Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-08-01
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

There are ten candidates for Con gress
in the Ninth district.
Two military companies are being or
ganized in Winchester.
The River and Harbor Appropriation
bill has net yet been vetoed, but the i'm
preston is that it will be.
Bowman, the murderer Of Marshal
Lane, at Augusta, KY, has been cent to the
Covington Jail to prevent his being lynch
ed.
j. ID. Swsrtz hung himself in his to-
bscco barn near Mt Sterling, KY, but his
wife and step-daughter cut him down be-
fore death ensued.
The indianapolis 4 st. Louis Railroad
was sold Friday, to the Cleveland, Column
bus, Cincinnati and indianapolis Railroad
Company, for 81, $4,000.
The President has approved the act
appropriating $4,000 for Mrs. Lucretia
Garfield, less any amount paid President
Garfield on account Of salary.
Miss Alsatis Allen, of Montgomery,
Alabama, is the most beautiful young la
dy in the United States" so Oscar Wilde
says. Don't forget the address.
Mrs. Mary Sparks, who was some time
since indicted at Indianapolis for horse
stealing, was found guilty and ordered to
the Reformatory for two years.
AT Milwaukee, Friday, the ten mile
running race, change each mile, between
Miss Williams and Miss Burke, for purse
of 81 900, was won by Miss Williams by a
half length. Tine, 1:433.
B. Frank Bigelow, Recording Teller
of the National Bank OF the Republic.
Washington, who is short 5000 in his
accounts, and ran off to Canada, has sur
rendered himself TO the authorities.
Wholesale trade is getting into state
Of midsummer activity, and merchants
look forward to booming fall. when the
big crops have been secured, and money
begins to circulate swiftly in the country.
"A boy named Robert Gastineau, aged
16 years, while coupling cars at Lexington,
fell between them, two cars passing over
his stomach, cutting the body in two and
strewing the entrails along the track for a
short distance.
Pullman and Hamilton, two circus
proprietors, fell out at Georgetown, and
wanted to shoot each other. They had
better shoot their circus first, and then
bang each other through their gizzards.-
Bourbon News.
On August 81, 1865, the National
debt was S7s.25 per capita of our popula-
ton. 1t is now sSl.72 per capita. The
annual interest charge on the National
debt in 1865 was 1929 per capita. 1t now
is Sl09 per capita.
"A train of twenty cars of tea and silk
left San Francisco on the evening of July
II, and arrived at Kansas City at 2A.M
on the 10Th, making the run from San
Francisco to Kansas City in six days and
six hours. This time is believed to be I'M
precedented.
The watermelon traffic has been unus-
ually large this season, 800 carloads Of
melons having passed through Nashville
via the Nashville, Chattanooga and st.
Louis railway since the LIST inst. Each car
load Of melons was worth 81 900, so that
the income to the producers was 100000.
1t is officially announced that 4,O45.
shares Of Cincinnati, New Orleans and Tex
as Pacific Railway Stock were fraudulent
ly issued by Geo. E. Doughty, the deceAs-
ed Secretary of the company. The estate
of Mr. Doughty is sufficient to make good
the holders Of the unauthorized certi6-
Gates.
--Barbed wire fences have been built
along the entire line of the Nashville,
Chattanooga and St. Louis railway. 1t
has already paid for itself in protecting
the road from cattle, which had to be paid
for when killed 1t also saves the road
from destructive wrecks on account Of
trains running over cattle.
Sixteen steamships Of the regular
trans A Atlantic lines have been chartered by
the British Government TO take troops to |
Egypt These vessels are able to accom-
modate II, 900 soldiers, and they are paid
at the rate Of $500 a month, the British
Government paying the necessary expenses
except salaries OF officers and crew.
Something over 1000 bills have been
introduced in the House this session and
over $500 in the Senate, besides 500 reso-
Iutions. As about 1000 copies Of each
bill and joint resolution have been PRINT
ed, the job Of Government printing
amounts to 100000 impressions-nine-
Tents Of which is absolute trash.--[ Courier
Journal.
"A Washington special says: at is
thought by well informed persons that the
annual revenue Of the country will be from
SsO. 100000 to SlOOOOO,OOO less than il
has been, which, added TO increased appro.
priations, will reduce the Seeretary's abili-
y to call in the Threes very rapidly, even
Il he were so inclined. Hence the popular
Ivy Of this bond.