KENTUCKY. 



u a distinctive force in the compound, and such com- 

 pound b reasonably liiiMr to U used as an intoxloat- 



Ing beverage, then'it is within the statute. 



In 1879 the House of Representatives con- 

 sisted of I'J'.t members four more than are 

 permitted l>y the Constitution of the State 

 four of which members, to wit, the repre- 

 i\es from Kooks, Hush, Harper, and Bar- 

 bour (,'miuiie-, were not, under the Constitution 

 and laws, entitled to seats in the House of Rep- 

 resentatives as members. An act was passed 

 that year hy the Legislature, but only by the 

 assistance of the votes of those four members, 

 and, except for their votes, this act would not 

 have received a constitutional majority of the 

 - of the House; and, not counting their 

 I, the act did not receive a constitutional 

 majority. The Supreme Court now holds that 



the votes of those four members should not be 

 counted, and therefore that the act must bo 

 considered as not having passed the House of 

 Representatives, and as void. 



The total product of coal, according to the 

 census of 1880, was 771,142 tons. The follow- 

 ing statement gives the total amount of taxes 

 paid in the State on the assessment of 1880 for 

 all purposes : 



State taxes $886,515 



County taxes 2,058,782 



City taxes 861,187 



Township taxes 564,829 



School-district taxes 1,819,981 



Total taxes paid $5,691,244 



The following table shows the population of 

 the State by counties, as finally returned by the 

 census of 1880, and also as compared with the 

 census returns of 1870: 



KENTUCKY. The presidential vote in 



1880 was as follows : for the Hancock electors, 

 149,068; Garfield electors, 106,306; Weaver, 

 11,499 ; Dow, 258. At the August election of 



1881 there was no organized opposition to the 

 re-election of James "W. Tate, Democrat, for 

 State Treasurer. He received 115,520 votes, 

 against 725 for all others. The Legislature 

 consists of 29 Democrats and 9 Republicans in 

 the Senate, and in the House of 73 Democrats, 

 21 Republicans, 4 Greenbackers, and 2 Inde- 

 pendents. In the third appellate district, con- 

 sisting of the counties of Adair, Allen, Barren, 

 Breckinridge, BuDitt, Cumberland, Green, liar- 

 din, Hart, Jefferson, Larue, Marion, Meade, 

 Metcalfe, Monroe, Nelson, Oldbam, Shelby, 

 Spencer, Taylor, and Washington, Joseph H. 



Lewis was elected judge of the Court of Ap- 

 peals, to fill a vacancy caused by the death of 

 Judge Martin H. Cofer, by a vote of 22,051 

 against 11,207 for T. T. Alexander. At the same 

 election a vote was taken on the question of 

 calling a constitutional convention. The num- 

 ber of votes cast in the affirmative was not a 

 majority of the citizens of the State entitled 

 to vote for representatives, and the proposition 

 was defeated. The number of legal voters is 

 367,163, of whom 312,521 are white and 54,642 

 colored. There is a general feeling in the 

 State that a revision of the Constitution is 

 necessary, but the above and other constitu- 

 tional provisions render the calling of a con- 

 vention well-nigh impossible. A proposition 

 to call a convention was submitted to the peo- 



