Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 51

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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Oct. 24-Railroad Conductors' Life In- surance Association in session at Louis- ville.

Oct. 24, 25, 26-24th anniversary meet- ing of the General Missionary Convention of the Christian ( Reformed) Church, at Louisville-Richard M. Bishop president. Delegates present from New York, Mich- igan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Mis- souri, Kansas, Tennessee, Georgia, and West Virginia.

Oct. 25-The Cincinnati board of trade appoints a committee of 22, and 26 busi- ness firms issue a joint circular letter, to urge the proposition of building a branch railroad from Lagrange, Oldham co., on the Louisville and Cincinnati Short-line road, to Elizabethtown, Hardin co., the eastern terminus of the Elizabethtown and Paducah railroad - with a view to the shortest direct line between Cincinnati and Memphis, Tenn.

Oct. 25-Over 100 wagons, with Ky. emigrants for the far West, have passed through South Union, Logan co., this fall.

Oct. 25-German citizens in Louisville, devising liberal things for Ky., arc about to organize a board of immigration, and arrange for the free transportation of Ger- mans to Ky.

Oct. 25-While excavating, just 22 feet below the surface, for the Broadway west- ern outlet sewer in Louisville, the work- men found the 2d or 3d vertebra and other remains of some extinct animal, probably 15 feet long. It crumbled readily when exposed.

Oct. 28-The Prussian government adopts the revolving breech-loading rifle invented by Col. John C. Miller, of Dan- ville.

Oct. 28-Many plum trees near Paris in bloom for the second time this season.

Oct. 30-Proclamation of Gov. Leslie, enjoining upon local authorities and citi- zens to leave nothing undone to arrest and bring to speedy trial the lawless bands of depredators who killed a man in Shelby co., and took from jail and hung a man in Bath co., (the negro, Sam Bascom.)

Nov. 1-In Jessamine co., near the Fay- ette co. line and near Mt. Eden church, 3 negroes ( -. Hawkins, his wife and daugh- ter) dragged from their homes by a mob, and hung or murdered. Cause-the pois- oning of a much used spring, on the pub- lic highway, belonging to Mrs. Carroll- traced to, or charged upon, the Hawkins negroes, who desired to wreak a murder- ous revenge upon the whites of the neigh- borhood.

Nov. 1-Louisville tobacco sales for three years, each ending Nov. 1 :

Hhds. sold in 1870 ... 40,047 Total sales ... $4.523,330 60 1871 .... 49,006 ... 4,601.046

= 1872 ... 33,342 66 .. 4,616,459 Nov. 1-Agents of Pennsylvania Central R. R. said to be buying up, at 1212 cents on the dollar, a controlling interest in the stock of the Maysville and Paris railroad. Nov. 1 .- Semi-annual dividends of Lou- isville banks : Ist and 2d National each 5, and Ky. National 6 per cent.

Nov. 1-At Bellevue, Campbell co., ad- joining Newport on the east, the first house was erected in 1866 ; now 170 build- ings in the town.

Nov. 1-Up to Oct. 1st, the Owensboro and Russellville railroad had expended in construction $1,406,118 ; completing 371% miles from Owensboro to Stroud City, at crossing of E. & P. R. R .; and of the re- maining 4412 miles to the Tennessee state line at Adairville, 32 are entirely graded and 1212 more than half done.

Nov. 1-The tobacco warehousemen at Paducah-following the example of the Louisville warehousemen-cease to do their business under the statutes of Ky., and be- gin as commission merchants, elect three inspectors instead of six, requiring of them bonds and a guaranty of samples.

Nov. 2-48 cases of small-pox in Lex- ington, 8 at Richinond ; in Sept., at Flem- ingsburg, 38 cases and 14 deaths.

Nov. 3-Death at Louisville, aged 74, of Virgil MeKnight, for 35 years president of the bank of Kentucky, and one of the ablest and soundest financiers in the State.

Nov. 3-Death at Louisville of Rer. Henry Adams, colored ; for 35 years tho faithful and exemplary pastor of the 1st Colored Baptist Church in that city.

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Nov. 5-For U. S. president and vice | about 1 in 20 dies ; on some farms the loss president, Horace Greeley and Ben. Gratz by death is heavy. B-own ( Liberal Republican, and adopted Nov. 9-Great fire in Boston ; (Kentuck- ians not large owners of property as at the great Chicago fire.) In 15 hours, 60 acres burned over, 748 houses burned, many of them fine blocks of granite stores ; loss in buildings and contents estimated at $100,000,000. by the Democrats) received 100,212 votes, Ulysses S. Grant and Henry Wilson (Re- publican ) 88,816, and Charles O'Conor and J. Q. Adams, Jr. ( Bourbon Democrat) 2,374. Greeley's maj. over Grant, 11,396. Falling off since Aug. 1871 in Dem. vote 23,473, and in Rep. vote only 267.

For Congress the vote stood :

Dis !. Democrats. Republicans.

1. Ed. Crossland ...... 10,276 Isaac H. Trabne .* 2,510 J. Martin, sen ... 1,473 H. H. Houston ..... 1,817

2. John Y. Brown. 10,85s E. Langley ..

.. ..... 457

3. C. W. Milliken_ 8,796 J. S Golladay *... 4,853

4. Wm. B. Read ...... 8,221 Ed. H. Hobsont_ 548

5. E. D. Standiford 11,179 Win. P. Boone ... 5,053

6. Wm. E. Arthur.11,424 Harvey Myers ...... 6,564 7. Jas. B. Beck ...... 12,978 Stephen F. J. Trabue. ... 6,322 8. M. J. Durham .... 10,874 Wm . O. Bradley _. 9,925 g. Geo. M. Adams ... 9,222 A. T. Wood ........... 8, 427 10. John D. Young ... 9,075 John M. Burns .... , 8,855

* O'Conor Democrats.

t Not a candidate; voted for only in Green county.

In accordance with the law of Congress of Feb. 28, 1871, requiring "all votes for representatives in Congress hereafter to be by written or printed ballot," and of the law of Kentucky pursuant thereto, of March 27, 1872, the votes above for members of congress (for the first time in the History of Kentucky ) were cast by ballot ; whereas those for electors of president and vice president were, as heretofore, viva voce.

Nov. 5-Warren co. refuses to subscribe $500,000 to the proposed Bowling Green and Madisonville railroad.

Nov. 5-At Madisonville, Hopkins co., a negro, John Wadlington so offended some of the " National Republican party "' by voting for Horace Greeley for president, that he was taken out and lynched.

Nov. 5-At New Orleans, La., Frank A. Monroe, son of the late Judge Victor Mon- roe, of Frankfort, elected judge of 3d dis- trict court.

Nov. 7-A little son, 8 years old, of Eu- gene Barnes, in Fayette co., devoured by hogs, all but his head and shoulders ; in go- ing home from school, he passed through a lot of hogs, with young pigs, on his fath- er's farm, and it is supposed that while playing with the pigs, sows attacked him.

Nov. 8-The Canadian horse disease, the epizooty-recently epidemic all over the East, cities and country-reaches Cincin- nati, crosses the Ohio to Covington and Newport, and gradually spreads over Ken- tucky ; causing for some days, the stop- page of street cars, omnibus and stage lines, drays and wagons except so far as oxen are brought in from the country to haul them. Men frequently hitch them- selves in teams, or haul in hand wagons. In Louisville, a small elephant is set to hauling. Iu largest cities, companies of men organize to haul steam engines to fires, in place of horses. Nearly all horses and mules have the disease, some of them long and seriously, and in some places

Nov. 10-A negro, Ross Branson, taken from jail in Blandville, Ballard co., by 200 armed men and hung ; for rape, Nov. 6, on a white woman, near Woodville, Mc- Cracken co .; he acknowledged his guilt.

Nov. 12-Subscriptions to the proposed "Central University of Kentucky " an- nounced as having reached $116,000.

Nov. 12-At a grand concert by the Ivorite Society, at Liverpool, England, the new National air of Wales-‘ Victorious Land of Wales "-was sung, for the first time in Liverpool, by a leader and chorus of 50 voices. It was sung in English first, received an immense encore, and was repeated in Welsh-arousing the wildest enthusiasm. The newspapers of Wales spoke of it in the loftiest terms -- one edi- tor saying " it had stirred the heart of the Welsh people from Cardiff to Holyhead." The author of the words was Geo. F. Ful- ler, and they were sct to music by J. W. Parsons Price (a native of Wales)-both of them citizens of Louisville.

Nov. 12-Over 100 cases of small pox at Louisville.

Nov. 15-Dr. Ben. Lewis Crist killed by John H. West, in a rencontre at Shepherds- ville, Bullitt co. West acquitted, April '74.

Nov. 15-Rev. Stuart Robinson, D. D., in a newspaper communication, protests against the introduction by the Louisville Library Association as a lecturer, of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton-" a woman no- torious as the leader of a fiercely partisan infidel assault upon, not only our common Christianity, but our social order and civ- ilization."

Nov. 15-Richard Rice, aged 70, a lun- atic confined at home in Kenton co., be- cause no room in the Asylum at Lexing- ton, burned to death by his own act.

Nov. 15-Rev. Gilbert H. Robertson, D. D., after 4 days trial before the Pres- bytery of Louisville, in connection with Presbyterian General Assembly [North- ern], deposed from the ministry and sus- pended from the communion of the church.

Nov. 16-Judgment of $1,200 at Padu- cah, against Sol. Vaughan, for cowhiding S. Fels.

Nov. 18-Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectures at Louisville on the "Coming Girl ; " advocates woman suffrage.

Nov. 20-Louisville and Nashville, and Memphis and Ohio, railroads recently con- solidated-$100 of stock in the former to be issued for $400 of stock in the latter.

Nov. 21-Large fire at Lexington ; over two blocks of houses, mostly frame tene- ments, burned ; many poor families home- less ; one child burned in the flames.

Nov. 22-Mysterious disappearance, at

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New York, of Geo. N. Peay, a well known business man of Louisville, with consider- able sums of money. [No satisfactory ac- counts of him until March, 1874, when he is found in a large city in Canada, and ar- . rested.]

Nov. 23-John G. Baxter, mayor of Louisville, withdraws as a candidate for re-election ; because the new city charter makes an incumbent practically ineligible for a consecutive term.

Nov. 25-Great fires in the woods, in parts of Livingston, McCracken, and other counties.

Nov. 25-Death in Greenup co., of Mrs. Mary Gray, aged 113 years, 8 months, 16 days (see under Greenup co., in Vol. II.) Her mother, Mrs. Bonafil, lived to 100 years old, her husband to only 64, but 5 of their children to 90, 88, 83, 73, 70.

Nov. 26-Great drouth in Ballard, Mc- Cracken, and neighboring counties ; water for drinking and cooking hauled several miles.

Nov. 27-At Bowling Green, two ob- servers, between 7:40 and 8:45 this P. M., counted 116 falling meteors ; at the rate of 480 in an hour, if the whole heav- ens had been constantly watched.

Nov. 28-Specimens of silver-bearing ore found upon the farm of Mrs. Judith L. Marshall, near the Ky. river in Henry co.

Nov. 28-Thanksgiving day.

Nov. 29-Death at New York, aged 61, of inflammation of the brain, of Horace Gree- ley, late Liberal Republican candidate (and supported by the Democrats) for U. S. president. Allowing for his errors and for wide differences of opinion, he was the ablest and greatest of American editors- the late Joseph Gales, of the National In- telligencer, excepted.

Nov. 30-Track-laying on the Memphis and Paducah railroad completed 71 miles from Paducah.

Nov. 30-Two new National banks es- tablished at Paducah.

Dec. 3-Exciting city election in Louis- ville ; Chas. D. Jacob chosen mayor.

Dec. 4-Electoral college in session at Frankfort, Gen. Geo. B. Hodge presiding. S. P. Love, of Muhlenburg co., chosen to fill the vacancy caused by absence of Al- fred Brown, of 2d district. For U. S. president, Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana, received 8, B. Gratz Brown, of Mo., 4 votes ; for vice president, B. Gratz Brown, of Mo., 8 votes, Thos. E. Bramlette, of Ky., 3, Willis B. Machen, of Ky., 1.

Dec. 7-Second drawing and concert for the benefit of the Public Library of Ky. at Louisville ; 1000 cash gifts, in all $375,- 000, distributed ; capital gift of $75,000 drawn by a club of ten persons, at Colum- bus, Indiana.

Dec. 9-Death at Louisville, aged 77, of pneumonia, of Rev. Amasa Converse, D. D., a Presbyterian minister, editor of the Christian Observer-of which religious pa- per, published under different names at Richmond, Va., and Philadelphia, Pa., and now at Louisville, he had been editor

for nearly 46 years. On Aug. 22, 1861, Secretary Seward "rang his little bell," and Dr. Converse's office at Philadelphia was visited by the U. S. Marshal, his pa- per suppressed, his property seized, and almost the savings of a lifetime destroyed ; the marshal had in his pocket the order for Dr. C's arrest, but said afterwards that " a strange and unaccountable feeling came over him in the presence of the aged servant of Christ, which prevented his carrying out that part of his orders." In one month after its suppression, Dr. C. had run the blockade, and re-established his paper at Richmond, Va .*

Dec. 12-About 5 p. M., a remarkable de- tonating meteor scen at Frankfort and Lou- isville, and for many miles around. It seemed a ball of fire, one-fourth as large as the moon, flashed in a southerly direc- tion, with a trail of light visible for several seconds, succeeded for 3 or 4 minutes by a line of bluish vapor. It is probable that an ærolite, or mass of mineral, fell after the explosion, some miles s. of Louisville.

Dec. 12-New Episcopal church of our Merciful Saviour, at Louisville, opened ; church and lot, valued at $15,000, the gift of Rev. John N. Norton, D. D., to the colored congregation.

Dec. 17 -- Death at Lexington of Jerry A. Reynolds, editor of the Farmer's Home Journal, and for many years a Ky. jour- nalist.

Dec. 20-Warren county court decides the property of the Louisville and Nash- ville railroad, valued at $800,000, liable to taxation for county purposes. Appeal taken.

Dec. 20-David Young, of Mercer co., held in $5,000 bail for rape on a young lady from Boyle co. During the prelimi- nary trial, jail at Harrodsburg guarded by cit.zens ; and at its close, Young taken to jail.at Lexington for safety.

Dec. 26-Death from consumption, of James A. McCampbell, member of the present Legislature, from Jessamine co.

Dec. 27-Second annual meeting of Ky. Amateur Press Association, at Frankfort.

Dec. 27-Death, in Bullitt co., of Thos. W. Riley-for many years a prominent lawyer at Louisville, and previously rep- resentative in Ky. legislature from Bul- litt co., in 1835 and '36, and from Nelson co., in 1849 and '50, and speaker of the H. R. in 1849.

Dec. 28-Severely cold weather for a week past ; thermometer only 3º below 0, in northern Kentucky, but at Fort Wayne, Ind., and northward, 15° to 30° below.

Dec. 31-Breaking up of ice gorge at Cincinnati-sinking steamers Mountain Boy, Kate Putnam, and wreck of the Emma Floyd, and badly injuring steamers Leon- ora, Grey Eagle, Messenger, Kitty Hegler, and Daniel Boone, and carrying off many coal barges.

1873. Jan. 1-Railroad semi-annual dividends : Louisville and Nashville, 3, and Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington preferred stock, 412 per cent.

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Semi-annual dividends, at Louisville : | fund for year ending Oct. 10, 1872, seem to Bank of Louisville, 3 ; Falls City Tobacco be, $898,660 ; balance on hand on Oct. 10, 1871, $101,829-total $1,000,489. The en- tire payments seem to be, $988,477-leav- ing balance in treasury Oct. 10, 1872, $12,012. Bank, 4; Bank of Ky., Western Finan- cial Corporation, Merchants' Bank of Ky., Planters' National Bank of Ky., Farmer's and Drovers' Bank, Masonic Saving's Bank, and Louisville Gas Co., each 5; Jan. 8-Annual message of Gov. Pres- ton H. Leslie to the legislature shows to- tal bonded debt of Ky., on Oct. 10, 1871, (except the school debt, which is a perma- nent loan and can not be redeemed ), $1,- 069,394. During ensuing year $303,000 of this was paid off, but $200,000 of new debt created by act of Jan. 18, 1872-leav- ing total debt on Oct. 10, 1872, of $966,394. Franklin Insurance Co., and German Se- curity Bank, each 6; German Insurance Bank, and Western Bank, each 7 per cent ; Louisville Banking Co., 10 per cent, and an extra dividend from profit and loss account, 10 per cent. Louisville branch of Northern Bank of Kentucky withdrawn. Ist National Bank of Danville, 5 per cent.

The means of the sinking fund, to meet this debt; was $2,420,392 ; besides an un- adjusted claim against the Federal gov- ernment of $505,478, for balance of ad- vances made during the war (remaining due, after the collection of $525,258 in March, 1872).

The receipts from revenue, for year end- ing Oct. 10, 1872, were $1,008,617. The excess of appropriations, by several legis- latures prior to Oct. 10, 1872, over the re- ceipts were $365,366-which sums were temporarily borrowed from the sinking fund.

In seven years, from 1866 to 1872 inclu- sive, the total payments to five charitable institutions and the incidental charities reached $1,772,556, and on account of the trial and punishment for crime $1,671,214, amounting together to more than half of the entire expenses of the state, thus :

Eastern Lunatic Asylum ..... $696,438 Western Lunatic Asylum ...... 482,442

Conveyance of Lunatics. 30,417

Blind Asylum ......... $125,246

Printing for the Blind .. 6,160- 131,406

Deafand Dumb Asylum. 129,561

Feeble-minded Institute. 153,843

Idiots .. 148,449 -- $1,772,556

707,299

Criminal prosecutions Jailors.

685,828

Conveyance of convicts. 11,763

Kentucky Penitentiary 198,211

House of Reform

60,083-$1,671,214

Total revenue proper collected .....

6,820,351

₹3,376,581

The dividends from state stocks in turn- pikes which cost the state $2,716,894, were, for the year ending Oct. 10, 1872, $27,847, and for the previous year, $20,- 855-or more than 15 per cent. per annum upon the minimum price at which the state authorized them to be sold, in March, 1871.

A tabular statement shows the total ex- penditures on account of the penitentiary, for 16 years ending Oct. 1872, $134,532, and the total receipts $97,594-showing an excess of expenditures of $336,938. Of the three systems of management tried- Ist. A kecper who managed for the state, 2d. A keeper who, in a kind of partner- ship, managed for himself and the state, and 3. A keeper who leased at a stated sumu -- the latter has proved the most costly to the state.

Jan. 8-Of 124 deaths in Louisville dur- ing past week, 66 were from small pox.

Jan. 9-In the circuit court at Eliza-

Jan. 2-Court of appeals, in the two cases of Smith vs. the Commonwealth and Blimer vs. same, modifies its opinion in the case of Shannahan vs. Commonwealth, reported in 8th Bush. It now holds that -. Voluntary drunkenness neither excuses the crime nor mitigates the punishment though drunkenness may be shown in proof upon the question of malice.

Jan. 5-The 20 banks in the 7th district of Ky .- located at Lexington, Frankfort, Paris, Winchester, Carlisle, Georgetown, Versailles, Midway, Nicholasville, North Middletown, and Millersburg-report an aggregate capital of $2,382,945, and ag- gregate deposits of $2,003,394.

Jan. 5-Great fire in Carlisle, Nicholas co .; 15 stores and other buildings, with Mercury printing office (the principal bus- iness portion ), burned ; loss $70,000.

Jan. 7-Ancient order of United Work- men Grand Lodge of Kentucky instituted, at Covington.

Jan. 7-Legislature met in adjourned session.

Jan. 7-Report of insurance commis- sioner, Gen. Gustavus W. Smith, made July, 1872, shows the paid up capital of all the (13) Kentucky fire and marine in- surance companies (except 3 irregular com- panies), on Jan. 1, 1872, $1,138,988; and of all the (80) companies of other States transacting business in Ky., $23,302,710. Premiums received, during the year 1871, by the former $486,374 (being 1.63 per cent. of risks written during same time) ; and by the latter, (from all over the world) $30,672,713 (being 1.06 per cent. of risks). Losses during 1871, by the former $126,- 410 (being 0.42 per cent. of risks during the year) ; and by the latter $27,309,626 (being 0.94 per cent. of risks). Amount of losses paid during 1871 by the Ken- tucky companies, 26 per cent. of premiums received during same time ; and by com- panies of other States, 89 per cent. of prem- iums received in same time.

Jan. 7-Report of superintendent of public instruction, dated Oct. 15, 1872, shows the estimated receipts of school fund on July 1, 1872, $968,176, and estimated receipts on July 1, 1873, $912,425 ; pro ruta to each pupil child for 1872, $2.30, and for 1873, $2.20; actual receipts not given.

From the state treasurer's report, the en- lire receipts to the credit of the school

$3,443,770

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bethtown, a suit has been pending about " the great diamond swindle "-in which Wm. M. Lent, of California, sues Philip Arnold and John B. Slack, of Hardin co., to recover $350,000 paid for an interest in diamond fields alleged to have been discovered in Arizona by defendants. The latter were prospecting in the Rocky mountains for A. Harpending, G. D. Rob- erts, and themselves, in Nov. 1870 ; when they returned to San Francisco, and re- ported the discovery of diamonds. They went again, found diamonds plentiful but over not a large extent of country. R. and H. paid Slack $100,000 for his 14th, they owning 12 interest. A third trip to the mines, in July, 1871, showed good results. Arnold sold part of his interest to Har- pending for $550,000. An expert, with the parties named, and others, went to the mines, from Rawlings' Springs on. Union Pacific railroad. The expert's writ- ten report says the work done (equal to 8 days' work of one man) produced 256 kar- ats of diamonds, first quality, worth $16 per karat, or $4,096 ; 568 karats diamonds of second quality, worth $3, or $1,704; in all, 824 karats, worth $5,800; also, 4 pounds of rubies, or 7,420 karats, worth 50c., but estimated at 30c., $2,226 ; total produce of 112 tons of gravel, $8,026, or $5,351 per ton. Genuine diamonds and rubies, picked up on the ground, were ex- hibited. Operations were transferred to New York, to form a company with $10,- 000,000 capital. A bag of stones was ex- hibited to Tiffany, the celebrated jeweler, who pronounced them worth $150,000; and it was alleged that $500,000 worth of diamonds were on deposit in the Bank of California. As long as it was kept secret, the speculation succeeded; it became known at San Francisco, and a commission was sent to the diamond fields-who pro- claimed the whole thing a fraud and swin- dle of gigantic proportions. The precious stones picked upon the field, had been "planted " there.

Arnold denies any transaction with Lent, to the amount of even $1. Arnold had advertised another expedition to the dia- mond fields, to come off next March ; but Lent would not wait, attached Arnold's safe (which contained $45,000 of McCrack- en co. bonds, and about $10,000 of other values) and his land. The latter is sup- posed to have realized at least $650,000.

Jan. 11-Died near Lebanon, of lock- jaw, the thorough-bred stallion Skedad- dle, celebrated as the last war-horse ridden by Gen. John H. Morgan. At agricultu- ral fairs in 1871-2, he took $1,500 in prem- iums, in rings of best thorough-bred and model horses.

Jan. 12-5 persons, while crossing the Dig Sandy river in Floyd co., in a joe boat, caught in the ice and drowned.

Jan. 14-The engincer who, under the act of Jan. 15, 1870, made the survey of Salt river, from the mouth, at West Point, up to Pitt's Point, at the mouth of Rolling Fork, 11 miles and 2,093 feet, estimate.

the cost of improving the river, with one lock and dam, at $30,859; and the amount of produce annually shipped down the river at about $304,000.

Jan. 15-One barrel 15-year-old Bour- bon whisky sold at Lexington, to go to Hartford, Conn., for $500-about $11 55 per gallon.

Jan. 15-In some portions of Ky., 34ths of the jack stock have died of the epizootic, recently.

Jan. 17, 20-In response to inquiries from the house of representatives, it ap- pears that the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, at Lexington, now has 554 inmates, 43 more than its complement; of this number, 509 are state pauper patients, and 45 pay their board ; for want of room it has been com- pelled to deny admission to 205 appli- cants. The Western Lunatic Asylum, at Hopkinsville, now has 326 patients, of whom 14 pay from $3 to $7 per week ; for want of room it refused admission, during 1872, to 106 lunatics. The superintendent of the latter estimates the whole number of insane persons in the state not provided for at 650.

Jan. 17-Attempt to assassinate Maj. Geo. W. Drye, of Hustonville, Lincoln co., by shooting and dangerously wounding him through his window at night, as he sat by his fireside. Maj. D. represented Casey and Russell counties in Ky. legisla- ture, 1867-69.

Jan. 20-Annual report of Old Ladies' Home, s. e. corner 7th and Ky. sts., Lou- ville ; in existence 8 years ; members in the family, 15 ; legacy of $1,000 by John Stirewalt ; contributions by the Dickens club, during 1872, $1,432.

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Collins historical sketches of Kentucky. History of Kentucky: Vol. I, Part 51

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