The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1880-01-23

- Congress j. about TO restore Fritz John
Porter to his rank in the army. Ifthis !,
done he viii claim his back pay which nov
amounts to $4,000.
- Henry Van Pelt, engineer At IN,
steam distillery Of VanArsdale in Mercer
was caught in the cog-whcel, this week
and instantly killed.
- Arthur ?. German, Democrat. wa.
elected on the Goth as the SUCCESSOR Of Sen.
ator Whytc, Of Maryland, whose term ex.
pires on the 9TH Of March.
Suits to the amount Of SG2, l27, alleged
to be due the Government, have been
brought against Weden Oneal, late United
States Marshal for Kentucky.
- One o. Il. Burbridgc has sued Jno.
q. Craddock, Of the Paris Tue Keatuctian,
for $4,000 for an alleged libel. Bur.
bridge Is brother Of the notorious Gen.
eral Burbridge.
- The Department Of Agriculture esti.
mates the present cotton crop at 5000, 3S7
bales Of $50 pounds each, and the value in
round numbers at s23l 100000, against
sl9s,OOO 900 in 1873.
The little actress, Emma vaders, who
fell through the trap door at Library
Hall, Louisville, last Spring, and broke
her leg, has obtained Judgment against
the Polytechnic Society for $500.
80 The defalcation OF Cashier Rhorer, Of
the Louisville Savings Bank is now said to
amount to over $4,000, and the old man
has been lodged in Jail. The depositors Of
the bank are promised their full amounts.
go Duke Flemming, who shot and killed
a negro woman at the CyntAiana Fair two
or three years ago and ran OF to Texas to
escape punishment, got his deserts few
days since in the shape Of pistol ball in
his heart.
- Within forty-eight hours up to Satur.
day night, at Chicago, there had been two
murders, three suicides, one death from
poison administered by another hand, and
highway robbery in broad daylight on a
frequented street.
- The Supervisors Of the Census from
Kentucky have been appointed as follows
First District, Sam NJ. Gaines; Second Jos.
W. Winlock; Third, which embraces this
and adjoining counties, Speed s. Fry;
Fourth, Geo. Stoll, Fifth, VIM. Hoffman.
A negro named Charles Smith, an es-
capped convict from the Kentucky Peni-
tertiary, burned barn near Walton the
other night, and was captured and hung
by mob for it. This may be said to be a
genuine case Of jumping from the frying
pan into the FIRE.
- The Democrats Of the 9TH Judicial
District will hold their Convention to nom.
mate a Circuit Judge and Commonwealth
Attorney at Lebanon on the 22d Of April.
We hope and believe that Hon. c. A. Har-
din will be selected as the standard-bearer
for the Judgship.
r. G. Dun Il Co.'S Commercial Agen-
cy give the number Of financial failures
last year at 6,55s, with liabilities amount
ing to SOS, 9,053, against 1O,47s failures
in 1878, with 1884, SSS,lS2. The failures
in Kentucky number 1873, and the liabili
ties are set down at 81 ,546,577.
- After a trial Of fifty-eight DAYS IN e
Jury in the case Of the Rev. Hayden, for
killing Mary Stannard, failed to agree and
were discharged. The trial was at New
Haven, Conn.,, and has created a great deal
Of interest. Its understood that the Jury
stood eleven for acquittal and one for muir
der.
The Louisville, Cincinnati & Lexing-
on Railroad advertise for bids until Feb
'uary /, 1850, for the completion of the
masonry, trestling, bridging
md track.laying Of the Northern Division
of the Cumberland & Ohio Railroad, ex-
lending from Shelbyville to Bloomfield,
Ky. Plans and specifications can be seen
n the Chief Engineers office, Louisville.
Last week we noticed in this column
be marriage Of Hiram Berry, a wealthy
iquor dealeSof Frankfort to Mollie Tay-
DR., fallen angel Of Louisville. 1t since
nrns out that the old man was not drunk
hen the knot was tied, but that he affair
las premeditated one. lie has, however,
pplied for a divorce, but from present APP
earanees, it will be hard for him to get
ut Of the scrape.
- The President has made the following
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