Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 43

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870. cn; Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889. cn
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: Covington, Ky., Collins & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452

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July 20-Geo. M. Bedford, of Bourbon co., imports from Vermont the splendid young Durham bull, 14th Duke of Thorn- dale, for which he paid $5,500.

July 20-Death, at Washington city, of Col. L. A. Whitely, formerly for a number of years associate editor of the Louisville Journal ; he had controlled the Baltimore

Clipper, and been connected with the New York Herald and with the Washington city National Intelligencer.

July 22-Death, in New York, of John A. Roebling, builder of the Cincinnati and Covington wire suspension bridge.

July 31-In Ky., the largest whisky- producing state in the Union, there are 7,429,541 gallons of whisky in bond ; while in Pennsylvania, the next largest pro- ducer, are only 2,718,215 gallons in bond.

July -Jerry S. Black, of Pa., the dis- tinguished U. S. attorney general in Pres- ident Buchanan's cabinet, had his arm crushed while riding on the Louisville and Nashville railroad.

Aug. 2 - Bourbon co., by 898 for and 706 against it, votes a subscription of $200,000 to the railroad from Paris to Maysville.

Aug. 3-Rev. Dr. L. L. Pinkerton occu- pies a column in the Lexington Statesman defending Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge; says he does not defend military retalia- tion, but that Gen. B. acted under orders, that the rebels committed more outrages than the Federals, &c.

Aug. 3-Jas. W. Tate (Democrat) elected ; state treasurer, receiving 82,617 votes, E. Rumsey Wing (Republican) 24,759-maj. 57,858. To the senate, including those holding over, are chosen Democrats 36, Republicans 2, while the house stands 92 Democrats and 8 Republicans. For the proposition to increase the school tax 15 cents on the $100, 79,085, against it 54,- 408-majority 24,677.

Aug. 7-Fire at Elizabethtown, Hardin co .: loss $125,000.

Aug. 7-Total eclipse of the sun, the most remarkable since 1806 : visible over most of the United States, while Ky. was in the main belt of obscuration. Railroad and steamboat excursions carried visitors to Warsaw, Falmouth, Lexington, Shelby- ville, and other favorable points of total ob- scuration. At Shelbyville were delegations of scientific men from different parts of the country. Besides the Shelby college telescope (which once ranked 3d in the U. S.) 10 or 12 mounted instruments were in use there. A shower of meteors was observed between the earth and the moon. The planets Mercury and Venus, and fixed stars Arcturus and Vega, were visible to the naked eye, during the totality. A number of beautiful photographs of the eclipse as it progressed, were taken. The eclipse began at 4:23 and ended at 6:21 P. M. At 5:16, the thermometer fell to 72º, and stars became visible ; in some positions the thermometer rose and fell 14° in one hour. Birds went to roost and domestic fowls to their perches ; and a premature darkness-unlike that seen at any other time-gave the earth a more sombre man- tle than that of night.

Aug. 10, 11, 12-State Teachers' Asso- ciation in session at Louisville.

Aug. - Lexington and Fayette co. vote a subscription of $450.000 to the Elizabeth- town, Lexington and Big Sandy railroad ;

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while Henderson refuses to vote a sub- scription to the Henderson and Nashville railroad.

Aug. 10 -- Death, near Covington, of Thos. D. Kennedy ; he was born in Cin- cinnati in 1795, when but one house stood upon the site of the present city of Cov- ington ; several years after, he was brought to Covington, where he lived, or in its immediate neighborhood, for nearly 70 years.

Aug. 21-Herzog wins the mile race, in two heats, at the Cincinnati race course ; time 1:4334.

Aug 22-Three companies of volunteer soldiers or state militia, 95 men in all, leave Louisville for Lebanon, to take care of the " Regulators," whose depredations in that region are again unbearable. .

Aug. 31-Fourth annual convention of the Kentucky State Sunday-School Asso- ciation, at Covington.

Sept. 6-Shelby co., by 12 maj., sub- scribes $400,000 to the Cumberland and Ohio railroad.

Sept.10 -- Since Aug. 5th, 500 wagon loads of corn, weighing net 2,249,442 pounds, (40,168 bushels) received by railroads at Covington.

Sept. 11 - Consolidation of the Louis- 'ville and Frankfort railroad with the Frankfort and Lexington railroad-to be known as the Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington railroad.

Sept. 15-A colored woman in Calloway co. gives birth to six living children at one time.

Sept. 18-At Stanford, Lincoln co., Col. Thos. W. Napier, the sheriff, killed, and E. M. Davidson, town marshal, mortally wounded, by a young man, Sam. Holmes, who, while intoxicated, threatened to kill somebody and resisted his arrest.

Sept. - Water-works established at Bowlinggreen, Warren co.

Sept. 20-Covington, by a vote of 1,525 to 161, authorizes the issue of $300,000 of bonds, to build the " Holly" water-works.

Sept. 24-" Black Friday" in New York city, among the gold men ; gold fluctuates between 132 and 164.

Sept. 25-Mrs. Lucy Porter, widow of Judge Bruce Porter, of Covington, and daughter of ex-Gov. James T. Morehead, appointed postmistress at Louisville.

Sept. 26-Death, in Calloway co., Mis- souri, aged 88, of Capt. Samuel Boone, a grandson of Daniel Boone, born in Mad- ison co., Ky., in 1782; his wife, with whom he had been living for over 65 years, survives him.

Oct. 6, 7, 8-The negroes have an agri- cultural fair near Lexington.

Oct. 10-Amount in state treasury, at close of fiscal year, $622,017.

Oct. 10-Amount of taxable property in Ky. owned by negroes, $2,016,784-an in- crease of $342,197 in one year.

Oct. 13-Great Commercial convention at Louisville ; ex- President Millard Fillmore, of Buffalo, N. Y., president ; 520 delegates trom 29 states -- 277 from the southern

states, 107 from the eastern, and 32 from the - western and middle states.

Oct. 14 - Hall's Dramatic Temple, at Owensboro, opened to the public with a fancy ball.

Oct. 19-Snow at Paris over 2 inches deep.

Oct. 28-Death of the great race-horse Herzog, by Vandal ; his time for one mile, 1:4312, is claimed to be the fastest ever made in the U. S.

Nov. 1-Death, in Maryland, while on a visit to his daughter, of ex-Gov. Chas. A. Wickliffe, of Ky. [See sketch, under Nelson co.] ·

Nov. 3-Convention, at Lexington, of the Bourbon whisky distillers of Ky.

Nov. 3-Golden wedding, near Rich- mond, Madison co., of Col. Wm. Rodes, and his wife Pauline, nee Clay, second daughter of Gen. Green Clay. The inin- ister who married them, Rev. Josiah Col- lins, aged 92, Judge Daniel Breck, and 3 other witnesses of the original wedding, 50 years ago, were present, out of 8 who are still living.

Nov. 8-Louisville Courier-Journal has just closed the first year of its existence ; the expenditures, during that time, have been $260,157, for type-setting, paper, sal- aries, telegraph dispatches, &c .- and yet it has been profitable.

Nov. 9-Capt. Henry Buford, of Fayette co., sells for $12,500 his half-interest in the celebrated young trotting colt Black- wood; his time (2:31) was 7 seconds, or a distance equal to 66 yards, faster than the best time ever made by a 3-year old before.

Nov. 11-Death, in Washington city, aged SO, of Amos Kendall ; for 15 years, from 1814 to 1829, an associate editor of The Argus of Western America at Frank- fort, Ky .; 1829-35, 4th auditor of U.S. treas- ury ; 1835-40, postmaster general of the U. S .; offered a foreign mission by Presi- dent Polk, but declined; 1845, became in- terested with Prof. S. F. B. Morse in the ownership of telegraphic patents, became wealthy and remarkably liberal; built Calvary Baptist church, in Washington city, at a cost of $100,000.

Nov. 15-Anderson co. votes a subscrip- tion of $200,000 to the proposed extension of the Shelbyville railroad to Lawrence- burg.

Nov. 15-Death, in Simpson co., aged 105, of Alexander Cherry, a citizen there for more than 50 years.

Nov. 16-The Louisville city council donates 20,000 bushels of coal to the suffer- ing poor of the city.

Nov. 20-Many thousand live turkeys shipped to Boston from central Ky., 8,000 from Cynthiana alone.

Nov. 20-Terrible affray or battle at Somerset, Pulaski co .; about 40 men en- gaged, and 150 shots fired ; 3 men killed- Todd, Daulton, and Win. Pleasants-and James Pleasants desperately wounded. The difficulty had its origin in the whip- ping of a man named Cooper, by a band of " Regulators."

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Nov. 24-Town hall at Lancaster, Gar- rard co .. blown down by a gale.

Nov. 27-47 Confederate dead re-interred in Battle Grove Cemetery, at Cynthiana.

Nov. - Judge Hoke, in the circuit court at Louisville, sustains the constitutionality of the law of March, 1867, which provides for the taxation of the income derived as interest on U. S. bonds.

Nov. 27-Death, at Louisville, aged 73, of Samuel S. Nicholas. [See sketch, un- der Jefferson co.]

Dec. 1-Only one distillery in operation in Bourbon co.

Dec. 5-Two negro men, for outraging the person of Miss Dick, near Boydsville, Graves co., while under arrest and being conveyed to jail, are seized by disguised men and shot.

Dec. 6-Legislature in session. Preston H. Leslie elected presiding officer of the senate [and acting lieutenant governor], receiving 20 votes, Wm. Johnson 17, on the 3d ballot; on the Ist ballot, Leslie 15, Johnson 14, John G. Carlisle 7, Thomas Wrightson 1. In the house, John T. Bunch was unanimously elected speaker- a remarkable compliment paid but six times in the history of Kentucky.

Dec. 7-State House of Reform located in Jefferson county, upon the Louisville Cincinnati and Lexington railroad, near Hobbs' Station [Anchorage], upon a farm of 230 acres, bought for $20,000, of which the city of Louisville donated $8,000. Buildings to be finished by Sept. 1, 1870, at $35,000 cost, which will accommodate 125 inmates-so the committee reports.

Dec. 7-Gov. Stevenson informs the leg- islature that he has leased for 50 years, at $1,500 per year rent, to the Kentucky river Navigation Company the locks and dams upon that river.

Dec. 7-Legislature passes an act re- quiring railroad companies to pay for stock they negligently kill or damage. .. 8- Exempts from taxation all college and seminary property, and real estate belong- ing to I. O. O. F. and masonic lodges, to hospitals, infirmaries, widows and orphans' asylums, and foundling asylums ........ 15- Adopts resolutions in honor of John A. Jacobs, for 40 years principal of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Danville ......... Ac- cepts, with thanks to the donor, Jacob Keller of Louisville, a portrait of Chief Justice John Marshall, to adorn the court room of the court of appeals.

Dec. 7 - Of $1,323,234 due in March, 1869, to the state of Ky. by the U. S. gov- ernment, for advances made during the war, the small sun of $14,308 only has been paid during the past nine months, while an additional claim for $27,288, with proof, has been forwarded.

Dec. 7-Gov. Stevenson recommends the legislature to submit to a vote of the peo- ple the question of calling a convention to revise the Constitution of the state.

Dec. 14-Earthquake shock at Hick- man, Fulton co.

Dec. 14, 15, 16-Gov. John W. Steven-

son elected U. S. senator for six years from March 4, 1871. The ballotings were as follows :

Jno. W. Stevenson .. .47

47 55 66 117

Thos. C. McCreery. .46

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John Q. A. King 3

James B. Beck. 3

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John M. Rice 6

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A. R. Boon 2

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H. F. Finley 10

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[Mr. Finley was voted for by Repub- licans ; the others are Democrats.]

Dec. 15-The secretary of state reports to the senate, by order, a statement show- ing the amount of interest paid by the state during the fiscal year ending Oct. 10, 1869, $198,784.

Dec. 16-Suicide at Louisville, of Judge Edwin Bryant. Judge B. came from Mas- sachusetts to Ky. in early life, was the founder of the Lexington Intelligencer, as- sociate editor of the Lexington Observer & Reporter, and until 1847 editor of the Louisville Daily Dime, afterwards called the Morning Courier. He had amassed & considerable fortune in California, which he willed to persons who had assisted him in his early struggles.

Dec. 20-Louisville Daily Commercial established.

Dec. 29-Dr. Wm. S. Chipley resigns the superintendency of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum at Lexington, and Dr. John W. Whitney unanimously chosen his successor.

1870, Jan. 2-Heaviest fall of snow ever known in Ky .; in some places from 3 to 4 feet deep.

Jan. 3-Remarkable and beautiful au- rora borealis, between 4 and 5 A. M.

Jan. 3-Total amount in the state treas- ury $880,641.

Jan. 7-Legislature, by resolution, calls upon congress to order payment for bridges over the water courses on the Bardstown and Louisville turnpike, burned and de- stroyed in Sept. 1862, by order of Maj. Gen. Wm. Nelson, then Federal com- mandant in Ky. .11 - Appoints a committee to investigate affairs in the Ken- tucky, Globe and Hope insurance compa- nies ......... 24-Donates $5,000 to the suf- ferers by the tornado of Jan. 17th in Cave City and vicinity ......... 29-Establishes the county of Lee, out of parts of Estill, Owsley, Breathitt and Wolfe.

Jan. 8-Gov. Stevenson gives a grand banquet at the gubernatorial mansion, to the members of the legislature and dis- tinguished citizens from all parts of the state.

Jan. 12-Second annual meeting of the Kentucky Press Association at Lexington ; 37 members present, in person or by proxy ; Col. Albert G. Hodges, of the Frankfort Commonwealth, president. Maj. Henry T. Stanton, of the Maysville Bulletin, delivers the annual poem, on "Type and Time ;" and Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, of the

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Frankfort Yeoman, the annual address on " The Press." During the year 1869, 16 newspapers have been established in the state, and 7 have suspended. Total now in the state 80-56 weekly, 3 semi-weekly, 3 tri-weekly, 6 daily, and 12 monthly ; 1 medical, 1 masonic, I musical, 1 literary, 1 educational, 2 temperance, 2 agricultural, 4 commercial, 7 religious, and 60 political (5 Republican and 55 Democratic.)

The first meeting, specially for organ- ization, was held at Frankfort, Jan. 13, 1869 -- Geo. D. Prentice, of the Louisville Courier-Journal, president; 27 editors pres- ent. At an entertainment given, at the Capital Hotel, by Geo. W. Ranck, of the Lexington Observer & Reporter, Mr. Pren- tice's toast-alluding to the graceful and elegant writing of the host, and to the racy, biting style of John E. Hatcher, of the Louisville Democrat-was : "The Rank and File of the Kentucky Press."

Jan. 12-The senate, by 24 to 7, passed a bill providing for the registration of marriages, births, and deaths ; it failed in the house, March 17, only 46 voting for it [51 required] and 32 against it.

Jan. 12-The house, by 80 to 15, passes a bill abolishing the infliction of stripes as a punishment for any and all offenses against state laws, and substituting con- finement in the county jail or work-house, and hard labor; or, in case of offenders under 20 years, confinement in the State House of Reformn. March 11, the senate rejected the bill.

Jan. 17-Terrific tornado or cyclone sweeps over Ky., before day. At Cave City, Barren co., 5 persons killed outright, 3 mortally, 19 dangerously, and 11 slightly wounded ; many houses demolished, in- cluding the Masonic Hall and 2 churches ; over 50 families rendered homeless ; some of the killed found 300 yards from where they had been sleeping ; every house be- tween Cave City and Glasgow Junction, 5 miles, blown down, 9 lives lost, and a number of persons wounded.

Jan. 17-By unanimous invitation of the house, Col. Blanton Duncan delivers an address, in the hall of the house of rep- resentatives, at Frankfort, on the subject of immigration.

Jan. 20 -- Death, at Lexington, aged 84, of Dr. Benj. W. Dudley, for nearly half a century at the head of the surgical profes- sion in the West. [See sketch, under Fayette co.]

Jan. 21-Death, at Louisville, aged 67, of Geo. Denison Prentice, the veteran ed- itor of the Louisville Journal. [See sketch, under Jefferson co.]

Jan. 22-The city treasurer's report shows the total income for the year 1869 of the city of Covington to be $171,479- of which from taxes $149,370, from coffee house and beer saloon licenses $8,677, from wharfage $1,345, &c .; and among its ex- penditures, for officers' salaries $10,230, for police $10,336, for gas $12,774, for in- ternal improveinents $43,698, for cleaning streets $12,224, &c.

Jan. 25-Gen. John C. Breckinridge, in the interest of the proposed Cincinnati Southern railroad charter, addresses a joint session of committees on railroads of the two houses of the legislature. Isaac Cald- well, of Louisville, replies, next week, on behalf of the city of Louisville.

Jan. 26-The senate, by 25 to 6, passes a bill appropriating $3,000, annually for three years, to the State Agricultural So- ciety, but the house, by 58 to 20, rejects it.

Jan. 26-Louisville Commercial has a sensation article which minutely describes the resuscitation by some of the medical faculty, reporting that he is now alive, of Kriel, the wife-murderer, who was hung, in that city, on Friday, 21st. An exami- nation of the vault shows Kriel's body still quietly reposing in his coffin, and explodes the hoax.

Jan. 26-Special reports of the Auditor show amount of appropriations for the penitentiary, from 1836 to 1860, $64,734, and from 1860 to 1869, $175,476-total $240,210.

Jan. 29-Death, at Lexington, aged 72, of Judge Lewis Collins, of Maysville - editor of the Maysville Eagle for 27 years, and author in 1847 of " Historical Sketches of Kentucky," 560 pp., Svo., most of which is embodied in this work. [See sketch, under Mason co.]

Jan. 30-Death, at Paris, aged 68, of Maj. Geo. W. Williams ; he was, during an eventful life, a lawyer, minister of the Reformed or Christian Church, member of the state senate and also of the house of representatives, member of the Constitu- tional convention in 1849-50, nominec of the Temperance party for governor in 1855, &c.

Jan. 31-Death, on South Licking, near Falmouth, Pendleton co., aged 99, of Abra- haw Turner; he had removed in 1794 from Virginia to the farm on which he died, and where he had lived 76 years.

Feb. 1-By unanimous invitation of the house, Henry Watterson, editor of the Lou- isville Courier-Journal, delivers in the hall of the house of representatives at Frankfort, a memorial address on the career and serv- ices of the late Geo. D. Prentice, journal- ist, statesinan, and poet.

Feb. 1-The statistics of the live stock trade, during 1869, to New York city from the West, have just been published, show- ing : Beef cattle 325,761, cows 4,836, calves 93,984, sheep 1,479,563, hogs 901,308- total 2,805,452. Average per week : beef cattle 6,265, cows 93, calves 1,807, sheep 28,453, hogs 17,333-average of all kinds per week 53,951 head. Average receipts per day, of all kinds, 7,707 head. Money value of the whole over $35,000,000 for the year 1869, or $1,057,692 for each week, or $151,099 for cach day. Illinois fur- nishes New York more than half of all her cattle, 198,433 head : Ohio next, 28,792; Texas 3d, 23,178; Kentucky 4th, 22,887; New York state 5th, 19,170; Indiana 6th, 11,077 ; Missouri 7th, 10,396; Michigan 8th, 2,281 : Iowa 9th, 2,001; Canada 10th,

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1;741 ; Pennsylvania 11th, 1,351; other states, 3,252 head.

Feb. 2-The house, by 74 to 15, refuses to entertain a bill providing for negro tes- timony. The senate, Jan. 22, took similar action, by 23 to 3.

Feb. 2-The senate, by 10 for and 18 against, declines to purchase a marble bust of Henry Clay, price $750.

Feb. 7-Legislature makes it finable to throw dead animals into the ponds, or into water courses except the Ohio and Missis- sippi rivers .. 10-Appropriates $6,731 for improvements at the feeble-minded in- stitute. Appropriates $75,000 to re- move obstructions out of Big Sandy river. .14 - Exempts from execution the professional libraries of ministers of the gospel, lawyers, and physicians to value of $500, and one horse with cart or dray of laboring men.

Feb. 7- Legal tender law decided un- constitutional by the U. S. supreme court, four concurring, three dissenting. Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase delivers the opinion.

Feb. 8- The following state officers elected by the legislature : Jeremiah W. South keeper of the penitentiary, Samuel I. M. Major public printer, John C. Noble public binder, and Geo. B. Crittenden librarian.

Feb. 9-From a resolution offered by O. C. Bowles in the house, to-day, and from the Auditor's report of the year 1869, it appears that on the 10th day of Oct. 1859 there was a deficit of $22,445 in the ordi- nary revenue of the state, which deficit has increased each year (except 1859) until the present time ; these deficits have been supplied, from time to time, by loans from the sinking fund.

Feb. 10-The bill to establish the county of Hanson, out of parts of Meade and Breckinridge counties (extending on the Ohio river from the lower end of Branden- burg to the mouth of Sinking creek, just above Stephensport) defeated in the house, by yeas 36, nays 45.

Feb. 15-Death, at Aberdeen, Ohio, op- posite Maysville, aged 94, of esquire Thos. Shelton. He has held the office of justice of the peace since 1816, being re-elected whenever his teri expired, and is estima- ted to have united in marriage inore than 4,000 couples or 8,000 people-probably three-fourths of whom were "runaway couples" from Ky. He emigrated to Ohio in 1812, from his native state Virginia.

Feb. 15-Meeting, at Paris, of soldiers of the war of 1812.

Feb.16-An invitation to the legislature, from the General Council and the Board of Trade of the city of Louisville, to visit that city on the 18th-to join in celebrat- ing the completion, so far as to admit of the passage of trains, of the magnificent bridge across the falls of the Ohio river- and to partake of the hospitalities of the city, and an invitation from the City Coun- cil of the city of Cincinnati to partake of its hospitalities, were, by a vote of 53 to

30, "respectfully declined" by the house of representatives. The hospitalities of the cities of Covington and Newport were subsequently tendered by their City Coun- cils, and the matter coming up in the sen- ate, that body, by 23 to 14, accepted the invitation. The house, by 33 to 47, refused to recede from its declination ; but, next day, on the renewal of the invitations with some changes, the house, by 45 to 42, aceepted them.

Feb. 16-The senate,. by 27 to 10, passes the bill increasing the salaries of the cir- cuit and other like judges to $3,000. The house, March 17, postponed its considera- tion until Jan. 10, 1871.

Feb. 17-Death, 3 miles from Frankfort, aged 106, of "Uncle David" Smart, a negro, born in Virginia in 1764, who emi- grated to Ky. with his master in 1780.

Feb. 17 - Sudden death, at Louisville, aged 42, of Chas. D. Kirk, editor of the Louisville Daily Sun, and well known as a rather brilliant correspondent over the signature of " Se De Kay."

Feb. 18, 19, 20-The members of the legislature and most of the state officers visit Louisville on Friday, take part in the exercises dedicating the new city hos- pital, cross in the first passenger train over the Ohio river railroad bridge, and in the evening are entertained at an elegant ban- quet at the Galt House; thence, go by steamer to Cincinnati, where they are es- corted during Saturday through Clifton and other suburban villas, and are ban- queted at night at the Burnet House, Hon. Geo. H. Pendleton delivering the welcoming address. On Sunday they are dined and wined in elegant style (in seeming forgetfulness of the holy day) by the city authorities both of Covington and Newport ; thence taking a Sunday after- noon special train to Lexington, they are bounteously provided for at the Phoenix Hotel in that city, and at 9 P. M. return by another special train to Frankfort.

Feb. 25-The house, by 45 to 35, passes a bill giving to attorneys-at-law a lien for their fees upon any property, real or per- sonal, which they may recover by suit. Not acted on in the senate.

Feb. 28-An act of the legislature ex- cludes from the limits of the city of Paris certain territory [popularly known as Claysville and Ruckersville.]

March 1-At the suggestion of the Ky. representatives in congress, that the laws of Ky., and the senate and house journals, since 1850, were not to be found in the library of congress ; the house, Feb. 22, by 58 to 18, and the senate, Feb. 24, directed two sets of the same to be forwarded.

March 1,11-Louisville and Chattanooga Railroad Company chartered by the legis- lature ; route not designated, but commis- sioners to receive subscriptions of stock appointed in Jefferson. Spencer, Nelson, Washington, Marion, Taylor, Adair, and Cumberland counties.

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Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 43

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870. cn; Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889. cn Publication date: 1874 Publisher: Covington, Ky., Collins & Co. Number of Pages: 1452

Author: Collins, Lewis, 1797-1870. cn; Collins, Richard H., 1824-1889. cn
Publication date: 1874
Publisher: Covington, Ky., Collins & Co.
Number of Pages: 1452