Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-09-01

Hon. John Randolph Tucker has been
nominated for Congress by the democratic
Sixth district Of Virginia.
--Fifty-two new cases o. yellow fever at
Brownville, Texas, Wednesday, and three
deaths. There are fourteen cases at Pensa.
cola, two have proved fatal.
Mrs. IDENTITY, sister Of W. W. Ball,
county clerk, was struck BY lightning At
her residence about six miles from Mays
Vile, Monday afternoon, and instantly kill
ed. The body was badly burned
"A Hong Kong dispatch last Saturday
announced that 1000 people had died Of
cholera on one Of the Philippine islands,
and another dispatch this morning an
nounces 300 deaths from the same disease
Monday.
During the Cincinnati Exposition the
Kentucky Central will sell round trip
tickets from Lexington at $40. A tram
will leave the latter point at 9 A. NJ, arriv-
ing in Covington at 1910 and leave at ~
midnight.
Maj. james Orange, Of Charles City
county, Va, accused his wife Of being too
intimate with another man, and although
she protested her innocence, he took shot
gun and deliberately blew her brains out.
He is now in jail.
The case Of the Commonwealth against
II. w. White, who was convicted OF rob
hing the Fayette National Bank Of about
$l4,0 and sentenced TO two years in the
penitentiary, will be argued in the Court Of
Appeals Monday.
Among the indictments found by the
grand jury at this term Of the Marion Cir
cult Court are some for Sabbath breaking
by fishing on Sunday. II is question
whether fishing on Sunday is a violation Of
the statutes Of Kentucky, the preponder-
ance Of opinion among members of the
Lebanon bar being that il is mott Leban-
on Standard.
Wilson Fain, the man who two years
ago shot a negro porter at Nicholasville,
because he awakened him to go to bed, has
just been acquitted, because the Court Of
Appeals ruled in his case that "if the jury
believed from the evidence that defendent
in being suddenly awakened from his sleep,
and taking the life Of deceased was irrespon-
sible, they should acquit."
John j. Jeter, who shot a negro in
Csmpbellsville, KY, and was making his
way west TO escape punishment, got drunk
in indianapolis and picked a quarrel with
a stranger. He had out his pistol and
when officer Burns went to arrest him he
fred at him, the ball passing through his
heart and killing him instantly. He was
arrested after some difficulty and lodged in
Jail. He is a very desperate character and
il he gets his deserts will hang.
The gross earning Of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad Company for the third
week in August were $235,795 against
Sl95, $50 for the corresponding week OF
Last year, and increase Of $50 995 From
July to August 81 they were Sl,7l9, TO,
against 81, 1871 235 in 1881, an increase Of
1892, 235 This increase is at the rate Of
$4,000 per day, and is likely to become
greater, as on September an advance Of
20 per cent. on the present freight charges
will go into effect
When the young son of VIM. Proutty
attempted to hoist his father from the nine
ty-twO-feet deep coal mine in South Des
Moines, Iowa, Tuesday, he found himself
unequal to the task, 80 he attached weight
to the descending car to act as an equalizer
on the ascending car, ON which his father
was seated. The weight was 80 great, the
father was brought to the top at ter
rife speed, striking against the roof of the
shaft shelf, and descending again to the
bottom, nearly every bone in his body be-
ing broken.
Hiram Sibley, nurseryman, Of Roches-
ter, N. v, made an argument before the
Tariff Commission, Tuesday, in favor Of
putting seeds on the free list, saying il was
not right to impose high tax upon sew
en- million seed users for the benefs of one
hundred seedgrowers. He was intr6dAced
by President Hayes az the largest farmer in
the world. He is the owner of one hun
bred and forty-three farms. which he rents
TO tenants, and Of still larger number
which he cultivates. He is the owner of
the famous forty-thousand- acre Sullivan
farm in Ford county, Illinois, and of the
Rowland Island farm, Cavuga county, the
largest farm in the State of New York.
He cHltivates more acres for raising seed
than any man in this or any other country
and is also engaged in the lumber, salt and