The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1891-02-04

THE President has nominated David
n. COmingore TO be Collector Of Internal
Revenue for the Sixth District of Ken
lucky.
REPRESENTATIVE DICKINSON has in
trOduced a bill in the House to pension
James Carroll, Of Dayton.
THE following pOstmasters were com
missioned few days ago: Miss NJ. B.
Cundiff, Belmont, Bullitt County; W.
II. Carlin, Carlinsburg, Henderson
County; Mrs. W. P. McGregOr, Friend
ship, Caldwell County; Mrs. II. Seaton,
Hunnewell, Greenup County; w. Bry-
ant, Jets Creek, Breathitt County; b.
Z. Day, Rock Lick, Breckenridge COun-
ty; E. w. Fitch, Sherman, Grant Coun-
ty; W. R. Wood, Sinking Fork, Chris
tian County.
THE Henderson Belt Line railroad
has OutstripPed all the older corpora
tons in the rapidity with which it ac-
| cumulates damage suits. The road is
less than a mile long, and is not yet six
months old, but it is already defendant
in twenty-five damage suits for amounts
varying from $500 TO $1,000.
MERCER COUNTY is very much worked
up over the ravages of dogs among
sheep.
PRINCETON and Caldwell County have
arranged to build joint worlkhouse.
! THE fast train on the Cincinnati
Southern collided with some freight
cars on a trestIe south of Lexington.
| No one was hurt.
! A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Wood
vile, McCracken County, the other
night, which destroyed several thousand
dollars worth Of property. The Settle
Hotel, valued at $1,000, with its entire
| contents, was a total loss. General
/ HaddOck's grocery store building and
stock, valued at 1880, is a total loss.
S. P. Simpsons general merchandise
store, stock and contents valued at
$4,000, was destroyed. There were also
! three residences consumed by the
flames. The total loss is about so, 900,
only partly covered by insurance.
KENTON County's assessment for 1891
foots up 2s,6O1, SIS. Of this amount
$50, 439, 23O is in the city of COvingtOn.
The increase for the county over the as
sessment for 1890 is a little more than
one million dollars
A TROUBLESOME question has arisen
concerning the support of pauper idiots
in Campbell County. The last Legisla-
ture passed an act directing each cOun-
ty to pay $50 of the annual allowance
of SIS by the State, and the State the
S55 balance. It further provides that
this $40 must be paid before the State
shall be called upon to pay for any idiot
residing and cared for in the counties.
Judge Hill, Of the county court, holds
that under the acts establishing the
courts the city of Newport is bound
to pay this $50 for each resident pauper
idiot, and that under the Courthouse
District Acts, the Courthouse Commits
siOners must pay for any such idiot res
ident Of the district outside the cities of
Newport, Bellevue and Dayton; and
that as to said cities being bound to sup
port their own poor, they are legally
and in duty bound to pay the $50 pro
vided by the act named, and upon their
refusal 50 10 do, he says, these poor un-
fortunates will simply be on their
hands to support them entire, as any
others who require the aid Of these mu-
inequalities.
THE taxable wealth Of Lincoln County
foots up 5000, OOO There are s,sOC
voters in the county, according TO the
assessors count
AT Corinth, Peitro Sandwich died
the other morning from injuries in
ficted on January 20 by John Mussel
mann Sandwich was a Hungarian
bear-trainer, and was showing his bear
Musselman was drunk and quarreIsome
and when Sandwich dogs dog barket
he raised his axe TO kill it. Standwicl
jnterferred and received the blow a
first intended for the dog. It is saif
that the AustrO-Hungarian Consul vii
see that Musselmann is brought to ius
Ice
Lieutenant scnWatka Dangerously Injured
The famous explorer, Lieutenan
Sehwatlza- was seriously, if not fatally
= injured Friday. He was ascending thu
) stairway Of the Park Hotel, Mason City
Ia, and when near the top he fell back
wards over the banister to the floor be
meath The physicians state that hi
recovery is doubtful