Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-03-07


, feet in the drifts. People can only ge
about on snow shoes.
A steel like grass from the volcanic
slopes OF Oran, Algeria, is said to be SC
elastic that it can be used instead OF
springs in the manufacture Of furniture.
John A. Hunt, of Indianapolis, has
asked the court for protection from his
wife, who he claims whips him at her
will. Hunt is go aud his wife 20 year
old.
j. A. Withers, of Mercer, who on
the night before dreamed that he had
lost a foot in his mill had the misfortune
to have an arm severed early the next
morning.
"A. Lisle Irvine, OF Lebanon, Nv, a
pupil in Central University, won a: Rich
mond, Va, the oratorical prize offered
BY the Southern Confederate Memorial
Association.
Bob Sims, negro who was hung at
Birmingham, Ala, tor murder, said from
under the black cap to the sheriff:
Break my neck, don't want to be
strangled." His neck was broken.
An Oxford, o., glutton on wager Of
80 ate 10 saddle-rock oysters in III min.
utes. He then offered to bet another
$40 that he could eat five dozen more in
five minutes. but he failed to get a taser.
Bob Sims, who WAS hung at Bir-
mingham for murder prayed on ths
scatiold that his neck be broken as lie
dreaded the thought OF being stran2led.
His prayer was answered and he was
dead in less than two minutes
A fearful cyclone passed over por'
tons of Mississippi, Georgia and Alabs-
ma Sunday. Forty houses were blown
down at Toomsuba, great destruction
was done at Meridian, Odessa and other
towns. The fatalities may reach ascofe.
Miss Mollie Merrynan, of Louisville,
who claims to have gone to heaven twice
in a trance is creating great excitement
in meeting which che is holding AT Sea-
man, Ohio. Crowds are turned away
nightly and hundreds are being convert
ed
Forty young ladies of Columbus, o
all prominent in society, have been or
Gered by the graniiury to tell what they F.
know about the games OF progressive /
euchre, which have been played there,
when valuable prizes were played for 7
and won.
An Associated Press dispatch give. /
il as a sure tip" that Fredel x T. Cou-
dert, of New York, will b' Dir. Cleve-
lands Minister to France. tie was a
leader in the movement oil the Auti.
Snappers, aud is President OF the Man
haitian Club.
Barney Alexander, colored, placed
in Jail az Columbus. Ohio, for being
drunk, comlnitted suicide ia horrible
way. He cut his stomach open with
a dull peice OF glass aud running his
hands into tine ghas.ly wound he jerked
his intestines out.
Walter Brumfield, keeper Of the
poor-house, will be Il years old next
April. He has been married - years,
has ten children aud - grand children
and one great -grand-child and there has
never been death among them all
Jessamine journal.
The war between the students and
faculty OF Kentucky University has been
declared oil. The students will perform
as usual in college entertainments, the
faculty agreeing that they shall enter
such oratorical contests as they desire.
but not engage in athletic sports.
w. =. Grinstead, OF Bowling Green,
to Senators Blackburn and
Lindsay u gavel made from an oak
grown on the farm upon which Abra-
ham Lincoln Was born, with the rec quest
hat it be given to Nice-President stew
enson az he enters upon his official du.
ties.
On the motion to suspend the rules
and pass the anti-option bill, Ellis, Ken.
dali, McCreary, Montgomery, Paynter,
Stone and Wilson voted yea, while Ca.
ruth. Breckenridge and Dickerson voted
nav. The farmers' alliance may be dead,
but it's spirit is evidently still marching
Times.
"A large boa constructor, 3 feet long,
rot out of it's cage at the circus grounds,
At Baraboo, Wis, and nearly succeeded
ia swallowing a small boy who happen
, | to BE- near. lie was half way down
the monsters thro.t when discovered,
Dnt WAS saved by one of the circus men
\ OF bad spring snake story.
At Ford, this State, tie wife OF Chief
D Police Hambrick, crazed by the grief
,used by the loss Of her child, cut her
little eight year old daughters throat
and then attempted to kill the daughter
IF neighbor. Several weeks ago Mrs.
Hambrick attempted suicide by banging
herself but she was caught by her nus