The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1879-05-23


Treasurer Of The new 0acinnsti southern
r. r. Company.
New York has iusi passed a bill that
make- per cent. the legal rate Of interest
amer merit January. instead of :, ~ the
Law nov stands.
Buford has gotten = change Of venue to
Owen county, and bis trial is set for July
9Th. In the meantime he is confined in
the Louisville jail.
The Iexingionisns are cogiialine wheth.
er they will rebuild the Phoenix Hotel. A
good hosiery has been needed for many
years in the cspitOl Of the Blue-erass
The proposition for Madison to subscribe
$4,000 towards the hEiiding al the Nsr-
row Gauge Rsilrcsd 10 Three Forks, wss
d defeated Wednesday. by about 800 major
it,.
By decision in the Uaiied States Su.
preme Court, Union soldier can not he
held to snsver in the seeded States for any
o6ense committed while soldier in those
States.
The Grand Jury Of Mason is being urg-
ed 10 bring in an indictment against Tom
Green, Of the .Msysville Eagle, for Grimm
al libel against Judge Hargis. u might
teach Tom Lesson.
At the close Of session Of Hsncock
Court Of Claims the members made an Ap.
preparation to themselves Of $500 each and
discounted the claims at $3.50 each. They
were Indicted and ineJ $40 and costs each.
A training stable occupied by William
Downing burned at Richmond Wednesday
afternoon. Three hne Young trotters were
consumed in the flames. The loss Of the
table and provender is estimated at $500;
the horses burned at $500. No insurance.
A new company Of Cincinnatismen, I'M
der the name Of the "Cincinnati southern
Railroad Company" have complied with
the terms Of the new lease and will take
possession Of the rad at once II ishopel
and believed that the old officers will he
retained.
BY the laws Of Ulah. man sentenced 10
die has 10 he shot TO DEATH The last vic.
tim was 3 man nansed Wilkerson, who had
committed murder. He sat in a chair in
an open space and without even closing
hiseyes received the discharges from Their
guns. lie was dead in q minutes.
A Boston emigration company, headed
by number Of leading citizens. has pur'
chased 10000 acres of land in Tennessee
on the Cincinnati Southern railroad, forty
miles from the Kenncky line. and will
lay out q city and populate il and sur.
roundings with Massachusetts, colonization
Judge Dillon OF the L. s. Supreme
Court has resigned, 10 take effect Sept. lst
and the President has signiGed his inten-
lion Of giving the position to Secretary
Of War, McCrary. Ii ia life position, and
Is worth 81, 500 per year. Dillon will be-
come professor Of a New York Law School.
Judge Hughes, OF the United States
Court Of Virgins, refused to interfere in
the case of Edmund Kinney, negro, and
Mary Hall, white, who were sent to the
Penit entiary for Eve yesrs::for uniawfully
marrying; on the ground that the United
States Courts have no Jurisdiction in ques-
tons Of marriage.
Col. S,oddArd Johnston has inspected
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Danville--
the only institution.of ia. kind established
west Of the mountains--and while general
ly pleased with his visit, he says the boys
department is in suited to its purpose, and
new building should be provided by the
Legislature.-(C.-J.
Some weeks since drunken man jump
ed from the railing Of the Cincinnati Sus-
pension Bridge to the water. below, dis
lance Of ninety-two feet, and 10 a few
days was as sound a. ever A man named
Price, tried il last Saturday, but he wont
do 90 any more. Ills body had not been
found at last accounts.
Mr.. Gus. G. Matthews, Of the Charier-
Journal, has been appointed by Colonel J.
Stoddard Johnston, President Of the Ken
lucky Press Asso citation, 10 deliver the an
nual address at Bowling Green, and will
comply. lie is a very graceful and elo-
Quent speaker, and will do honor to the
association.-t Frankfort Neoman.
The yirgiAiA negro. held Convention
the other day and resolved that they or
ganize in TO emigration societies for the
purpose Of leaving the State. as they can
not get their rights in the midst Of the I'M
compromising oppressors Of their race.
They are mad because Judge Hughes fail
ed to interfere in the miscegenaiion case.
Cotton has advanced in Liverpool ! {
pence since March la, and 81 cents In
New York. The advance is based upon
c onaiderable deficiency In the visible sup
ply. Owing 10 the bouyAnoy In cotton,
and the rise in wool, number OF manu-
facturers OF Kentucky Jeans has. advanced
the price OF that article 5 cents per yard.
Forty or iiily thousand pounds Of wool
were sold at the Sheep-raisers' Sale atEmi-
nence on Wednesday, as iollows Dink-
elsplel A Son, Of Louisville, bought the
eombing wool at q cents; John Bradber-
~, OF Lexington, bought the Delane wool
at 26s cent; l.. Richardson a Co., Of Lou
isville, boasht the clothing wool 20 G-lO
cents. J. ". berry, OF LaGrange, bought
The black and ololied wool at 20l cents.
WIN. Allen, 0lias STOREY ofst. I.ouis, who
sloped with Jennie Alchley, wife Of a
farmer Of Batavia, Ohio, lew days since,
was arrested in Cincinnati and placed In
jail at Batavia. Al an early hour Wed.
ueaslaV morning a mob entered the iail