Semi-weekly interior journal., 1883-07-10
KoIfs OF CURRENT EHfKTs.

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The number Of deaths in New York
last week reached ,O57. The severe heat
caused many Of them, there being 81 cases
Of sun stroke.
The fret bale Of the new cotton crop
sold at Albany, Ga, at twenty-five and
half cents pound. II weighed 1886 lbs.,
clase, middling.
There are still over one hundred
deaths daily from cholera in Damietta,
Egypt, and the number at Mansourah is
rapidly increasing.
John Reed killed Jean Mccormick, at
ALL, beoause.she refused to mar
ry him.
Spencer Miller was killed by light
ming while shocking oats in an open field
ir Logan county.
"A Memphis man Is on trial for whip
ping his step pon until his back ran blood
and then holding him before fire until his
wounds were toasted.
The Tennessee State prison, with its
convict labor, was leased to the Tennessee
Railroad, Coal & Iron Co., for six years, at
SlO1 900 per snnum.
There we're thirty.eight casualties in
Chicago on the 4,h. Three we're killed,
five fatally wounded, twenty-three maimed
for life and five slightly injured.
Only three jurors have been secured
in the Polk trial at Nashville out Of three
panels. The case will probably be post
poned until the next term Of court.
Judge Buckner, Of Lexington, has sent
another resignation to the Governor, this
one TO take effect ON the 18th inst, instead
Of August Is, as stated in his former letter
A mob Of masked men shot the four
Com mmissioners and the County Clerk Of
Grand county, Col. Three Of the officers
we're instantly dilled and two fatally in
jured.
The State Treasurer Of Iowa has paid
the last dollar OF the war debt. The State
has no Indebtedness remaining beyond
what the funds now in the Treasury will
cover.
The ballCting for a United States
Senator still continues in the New Hamp-
shire Legislature. With 1873 necessary to
a choice. Senator Rollins received S6
votes, and Harry Bingham 92.
The Cattlettsburg Democrat says that
the National Bank of that place declared a
semi. annual dividend Of 10 per cent. Sure
Iy this must be mistake. Banks do not
clear 20 per cent. per annum any more.
Alex. Perry made improper proposals
TO Mrs. Amos Bidwell at 0tsego, Ill. He
returned later in the day, and unheeding
her warming not to enter the house, she
shot and killed him with a Winchester
rifle.
1T is the opinion of John G. Carlisle
that the prospects of the democrats have
not been as good since 1856 as they are the
present year. He says the election in Ohio
this fall will show that the revolution is
not going backward.
Jos. Brewster, IT, s soldier was hung
at El Paso, Friday for rape. The knot
was so bunglingly tied that he fell to the
ground and had to be borne back TO the
scaffold and re-hung, and he died a most
prolonged and horrible death.
"A frightful outrage was committed by
a negro and white man upon two little
girls, aged IL and II, near Sunbright,
Tenn, Sunday. The 6ends, upon being
arrested, confessed their crimes. Threats
Of Lynching were made by the citizens and
the wretches have probably ere this paid
the penalty Of their crimes.
Governor Blackburn has issued cir
cular letter to the Governors Of all the
States, inviting them 10 appoint delegates
to the State Educational Convention, to be
held in Louisville on the 10Th, 20th and
2lst of September, in which he calls atten-
ton to recent organized efforts TO advance
the cause Of common school education in
this State.
-"The Eh9uirr's course with reference
to Hoadly," saysa dispatch from Column
bus, sis creating much talk in Northern
Ohio. One Of Hosdley's Cleveland friends
says McLlean has demanded as a price for
his cessation Of the present covert attacks
a reimbursement Of his outlay for Ward
and consolidation Of the Naos Journal
with the Enquirer on basis so favorable "a
the latter journal that the other sheet
would be merely an appendage.
The Attorney General has decided
that the expectation OF bonded whisky ia
Bermuda. with view to its reimportation,
for the purpose of evading or delaying the
payment Of a tax, is not an expectation
within the meaning Of the law. He holds
that the tax is due upon the spirits at the
time Of their expectation, and is collecti'
Bile upon their reimportation into thi'
country. The opinion was great sur
prise TO the Internal Revenue Bureau. II
is not binding upon the Bureau, but there
is little doubt but Secretary Folger will
follow il.