Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-05-23
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Ife ~ biNtont N.Y. catufuayg ue
siroyed property to the value Of $4,000
-Four unsuccsssful attempts we're made
Sunday night 10 burn the Office Of the
World in Louisville
Immigrants arrived during April,
los, 1873. During ten months ending the
SOth Of April, 544,5 500.
The committee At work At Little
Rock. on the books Of ex-Treasurer NOV
Governor) Churchill, report deficit for
fourteen months Of sll4.s2s57.
The Court Of Appeals has decided that
third conviction to the penitentiary does
not carry with il a life sentence, as the Law
to that effect is unconstitutional.
The Mississippi levee broke Saturday,
at p. B. Cash's place, jus, below sLre~e-
port, and several plantations were partial.
ly submerged from back water.
Charles ], Morton, who attended Gen.
tire College at DAnville, years ago, COM
mitted suicide in Louisville, by shooting
himsel. Financial reverses unsettled his
mind
The greenbsck and labor party Of
Pennsylvania have nominated a full ticket
II is claimed that the independents Of the
State will rally to this ticket and beat the
stalwart Cameron party.
A negro woman at Amosville, Rap
pahannock county, Va, tied her son. nine
years old, hand and foot, TO her cabin floor,
made a FIRE over him with splinters and
burned him to death.
Hon. VIM. Berkele, Chairman, APP
pointed the following gentlemen az State
Executive Committee: John w. Finnell,
Covington, John w. Yerkes, Danville,
VIM. Cassius Goodloe, r. ?. Stoll, r. C
Caldwell, Lexington.
Mrs. Garfield has sent check for $500
TO the building fund Of the Memorial
Christian Church, and pledged an addi-
tional $500 IL needed. The church will
be built this Summer at a cost Of $40 900,
and the congregation hope TO hold Thanks
givi ng services in it,
Six hundred employees have been dis
missed from the Wholesale departments Of
A. T. Stewart & Co, and the wholesale
business will be finished by July l. The
retail store will not be shut up for six
months yet, probably.
The Jessamine Confederate Memorial
Association will hold their annual meeting
at the Courthouse in Nicholasville, Ky,
Friday next. A big dinner will be spread
and strawberries and ices served. num-
Der Of prominent speakers will deliver adj
dresses.
The Cincinnati May Festival Associa-
lion, with nearly twice as many soloists
and larger orchestra than in 1880, and
after an outlay Of $40, 900 for chorus ex-
penses, finds itself with fund Of S2l 500
IN hand with which TO begin operations
for the next Festival
-Lawrenceburg, XIV is tn have an in
iernal revenue officer, to be known as the
Stamp Deputy. The office hiss been made
On representations TO Commissioner Raum,
made by Hon. Phil. Thompson, who ex-
planned the difficulty under the old ar
Of going half way across the
state TO buy stamps at the nearest Collec-
.or's office.
Rosa Osborne, respectable colored
woman Of Marion county, member Of the
Catholic church, was found dead in a little
'tream with stone on her head, and her
laughter, aged ten years, lying in the cabin
rear by with her throat cut. A chest had
been broken open and eighty cents taken |
rom a bocket-book. There appears 10 be |
little or no clew to the murderers
The House Judiciary Committee has
decided to report adversely on the Senate !
bill 10 divide Kentucky into two Judicial |
districts. There was some tall; of making
provision for holding terms Of the Federal |
,ourt in the eastern end Of the state, but, |
\ neither this is done or not, it is pretty
certain that the present Congress will spoil |
he plan for making another Judge, Mar
hal and Clerk.
Wheat X Durff, il was sscertained that the /
liabilities Of the firm are $ll3,229 and |
rood assets -SSl go 3d. They sgreed 10 |
ccept in full payment OF their claims |
ifty.cenis on the dollar, in four equal pay
nents three, six, nine and Twelve months. !
Without interest, provided Meas. Wheat x
Durf will give satisfactory security for the
payment Of the notes
There were three legal neck stretch /
Dgs in the United States Friday. At Mar
on, N C., Stephen q. Efiter went hence
or killing his wife; at New York A ID I
4eighton was worked off for numbering hi-
oncubine. and at Pulaski. Tenn. w. w
shea was strangled for killing one OF his
wn sex. The fret two went of in quite
n artistic manner, but Rhea's rope caught
nder his chin ia the drop, and the officers,
lad to move il around with their hands
he miserable man begging all the while
1r mercy. His death was by strangula-
ion, and II was many minutes before il oc-
nrred.