Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-01-10
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- ne cost OF tne OltN NONtfuhifHN w
Lexington is about $1,000 per annum.
The total number Of persons killed
and injured by the Shanesville (Ohio,) dis
asier will probably reach one hundred.
The Indebtedness Of the CITY Of NV
York was increased 100000 last year,
making the total burden to be borne &c.,
100000.
President Hayes has just presented the
engineer that saved his life in collision
last March, with gold watch and chain
marked $500.
Last Friday night the Kentucky Cen
trail Bridge across the Licking River at
Cynthians, was washed away the second
time this season.
The decrease in the National indebs-
edness during the last half Of 1881 amount
ed to upward Of $4,000 900, or nearl,
three million per week.
Mr.. Huntington pays an annual rental
of 100000 for the Cecilia Branch of the L.
4 n, and has the privilege Of purchasing
it any time for 81, OOO,O
"A FIRE which originated in the Opera
House at Greensboro, burned that estab-
lishment together with the whole block on
Friday night, causing loss of $4,000
Some Of the star route cases will be
brought before the Grand Jury within
ten days or two weeks. The Dorsey routes
will be the first taken up by the Govern
ment.
The prop osition to set aside the action
Of the court martial which degraded Gen
eral Porter meets with stubborn opposi-
ton in Congress in spite of the changed
views Of General Grant.
The perpetrators of the Ashland hor-
ror waived examination, and we're sent to
Jail at Maysville under heavy military
guard. A special term Of the Circuit Court
will be held for these cases on the 10Th.
The Governor has ordered the Lex
ington Guards, McCreary Guards, and
Mason Guards to proceed to-day to Mays
vile, where they will take charge Of the
Ashland fends and carry them to Cat
lettsburg for trial.
The officers Of Somerset have received
telegram from |. A. Powell, Sheriff Of
Elk county, Kansas, notifying them of the
arrest Of Jim Loge Lair, who is charged
with the murder of wills Alcorn, in Pu-
laski county, in 1866.
w NJ. Nelson is the premium hunter
Of Davies county He has killed during
the past year l44 squirrels, 100 raccoons
and twenty wild turkeys, in the small
space of about l 900 acres in Panther creek
aats-[ Greensboro Messenger.
The friends of Fitz John Porter are
very much elsted at the frank avowal Of
Gen. Grant that Porter has been wronged
and ought to be indicated. They expect
to get bill for Porter's reinstatement
through this Congress now without much
difficulty.
The charters of nearly six hundred
National Banks will expire between now
and February, 1883. OF this number 1888
represent capital of s92, 100000 and
circulation Of nearly S7OOOO,0OO. 1t can
be safely estimated that four-ffths of the
banks will renew their charters.
Over 100000 immigrants landed in
the United States last year. This is
greater number by several thousands than
ever arrived in one year. OF the 1895
that landed at Castle Garden, New York,
1915 were provided with employment by
the Labor Bureau, at wages running from
s. to SIS per month and board.
"A Louisville member is preparing
bill to repeal the Turner law, and to allow
every body TO carry deadly Weapons il he
sees fit. lie says shat the way the law
now stands sw-abiding citizens are at the
mercy Of the roughs. No Law, however
stringent, can keep the latter from carry
ing weapons, and he thinks il wrong that
the peaceful citizens should not have
right to do what the others do without a
right. He thinks the present law dead
letter, so far as it tends to prevent deadly
weapons from being carried. and says that
until the moral sense Of the community be
against il, all the laws of all the statute
books will be Of no avail"
1T is said that the defense on the Gui.
teau case will rely mainly On the fact that
as the shooting occurred il the District Of
Columbia, and death in New Jersey, the
crime is one Of msnslaughter, as defined 10
section 5,34l, United States Statutes at
large. This section reads as follows;
Every person who, within any Of the
places or upon any waters described in
section $3.50, unlaw fully and unwilfully,
but without malaoe, strikes, stabs, wounds
or shoots at, or otherwise Injuries another,
of which striking, stahbing, wounding
shooting or other injuries, such other per
son dies, either on land or sea within or
without the u nited States, is guilty Of the
crime Of manslaue liter" As absence OF
malice must be shown TO remove Gniteau's
crime from the murder class, il is not he
lieved that Judge Cox can rule favorably
IA pon this PRAYER.