Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-09-05
HorEs or cUssfET EVENTS.

The public debt decrease for August
was over sl6,OOOOOO.
Two hotels at Old Orchard Beach have
been destroyed by fire. Loss S2O,0 900.
-Business failures for the week reported
to New York, one hundred and two, a
slight reduction upon last week.
In the primary election Saturday, w.
o. Cunningham carried Marion for Con-
gress and Robertson carried Hardin.
Sargent Mason's counsel will sue out
a writ Of habeas corpus 10 release him from
his confinement for shooting at Guiteau.
On the Philippine Islands $500 peo-
pie have died Of cholera in two weeks, and
in Minila the deaths now number 300 daily.
New Haven, Conn, furnished the only
legal neek.stretching last Friday. Chir
Smith, for murder, was hanged at that
point.
There was picnic Of the Smith fami.
ly at Piapack, New Jersey, the other day,
at which four thousand Smiths sat down &c
lunch.
The amount Of earnings at Sing Sing
prison for the month Of August is $780,
75O.OS; expenditures. 14,7495l; net earn
ings, S6,OOO.52.
yellow fever is reported on the in
crease at Brownsville. There were seven
ty new cases and four deaths on Sunday.
l03 new cases and five deaths Saturday.
The Kansas democratic State conven-
ton Friday resolved that the prohibition
law is disastrous failure, and demanded its
repeal and the substitution of license law
rigidly enforced.
Much anxiety is felt in Boston among
the friends Of General Butler for the safety
of his party. The yacht America was
due at Quebec two weeks ago, and nothing
whatever has been. heard from her.
There are 900 inmates in the Georgia
Insane Asylum, and a physician connected
with the institution says four-fifths of them
were insane from the effects Of liquor drank
by themselves or their parents.-[C-J.
The United States steamer Dispatch,
which was to have conveyed President Ar
thur from Newport to New England, went
ashore Friday night, and the President,
who is by no means well, was taken back to
Newport in tug.
The physicians completed a micro
scopical examination Of Guiteau's brain,
but are unable to agree as to the evidences
of insanity, two holding that the brain
was in perfectly healthy condition and
one that it was not.
About one hundred and twenty per-
sons were drowned in the Concho flood in
Texas, and fifteen thousand sheep, cattle
and horses lost. Losses Of property range
from $4,000 to 100000. The river rose
fifty feet. The bodies are coming to the
surface daily.
Judge nigley, of Cincinnati, fined an
expressmsn who swindled stranger $50
and costs, remarking that he took the fact
that the culprit had not been before the
court previously into consideration, and
that had it been otherwise he would have
added work-house sentence.
Bob Ford, Jesse James executioner,
was arrested on the streets Of Chicago Fri
day morning, on the charge OF disorderly
conduct, and carrying concealed weapons.
The Ford boys have been living fast life
the past two weeks, playing in a cheap
theater, and seeking notoriety on the levee
&C. o. B. Cowardin, editor Of the Rich
mond Dispatch, has been arrested, charged
with being about TO engage in a duel with
W. c. Elan, editor Of the Wing, organ Of
the coalitionists. A warrant is also out for
the arrest Of the latter. Just as well let
'em fight, they won't hurt each other.
Gov. Blackburn has employed Hunt &
Darnall and Breckenridge q Shelby, of
Lexington, to go to Washington in October
to argue the rights Of the State Of Ken
lucky in the matter Of John Bush, colored,
who was ordered to be hanged by the State
courts for the murder Of Miss Annie Van
meter, of Fayette county, and whose case
was taken to the United States Supreme
Court on a writ of error sued out before
Associate Justice Miller.