Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-06-09

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Lebanon Standard.
IDIoTs.-The immense frauds on the
State Treasury for the support Of alleged
idiots caused the late Legislature to pass a
law requiring the Auditor to forward to
monwealth's Attorney, a list Of all the
persons in their districts who receive an
allowance az idiots, whose duty it shall be
TO have such persons produced in Court
for examination az to their mental and pc
euniary condition. No one under eight
years Of age, nor one who is only at times,
by Epileptic fits or other malady enfeebled
in mind or is pecuniarily able TO be cared
for. shall receive any allowance. II is
hoped that this will materially reduce the
number now on the charity Of the State
and stop the evident speculation in such
business that is going on, especially in the
mountain counties. Commonwealth At
torney Warren, showed ia list Of the
liots in this district now receiving al
lowances, and we find that Boyle and Gar
rard have but two each, Lincoln but 10,
while Rockcastle has IS, Casey 2s Russell
IL, Wayne 80 and Pulaski "a; total in s
counties l4l. This at $75 per head, the
amount allowed, makes Sl0,575 that this
district alone gets for the support Of IDIOTS
SPECIAL COURT Judge NJ II. Owsley
began a specisl session Of the Court here
yesterday for the trial Of equity cases.
One divorce was decreed, Mrs Sarah Null
lins being granted one from her husband,
Joshua, for cruel and inhuman treatment
The most important case before the Court
was for a construction Of the will Of DIR.
George w. Owens 1t seems that in the
will Elders S. II. King and Shouse are
given some $4,000 for charitable purposes
to be decided on by them. The executor
commended that this is void because Of it's
uncertainty, and further claims the right |
to lease some coal mine property belonging
to the estate. The executor was represent
ed by Mr.. Sam. Harding, Of Danville, in
person, and by Ward and McAfee, Louis
willie, by brief, and the Trustees by Hill |
and Alcorn. Col. Hill had prepared an
elaborate speech, but Judge Owsley assur-
ed him il was useless TO deliver it. Mr. |
Harding followed in a long argument, and |
at the close decision that the bequest was
valid, aud that the executor has no right
TO work or lease the coal lands was render
ed. The suit Of W. G, Welch, Trustee.
and the creditors Of Isaac Shelby against
him, to enforce the trust and sell Crab Or |
chard Springs, went over on account Of a
failure to serve process, but a special term
for its trial was set for June 90. The Court
will be in session tomorrow.
IT MUST BE JEssE.--Chas. G. Hazlett,
writing from Bonanza, Colorado, to Sheriff
j. n. Menifee, under date Of May 30th,
says: "A party who has been personating
county officers Of Kentucky and thereby
swindling officers in some Of the Northern
States, has been arrested in Iowa and is in /
Jail at Marshalltown. His operations have
been very extensive, and he has travelled |
since 1878, but we could not capture him
until last week. The evidence against him |
is strong, and he will probably go to the
He says his name is Nor |
gan, and that he was at one time sheriff OF |
some county in your State, and squandered |
his property worth $4,000. We are in
clined TO believe, however, that he is Jesse /
Spraggens, formerly Of your place. The
man in Jail was in Kentucky, in Feb 1881. |
Please TO write me at once an account aud |
description of Sprageens, and tell me when
he was last at Stanford, 80 that we can
know whether We have him or not" The
man referred to is evidently our own dis
honored and rascally jesse Spraggens. and |
Il he gets to the penitentiary, as he per-
haps ought to for life, it will be no new thing
10 him, for he served the State Of Indiana,
for the period Of two years. He was here |
At the time named, and was as presumptu-
1us and ofiicious az il he had never been
guilty Of criminal action. The above is his
Did method Of procedure, and we haven't
ioubt that il is him. Jesse is about 5 feet
inches high, dark Completed, black eyes
and were full beard when here. He has a
smiling address aud is calculated TO take
IN the unwsry. Mr.. Hazlett will please
report il this description fills the bill.
MARRIAGES.
Mr.. Alris n Parrott has obtained H. /