The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-02-25

ia'crt improvement w toUuoUs WIN "
one man can groom Eve hundrcd horse
pei day.
FAT no. In this market nov comman,
81 per 100 lbs There IL no stock the farm
er can raise that command. a more read'
s'le han fat hogs.-[I.cb Times aud Ken
tuckian.
MrLrs are selling at the following prize
in Fayeite; Two-year old. from s65 t.
so5; yearlinep, s35 to SIS; pair. Of wort
males, $50 two $3.50 per pair single brok,
mules. SIS to sl2o.-tob.. a Reporter. -
THr property purchased by the comfy
for Poor House purposes, has passed into
the possession Of The purchasers, they hav.
ing paid over the amount agreed upon, To-
rit $1,000, II IL one II the best small farms
around our town.
LAST Monday was County Court day at
DanviIle. Capt. J. NJ Higgins reports about
100 head ~ cattle IN the market. Prics
ranged from , to sic. Mules from $50 to
sil0 per head. Plug hores from $40 to
$40 each. A very di.agreeable day but
good crowd.
one ofour "s,lid men," Lincoln coun.
ty farmer aud capitalist, owns neat little
boundary Of bluegrass land which meas
ures 2,700 acres, with an average value Of
as per acre. and wants to buy 1000 more
acres II the same sort His cash capital,
including Bank Stock, Is $4,000.
SALE OF SuoRr-IIoRSs. Four head Of
saort.horns belonging to A. W. Bedford,
we're sold at auction on the 10th inst, 22d
Duchess n Goodness, brought S2,025, and
Oneida Duke Of Goodness, $500, 10Th 60.
ing to Bedford a Gofi. Autumn Belle and
her bull calf were knocked off TO Jos. $.
Scott, for s26j.-lParis Citizen.
OS Saturday, March llih, next, there
will be sale Of some land IN the premises
Of Walter Huston, in this, Lincoln county,
by Commissioner. On the regular Coun-
~ Court day, for this county, March 18th,
there will also be a sale Of Knob Land and
other property, before the Court House
door, in stanford-the property Of II. Helm.
A pRovER from ,hi. county, who seems
to have no, been discouraged by the reports
n the low prices Of mules in the South,
started two car loads for that section lat
Friday. We hope he will meet with better
success than his predecessors did In fact,
We doubt not that the market will have
been much proved by the time he reach
rs there.
Hoe cholera seems to be raging TO an al
irming extent in our county. We learn
hat on. of 1856 head fattening at wathen's
iistillery, near town, there are eight dead,
Ind twenty or thirty down with the dis
'a.e. Mr.. Sam spalding informs us that it
$ among his hogs, and we learn from 9th
~ that il is prevailing in other sections Of
he county aud fatality Lebanon Times
I Kentuckian.
A STOCK trader from Kentucky was in
Tennessee a couple Of weeks ago, to buy
attic, but believing he could make money
" buying mules which had been taken
south from thi. State, he purchased a lot
{ mules at Memphis, at $50 pcr head. lie
,rought them to Kentucky, and sold them
n Lexington at $50 per head. This is
ertainly new way to make money! Leb-
mon Standard.
4 HrGE BULLocK.-A man in Pennsyl-
'ania or some other State up North, says
le has bullock which now weighs nearly
i've thousand pounds, aud is not yet fat,
nut that by the fr-t Of July next, the ami
nal will weigh 5000 pounds. lie says
' hen his tail j. stretched out he measures
. feet frnm Zip TO tip" The owner was
'iercd 5000 for one.fourth interest in
he OK. lie desires to eShibi, it at the
'eniennial at % cents ticket. The beast
$ said to be over seven feet in height.
WE were informed by one Of the most
PRACTICAL sheep husbandman in our neigh
sring county, Jessaminc, that the growth
4 the sheep interest in that section, has
more than quadr,ipled in the last year, and
hat in his opinion $1,000 to $1,000 lambs
would be furnished to drovers and butchers
his coming spring by the breeders Of this
nd Jcssamine county alone. We confess
hat this is very agreeable surprise to Us,
o see this very important interest increase
With such great rapidly. Live Stock Rec
I'D
MAJ. KEY, Of Louisville, stated in
,ublic lecture at Frankfort, few days
go, that the people Of Kentucky annually
ire swindled out of $4,000 by fruit tree
,edilers; and no, only this, but horticult
are is retarded and the lands thus eneum-
,cred rendered Us, less for years. The rev.
'nue from fruits in Kentucky is now 81
MOO, 600, hut by an annual appropriation OF
rom 81 500 to $4,000 by the Legislature to
he Kentucky State Horticultural Society,
he dividends could be rought to 5000
400 or Si0,OO0,O0O annually Il Lebanon
standard.
InE GREAT RACE. The great $4,000
ace came of at San Francisco, last Tues
lay, aud five or six horses were entered.
The race was won by Foster, the property
Il Capt. T. q. Moore, Of Crab Orchard.
Nv. This horse ran at Crab Orchard sew
,ral wears ago. and won A race Captain