Year: 1874

to have reached Harrodsburg, Ky.


The whisky war in Ohio is damaging
the whisky trade Of Cincinnati about
s20, 600 per day.


The California Legislature is about to
pass a compulsory educational bill. Such
law should be upon the statute books
Of every Stote.


The general government has been ap-
piled 10 for training ship for the barbor
Of San Francisco, to be used in training
boys as seamen. II is capital idea.


Admiral Semmes has declined for the
present. owing to the want Of leisure, an
invitation to lecture before the Grand
Army of the Republic, al Rome, N. Y.


The grave Of General Albert Sidney
Johnston remains without monument,
and is in an otherwise neglected condi.
ton. His remains should he brought to
Frankfort and inferred in the cemetery
there by the side Of our other illustrious
dead.


The Temperance Crusade is not with.
out its serious and disgraceful conse-
quences. In some parts Of our country,
the saloon-keepers have exhibited the
most disgraceful conduct. We are glad
to know that such acts OF vandalism are
an exception, and not the rule amongst
our well.bred American citizens.


Bcecher says that there are great
many men who have the grace Of God
in their hearts, and yet will sometimes
swear. lie says he don't recommend
swearing. but can understand how a
man can do il and not be half so bad as
a man who never wants TO swear.
Beecber ought TO know for he is
preacher.


In the course Of time, we confidently
expect that every town of thousand in
habitants in our country where telegraph
wires run, will be furnished with local
signal station agent. The times demand
such a service now, and VIC would be
glad to announce the fact of their estab-
lishment all over all our country, "from
Maine to Florida"


IL was not little amusing to read the
account of the killing of despcrado in
Lincoln county, which was published in
the columns of our neighbor, the Dan
vile AdrOcate, and which that paper
copied substantially from the Louisville
Commercial. But the laugh don't come
in until we see that the Commercial
re-copies its own article and gives credit
to the Adpocdte. In this the latter was
the more courteous of the two.


The United States Signal Service is in
deed of signal service to thousands of
our people. The other day a storm was
repor:ed from the head Office as likely to
pass over Cairo, Ills, and sure enough it
came in a hurricane. Forewarned, the
shipping was made rs secure as possible,
and thousands of dollars saved. Never.
theless, several houses were unroofed,
and other property destroyed. But for
the timely warning. the damage would
have been immense.


We endorse the following, which we
clip from one of our exchanges: "a
newspaper is a part of the means of ed
ucation, and by no means the least part.
1t Is just as essential as anything else in
a family, and all families should have
one or more. About the poorest kind
of economy that one can practice is to
stop his newspaper. Scarcely any one is
so Strengthened in his means as to be un-
able to pay two or three dollars a year
for paper which will give his family an
amount of reading, that, if purchased in
book form, would cost from twenty to
twenty-five dollars; and the newspaper
is fresh every week. The perusal of
paper every week by the members of
family, is an important aid in the matter
Of education. The best schoolmaster
that many who now occupy places of
distinguished usefulness ever had, was
the family newspaper. The man who
supplies his family with a good newspa-
per and encourages its reading, is doing
much to entegtain and instruct his house
hold. The effort To economize by keep |
ing himsef, wife and children away from
such means of improvement, is an act
that will be regretted in after years.


Painters will tell you that YOU should
never sleep in newly painted room. II
has been found that painful of water
placed in Il newly painted room, will alb
sorb in single night enough paint to
render the water unfit to drink. In this
connection We desire 10 warn persons
from sleeping in newly plastered room.
That is, until the plastering is perfectly |
dry The only way to ascertain when it
Is safely dry, is to close the doors Tor a
few hours, and then enter the room. Ii
smell of mortar greets your oliactory |
nerves, the room is not sufficiently dry
for habitation. We knew a gentleman
in Adair county, who built a new house,
and in order to have the plastering dry |
by a certain day, made two valuable ne
gro men sleep there for several success
i've nights and keep up fires in the vari- |