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

Frost is reported TO have done serious
damage in the Michigan fruit belt.
-Pittsburg had 100000 FIRE Sunday
The Courthouse was among the buildings
destroyed.
The reported slaughter ofseventy eight
Indians BY Mexican troops near our border
is confirmed.
Sing Sing prison, New York, is a mon.
ey making institution for the State, clear
ing nearly 5000 last month.
1t is reported that thirty Of the crew
Of thirty-seven Of the steamer Rodgers,
burned in the Arctic regions, lost their
lives.
The Tennessee bondholders, through
their committee appointed to confer with
the committee Of the Tennessee Lsgisls-
ture, have modified their proposition TO
60-3-4-5 and 6.
e. s. Durfee, who was the Worshipful
Master Of the lodge in which Morgan, the
alleged exposer Of Masonic secrets, was
passed and raised, died at Oshkosh, Wis,
Thursdsy, aged nineiy-seven years.
The resolution Of Senator voorhees, to
investigate the statements charging him
with improper relations to the Whisky
bill was indefinitely postponed, the investi
cation being regarded as unnecessary.
May Let, there had been constructed
this year $40 miles Of new railroad track,
against 900 miles for the corresponding peri
cd in 1881, 1895 miles in $50, 1871 in 1879,
267 miles in 1873, and 269 miles in 1877.
"A dispatch from Engineer Melville,
dated Lena, Delta, March "a, received at
Washington yesterday, reports the finding
Of Lieutenant belong and party dead.
Search is to be continued Tor Chip and
party.
The Senate adopted Mr.. Windows
resolution to appoint a committee to inves
gate whether any money has been raised
to influence action on the whisky bill, and
II so, for what uses the money has been
expended.
-Schumann, a Cincinnati saloonist, re-
ceived a sentence Saturday Of 500 fine
and thirty days imprisonment for violst-
ing the Smith Sunday law. 1t was the
first case and will be taken to the Court Of
Common Pleas.
There is an appropriation Of $4,000
for the erection of a monument ever the
grave Of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello,
Virginia, and the work is shortly to be
commenced under the direction Of the Sec
Rotary OF State.
Fountain w. George was convicted of
murder in the FIRST degree at Des Moines
Iowa, Friday, for the killing Of DIR. Epps,
in July last This is the first jury verdict
for hanging under the capital punishment
law Of the State.
The Chesapeake & Ohio company is
running through trains from Richmond to
Newport now, and is beginning to use its
extensive coal wharyes at the latter point.
The stock is said to be good for a consider
able advance in the near future.
The reception in the rotunda Of theCap-
itol at Washington Saturday evening, given
by the Ladies' Aid Society, Of the Garfield
Memorial Hospital, was one Of the most
brilliant events Of the season, and realized
a handsome sum for the object for which
il was given.
John shackleford, boss on the EliIe-
BEETHOVEN, Lexington and Big Sandy Rail
road, got into difficulty with a negro
hand and threw a wrench at him. 1t miss
ed tie mark, striking another negro in the
head and killing him instantly. shackle-
ford ia in Jail.
The President has pardoned Fitz John
Porter so far a. the continuous part of his
sentence BY Court Martial was concerned.
The sentence was that he be cashiered and
be forever disqualified from holding any
,fiice OF trust or profit under the Govern
nent Of the United States.
The Court of Appeals Of West Va,
has decided that the bill eXempting the
Chesapeake and Ohio X X. from taxation
Is unconstitutional and void, and that the
shall pay the S7s,9SI.G5 taxes
ince 1879 assessed against il. An appeal
0 the U S. Supreme Court was taken.
james Emory, Of Murray Co., Ga,
Iged between ninety and one hundred
ears, killed his wife with a club lie
'ears the reputation Of having married
even different times, and killed each one
4 his wives. IL is said that he put seven
marks ON the coffin Of the last one he muir
Tered.
Mrs. l.. II. Newton, wife OF an Engi-
ieeI on the l.. a ~ poisoned an adopt
d child and then took portion herself at
louisville. In a letter giving her reasons
or the deed, she says that she did il for
ear the father Of the boy would take him
rom her nov that he had married again.
he will live.
The Kentucky Millers Association az
pr a veiy pleasant and profitable meeting
a Louisville, adjourned Friday night to
leel In the same city next year. The fol-
owing officers were elected; Charles 7.
Iallard, Of Louisville, President; w. S.Gilt-
er, J. NJ. Miles, w. 4. Smith, and w. Z.
irubbs, Vice. Presidents, aud w. II. Wher-
Il