Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-01-06


Gen. T. II. Taylor has been mad
Chief Of Police Of 1.ouisville. The Gen
eral managed Crab Orchard Spring on,
season several years ago.
The expense Of running the Govern
ment printing Office last year was $22i5,
$50, and the revenue was about $4,000
The stealage was enormous .
The death rate in New York las, yea
was 80 to the thousand people. The to,a
number Of deaths was ss,609, Of which
1918 were Of Bright's disease.
According TO the public debt state
ment Of January I, we now owe, less cash
in the Treasury, 81, 765,4ol,7l7. Decreas,
during December sl2,79S,62S.
Nearly Q, 900 miles Of new railroad wer,
completed in 1881. which makes the grand
total Of railroads in the United States, in
cludine side tracks, l25, 900 miles.
The defective" persons in the United
States, according to the census, number
over 100000. These figures include the
deaf, dumb, blind, insane, idiotic and
paupers.
According to Auditor Hewitt's report,
the cost Of the maintenance Of idiots has
increased from $4,000 to $1,000, in ten
years. and the costs OF Of criminal prose.
cuiions from $4,000 to $4,000.
old man Gibbons, who was suspected
Of the murder Of his children at Ashland,
has returned home with such overwhelnl-
ing proof Of an alibi that he has not been
arrested.
During festival Of Knights Of Pyth-
las, at Shanesville, Ohio, the floor gave
way, precipitstiug over two hundred per-
sons to the story below. The building in
stantly took FIRE. Several persons were
killed and many others fatally injured.
j. T. s. Lloyd, who has been swind.
ling newspapers and others for years, by
getting their money for maps that he never
delivered, was arrested in Norfolk, Va,
Tuesday, on a requisition from the Cover.
nor Of Tennessee, charged with obtaining
from $4,000 to $4,000 uoder false pre-.
fences.
-Dun's Commercial Agency reports
1929 failures in the United States in 1881
with liabilities Of s76,O94, 667, which j.
$40 O0O, 900 more than in 1880, and $23,.
100000 less than in 1879. Failures in the
Southern States last year numbered 1913
liabilities SIC ,3l5,7l6, considerably more
than double that Of the year before.
The Democratic primary for city off
GERS of Lexington, resulted as follows: G
NJ. johnson is nominated fol Mayor; VI. c
Afford, for Recorder; r. J. O'Mahoney, for
Clerk; J. NJ Tanner, for Treasurer; John
r. Allen, for Attorney; Mat. Fonshee, for
Auditor and Assessor; Michael McLaugh-
lin, for Keeper Of the Work-house; +. d.
Landemsn, for Collector; DR.. K NJ. Tay-
lor, for City Physician; James NJ. Corbin,
for Surveyor
Monday being a legal holiday the
Court was not in session, but on Tuesday
morning it resumed work, when Guileau
made the following speech: 81 had very
happy New Years yesterday, and hope
everybody else did; l had lots of visitors
middle-toned and low-toned;
that takes them all in, believe; they ex-
pressed their opinions freely, and none Of
them want me hung; they all, without
dissent expressed the opinion that shall
be acquitted"
The Louisville and Nashville r. r
has purchased the Evansville and Terre
Haute Road, which gives it through and
independent route from Evansville to Chi
csgo, they already owning the Chicago and
Eastern Illinois. The purchase OF the
and Terre Hsute Road, to con-
meet with the Chicago and Eastern ILL
nOis, completes the system from New Or
leans to Chicago, making the only route
between the two cities that is under one
and the same management.