Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-09-08
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Col. A. NJ. Swope, collected sl26, 7l4.l2
internal revenue last month.
The Kentucky Court Of Appeals has
granted women the right to act as Insur-
ance agents.
Capt. Harry I. Todd has been elected
warden Of the Kentucky penitentiary in
place Of Capt. w. S. Stone, resigned
The officials Of the medical museum
deny the story Of the theft Of Guiteau's
skull. and characterize il as an advertising
dodge Of some side-show.
Chalmers and his democratic opponent
in Mississippi, pretended to want to fight a
duel, but they took good pains to let il out
40 that the officers could arrest them, II
necessary.
There are 500 cases Of yellow fever in
Brownsville, Texas, with an increase Of
from 20 to 100 per day. The Mayor has
issued a proclamation calling for aid for
the destitute sufferers.
The pest-house closed to day. II has
been open just 1865 days, during which
time PA patients have been received Of
which &C have died and las was discharg-
ed as cured II Gov. Com.
An official report places the number
of agrarian outrages in Ireland during the
month of August at one hundred and sixty
Eve, including one murder, ten cases Of in
timidation and eighty-three cases Of send
ing threatening letters.
The town Of Somerset few years ago
spent a thousand dollars for fire depart
ment. The engine now lies rusting in the
shed for want Of exercise, the hose Is rot.
ten and useless, and the entire affair is
practically Of no account.
The Louisville Commercial tells OF a
negro woman who swallowed lizard and
after a year Of horrible suffering died,
when post norton revealed that her
stomach was literal nest Of Lizards and
worms that had eaten through the walls.
AT Harrodsburg Yesterday, while the
new jailer was moving into the Jail, Dick
Chandler, prisoner, charged with murder,
made daring escape. He broke an iron
bar in a second-story window and jumped
to the ground, got horse and dashed out
of town.
The Democratic Congressional Cam
paign Committee has determined to send
two or three men on to Maine with speeches,
charging Chairman Reed Of the House Ju-
dietary COMMITTEE with fraud, and corrup-
tion in connection with the bills for the for
fixture Of Pacific Railroads.
There have been five men killed in
personal difficulties in Green county in the
last five months, and we are reliably in
formed that there are no less than halt,
dozen feuds existing between families there
now, and the whole Of them go heasily
armed, so as TO be ready in cases Of emer-
gency.-[Columbia Spectator.
The Democratic Convention to nomi-
nate candidate for Congress in the Ninth
district met at Grayson, Carter county,
yesterday. The candidates are james P.
HARRISON, Of Fleming; Thomas II. Payn-
tel, Of Greenup; Smith Hurt, OF Bath. and
Keene f. Pritchard, OF Boyd. At the last
Presidential election the democratic major
ity in the district was III over the united
republican and greenback vote.
Aiken and his son Felix have been ar.
rested in Franklin, KY, for conspiracy to
murder Circuit Clerk Wade and his two
sons. A man named Wright had been en-
gagged to kill the three men at 800 head.
Wright was paid half the money, and sta
toned himself near the town to assassinate
the Wades. He weakened and exposed
the scheme, showing Aiken's gun loaded
with buckshot, and the money paid him.
AT the sale Of the United States Cir
Gus at Louisville, Tuesday, elephants
brought from $500 to $4,000. hippopta-
mi, 5000; tigers $500; ibexes $50; kanga-
roos $50; monkeys.sl2 so to $40; lions, $500
10 $500; hyenas, $50; leopards, $500;
,amels, $3.50; bears, $50; yaks s25 llamas,
$3.50, &c. and so on. Robbins, the manager,
got most Of the animals. The show did not
pay the debts OF the concern by many
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