Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-05-19
LANCASTER, 6ARRARD COUNTY.

billions Switch.
The meetings at the Presbyterian
church closed Tuesday night with 80 sd.
ditions to the membership.
-Eo Lawson has Resigned as deputy
sheriff aud left for Indiana TO engage in
the mercantile business. Mr.. Will A.
Arnold has been appointed to fill the VA
cancy.
1t now seems settled that we will
have fair this summer. Some OF Gar
rard's prominent stockmen have gone to
work in earnest and meeting will be
held in short while to form a perma
nent organization.
Half dozen or more colored boys
went to Crab Orchard this week to wait
on the tables at the Springs Hotel which
is under the management of that ex
celent gentleman, Mr.. Gus Holman.
After the services at the Presbyteri-
an church Sunday night, Miss Lena
Bright, Of Hubble, was taken suddenly
i'll and tainted in the door. She was TAX
EN- to the residence OF Mrs. ID. NJ. Lack
ey. where she now lies in a critical con.
dtion.
The crossing on Miller's Hotel cor
ner is a splendid trap to get some one
crippled, especially when the street
lamps are not lighted. While returning
from church one night this week a lady
stepped into one OF the deep drains next
to the pavement and WAS severely bruis.
ed.
Not much talk on the local option
question is heard now. as all are await.
ing the decision OF Judge Sauhey ss to
the constitutionslity OF the law. As stat.
ed before in this column, the case will be
heard tomorrow, Saturday. at Harrods.
burg. where Judge Sauaey is holding
court.
Mrs. Josie Boner, OF Camp Nelson,
visited relatives in town this week. Miss
Belle Walker Is the guest OF Miss Lizzie
Walker, on Danville street. Mrs. Mollie
Young, OF Dallas, Texas. is visiting her
parents, Capt. and Mrs. +. J. White. Jim
Cunningham has gone to Louisville to
engage In business. Miss Salie E'kin
has returned from Chicago.
There seems TO be no end TO the
agencies and contrivances that are spring.
ing mp all over the country by which
men are seeking to make something out
OF nothing Chicago seems to be head.
quarters OF a number OF agencies OF this
kind, though other cities in the North
are not far behind in this disreputable
business. Circulars are sent out to law.
yers, notifying them that il they will
send - to an agency they will be allow
ed TO serve rs attorneys in any cases that
may be sent to them. This seems fair,
and is quite a concession upon tine part
OF the agency to allow an attorney to
practice his profession and receive com
pensation therefor upon paying to them
a reasonable portion OF his fees. 1t is
very much Ike the man in Frankfort,
who employed number of hands to
catch driit wood in the Kentucky river
and gave them half they could catch.
1t 10 singular that any country that
is constantly Boosting of its civilization
is at the same time expending untold
millions in preparing for war. II civiliz.
alton consists in devising ways and
means whereby the greatest amount Of
human slaughter can be had in a given
time, possibly it would be in order to
parade before the public the immensity
OF the preparations that had been made
for this peculiar kind of civilization. The
building OF a large number OF ships OF
war at time when our country IS at
peace with all the world and when there
is not the slightes, probability OF their
being needed. is made the occasion OF an
immense amount OF bluster and brag,
Tor which there Is no excuse. The latest
improvement in the way OF preparation
for war is the bullet proof uniform. The
so called cloth is made OF successive lay.
ers OF compressed hemp, compressed
cotton, corset steels, etc Armies clad in
this unitorm can pound away at each
other for days and weeks at time and
the list OF killed and wounded will
amount to nothing. No surgeons will
be needed and smbulances can be dis
pensed with. No pensions will be grant.
ell for gunshot wounds. 1t will give
nerve and backbone to would-be duel.
lists, and now any politician who wants
to achieve little notoriety as q man oil
courage can send challenge with i'm
punity IN any opponent who has called
him liar, or accused him OF lying OF
stealing. So much for the advance Of
civilization and the progress of the age