The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-01-23
sINGLE SHOTS.

Evansville wants 10 do q stroke Of
business in the Mardi Gras line.
Chicago has packed more hogs this
season than both st. Louis and Cincin.
matt.
Vice President Wilson is getting bet.
ter, but is not yet able to preside over
the Senate.
There are now before Congress bills for
the erection Of public buildings at cost
of $40, ,OO0,oO
Dhume 4 Co., of Cincinnati, were
robbed Of $1,000 worth Of diamond
rings on Saturday last, by bold young
rascal.
The Mexican war veterans ask Con-
gress 10 relieve the disabilities Of those
Of their comrades who participated in
the tebellion.
L. ID. Standiford and Col. Grassland
are among the twenty-five members Of
the House who voted against the repeal
Of the Salary bill.
Bob Turner, Of Potosi, Wisconsin,
who murdered his brother a few days
since, boasts thathis hand has sent forty
persons TO the dread eternity. .
II costs only one hundred and one
thousand dollars for years sweeping out
and watching of the Treasury building
at Washington. Dirty, thieving fel.
lowsl
Within few months, three United
States Judges have resigned to avoid i'm.
penchment, viz: Sherman Of Ohio, Du-
rell of New Orleans, and Delahay Of
Kansas.
The Senate Salary Bill which has
passed both houses of Congress will save
ESQ, 900 in the executive department and
about el 900, 900 in the Legislative De-
partment
The st. Louis Mutual Life Insurance
Company, having contracted with the
Mound City Life Insurance Company to
re-insure its policies, ended its career on
the 18th inst.
The present Legislature Of Kentucky
is decidedly the poor mans friend, and
its action upon the repeal of the ten per
cent. conventional interest law will
prove the assertion.
A Bath county candidate for county
Judge. declares in his announcement,
that he will decide all cases brought be-
fore him according to equity and the
Constitution Of the Unitel States.
In discussing the currency question in
Congress, the other day, Mr.. Sherman,
Of Ohio, said Congress is bound by
pnblc faith and good policy to bring
our currency to specie standard"
II has been decided by the Cheap
transportation Convention that our sys-
TEN of railroads can he regulated and
improved only by competition, but that
legislation is necessary to inaugurate the
reform.
Could anything be neater than the old
darkey's reply to beautiful young lady
whom he offered to liit over gutter, and
who insisted that she was too heavyY
"Lor missus," said he, "I's used to liftin
barrels Of sugar"
The Government Of Italy has notified
our Government that the edict of Cardi-
nal Paccha, ,forbidding, under severe pen-
alties, the expectation of works of art
from Rome, without permission Of the
Government, is still in force.
That man delivers very powerful
temperance lecture who goes home drunk,
shoots his wife and then cuts his own
throat and there is little doubt that il
causes many conscience-stricken wretch
to pawn his pistol for some more drinks
and carry a dull knife.
Congress will consider the expediency
of granting the request OF the Menno-
mites Of Russia and Prussia to purchase
from this Government, a compact body
Of lands sufficiently large to afford houses
for them in this country. Trey number
between forty and fifty thousand souls.
The extravagant comments of the Re-
publican press upon the negro Elliofs
speech, delivered in Congress recently,
is said to be quite compliment to the
white man who wrote it. Won't Elliots
admirers and bosom friends squirm.
though, when his aromatic brethren
nominate him for Vice PRESIDENT
When President Grant promised some
years ago that the appointments to terri
toal offices would be made as far US pos
sible from citizens of the territories, peo-