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much of this time he and his family re- sided, temporarily, on his farm in Wood- ford county, Ky.
April 11-Heavy rains all over Ky., and much damage. Heavier rains and greater damage to railroads and along the streams, in the North and Northwest. Numerous crevasses in the levees on the Mississippi, whole plantations in Louisiana and Mis- sissippi under water, and very great suffer- ing.
Remarkable revivals of religion all over Ky. and the United States. Over 100 join the Methodist church in Perryville, Ky., and 428 accessions to 5 Methodist churches in Louisville; similar accessions in other places and to other denominations.
April 16-Ky. state bonds sell in New York at 113, and Bank of Ky. stock at 112@11214.
April 24-Fall of snow in Northern Ky., in some places to the depth of one inch.
May 17-157 U. S. troops defeated by 1,000 Indians, near Spokan river, in Ore- gon ; Capt. O. H. P. Taylor, of Maysville, Ky., among the killed.
May 19-Exhibition of Ky. leaf tobacco at Louisville, in Pickett warehouse, under · the auspices of the Ky. state agricultural society ; 129 entries competed for the pre- mium, first and second certificates, in 4 classes ; the successful tobacco was sold at auction for the high prices per 100 pounds, and in the order named : cutting-Sims & Blandford, Daviess co. $19, J. C. Bland- ford, Daviess co. $12, Bradford & Ware, Bracken co. $12 ; manufacturing-W. R. Wells, Hart co. $53, M. W. Prewitt, Tay- lor co. $20, S. H. Moss, Green co. $19; shipping-W. S. Lacy, Christian co. $16, T. H. Mustain, Hart co. $11, W. S. Lacy, Christian co. $11 ; cigar-James Norris, Mason co. $19, McAtee, Baldwin & Co., Mason co. $1312, A. Jackson Whipps, Bracken co. $13.
May 21-First leaf tobacco fair held in Cincinnati, at Chas. Bodmann's warehouse ; premiumns for " Mason county " leaf award- ed as follows : best 4 hhds .- Ist, $50, John Murray, Bracken co., 2d, $30, Wm. Hen- son, Bracken co., 3d, $20, H. Wilson, Nich- olas co., 4th, $10, John Woodward, Mason co .; best 3 hhds .- 1st, $50, Daniel Norris, Mason co., 2d, $30, Asahel Woodward, Bracken co., 3d, $20, Wm. Woodward, Mason co .; best, sweepstakes, $100, A. J. Whipps, Germantown, for tobacco produced by John Murray, Bracken co.
May 26-Remarkably heavy rains for several days; sudden rise in the Ohio river, which at Pittsburgh is 22 feet and rising ; great damage to crops and to works of public improvement.
June 15-Third great rise in the Ohio, this season, which is now higher than for several years past; Wabash river higher than at any time since the great flood of 1828; the Mississippi river within 416 feet of the highest flood mark in 1844; great damage at Cairo, Illinois.
June 15-Bank of Louisville opens books for additional subscription of $850,000 of
her stock, which is subscribed in two hours, principally by Kentuckians and in small sums ; stock at $102 to the share. The Commercial Bank of Ky. also opens at Louisville books for additional subscription of $200,000, which is subscribed in 24 hours.
July 1-Bank of Ky., Northern Bank, and Bank of Louisville each declares 5 per cent dividend out of its profits for the last six months ; the former two declare an extra dividend of 5, and the latter one of 12 per cent.
July 10-Jos. Beard, city marshal of Lexington, stabbed in the heart and lung, by one Barker, whom he had arrested for fighting, and dies instantly. Three hours and a half afterwards, Barker is taken from jail by a large crowd, and bung in the court house yard.
July 22-Public dinner to John J. Crit- tenden, at Versailles.
Aug. 2-Rankin R. Revill (democrat) elected clerk of the court of appeals : Rev- ill 68,540, Geo. R. McKee ( American) 55,- 199-maj. 13,341. Henry C. Wood (dem.) elected judge of the court of appeals, in the 2d district, over Judge Zach. Wheat (Am.). County officers elected.
Aug. 31-Northern Bank stock, 26 shares sold in Lexington at $120. Bank of Ky. stock sold in Philadelphia at $112.
Sept. 5-Frightful and mysterious mor- tality among the hogs in Daviess, Muh- lenburg, McLean, and adjacent counties. They die in such numbers as to poison the atmosphere with the stench, and occasion much sickness.
Sept. 11-Wm. C. Prentice, a young man, son of Geo. D. Prentice, editor of the Louis- ville Journal, explores the " Bottomless Pit" in the Mammoth Cave, 190 feet deep, and carves his name at the bottom-the first person who ever gazed upon its dark- ness and horrors.
Sept. 14-Death, at the residence of her son, Win. White, in Hunter's Bottom, Carroll county, of Mrs. Margaret Hoyt, aged 91 years-the first white woman who settled in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sept. 21-Shock of earthquake at Eine Shore, below Hickman, so severe that a lady, who was about 40 rods from her house when it commenced, fell down four times. before she got to her door; it seemed as if her house would tumble down. In the great earthquake of 1811, near the same place, the ground sunk, making a lake 12 miles long and 7 wide.
Oct. 13-A brilliant comet, known as the great comet of 1858, has been visible to the naked eye since Aug. 29, and ob- served through telescopes since June 28.
Oct. 14-Presentation to the Masonic Grand Lodge of Kentucky, of the sword worn by Col. Joe Hamilton Daviess when he fell at the battle of Tippecanoe-en- closed in a box inade of oak from the very tree under whose shade he expired ; pre- sented by Judge Levi II. Todd, of Indiana -a native of Ky., a law student in the of- fice and a member of the family of Col. Daviess, at the time of his death.
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Oct. 18-Louisville conference of the | mediation of friends the difficulty is ad- justed without a hostile meeting.
Methodist E. Church South, in session at Hopkinsville, Ky., after an exciting de- bate, votes in favor of expunging from the General Rules of the church the one for- bidding " the buying and selling of men, women and children, with an intention to enslave them."
Oct. 19-U. S. military asylum at Har- rodsburg discontinued, and inmates re- moved to the asylum at Washington city.
1859, Jan. 4-Last meeting of the U. S. senate in its old chamber, and formal change to the new wing of the capitol, at Washington city. Before removing, John J. Crittenden, of Ky., the oldest member of the senate, offered some remarks appro- priate and truly affecting. The vice pres- ident of the United States, who is also the presiding officer of the senate, John C. Breckinridge, of Ky., by previous request of the senate, delivered an address at once historical, eloquent and touching. The congress of the Revolution, as the chances of war required, held its sessions at Phil- adelphia, Baltimore, Lancaster, Annapolis, and Yorktown. During the period be- tween the conclusion of peace and the commencement of the present government, it met at Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton, and New York; in 1783 and 1784, alter- cately at Trenton and Annapolis ; in 1785 to 1790, at New York; in 1791 to 1800, at Philadelphia ; in 1801 and thenceforward, at Washington city. The first capitol was ready in 1800.
Jan. 1-Total circulation of the Ken- tucky banks the largest ever known, $14,- 345,696-an increase over that on Jan. 1, 1858 of $5,461,471, and over that on July 1, 1858 of $3,746,931.
March 16-Longest iron bridge in Amer- ica (except the Victoria bridge at Mon- treal, Canada) erected over Green River, at Bowling Green, on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad ; total length 1,000 feet, height 115 feet above low water mark, and of 5 spans.
March 28-James Guthrie sells at par, among Louisville and Kentucky capital- ists, $1,018,000 bonds of the Louisville and Nashville railroad-insuring its carly com- pletion.
Silver ore discovered on Willow creek, four miles from Falmouth, in Pendleton county.
April 2 to 6-Thermometer at Paris 25° and 28° above zero, for four days.
April 25-Death at Shippingport, near Louisville, of James Porter, the Ky. giant, seven feet nine inches high.
June 10-45 shares Northern Bank of Ky. stock sold in Philadelphia at $132 per share.
June 20-Hon. Garret Davis challenges Capt. Wm. E. Simms, democratic candi- date for congress (both of Paris), to fight a duel, for denunciatory words, in a speech at Ruddell's Mills, in reference to a com- munication in " Western Citizen " of which Mr. Davis avows himself the author. They meet in Cincinnati for the purpose ; but by
July 1-Kentucky banks declare divi- dends out of last six months' profits : Northern and Commercial each 5, Southern 5 and 2 per cent extra, Farmers' 5 and, from the accumulated and surplus profits, 22 per cent extra.
Aug. 1-The Democratic ticket for state officers eleeted. Vote for governor : Beriah Magoffin (dem.) 76,187, Joshua F. Bell (opposition) 67,283-maj. 8,904; for lieu- tenant governor : Linn Boyd (dem.) 75,- 320, Alfred Allen (opposition ) 63,607-maj. 11,713; 5 democrats and 5 "opposition " elected to congress.
Aug. 6-Death of Rev. John A. McClung, D. D., of Maysville, Ky., by drowning in Niagara river, about three miles above the Falls. His body, carried over the Falls, is found, on the 10th, in an eddy, near the mouth of Niagara river, on the American side, and 21st, taken to Maysville for in- terment.
Oct. 5-Sale, at Lexington, under a judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court, of the Covington and Lexington railroad, for $2,125,000, to Wm. H. Gedge, of Coving- ton ; for R. B. Bowler, of Cincinnati. Its receipts during the twelve months just closed had been $449,202, and for the year prior $396,366-an increase in one year of $52,866.
Oct. 28, 29-Destruction, by a mob, of " The True South," an abolition news- paper published at Newport.
Nov. 12-Thermometer 68º, during the day, but falls during the night to 12º above zero-a change of temperature of 56 degress in less than 12 hours.
Nov. 28-Golden wedding of ex-chief- justice Geo. Robertson and wife, at Lex- ington.
Dec. 12-Maj. John C. Breckinridge, (democrat,) now vice president of the United States, elected U. S. senator from Ky. for six years from March 4, 1861: Breckinridge 81, Joshua F. Bell (opposi- tion ) 52.
Dec. 16-Legislature instructs Ky. sen- ators and requests representatives in con- gress to urge upon the treaty - making power the necessity of so amending the treaty of 1842 with Great Britain in regard to fugitives from justice, as to provide for the surrender of "fugitives from service or labor." [Designed to procure the sur- render and return of slaves fleeing to Can- ada.]
Dec. 17-Death of the lieutenant gover- nor, Hon. Linn Boyd, at his residence.
Dec. 21-Thos. P. Porter unanimously elected speaker of the senate, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the lieutenant governor.
1860, Jan. 2-Great "Union " meeting at Maysville, of all political parties.
A public meeting in Madison county peremptorily requires Rev. John G. Fee and others at Berea to leave that county, on account of their anti-slavery principles and teachings.
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Jan. 8-Great mortality among hogs by cholera, in Bourbon and Harrison counties.
Jan. 9-Democratic state convention at Frankfort, among other resolutions, " re- cognizes the right of the people of the ter- ritories, including Kansas and Nebraska, to form a constitution with or without slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other states," endorses James Guthrie as eminently qualified for the presidency, and elects delegates to the national convention at Charleston.
Jan. 9-Very long and very eloquent "Union " letter of Rev. Robert J. Breck- inridge, D.D., LL.D., to his nephew, Hon. John C. Breckinridge, vice president of the United States and U. S. senator elect from Ky.
Jan. 10-Andrew Wilson, of Mayslick, slaughters a hog (barrow) raised by him whose gross weight was 1340 pounds ; his tusks measure 14 inches in length.
Jan. 21-Legislature-by a vote of 82 yeas 3 nays in the house, and a unanimous vote (34 present) in the senate-appropri- ates $10,000 for the completion of the monument over the grave of Henry Clay at Lexington.
Jan. 21-A public meeting at Orange- burg, Mason county, notifies Rev. James S. Davis, (a co-worker at Berea, Madison county, with Rev. John Gregg Fee, whence he was recently peremptorily required to leave) who settled soon after on Cabin Creek, Lewis county, to remove from Ky. within seven days. The meeting approved the action of the Madison co. meeting, " as necessary and justifiable by a proper re- gard for the protection of their property and the safety and security of their fam- ilies." Jan. 25, he was ealled on to give up a large number of copies of H. R. Helper's "Impending Crisis of the South," which he had received for circulation ; at first he refused ; but finally, by way of compromise, burnt them in the presence of the persons who had called.
Jan. 23-Legislature appropriates $5,000 per year for next two years to the Ky. state agricultural society, to be awarded in premiums ......... Also, $10,000, additional, towards the completion of the Henry Clay monument at Lexington ......... 27-Bank of Ashland authorized to establish a branch at Mayfield, with $100,000 capital. [Be- came a law without the approval of Gov. Magoffin.]
Jan. 23-A public meeting at Brooks- ville, of citizens of Bracken county and of the western part of Mason county, re- solves that Rev. John Gregg Fee and John G. Hanson, lately expelled from Madison county, and now about settling in Bracken county, "are enemies to the state and dangerous to the security of our lives and property," and "solemnly de- clare that they " and three others named must, " by ensuing Feb. 4, leave the county and state ;" 50 prominent citizens ap- pointed to see the resolutions carried out.
Jan. 24-The bill to extend state aid to railroads and turnpikes rejected in the senate, by 21 to 16.
Jan. 24-The legislatures of Tennessee and Kentucky meet at Louisville, and are eloquently entertained by the city and eit- izens. 26th, they reach Columbus, Ohio, and are warmly welcomed by the Ohio legislature and citizens. Friday after- noon, 27th, the legislatures of the three states return together to Cincinnati, and receive a grand ovation at Pike's opera house, banquet at the Burnet House, and another entertainment by Nicholas Long- worth. Speeches by Mayor Richard M. Bishop, Judge Bellamy Storer, Gov. Be- riah Magoffin of Ky., Lieut. Gov. Newman of Tennessee, and Gov. Wm. Dennison of Ohio.
Feb. 1-House of representatives of con- gress, after two months' balloting and dis- graceful scenes, organized by electing Wm. Pennington of N. J., speaker-by 117 votes, to 85 for John A. McClernand, 16 for Thos. W. Gilmer, and 15 scattering.
Feb. 6-Dr. H. A. Davidson walks into a store at Henderson, with an " infernal machine" in a willow basket under his cloak, which he set fire to; it explodes, dangerously injuring several persons, blow - ing out the side of the house, and doing much other damage.
Feb. 6-Legislature requires clerks at all elections to keep the votes by com- mencing each page with the figure 1, and so continue the count in numerals to the foot of the page ....... .. 11-Institution for the education of idiots and feeble-minded children established in Franklin county, and $20,000 appropriated for grounds and buildings ......... Governor directed to pro- cure suitable gold medals, to present, in the name of the state, to each of the sur- viving Ky. volunteers in the battle of Lake Erie on Sept. 10, 1813. [Com. Perry's victory.]. ...... Certain terms of the Ken- ton circuit court to be held in Covington, instead of at Independence ; and, 18th, an office established there for recording deeds and mortgages. [Makes, practically, two county seats in Kenton county. ] ...... ..
20-$1,000 offered to any person who shall discover the true cause of hog cholera, and a remedy that will cure it. .. 22-Com- mon school districts, within which a school was taught in the years 1854, 1855, 1856, 1857, 1858, and 1859, but which failed to report, allowed further time to report ...... ... 27-Sewing machines to be exempt from distribution and from execution.
28-Any person may, by proceeding in court, adopt any infant or adult person or persons, and make them capable of inher- iting as heirs-at-law. Apportionment of representation in the senate and house, for ensuing eight years.
Feb. 8-Ten per cent conventional inter- est bill passes the senate, by 18 to 14, but is rejected in the house.
Feb. 13-Gov. Magoffin vetoes the bill increasing the capital stock of the Com- mercial Bank of Ky. $900,000, and anthor-
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izing additional branches, at Lebanon, Newport and Cynthiana ; 14th, the house passes the bill, over the governor's veto, by 55 to 37, and the senate by 20 to 13. The veto is approved by every newspaper in the state but three.
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Feb. 16-In the house of representatives, a resolution charges Sinclair Roberts, the member from Lawrence county, with brib- ery in receiving $30 for his vote for the Commercial bank bill ; a committee of in- vestigation reports him innocent and the charge a fabrication, and the house unani- mously acquits him. [This is the first charge of bribery every made in the Ky. legislature.]
Feb. 16-The bill to prevent the mar- riage of cousins defeated in the senate, by 11 yeas, 19 nays.
Feb. 22 -- The Opposition state conven- tion at Frankfort recommends John J. Crittenden " to the favorable consideration of a National Union convention, as worthy of the exalted position of president ;" and, besides other resolutions, unanimously adopts this : Resolved, That the peo- ple of Kentucky are for the Union and the Constitution intact ; and declare that the "Union shall and must be main- tained," and that Kentucky will redress her wrongs inside of the Union and not out of it.
Feb. 22-Terrible conflagration at Dan- ville; court house, 2d Presbyterian, Epis- copal and Reformed churches, Batterton house, Tribune printing office, and 64 stores, dwellings, and other buildings burned; loss over $300,000.
Feb. 28-Legislature adopts as the true boundary line between Ky. and Tennessee the one surveyed in 1859, by Austin P. Cox and Chas. M. Briggs, commissioners appointed for the purpose.
March 2-Legislature instructs senators and representatives in congress to urge the placing of tobacco, by treaties with for- eign countries, npon a footing with other exports, and prevent the heavy duties to which it is subjected abroad. . Resolu- tion of thanks to New York legislature for the handsome invitation to Ky. legislature to visit Albany ......... Remains of Elliston Williams, late of Kenton county, directed to be removed and re-interred near those of Daniel Boone, in the cemetery at Frank- fort ......... All laws prohibiting the impor- tation of staves into Ky. repealed ...
Penalties or fines recovered for gaming are to be paid into the common school fund .. 3-Gipsies to be arrested, and fined or imprisoned. . Writing, printing or circulating of incendiary documents in Ky. made punishable by confinement in the penitentiary ... . Petit jurors to receive $1.50 for each day they serve as such ....... ... Vote to be taken in August, 1860, on ex - pediency of three cents additional school .No slave hereafter to be emanci- pated except on condition of immediately leaving the state. Free negroes non-resi- dent not allowed to come into the state, upon penalty of confinement in the peni-
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tentiary 5-Act for organization of Ky. militia. [State guard law.]
March 12-The Ky. annual conference of the Methodist E. Church, in session at Germantown, refuses to " concur in any of the propositions submitted by sister con- ferences, recommending the suspension of the Fourth Restrictive Rule, with a view to altering the General Rule on the subject of slavery.
March 26, 27-Great excitement in Mad- ison county, caused by the return of John G. Hanson, the anti-slavery man who was ordered off with Rev. John G. Fee, several months ago. A movement to compel him to leave the state is resisted by his friends, and several persons wounded. A mill be- longing to Hanson dismantled.
April 12-Beautiful statue of Henry Clay at Richmond, Virginia, inaugurated ; interesting ceremonies ; address by ex- president John Tyler.
April 30-Death at Hopkinsville, of Daniel Fuller, aged 106.
May 1-James Guthrie, of Ky. receives 651/2 votes, Stephen A. Douglas 15112, bal- ance divided between R. M. T. Hunter, Daniel S. Dickinson, Joseph Lane, and 1 for Jefferson Davis, on the 55th, 56th, and 57th ballots for a nominee for president, in the Democratic national convention at Charleston, S. C. The convention ad- journs to meet in Baltimore, on Ist Mon- day in June.
May 21-Monday-Most destructive tor- nado ever known along the valley of the Ohio, for 900 miles ; loss estimated at over $1,000,000 ; about 100 lives lost, about 75 of them from coal boats and skiffs on the river ; along the river counties, inany barns, outhouses, and a few dwellings blown down, other buildings unroofed or a wall forced in, nearly all the timber on many farms prostrated, cattle killed and people injured by the limb of trees carried through the air, steamboats wrecked, coal and other boats sunk. The tornado passed from Louisville to Portsmouth, Ohio, 245 miles, desolating a space some 40 miles wide, in two hours. In some neighborhoods, hail destroyed the growing crops. Old residents speak of a similar tornado, but less severe, in 1807.
May 27-Sunday-A violent storm of wind at 1 A. M., visits Louisville and the surrounding country ; much damage to buildings and property, but no lives lost.
June 4-A wind storm, with rain, does great damage in Bullitt and Marion coun- ties, destroying buildings, damaging crops, and uprooting forests. It came from Iowa, . through Illinois and Indiana, doing ter- rible destruction ; it had comparatively spent its force before reaching Ky. In Camanche, Iowa, 38 people were killed and many wounded, and across the Mississippi river, at Albany, Illinois, 6 were killed and over 50 wounded, in 212 minutes that the tornado was passing over.
June 16-In the house of representatives of. congress, Wm. C. Anderson, the sitting member, from the Danville district, Ky.,
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retains his seat, over James S. Chrisman, the contestant, by a vote of 112 to 61.
June 23-Mrs. Jarvis T. Standiford, of Tolleboro, Lewis co., aged 32, has a full suit of beard, about 5 inches long, grown upon her face since Sept. 1, 1859; it is thick, very dark and coarse like a man's beard, and has never been trimmed; no beard on her upper lip, and none from her mouth down over the middle of her chin to her neck, a space one inch wide.
June 23-Adjourned session of the Dem- ocratic national convention at Baltimore ; serious disagreement, resulting in the with- drawal of 105 delegates, mainly from the Southern states ; vote for nominee for pres- ident, Stephen A. Douglas 173%, James Guthrie 9, John C. Breckinridge 5, scatter- ing and blank 25; next ballot, Douglas 1811/2, the rest scattering ; Douglas unan- imously declared the nominee, by the 33ds vote required by the usage of the party ; Benj. Fitzpatrick, of Ala., nominated for vice president. [He declined, subsequently, and Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, was nominated.] Every state represented ex- cept Delaware, South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, California and Oregon ; Georgia in part, but refused to vote.
Of the Ky. delegation, 9 withdrew- Quarles, Lafayette Green, Jas. G. Leach, John Kendrick, Colbert Cecil, John Dish- man, Richard M. Johnson, James B. Beck and Robert McKee ; 6 declined to vote- Geo. Alfred Caldwell, R. K. Williams, Wm. Bradley, Thos. I. Young, Richard P. Butler and S. B. Field ; 9 voted for Doug- las-Dr. D. P. White, John C. Mason, Morgan, Geo. T. Wood, Sharp, Benj. J. Spalding, Wm. B. Read, Speed, and Hub- bard D. Helm.
The delegates who withdrew met in another hall and organized ; 21 states rep- resented ; first ballot for nominee for pres- ident, John C. Breckinridge 81, Daniel S. Dickinson (of N. Y.) 24; the latter votes were changed to Breckinridge, and he was unanimously nominated ; Gen. Joseph Lane, of Oregon, nominated for vice pres- ident. .
Aug. 6-Gen. Leslie Combs elected clerk of the court of appeals, to fill vacancy caused by the death of Rankin R. Revill : Combs (Bell and Everett candidate) 68,165, Clinton McClarty ( Breckinridge) 44,942, Robert R. Bolling (Douglas, independent) 10,971, Brent Hopkins 829, other candi- dates 325-Combs' majority over McClarty 23,223. For the school tax (3 cents addi- tional) 72,864, against it 45,462-maj. 27,- . 402, and yet, as the law required 79,695 votes (a majority of all entitled to vote) the measure failed to be adopted by the people. Belville J. Peters (democrat) elected judge of the court of appeals in the eastern or first district : Peters 16,710, James Simpson (independent) 15,524- maj. 1,186.
Aug. 7-Severe shock of earthquake at Henderson, at 91% A. M., lasting 8 or 10 seconds and causing much consternation ; felt slightly at Louisville.
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