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Jan. 21-Death at Louisville of Thos. B. Cochran, aged 46; since 1868, chan- cellor of the Louisville chancery court ; native of Spencer co .; member of the Shelbyville bar, 1849-67; state senator, 1865-67.
Jan. 21, 22-Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge of Kentucky in session at Louis- ville.
Jan. 21-Willis B. Machen elected U. S. senator until March 4, 1873, to fill the vacancy caused by death of Garret Davis (which position he now holds by appoint- ment). In joint ballot of the legislature the vote stood : Machen (Dem.) 104, R. Tarvin Baker (Rep.) 18.
Jan. 23-Legislature authorizes the Lou- isville, Cincinnati, and Lexington railroad company, in order to take up its present debt and preferred stock, to issue $10,000,- 000 of not over 8 per cent. 30-year bonds, secured by a consolidated mortgage ; pro- vided, that, within two years after execu- tion of the mortgage, said company shall be bound to purchase from the state ber common stock at the price agreed to be paid in 1871. ...... 11-Charters a com- pany to build a railroad from Cumberland Gap, ria Cumberland Ford, to Louisa, in Lawrence co ........ 28-City charter of Lex- ington amended ; allows council to divide each of the 4 wards into 3 districts, each
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district to elect a councilman ; prohibits increase of city debt, or use of present in- come except to pay expenses and present debts ; provided, "that the subscription of stock in the Elizabethtown, Lexington and Big Sandy railroad company is not in- cluded as one of the city debts referred to in this section" .. 31-Louisville school board authorized to divert certain school revenues, and build therewith 3 school houses for colored children-the interest on any balance to be paid for teachers of said schools ....... 21-Sale of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, in less quantity than a barrel, prohibited in Cave City precinct, Barren co ... 31-and also in Breath- itt co., in less quantity than 10 gallons.
Jan. 23-In the circuit court at Russell- ville, Logan co., several former slaves of Thos. Neely-(whose will, in 1854, di- rected that they be hired out to create a fund to transport them to Liberia in 1870), and who were made free in 1865 by the XILIth Amendment-elected not to go to Liberia, but brought suit to recover said money or fund ; decided against them, and appeal taken.
Jan. 23-Alex. Rader, of Mason co., has lost by the epizootic 3 jacks, 2 jennets, and other stock-$3,000 worth.
Jan. 23-The bill to repeal that section of the act to incorporate the Public Li- brary of Kentucky, at Louisville, which authorizes 5 " public literary, musical, or dramatic entertainments, at which the cor- porators may distribute by lot, to patrons of the entertainments, a portion of the pro- ceeds arising from the sale of tickets of ad- mission," was defeated in the senate by yeas 10, nays 20.
In the house, Jan. 28, a similar bill, was referred, by 40 to 31, to the committee on the judiciary ; but no further steps taken. A resolution, offered in the house, Jan. 18th, with the same object, was sim- ilarly disposed of.
In the house, March 3, a bill passed, changing the mode of selecting the 9 trus- tees, and thereby the control of the Li- brary ; but, March 11, was defeated in the senate, by yeas 6, nays 19.
A third effort to amend the Public Li- brary law was made, April 14, in the house, but did not succeed.
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Jan. 24-Death at Louisville from obe- sity-" adipose pressure on the cardiac re- gion "-of a negro woman, called Aunty Robinson; her weight was over three hun- dred pounds.
Jan. 24-Nearly 1,000 barrels of apple brandy distilled in Russell co. since last Sept.
Jan. 24-A bill passed the senate, by yeas 21, nays 12, " to prohibit the sale of liquors on the Sabbath day " -- taking any person licensed to sell who should sell or give or cause to be sold or given, in any quantity, wine, spirituous, or malt liquors of any kind, or the mixture of either, on the Christian Sabbath day, except for me- dicinal purposes, upon the written prescrip- tion of a practicing physician, guilty of a | of Louisville, (the sum of $500,000 and the
misdemeanor, and finable not less than $50 for the first, and $100 for each subsequent, offense. It was afterwards withdrawn from the house (for what reason does not appear upon the journals), re-considered, and finally defeated, Feb. 11, by a tie vote, 14 to 14.
Jan. 25-Residence of the president of Lynnland Military Institute, on Louis- ville and Nashville R. R. in Hardin co., destroyed by fire ; narrow escape from death of several young lady students.
Jan. 25-In the Masonic Widows' and Orphans' Home, at Louisville, are 67 chil- dren in fine health ; no death since its open- ing.
Jan. 25-Beginning of raids by the po- lice on the gambling houses in Louisville, and guarding of their doors ; to be contin- ned until they are broken up.
Jan. 26-Death by suicide, at Lexing- ton, of Maj. W. W. Dowden ; was sheriff of Fayette co. for some years ; major of 21st Ky. regiment of U. S. volunteers, during the Rebellion, and wounded at bat- tle of Stone River, Jan. 1863.
Jan. 27-Allen B. Stockwell of N. Y. city, a native of Ky., elected president of Atlantic and Pacific R. R. co .; he invests $2,000,000 in securities of the road.
Jan. 27 -- Judge Horatio W. Bruce ap- pointed chanceller of Louisville chancery court, vice Thos. B. Cochran, deceased ; and Gen. Wm. L. Jackson appointed cir- cuit judge, vice H. W. Bruce, resigned.
Jan. 28-The senate unanimously passed a bill to refund the 5 per cent. tax on in- come from U. S. bonds, which had been annually collected under the act of March 28, 1867-because the court of appeals have decided said act " illegal and unconstitu- tional." The house, March 31, refused to pass the bill, by yeas 28, nays 24 (51 yeas being necessary ); but reconsidered the vote, and finally passed it, April 9, by yeas 56, nays 10.
Jan. 29-The senate, by 21 to 9, finally defeats a bill to establish at the seat of government the "Superior Court " -- a court of appeals, for mostly county court cases where the matter in controversy is between $50 and $500; of 3 judges, ap- pointed by the governor for 6 years, with salaries same as the court of appeals judges.
Jan. 29 and 25-The joint commitee on the removal of the Capital made two re- ports in the house and senate-a majority report, signed by O. D. Mc Manama, Win. W. Baldwin, and Walter Evans, in favor of removal, and a minority report, by Wm. HI. Sneed and Harry I. Todd, against re- moval. They are two among the very ablest reports ever made to the legislature. In the senate, they were ordered to be printed and placed in the order of the day ; and so " ended the chapter," in that body. In the house, they were referred to a select committee of seven-who re- ported, April 15, 3 out of 7 recommend- ing the acceptance of the offer of the city
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temporary use of the court house or city | hall), and the removal thither of the seat of government ; and expressing the confi- dent belief of many citizens of Louisville that, if necessary to obtain the removal, the court house and lot would be deeded in fee simple to the state, or else leased, rent free, for five years. The Lexington city council promised " to do everything in its power to induce " a removal to that city, but made no definite offer. No fur- ther action was taken.
Jan. 20-F. A. Wilson had leave to in- troduce into the house of representatives a bill " to so change the dividing line be- tween the 2d and 28th common school districts, in the county of Lyon, as to in- elude A. L. Love within the boundary of the 2d district." [This is a beautiful sam- ple of some of the " private " acts passed by the Ky. legislature.]
Jan. 30-At Covington, thermometer, at 7 A. M., 9º below zero.
Jan. 30-Election at Lexington for city councilmen ; Democratic ticket successful, by about 450 maj. ; much excitement, be- cause provision of city charter (requiring of all voters, black and white, payment of their taxes prior to Jan. 15th as a qual- ification for suffrage ) was strictly enforced ; a company of U. S. troops was sent to Lexington yesterday, but did not appear on the streets to-day ; no disturbance. [See below.]
Jan. 31-Deaths during the month :
At Lexington, Samuel Davies McCul- lough, aged 71. Also, Capt. Tom. Quirk, of the Morgan Scouts in Gen. John H. Morgan's command.
At Louisville, M. W. Clusky, an author, journalist, and soldier.
In Mercer co., Col. John Bowman, an old citizen ; he read law under Henry Clay.
Jan 31-Legislature changes the name of Josh Bell county to Bell.
Feb. 4-Legislature repeals the proviso of the charter of the Cincinnati Southern Railway requiring the trustees to pay into the state treasury a sum equal to 1 cent on each 100 pounds of freight shipped over said road ......... 5-Appropriates $200,000 to purchase 300 acres and erect the Third Lunatic Asylum, large enough for 400 in-
mates ... .... .. 7-Allows $2 for each wolf, and $1 for each red fox, grey fox, and wild cat, killed within the state. .6- Prohibits sale of ardent spirits in Glasgow Junction precinct, Barren co. ; in village of Headquarters, Nicholas co. ; near Buena Vista, Garrard co .; in Clintonville pre- cinct, Bourbon co .; in Lee county ; in Powersville, Bracken co .; in Caverna, Hart co. ; and the selling, giving, or furnishing on the Sabbath, in tilasgow ......... 18-Au- thorizes the city of Louisville to subscribe $1,000,000 additional of the stock of the Elizabethtown and Paducah railroad com- pany ......... 26-Makes unlawful in Garrard co. the killing of partridges between Feb. Ist and Oct. 10th ......... 26-Consents to the purchase by the United States of
grounds in Covington and Paducah, for erection of custom house, court house, post office, &c., and cedes jurisdiction.
Feb. 4-Re-union, at Covington, of the 23rd regiment Ky. volunteers U. S. A., in the civil war.
Feb. 4-Death, in Howe's Valley, Har- din co., of Mrs. Susan Klinglesmith, aged 96; she was born in 1777, in a fort near Pittsburgh, Pa., and removed with her husband to Hardin co. before 1800.
Feb. 5-First through freight from Cov- ington over the new Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, from Huntington, West Va., to Richmond, Va.
Feb. 5 to 8-Ovation, at Washington city, by Kentucky members of congress, to Henry Watterson, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Four elegant breakfast and dinner parties given, with some of the most distinguished men of the nation to meet him.
Feb. 5-The house, by yeas 58, nays 28, passes the bill to increase the salary of the superintendent of public instruction (now $2,000) to $3,000 per year, to take effect from its passage. Feb. 25 -- It passes the senate, by yeas 19, nays 5, not a con- stitutional majority (which regularly re-
quires at least 20 yeas), but for the vacancy in that body caused by the resignation of Dr. E. D. Standiford, of Jefferson co.
Feb. 6-In the house of representatives, Mr. George Morgan Thomas offered this : Resolved, That the population of this state now exceeds 1,500,000, and it is the sense of this general assembly that the state should be divided into twenty-four judicial districts ; therefore, &c. No res- olution could make that a fact as to the population which was not a fact; and the house had too much respect for itself to at- tempt to pass it.
Feb. 8-In the house of representatives, Mr. George Morgan Thomas moved the following: Resolved. That it is the sense of this house, that the act authorizing the purchase of Collins' History, to be paid for out of the school fund, is unconstitutional, and ought to be repealed ; therefore, Re- solved, That the committee on education be instructed to bring in a bill repealing said act. By a vote of 41 to 37, said res- olutions were referred to the committee on the judiciary; but although the session extended to April 24 (21% months), no re- port was made by the committee, and none was called for.
Feb. 8-Death at St. Louis, aged 68, of apoplexy, of Mrs. Elizabeth Crittenden widow of the late John J. Crittenden, of Ky. She was born and raised in Mason co., Ky., removed with her father, Dr. James W. Moss, to Missouri, and was three times a bride-first, of Dr. Daniel P. Wilcox, then of Gen. Wm. H. Ashley, while the sole representative in congress from Missouri. She was a leader in the society of Washington city and New York for thirty years, and remarkable for beau- ty, brilliancy, hospitality, and benevo- lence.
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Feb. 9 to 20-Financial panic in Shelby co .; seven large failures of planters and stock dealers.
Feb. 10-A bill is now pending in the U. S. house of representatives to pay to the widow of late Gen. Humphrey Marshall, of Ky., $1,086 -- being the amount cov- ered into the U. S. treasury about Jan. 9. 1863, as the net proceeds of the sale of Gen. M's library, (confiscated, and sold at Cincinnati, under act of July 19, 1862). The library was one of the best selected in the West, and was shamefully sacrificed.
Feb. 11-President Ulysses S. Grant ve- toes a bill which had passed congress, for the relief of those suffering from the destruction of the salt works near Man- chester, Clay co., Ky., pursuant to the or- der of Gen. Buell. The destruction of the salt works, he says, was a military neces- sity ; and he can not consent to the doc- trine that the United States are liable for all claims for property destroyed by the Union armies during the war.
Feb. 11-Arrest at Lexington, by U. S. officers, of 9 prominent citizens (some of them far advanced in life), judges at the city election on Jan. 30, charged with " ob- structing the right of suffrage "-in refus- ing to receive votes that were offered. They were taken to Louisville, for examination. [A Republican judge was at each poll, and the election conducted fairly. Every man offering, who had paid his taxes before Jan. 15th, and was otherwise a legal voter, voted. Many negroes and a number of whites had not paid tax ; none such were allowed to vote. A similar law has ex- isted in some other Ky. towns.]
Feb. 12-Mrs. Mary J. Erwin, of Nash- ville, Tenn., has presented to the Tennes- see state library a portrait of the great Henry Clay (who was her relative), painted in 1822, probably the first he ever sat for.
Feb. 13-Three men convicted of petit larceny in the circuit court at Cadiz, Trigg co., and punished in the jail, by whipping, with ten stripes each.
Feb. 13-A message from Gov. Leslie to the legislature transmits the proceedings of a public meeting in Frankfort, in con- demnation of lawlessness in all its forms- and calling attention to his annual mes- sage, where it recommends legislative ac- tion for the more certain detection, ap- prehension, and punishment of the class of offenders denounced by that meeting.
Feb. 13-Destruction by fire of the cir- cuit court clerk's office at Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle co.
Feb. 13 te 19-Examining trial for six days before U. S. commissioner, Meri- wether, of the Democratic inspectors or judges at the polls at the city election in Lexington, on Jan. 30th. It was in proof that in Ward No. 4 every otherwise quali- fied voter, black or white who had, on or before Jan. 15th, paid his capitation tax, was allowed to vote, and no others ; that men who had always voted the Deino- cratic ticket were refused a vote, because they could not show their tax receipts ; that
a few men who had not paid their taxes, nevertheless had been presented with tax receipts showing payment in their name on Jan. 13th, and their votes were taken upon showing these receipts ; one man tes- tified that such a receipt was offered him on condition he would vote the Democratic ticket, but he refused the terms, and did not offer to vote; another testified that on Jan. 13 he was presented with his tax re- ceipt, paid for by some one else, and that with that receipt his vote was taken -- he vo- ted the Republican ticket ; another, that on Jan. 9th, he presented to the city collector or his deputy a list of names of voters for whom he proposed to pay the capitation tax for 1872, but the deputy said he could not receive it in cases where there were unpaid taxes back of 1872; that he then offered to pay the capitation tax for 1872 for a list of 155 names, and for 1870 -- 1-2 for such as had not paid, but the deputy declined receiving any unless all back taxes were paid-which the witness re- fused to pay ; that several men who applied to vote, without tax receipts, were sworn, and swore they had paid their capitation tax-these were allowed to vote, and voted, some the Republican and some the Demo- cratic ticket. The defendant, John Marrs,. was held in $500 bail to answer to the U. S. circuit court ; the others waived exami- nation, and gave bail also.
Feb. 14-The Bankrupt statistics, in the Louisville district, show : A large number of bankrupt estates were small, from $400 up to $1,000 in gross, and in these the expenses were disproportionately heavy. The dividends ranged from 11/4 to 100 per cent .- the whole averaging 31 cents on the dollar. The average per centage of costs was 10 and 4-5ths.
Feb. 14-Delivery to the jailor at Dan- ville, of Wm. S. Wilson and H. C. Drye, the murderers of John B. Williamson, at South Danville, on Jan. 30; they were captured in Fentress co., Tenn .; Feb. 19, they were taken for safe-keeping to the jail in Louisville.
Feb. 17-The senate, by 12 yeas, 9 nays, passes a bill allowing persons of foreign birth, who have made a declaration of intention to become citizens of the United States, (if otherwise qualified ac- cording to the laws of Ky.) to vote in mu - nicipal elections. The bill was not acted on, in the house.
Feb. 17-At Bowling Green, a colored man convicted of petit larceny, and pun- ished with twenty lashes. Also, at Mt. Sterling, & negro man punished with thir- ty-nine lashes.
Feb. 18-Successful trial at Louisville, of the Remington steam street-car.
Feb. 18-The response of the commis- sioners of the sinking fund to a resolution of the senate shows-that octween April, 1870, and Aug., 1872, Fayette Hewitt, quartermaster-general of Ky., collected from the U. S. government and paid into the state treasury $880,872. For services and assistance rendered him at Washing-
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ton city, he paid out $64,815 ; of which to | Albert Pike & R. W. Johnson, $32,049, to Richard C. Wintersmith, $9,145, to W. R. Drinkard, $5,140, to Wm. Brown, $5,000, to Dent & Page, $5,828, to M. Walling- ford, $6,039, and the balance for other small fees, for printing, personal ex- penses, etc.
And the response, Feb. 24, of the audi- tor, D. Howard Smith, shows that between May 27, 1862, and Aug. 7, 1869, the state received from the United States-in pay- ment of expenditures incurred by the state in raising, maintaining, and equipping volunteers or militia during the late civil war-in twelve payments, the aggregate sum of $1,557,202. Of this ($1,051,000 having been paid during the war), $506,202 was collected by the regular state agent, C. D. Pennebaker-under a salary of about $3,750 per year, besides clerk hire, office rent, and office expenses, of about $3,500 per year-or a cost of $35,145 in all, from April 19, 1864, to Aug. 7, 1869.
Feb. 18-19 men in the neighborhood of High Grove, Nelson co., weigh each from 210 to 278 pounds, and 7 others over 200 each.
Feb. 18, 19-State educational conven- tion of colored men, in session at the court house in Louisville. Among other things, their memorial says :.... .. " we deem it a duty incumbent upon us to seek for our children equal educational privi- liges in common with other citizens of the United States :
Resolved, That we most earnestly re- quest there be no special legislation in the state of Kentucky for colored people ; since it is humiliating to us, detrimental to the finance of the state, and contrary to sound policy.
Resolved, That we sincerely believe that citizens in general of Kentucky are as ready to accord equal school privileges to the colored people of this state, as col- ored people are to receive those privileges.
Resolved, That it is our aim ever to la- bor honestly, earnestly, and amicably, to secure equal educational privileges in com- mon with citizens of Kentucky, and with citizens of the United States, and to show ourselves worthy of the same."
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Feb. 19-In the house of representa- tives, Mr. E. Polk Johnson moved the fol- lowing, which lies one day upon the ta- blo :
Whereas, The following Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and Journals of the two Houses thereof, are missing from the Li- brary of the State, viz: Acts from 1792 to 1798; Acts from 1799 to 1806; Acts from 1807 to 1812 ; Journals from 1792 to 1815; Journals from 1816 to 1822; there- fore, be it
Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the | compensation whatever-which lot, if re- State Librarian is hereby instructed to purchase, for the use of the State, such copies of the above mentioned Acts and Journals as he may be able to secure, to |
an extent not exceeding two sets of each and upon his certifying the cost of the same to the Auditor, he shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the amount expended.
The resolution was not called up nor acted on. Such indifference and careless- ness about trying to restore printed records of the state which had been destroyed by four fires (the burning of two state houses and two other public buildings ) is unfor- tunate, if not inexcusable.
Feb. 21-$200,000 of state bonds paid to-day, and $75,000 more since Oct. 10, 1872.
Feb. 21-Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, of Brooklyn, N. Y., lectures at Louisville to an immense audience, on "Manhood and Money."
Feb. 21-Judge Robert C. Bowling, of the Warren circuit court, refuses a man- damus compelling the county court to issue to the . Bowling Green and Madisonville railroad the $500,000 of bonds voted by the people in May last. The election was ordered by the county judge, without the concurrence of the magistrates ; and this order Judge B. decided illegal, and the election held under it illegal and void.
Feb. 25-An article in the St. Louis Times complains of "the Kentucky dy- nasty," and adds : " Missouri has had only 18 U. S. senators ; of these, nearly one- half were natives of Ky., as also have been several of her governors. When B. Gratz Brown was governor, his Ky. cousin, Frank P. Blair, Jr., was her U. S. senator ; and Brown was succeeded as governor by Woodson, another Kentuckian. In the late contest for U. S. senator, several can- didates were Kentuckians."
Feb. 25-The population of Bourbon county has varied less than 400, for 35 years Fast, and was greatest in 1830-when it was 3,573 larger than at any time since. Cause : The absorption of small farms by the wealthier land owners. John Hil- dreth has bought up farms on which lived 24 families, embracing 161 persons, most of whom removed to western states.
Feb. 25-In the circuit court at Lexing- ton, a negro man sentenced to twenty lashes for petit larceny.
Feb. 25-Gov. Leslie vetoes "An act to incorporate the Cairo and Tennessee river railroad," chiefly because its provisions are in plain contravention to the Consti- tution of Ky., which declares that no man's property shall be taken or applied to public use without just compensation being previously made to him. The house unanimously sustains the veto.
[For want of such Constitutional pro- vision in Ohio, the Author of this work holds an unsatisfied judgment for nearly $2.000 against a broken canal company, for a lot in Cincinnati taken without any stored, would now sell for $20,000.]
Feb. 26-Only 74 cases of small-pox and varioloid in Louisville officially reported to-day.
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Feb. 26-Chronological list of mayors ] unfriendly legislation. Letters from the of Louisville, from the first city election, Ist Monday in March, 1828 :
John C. Bucklin, 1828, '29, '30, '31, '32, '33.
John Joyes, 1834, '35.
William A. Cocke, 1836.
Fred. A. Kaye, 1837, '38, '39, '40, '44, '45, '46.
David L. Beatty, 1841, '42, '43.
Wm. R. Vance, 1847, '48, '49.
John M. Delph, 1850, '51, '52, '61, '62.
James S. Speed, 1853, '54.
John Barbee, 1855, '56.
William S. Pilcher, 1857, '58, until his death, Aug. 14, '58.
Thomas. W. Riley, the vacancy, from Aug. 19, '58.
Thomas H: Crawford, 1859, '60.
William Kaye, 1863, '64.
Phil. Tomppert, 1865, until Dec. 28, 1865.
James S. Lithgow filled the unexpired term, and '66 until Feb. 14, '67, when he resigned, and
Phil. Tomppert filled remainder of term, to March, '67, and was elected for 1867, '68.
Jo. H. Bunce, 1869.
John G. Baxter, 1870, '71, '72.
Charles D. Jacob, 1873-'74.
Feb. 27-M. P. Clarkson has been post- master at Grayson Springs, Grayson co., for 40 years, since 1833-the oldest P. M. in Ky.
Feb. 27-Gov. Leslie vetoes four bills for incorporating four turnpike roads in Lewis co., because they make it imperative upon the county court (without a vote by the people) to subscribe some $15,000 of stock, issue bonds, and tax the people for their payment. He thinks the legislature has no power thus to impose debt upon counties. The house of representatives, in which the four bills originated, sustained, March 17, the governor's veto by 45 to 6, 47 to 9, 48 to 5, and 50 to 2 votes respect- ively.
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