Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-02-27

q. n. Robinson was on Saturday nom.
mated In primary election AZ the demo.
cratic candidate for the Legislature in shell.
BY county, defeating Mr. J. c. Beckham
only eighteen votes.
Hatch 4 Peters, New York brokers,
have been compelled to shut up shop, the
clerk having embezzled a round 100000.
Bauehmsn Bros, Richmond (vs) printers
and siationers have alec gone up with liza
biliiies Of $4,000.
The manager. Of the Kentucky Cen
trail Railroad have negotiated million,
eight hundred thousand bonds, realizing
enough for bonded Indebtedness due March
I, and leave balance sufficient to complete
the road to connect with the Rockville
Extension Of the Est Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia system.
Another horror reported, and this
time the news comes from Capetown, South
Africa. BY the sinking Of the Pilot Bride
of Desolation leland, eighty-one sailors
we're drowned. TIE disaster happened
away back in October, but II has taken
four months for the news to reach US from
that far OF corner OF the world.
The Ohio river at Cincinnati reached a
height Of 80 feet February 8, at A. NJ,
and retired below so feet at 3 A. NJ Febru
airy %. Or the river for 10 days and 3
hours was Of a depth Of so feet or more. IL
was Just week after reaching 80 feet be-
fore staining iis extreme height and was
s days falling to the mark Of fifty feet.
The Mexican War Veterans had a We
ry pleasant meeting at Richmond, with
about twenty-five Of them present. The
next meeting will be at Cynthiana. The
officers chosen for next year are $. 3 Fry,
President; John @. Craddock and DR.. Will
Jennings, Vice Presidents; A. j. Morey,
Secretary; Orator, Gen. W. J. Landram;
alternate, J. Kemp Goodloe.
MIR. james @. Ernst, the popular Gen.
Passenger Agent Of the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railway, received by mail from Ottowa
Saturday,, handsome photograph Of the
Marquis Of Lorne, Governor General OF
Canals, the vice.regal autograph and let
ter from his chief Of staff asking him TO &C
cept it in remembrance Of the kindness
shown him when travelling over his road.
From the Somerset Reporter; Mrs.
Hannah Dye Rucker, mother Of Joseph
B. Rueker. Esq, is dead, aged "a. Mics
Mamie Holding has accepted a proposal
Of the Southern Methodist Church TO 20
as Missionary to New Mexico, and with
her sister, Miss Della, will leave for there
next August. Allen Ballou has discover
ed silver mine on his farm and has sent
samples Of the ore to assayists in Louis
Vile and Cincinnati.
While the little folks Of the First
Presbyterian Church at Harrodsburg, we're
having a iug-breaking at DR.. Forsythe's,
Friday night, the prisoners Of the county
Jail alao concluded to have one on their
own account, and after saving thick iron
bar through, four Of the inmates escaped
from one Of the upper windows Of the jail
and are still at large. Among them was
one Of the Galloway boys, incarcerated for
murder. His brother was also there, but
being sick was unable to avail himself Of
the golden opportunity.
From the London Echo: CIV. Farris
gets the contract for carrying the mails to
and from the depot at 500 per year. Geo.
Ray and VIM. stringer were fined s25 each
for violating the local option law at East
Bernstadt. One Of the saddest affairs that
has occurred in the mountains for several
years, happened in Clay county lev days
ago. Mr.. George Lincks was carrying a
log Of wood on his shoulder, and not no
ticing where he threw il down, let it drop
on one of his little giils, a brighteyed
little child Of three summers, and broke
her neck She died Immediately. A we'll
developed case Of smallpox at Pitman
Station. The authorities have taken ii in
charge