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Semi-Weekly Interior Journal. VOL. XVII. STANFORD, KY. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, d889.

NO. 67 MoKINNEY. lv. Tanner it Sons lire ImprnvtitK tlio looks o( thuir liy Iiib it. Iluv.

Ilriuv, of Dam-Mo, will prcnl'li nt tliu l'ri'Hliytt'Hnii rhuruli lieu nt I i m. nuxt Sunday. i A cliilil of Clo. UuclicMJ died S.iturdiiy night ami was buried in tlio MoKinnt'y cuuictury nt o'rloek Shii day. 1'eturiuid 1-M Carter, Sun M.

Helm, Henry Cash anil Win. delivered their whi'iit last wei'k to K. T.iniier at 72ji. Juku Nauru reports lout bin pocket-hook mtniniiik: enrreney and coin to the amount of on the pike between MoKinney and home. Tell Itros.

Ilrown, Maret ami Smith that I like the new dre.su theMt. Vernon Signal wears, hut I itMMt on a little inoru news from the correHpondenU thio'out the county. George Ia'u Jiiiih'h and wife, of Crah Orchard, were "topping at the Commercial Hotel the flint of the week. John and Varney Tanner were in the citien last week buying their fall stock of kooiIh. Mias IVnrl Tahler linn heen dniiKcrouidy sick, hut a little hetternow.

MIhm Mat-tie Crow was the KtieHt of her couhIiih, Mioses Iguana and Florence llibb, Friday until Monday. Protracted meeting at the HaptUt church clotted Sunday nilit with additions and one conversion for tlioClmV tlau church. I'uv. W. J.

Want left Monday to re-enter the Theological Seminary at Louisville. Hu will All his pulpit at this place on the 1st and ltd Sundays in each month. He v. J. M.

Salleoutul wife, after two weeks' stay in the meeting, returned to their home in Nelson county Monday. It. II. Crow has returned from a inewi trip to Horse Cave. Misses I.ydia and Belle.

Lewis have charge of the school at this place; daily attendance IK) MIm F.mma Fair, after a several weeks' visit to her brothers at Hartford, has returned home and resumed her plai'v as organist nt the Haptist church. T. J. Christerson, our former toitiiiiinter, but now in business nt lexiugton, paid McKinney and Liberty a flying visit last week. Joo Wright, of Junction City, has been here this week in the interest of his marble works.

J. Wes Hal Icy is celling goods at cost. New Decatur, Alabama, A Chattanooga paper nays: "The great car works of the Tinted States Rolling Stock Company, and the shops of the louiNville ik Nashville railroad, arc in themselves works of sullicient magnitude to make a prosperous city, but added to these there are, besides, the blast furnace, the large oak tannery institution, car wheel works, horse shoe nail works, four ot Ave largo wood-working establishments, the large foundry nnd machine shop of Iveus Sou and other industries of considerable propor tions. I vens ivSou have one of the best equipped shops in the country, and their manufacture of engines, cotton presses, rtnils ready sale in all parts of America, and will make the establish. incut one of the most important in that line in this country.

Dcpitur's railroad facilities, water transportation, nnd juxtaposition to limitless flelils of lion ore, coal nnd timber, make Its industrial prosperity unquestioned, and it is certainly destined to become a great city. The Decatur ljiud company, under the intelligent and efficient management of Mr. llreck Jones, by its liberal course and prudent, busi ness-like conduct, is converting what was two yeais ago a feitile farm into a bustling, throbbing city, and the next ll months will witness a wonderful growth. A gang of men were at work near Johnstown, about the 1st of August removing debris. Soon they came upon a pile of logs in the shape of a cone nt least a dozen feet high.

The logs weru in such symmetrical shape that it looked as though they were put together by human hands. Tlio cone was hollow nnd ns the men proceeded with their woik they detected a smell which suggested thnt there was a dead animal closo at hand. Log after log was removed when, to their amazement, they beheld a mastiir dog. fho animal wagged his tall and whined when he saw the men, and seemed glad at the prospect of being liberated from his prison. In another potion of tlio cone-shaped cell was tlio carcass of a cow.

lly some freak of the rushing waters the dog andcow were caught in this pen Juno the cow being crushed in the jam of logs. The canine was sleek and fat when liberated, und looked none tho worso for his two months' imprisoumont. Tho little boy was on his knees in Ids littlu night dress Baying his prayem nnd his little sister couldn't resist tho temptation to tickle tho boIch of his littlo feet, llu stood it as long as ho could nnd then B'dd: "Please, God, excuse mu tho HtutHng out of Nellie." San Francis- co Chronicle. Col. Hob, tho last of Davy Crockett's eons, died iu Texas last week, aged 7.

LONDON, LAUREL COUNTY. Lee Owens was arrested Saturday for getting drunk mid raising Cain generally. The proprietors of tlio London plan- ing mill made mi assignment Tuesday, Hubert Craft is receiver. Tom Hcatty, colored man of this place, was badly hurt in coal mine I Saturday by slate falling on him. I Ira J.

Davidson has a brand new i boy bit by at bin house and it tickles 1 Dock Phelps down in ids boots to be be called grand pap. I David Wilson and Mrs. Lucinda Moore, of Whitley county, were married at the Lovelace House Wednesday. Hev Win. liryant olliciated.

A warrant was issued Monday for the colored school mistiess of Pittsburg, Sidney Adams, charging her with too severely flogging one of her pupils. Her trial is set for Saturday. Ilily Higgius, wifeof James Higgius, was arrested Saturday night charged with stealing ribbons, trimmings, from Mrs. Lucy Williams' millinery store. She gave bond for Circuit Court.

Dave Spitson went home drunk last week and commenced beating his wife as ho is atciistouied to do when drunk, but his sou soon arrived and mauled the tilling out of him with a hickory club. While some hands were engaged in removing nil old stock shed on the premiums of Mrs. Maggie Jackson Monday the roof fell on Stephen Jackson, breaking his left leg near tint ankle and injuring his back nlso. W. P.

linker and Presley Stilling went to Tuemlay. Mr. Stilling will attend a law school there. Faris Is sick, threatened with fever. William Hay ward id improving.

Kd Mcintosh, of Perry county is sick nt the Thompson. A prominent teacher in describing battle at the Clay county teachers' Institute the other week, said the soldiers weru given whisky and gunpowder to drink. He had certainly been drinking I something worse than gunpowder and whisky, or hu would not have attempted to work that old revolutionary chestnut on mi inlciiigcnt audience. 1211 Cattangim died at his home near I towuof typhoid fever, Monday, and was) burled near Libel ty church, three miles west of here, Tuesday. He leaves wife father, Dr.

Hronaugh, of Stanford, who and two small chrildren. Mrs. Kelvin, I fa very sick with fever. Mr. J.

H. Law-wife or Rev. A. H. Kelvin, died of dropsy less did not get started to Lexington Monday morning.

Mrs. Holvin was! Monday as he expected, on nccount of about 70 year old and had been confined his three 'grand children (Mrs. Scott's to her bed for about two years. Her re-i children) having the mumps. Will try mains were interred at Slate Hill it gaju next week.

He offered his tery Tuesday afternoon. 'goods Saturday at auction, but sold r. nothing. Nobodv seemed to want to A Pretty Scene. purchase I iiere was a pretty patheticsceiiedown at the Michig.ui Central depot one night To Tell The Age of Cattle, last wee.

A group of aged men and A heifer has no rings on her liorns un-women who had been here participating til ulio is two years of age, and one is In some rclk'ious meeting or reunion, added each year thereafter. You can were parting from each other, and iu all therefore tell the age of a cow witli would never meet again on orablo accuracy by counting the rings of this side of the river. They had said horns and adding two to the brother," "Good-bye sitter, I her. The bull has no rings a rule, God bless von," over and over again, I until he is llvo years old. To tell tho when one of the aged baud remarked: "It's hard to part.

Tlio next moment a sweet, quavering old voice struck up iu a tremulous soprano: There II tic no furling there Ill a moment the whole group joined iu. The old men swung iu on the bans, nnd the "girl who sang alto, tho girl who sang air," 00 venrs ago in tlio homo choir, tested their feeble, lungs to the utmost. I he words came as by Inspira tion: In Heaven above, where all in love, There'll be no parting there Then chorus of voices in the next room struck iu, its' some tiaveliug men caught the refrain. In the midst of it "All aboard 1" stopped their singing, and the littlo company paited in better spirits after tlio jubilee of nong. Detsoit Free Press.

Palestine is perhaps tho best known country of its si.e on the face of the earth. It is only I i miles from Jerusalem to the Jordou und it is miles from Jerusalem to the sea. Palestine, nil told, is no bigger than a Texas county, and if it had railroads you could cross it in an hour. It is not more than three times as long as it is broad and tho distance and numbers which are so large in Scriptures aro very small when viewed with the naked eye. Rethlohctn is, in reality, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and it cannot bo moio than two miles from the site of Solomon's Temple to tho top of Mount Olives.

Tlio valley of is little more than a ravine and the valley of Khedron runs into it. Tlio Voice, which really thinks itself temperance paper, continues its CRAB ORCHARD. Mr. 1). G.

Slaughter has bought part of the Peter Kennedy farm, lying half way between Crab Orchard and Dripping Springs, beginning nt tho top, of the river hill, on which there are1 quite a number of flue medical springs, one of which, the Cooley Spring, is said to be the finest in the locality. He has i already begun erecting a large summer. hotel, 'J(0 feet long, which will contain 50 rooms besides kitchen, dining-room and lull-room. One wing containing, LI rooms will be completed this week and all be ready for next summer. The Dripping Springs buildings erected by Mr.

Slaughter five years ago, have been torn down. The case of Kates for cutting Warren was called in the police court Saturday and continued until next Saturday. Mr. Warren is impioviug rapidly. The IKUh school district, over which this trouble came up, has two factious, each claiming they are right and all hinges on the legal lines of the district, and the decision of the courts will be required to settle the legality or illegality of the school tax.

Neither party will consent that the other Is right and it seems that our Superintendent of common schools halts on a decision about the boundaries and hears one side of the story nnd concludes thnt side is right; then when the other side is told reverses tho decision. Tlio records must bo deficient regarding these lines from some cause or this trouble could bo stopped bysimplo reference to the record. It is claimed that one trustee who levied the tax is a non resident of the district. The other side clniiiiB that he is resident. Mr.

nnd Mrs. John ll.iiley went to Louisville Monday. Messrs. Jesse Reynolds and J. Wilson, of Bee Lick, are in Ixmisvillc.

Mr. D. H. Kdmiston is also taking in the city. Mr.

and Mrs. J. F. Holdam, Misses Nannie Kennedy nnd Katie James also went to Louisville and will go to St. Ileitis from there nfter witnessing the festivities tosec the veiled prophets.

Mr. 12. W. Jones has bought one-half of Lcuich Zeller's drug stock and will, we understand, move his busi ncss to Miildlcshorough ami grow up with the future city. J.

Peter Chandler ih very sick. Mr. H. II. Hronaugh was called Thursdav to the bedside of his age after that period add five to the uutii her of rings.

Tlio lies way to tell the age is by the teeth, which is of course the only way with polled cattle. What aro called tho milk teetli gradually disappear in front. At the end of three years the second pair of permanent teetli are well grown, at four years tho third pair and at five years the fourth and last mvo appeared and at this time tho central pair are full sue. At seven years a dark lino caused by the wearing of the teetli appears on all of them and on the central pair a ciicular mark. At eight years this circular mark appears on all of them, ami at nine years the central pair begins to shrink and the third at eleven.

Aftc this period the age can only be determined by degree of shrinkage generally. At 15 years the three me nearly all gone. Orange Judd Farmer. Tin: Milkmaid. "Where aio you going, my pretty maid 7" he inquiied.

"Should the weather indications continue of an auspicious character my intended destination is yonderinclosure, where my unswervablo determination is to extract such an amount of lacteal fluid from tlio distended udder of the gently articulating kino as may be deemed necessary and advisable," calmly replied tho rustic girl, who had worked for two weeks in a Hostou family. And slio passed upon her way, leaving a gibbering idiot grov. eling upon the ground where lately 'had stood a dandy drummer. Tho Giocery World. Fifteen contestants cl.ul for the fray, Arineil with gojd tul and in tutttu array, Striving furlutrc, a hratc Knight of old Mrovc lor their hunuri anil mou.m 01 no! J.

llrlvlll. Bllll M1 rihciMi.er. haiice about "The Prohibition Party in I to sound, iim mt propur caper, Kentucky." There Is no such thing vn.td known tin 'world Merit prohibition party in Kentucky, nnd From lliitnclihnula wuily trie laiisiwc hilt In i it i I he oico should inako haste to find out ucicrintion jUSt llOW' littlo it kllOW'H What it is talking I of the ruwitold virtue of "favorite I'retcriptum about. Glasgow TilllCS. Wliemllor UcprM.ed villi lliat i down" k'tlinc, conveiiueiit upon wi.ikne, BOfiftl'S Ohorry COUgh Syrup.

ing frum headache, eakrl.ime buck, and lint Ii bivIiib ipleiidid Jtifacli to ilia Irade mid I nianv 111 common lhi wmUer -ox. lake Dr. l'recripilou whuli i uuarantrvd to I'lcrai'n i i tho are poittively whkh can he lir returned, hee prnifd accounted for in no other way except ttiat it without dqubt the belt on the market. Ak for andbeiuro you get the eenuliio. Wckeoplt, A.

I l)r l'urce' laxative or actively H. 1'enny, DruggUt. cathartic according to doae. 35c Deaths of Two Good Men. Danville, Oct.

ltd, p. m. Win, J. Lylo, for number of years Chnirmnn of tlio Democratic County Committco nnd nt present one of the owners of tho Kentucky Stock Fnrm, died nt his home hero this morning nfter few days' Illness of pneumonia. Logan McKee, one of the most popular republicans in the county and for long time Chairman of tho Committee, died at noon after a lingering illness.

W. H. N. MATRTMaNIAlTMAtfERS. Miss Lillie Foster, formerly of Lexington, and well-known here, was married last week at Denver, to Charles Ford, of Portland, Oregon.

Mrs. Rudolph Weiser, who was Miss Lusk, was granted divorce at Lexington. A 400-acre faun and their only child was given Mrs. Weiser, as the husband made no response. Wu have information that Mr.

C. C. Gooch, young merchant of Waynes-burg, nnd Miss Mnttie Perkins, ptetty young lady of Hrodhead, eloped to this week and became husband and wife. Marriage license was issued to Jacob Gander to wed Miss Annie, the -'0-year-old daughter of our countytnan, Mr. Jno.

Von Grunigan, on the lL'tii. As the names indicate, they are both from Switzerland. Mr. J. P.

Rallard and Miss Nellie Hourno were united in marriage yesterday afternoon by Magistrate McCann, in the Clerk's oflice of tlio County Court. They are both from Garnird county. Louisville Post. Invitations have been received by her friends here to the marriage of MIfs Mnttio Ynrbrough, who attended college here and later made a visit to friends, to Mr. J.

H. Davis, nt her homo nt Como, Oct. Rev. M. P.

Morgui, stationed this year at Pineville, and Miss Mary Gorm-ley were married at the bride's mother's at Crab Orchard yesterday by Rev. T. J. God by. The I.

J. sends congratulations, satisfied that the union will prove a happy one. The Advocate tells of the probabili ty of several young bachelors joining the noble band of "bandits." We regret to know that marriage in Danville is such a decided failure that men immediately become bandits on entering the estate. His better half will have to see to Rro. Wool folk.

CHURCH AFFAIRS. Klder C. I. Williamson is holding a meeting at Kirksville. The Haptist Theological at Louisville opened with l'Jo students.

Itros. KvaiiB and Hopper's meeting at Mt. Horeb, Fayette county, closed witli '-'1 additions. Rev. I).

W. Kllison is the new colored Mctliodict preacher for this place; J. II. Abel goes to Lancaster and J. W.

Frazier to Danville. The protracted meeting at the Christian church will begin to-morrow, Saturday, night, 12U1. A. P. Cobb preaching his first sermon at 7:15, A negro claiming to be John the Haptist appeared in Liberty county, but the negroes instead of falling down and worshipping him, gave his hide an unmerciful beating.

-On October 1 Rev. F. D. Hale withdrew nil his evangelical engagements to devote himself to pastoral work entirely. Within the past four years he has secured converts at the various revival meetings held by him.

The average pay of the preachers in the Louisville Conference Dur ing tho year adults nnd 7J10 infants were baptized. There Sunday-schools iu tin conference. Howling Green was selected as the next place of meeting. Rev. Dr.

12. O. Gtierrant has been pleaching iu Hieathitt ami Lee counties for 10 days. During that time he preached 'Jo sermons, received -15 additions to the church, organized a church iu Lee county with a membership of 5S and raised the money to electa church edifice for tho latter congregation. Paris Kentuckiaii Attkntion! Knkiiits Tkmpmii.

On October 5, tl and 7 the X. V. Co. will sell tickets to Washing-at Tickets good until October ill, ami to New York ami return, good to stop oil' at Washington, for Parties contemplating going to Washington should call on G. W.

Barney, Ticket Agent, Pluenix Hotel, nt once and re-servo their sleeping carspace. Nochange lint I 11 vj tl ili nil I iilaiiiiuii nun if linilllliuil. Through slccpeiri leave Lexington at (1:10 I r. m. and ariivo at Washington at 5: 10 i m.

next afternoon. G. W. Harney, Tick el Agent; J. Gen.

Pisa. i Lexington, Ky. I A Georgia paper states that a young lady of that Jst.tto has invented a lamp that will cease to burn at exactly 10 o'clock. The average lover iu this section will find no fault with that lamp; in fact he would bo better satisfied it it would go out as soon as he came in. If tho young lady wants to make 11 real tin strike she should Invent 11 father wh will go to bed at 0 o'clock.

A BRYANT STRATTON Business College Write for VnttiloUue Short rin.I full rl 1 I I LEs, Just What A. C. SINE. is Needed A House in which you can find Dry Goods and Notions, Boots, Shoes, Groceries, Queensware, Glassware, Any of the above goods exchanged for Country Produce. We do a strictly Cash Business and our piices are the LOWEST.

Come and see what we en save you. JONES Next door to Poi croau House. NEW DRESS GOODS, J'ew Flannels, new Canton Flannels, Ginghams, new Penangs, New Calicoes, new Trimmings, New Buttons, new Hosiery, New Underwear and new Blankets. Call and see our gents' Waukenphast Petiole Shoe; also full line ladies' and Children's Shoes. SEVERANCE SON.

OUR Celebrated Buell Boots Rax arrived single and Rubber-Lined Vamps, plain and, box toe in hip and calf. Boys' extra high Buell Button Boots; Brogan Boot's in split, oil-grain and. kin; plain and box toe in child's, boys' and men's sizes. Men's fine Shoes in standard screw machine sewed and hand welts. Ladies' fine hid and goat Shoes in machine sewed and hand turned.

Gum. Boots, Arctics and sandals in children's, Misses, women and men's sizes. BRUCE McROBERTS. Stanford, Ky. J.N.

MENEFEE. 'J In DRESSED LUMBER, Shingles, ANT BDCXHTOS and Scroll Work, AXTD SLAT FE1TOB, Locust Posts. found in a first-clan Lumber Yard. A. C.

SINE, Huvlneis Manager. g)) tOUISYItlt NtWAlEAHYt A NEW FAST MAIL Leaving both LOUISVILLE CINCINNATI Daily, Seviires to Travelers, THE MOST RAPID ROUTE Ever attempted between the great commercial cities 011 the Onio Kiver and Chicago, and hence the fastest time and most comfortable trains between all polnis in the South, or to the West and Northwest, The cuunteiuartof this tram on all runk lines is denominated The Limited Express, The superb rolling stenk we employ gives patrons Unlimited Comlort OSTAt all Coupon Ticket Ollices in the South you will find our lime tables and tickets. Say Motion, get Motion and suck to ll you want ta save money and have a pleasant journey, K. O.McCORMICK, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. City Ticket Agents and Oilier': I.

Ouckner, as; 4th Louisville. Ky E. A. Toksnc, ii) Vine Cincinnati Ohio. SINE Dealeri HOUGH A1TD Iatlis, aSASH, BOORS Mouldings, Brackets PATEJITT WIHEi Cedar and We ill carrr 11 tail utock ofever) thing C.

A. BENEDICTS Well Drillers Pump Adjusters, "tanford, ky. WVIN drilled to order and I'umpi lurimlied at factory tiricn. 30 I. 2I.

BRUCE, mni mi mu STANFOItD. KY. i SPECIAL ATTKNTION to COMMERCIAL Hones and mules bought anil ild. Only horseinnd vehicles uied iu livery. AUo agent for 'lie VALTER A.

WOOD HARYESTINC C0. For I I wish to sell my farm of 6j acres situated on tho Lancaster piko two miles from Stanford. Tho land is all 111 grass; a comfortable dwelhuz of 4 rooms Is situated upon It Will sell at bargain. 4t O. HKNKUICT, Stanford.

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