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March 8-$1,200,000 of Ky. state bonds held abroad, by foreigners ..... .. Salary of the superintendent of public instruction raised from $750 per annum to $1,000.
March 10-Remarkably heavy rains for 48 hours ending at dark. Ohio rising very fast. Flood in Licking river higher than since 1800, and doing immense damage ; at Sherburne, Fleming county, the post office and other houses lifted from their foundations, and the mills and other houses
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greatly injured ; stages u.able to pass be- tween Mountsterling and Maysville for three days ; much damage done by land- slides; suspension bridge at Falmouth rendered impassable for several weeks ; Kentucky river rose 11/2 feet per hour for 15 hours ; large part of Frankfort sub- merged; on Elkhorn, Steadman's paper- mill dam swept off, with many others, and the inhabitants along the creek compelled to flee from their houses; many bridges carried away, and the fencing along all streams ; railroad tracks undermined and settled ; trains suspended for 6 days, on the Covington and Lexington railroad.
March 12-Miss Delia Webster-who, out of sympathy for her sex, was pardoned out of the Ky. penitentiary, several years ago, where she was a prisoner for aiding the Rev. Calvin Fairbanks in the escape of slaves-not long after removed to Madison, Indiana, and recently to Ky. opposite Madison; and with Rev. Norris Day, has assisted away many slaves. Large meet- ings held in Oldham, Henry and Trimble counties; Miss Webster first requested, and then compelled, to remove from the state.
March 13-Imported Spanish jack stock sold at Maysville by auction ; 1 jennet for $1,010, and 9 jacks for $635 to $1,040 each.
March 13 --- Explosion of steamboat Rein- deer, when leaving Cannelton, Indiana ; 46 persons, deck hands or western-bound emigrants, killed or wounded.
March 16-Great hailstorm and whirl- wind in Bourbon co. ; hail fell to the depth of 6 inches, some of the hailstones as large as hulled walnuts and a few as large as hen-eggs.
Population of Lexington 9,139-an in- crease of 778 in one year.
March 16-Ex-President Millard Fill- more visits Frankfort and Louisville; at the latter city, a large procession escorts him from the depot to the Louisville Hotel, the mayor tenders him the freedom of the city, and a public dinner is given him.
March 27-Sharp words in debate on the floor of the house of representatives of con- gress, between Francis B. Cutting, of N. Y., and John C. Breckinridge, of Ky. A note from Mr. Cutting called upon Mr. Breckinridge to "retract the assertion [B. had charged C. with saying what was false,], or to make the explanation due from one gentleman to another." This was understood to be a challenge, and Breckinridge named rifles, 60 paces. Col. Monroe, the friend of Cutting, claimed that Cutting was the ehallenged party, and in- sisted upon pistols, 10 paces. This in- volved a dispute as to which was the challenged party, and led to a declaration by Cutting that his first note (several had passed) was not a challenge. Linn Boyd, Thos. H. Benton, and others very active in bringing about an explanation, and the matter honorably adjusted.
April 1-Great four-mile race at New Orleans ; purse $20,000 ; Lexington, a Ky. horse, wins in two straight heats in 8:0834
and 8:04, beating Lecomte from Miss., Highlander from Ala., and distancing Ar- row from La .; track heavy. April 8, the greatest race on record came off, four mile heats, purse $2,600. Lecomte wins in 7:26 and 7:3834, beating Lexington and Rube, and distancing Rube in the last heat; he wins the first heat by 6, and the second by 4 lengths. [For more than 20 years, the race of Eclipse and Henry, over the Union course, Long Island, May 27. 1823, was the quickest four-mile race on record-7:3712. Over the same course, May 10, 1842, Fashion beat Boston-in 7:3212 and 7:45. Next year, March 29, 1843, at New Orleans, George Martin made his fast race in 7:33-7:43. The sire of Lecomte is Boston, who made his fastest time with Fashion, above ; and his dam, Reel, who, Dec. 11, 1841, won a race at New Orleans in 7:40-7:43.]
April 8-Thermometer 88°, in the shade. April 13-A piece of wood from the stump of a locust tree in Rockcastle county, with the name of Daniel Boone carved on it, much worn but still legible, is presented to the Louisville Journal by Mr. Meeker, the landscape painter. There is but little doubt that the name was cut by the noble old pioneer himself.
April 17-Snow falls in northern Ky., one inch deep. [April 23, 1837, snow fell three inches deep.]
In the legislature of California are 12 natives of Ky.
April 24-Steamers Jacob Strader and Alvin Adams, rival Cincinnati packets, leave Louisville at 3 P. M., go out of sight in 28 or 29 minutes, and arrive at Madison together, locked, in 3 hours 39 minutes.
April 25-Newport votes against a sub- scription of $200,000 to the Newport and Louisville railroad.
April 27-Trial of Matt. F. Ward for killing Wm. H. G. Butler in Louisville, which, since April 18, has been in prog- ress, by a change of venue, at Elizabeth- town-closed by a verdict of " not guilty." Counsel for prosecution : Alfred Allen of Breckinridge co., commonwealth's attor- ney, assisted by Robert B. Carpenter of Covington, F. W. Gibson of Louisville, and Sylvester Harris of Elizabethtown. Counsel for Ward: John J. Crittenden of Frankfort, Thos. F. Marshall of Versailles, Geo. Alfred Caldwell, Nat. Wolfe, and Thos. W. Riley of Louisville, John L. Helm, Jas. W. Hays and R. B. Hays of Elizabethtown. Mr. Allen, in his closing speech, passed this high compliment-he thought one man could not, in a life-time, make two such speeches as the one he had just heard from Mr. Crittenden.
April 29-Over 8,000 people, in a public meeting at Louisville, in resolutions read by Bland Ballard, chairman of the com- mittee on resolutions (John H. Harney, Dr. Theodore S. Bell, Wm. D. Gallagher, Wm. T. Haggin, Edgar Needham, and A. G. Munn) denounce " the verdict of the jury in the Hardin circuit court, by which Matt. F. Ward was declared innocent of
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any crime in the killing of Wm. H. G. | his case, but to wait until the evidence and Butler, as in opposition to all the evidence the arguments of counsel shall appear in an official form. in the case, contrary to our ideas of public justice, and subversive of the fundamental May 26-Great annular eclipse of the sun. principles of personal security, guaranteed by the constitution of the state." After June 8-Barbecue at Cynthiana, cele- brating the opening to that place of the Covington and Lexington railroad. the committee had left the room, other resolutions were carried, requesting Matt. F. Ward and his brother (indicted with June 14-Great sale of lots in the new town of Ashland, in Greenup co .; 80 lots at auction at $150 to $510, and 120 more at private sale. him, as accessory) to leave the city, and two of their counsel (Nat. Wolfe, Esq., and Hon. John J. Crittenden) to resign their seats in the senate of Kentucky and June 24-By a vote of 1,252 for and 1,741 against, Louisville decides not to build water-works. the U. S. senate, respectively. In the streets, a mob burned the effigies of John J. Crittenden and Nat. Wolfe, of Geo. D. Prentice, editor of the Journal, (who had testified in court as to the character and manners of Ward, ) of Matt. F. Ward him- self, and of the Hardin county jury which had acquitted him. It then surged to the elegant mansion of Robert J. Ward (father John B. Poyntz, of Mason county, im- ports a fine lot of Devon and improved Alderney or Jersey cattle. of Matt. F. Ward), which was stoned, the windows destroyed, the beautiful glass conservatory, full of the rarest plants and July 11-The grand jury at Elizabeth- town indict for perjury four of the jury men on the trial of Matt. F. Ward. flowers, demolished, and the house set on fire in front ; the firemen soon arrested the flames, despite the resistance of part of the July 18 to Aug. 4-Thermometer ranges from 94° to 102° in the shade; frequent deaths from sunstroke ; great drouth. mob. It then surged to the Journal office and to the residence of Nat. Wolfe; but the determined efforts of a few leading Financial embarrassments thickening upon all Ky. railroads in course of con- struction. Some have suspended work altogether, others partially ; the condition of the money market prevents the negotia- tion of railroad securities; several new projects, although having liberal county subscriptions of stock, abandoned. citizens succeeded in checking its fury be- fore much damage was done. The mayor had announced to the crowd in the court house that the persons against whom popu- lar feeling was directed, had left the city with their families, and their houses and property were under the protection of the city authorities. Noble Butler, brother of July 25 -City Hall, at Lexington, burned. the deceased, had issued a card to the pco- ple of Louisville, appealing to them in strong terms to stay the thought and hand of violence, and to act calmly and pru- dently.
April 28-Great fire at Frankfort, con- suming every house on Main street from the Capital Hotel to the Mansion House, 17 of brick, and several of frame ; loss be- tween $100,000 and $200,000.
May 1-David Dale Owen appointed state geologist, and Prof. Robert Peter, of Transylvania university, one of his assist- ants.
44 colored emigrants for Liberia in Africa, leave Louisville.
May 3-Grant Green appointed secretary of state, in place of Jas. P. Metcalfe, re- signed ; and Jas. W. Tate assistant secre- tary of state.
Auction sale at Paris of 17 imported Sussex and Middlesex pigs, at prices rang- ing from $16 to $150-averaging $59 each.
May 6-Steamboat Jacob Strader makes the trip froin Louisville to Madison in 3 hours 19 minutes, the quickest ever made.
May 14-Rattlesnake 61/3 feet long, 18 inches around, with 21 rattles, killed on the farm of Geo. W. Bowman, in Bullitt county, 4 miles south of Shepherdsville.
May 15-Matt. F. Ward, in a card in the N. O. Delta, addressed " to the editors of the U. S.," begs them not to prejudge
July 10-Deaths from cholera, since June 1: at Taylorsville 2, Springfield 8, Hickman 25, Bowling Green 6, Shepherds- ville 19, Hustonville and vicinity 8, Mt. Sterling 17, Simpson co. 4, Brooksville 3; occasional cases elsewhere.
Aug. 7-Election for county officers ; Know Nothing ticket successful in Louis- ville and several other cities ; Henry J. Stites elected judge of the court of appeals by 5,283 majority over John H. McHenry.
Aug. 7-Hailstormn in Daviess, Ohio, and Breckinridge counties; damage esti- mated at $25,000.
Aug. 13-Sunday, 2 A. M., 1,100 kegs (27,500 pounds) gunpowder, in a magazine on the hill-side in the edge of Maysville, fired by incendiaries, and explode with terrific effect ; over 4,000 people within one mile, many hair-breadth escapes, a few persons injured, one dangerously, none fatally ; one woman, ill at the time, died from fright; 13 houses demolished, all other houses within two miles more or less damaged, brick walls badly sprung, win- dows and doors blown in and shattered, and window glass broken; loss and damage over $50,000; explosion heard at Poplar Plains, 22 miles, on a steamboat 42 miles up the Ohio river, at Hillsboro, Ohio, 40 miles distant ; at Orangeburg, 7 miles, china ware shaken off the table, and win- dows broken; near. Helena, 12 miles, ne- groes thrown out of bed ; 31% miles south, windows broken and a boy thrown out of bed; the whole body of water in the Ohio river urged towards the Ohio shore, rising suddenly on that shore several feet; 1,600
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lights of glass broken in the Maysville cotton mill; stones weighing 102 and 43 pounds and less thrown entirely across the Ohio river, into Aberdeen, over a mile from the magazine; the rattling of stones on the roofs and through the roofs and sides of houses and of the steamboat Huron, described as appalling; eight churches damaged, from $100 to $1,100 each. $1,500 reward offered for the perpetrators, without success.
Aug. 27-Sunday, about 12 M., a tre- mendous storm passes over part of Louis- ville, blowing down the new 4th Presby - terian church, two large brick warehouses, the gable end and upper story of several other houses, unroofing and seriously in- juring over 50 houses, and three steam- boats. In the church, while Rev. Robert Morrison was preaching in the basement- (the upper room not finished, ) the door was blown open, and the house filled with dust, rendering the room dark ; a crash was then heard, and in the twinkling of an eye the work of death and destruction was com- plete ; 16 dead bodies, fathers and mothers with their children, were recovered from the ruins, and 23 badly wounded.
Sept. 14-Termination of the most re- markable drouth since 1839. In Greenup county, opposite Portsmouth, Ohio, is a water-mark called the "Indian Head," a human face rudely carved by the aborig- ines, many years ago, upon the eastern side of a large rock imbedded in the water of the Ohio river. The "log " kept in the neighborhood shows that the mouth of the figure was
1839-Nov. 10, 101/4 inches out of water. 1846-Oct. 4, 1714 inches under water. 1848-Aug. 15, 412 inches under water. 1849-Sept. 23, top of head 412 inches un- der water.
1850-Sept. 16, top of rock 212 inches out of water.
1851-Sept. 27, eyes to be seen-the lowest measure on record from 1839 to this date.
1854-Sept. 5, mouth just on water-line- therefore lower than since 1839.
same time, 2178 inches fell. Corn scarce und selling at 65 cents to $1. Many thou- sands of hogs sent from Ky. to northern Indiana to be fatted.
Sept. 27-Death of Presley Ewing, mem- ber of congress from 3d district, by cholera, near Mammoth Cave.
Oct. 16-Col. John Allen, in a card, says that the filibustering expedition, 1500 strong, which had been organizing at Lou- isville, has been disbanded, for want of means.
Oct. 17-Failure of the Newport Safety Fund Bank of Kentucky.
Oct. 18-Failure of the Kentucky Trust Company Bank at Covington.
Oct. 19-Bank panic in the west, more failures, and great run on local banks, banking houses and brokers. Oct. 24, notes of the Indiana and other Free Banks "thrown out" by leading city banks, and sold at a discount to brokers. Notes of Ky. Trust Co. Bank fall to 60 and 50 cents on the dollar, and Newport Safety Fund Bank notes to 35 and 30 cents. Commer- cial Bank of Ky. notes have been cried down, and a "run" organized by the brokers ; but the other Ky. banks, resolv- ing to stand by each other, receive and protect her notes, and promptly break the force of the panic in that direction. Oct. 27, the banking-house of G. H. Monsarrat & Co., Louisville, suspends payment, "in consequence of the perfidy of a confiden- tial agent." Nov. 8 and 9, great run on private banks in Cincinnati, all suspend, and several make assignments. 33 banks, including the two at Covington and New- port, Ky., one each in Georgia, Michigan, Delaware, Boston, and Maine, and the others in New York, Ohio, and Indiana, have failed within six weeks. The Ky. banks have retired more than half of the circulation which they had out four months ago. One Louisville broker draws out of the Ky. branch banks at Bowling Green, Russellville, Hopkinsville and Princeton $140,000 in specie. Nov. 20, bank failures elsewhere than in Ky. continue ; Ky. bank notes standard bank funds throughout the west.
In Oct., 1838, the river was lower than ever known by any reliable mark, before Oct. 21-Henry Fortman found guilty of manslaughter, at Covington, in killing Samuel Easton, a lad 12 years old, son of Shadford Easton, by throwing him down and stamping on his head, breast and side ; sentenced to 10 years in the penitentiary. or since (up to 1872)-being, at Maysville, 10 inches lower than on Sept. 10, 1854. The little steamer U. S. Aid (the only one running, for a week past,) two days in making the trip from Cincinnati to Mays- ville. For several days before Sept. 9, the Oct. 25-Public dinner at Memphis, Tenn., to Geo. D. Prentice, editor Louis- ville Journal. weather warmer than ever known, ther- mometer 102° to 104° in the shade; and at 2 p. x., when exposed to the sun, rising Oct. 26-Sale of cattle recently imported by the Ky. Importing Co., near Lexington ; the two-year old bull, Sirius, purchased by R. A. Alexander, of Woodford county, at $3,500. in a few minutes to 154°. But little rain for several months, vegetation parched or burned up, springs and wells nearly all dry, farmers driving stock 3 to 7 miles to water, and hauling water same distance Oct. 28, 29-8 deaths at Louisville by cholera. for cooking and drinking uses. Ohio river forded in many places. In southern Ky., Oct. 30-Weymer obtains a verdict, in U. S. district court at Columbus, Ohio, of $3,000 against Rush R. Sloan, a Sandusky lawyer, for aiding in the escape of four near the Tennessee line, the rain fall in June was 314 inches, in July 112, in Aug. 014, and from Ist to 20th Sept. 012 inches -in all, only 51/2 inches ; in 1853, during | slaves from Ky. Attorneys for plaintiff,
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Henry Stanbery and Chas. D. Coffin ; for defendant, Hocking H. Hunter and Samuel F. Vinton.
Nov. 2-Know Nothing convention for the state reported to be in session at Louis- ville.
Nov. 8-Re-interment in state cemetery at Frankfort of the remains of Gov. Chas. Scott, Hon. Win. T. Barry, and Maj. Bland Ballard and wife, after orations upon their lives and character.
Dec. 1-Yates, who was indicted for per- jury as one of the jurors in the Matt. F. Ward case at Elizabethtown, tried and acquitted ; the indictments against the other jurors then dismissed.
Dec. 14-State temperance convention at Louisville nominates Geo. W. Williams for governor and James G. Hardy for lieutenant governor, at ensuing August election.
1855, Jan. 1-Ky. corporations declare semi-annual dividends as follows : Louis- ville Gas co. 5 per cent, Lexington Gas co. 3, Bank of Ky., Northern Bank of Ky., and Farmers' Bank of Ky. cach 5, South- ern Bank of Ky. 412, Bank of Louisville 412 and an extra dividend of 212 per cent ; Paris Deposit Bank 6 per cent.
Jan. 6-Know Nothing ticket for city officers chosen in Covington and Lexington.
Jan. 6-4,000 bushels hemp seed im- ported at Maysville from France and Russia, because of almost total failure of that crop last season ; 30,000 bushels or- dered by the agent, who visited England and France, Anthony Killgore, but could not be found.
Jan. 8-M. Butt Hewson indicted by the grand jury at Little Rock, Ark., for hav- ing challenged Geo. D. Prentice, editor Louisville Journal, to fight a duel.
Jan. 8-At several sales of slaves be- longing to estates of persons recently deceased, in the counties of Bourbon, Fay- ette, Clark, and Franklin, negro men sell for $1,260. $1,175, $1,070, $1,378, $1,295, $1,015, and $1,505, to neighboring farmers who need their labor.
Jan. 14-Threatened famine in portions of Scott county ; public meeting at George- town " to devise means for the relicf of the distress caused by the great scarcity and high price of provisions."
Jan. 27-Death, in Breckinridge county, of Wm. Shernhill, a soldier of the revolu- tionary war, 103 years old.
Feb. 3-The Ohio frozen over for 11 days. Feb. 6-The largest horse in the world now exhibiting at Louisville-" Magnus Apollo," from Perryville, Ky., 20 hands high, and of "extraordinary grandeur and majesty of proportion and appearance."
Feb. 22-Know Nothing state conven- tion in Louisville ; Judge Wm. V. Loving (whig), of Bowling Green, was nominated for governor, and James G. Hardy ( demo- crat), of Glasgow, for lieutenant governor.
March 1-Several farmers in Clark county lose cattle from starvation ; others, there and in the surrounding counties, sell their cattle at half their cost two years ago, or
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at very small prices-from want of corn and provender, and the high price of what little is for sale, the effect of the great drouth last summer.
March 3-Sale, by the Maysliek Import- ing Co., of 13 Spanish jacks, at prices ranging from $392 to $870, and of 2 jen- nets at $325, $327.
March 6-Attorney general Jas. Harlan institutes an action, in the name of the commonwealth, against the Newport Safety Fund Bank of Ky., to annul and vacate its charter for alleged violations thereof.
March 24-Snow storm in northern Ky.
April 2-The Ky. horse Lexington wins the great race against time, at New Or- Icans-four miles in 7:1934, carrying 103 pounds ; Ist mile, 1:4714, 2d 1:5214, 3d 1:5112, 4th 1:4834 ; Arrow and Joe Black- . burn ran with him, to animate him in the contest ; purse $20,000. April 14, over the saine course, Lexington wins the four mile raee, beating Lecomte 60 yards, in 7:2334 ; Lecomte was not in good condition, and his owners gave up the race rather than let him run another heat.
April 7-Thos. D. Brown, circuit court clerk, at Elizabethtown, shot and killed, in a personal difficulty, by W. S. English, & merchant ; the examining court "dis- charged Mr. E., as guilty of no crime."
April 7-Know Nothing ticket successful at the city election in Louisville; John Barbee received 3,070 votes for mayor ; no opposing candidate. Mr. Speed, the pres- ent mayor, dcelined to run, claiming that his term does not expire this year ; May 9, Judge Bullock, in the circuit court, decided that Mr. Speed is the legal mayor, although the other departments of the city govern- ment had recognized Mr. Barbee.
April 8-Judge John L. Bridges, in the Marion circuit court, decides to be legal the tax levied to pay the subscription of Marion county to the Lebanon branch of the Louisville and Nashville railroad.
May 8-52 colored people from Ky. leave Boston as emigrants to Liberia, Africa.
May 8-Occasional cases of scurvy, from want of vegetable food. Flour $10.50 per barrel, and potatoes $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel.
June 2-Death of Mrs. Ann Jackson, in Montgomery county, aged 108 years.
Frequent violent hailstorms, in middle and northern Kentucky.
June 5-Maj. E. B. Bartlett, of Coving- ton, (democrat) elected president of the national council of the American (Know Nothing) party, in session at Philadelphia : Bartlett 90, J. W. Barker of N. Y. 56. Aug. 16, Maj. Bartlett was elected presi- dent of the Ky. state council of the Amer- ican party, for the ensuing year.
June 10-Chas. S. Morehead, of Frank- fort, nominated as the American candidate for governor, in place of Judge Win. V. Loving, dcelined on aceount of ill health.
Dr. David R. Haggard, president of the state board of internal improvements, in a report of the committee of the last legisla- ture, receives high encomium for his inde-
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fatigable energy, wisdom and economy in ' in the flames. Numerous shots were fired managing the Ky. river, and Green and Barren rivers, improvements-saving to the state the annual average of $6,880 from the former and $4,031 from the lat- ter; and realizing a revenue from the former of $17,946 in two years, and in two years and a half from the latter $17,440, where none was expected at all.
June 16-Several deaths by cholera in Fayette co. ; 26th. 4 deaths at Mayslick, Mason co. ; July 23d, 10 deaths at Center- ville, Bourbon co .; Aug. 1, 40 deaths, within a week, at the Lexington lunatic asylum, and a number among the Irish laborers and negroes in Lexington ; Aug. 12, 4 deaths in Paris.
Aug .- Wheat crop unusually heavy and fine ; in Mason co. some farmers have real- ized 35, some 42, and one as high as 53 bushels to the acre.
Aug. 5-Death at the Galt House, in Louisville, of Richard P. Robinson, the supposed murderer of Helen Jewett ; for several years past he was known as Richard Parmelly.
Aug. 6-Election for state officers and members of congress. Vote for governor, Chas. S. Morehead ( American or Know Nothing) 69,816, Beverly L. Clarke (demo- crat) 65,413-maj. 4.403; for lieutenant governor, Jas. G. Hardy (Am.) 68,104, Beriah Magoffin (dem.) 64,430-maj. 3,674; for attorney general, Jas. Harlan (Am.) 67,639, Robert W. Woolley (dem.) 63,601 -maj. 4,038; for auditor, Thos. S. Page (Am.) 68,171, Jas. A. Grinstead (dem.) 62,478-maj. 5,693 ; for treasurer, Richard C. Wintersmith ( Am.) 67,494, Jas. H. Gar- rard (dem.) 63,136-maj. 4,358 ; for reg- ister of the land office, Andrew Mckinley (Am.) 66,976, Thos. J. Frazer (dem.) 63,132-maj. 3,844 ; for superintendent of public instruction, Rev. John D. Matthews, D.D., (Am.) 67,049, Grant Green (dem.) 62,787-maj. 4,262; for president of the board of internal improvement, Dr. David R. Haggard ( Am.) 67,289, Jas. M. Nesbitt (dem.) 62,780-maj. 4,509. To congress, 6 Americans and 4 democrats elected ; to the state senate, 13 Americans and 7 dem- ocrats, and 18 hold over, who are divided about 12 to 6; to the house of representa- tives, Americans 61, democrats 39-maj. 22. In favor of the three-cents additional school tax 82,765, against it 25,239-maj. 57,526.
Aug. 6-Terrible riot in Louisville, on election day; then designated, and still most painfully remembered, as " Bloody Monday." Fighting and disturbances be- tween individuals or squads, in various parts of the city. The most fearful and deplorable scenes of violence, bloodshed, and houseburning, principally in the first and eighth wards. Between 7 and 1 o'clock at night, 12 houses were set fire to and burned, on the north side of Main, east of Eleventh, two adjoining on Elev- enth, and two on south side Main opposite. Patriek Quinn, the owner of most of them, was shot, and his body partially consumed
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