Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1891-06-05
GRAB ORCHARD.

/ Preaching at the Baptist church
sunday and sunday night.
+ Miss Nora Philips has opened a sum
mer subscription school at sugar Grove.
! r.. II. Branaugh bought of various
/ parties in the West End go head of . and
3 year old steers, at prices ranging from
3 to - cents.
Tine local freight trains out OF Row.
land carry no passengers now, so Mr.. j.
\. Newiand, the company's agent at this
point, informs us.
The youngsters Of this pieasure.lov-
ing community are talking OF picnic at
the Brown spring some time next week.
We "shanCtIon' it
1T is Squire Blankenship, Squire
Collier and Constable Magee now, three
newly.elected dignitaries having been
officially sworn in Saturday.
There has been no rain here to speak
Of since the first week in April and the
ground is as hot aud dry as the gravel.
beds OF pandemonium. Vegetation is
suffering greatly and stock-water is be-
coming scarce.
The late stuart NJ. Carson, who was
killed at Branford, Fla, had his life in
sured for 5000; and Mason McGinnis,
whose unfortunate death at Middles-
( borough, was the result OF railroad ac-
cident, held policy in the Travellers
Accident Insurance Co. for 81 900.
The average coon" has a mighty
poor conception Of the Queens English.
one writing this week from the South TO
Mr. ID. b. Edmiston for a situation AS
waiter at the springs this season starts
ont 10y saying II denoncc myself as a
Jus elias wayter,' &c. And We will bet
too that he's "ges so,
John Buchanan, Jr., OF the Louis
Vile Times, spent sunday at Elmwood
with the home-iolks. Mrs. W. NJ.
81 Bryan and Mrs W. b. Burke, OF June.
ton City, are the guests OF their father,
Capt. +. ". Dillon. Aunt Katie
George a very elderly lady. is in from
Knox county to visit Mrs. G. 4. Redd,
I>r.
The works OF the South Florida
Phosphate Company at Liyerp DOL, Fla.
in which Mr.. j. W. James, of this place,
is one OF the heaviest stockholders, was
DESTROYED by tire last week, entailing a
loss of $4,000. Reinsurance. The com
pany will at once rebuild the plant and
increase its capacity, which at the time
OF the blaze was 100 tons per day.
"A fellow calling himself Bond and
claiming TO be a Farmers Alliance man,
spoke to a slender audience here a few
nights ago, but be found nobody willing
to pay the initiation fee OF p cents to
become his proselyte. At Holdam's
Mill. however, he made a better impress
sion, organizing an Alliance Club OF
seven members.
The report OF Supt. McClary for
lN@I shows that there are in Lincoln
county - white school districts, with
, Ass enrolled pupils, 2,246 OF which are
male and :, 2l2 are female and L coored
districts, with 1857 pupils. Last year
!. the whites numbered 4,5O2 and the
blacks l.467 While the former con-
tingent has decreased II the latter has
: increased 30.
That many-sided, myriad
ieariully and wonderfully constructed
genius, Hon. fontaine +. Bobbitt, has
been elected superintendent OF the
Christian Sunday school here, and will,
We are told, appear sunday morning in
his sacerdotal yestment 10 otiiciate in
that capacity. \ new role is tins in.
deed for the hOnored Font; and in il be
seems TO he inyer,ing the general order
,oi things, for nowadays the world
seldom sees politician quitting the
muddy pool OF politics TO battle in the
Bethesdan waters OF religion. Saul is
indeed among the prophets; and may
his altar he established. his tribe in.
r crease, and his ways be ways of pleas
sntness and all his paths be paths OF
: peace. Selah.