The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1879-10-17
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81 - The St. Louis Exposition was such q
" decided failure that that city has concluded
!, 10 hold TO more Of them.
- Tucker Boyle sentenced from Boyle,
=" TO the Ponitentiary for two years has been
3 pardoned by the Governor
>, A collision on the Michigan Central
Ie X. r. last Friday, caused the deaths Of
J. twenty-five persons and wounded twenty
4 others.
\ Lebanon has probability Of having
a new jail, the last Court Of Claims having
appointed committee to report upon the
$ question.
|, $. d. McGill, brakeman on the +.
4 n +. X. X. fell under the wheels Of his
train yesterday at Big City, and was in
siantly killed.
There are fifteen million Of school
? children in the United States, and $780,
, 2SS.45O is annually spent upon them in
, the public schools.
The Louisville a Nashville n Great
Southern r. X. owns $50 miles Of road
and leases 322 miles. making total under
it, control Of 972 miles.
- During the exhibition. Of Robinson's
Circus at Ssdieville, Scott county, a eener-
al drunken row resulted in the killing Of
Late Penn by Pollard Henry.
A brother and sister Of vandalia, in
the enlightened and very radical State Of
Ohio, eloped to st. Louis and married. On
their return they were arrested and are now
in Jail.
- The Cincinnati and Marine Railway
and dry docks, were burned on the night
Of the llth, together with the Steamer
Bostona, which was on the stocks. Los,
$4,000.
Mr.. JEFF Davis recently refused an Of
fer Of $500 for a newspaper sketch, to be
written by himself, detailing the reasons
why he sent the rebel army into Pennsyl-
vania in 1854.
-Lynchburg, Va, has grown from T.
900 inhabitants in 1870, to 5000, and |
Richmond, Va, from 10000 st close Of the
war to $1,000 now. There appears some
life in the old land yet.
- The statistics show that upwards Of
100000 carriages are built annually for
persons residing in the United States, en-
ploying over 5000 persons and aggreea-
ting in value 100000, 900 per annum.
49, The Treasurer Of the United States
reports the total amount Of standard silver
dollars coined s42,757, $50; amount on
hand in Treasury offices, SSl ,70S, $40;
amount outstanding in circulation, ST.
O54,07O.
DR. lie Moyne, the great advocate Of
Cremation has yielded up the ghost and
his own body is to be reduced to ashes in
the furnace at his home in Pennsylvania,
in which he has watched number Of others
cremated.
- The Yeomdn says: The prison is
cleaner and in better condition than II has
been for a number Of years, and although
il is much more crowded. there has been
no epidemic sickness Of any kind during
this season.
The pedestrian match in New York,
for the possession Of the O'Leary belt. in
which some twenty contestants participa- l
ted, was won by Murphy, who made sos !
miles in days. Howard was second and
made 500 miles.
The Cincinnati Exposition closed {
Saturday evening last in blaze Of glory. {
The total attendance for the season was s
422, 1913, and the receipts over 100000. e
Louisvilles show is still running, but comes ,
10 an end tomorrow night.
- The Oldest living Congressman is a
Hon. Peleg sprague, Of Maine, who repre- v
sented his district in the House Of Repre- d
'entatives in the sessions Of 1925 and '27, @
over "a years ago. lie is Lightweight "
years old and totally blind. h
The United States Supreme Court is "
low hearing the case Of the State Of Vir- q
yinia against Federal Judge Rives, who CT
emoved to the Federal Court two negroes ii
or murder, on the ground that they were
lot allowed colored jurymen in the State in
)Ourt In
A mass-meeting Of the citizens Of Pendle- la
on county passed resolutions censuring in
iov. Blackburn for pardoning one George OF
Beard, who had been sentenced to six and al
half years for Kukluxing and robbery, b
nat who had served but six months Of his 81
ime. There had been no petitions for his nj
ardon. De
The next Congress will have 10 pass 40
n the application of Washington Terrific
, to be admitted into the Union as A NJ
tate. II is $40 miles long, 24O broad, te,
nd contains about 10000 square miles. al,
Is population number 1000, and the Re- nv
ublicans are anxious TO get her In. AZ Cb
ley claim she is Republican BY bic ma Nh
,rity. 6r
A train on the Chieago and Alton r. mo,
!. was stopped fifteen miles from Kansas ba
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