Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-25
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Failures last week 124 against l2l the
week before.
George Gaines was held in the sum Of
81, 900 to answer the charge Of killing Chas
Penn, near Frankfort.
-Thos. Hughes( Tom Brown at Rugby
has been appointed County Judge in
England, at a salary Of s. 500 per annum.
The seat Of the sitting member in
Congress, Shelley, of Alabama, has been
declared vacant, the contestant Smith,
having died during the contest.
Reports from the interior Of Egypt are
to the effect that the country is given up to
cut threats, hooters and anarchy. There
has been no fighting for number of days.
Fifteen fatal cases Of lockjaw. caused
by wounds from toy pistols July 4, have
been reported in Chicago, three in the
country. Six boys died in Burlington and
three in Peoria.
Philip Gallenstein, a farmer living
near Augusta, KY, drank glass of cold
spring water when overheated in the har-
vest field on Friday, and died of violent
cramps before daylight the next morning.
When George Robson entered the
Cabinet Of Grant and took the naval port
folio he was so poor that he could hardly
pay his washerwoman. Within two years
after he got into the Cabinet there was mon
ey to bis personal credit at five different
banks, amounting TO s467 $40 61.-[C.J.
In the Georgia Democratic Conven-
tion Thursday, Hon. A. II. Stephens was
nominated for Governor; N. c. Barnett,
Secretary Of State; W. A. Wright, Comp
troller General; d. N. Speer, Treasurer;
Clifford Anderson, Attorney General;
Thomas Hardeman, Congressman-at-large.
In New York, General Newton NJ.
Curtis, Treasurer of the Republican State
Committee, indicted and found guilty Of
violation of the Federal statute in collect
ing contributions from Federal Office. hold
ers in that city during the last fall elec-
tion, was sentenced to pay a fine OF ST.
900.
Attorney General Brewster has decid-
ed that a member of Congress is not an Of
icer Of the United States. as the word is
used in the statutes, and that gin TO him
for campaign purposes is not punishable
by law as claimed by Mr.. George William
Curtis in his controversy with "My dear
Hubbell."
In the Ohio Democratic State Ccnven-
tion, at Columbus. Hon. John w. Okey,
the psesent incumbent, was nominated for
Supreme Judge by acclamation. j. w.
Newman. OF Portsmouth. for Secretary Of
State, and Henry Weible, Of Van Vert
county, for member of the Board of Pub
lie Works.
The Attorney General has given an
opinion to the Secretary of the Treasury
that the request Of transportation compan-
les to be allowed to take some 10000 Chi
nese laborers through the country from
Cuba to China can not be granted under
the law as it now stands This is a beau
tiful state Of affairs.
The house has passed bill to in
crease the amount for which postal money
orders may be issued up 10 800, and fix (
ing the rate as follows: Fer $40, 8 cents;
SIS to $50, 10 cents; $50 to $40, 20 cents;
$40 to $50, 25 cents; $50 to $50, 80 cents;
300 to $40, 35 cents; $40 to $50, 40 cents;
$50 to 500, 46 cents.
The Treasury Department decided that
he proviso in Section IL Of "the act to en-
lble National Banking Associations to ex-
end their corporate existence" will enti-
lie holders Of the new Three-per- cent. l
Bonds to be issued in exchange for extend 1
d Skies and Elves to perpetuate the origi- 1
lal numbers Of the new bonds 4
Second Assistant Postmaster General /
Elmer reports that the Star service in the '
Pacific section is now in operation, at a ,
ost 40 7S-lOO per cent. cheaper than UNI ?
Ter former contracts, and also that the
ost per mile is As 39-lOO per cent. less. d
these figures represent saving Of over Y
;, 100000 annually in the contract term y
{ four years. The section Of the country 81
eieHed 10 embraces localities Of the Star G.
eryioe which are now under discussion in Il
he Star Route trials. n
The Khedive has signed a decree dis "a
Missing Arab Pasha and declaring him a a.
ebel lie has also issued a general order Il
orbidding the Egyptian Army 10 obey or c
ers from Arab pasha. and fOrbidding the al