Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-07-27
VOTES or CURRENT EVENTS.


And now they say Jay Gould is 6nan-
cially embarrassed.
Between 400 an 500 people are dying
daily in Cairo, Egypt, Of cholera.
The democrats of Virginia held har-
monious Convention at Lynehburg.
AT the Hamilton sale Of Short-horns
so head brought $3.50, an average Of
S3O5.
One hundred and sixty car loads Of
watermclons are received in Cincinnati
daily.
-Four Of the Arkansas Congressman are
for Carlisle for Speaker and all for tariff
for revenue
Collector Finnell has been fully exon
Grated Of the charges Of drunkenness, &c.
against him.
Six persons, three charged with muir.
der broke Jail at Richmond, Wednesda y
night and escaped.
Gen. L. o. G. Ord, Of the United States
Army, died with yellow fever, at Havana,
at o'clock Sunday evening.
August ~ to 10 has been appointed as
week of prayer by the Bishops Of the
Methodist church, South.
Policeman Oden, at Winchester. shot
and killed VIM. Havens, negro, who re-
sisted him when he tried to put him under
arrest.
The Court refused Lewis Ktan's petit
ton for divorce, and it will be a long
tine before a Court gives him 100000
for illegal incarceration.
"A farmer in Fulton county offered to
sell his crop Of wheat at SOC bushels after
the thresher went into the field. His offer
was refused, and it threshed 1913 bushels.
-Dauphin, the Lottery man, has sued p.
NJ. General Gresham for 800, 900, because
he charged in an order that he was pro-
curing money by false and fraudulent pre-
lenses.
The circular OF the Agricultural De-
psrtment in Washington says the back
ward weather has injured the corn pros
poets in Ohio and Northern and Central
Indiana.
"A large meeting Of the citizens Of Lou
isville in sympathy with the striking tele-
graph operators. was held Wednesday
night, Col. G. E. Sears, Of the Post presided
and Col. George Baber and Ed. Madden
made stirring addresses.
While workmen were engaged in re-
pairing blast furnace al Syracuse, N. Y,
the arch caved in, burying nine men under
brick, mortar and SCOT, eight Of them being
killed outright, the other dying soon after
ward There is great excitement, and the
Blast Furnace Company is greatly CEN
sured.
Judge Blodgett, Of the United States
District Court for Illinois, decided at
Chicago that stockholders in national
bank are liable for the debts Of the bank
to the extent Of their stock, and that indi
vidual suits 10 recover on this liability can
be commenced without the Intervention Of
a receiver.
North Point Tivoli, on the Patapsco
river ten miles from Baltimore, pier ON
which an excursion party was standing
awaiting the arrival Of boat gave way,
and sixty or seventy women and children
lost their lives. The water into which
they fell was ten feet deep, and though
many saved themselves by swimming, the
loss Of life was terrible. Two hundred
persons are estimated 10 have fallen into
the water.
Captain Matthew Webb, the noted
English swimmer, attempted Wednesday
TO swim down the rapids below Niagara,
and was lost in the whirlpool. The an
nouncement that he would make the at
tempt drew only about i've hundred peo-
Pile. He swan gracefully upon the resist
less current till he came TO the edge Of the
whirlpool, when he threw up one hand in
fright and disappeared in the whirling
caldron. His body has not been recover
ed.
Replying TO an invitation 10 attend
the Morgan Reunion, Hon. Jefferson Da-
Yis wrote "You have justly appreciated
the many endearing memories Of my youth
which cluster around the place Of your
meeting, and il would be most gratifying
TO me TO exchange salutations with the
survivors Of the gallant Kentuckians who
left their homes TO maintAin, at every haz,
ard, the principles embalmed in the early
history Of their State by the resolutions Of
1898. The name Of your association is ell
commemorative Of daring deeds
Of dire suffering borne and bar.
barous indigniiies inflicted on men who
had brayely struggled in unequal combat
10 vindieale the rights their fathers left
hem. With my respects, please present
% your associates the heartfelt good wish
., with which | am fraiernally, &C." II