The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1876-01-28
GENERAL NEWS.


TIE press everywhere, speaks well
Of Senator Beck.
GEN. GRANT is n hearty endorser
Of the Southern Pacific Railroad.
JACOBS, the Illinois wife murderer,
paid the penalty with his neck, on
Friday last.
THE telegraph announces heavy
SHOWS in Wyoming causing consid-
erable detention in Railroad trains.
THERE has been a s75, 900 fire in
Nashville. Five buildings, including
the Western Union Telegraph office,
were burned.
THE Southwestern Car Company at
Jacksonville, has been thrown into
Bankruptcy. Assets about s225, 900.
Liabilities half million.
STEVENSON was one Of the eulogiz.
ers of Vice President Wilson, in the
Senate, on Friday last, and Proctor
Knott, in the House Of Representa-
tives.
In jackson county, Tenn, man
has just been convicted Of the murder
Of Union soldier in 1865. and sen.
fenced to ten years imprisonment in
the Penitentiary.
W. c. PERRY, an old citizen of
Jacksonville, Ind, committed suicide
on Friday, by cutting his throat with
a razor. Temporary insanity was the
supposed cause.
TIE Post Office Department has is
sued an order that all letters that are
not stamped in the right place--the
upper right hand corner--shall be sent
to the Dead letter Office.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Senate, to form the Territory of Penn
bina out OF the Northorn part of Da-
kota and Montana. Another roast for
Radical Office seekers, wanted.
QUEEN VICTORIA is looking for
future companion for her only renal
ming daughter, Beatrice. She has
gone To Germany for the purpose, and
Beatrice will no doubt soon be "fxed"
in life.
SIX suits Of divorce were granted in
the Chancery Court at Louisville, in
one day, recently. We fear that city
will soon have earned the unenviable
reputation of Chicago. il this thing
CONTINUES.
IT is the fashion for a defaulting Of.
fcer in California, to shuttle off his
mortal coil by his own hand about the
time his crime is found out. II. c.
Kibber, mining Secretary, defaulter
to the amount OF $4,000, was the
last to shoot himself through the
head.
MooDY Il SANKEY are still in Phil
adelphia, but the sensation they crea.
ted at first, is fast dying away. 1t is
understood that thep are billed for
New York ON the Both, and il the in.
terest manifested is sufficient, they
will tread the boards for two or three
months.
The Cincinnati papers are about
equally divided for and against the
further appropriation Of 81, 900, 900 to
complete the Southern Railroad. The
general opinion OF the people is, that
it would be folly to suspend operations
now, after an expenditure of $40, ,000,-
OOO-and the probability is. that the
six millions will be forthcoming.
A LADY at Bradford, N. H., has
had a narrow escape from being
buried alive. She had been sick for
some time, and had apparently died.
Preparations for the funeral were
made on the third day after the sup
posed death, when it was observed, as
she was placed in the coffin, that one
OF the eyes was partly open. Nothing
was, however thought ofthis, as il was
thought TO be muscular contraction af
ter death. But when all the arrange
ments for the funeral weie complete,
she astonished the attendants by sud
den request TO be placed on one side.
A complete recovery Is expected.