Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-01-03
EoTES or CURRENT EVENTS.

We learn that Judge Robertson he
made his peace with General Arthur, anC
all is lovely all around.--[N. Y. Sun.
-Four men have been killed within 4
radius of forty feet at Riddles Mill
Bourbon county-two by shooting anvils
Philadelphia is so overrun with tn,
social evil, that she is thinking Of fixing
a heavy license on keepers of houses o.
prostitution.
1t is probable Judge Hunt, Secretary
of the Navy. will resign next month, to be
succeeded by Gen. Beale, Secretary Bout.
well or Gen. Longstreet.
jim Grsgg, a notorious desperate, who
escaped from the Somerset Jail not long
ago, has been captured in Missouri and
returned to his old quarters.
j. G. Warren 4 Co.'S liabilities hsv,
been ascertained to be s345, 900, and asset,
$4,000. When those Cincinnati fellows
break, they 20 in for all that's in sight.
Different theories attribute the Wes
Point steamship explosion to Struggled
dynamite. gasoline vspor and the donkey
engine. Three unrecognizabIs bodies hsv,
been found.
Miss Caroline May, the young LADY
about whom james Gordon Bennett fought
a duel, was married the other day. but MOI
to Jim. Some other fellow was the lucky
or unlucky dog.
May be the reason some editors are
so much opposed to the whipping posi-
law, is because, like Wilkins Micawber
they don't know what may turn up" il
the course of time-[South Kentuckisn.
"A change Of officers in the New Yorl
Assay Office will necessitate the countin,
of $35,000,0Oo in gold and silver. Tire,
experts are employed to do the work, anG
it is said that it will require six weeks to
complete it.
The committee of the Garfield Memo
rial Hospital has received $3.50 from the
Khedive of Egypt, through Consul. Gen
Sral Wolf, who writes that he expects Il
supplement this with further subscription,
to the amount Of 81 900.
Sales Of postage stamps, stamped en-,
velopes. and postal cards, for the quarter
ended September 80, 1881, amounted to
$9,0l7, 7SS.SS, an increase over the CORES.
ponding quarter Of the previous year Of
81, O3O, 1924, or ia per cent.
Cleveland is ahead Of all the cities in
electric illumination. A mast 260 feet
high has been erected in the public square
supplied with four electric lights, having
an Illuminating power OF 10000 candles.
This will light an area half mile in
diameter.
-Advices from postmasters in all Sec
tions Of the country, received at the Post
Office Department, show an alarming in
crease OF smallpox in the Northwest. The
disease is spreading rapidly, and several
postofiices have been ordered closed in
consequences.
There we're l7S failures throughout
the United States and Canada, reported to
Bradstreets' during the past week, an in
crease Of twenty-one over the preceding
week. There was a slight decrease in the
Middle and Western States, but the other
sections all show an increase.
NEW YoRK, Jan. There was light
fall Of snow here this evening, followed by
much colder weather. At Petersburg, Va,
ten inches Of snow fell to-day, delaying
trains. To-day was the coolest Of the sea-
son throughout Canada. At ROchlihe the
thermometer registered nine degrees below
zero; at Parry Sound, eight below; at
Toronto, three above, and at Montreal,
three above.
Mai A. T. Keen and Capt. Grocer re-
turned last Monday from the Government
works on Cumberland river, above Bar
bouryille, the rise in the river having Oc-
casiOned the suspension Of the work.
About all OF the appropriation Of $4,000
has been exhausted Except 81 ,000) on the
work OF improving the river, and the Leg
islature will be asked 10 make an addi-
Iional appropriation. - Somerset Reporter
-Richmond is not only free ofdebt, hut
has money in her treasury ......Mr v. +
Courts has sold bis interest in the firm OF
Courts a Pickles, and returned 10 Dan
yille...... Madison has the most prolific
COW. When two years old she gave birth
TO one calf, at three years old 10 two calves,
At four years old to three calves, al five
years old 10 one calf and at six years old
10 two calves, making nine cslyss They
are now all alive except one, which was
one Of the triplets.- Register.