The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-01-28
STATE NE VS..

Heutateiy. Inc sOOneF you 90, IN
sooner you will get back and settl
down contented IN your good old nativ
= State.--[ Franklin Patriot.
The Interior journal stamford, Ky.
came to US last week alive all ovel
, and just brimful Of all sorts of goo,
reading, especially an unusual amount
of interesting local news. The Jour
nal is one Of the ablest and hest con.
Quoted papers in the State, an! iudg
! ing from its amount Of reading matter
its treble column advertisements, etc,
you would imagine il was published
In town of five or ten thousand in.
babitants, rather than in one of fifteen
hundred. The liberal patronage il re.
ccives, is the best proof of its worth.
-[Observer q Reporter, Harrodsburg.
A MODEST young man from the
country, having taken a severe cold,
and having a great horror for that
dread disease, consumption, consulted
with some of his immediate friends as
to the most efiectual remedy. which he
was Informed, was cod liver oil. The
young man shortly after visited the
drug store of Mr.. X. s. Hearn, in
this pace, and called through his
sense of modesty, for fsh OIL The al.
arming symptoms Of the patient aud
the mmoning Of regular physician,
after he had disposed of about pint
of the remedy, revealed the mistake,
while the prompt and efectual restor.
atives administered saved the young
mans life.-[Owen News.
Or all times in the world this is
about the worst that could be hit up
on for making a change in the legal
rate of interest. Times are hard
enough and money is held out of sight
close enough already, without any leg.
islation especially directed to driving
money out Of the State and so making
times harder. We do not suppose
there is member of the legislature
who will deny that the immediate ef-
feet of change in the laws restricting
the freedom of trade in money, will be
20 unsettle and disturb the course of
business for some time to come, and
even granting that it will be good
thing to make "a law-which everybo-
dy will violate--that interest shall be
only six per cent, this is no time to
do it, Lou. Commercial.
The building of the new Jail in Pu.
laski county was let out by the County
Court on Monday last tor SO, 900 to II.
G. Trimble. They also allowed $3.50
to the architect until the completion Of
the building. This will make the
Jail, completed, cost about sll, 900.
To meet this amount il was decided to
issue bonds bearing 10 per cent inter.
est, payable in 20 years. An adOalo-
rem tax was also levied at 15cts ON the
800 worth of property for the year
1876, for the payment Of the Jail bond
principal and interest, So we learn
from the Somerset reporter, and from
which we also learn that Mr.. Jos. b.
Rucker will retire from the editorial
to the mechanical department Of the
Reporter. His partner, Mr.. W. &.
Owens, assuming entire editorial con-
troll. We will bank high on his max.
ing it lively.
Your county paper cannot be as
able and newsy as one published in
some commercial center, hut it ought
to be just as valuable. The wheels Of
wagon are much showier. aud are in
their places wholly indispensable to its
movement, but NOT more so than the
hidden coupling pin that keeps 'he
wagon together. Their duties are ell
tirely different and yet one is not more
important to the wagon than the 9TH
er. So with the papers. Your great
Journal treats of subjects entirely for
eign to that Of your home affairs. but Of
great interest, while your hume paper
comes along with local gleanings you
would never gather, and in which you
are directly interested. It doesn't
compliment mans to hear him say
that he takes paper from New York
because he gets il tor the same that is
asked for his home paper. As well
might he say that because bookseller
asked him two dollars for a school
book that he would buy a copy Of the
KuKlux Report for nickel. because
it was the cheapest. The truth is, the
papers are in no sense rivals. and TO
people living within the reach Of both
papers each is Indispensable
gov Times.
OK last Monday, Frank Conrad,
aged thirteen years. was wrestling
with another boy near the school.
house of Mrs. Lula Thomas. and
throwing the boy, young Conrad re-
marked. Now have thrown you"
and breaihed his last. A coroner's
jury was summoned, aud the fact de-
,,alo,aI that tho hftla falloYv,s ua.L