Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-11-28

twenty-five cents from 81. Paul to
Chicago, 400 miles, is the rate TO which
composition has brought railroad fares In
the Northwest.
Gov. Blackburn has pardoned +. NJ.
Hurd. who was convicted in the Fsyette
Circuit Court last week and sent up for two
years for forgery.
Buck Caywood, who escaped from jail
at Mt. Sterling, returned and gave himself
up, saying he preferred imprisonment to
starvation in the bush.
The grand jury has ignored the bill
against John A. Cockerill, editor Of the 81.
Louis Post Dispatch, who recently shot and
killed Col. A. w. slayback.
1T is understood that Senator Beck in
tends offering resolution ss soon az the
Senate convene-, providing that the usual
holiday recess be abandoned this year
B. A. Crapster, for ten or twelve years
postmaster at Shelbyville, was found lying
dead in a stable on his premises, a bullet
through his head and pistol by his side
"A snow storm extending from the
lakes to the Atlantic swept the country,
Sunday and the gay New Workers are now
enjoying their first sleigh-riding Of the
season.
Herman Peter Of Lancaster, Pa, who
killed man for defaming his daughter,
has been sentenced to the Penitentisry for
life. He would have been cleared and Civ
en- chrome in this State.
"A census bulletin just issued says that
in the U. s. there are 4,92s, 45l persons who
can not read, and 6,2S9,95s who can not
write. The illiteracy is confined principal
ly to the negroes Of the South.
The Washington Star sayG AT a
meeting Of the Kentucky Republicans last
evening a committee Of FIVE was appointed
to consider the propriety Of extending q
public reception to Hon. John d. White
upon his arrival in this city.
A young blood Of the legal profession
at Franklin, ]. ]. Millikin, has been ad-
judged the father Of Miss Laura Whitts
illegitimate child, to whom he will have
to pay $40 per year for 20 wears to aid in
its support. Pretty dear fun he thinks, no
doubt.
Mrs Capt John Smith, daughter Of
the Morgan alleged to have been killed by
the Mssons in 1896, died at Mehams, Ma
rion county, Oregon, last week. Although
frequently questioned regarding the TRACE
dy, she to the last declined TO throw any
light on the subject.
-Falsetto, the noted race mare, has been
bought from P. Lorillard for 1880, the
purchaser being A. J. Alexander Of Wood
burn Stock Farm, KY. Lorillard gave
$lS,0 900 for Falsetto after she had won the
Kenner Stakes at Saratoga and sent her to
England, but without ever starting there,
she was brought back to the United States.
Maj. Newman, Of the Pine Bluff Ark.)
Commercial, has sued Hon. Clifton R.Breck-
inridge, Congressman-elect from the State
at large, for complimentary notices Of his
candidacy published prior TO his noniina-
ton. Breckenridge declined to pay for
more than an announcement Of his candi-
dacy, on the ground that to do 40 would be
dishonorable and degrading to public NOR
ais. We agree with Mr.. B., unless the
notices went in a. advertisements and were
so designated.
The official returns Of the late Con-
gressional election are at last all in, and
they show that Turner, dem., was elected
in the First District by 1,07s plurality;
Clay, dem, in the Second by 3,S40 plural
ity; Halsell, DEM, in the Third by 100 ma
jority; Robertson. dem in the Fourth by
1924 majority; Willis, dem, in the Fifth
by 2,7S2 plurality; Carlisle, dem, in the
Sixth by 1880 majority; Blackburn in the
Seventh by 5,l46 majority; Thompson,
dem, in the Eighth by s67 majority; Gull
bertsOn, rep, in the Ninth by 1899 major
ity; White, rep, in the Tenth by 1850
majority, and WolfOrd in the Eleventh BY