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Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18
xorEs or cUaaEXT EVfETs.


President Arthur acted AS pall-bearer
at the funeral Of Hugh Hastings and so did
Jay Gould.
Barbara Miller, colored, was hanged
in Richmond, Va, Friday for the murder
other husband.
in ten months 1858. 374 Immigrants ar
rived in this country. The greatest num-
Der in any one month came in May, when
60, 593 arrived.
Col. Robt. M. Mayo, Of Westmore
land, Va. Congressman. elect, suieided Sat
urday because he could not adapt his mind
to the readjuster principles on which ticket
he was elected.
AT Pittsburg, the balloon in which
Prof. G. A. Warner has been making as
tensions collapsed when 5000 feet above
terra frma. Warner was enabled 10 gel a
firm hold Of the ropep, and the balloon
came down so slowly as to land him unin-
jured.
The Kentucky University at Lexing-
ton has ninety in the college Of arts; seven
~ in the college Of the Bible; 100 in the
commercial college, and thirty In the acad-
envy. These are from all parts ofthe cOun-
try, but mostly from the Middle and West.
trn States.
The number Of pension claims now
pending. which include arrearAges, IL
1883. Ifone.hAlf Of these be allowed
the total amount required 10 pay them
will be 1921 .37S, 800. This Of course is in
addition to al sums heretofore paid under
the arrearages act There are also $500
claims now pending, which do not involve
arrearages. 1850 per cent, Of these be al
lowed, the annual demand upon the Tras-
1ry 10 meet them will be S5,O2S. $50. The
present pension list calls for $4,000
900 a year. Considering all the claims
nov unadjusted to be settled and one-half
Of them allowed, the sum required for the
entire pension lat would be 50 sS6,b65.
Ii Is startling 10 contemplate
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

Leon Albeit vas nominated BY the
democrats for Governor Of New Jersey on
the pecond ballot.
--Junius Brutus Booth is dying al the
hotel Of which he is proprietor in Msnches.
ter.by-the ses, Mass.
Fifteen criminals were sentenced 10 the
peniieniiary at the last term Of the Muh-
lenberg, Ky, Circuit Court.
Hon. ]. Wick Kendall is announced
as candidate for Judge Of the Court Of
Appeals 10 succeed Judge Hareis.
Tom Haney was convicted at George.
town Saturday Of the murder Of Bill Mich.
ole and sentenced TO q years in the peni-
Tertiary.
The New IIsmpshire Legislature has
just adjourned after a session Of 1O2 days.
Over 100000 will be required to pay their
per diem.
The new Tennessee law against gam
bling is being made nugatory by using
decks Of cards upon which pictures Of ami
mails appear instead Of the usual spots. The
cards are designated by the names Of the
snimals whose pictures they bear.
This l. Kentucky week. We will have
the Governor, toe State officers, the Sena-
tors and the Congres,men, the members Of
the State pres, aud 100000 unarmed Ken
nskisns. The city will welcome them the
Fair Association will do them honor and
the Exposition will receive them with open
srms-lC.-J. Of yesterday.
w. Monirose has been fined 81, 900 and
sentenced to the chain gang for ~ months
for distribuiing.the New York Police Ga.
sette 10 Atlanta. Montrose went TO Atlanta
under the direction Of Richard X. Fox, the
proprietor Of the Police Gasetfe, to make a
test case under the State laws. The paper
has been shut out Of Atlanta for Eve years.
Gov. Knott has been in Office IA days,
and the only pardon issued by him TO a
convict was TO Edward Wilson, Of color,
who was sent To prison tor ten years Tor
murder. He had served his entire sen.
tence, with the exception Of one day, had
only been idle one day during his incarce-
ration, was faithful and obedient prison
err, and the Governor restored him to citi.
zsnship by granting him pardon.
"A stubbornly fought battle has occur
red between the French and the Black
Flags. The French claim 10 have captur-
ed two towns and 10 have driven the Black
Flags out Of their intrenchments at the
point Of the bsyonet. The French loss was
2 officers and IA men killed and offi-
GERS and 40 men wounded. The casualties
among the Black Flags are estimated at
from 500 to GOO. The French took 80 pris-
oners, whom they behesded forthwith.
The Proteus, which, in company with
the Yantic, sailed from st. Johns June 20,
to relieve the Greeley party, was crushed
by ice July %, and sank in four hours
The disaster occurred near Cape Sabine
All the provisions and stores intended for
the Greeley party went down. The crew
took 10 the boats and made their way over
600 miles OF ice and water before they were
rescued by the Yantic. Conflicting stories
Of the fate OF the Greeley party we're told
by the Eskimo. Captain Greeley and his
men are now destined to spend their fourth
winter in the Arctic Regions, and very
likely With insufficient stores.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18
GEO. o. BARNES in ENGLAND
"PRAISE THE LORD"
SoLsGiRTH HOUSE, /
HIGHGATE, LONDON, Sept. lat, 'S3 I

I
HIGHGATE, LONDON, Sept. lat, 'S3 !
Dear Inferior
The Hackney meeting closed on
Wednesday night, the 10Th ult., with the
largest congregation and greatest number
of confessions, our dear LORD. as usual'
keeping the beat for the last. The closing
discourse was upon "Bible Blue Ribbon
ISM" in which did what could by an
exposition Of Numbers xv:37 10 show that
the blue ribbon Of Jesus gospel was not
crusade against the rum sellers, but Gods
LOVE to all; rum-sellers included. / am
grieved at the course the Temperance move
ment is taking here, and the unlovely
spirit Of many of its advocates, who open
ly proclaim the determination Of the IL
censed yictuallers as vermin." This is GER
tainly disbolical exhibition Of temper
that will recoil ON all who give it house.
70 ON, and will assuredy work harm to the
temperance reform. Mr.. John Bright gave
an admirable address at the opening Of the
"Cobden Coffee House" at Birmingham
last Thursday, which will do good in
quieting the "fre-eaters," who just now are
the heaviest load the good ship Teetotal-
ism has to carry. Between these too ar
dent friends, who would ruin all TO reap
revenge on the publicans, and the luke
warm and cowardly ones, who only wear a
very thin and feeble blue ribbon on their
Sunday coats, and are 40 many barnacles
clinging to the old crafts bottom and sides,
causing her to sail sluggishly-the cause
bids fair to anguish just now. Indeed the
Government returns Of income from the
sale Of spirituous and malt liquors show a
startling recovery during the last month,
that has rather frightened temperance adj
vocates who had begun TO believe that the
Millennium Of total abstinence was dawn
ing, when the revenue fell of, as it
tremendously did few months ago. The
decline in blessing ON the temperance work
dates from the vicious persecution Of the
pubs" who, whatever their shortcomings
and wrong dolngs, were carrying on bust
ness fully sanctioned by the law Of the
country. As we'll might an outcry be raised
against Harper Bros. and others because
they have grown rich BY pirating British
copyrights and sucking the brains Of Brit
ish authors without adequate compensa-
tion, when our American law protects and
encourages them in il BY steadily refusing
TO entertain an international Copyright
Bill" looking 10 the amelioration Of wrongs,
many and long continued. am not now
speaking Of Gods law, which alike says TO
Publishers, "ThOu shalt not steal" and TO
Publieans Thou shalt not put bottle 10
thy neighbOr's lips" This blessed code is
little recognized in Legitimate % trade, !"
l am sorry 10 say. "L0VE worksth its
neighbor no IN; therefore LOVE Il the full
filling Of the Law" Of God. But mans Law
is the thing 10 question now, and however
much We may personally dispise the avar-
ice that will take advantage Of Ia bad Law,
We have no right TO treat oaVilierly those
who have been sharp enough to step in and
make fortune out Of a faulty legislation.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

SHELDON is still holding possession
of the Land Office at Frankfort con
trary 10 law and in defiance Of the ex-
pressed wishes Of nearly 10000 vot.
ers No matter what Cecil may have
done or promised, il does not excuse
Sheldon's usurpation and Cecil must
be a decidedly timid man else he
would not so quietly submit to having
his rights denied him. 1t is best of
course TO let the courts settle The mat
ter, but it strikes us that a man is
either coward, a knave or both, who
would not walk into the Office 10 which
he was lawfully elected and take pos
session or die in the attempt. We
have heretofore felt kindly towards
Sheldon, never however regarding him
as man of much calibre, but by h..
disgraceful conduct he has forfeited
the respect Of all law abiding men and
shown that the last convention did
wisely in deciding to relegate him to
the obscurity of his Nelson county
home. And now ifhe will not quietly
give up the Office to which he has no
claims whatever, because he himself is
party to the corrupt bargaining and
trading that he complains of, he ought
TO be quietly ordered out and failing
10 20, he should be assisted out on the
too Of n boot.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

TINS Office is in receipt of the follow
ing dispatch from General Manager j..
NJ. Wright. "The members Of the
Kentucky Press are invited to visit the
Exposition ON Thursday, Sept. goth"
Our Louisville letter tells what will be
done that day and it is beyond the
power of the average rural rooster to
resist the temptation togo. Therefore
the gentleman will please consider his
Invitation accepted so far as we are
concerned.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

The news that the prOtracted drouth
has rendered the Virginia peanut crop
a failure, will cast a gloom over the
entire community OF munchers, who
are never SO happy as when they can
disturb an assemblage with their disa-
greeable noise.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

The Patent Office is a paying insti
tuition for the government. During
the fiscal year, just closed, there we're
S2,S45 applications for patents and
1899 for design patents, or a, 900 more
than the year before. The receipts
from all sources we're 1,095, 1884 and
after paying all expenditures a surplus
of s51s,255 was left. The Americans
are decidedly an inventive nation
aud if they keep on in their efforts to
create labor saving machines the next
generation will be freed almost entire
ly from toll.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

TIE Sunday Argus calls our atten'
ton to the fact that the Legislature
can not abolish the Office of Register
of Land Office by statute, inasmnch
as its existence is provided for by the
State constitution. Then there is an
other reason added to the many, for a
nav oua
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

The New York Times, republican
paper, says that its State is certain for
the democrats this year and next. Its
warning factions have harmonized
while the republicans are rent with
discussions.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-09-18

There is ON exhibition in Baltimore
man recently arrived from Germany
whose skin is SO elastic that he can
seize the cuticle of the breast aud
stretch it up to cover his entire face.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22
liz lee ure before the Paris Faculty

In a lee ure before the Paris Faculty
OF Medicine, DIR. Ball combated the
generally received opinion that folly
and reason are separated 10y strictly
drawn line. There is broad frontier,
he says, between sanity md insanity,
peopled by millions OF inhabitants. He
holds that the number of persons per-
fectly reasonable on all points through
out the entire period Of their existence
forms but minority of mankind. "Tho
world abounds with people," he tells
us, whom strict scientific diagncs sis
would condemn rs more or less mad;
yet at no time OF their life would it be
permissible to put them under restraint.
Such people are to be seen occupying
honorably and successfully every posi-
ton in society; we brush against them
when we take our daily walks abroad |;
we see them in the mirror which re-
fleets ourselves"
EIGHT out Of thirty cases of Babylon
ian antiquities recently forwarded to the
British Museum have been opened and
examined. Their contents consist chief
~ of tablets, in most cases broken, and
relating generally to trade and to prop
erty in land, slaves, etc. Others relate
chiefly to the King ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
and serve to confirm the Biblical i'm.
preston Of him as a great King. A
number Of figures and statuettes are
also contained in the cases, and from
them it would seem that the type o!
beauty in Babylon, as in Central Afric,
at the present day, was decidedly in
clined to embonpoint. A number O.
silver articles are defaced, as though
intended for consignment to the melt
ing-pot, but for some reason or othel
they never reached it.
The people of Nebraska are the bes
educated of any in the world, only
3 5-1O per cent. Of the white population
being illiterate. Iowa stands next, will
only 8 $40 per cent. illiterate. This il
showing of which those young Slater
may Justly feel proud. The most Hit
crate white population in the Union i
in Tennessee, Sc. ITO. The most illit
crate eoIored population is in Georgia
80 per cent.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22
The Weather Prophets.

Surely the press and public should
not allow themselves 10 he fooled by
hunbugs like Virgins and Vennor.
Their predictions have turned out TO
be worthless, rs might have been known,
as they had no facilities for making
weather forecasts at all comparable
with the weather bureau at Washington.
The latter has signal stations all over
the country, they can tell where storm
is raging, and generally, can predict its
course, thus anticipating local condi-
tions of the weather. But Virgins
and Vennor have no such machinery at
their command, and yet their absurd
forecasts are published by the press
far and wide. The manner in which
they deceive the public is very simple
Storms are constantly raging over diff
ferent parts of the earth's surface.
1t has been found, for instance, that in
the February Of every year there Is an
average of nineteen storms or more.
1t is quite safe, therefore, to predict
that on certain day blizzard" or
SEINE unusual weather disturbance will
take place. If at the appointed time
it should be pleasant weather on the
Atlantic Coast, there is pretty sure to
be tempest Of wind or rain in the
Mississippi Valley or west of the Rocky
Mountains. Then these "bogus" wealth
er prophets claim that the forecasts
were verified. Virgins, it will be re-
membered, predicted phenomena
disturbance on the ninth of February
but, as if to discredit him and his kind
the weather was exceptionally and un
usually fine all over the continent
His excuse was that he meant tina
storm would be raging on the Pacific
instead of here in the East. Let III
hear no more of these humbugs.-Fron
Denoresfs Monthly for april.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22
9he'COffee Plant.
80 pe: cen

Statistics prove that the coffee plant
will bear climatic extremes, and thatit
will thrive in localities differing as
much as 20 or 80 degrees in average
temperature. It fourishes best on
uplands and on mountain sides,
from 1900 to 1850 feet above the
level of the sea, and in the tropical
belt, between the 25th degree north
and the Both degree south of the
equator. Brazil boasts sixteen spe-
cies of the plant growing wild. But
coffee, as an article of commerce, only
began to be known in Brazil in 1922.
By the year 1850, that country ex-
ported 100000 pounds, though
Cuba at that period was shipping
25,OOO,OOO pounds. Towards the
end of the last century however,
large sugar and other estates in Bra
I'll were converted into coffee planta-
tions, and in 1880 the expectation
reached 1885 tons; in 1910, 48, 432
tons; in 1850, 98,9O7; in 1860, 14S-
971 tons. Subsequently there has
been a diminution in the returns.
Coffee has new begun to be largely
cultivated in Colima, a small state on
the Pacific coast. A line drawn from
the port of Vera Cruz to the port Of
Manzanillo, would bisect Colima
and the coffee grown in this district
has the reputation of being remarka,
bly good. Cordova and Orizaba cot
fee is equal to that of Cuba, but Co
lima is said to be superior to even tn
fayorite Mocha. In Mexico COTE.
culture is making great progress, anc
is destined hereafter to be one OF the
main exports of that county.-Nsu
York San.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22
Properties Of Quicksilver.

One of the most curious properties
of quicksilver is it's eapability of dis
solving or forming amalgams with 9th
er metals. A sheet of gold foil, drop
ped into quicksilver, disappears almost
as quickly as snowflake when drop
ped into water. It has the power of
separating or of readily dissolving
those refractory metals which are not
acted upon by our most powerful
acids. The gold and silver miners
pour it into their machines holding
the powdered gold-bearing quartz ;and,
although no human eye can detect a
trace of the precious substance, SO fine
are the particles, yet the liquid metal
will hunt them out, and Incorporates
it into it's mass. By subsequent dis
tillation it yields it into the hands OF
the miners, in state of virgin purity.
Several years ago, while lecturing be-
fore class of ladies' on chemistry, we
had occasion to purify some quicksil-
er by forcing it through chamois leath-
er. The scrap remained on the table
after the lecture, and an old lady,
thinking it would be very nice to wrap
her gold spectacles in, accordingly APP
propriated it to that purpose. The
next morning she came to us in great
alarm, stating that the gold had mys-
teriously disappeared, and nothing
was left of the parcel but the glasses
Sure enough, the metal remaining IL
the pores of the leather had amalgam'
ated with the gold, and entirely de-
stroyed the spectacles. 1t was a mys'
terry which we never could explain tc
her satisfaction.-FtreSide Science.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22
More New Uses For Cotton.

It is said it has been demonstrated that
fire and waterproof houses can be made
of cotton and straw. The cotton used
is the refuse of the plantation and fac
tories; and when ground up in about
an equal amount of straw and abestos,
is converted into o paste, and subse
quently into large slabs or bricks,
which become as hard as stone. The
article thus made is pronounced the
best of architectural material, and will
be much used. A Boston rope-maker
of long experience, like the father be-
fore him, says that the cotton rope can
no made fifty per cent. less than hemp
allu q i,~c'.rable for all shipping uses
cables, bolU, rops, halvards, tow, hawser
tackle and falls, hoisting etc. He
says that often cotton is superior fol
caulking, and believes that it can be
used for roofing and as substitute fol
leather and rubber il hose and betting
and for tubing to inclose telegraph and
telephone wires, both overhead ano
underground. He states that one hun
dred and fifty tons of hemp rope arr
made in the United States daily, the
material of which is mostly imported
Congress has authorized the Secretary
of the Navy to introduce cotton cordaS'
into the navy service of the United
States, to such an extent as will full.
test it's value and efficiency as compared
with the kinds now in use.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22

All WoHG OHIEG FOO, che editor OF
the new Chinese newspaper In New
York, turns States evidence and says
that the trouble with his people in this
country is that they have no brains.
The Chinese who are gifted remain at
home, and about the only employment
open 70 those who are here is that OF
laundrymen. The first number OF the
paper Is quite . curiosity.
wIGeIxs' great failure is case Of
small prophet and big loss.
BEWARE when a fat man says he will
drop in on you as soon as he can
DoUeH for bread must always rise
to explain the workings Of yeast.
Hyou wish to remove avArice you
must remove its mother-luXug.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22
MISSION VALLEY NURSERIES.
" TveIve Miles from Victoria, Tex.

These Nurseries, have claims upon the people
western and southern Texas that cannot be urged
by any other establishment.
To give to western and southern Texas list OF
fruits adapted to the climatic requirements the
object 10 which the proprietor has devoted his fe
He has boon able TO bring to bis aid the advantages
Of early horticultural training and by the eIpend-
Iture of over twenty thousand dollars In experiment.
upon our own ground--by close observation and
study through the quarter OF century during
which horticultural study. experiment and labor
has been his leading pursuit-he has been able to
become acquainted with the peculiar wants OF our
very peculiar climate. ,,,-,
Taking advantage Of the principle wen established
by physcal geogrsphists, viz that all fruit trees
are improved by being carried toward their polar
unit and that they deterlorated By being car
RED toward their equatorial imit-he has made his
experiments and established his nurseries farther
south than any other general nurseries In the United
states He sells no cheap northern trash 70 MS
customers His trees and plants are therefore bet
Ter suited 70 Texas cnture than those Of any other
establishment In the world
our nurseries and grounds. embracing about -
.cres IN horticulture Will be freely shown 70 visit
orr eyery DAY but Sunday
Order for trees and plants received By mall %
.hro1sh suy Of cur authorized agents-
Catalogues fe1t free 20 every applicant FOR fui
ther Information apply 20
GILBERT ONDKRDONK,
ssptas Mission valley, Victoria Co. IeIas-
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22
ACat Ranch.

Near Cleburne, Te1a-, there is
verv curious colony of cats. 1t seems
on the farm of Colonel Chambers some
wheat was thrashed in 1881. A good
deal of straw was lying about which
was taken possession of by some cats;
The country Whereabouts is full OF small
game on which these animals feed, and
fbe result was that the cats multiplied,
and at present there are 5OO oil all
kind, and colors. The place IS famous
throughout Texas as being the greatest
cat ran.b in the world. This reminds
me of the theory held by an eccentric
English writer that the splendid phys
lone of the English race IS due TO the
Number of old maids in that country;
His argument was that every old mad
KENT a cat. that the cat was an enem!
70 tbe field mouse, which variety OF
mouse was destructive to red clover
which gives its nutritious quality 10
tbe beef. and the English race Is the
nroduet of the roast beef OF England.
Hence the multiplicity Of old maids was
tbe indirect cause Of the vigor OF the
Fn,I;sb race. But Texas cats seem 70
tL+ive without the protection OF old
,maids-Fronl Deraoresfs AonthiVJof
April
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22

unllA HPeopIe are Always on the lookou
"USA Tor chances 70 Increase their earn
"UhH ms, and In time become wealthy
sThose Who do not improve their
chance 20 mate money. We want many men. NO
men. boys and firls 20 work for night IN their
ovn Localities. Any one can do the vork properly
ron TIE frtt starr. The business VII pay more
has ten tines ordinary Wages. Expensive outnt
uolsy rapidlY. You ear devote your Whole tine
20 The vork. Or only your spare moments. Enu
dress eTrEsoN Co.. Porflanf, Maine.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-03-22

A.Aa veek made a. home By The Indust1
0ous. Bet business noe before the
- - tar zoe, Men. women, boIs ard Ciris
wanted eVerywhere 20 work for rs. Nov IL the
une. Yea can work IN pare tine. or 1--WE your
Whole tine 20 ne 6ufince. No other buEf1ea
viii pay you 1eariy - vel. No enc ca1 fail -
ltaks eoorno1s psy, by sngnrng A. cree. Cos1s
cftft s1f terDf frse. Money Dsfe fast. easily
al b01ortbly. Address TEUr Co., Augusts