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Subject: [KYCLAY] excerpt from "History of Kentucky" by Lewis Collins, Vol. 1 (1828-1829)
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 12:55:43 EST

1828:
Jan. -- Henry Clay issues an "address to the public, containing certain
testimonials in refutation of the charges against him, made by Gen. Andrew
Jackson, touching the late Presidential election."
Jan. 11 -- Legislature offers $500 reward for the discovery of the cause of,
and a specific cure for, milk sickness
Jan. 29 -- Louisville incorporated as a city.
Mar. 9 -- Three shocks of an earthquake felt at Maysville; at 10 1/2, between
11 and 12, and between 12 and 1 o'clock, at night; the second the severest in
that region since 1812.
April 4 -- In northern Kentucky, snow fell over two inches deep and on April
6, another fall of snow 1 1/2 inches deep.
May -- Rev. Frederick A. ROSS and Rev. James GALLAGHER travel all over
Kentucky and southern Ohio, as evangelists or revival preachers (Presbyterian);
great religious excitement wherever they labor.
Five hundred additions, within one month, to the two Presbyterian
churches in Lexington.
Sept. -- George ROBERTSON appointed secretary of state.
Nov. 5 -- Official vote of Kentucky for president: Andrew Jackson 39,294,
John Quincy Adams 31,460; Jackson's majority 7,934.
Dec. 19 -- George ROBERTSON appointed judge of the court of appeals.

1829:
George ROBERTSON nominated as chief justice of the court of appeals; but
rejected by the senate, 18 to 19.
Jan. 29 -- Companies chartered to build bridges over the Ohio river at
Louisville, and between Covington or Newport and Cincinnati.
-- Senators and representatives in congress requested to procure the passage
of a law appropriating public lands to Kentucky, to be disposed of for
establishing a system of public schools . . . . Tax assessors required to ascertain
the number of children over four and under fifteen years, and the number at
school, with a view to adopt some plan for general education.
Mar. 9 -- Chas. WICKLIFFE is refused the author's name of a communication in
the Kentucky Gazette, at Lexington, when an altercation ensues and he shoots
the editor, Mr. BENNING, with a pistol, causing his death next day.
May 10 -- Destruction by fire of the principal building or "college proper"
of Transylvania university, at Lexington, with the law library, libraries of
the two societies, part of the philosophical apparatus, &c. Loss $40,000, with
$10,000 insurance.
June 10 -- U.S. government contracts for removing the obstructions in the
Ohio river, at the Grand Chain, 400 feet long.
Sept. 17 -- Louisville branch of the Commonwealth bank robbed of $25,000;
$2,500 reward offered, but no clue ever discovered to robber of money.
Oct. 9 -- George James TROTTER, editor of the Kentucky Gazette, at Lexington,
kills Chas. WICKLIFFE in a duel, near the Scott county line; parties fight at
eight feet distance.
Dec. 15 -- Company chartered for manufacturing queensware and chine at
Louisville.
Dec. 16 -- George ROBERTSON again nominated as chief justice of the court of
appeals; confirmed by the senate, 22 to 15.

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