Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-06-13
VOTES or CURRENT EVENTS.


--Business failures for last week, lOG-
against 1856 the week before.
The Elizabethtown Neus has declare,
for Hon. ]. Proctor Knott, for Governor
--Kentucky's annual manufacture o
whisky amounts to 2l,OOO,OOO Of gallons.
The Alabsms Democracy nominated
r. A. O'Neal for Governor and a full Stat
ticket.
In the last twenty years Congress hai
given away 100000 acres Of the public
domain TO private corporations.
A Massachusetts, firm got the contract
for supplying the p. o. Department with
stamped envelopes for four years at $780,
ls7.
The wife Of Senator Beck, Of Ken.
lucky, is said to be the nearest blood rela.
tive Of General Washington now living.
A bicyclist in Boston rode fifty miles
in two hours and Gfty-nine and one-fourth
minutes, making the best time on record.
Application for a new trial in the
II enry White case was overruled by Judge
Buckner. The Court Of Appeals is the
next resort.
The Chief Engineer says that the
Northern Pacific X. X. will be completed
by July lst 1888, although there are yet
GAO miles to build.
The eighteenth anniversary Of the first
Federal attack upon Petersburg, Va, was
celebrated Friday by the decoration Of
graves Of Coniederates.
In arresting a circus proprietor at
Southwest City, Mo-, performer was shot
and killed and two other men injured by
the sheriff and his posse, for showing with
out license.
Somebody has raked over his memory
and found that this year is but a repetition
Of 1857. A long cold Spring and Summer,
with killing frost on the night Of June 9Th,
is his recollection.
A child, three years old, with both
legs and an ann broken, was picked up
twenty miles North of Dallas, Texas, in
the track Of the recent tornado. Nothing
is known of its parents.
Rain fell on sixteen days in gay. The
total precipitation was eleven inches and
three one-hundredths Of an inch. On the
corresponding month last year. rain fell on
eight days, the total precipitation being
one and seventy-6ve hundredths of an
inch.-[ Richmond Register.
Serious riots occurred Sunday between
natives and Europeans, at Alexandria
Egypt. Several persons we're killed and
wounded. and a number Of houses destroy
ed. The British Consul was dragged from
his carriage and beaten, and the engineer
Of a British man-of-war was killed.
-Armstead Gray, colored, was hanged
Friday, at Powhatan Court house, Va
Quirino Gaitan was hanged at Brownsville,
Texas. An Indian murderer was hanged
10 Indian Territory. John Fribbetts, sew
enteen years Of age, who murdered two
persons a few days ago, was hanged by a
mob at Perham, Minnesota.
-Well-informed parties in Georgia, es.
innate the yield OF peaches in that State
this year at 100000 bushels; apples, i.
100000 bushels; pears, 100000 bushels,
and grapes, 100000 pounds. Large ship.
ments to the North and West of tn ese ar.
ticles have already commenced, and will
probably continue through the month Of
June.
The House passed an important bill
Friday, providing that soldiers Of the
late war who have lost hand, foot, leg
or arm, or have been deprived Of the use Of
either, by wound or otherwise during the
service shall receive pension at the rate
of $40 per month. 1t is estimated that
100000 additional year will cover the
list of pensioners whose allowance is thus
increased.