The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-17

ablN 10 the senate the OH providing Tor the /
opening to settlement Of the Sioux Indian |
reservation in Dakota. 1t provides that the |
treaty shall be ratified by two.thirds of the |
Indians interested in the lands ... The Ways |
and Means Committee reported the follow.
ing bill BE it enacted etc, THAT the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury is hereby authorized |
TO apply the surplus money now in the |
Treasury and not otherwise appropriated, or |
so much thereof as he may consider proper, |
TO the purchase or redemption of United |
States bonds.....Mr. Collins of Massachu- |
sets, from the Judiciary Committee, report
cd bill to provide for holding terms of the
United States Court and District Courts for
the District of Kentucky ut Greensboro.
House ealender.....Nr. McCreary, of Ken.
lucky, from the Committee on Foreign At
fairs, reported joint resolution authorizing
the President TO arrange Il conference for
,Hc purpose Of promoting arbitration and
encouraging reciprocal commercial relations
between the United states and the Repub-
lies of Mcx.co. Central aud South America
and the Empire Of Brazti House calender,
1.-THE fr,1n $ f Col A. +. Stevenson,
First Assistant Istuqyter General are m
easy about his healtn. II lef for Florida
Tuesday, and they hope that &c wi return
to his duties fully restored and in ,,ood con.
dition .....A favorable report has been made
from the House Committee on War Claims
for the payment of $1,000 to the First Bap.
fist Church at Smithland, Ky, for the use
and occupancy of their building by United
States troops during the war.
1t is not entirely clear that the pro-
posed interest law is as innocent, useful and
needful az it has been represented, though
number of the State papers have Endorsed
it. The Henderson News smells the odor
Of the shark about it, and says " 1t is con
tended that our legal rates of interest are
80 low that il drives invested loaning CAPT
tai from the State into other localities where
a higher rate is allowed. The change now
advanced will permit rs much as ten per
cent per apnum to be charged instead of
six per cent as at present. I'll
capitalists will not invest their means in
Kentucky unless our laws favor plucking
honest poverty, then let them and their
money keep away. Misery Shylocks and
unlecling money vampires are usually a
curse to generous and Christian commu-
nifty, and the sooner good laws are made and
en- forced to squelch them the better for the
country.-In and About in Courier.Journal.
4 Put 'er here @ss5-, pards. "Thcm's our
sentiments" as the fellow retiring to bed
remarked upon seeing a printed prayer on
the wall, Development can never come to
our State if it depends upon the Shylocks
for salvation.
Dr. Walter b. Rodman, serving a TWEEN
ty-one-years' sentence in the penitentiary at
indianapolis, Ind, was released on parole |
last week by Governor Gray. In 1868 Rod. |
man, while returning home from n hunting
trip, was approached threateningly by Il
neighbor, and he struck the man over the
head with his gun, chrushing bis skull and
killing him. Rodman went West, settled
in Newberry, Mo-, and afterwards spent
three wears at the ST. Louis Medical College, |
studying medicine. He graduated in 1873
aud began the practice Of his profession,
A divorced wife Of his brother had him AR
rested in 1878 for his old crime, and he was
taken back to Indiana for trial. lie was
convicted aud sentenced to Imprisonment
for twenty.one years. In the meantime he
had married had several children and was
one Of the most highly esteemed citizens. |
His pardon was recommended by all the
Court officers who tried him.
Two Legislative Investigation Commit
tees were at Lexington last Friday looking |
into the working respectively of the State
College and the Eastern Kentucky Lunatic !
Asylum. The Committee on the State Col |
lege will report in favor Of abolishing the |
classical course and combining the students |
to the study of science and the English |
branches This will exclude from the Col |
lege hundreds of boys who have gone there |
for general education, and not alone for
the study ofagriculture. twill also exclude |
great many ladies, and will lead to the
abandonment of the lectures to the students
of the Normal School. The Committee on
the Asylum was well satisfied with its inves-
tigaton so far,
On Friday last the Wapwallopen Pow.
der Works, twenty miles from Wilkesbarre,
Pa, were blown up. Four men were killed
and many others wounded. Not house is
standing within one mile Of where the eS-
plosion occurred. The works destroyed be-
longed to the Duponts, of Wilmington, Del,
and were used principally for the manufac-
ture Of blasting powder, which was supplied
in great quantities to the many coal mines
In the vicinity, The shock Was distinctly