Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-01-23
VOTES or CURRENT EVENTS.

| WIN. Ellison las been held Al VIII
iamsburg, Ky., for the murder Of Daven-
port.
The 60.6 law has been repealed by the
Tennessee Legislature by an almost unani-
nous vote.
Senator Hoar was reelected the Uni.
ted States Senate by the Massachusetts,
Legislature.
1T has been ascerlained that the Louis.
willie back tax thieves got over $3.50 900 Of
the oity's money.
e. r Sparks has been nominated for
the State Senate in the Nicholasville dis
trict, by the democrats.
The Tennessee river at Chattanooga is
thirty-four feet above low.water mark and
rising four inches per hour.
--Tweuty.one persons were killed in the
dreadful accident on the Southern Pacific
railroad near Tehichips, Cal.
The number Of letters, circulars and
postal cards handled last year in the rail.
way mail service was 2,l55, g3,ss0.
The amendment to the Poet Office
bill reducing postage to two-cents after Ju
ly let, next, passed the Senate Saturday.
The great Conrad Budweiser Beer Co :,
Of St. Louis has failed. Mr. Conrad Is no
doubt a sadder Budweiser mani Yeoman.
Freddie Gebhsrdt, Mrs. Lsngtry's low
err, refused to accept the challenge to NOR
tai combat from the reporter be had cursed.
The name Of General Joseph f John.
ston has been proposed for Commissioner Of
the District Of Columbis. lie is endorsed
by Grant.
The indictments against Colonel John
b. Gaines and Colonel Chas. f. Sears, two
dueling journalists at Louisville, have
been dismissed
The grand jury Of the Jefferson Cir
cult Court returned seven indictments
against Cope snapp for embezzlement Of
the funds Of the city.
The steamer josephine exploded her
boilers in Port Susan Bay, Wyoming Ter
ritory. Six persons were killed and a
number seriously injured.
The New York holders Of Tennessee
bonds have sent protest to Governor Bate
against the action Of the Legislature in
setting aside the compromise.
The question as to the disposition Of
Guiteau's bones has been settled by the
Rev. Hicks transferring all his right and
title to Surgeon General Crane.
The Supreme Court Of Iowa hasdeclar-
ed the prohibition amendment to the State
constitution invalid and the temperance
people are raising fearful howl.
The smallpox scare 10 over, All are
we'll. The authorities have destroyed all
the infected clothing, and the danger is de-
clared past Somerset Reporter.
The Western States are credited with
eighty-six and the Southern States with
sixty-oue of the 277 failures reported in
the United States for the last seven days.
Congressman Moore will offer bill to
amend lie Constitution, so as to permit an
individual to sue State and to provide
process for compelling a State to pay its
debts.
"A Virginia bride stole 81 900 from her
uncle, who had her arrested at the depot,
where she had gone to take the train for
bridal tour and found the money done up
in her hair.
AT least O0OO 900 acres Of the public
land, worth at market prices from $780,
10000 to 100000 900, have been forfeited
by the Immigrant railroad companies
through failure to earn the grants.
Darlington & Baskerville, commission
merchants and large dealers in tobacco
at Richmond, Va, have failed with liza
bilities of S125,0O0. Their assets, it is
claimed, will pay seventy-ave cents on the
dollar
The Surerior Court has decided that
city can be indicted and fined for suffering
a nuisance" which consisted in permitting
"divers men and women Of disorderly hsb-
its and evil name to assemble in large
crowds" upon the streets.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says. "White
Of Kentucky is bitterly opposed to the
whisky bill, which he declares shall not
pass the House il he can help it. Last
year the whisky men spent thousands OF
dollars trying TO defeat White, and it is
now his turn"
-Elihu Palmer, nephew Of Ex-Gov. Pal.
mer, Of Illinois, shot his wife in the
neck and then blew his brains out at St
Louis Thursday evening. Palmer's wife
had left him and he heard she had entered
a house Of bad repdte. Meeting her on the
street, he dragged her into an alley and
shot her, then killed himself
The gallows upon which Guiteau was
sent to the LOrdy, did excellent duty
again Friday. when a negro named Charlie
Shaw was executed for killing his own sis
ter. The only other hanging occurred at
Bellair, Md, where the double-shufIls on
nothing was performed by Arthur Preston,
also a negro and also the murderer Of
woman.
Gable kilograms report the fearful col
lision between the Cimbris, day outfrom
Hamburg, and the steamer Sultan, off
Barkum, during thick fog, A short
while after the accident the Clmbria ca
reened, practically preventing the lowering
Of boats, and sank. She had on board $50
passengers, and her crew numbered ITO
men. Only 81 persons are reported saved
Great excitement prevails at New York
among those who expected relatives or