Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-03-24
RoTES or CURRENT EVENTS.


The Massachusetts, House has passed
bill permitting women TO practice law.
Corn is being shipped from Chicago to
Buffalo, by water, at two cents per bushel.
President Arthur gave compliment
airy dinner to Grant and family Wedues-
day.
In the Republican Congressional Com
mit,ee, John d. White will represent Ken
lucky.
Horace A. Kimball has been nominal
ed by the democrats of Rhode Island for
Governor.
Both political parties have nominated
Judge NJ. F. Force for the Superior Court
Of Cincinnati.
The Swiss colony at Bernstadt, now
has 2s5 settlers, aud expects 500 by the
end Of the year.
1t is reported that thirty persons were
killed in railroad accident on the North
ern Pacific at Bismarck.
Senator Hills surgeon informs him
that the cancer with which be has been
afflicted has been entirely eradicated.
Senator Tller, Of Colorado, has been
nominated Secretary of the Interior, and
has signifed his willingness to accept the
Office.
The President has issued formal or
der disappearing the sentence OF Whitta-
ker, the negro cadet, and has released him
from arrest.
--Blatchford has been confirmed as judge
of the Supreme Court, which completes
the bench and makes il stand all republi-
cans save one.
The admission Of Dakota as State
will be regarded as a political measure,
and be opposed by the democrats in Con-
gress to the bitter end.
Frederick A. Palmer. late editor Of
Newark, N. ] was sentenced to the State
prison for twenty years for obtaining
money from the Treasury on forged war
rants.
BE- the falling of the hotel porch dur
ing the sale Of the Montgomery White
Sulphur Springs property, Virginia, one
man was killed and twelve Others seriously
injured.
In an alteration in Louisville, Tues
day, Charles Ray, son Of the well.known
citizen, VIM. Ray, shot aud killed James
Kennedy, an ex-policeman. They were
cousins, and il was family row. f
That miserable creature, George Ellis,
has made a statement which is attested by
the Comfy Judge Of Fayette, in which he
exonerates Neal and Graft under sentence
Of death for the murder at Ashland.
Leading Independents Of Georgia met
at Atlanta Tuesday aud formulated an adj
dress to the people urging the formation
Of a new party, and calling for a mass
meeting there Of Georgia Independents on
June /.
"A special messenger in behalfof the cit.
liens Of Chicago has arrived in Washington
with petition for the pardon Of Sergeant
Mason. 1t bears one hundred and twenty
lnOurduu ribhatut'rS anu N cibht huhufcu
feet long.
The Ways and Means Committee IA
vors the abolition Of the two-cent stamp
required upon bank checks on the ground
that it ia relic Of war legislation. A
good deal Of other war legislation might a.
we'll he swept of too. .h
The period Of official mourning for
the late President (six months) has now
expired at Washington, and the State de.
partment and executive mansion will no
longer use blaek.borjered stationery for
Official correspondence.
-Colored jurors have given entire sat
isfaction in this county, 90 far as our OBJ
servation has extended. We have no hest
fancy in saying that in enforcing the Law.
negroes make better jurors than the aver
age white man. Iiopkinsville Keninck-
ian.