Semi-weekly interior journal., 1882-06-06
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The est-bearing debt is now only
about 81 ,479, 100000
The general deficiency bill before Con
gress appropriate. S9,0O0,0O0.
The colored State Convention viii
meet at Lexington on the 18th inst
-Georgia watermelons, the first Of the
season, have Just arrived in Cincinnati.
In a revolver fight in Leadville, ",
are hsppy to repott both participants were
instantly killed.
The American Medical Association
will hold its annual meeting this year AT
st. Paul, June 9, Z, 8 and ..
Eight ounce hailstones fell near Hous.
ton, Texas, and killed Jas. Norseworthy
who was running through an open field.
Another big oil we'll has been opened
in Warren, County, Pa. flowing, il is re.
ported, at the rate Of $500 barrels day.
The Fusion Greenback State Conven.
ton Of Maine was held at Bangor. Harris
w. Plais,ed was nominated for Governor
Hon. w. J. Stone, ex-Speaker Of the
House Of Representatives, has announced
himself candidate for Congress in the
FIRST district.
-IIarrodsburg is to have a new Opera
House with a stage 30 feet deep, so feet
vide, and capable Of accommodating 20C
performers at one time.
The alarming statement is made that
over a hundred thousand laborers in this
country are on a strike, and a. many more
are talking about doing 80.
Reports from the cotton-producing
sections Of the South show that the grow.
ing crop has been injured by cut-Sorms
and the continued cold weather.
Failures reported to New York foi
seven days were 1876, against 126 last week
and 124 the week previous. The increase
s in the West and South principally
i. X. Grant, a tobacco manufacturer
Of Hopkinsville, Ky. was found dead in
his room at the Hotel Emery, FRIDAY
night. Apoplexy is the supposed cause.
Cadet Whitaker. the negro who tried
to create a sensation BY clipping his own
ears and then charging that his fellow stu.
dents did it because Of his color, has enter
ed the lecture field. His alleged treatment
at West Point is the theme.
Albert Fink, who was rendered the
Presidency Of the L. q n. r. r. at a salary
Of S250 900 per year, has declined 10 accept
because his relations with the managers Of
the trunk lines we're of such a character he
cannot feel at liberty to sever them in op.
position to the wishes Of those gentlemen.
The trial of the murderers Of pretty
Jennie Cramer seems destined TO last rs
long as the disgusting Guiteau exhibi tior
One Of the iurors in the case has been at.
tackled violently with erysipelas, and the
the trial has been postponed until June 13
If the juror dies the case will be re-tri ed
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Lieutenant Augustine Hewitt, Of the
Twenty. U. 8. Infantry, died at San
Antonia, Texas, Sa turday Just previous
to his death, and after his case bad been
declared opeless by the physicians, he
was married to Miss Katherine Duncan,
daughter of Col. Blanton Duncan. Mrs
Hewitt is also very sick and il not expect.
ed to live.
George Ellis. whose testimony caused
the sentence Of death to be pronounced
against Neal and Graft for the murder Of
{ he Gibbons family, at Ashland, XIV. has
Just been tried for his completely in that
murder and sentenced to the penitentiary
for life. The other two men will get new
trials on the belief that Ellis swore falsely
against then
James +. Harvey. white, was hanged
at Carrolton. Ga, Friday, for murder com
mitted last July, and Sandy Matthews,
colored. who killed another negro with an
axe in Ct of jealousy, and afterwards cut
his body into small pieces and buried them
IL hole. e.went up at Memphis. The latter
confessed and begged his hearers, Of whom
there were 5000, to repent and meet him
in heaven.
The following from the Enquirer must
be taken with few grains of salt: at is
exceedingly gratifying to be able to state
that the smallpox has, apparently, run ITS
course in Cincinnati. Not only is the dis
ease under control, but it has almost en-
tirely disappeared, at least in its infeetive
stages. There still remain number of
cases, but the most of them are now con-
But few new cases are reported,
md these are favorably located"