Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-12-19
LANCASTER, eARaARo COUNTY.

holidays Friday.
Monday being a legal holiday, Judge
Robinson will hoid the county court on
Tuesday.
The new mayor and councilmen will
20 into office the first OF January, when
they will appoint city attorney, assess.
or and marshal.
The Presbyterian Sunday school
will give an entertainment at the church
next Monday evening, consisting Of
songs and recitations. All are invited
TO attend.
Sunday afternoon the children COM
posing the Loyal League" marched
from the Methodist TO the Presbyterian
church with drums and hsgs, where
Miss Francis Griffin, OF Alabama, de-
livered temperance lecture.
Col. 7. Y. Morrow, circuit Judge, was
in our city Saturday, looking as spry as
an ls-yesr-old boy. He was on visit
to his brother.in.law, Col. w. o. Brad.
ley. His many friends wish him many
years OF good health and prosperity.
Mr.. George Palmer has finished TAX
ing the list Of taxable property in the
town and the same after supervision
shows the value Of that owned by whites
to be s6is,lll and by colored sl3,4i5.
This together with the two banks makes
the total value one million dollars.
DIR. Robert Burnside, OF Barbour
vile, is the guest OF his grandfather,
Squire Kinnard. Misses Carrie West
and Lizzie simpson have gone TO Rich.
mond 10 spend the winter with relatives.
VIM. Best was here last week. He now
lives in Lexington, having rented out his
farm at Paint Lick. Mr.. @. S. Herring,
OF Louisville. is in town.
Despite the bad weather and hard
times there is n great deal OF building
going on, aud houses for rent are In de.
msnd. There are twelve foreign car
penters here, beside the regular resident
ones, and all are kept busy. Lancaster
is not on a boom. but she is coming 10
the front gradually. The promoters OF
the water works and electric light plant
are not asleep, but will bring the ques-
ton mp in the spring, and push the mat
ter to completion.
The remains OF Miss Almyrs Baker,
daughter OF Capt. Abner Baker, who
died in this place many years ago, were
brought TO Lancaster from Carlinville,
Ind, Saturday last and inferred in the
family lot in the cemetery Sunday at 30
p. NJ. There were appropriate services
at the residence OF Mr.. and Mrs. w. o.
Rigney, by Rev. ]. X. Tercy. She wss
consistent member OF the Presbyterian
church and was respected by all who
knew her. She passed the principal
part OF her life in Lancaster and leaves
many relatives and friends here to
mourn her loss.
More than two months have passed
since the repeal OF the Sherman silver
bill, and yet the financial panic has not
abated. With $1,000 men out OF mploy.
ment in the single city OF Chicago, what
must be the condition of affairs in the
nation generally? At Jacksonville,
Ohio, hundreds OF families have nothing
TO eat, and are on the point OF starvation.
Twenty thousand working men are now
idle in Kokomo, Anderson, Nobesville,
Gas City, and other places in Indiana.
There are 1000 unemployed men IN
Springfield, Ohio, while in the great
West, the restitution is said to be wide.
spread, and with no signs of relief. To
a millionaire or a memoer OF congress,
who is drawing 5000 salary, this des.
titution and irightful condition OF affairs |
amounts TO but little, for they know
nothing and care less OF the suffering
that is TO be endured by the poor during
the winter, upon which We have Just
They may say that it is not
their duty to furnish employment, or
provide for the necessities OF the poor.
Possibly not; but it would seem TO be
within the bounds OF reason to suppose
hat congress that could vote millions
VI the peoples money to be expended in
he Worlds Fair, to which none but
hose in good circumstances could gain
and which will soon be for
,otten, could certainly develop enough
to devise some means for
he relief of the people beyond the re-
,eal Of the silver bill.
The National Tribune of Dec. l4th
avs there is now on exhibition among
thousands of other relics at the house
opposite Ford's Theatre, in Washington,
}. O.. rail split by Abraham Lincoln,
n 1880, which in 1860 was sent by ]. II.
Hanks to r. j. Oglesby, and by him to
Judge Allan A. Burton, at Lancaster,
Ky. The statement is made that "there
s story that when it was on its way to
him the express wagon in which it was