Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1888-04-27
MT. VERNON, ROCKCAsTll COUNTY.

WI NIh"oNi noSNSHotlc SouN'fs
James Baker lost $50 panels of fence
by forest fires.
Three runaway marriages from this
county during the week.
Missouri Sears, club-iootcd man, H.
in Jail for carrying pistols.
by an oversight oi our postmaster
our last letter failed to reach you in
time.
=. W. Randall has been appointed
deputy sheriff in stead oi W. : Parker.
resigned.
-Ihr store OF Henry Broughton, Pine
Hill, was robbed Saturday night last oI
about SO worth of provisions.
I Mrs. Thomas Taylor, whose brain
has been affected for sometime, is very
low and in critical condition.
Alex Potect's house, near Pine Hill,
was robbed Il few nights since Of meat
and provisions, during the absence Of
the family.
L. b. Dean sold the furniture and
fixtures OF the store and dwelling pun
chased Of ;. W. Paris some months since
AT very low figures, last week.
The excitement over the attempt Ia
assslssinate Jack Adams, Jr., has subsid-
ed and it is thought that no further dem
onstrations will be- made, at least at pres
ent.
The distillery and barn belonging to
u. Il. Bethurum, two miles south OF
town, were burned Monday night 10y an
incendiary. The loss ON both almost -
800; insurance on barn 500. No clue Ia
the incendiary
DIR. Lowell, beside working up an in
tercst in recently discovered ochrc bed.
near this place, il looking tn the devcl.
opment Of a valuable quarry and one al
50 that will not only yield valuable
building stone, but stone that can be-
ground and utilized as valuable fertil-
izcr, being OF the same formation as that
turned out 10y the Battle Creek. Mich.
works.
Mrs. W. T.. Hiatt, who fell from
horse last week and was seriously iniur-
ed. and was visited hv DR.. Pevton. is
some better. Mrs. Judge Carter, who
has been in Cincinnati Tor the last five
weeks under the treatment of doctors Tor
cancer, writes that she il but little ifanv /
better and does not send very encour-
aging report.
Squire Childers, Of district No. :.
came to town this morningand informed
the county judge that the I-angfor,l boys
had surrendered to him and demanded
a trial. Their trial he says he has set for
tomorrow, Saturday, at 10 O'Clock, in
two eases; the shooting at John Fiddler,
a neighboring farmer, and Jack Adams,
whom they attacked on the streets here
Monday.
C. W. Ping, vino with his brother
had done general merchandise business
1t this place for the last two or three
years, was closed out by attachments
sued out by Louisville creditors during
he week. Mr.. Ping claims that on ac-
'Ount of the unusual hard winter lust
past and the lateness Of the spring, that
MS collections for goods sold could not
meet his obligations, but promises to
make it warm for the parties who had
he attachments served.
The Young America get i'm their
ny this week. \ beggar applied at one
, the residences in this place this week,
skiing for old clothing. lie was told by
he lady OF the house that no refuse
'ed into another room the two-ycar-Old
ragged out Il $40 pair of pants and offer
1t them to the mendicant. Another
Dung hopeful hearing his mother speak
4 red bird hurting its foot and bleed
NJ on the roost poles said il was caused
y the bird having been rained upon land
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