The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1880-10-22

| urunk anu shootlng on some old mh~htir.
Grinsiead. with his brain aided with wills
Ky, aimed at Hall, thinking no doubt that
he was a d-n Democrat, and shattered hi.
arm.
One hundred and ninety clerks are
constantly employed paying the census
enumerStors. Over eighteen thousand ac.
counts have already been paid in full, the
amount Of the disbursements being one
million and fifty thousand dollars. A
count Of the inhabitants is an expensive
luxury.
Owing to the long continued drouth.
Richmond. Va, Is threatened with water
famine. Several large industries, Including
a number Of tobacco factories, have shut
down in Consequence Of the scarcity Of
water, throwing out Of employment many
hundreds Of employees. Trouble is apprc.
hended Il the drouth continues.
Lee Shryock. cashier at the Turf Ex-
change, the headquarters of sporting aud
turf-men at Louisville LEFT for parts I'M
known on Friday with a large sum Of mon
ey belonging to Walls Il Hughes, proprie-
tors Of the Exchange. II was not known
till Tuesday morning that he had alscond-
ell The loss will not cmbIfrass the cnn =
cern.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, SAYS
that the largest and grandest Democratic
street parade was held in that city last
Monday night, that was ever known in the
State. The true Blue there are awakening
to the importance Of the hour and will not
be satisfied with inst electing their ticket;
they wish to show how great they can swell
the majority for Hancock and English.
According 10 X. q. Dun 4 Cos Com
mercial Agency, there have been $40 fail
ures so far this year, with liabilities Of
$500, 1872 sgains, $3.50 failures and SSH
05i,9i0 for the anne time las, year. OF the
failures this year, 1901 were in the Mid
die States with liabilities Of 81. 2l3, $50,
while in the Southern States there we're on
ly 564 failures with liabilities Of Sj,55i,-
72l
- At the meeting Of the Grand Lodge
Of Royal Arch Masons at Louisville this
week, the following were elected officers
W. LaRue Thomss, Dinville, Grand High
Priest; r. J. Lau.hlin, Of Webster Conn.
ty, Deputy Grand High Priest; H. r.
French, Mt. Sterling, Grand King; Il. NJ.
Fairleigh, Hopkinsvile, Grand Scribe; J.
II. Leathers, Louisville, Grand Treasurer;
j. II. Branham, Louisville, Grand Secre-
tary.
We are beaten; we are overthrow: but
are not destroyed. The disaster We have
experienced may yet be retrieved. Han
cock is not Tilden in ability; but he il
good, true, patriotic man, Of strong com.
mon sense. lie has signed and written in
the forms Of orders, rs il believed some Of
the most admirable essays on civil and mil
itary authority ever issued or composed by
mortal man. lie never took a bride Pure,
patriotic, and good, he is a ct man for
President.-[New York Sun.
There were 3,353,65l letters and pack.
ages received at the Dead letter Office the
last fiscal year. or this number 100000
were sent from local Post. Offices, because
unelaimedi 100000 held for postage; 2O2,-
900 were misdirecied; $4,000 bore fictitious
addresses, and over 5000 we're not address
ed at all; 20. 1914 letters contained drafts,
checks, notes, &c, of the face value Of 81 |
526,2l7, and 262G4 contained money, |
amounting to $40, l3s Most Of the prop
erty has been returned 10 the owners
Dispatches from Lacrosse, Wis, Of the
18th say the storm all along the line Of the
Minnesota Railway il the sever
est known in years. The passenger and
freight trains along the line were blockad-
ID in snowdrifts from ten to twelve feet
leep, and teams with provisions have been
dispatched to their relief from several
points. All cuts west Of Paramount are
illed with snow hard packed. Reports Of
'attle, horses, &c, having persisted are con-
family received, but no loss Of human life
ret reported. II Is the worst storm ever
'nown in Southern Minnesota and East
I'm DAKOTA so early In the season.
John Burt, a negro charged with the
murder Of Miss Van Meter in Fayette two
ears ago having been carried before the
federal Court at Louisville, was returned
0 this city to-day. The Deputy Marshals
otiGed the County Judge that they could
old him fifteen minutes, and II he was not
e-arrested in that time they would release ,
i'm. As soon as possible the warrant was 1
made out, and Burt was re-arrested and
l.o.I In iail The indicf,nanf und.r ,