit
ted out and sent to sea, but war never
heard from afterwsrd.
General Spinner will leave Washing.
ton shortly for Florida, hoping to i'm
prove his health. 1t has been suggested
that the tracks Of the alligators on the
muddy banks of the rivers will remind
him of his own autograph.
A man and his wife, in Lima, o., were
to paper room, and in tearing
down the old paper, which was of deep
green color, dust was created which
was inhaled by them, and they were
poisoned by it and died in a short time.
"1f some of our druggists" says an II.
linois paper, "would fill bottle of bed
bug poison, place it in the back room,
and label it "Old Rye" there would he
50 many inquests in the next twenty -four
hours, that all the papers would have TO
issue supplements.
Meetings of the working men are be-
ing held in all the large cities North and
West, to consider the needy situation of
thousands out of employment. At a
meeting held in Louisville, the burden
of the speeches made wa, that the work
nymen want either paid labor or money
to enable them te get through the winter.
A petition has been presented Con
gress from citizens of Buffalo, n. Y,
praying that the 18th day Of February,
the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, be
declared national holiday. Oh, yes,
by all means keep open the wounds,
bruises and purifying sores of the late
OF course, every body
desires this thing.
A prominent New York stock broker,
who is not unknown at the National cap
ital, declared in recent interview with
a Newspaper reporter, that "the mem-
bers Of the present Congress are more
corrupt than even their immediate pred
ecessors, aud the country will find my
words true. Their rascality is more of
the unblushing kind, and they prosecute
their dishonest schemes regardless of
shame or fear
Durrell, the notorious Louisiana
Judge. who has faithfully carried out the
behests of his INSCRIPTIONS political
leaders, is naturally very reluctant to
submit to the proposed investigation into
his official conduct; and in order to pre-
vent repetition of the damaging dis
closures of last winter, he modestly pro.
poses to the President to exchange his
judicial position for some second rate for