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Feb. 18-The Freedmen's Bureau proves itself a dangerous machine. In Louis- ville, about two years ago, Dr. Keller was annoyed by a little mulatto boy living near by, who persisted in ringing the doctor's door-bell ; until Dr. K. caught him at it, and switched his legs for it. The mother came up and abused the doctor with the vilest of epithets, which he resented by striking her several times with a whip. For this he was first arraigned before the police court, where the case was dismissed. He was then brought before a military court and sentenced to 30 days' imprisonment, but was let off before the expiration of the term. Next he was sued for $5,000 dam- ages, which case is still pending. And now the Freedmen's Bureau arraigns and fines him $50. What the end will be, un- der the military tyranny of the day, is yet to be developed !
Feb. 22-Large and enthusiastic meet- ing at Louisville, without distinction of party, to indorse the " policy" of Presi- dent Andrew Johnson. Gov. Bramlette presided, and was one of the speakers.
Feb. 25-Jesse Root Grant, father of Lieut. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, appointed postmaster of Covington, in place of Ham- ilton Cummings, removed for the purpose.
Feb. 27-Golden wedding, at Maysville, of Christian Shultz and wife Charlotte-a daughter of Gen. Henry Lee, who came to Ky. in 1779.
March 10-Jas. Guthrie, of Ky., on the floor of the U. S. senate, states his opinion "that ten thousand millions' worth of prop- erty has been destroyed in the South," in consequence of the war.
March 25-Death, at Louisville, aged 77, of Thos. Smith-over 50 years ago, an enterprising publisher at Lexington, first of the Ky. Gazette and then of the Reporter.
March 25 -- The affairs of the Ky. Trust Co. bank at Covington, which closed doors in 1854, finally wound up. The entire eireulation, over $1,000,000, has been re- deemed, dollar for dollar, and every de- positor paid in full.
March 26-Duel, with pistols, on the farm of Jas. K. Duke in Scott co., between Capt. Joseph Desha and Capt. Alex. Kim- brough, both of Harrison co .; on the sec- ond round, Kimbrough wounded in the hip, not dangerously ; cause-a personal matter before the war, renewed since ; Desha was in the Confederate, and Kim- brough in the Federal army.
March 26-U. S. supreme court, at Washington city, decides that the shares of National banks are personal property, and as such, subject to state taxation.
March 26-Geo. W. Spurrier, of Shelby co., has just purchased, for $1,150, a steer 6 years old, which weighs 4,000 pounds- probably the largest in the country.
March 27, 28-At Paris, a negro man commits a rape on a white child ten years old, then cuts her throat and disembowels her. He is taken out of jail by the citi- zens, and hung.
March 27-Maj. Gen. Palmer tenders his resignation. Maj. Gen. Jeff. C. Davis, of Indiana, is his successor, as military commandant of Ky.
March 28-Bertrand, a returned negro soldier, hung by a mob at Paris-for rape and murder of a daughter of Thos. Doolin, 4 miles from Paris.
April 1- Discoveries of lead ore in Owen, Scott, Fayette, Grayson, and other counties, and of oil in Barren, Cumber- land, Pendleton, Montgomery, and many other counties.
Feb. 22-Capt. Jas. W. Read, late of the April 1-Death, at Boston, aged about 75 years, of Chester Harding-who has painted the portraits of more distinguished men in Europe and America than any one living. Besides portraits of Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, and Wash- ington Alston, he hunted up the great pioneer Daniel Boone in his Missouri served his features -- believed to be the only portrait of him ever taken from life. 55th Ky., fined $4,000 by a jury in the cireuit court at Alexandria, Campbell eo .- upon two indietments charging him with preventing legal voters from voting at the last August election ; and for a like offense, Capt. J. H. Lennin, late of the 53d Ky., is fined $500. Being unable or unwilling to pay the fine, both were cast into jail-first telegraphing to Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, home, when over 80 years of age, and pre- " who had issued an order that no citizen should be arrested and imprisoned for aets committed while in the military service of the U. S."
April 2-President Johnson, by formal proclamation, declares " the insurrection
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which heretofore existed in the Southern states at an end, and henceforth to be so regarded."
April 5 - Rev. Stuart Robinson, D. D., of the 2d Presbyterian church, Louisville, returns from Canada, after several years' absence, and resumes his pastorship.
April 12, 14-Several cases of "Lynch law" in Boyle and Woodford counties.
April 17-Sales of stock of Ky. banks at Lexington : Northern Bank $127:10, Farmers' $115, Louisville $102, and Com- mercial $100.
April 23-Isham Henderson, of the Lou- isville Journal, arrested by Gen. Jeff. C. Davis and Lieut. Col. Wm. H. Coyl, under orders from Gen. Geo. H. Thomas, through Gen. R. W. Johnson, at Nashville-sues out from Judge Bland Ballard, of the U. S. district court for Ky., a writ of habeas corpus, returnable next day. (The U. S. secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton-in which he was sustained by President John- son-had directed that Henderson be tried by court martial at Nashville, on a charge of complicity in the corral frauds in that city ; and hence the order for his arrest.) Gen. Davis and Col. Coyl refused to obey the writ of habeas corpus, alleging the orders of their superior officers; Davis producing the "confidential " telegram from Gen. Thomas, which directed him to arrest Henderson, " send him under guard to the provost marshal general at Nash- ville, and obey no writ of habeas corpus in his case." Judge Ballard adjudged these returns insufficient, and issued a peremp- tory order that the body of Isham Hender- son be forthwith produced. Davis again shielded himself behind Thomas, and Coyl behind Davis - both again refus- ing to obey the writ. Judge Ballard im- mediately ordered their arrest for contempt of court. Davis resisted the order of ar- rest, and Judge Ballard decided such resist- ance a criminal act, for which his case would be presented to the grand jury. Henderson was forcibly taken to Nash- ville, and there released by Gen. Thomas under bonds to appear for trial. June 19- Judge Ballard ordered his discharge from the custody of the military authorities ; but Gen. Thomas refused to surrender to Henderson his bonds, notwithstanding his release from trial before the military. It was announced, June 21, that he would be tried before the U. S. court at Nashville, on the same charges for which he was ar- raigned before the general court martial there.
April 25 - Population of Paris, by a census just taken, 4,100, of which 2,200 are blacks.
April 26-10 distilleries, in the Louis- ville district, closed, for violations of the internal revenue laws.
May 1-Democratic state convention at Louisville ; 81 counties, out of 110, in the state, represented. Judge Alvin Duvall nominated for clerk of court of appeals, receiving 622 votes, W. P. D. Bush 352, S. W. D. Stone 107, and Wmn. C. Ireland 31.
May 3-Negro man hung by Lynch law, at Brunerstown, Jefferson co., for rape on a white girl 9 years old. May 7-Negro hung at Frankfort, by the same law, for attempt at rape on a white child 7 years old. May 18- Negro hung by Lynch law at Owensboro, for attempted rape on a white young lady.
May 4-Death, in Louisville, of Capt. Thos. Joyes, aged 77-the first white male born in that place.
May 8-Total valuation of taxable prop- erty in Louisville $46,720,000.
May 10-The venerable Elder ("Rac- coon") John Smith, of the Christian Church, (a citizen of Ky., nearly 82 years old, and for 58 years a minister, ) having been preaching occasionally for several months in the town of Mexico, Missouri- without having taken, and having posi- tively refused to take, the test onth required by the new Constitution of Missouri, of all ministers of the gospel - indicted by the grand jury several weeks since; to-day, just after having bidden his children and friends farewell, and started to the train going towards bis Ky. home, he was ar- rested by the sheriff; who politely told him the cause of his arrest: "We all know that you are a Union man, but you have preached without taking the oath." " I have done so," replied the brave old elder, "and I shall preach on without tak- ing it. I say this, not in the spirit of re- sistance to law, but, with the example of the first Christians before me, I submit to law, and take the penalty ; I will not take the oath ! You will have no trouble in conducting me to jail ; but tell my friends to build them an arbor near my window, for I will still try to preach to them. I never flee from civilized man." The sheriff, un- willing to incarcerate the noble minister, presented a bail bond for his appearance for trial on Oct. 15, 1866, and begged him to sign it ; "Any one will go on it as your security ; if the law permitted, I would do it myself." He refused positively, prefer- ring to suffer ; but upon being inforined that at least 100 men had resolved to de- liver him from prison, at the risk of their lives, that blood would doubtless be shed in the attempt and some of his own friends might fall, he hesitated. Rather than be the occasion of a human life being taken, he resolved to give up ; with a palsied and trembling hand, he signed the bond. It was done reluctantly, and gave his brave heart great pain. [The trial never came off. The oath was set aside by decision of the supreme court of the United States, and the indictment afterwards dis- missed.] *
May 12-Large emigration, by wagon through central Ky., from North Carolina and East Tennessce to Illinois and In - diana.
May 12-Murder, in Paris, of Robert T. Armstrong by Robert Merimee.
May 17-Lebanon branch of the Louis-
* Life of Elder John Smith, p. 562.
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ville and Nashville railroad opened to | for flogging, in Sept., 1865, a negro man Stanford, Lincoln co.
May 23-Death, at Frankfort, of Ephra- im L. Van Winkle, secretary of state. His brother, John S. Van Winkle, ap- pointed to the vacancy.
May 26-Rev. Lewis G. Barbour, now city surveyor of Lexington, announces to surveyors that he has just determined the variation of the magnetic needle by an observation of the North Star on its merid- ian, 3º 35' east. In the spring of 1852, while engineering on the Lexington and Danville railroad, he took the variation at Shakertown and in Jessamine co .- then a little over 4º. This corresponds with the statements of writers on the subject-that, in the Western states generally, the varia- tion is diminishing at the rate of nearly 2' per year. The annual variation of 2' should be added to all S. W. and S. E. courses, and subtracted from all N. W. and N. E. courses. Fifteen years will make a difference of half a degree, thirty years of one degrec, and in the same pro- portion back to the year 1801.
May 30-Union state convention at Lou- isville ; R. R. Bolling nominated for clerk of the court of appeals.
May 30-Hemp selling at $16 per 100 pounds ; its production greatly stimulated.
May 31-National Tobacco fair at Lou- isville; premiums very liberal, and the premium hogsheads sold at remarkably high prices per 100 pounds as below :
1 No. and Am't of Premium.
To whom Price realized,
awarded. per 100 lbs.
Manufactured Leaf :
Ist ...... $100 ......... Carpenter & Sturgeon,
Hart co ... .$550
3d. 25 ...... M. C. Woodson, Ballard co .. 120 Shipping Leaf :
Ist ..... $100. .Edward Boy, Christian co .... 25
50. ....... Thos. F. Pettus, Montgom- 2d. ...
ery co., Tenn .. 24
3d. 25 .. .. Lyle & Howell, Christian co. 23
Cutting Leaf :
Ist ...... $100 ...
... John Thomas, Owen co. 115
21 ....... 50. D. P. Yancy, Owen co ... 65 3d ....... 25 ... ..... D. B. Morgan, Owen co. 47 Cigar Leaf :
Ist ...... $75 ......... Jas. Norris, Mason co. 40 2d ....... 40. ..... Alfred H. & T. Pollock,
Mason co .... .2312
3d ....... 20. .. Wm.H. Reynolds, Bracken co. 29 The Lady's Hogshead :
$100 ....... .. Miss Betty Wilson,
Barren co ... $100
Ten Hogsheads of Cutting Leaf :
Best ... $100.
R. R. Wakefield, Barren co .*
2d. 51 Elliott & Goldsberry, Mason co .* Five Hogsheads of Leaf :
Best ... $100.
M. C. Woodson, Ballard co.
2d .......
50
.W. G. Simpson, Owen co.
3d .......
25 ..
.Geo. W. Wicks, Louisville.
Three Hogsheads Leaf Tobacco :
Best ... $75. .A. G. Oglesby, Ballard co. 2d .. ...
40 W. G. Simpson, Owen co.
3d. 20 ......... B. P. Yancy, Owen co.
For the best-prized hogshead of leaf tobacco, v premium to M. W. Prewett, Louisville.
* The best 10 hhda. sold at $96, 8×2, 481/2. 48, 37, two at 25, 2212, and two at 19. The second best, at $47, 42, 40, 3916, 3014, 27:6, 2616, 26, 25, and 22. 405 hhds. sold at auction for $113,55 ;.
June 3-The Harrison circuit court, at Cynthiana, decides that there is no law authorizing the Freedmen's Burcau in Ky .; and that all acts of its agents affect- ing the property or personal liberty of others are but trespasses. Jonathan Smith,
belonging to him, was summoned in April, 1866, for trial before the Bureau agent at Cynthiana, Capt. Jas. W. Read, [the same who conducted the election at Cold Springs, Campbell co., in Aug. 1865-see p. 169], and fined $75. He told the Bureau he would not pay it; whereupon the Bureau fined him $25 for "contempt." Failing to pay in 10 days as ordered, the Bureau sent a file of soldiers, and levied upon two of his horses. Smith sued for their recov- ery ; the sheriff took them from Read, and restored them to Smith. In the circuit court, the Freedmen's Bureau was ad- judged to surrender the horses, and pay the costs of suit; and, of course, had to pocket the "contempt," without the $25 soothing cordial.
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June 5-U. S. attorney general James Speed, of Ky., by order of the President, instructs "all U. S. marshals and attor- neys to cause the arrest of all prominent, leading, or conspicuous persons called Fenians-who are probably guilty of vio- lations of the neutrality laws." [This is in consequence of the Fenian raid on Can- ada, since June 1st.]
June 6-Rev. Geo. D. Cummings, D.D., of Chicago, unanimously elected assistant bishop of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Ky.
June 10-President Johnson telegraphs military commanders to report every case where unpardoned Confederates have been elected to civil office. He directed the removal from office of the mayor of Ports- mouth, Va., because he had been a Con- federate colonel, and is yet unpardoned.
June 13-Gold in New York 1457g ; within a week after, it rose to 163, falling, June 20, to 152.
June 14-In one of the halls of the U. S. capitol, at Washington city, Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau, representative from the Lou- isville district, breaks his cane over the face of Josiah B. Grinnell, a representa- tive from Iowa, for offensive words in de- bate-an apology having been demanded and refused. June 18-The house laid on the table the resolution censuring Mr. Grinnell, and passed the resolution that for the assault on him Gen. Rousseau be reprimanded by the Speaker. June 21- Gen. Rousseau made an able speech in de- fensc of his assault, and then tendered the resignation of his seat as a member- which the house decided did not clear him from its censure. The Speaker called him to the bar of the house, and briefly reprimanded him-when he retired from the hall. [He was a candidate, and re- elected, Sept. 15th, without opposition.]
June 26-Col. Richard R. Bolling de- clines the canvass as the Union party nom- inee for clerk of the court of appeals, and Gen. Edward H. Hobson becomes the can- didate.
July 2-Northern Bank of Ky., out of the last six months' profits, declares a div- idend of 7, Bank of Ky. 3, Bank of Louis- ville 3, and the Farmers' Bank 10 per cent.
2đ 50.
..... .Geo. W. Wicks, Louisville ..... 180
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July -Hog cholera prevailing to an alarming extent over a large portion of the state. In Oct. succeeding, a farmer in Bracken co. lost 300 head of hogs, and another in Mason co. 145 head.
July 9-Judge James P. Harbeson, of the Louisville city court, decides the civil rights bill incompatible with state laws in some of its provisions, and so far inopera- tive in Ky .; and refuses to admit negro testimony in the case of Ryan, charged with a deadly assault upon a negro ; his is a Ky. court, and Ky. statutes must rule. He regrets that the Ky. legislature did not pass an act giving free negroes the right to testify in such cases, and leave the credibility of their statements to the judges and jurors.
July 21-Riot at Columbus, Hickman co., caused by a railroad conductor at- tempting to cut some buttons off a negro's coat. Three or four negroes killed and several wounded; several whites missing, but whether killed or not, not ascertaincd.
July 23-Terrible freshet in Brush creek, Owen co., raising the Ky. river, into which it empties, 14 feet higher than ever known; dwellings, cabins, stables, fencing, swept away ; the residence of Mr. Noel carried off, and his whole family of 9 persons drowned.
July 26-Whirlwind passed over Dan- ville, tearing off half the tin roof of Cald- well Female Institute, and doing much other damage.
July 26-At Louisa, Lawrence co., two men and a boy who, three months ago, were found guilty of murder and robbery, taken out of jail by a mob, and hung.
July 30 - Orville H. Browning, of Ill., (a native of Harrison co., Ky.,) appointed U. S. secretary of the interior, in Presi- dent Johnson's cabinet-vice Jas. Harlan, resigned.
Aug. 6- County judges, sheriffs, and other officers elected. Judge Alvin Duvall elected clerk of the court of appeals : Du- vall 95,979, Gen. Edward H. Hobson 58,- 035-maj. 37,944. Great excitement and much bad blood around the polls in many precincts ; not less than 20 men killed, in the aggregate, in the state. M. R. Hardin elected judge of the court of appeals, in the 3d district, over Judge Thos. A. Mar- shall.
Aug. 7-Burning of the splendid steamer Bostona No. 3. opposite lower end of Mays- ville ; loss of property $160,000; wife of Rev. Jonathan E. Spilman fatally burned.
Aug. 9- Mr. Buford's stables at Nicho- lasvilic, Jessamine co., destroyed by fire- the work of an incendiary ; 26 fine horses, brought here to attend the agricultural fair, and worth over $16,000, burned.
Aug. 11-Deaths from Asiatic cholera in Cincinnati 38, 12th 54, 13th, 68, 15th 78, 21st 54, 22d 33, 29th 3. But few deaths, thus far, in Ky.
Aug. 14, 15, 16-National Union con- vention at Philadelphia ; 24 delegates, of all parties, from Ky.
Aug. - In Covington, 5 citizens report
incomes during 1865 over $20,000, viz .: Vincent Shinkle $31,066, Geo. W. Ball $30,390, Amos Shinkle $29,961, Robert Hemingray $22,840, and Jas. S. Wayne $20,649 ; 12 report incomes between $10,- 000 and $20,000, and 26 over $5,000 and under $10,000. In Lexington, only i re- ports an income over $20,000, viz .: Henry Bell $53,710 ; 8 report incomes over $10,- 000 and less than $15,000, and 18 over $5,000 and less than $10,000. In Mays- ville, 1 reports an income of $13,273, and 5 between $5,000 and $10,000. In Ash -. land, Boyd co., John Means reports $23,- 062 income.
Aug. 23-Wire suspension bridge over the Licking river at the Lower Blue Licks opened.
Sept. 5-A negro man, drunk and mak- ing fight, shot, on the agricultural fair grounds near Paris ; he is arrested, and at night forcibly taken from the jail by Lynch law, and shot dead.
Sept. 6-450 persons attend R. A. Alex- ander's annual stock sale, at Woodburn Farm, Woodford co. Aneroid sold for $7,000, and other thoroughbred young stallions for $1,000 to $1,500 each ; thor- oughbred fillies from $400 to $1,080.
Sept. 14-Corn in the field sold, at auc- tion, at $24 per acre, in Bourbon co.
Sept. 15-Brevet Maj. Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge appointed a lieutenant colonel in the regular U. S. army.
Sept. 17-Death, at Louisville, suddenly, from rheumatism of the heart, of George Alfred Caldwell, one of the ablest lawyers in the state, and a representative in con- gress in 1843-45 and 1849-51.
Sept. 20-The grand jury of Gallatin co. having found an indictment for mur- der against C. W. Ferris, U. S. mail agent on the steamer Gen. Buell, he is forcibly seized, when the boat lands at Warsaw, by 200 citizens who board the boat for the purpose, and is sent by the sheriff to the U. S. authorities at Louisville-the circuit court having transferred his case to the U. S. district court for trial. He had been provost marshal at Warsaw, during the war, and was said to be instrumental in the execution of two guerrillas by Gen. Burbridge.
Sept. 20-Judge Wilcy P. Fowler, of the Paducah circuit, decides the Freedmen's Bureau law unconstitutional.
Sept. 20-Death, near Manchester, Clay co., aged 85, of Col. Daniel Garrard, son of the late Gov. James Garrard, of Bour- bon co., and father of Brig. Gen. The- ophilus T. Garrard and the Jate state treasurer Jas. H. Garrard. Col. G., at his death, was the oldest native of Bourbon county.
Sept. 28-Death from cholera, near Hop- kinsville, Christian co., of Henry C. Bur- nett, representative in the U. S. congress from 1855-61, and senator from Ky. in the late Confederate States congress, 1861-65.
Sept. 28-An immense crowd, estimated at over 10,000 people, present at the hang- Ting, at Newport, Campbell co., of Allen P.
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Eggleston alias Walter B. Watson, for the murder of Capt. Almon P. Mentor, leader of the celebrated "Menter's Band" of musicians.
Oct. 1-Great interest in Pulaski, Wayne and other counties, in the proposed ex- tension of the Kentucky Central rail- road from Nicholasville, through Danville and Somerset, towards Knoxville, Tenn. Written pledges of voters given to sub- scribe $200,000 by Pulaski, $50,000 by Wayne, and other sums by other counties, as soon as the legislature authorizes a vote.
Oct. 3-At the St. Louis agricultural fair, the great premium of $700 awarded to Knight of St. George, a splendid im- ported stallion belonging to Keene Rich- ards, of Scott co., Ky.
Oct. 5-Death, in Breckinridge co., aged 80, of Fred. A. Kaye, for 16 years mayor of Louisville; he was born in the first brick house erected there.
Oct. 10-Permanent division of the Pres- byterian Synod of Ky., in session at Hen- derson ; each party claims to be the Synod of Ky.
Oct. 18-Court of appeals decides the Ky. laws expatriating so-called rebels un- constitutional.
Oct. 19-About 20 houses occupied by negroes, in and near Lebanon, Marion co., broken into, robbed, and greatly injured by a band called "Skaag's men."
Oct. 22-132 car-loads of cattle, east- ward bound, passed over the Ky. Central railroad to-day.
Nov. 1-Wm. T. Samuels, state auditor, reports $1,336,152 in the state treasury.
Nov. 8-Guerrillas throw the train on the Louisville and Nashville railroad from the track, four miles from Franklin, Simp- son co., and plunder the passengers ; the forward cars were burnt ; the robbers were arrested, a few days after.
Nov. - $976,956 of taxable property in Ky. owned by negroes, upon which the tax is $3,661.
Nov. 11-Remains of Brig. Gen. Roger W. Hanson, who fell at Stone River, in Jan. 1863, interred in the cemetery at Lexington.
Nov. 15-Gen. Thos. L. Crittenden, state treasurer, resigns, to become a colonel. in the regular U. S. army. Alfred Allen appointed his successor.
Nov. 18-Duel, near Bowling Green, between Jno. H. Grasscup and Jno. Blair, both officers in the late C. S. army ; the former slightly and the latter scriously wounded.
Nov. 24-Banquet to Geo. D. Prentice, on this 36th anniversary of his editorial management of the Louisville Journal, by the attachés of the office.
Nov. 24-Three prisoners, charged with robbery, Clem. Crowdus, Wm. Goode, and Thos. Stephens, taken out of jail at night by a party of 120 men on horseback from the surrounding towns and country, and bung to the limb of a tree, at Lebanon, Marion co .; no other prisoners molested.
Nov. 27-Col. Geo. D. Blakey and Dr. Noah S. Moore, of Ky., and Gen. A. McAl- lister, of Pa., appointed commissioners under the law of congress to make awards to loyal owners of slaves enlisted into the Union army, open their sessions at Frankfort.
Dec. 1-During the month of Nov., live stock as follows carried over the Ky. Cen- tral railroad, from Paris northward : hogs 22,404, cattle 4,064, sheep 1,074, and mules 381.
Dec. 1, 2-The iron suspension bridge over the Ohio river between Covington and Cincinnati opened for passengers ; 46,000 people crossed on Saturday, Ist, and about 120,000 on Sunday. Jan. 1, 1867-Formal opening for vehicles ; about 48,000 people crossed.
Dec. 6-Georgia legislature passes a vote of thanks "for the Ky. donation of 10,000 bushels of corn for the poor of Georgia."
Dec. 8-Geo. Brumbach sues the city of Louisville for $25,000, alleging that the death of his wife and daughter by cholera, last summer, was caused by the city's neg- ligence in so grading Tenth street that the yards of the houses were overflowed, thereby producing the pestilence.
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