The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-02-04
STATE NEIus.
WnoorISG.couGn is prevailing to
a considerable extent among the
children at Elizabcthtown.

children at ElizabcthtOwn.
THE sales Of short-horns in Kentuc
ky, for 1875, aggregated 32, the mum
Der Of animals sold was 1853, ant
the sum brought was s665, 1886.
The Jersey FIGURING Mill, of Nc
Cracker county was destroyed by fir,
Thursday night. The loss /, es ina
ted at s35, 900, of which s24,700 j,
covered by insurance.
IS Richmond, a few days ago, Char
ley Eastman. a negro boy l6 years u
age, stabbed another negro boy, Levi,
Mason, aged IS yrs, from the effects Of
which Lewis died in less than "a
hours.
IT was estimated that there were no
less than fifteen hundred wagon loads
Of tobacco in town Thursday and Fri
day last. This is going ii strong, but
is by no means exaggerating.--[ [Ow-
ensboro Monitor.
THE teachers Of Campbell county
are anxiously waiting for their sala-
ries. Most of the schools of the coun.
ty have been in session three or four
months, and the teachers have not re.
ceived cent Of pay.
The Touring mill Of James Owen
Il Co., at Paducah, was destroyed by
fire on the 9th ult. The loss is esti.
mated to be at least SIS, 900. insurance
$4,000. Many hands will be thrown
out Of employment by the fire.
A FIRE occurred in Shelbyville on
Sunday morning last, destroying three
stores and damaging several Others.
The stock of of one the stores was also
burned. The total loss is estimated at
about e24. 900. Insurance about SILL
600. Thought to be incendiarism.
Mr.. JESSE SEARS, aged 103 years,
one of the oldest citizens of this un-
ty. died at the residence of Mr.. Alex.
in this county, yesterday. He
was a member Of the NJ. T.. Church,
for about 80 years, and his children
ever 500.-[Somersei Repor.
ter.
Mr.. JonN PARK and family, living
about fifteen miles above Hertforl, are
victims of tie awful disease, small
pox. 1t originated fom one of his
sons sleeping with peddler. One or
two members of the family were very
low, at last accounts, and expected
to die At any moment Hartford
Herald.
THE meeting at the Christian
church still continues with unabated
interest, and accessions are being made
at every service-at the morning
prayer meeting and at the regulat SER
vices at night. Up to and including
last night 6S accessions had been made
to the church. number Of them being
among the oldest citizens. Woodford
Weekly.
DD you ever notice the grace with
which pretty girl handles broom
while sweeping in the door yardY
Dinged if it doesn't make a fellow
wish he was broom. But. it he was,
it would he just his luck to be consign-
ed to ignominious duty in an old grist
mill or he bound To n lite Of drudgery
in the ammoniacal atmosphere Of
livery stable. .-[Franklin Patriot.
The Young men near New uope
have gotten up play called "Pecping
ut Susan While engaged in the
play few nights since, collision oc-
Cured between Mr.. ben. Settles and
a young lady, knocking them both
.enseless. Susan's forehead was cut
from her nose up. Poor Ben's nose
was broken. The doctors at New
Haven took two bones out of his nose
about one inch long Il Nelson Record.
A SAD accident, resulting in the
death of little John Cottrell, occurred
morning last. Johnnie was
on the back porch of his fathers, DIR.
z. Z. Cottrell's residence, in the East
end, amusing himself with a tin whis-
tie, when he fell from the porch to the
below. n distance of some
three or four feet. The force of the
fall drove the whistle into his cheek,
and ranging upward. touched the
brain, killing him instantly. --[Owens-
boro Monitor.
4 FEMALE ot unonyiable notoriety,
named Mary Dillon, denizen of
Shorts addition. is now suffering
from an ugly wound inflicted by
Alice Basenback with u hand.ax.
Jealousy was tho cause Of the attack.
Mrs. B. has for some time. felt that
her husband was not proof against
the Establishments Of the fascinating
Mary, aud ON last Thursday night,
when ho left homo ostensibly to come