Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 50

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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May 20-Mr. Holden, of Warsaw, Gal- latin co., sells a horse for $2,000-the high- est price ever paid in Ky. for a saddle horse.

May 25 - Graves of the Confederate dead, in several cemeteries, decorated with flowers.

June 5-Kentucky Press Association 4th annual meeting and banquet at Bowling- green. Poem by Jas. W. Hopper, of the Lebanon Standard, annual address by Geo. W. Baber, of the Bowlinggreen Democrat, and historical address by Richard H. Col- lins. At 4 P. M., the beautiful Fountain Park dedicated; address by Henry Wat- terson, editor of the Louisville Courier- Journal.

June 8-Bath co., by 149 majority (700 for, 551 against), votes a subscription of $150,000 to the Frankfort, Paris and Big Sandy railroad.

June 14-John James Key, on the 3d trial at Flemingsburg, for the murder, at Maysville, of his father, John R. Key, acquitted on the ground of insanity. The speech of Wm. Henry Wadsworth in his defense said to be one of the most power- ful and brilliant ever delivered in a Ky. court. On the 1st trial, June, 1870, the jury stood 10 for conviction, 2 for acquit- tal. On the 2d trial, June, 1871, a verdict of guilty was found, but set aside because of the misconduct of a juror.

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June 17-City of Covington, to meet her maturing bonded and floating debt, sells $150,000 20-year 7-30 bonds at 99 1-5, and $100,000 8-per-cent. income bonds at par.

June 18-President Grant signs the Ky. war claim bill just passed by congress- appropriating $1,000,000 to pay any proper claims of Ky. for money expended for state forces after Aug. 24, 1861.

June 19-First exclusively negro jury in Ky. serves at a coroner's inquest, at Lou- isville, over the body of a negro, who died from wounds inflicted by another negro on steamer Robert Burns, May 29.

June 19-Fastest trotting race to har- ness on record, over the mile track at Mys- tic Park near Boston : Goldsmith Maid beats Lucy,

1st heat, 14, 0.36 ...... 12, 1:10 ... mile 2:21.

2d 14, 0.3412 ... 12, 1:07 ... 1/2 " 2:1634.

3d “ 14, 0.35 ...... 12, 1.10 ... " 2:1934. The next week, Robert Bonner's horse, Joe Elliott, made a mile privately, in 2:15.

June 19-First annual exhibition of fine tobacco at Hopkinsville, Christian co., "a grand success ;" 145 hogsheads entered.

June 20-Fayette co. court of claims re- fuses to submit to a vote of the people the proposition to subscribe $200,000 to lock and dam Ky. river.

June 20 - Democratic state convention at Frankfort ; candidates for presidential electors, and delegates to the national con- vention, appointed.

June 26 -Great sale of thoroughbred and trotting stock at Woodburn, in Wood- ford co., the stud farm of A. J. Alexander ; 53 head sold for about $45,000.

July 1-Boone co. court levies the bounty tax, which now amounts to about $2 on the $100, and the cost of litigation to per- haps $1:50 more.

July 2-Great 212-mile race at Long Branch, between Jno. Harper's Longfellow and Col. McDaniels' Harry Bassett (both Ky. horses), won by the former. The result :

1st quarter, 0.2634

0.2412

Half mile, 511/4

0.27

0.2534 1 1.44

5th

0.2614

6th

0.2712 11/2 2.3734

7th 0.2912 13% 3.0714

8th

2' 3.361/2

9th

4.061/2

4.34

July 3-In the common pleas court, at Louisville, John S. Kline recovers of S. F. Dawes $1,000 damages, for his clerk's mis- take in putting up the wrong drug in com- pounding his prescription-cantharides in- stead of stramonium.

July 3-John G. Baxter, mayor, reports having sold in New York the 150 30-year road-bed bonds, dated July 1, 1871, and the 200 20-year 7-per cent. city institution bonds, dated June 1, 1872, at net 90 1-16 per cent. and accrucd interest-" the very best sale ever made of Louisville city bonds." "Net amount $326,885.45, and

no expenses to be deducted for commission, expressage, or otherwise."

July 9, 10-Democratic national conven- tion at Baltimore on the 1st ballot nomi- nates Horace Greeley for president (Greeley 686, Jas. A. Bavard 20, J. S. Black 21, Wm. S. Groesbeck 2); and B. Gratz Brown for vice president (Brown 713, John W. Stevenson, of Ky., 6, blank 13. Both nom- inations were made unanimous.

July 16-Great 214-mile race at Sara- toga ; Longfellow beaten by Harry Bassett a length in 3:59. One of Longfellow's plates broke, twisted round, and cut the opposite foot and leg badly, disabling his leg ; yet he ran the race out, and was game to the last. [The first 2 miles, while they were lapped, were made in 3:30 ; or 261/4 to the quarter, and at the rate of 7:00 for four miles-the fastest time ever made.]

July -Madison co., by 1,596 for, 641 against-majority 955-votes a subscrip- tion of $200,000 to the Richmond and Es- till railroad. Crittenden co. votes down the proposition to subscribe $200,000 in the Clarksville and Princeton railroad, and $150,000 to the Evansville and Jackson railroad.

July 20-Building of the Louisville In- dustrial Exposition inaugurated, with ad- dresses by Gen. Wm. Preston, Gov. Thos. E. Bramlette, Gen. John W. Finnell, Ben. J. Webb, and Martin Bijur, before a large audience. It is of brick, of magnificent appearance and proportions, two stories high, 330 feet long by 230 feet broad, on the corner of 4th and Chestnut streets.

July -Dedication of the elegant new Centre College building at Danville, and inauguration of president Ormond Beatty, LL.D., of vice president Rev. John L. McKee, D.D., and of the professor of nat- ural sciences.

Aug. 5-John Larkin, with a five-horse team, hauls 16,300 pounds of barley at one load, on the turnpike from beyond Mays- lick, Mason co., 14 miles, to Maysville.

Aug. 5-In Covington, the proposition to subscribe $500,000 towards building a railroad bridge, with free footways, be- tween that city and Cincinnati-received 2,486 votes for it, to 639 against-maj. 1,847. The new charter was defeated- 1,129 for, 1,335 against-maj. 206. The total vote polled in Covington was 3,540, and in Kenton co. 5,231-the largest ever cast.

Aug. 7-Election of sheriffs throughout the state. . In the second district, Win. S. Pryor elected judge of the court of appeals; Pryor 23,089, John W. Menzies 4,350- maj. 18,739.

Aug. 8-Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to be removed to Ky. and located at Louisville-if $300,900 be raised in Ky. towards its buildings and endowment.

Aug. 10-A great freshet in Liek creek, Carroll co., caused by a very heavy rain during Sunday morning service, carrics off the church (with the congregation in it) a distance of several hundred yards, and lodges it against a tree. A mother, in at-

4th

11/4 miles, 2.1014 0.2914 0.30 214 10th 0.271/2 21/2 3/4 1.184

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tempting to escape, let her child fall into | Democrat.") For vice president, the 1st the water, and it was drowned.

Aug. 10-Wing of the new capitol build- ing partially unroofed by a violent storm of wind and rain.

Aug. 12-Death, in Madison co., aged 108, of Enos Hendren.

Aug. 14-Intense excitement in financial circles in Louisville, caused by the culmina- tion and exposure of the systematic frauds and forgeries of Robert Atwood, a promi- nent insurance agent of the firm of At- wood & Nicholas-in extent over $445,000, and involving in heavy losses, if not in financial ruin, many of his friends, among the best citizens. The grand jury, a few days after, returned 38 indictments against him for forgery, and the court fixed his bail at $57,000; it was not given, and he was remanded to jail, to await his trial.

Aug. 18, 19-Tabbs Gross-a colored man who, before the war, had purchased his freedom in Mason co., where he was born and raised, and had become exten- sively known as a speaker, and recently as a lawyer and editor at Little Rock, Ark., waited on at 2 A. M., Sunday, at his resi- dence in Cincinnati, Ohio, by about 20 armed negroes, and threatened with death unless he should leave that city by 9:40 P. M .; all because, on the night before, he had made a speech in Newport, Ky., in favor of Horace Greeley for next president. He crossed the river to Covington, Ky., where a large crowd turned out to hear him speak, on Monday night, and protect him.

Aug. 22 to 27-Methodist E. Church South camp- meeting at Parks' Hill, on Licking river, 6 miles north of Carlisle, Nicholas co .; over 5,000 people in attend- ance.

Aug. 28-The net yearly income of the Wm. Garth educational fund, in Bourbon cQ., is $3,250, and provides for 15 young men a liberal education.

Sept. 1 to 25-Great drouth in Fulton co., and in several counties in central Ky., Franklin, Fayette, Clark, &c. Water for cooking and for stock hauled 3 to 7 miles. Springs dry which were never known to fail.

Sept. 3 - Death, near Mountsterling, Montgomery co., aged 91, of Gen. Samuel L. Williams ; a native of Virginia, but em- -igrated to Ky. in his youth, served with distinction in the war of 1812, in both branches of the Ky. legislature, and in other offices of honor and trust. He was · the father of Gen. John S. ("Cerro Gordo") Williams and of Gen. Dick Williams.

Sept. 3, 4, 5 - National convention, at Louisville, of "straight-out Democrats," who bolt or repudiate the action of the reg- ular Democratic convention at Baltimore, in nominating the Liberal Republican can- didates for president and vice president, Horace Greeley and B. Gratz Brown. A long letter from Chas. O'Conor, of New York city, is read, and, Sept. 4, he is nom- inated for president, receiving 600 votes, to 4 cast for Geo. H. Pendleton (whom several delegates denounce as a " Greeley

ballot stood : Jno. Quincy Adams, of Mass., 213; Alfred P. Edgerton, of Ind., 222; James Lyons, of Va. (president of the con- vention ) 154; Henry A. Wise, of Va., 16. 2d ballot : Adams 195, Edgerton 249, Lyons 162. While the 3d ballot was being taken, delegates began changing their votes, amid the wildest enthusiasm, for Adams, and he received almost a unanimous vote and the nomination. In a telegram from Chas. O'Conor, he declined the nomination, pro- ducing great confusion and much trepida- tion about its genuineness. 5th-John Q. Adams telegraphed : " I will gladly serve as vice president with Mr. O'Conor. I at the same time accept nothing else. O'Conor must positively stand." The Louisiana delegation withdrew. A resolution was adopted, 542 yeas, 30 nays, that "having unanimously nominated Charles O'Conor for president and John Quincy Adams for vice president, we are unwilling to make any other nomination, and that the Dem- ocratie party will give them in any event an undivided support."

Sept. 3 to Oct. 12-National Industrial Exposition open at Louisville ; grandest display ever witnessed south of the Ohio river, and never equaled but once in the United States, of the arts, inventions, man- ufactures and products of the whole coun- try ; held in a magnificent brick building, occupying half a square or block ; visited by from 7,000 to 20,000 people daily.

Sept. 5-Extraordinary meteor at 834 P. M. witnessed at Louisville, Pewee Valley in Oldham co., Covington, and other points. It appeared in the southwest, 20° above the horizon, passed northeastwardly entirely across the heavens, remaining in sight 2 min. 10 sec .; size about that of a star of first magnitude; trail very long, faded gradually.

Sept. 5 - Inauguration ceremonies at Bowlinggreen of the new " Warren Col- lege."

Sept. 10 -" The Short-Horn Record," volumes I and II, just issued by A. J. Alexander, Spring Station, Woodford co. Volume III will appear in the summer of 1873. Printed at the Frankfort Yeoman office-a Kentucky work, out and out, and a herd-book of remarkable value.

Sept. 11, 12-" Peace Reunion" at Lou- isville.

Sept. 12-Cassius M. Clay, while ad- dressing 2,000 people at Ironton, Ohio, in favor of the election of Horace Greeley as U. S. president, is clamored down by long- continued and deafening yells of " Hurrah for Grant, 'rahi for Grant." In 1864, Thos. E. Bramlette, then governor of Ky., and Laban T. Moore, a Ky. ex-congressman, were cried down in a public hall of that city, in a meeting at which all the loyal leaders, both civil and military, were pres- ent. They were Union speakers, but op- posed to Mr. Lincoln for president. [Such ruffianism seems to be chronic in Ironton, if not peculiar to her.]

Sept. 16-Mob law in Washington co .;

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some of the citizens greatly excited because of the tax imposed by a vote of the county to aid in building the Cumberland and Ohio railroad, assembled, drove off the workmen on the road, burnt their tools, wagons and shanties, and threatened more serious damages.

Sept. 17-Gov. Leslie issues a proclama- tion or circular to the circuit and county judges, commonwealth and county at- torneys, and circuit and county clerks in Ky., appealing to them to enforce the law in relation to public books. In the last six years, since Oct. 10, 1866, the state has expended over $200,000 for public books ; of which, near $80,000 to replace lost or missing volumes of the statutes, acts, and court-of-appeals reports. Proper care, and enforcement of the law, would have saved over $10,000 per year, for six years past.

· Sept. 18-A man named Johnson con- victed, in the Edmonson circuit court, of petit larceny, and sentenced to receive 3 lashes on his naked back-a remnant of barbarism enforced, it is hoped, for the last time. Public opinion demands a change of the law prescribing stripes as a punish- ment.

Sept. 19-The Louisville Courier-Journal thus deftly perpetuates some of the idio- syncrasies of ex-attorney-general John M. Harlan, one of the most untiring and pop- ular stump-speakers in Ky. As a colonel of the Federal army, during the rebellion, he did some gallant riding :

"Gen. Harlan has exposed himself to considerable ridicule by attempting to point out inconsistencies in Horace Greeley's record, and deriding what he is pleased to regard as the present anomalous position of the Democratic party. The Frankfort Yeoman-which has always had a hanker- ing after old things, including records- reproduces some spirited paragraphs from the Frankfort Commonwealth of 1865, de- nouncing the General in very plump terms as a rebel sympathizer. He violently op- posed the adoption of the Thirteenth amend- men't, spoke against Morton when a candi- date for governor of Indiana, and the Yeoman says, gained him about 25,000 votes. Weknow of no organization which has had an existence within the past 20 years to which the General has not been, in one way or another, allied. He turns over, too, from one to another with an ease, grace and boldness that might well excite the envy of an infant mouser in its most playful and entertaining mood. We really fear that the General will some day turn over in his grave."

Sept. 19-State convention of breeders .

of short- horn cattle, at Lexington ; de- mands thorough reformation in Allen's American Herd-book, or a new herd-book.

until the judgment day ; that God is mate- rial, that Christ was the first created being, and that baptism is essential to salvation. Oct. 1-While hauling shingles to cover the church, Rev. Wm. Terhune got his foot caught in the reins ( which broke while the horses were running off), was thrown to the ground, and the wheels passed over his head, killing him instantly.

Sept. 20-Louisville Daily True Demo- crat, after being published about 6 weeks, announces its suspension. It was owned and edited by Col. Blanton Duncan, and designed as the organ of the "straight" or " Charles O'Conor Democrats."

Sept. 21-Enthusiastic reception of Hor- ace Greeley, the Liberal Republican and also the Democratic nominee for president. At Covington, Newport, along the route of the Louisville and Cincinnati Short-Line railroad, and at Louisville many thousand people give him a welcome to Kentucky.

Sept. 21-Completion, by the Louisville and Nashville railroad, of its southern ex- tension-called the South and North Ala- bama railroad-to Montgomery, Ala., via Nashville and Decatur, a distance of 490 miles.

Sept. 22-Death, at Paris, aged 71, of Garret Davis, now U. S. senator. [See sketch, under Bourbon co.]

Sept. 25- Barbecue, in Union co., in ' honor of Rev. Father Durbin's 50th year . as officiating priest in the Roman Catholic church ; 2,100 persons present, over 700 ladies. He has baptized 3,500 persons, sol- emnized over 600 marriages, and attended over 600 funerals. Only two men now liv- ing in the county who were heads of fam- ilies when he first came to it.

Sept. 25-Increased attention to cotton culture in the counties in the "Jackson Purchase ;" in Graves co., a bale (400 lbs. clean cotton) per acre raised.

Sept. 25-Gov. Leslie issues his procla- mation announcing that the State House of Reform, near Anchorage, Jefferson co., is now ready for the reception of male con- victs sentenced thereto.

Sept. 25, 26-The colored Liberal Repub- lican national convention in session at Louisville ; delegates from 23 states ; strong resolutions in favor of Horace Greeley for president, &c.

Sept. 26-Gov. Leslie appoints Willis B. Machen, of Lyon co., to fill the vacancy in the U. S. senate until March 4, 1873.

Sept. 26-Court of appeals, in Bank of Ky. v8. Commonwealth, decides unconsti- tutional the act of March 8, 1867, laying a tax of 5 per cent. on the interest derived from U. S. bonds. The states have no power to tax the bonds in question.

Sept. 26-Death, at Pleasant Plains, Ill., aged 87, of Rev. Peter Cartwright, for 68 years an eccentric and remarkable Meth- odist preacher, in Kentucky and Illinois.

Sept. 20-A new denomination, styled "The Soul Sleepers," under the leadership of Rev. Wm. Terhunc, sprung up in the Sept. 27 - Extraordinary mortality of horses in Turncy & Stroude's stable, at Paris. Of 17 horses in the stable, 14 die ; the cause traced to the water of a cistern, western part of Mercer and Boyle counties, and now building a church in Mercer co., near Nevada. They maintain that the soul, after death, sleeps with the body | foul from manure and dead rats and cats.

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Sept. 27-Several men cxcited by liquor | fire into a house at Paris, Bourbon co., at 1012 P. M., and kill a baby.

Sept. 28-Tornado in Christian co., near Hopkinsville ; several dwellings, and a number of negro cabins, barns, and out- houses blown down, and other buildings unroofed, trees and fences swept off or prostrated.

Oct. 1-An informal meeting, represent- ing 25,012 shares, or about 5-6ths of the stockholders, of the Cumberland and Ohio railroad, at Louisville, endorses the " great prudence, wisdom, and success of the pol- icy and proceedings of its officers and di- rectors ;" and declines to call a formal meeting of the stockholders.

Oct. 1-Excitement in Breckinridge co. over discoveries of lead ore 6 per cent. richer than the best Missouri mines ; and in Lyon co. over fresh discoveries of im- mense iron beds-one hill belonging to Ed. and Henry Machen, 1,000 feet broad at base and 100 feet high, on the Elizabeth- town and Paducah railroad, and quarter of a mile from Cumberland river, being "one solid mass of iron ore." The owners are shipping the ore to Cincinnati.

Oct. 1-John T. Sidwell raised on 4 acres, near Fern Leaf, Mason co., 7,100 pounds of white tobacco, which he sold at 15 cents per pound -- an average of $266.22 per acre, or about three times the value of the land on which it was raised.

Oct. 1-A weather signal station estab- lished by the government at the Agricul- tural and Mechanical College, at Ashland, near Lexington.

Oct. 2-At the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Louisville and Nash- ville railroad company, the report shows an increase of gross earnings, for the past year, on all the lines operated by the com- pany. of 1.49 per cent .: decrease of ope- rating expenses of 2.52 per cent., and in- crcase of net earnings of 14.97 per cent. Within 4 years, it has added to its lines- by purchase, lease, and controlling inter- est-the following railroads in Tennessee and Alabama, in all 518 miles-making 920 miles now operated by it :

Memphis, Clarksville and Lou- isville . 83 miles. Memphis and Ohio. .130

Nashville and Decatur .. 122 66

South and North Alabama ..... 183

During Aug., 500,000 pound sterling 30- year 6-per cent. bonds, secured by a mort- gage upon the Memphis, Clarksville and Louisville road (recently purchased of the state of Tennessee) were sold in London at 88 per cent. gold, netting in currency here 96 per cent.

Oct. 8, 9, 10, 11-Grand Lodge of Inde- pendent Order of Good Templars holding its 9th annual session at Frankfort; 175 delegates in attendance ; G. W. C. T. Gco. W. Bain read his annual report, showing. after 8 years' organization, 24,000 mem- bers of the order in the state.

Oct. 10-Enthusiastic welcome and hos- pitable reception at Louisville, of 425

Southern excursionists from Mobile, Mont- gomery, and other points along the route of the new Alabama extension of the Lou- isville and Nashville railroad.

Oct. 10-At 9 P. M., at Lawton's Bluff, in Marshall co., 8 miles from Paducah, the ladies' car on the Elizabethtown and Padu- cah railroad train was thrown from a trestle work 35 feet high; 2 passengers killed, and 14 wounded.

Oct. 11-A new rolling-mill at Paducah begins operations, designed to employ 100 hands, use 1,200 to 1,500 bushels of coal and turn out 18 to 20 tons of iron per dav.

Oct. 11-Fall, at 7 p. M., of an unfin- ished 4-story brick storehouse, on Market street, Louisville, burying under its high walls four other buildings, crushing to death and mangling 4 persons, and wound- ing three others. The walls were only 9 inches thick. The architect, contractor, and bricklayer were arrested and held to bail, on a charge of manslaughter.

Oct. 11-Removal of the state auditor's office and archives into the magnificent rooms in the new fire- proof building in the east end of the new capitol. The other state offices had been removed previously.

Oct. 11-Death, in Charlotte co., Va., aged 78,of Edmund Winston Henry, young- est and last surviving son of the man whom Thos. Jefferson called "the greatest orator that ever lived," Patrick Henry, the first governor of independent Virginia in 1776, when Ky. was a part of it, included in Fincastle co., and when, Dec. 6, of that year, Ky. was erected into a county of Va. He was born in 1794, when his father was 58 years old, and only 5 years before his father's death.

Oct. 12-Riot in Covington, at 912 P. M. The negroes, in a "Grant and Wilson" procession, fire a number of pistol-shots, and attack with bowlders and bricks, and demolish the windows, doors, and show- cases of five stores and shops owned by unoffending Germans, wounding 8 or 9 persons with stones.

Oct. 12-At the Jerome Park races, near New York city, Monarchist distances his half-brother Harry Bassett (both Ken- tucky horses) in the 4-mile dash, in 7:3312. He had beaten him, also, a few days be- fore, over the same course, in a 3-mile dash, in 5.341% ; value of stakes $3,700.

Oct. 14 to 24-Great sales of fine bred trotting stock in or near Lexington, by Samuel H. Chew, W. W. Adams, Jos. H. Bryan, Dan. Swigert, Barker & Lewis, Dr L. Herr, Hunt Brothers, J. D. Carlisle, and near Frankfort by J. W. Hunt Reynolds.

Oct. 16-In the castern part of Shelby co., near North Benson Station, on the L., C. & L. railroad, a murderous band of men in disguise burned the barn of Lawson Johnson, a negro ( whom, with others, they had previously ordered to leave the state), and killed Gabe Flood, a negro-before they were driven off. In a previous attack on his house the weck before, one of the band was wounded and lost his hand.

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Oct. 16-At the Lexington trotting fair, Dr. D. L. Price's 2-year old, by Ericcson, trotted one mile in 2:4333, without a com- petitor-the fastest time on record by a colt of that age. Oct. 19, he distanced a 3-year old, in 2:4014, on same track. Oct. 18, Dr. L. Herr's yearling colt, by Mam- brino Patchen, trotted fairly and squarely, without a break, winning two mile-heats, in 3:1412, 3:1334 ; and, Oct. 21, in 3:12.

Oct. 18-Articles of consolidation filed at Frankfort, between the St. Louis and Terre Haute railway company of Illinois and Indiana, and the Evansville, Hender- son and Nashville railway company of Ky., the St. Louis and Southeastern railway company, Ky. division, and the Nashville, Chicago and St. Louis railway company- under the name of the St. Louis and South- eastern railway company, consolidated.

Oct. 20-At 2 A. M. (Sunday ) 25 armed men on horseback entered Owingsville, Bath co., from the west, forced an entrance through a brick wall into the rear of the jail, took thence to a pasture near town and hung a negro man, Sam. Bascom, con- fined on a charge of attempt at house- burning. The negro persisted in declar- ing his innocence, and begged for mercy ; his guilt was at least doubtful, and there was no fear of his escape; if convicted of the crime, his punishment was certain.

Oct. 23, 24-Great interest in Louisville on the subject of another railroad to the South. Great mass meeting calls upon the council to submit to a vote of the people the question of issuing $1,000,000 bonds to aid the construction of a railroad to con- nect with the Elizabethtown and Paducah railroad, and be used as its main entrance to the city. The council provides for a popular election, Nov. 30.

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Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 50

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