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


and Connecticut, April 9Th.
The public del,t of the United States
is only about sixty thousand times great
er than il was in 1885, less than forty
years ago.
"Gracious me !" exclaimed lady in
witness box, chow should knog any
thing sbost anything dopt know any
thing about Y
The Rothchilds, twelve in number, are
worth about one thousand millions Of
dollars as a firm, not including their in
dkilual fortunes.
A. prominent young physician Of
Burkcsville has been arrested on a charge
of rape alleged to have been committed
on .arQuna lady Of Metcalf county.
Edwin Booth, the well-known actor
has filed a petition in bankruptcy.
Among the secured liabilities is claim
Of Oakcs Ames' estate for 100000.
Crawford county. Iowa, last week paid
bill Of $50 30 for plug tobacco for the
use of paupcrs in the poor house. a pc
tition for fine-cut met with no attention.
The Kansas House of Representatives
refused TO pass resolutions censuring
Grant for taking double pay, and cen
surfing themselves for taking railroad
passes.
A letter from Cumberland county to
the Columbia Spectator says that there
are twenty cases of typhoid fever in
Burksville. only few of which are re-
garded as dangerous.
A Southern writer describes scrub
arstocracy as those who, having risen
from state Of obscurity and poverty to
wealth, boot-lick those above them,
while they scorn the honest and poor.
A London genius has invented the
anti.breach-ofpromise ink, which fades
away in month. |, may be used in
memorandum books for statesmen. -
Would have been the very trick for
Credit Mobiliers.
A Kansas school ma'am says when
she was young she said to a playmate of
the boy persuasion: IL can make an ug-
lier face than you can" To which he |
responded: "Sho! that's nothing-you
had better start"
Gen l.. b. Maxey, the new Texa.
Senator, is a Kentuckian by birth, grad /
uated at West Point. was lieutenant in .
the Mexican war. and major-general in
the Confederate ssmy. lie is an able I,
lawyer and fluent speaker.
The McCarty-Mordecai duel, which |
has been the ruling topic at Richmond
for the last six months, has ended in the /.
survivor being fined five hundred dollars. /
II is quiet evident that the code has not
entirely lost its grip in the "Old Doimin-
iou."
\ sensation preacher assuming dra-
matte attitude, exclaimed, in a startling,
agonizing tone, what is that see
therey Here little woman in balck |
cried out in shrill treble tone, ats
nothing but my little black dog; he
won'nt bite aRybody."
A distinguished German surgeon,
named Esmarch, has invented a process
whereby ampuIation of the limbs may
he performed bloodlessly by applying
elastic bandagCs TO the limbs above the
point of operating. The method has
been successfully tried in England.
j. b. Wheeler, William Turner'S, +.
q. McGinnis, p. W Bryant, Peter II.
Bryant, and G.. A. Bryant charged with
illicit distilling in Adair, were tried
before U. :. Commissioner Morriwether,
on Thursday OF last week, and in default
of $500 bail were committed to Jail.
J. q. Page, the notorious friend of
Pomeroy, is endeavoring to get names to
memorial asking Senator. York to re-
sign his seat in the State Senate for pre-
suming to censure Grant for approving
the salary grab, and for expressing want
of confidence in the Republican party.
Russia refuses 10 send articles TO the
Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia in
1876, ION the ground that il is a private
ailair'-meaning thereby what has been
often charged in this country, that the
Centennial has been hatched by a GER
tain ring in and about Philadelphia, for
tho exclusive benefit of themselves and
city.
Gov. Moses, of South Carolina, is to be
investigated. Il is charged that he has
used the contingent fund of the State for
private purposes; that he paid the post
band at Columbia for music furnished al
his private residence with an order on
the fund for one thousand dollars; and
that he gave county treasurer an order
on the fend to indemnify him for en-
dorsing his note.
Al dancing party in Davidson coun-
ly, Tenn, young man named Briefly,
while standing ON the floor with his part.
ner, was shot through the heart and kill.
ed by man named Bates. The two had
a difficulty rs 10 which shnuld lancn with