The south Kentuckian., 1879-07-08
WEEKLY REVIEW.

Nails have advanced 10 cents per
keg.
Simpson county is building new
Jail.
A protractcd drouth in portions Of
Texas.
Hanlon has sailed for the United
States.
Congress adjourned on the first
instant.
France is said to be free of secret
societies and conspiracies.
DR.. Carver has concluded to shoot
in Germany and Italy.
The prospects bighten for an early
cessation of the famine in Cashmere.
A church in Massachusetts was
burned by loyal fire crackers on the
4th. 1ts
Secretary Schurz contemplates WIS.,
iting the Indian agencies during the
summer.
Seven hundred horses have just
been stolen from the Red Cloud Ind
ian agency.
Col. Mosby thinks of returning
from Hong Kong, China, with the
Grant party.
Three hundred and twenty new
money order Post offices were estab-
lished yesterday.
Lieutenant McCauley has Just COM
mitted suicide on account Of heavy
losses at faro in Augusta, Ga.
1t is formally announced that the
business of the late Baron Rotchschild
will be carried on by his three sons.
The wife of Gen. Grant has sent an
invitation to the Princess Louise to
visit her in Washington next winter.
1t is estimated that Kentuckians
and Tcnnesseans together lost $65, 900
on Janet, in the Chicago races last
week.
Hugh j. Glenn was nominated by
the Democrats of California for Gov
ernor. lie is from Augusta county
Virginia.
Attorney General Grove decides
that Capt. Eads is entitled to $780,
600 sor the twenty six-foot channel at
the passes.
Congressman Tucker, Of Virginia,
has another cataract on his other eye.
The first was removed by surgical
operation.
The receiver of the Louisville Com
nsrcial newspaper company COM
nences the sale Of that establish
ment July 18th.
Prince Bismarck gave a public
dinner on the 4th in honor Of DR..
Andrew j. White the American
Minister to Germany.
The Senate confirmed the nomina-
tions of General Jas. B. Fades as
civil engineer Of the Mississippi.
River Commission.
Owing to the dullness OF trade and
general feeling OF insecurity, the in
dustrial exhibition, contemplated for
Moscow in 1880, is postponed one
year.
The New York Sun declares a |
semi-annual dividend of thirty per
cent. on its $35O,00O capital stock.
Sixty per cent, per annum is good
earnings for any paper.
The constitutional convention, Of
Louisiana allows the Legislature to |
grant license to lotteries, provided
they pay $4,000 annually for the
privilege.
1t is said that many OF the Bona
partists are in favor OF supporting
Jerome Bonapartc Patterson, the
American, for pretender to the
Napoleonic succession.
In the United States Court, Will
lam s. Golson, convicted Of the en-
bezzlement Of postoffice funs, was
sentenced to confinement in Jail one
year and to pay fine Of 1880.
Henry Page set out to preach
Mormonism in Georgia. He had
made about one hundred converts and
taken six wives, when he was ar
rested for bigamy. M "
A dispatch from Madrid says that
the Senate has passed bill allowing
the Senators elected in Cuba to take
their seats without giving proof Of
their qualifications. f
The City Council, of Louisville,
has repealed an order passed some
time ago, submitting to a popular
vote the question Of selling the city's
stock in the Louisville & Nashville
railroad.
| From various causes los lives were
lost on steamboats, tho past twelve
months, against 2le the preceding
twelve. During the past three
months 3l2 lives were lost by acci-
dents ashore; previous twelve months,
! 47O. In 1875 the number Of lives
lost on steamboats was GOT; in 1876,
S94; in 1877, 224; in 1878, 2l2. The
steady decline is attributed to the in
creasipg efficiency Of steamboat in
spection. b ol