Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-03-09


There are ,i2S convicts in the Keu.
lucky peni,eniiary. $50 Of whom are ne
sroes. In Georgia there are 1887, 1905
being nesroea
Congressman. elect Luke =. Poland,
who lie visiting Washington, attracts atien.
ton because he wears one Of the old.tlme
blue swallow. tail coats with brass buttons.
Ida II Hosmer, three feet, and Robt
N Husxs, three fee, sir, were married on
Wednesday on the stage Of the BROOKLYN
Museum, Of which they are attractions.
Mr.. John Duncan, editor Of the aeri-
cultural department Of the Courier Journal,
and Miss Fannie B. Csssedsy will be msr-
ried In Louisville, on Thursday, March
18th.
-One Of Ksiier's las, official acts AZ
Speaker was to give his nephew position
a. sienoRrspher Of the House, for that pur-
pose diechsrgins an old and faithful en-
ploye.
The only seat In the new Senate TO be
6lled Is that Of Senator Rollins, Of New
Hampshire. HE successor will not be
elected until June and will OF course be
republican
"A life convict in the Michigan State
Prison has jus, been pardoned out after 20
years confinement, because Of certain proof
that he l. innocent Of the murder Of which
be was charged
Two cent bank check stamps not used
by holders By July /, when they 20 out Of
nee, will be redeemed by the Government
II produced within three years from the
time Of purchase.
1T is announced that Col. Ton Ochil.
trees pay asa member Of the Forty-eighth
Congress is to be withheld until he settles
certain accounts as United States Marshal
Ct Texas, which is eminently proper.
A brother Of Ellis Crsft came to the
city yesterday from Ashland to zee Ellie,
but he got his tank full Of tsnele-foot and
fell down on the street. He was arrested
and put in the cooler Lexington Press.
The announcement that Mr.. c. II
Reed received 5000 foi defending Guiteau
il incorrect The Senate inserted the sp.
preparation in the sundry civil bill, but /,
was stricken out in the Conference Com
mittee
The new internal re venue bill con-
tsins one crumb Of comfort for the email
farmers. After May l, 'sS. every producer
will be allowed to sell al retail not exceed
ing 100 pounds Of tobacco in any one year
This 100 pounds may be sold in as many
lots as may be desirable.
A bill has been introduced in the New
York Legislature to legalize primary cleo
tons, and its passage is urged on the
ground that il would suppress bossism,
county-seat cliques, and the trading for
offices, which not infrequentlv mark the
proceedings Of the old-style convention.
H. II. Crutcher, clerk in the l. 4
~ depot at Louisville, and member Of the
Legion, died yesterday from the effects Of
illness contracted during the Graysou cam.
paign The arrangements for the trans
portation Of he troops we're very poor,
and more than one was made dangerously
i'll.
"A novel injunction was granted in
New Haven, Conn.,, recently, which forces
Irwin Bronson, on account Of his extreme
cruelty to bis wife, to leave his house With
his personal property, pending the result Of
divorce proceedings instituted by his wife.
The injunction permits him to see his
child only one hour each day.
-Lt Harder, who was sent to search for
the missing Jeanette crew, writes from
Ikusk, Siberia, under date Of Nov. 6. Il
regret to state that no trace Of Chip or
his party or his boat has been seen by US
or any Of the natives II is probable that
communicated with every native Of the
Delta and with those who we're near the
coast"
Under the new Tariff Bill the duty on
salt stands as at present, IL cents per one
hundred pounds in bsgs, sacks, etc, and
eight cents in bulk. The salt clause con-
tains the old outrageous provision that the
New Eueland hsh packers can get their
salt free of duty, while pork and beef pack
ers and other consumers of the article have
to pay the onerous tar.
Another prominent democrat" this
one from Frankfort, hiss been figuring in
the Louisville Commercial and be furnish
&c a table to show that 2s3 votes will be in
structed for Knott, 229 for Jones and l6O
for Owsley, and that of the uninstruc,sd
vote Knott will get enough to give him
S2l on the first ballot, Jones PAS and owt-
ley l73 Necessary to a choice 1872.
With reference to tax on banks the
new tariff law provides as follows: THAT
the taxes herein specified impo'ed by the
laws now in force, be and the same are
hereby repealed rs hereinafter provided,
viz on capital and deposits Of hanks and
bankers and Of National banks. except
such taxes as are now due and payable, and
on and after july l, 'SS, the stamp tax on
hank ehecks drafts and ordersn