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Subject: [KYCLAY] excerpt from "History of Kentucky" by Lewis Collins (1831-1832)
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 01:49:14 EST

1830:
Jan. 19 -- Steamboat Phoebus, Davis EMBREE master, establishes a tri-weekly
packet trace between Maysville and Cincinnati.
Jan. 29 -- Call of meetings of the people of the districts to designate a
site for a school house, and levy and collect a school tax of not over 6 1/4
cents on the $100, and a poll tax on voters of not over 50 cents.
Feb. 1 -- Thermometer 46 degrees above zero at noon, falls by sunrise next
morning to 43 1/2 degrees, to 3 1/2 degrees about zero, and Ohio river freezes
over, remaining closed five days.

Feb. 17 -- Temperance society formed at Augusta, "to use all prudent means
against the use of ardent spirits and wine, except for medicine or wine on
sacramental occasions, and refuses to support candidates for office who use ardent
spirits for electioneering purposes, or are themselves addicted to their
intemperate use."
April:
-- Louisville Daily Journal established, by Geo. D. PRENTICE & BUXTON.
-- Surveys for the proposed railroad from Lexington to Louisville show that
the streets of Frankfort are 430 feet lower than Lexington, about 200 feet of
this elevation occurring within two miles of Frankfort.
June: Population of Kentucky 687,917 -- an increase of 22 percent in 10
years; whites 517,787, free colored 4,917; and slaves 165,213 -- an increase of
slaves of 30 1/3 percent.

1831:
May 10 -- Severe hail storm, through parts of Mason, Bourbon and other
counties; some hailstones two to three inches in circumference.
May 14 -- Lexington Observer newspaper established, by Edwin BRYANT and N. L.
FINNELL.
July 22 -- Tremendous rainstorm in northern Ky.; great damage to towns,
farms, mills, tanneries, and roads.
Nov. 8 -- Steam ferry-boat explosion at Louisville; four persons killed.
Nov. 10 -- Henry CLAY elected U.S. senator, receiving 73 votes, to 64 for
Richard M. JOHNSON.
Dec. 7 -- Lexington incorporates as a city.
Dec. 22 -- Lien law passed, for benefit of mechanics of Louisville.
Dec. 11 -- Ohio river frozen over, and remains so until Jan. 8, 1832; 9
steamboats, 3 at Cincinnati and 6 above, destroyed or greatly injured by the
breaking up of the ice; loss estimated at $500,000.
Dec. 19 -- Cincinnati water works burnt; great distress for want of water.
Dec. 31 -- 406 steamboats and 421 flat and keel boats, 76,323 tons, passed
through the Louisville and Portland canal, since Jan. 1, 1831, paying $12,750
toll.

1832:
Feb. 9 -- Greatest flood ever known in the Ohio river; many of the towns
entirely, and large portions of all of them partially, submerged, driving the
inhabitants from their homes, and drowning some; many dwelling houses, stables,
barns, outhouses and grainstacks carried off, and immense loss of fencing, saw
logs, plank, horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, corn, hay, etc. Feb. 17, the river
reaches its greatest height at Maysville, but not until the 21st at Louisville.
Feb. 22 -- Centennial anniversary of Washington's birth celebrated with great
interest, all over Ky.
April 9 -- Burning of the steamboat Brandywine, 25 miles above Memphis, bound
for Louisville; 61 lives, a number of them Kentuckians, known to be lost.
June 2 -- Steamboat Hornet capsized, in a gale of wind, in the Ohio river
near Vanceburg; 16 persons drowned.
July 23 -- Steamboat Phoebus, the Maysville and Cincinnati packet, set fire
to and destroyed at the Cincinnati wharf; 4 lives lost.
Aug. 18 -- Observed, by Gov. Metcalfe's proclamation, as a day of humiliation
and prayer, in view of the approach of the cholera.
Oct. -- Asiatic cholera visits Louisville, Lexington, Frankfort, Maysville
and other towns, generally very lightly in the number of victims.
Dec. 31 -- 453 steamboats and 179 flat and keel boats, 70,109 tons, passed
through the Louisville and Portland canal since Jan. 1, 1832, paying $25,756
tolls.

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