HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.



citv. He has for a number of years been a member of the Knights of
Pythias and Knights of Honor. Mr. Bradshaw is a quiet, reserved
man of business, the soul 6f honor, far seeing, and judicious in all
that he does.



                MISCELLANEOUS.



    ASSESSMENT OF HENDERSON COUNTY as reported for
1887: Land, number of acres, 2,509,111; value, 3,722,540. Num-
ber of horses, 3,347; value, 244,020. Mules, 3,250; value, 200,470.
Cattle, 4,533; value, 58,798. Sheep, 3,337; value, 5,757. Hogs,
13,570; value, 41,408. Stores, 176; value, 249,055. Watches and
clocks, 23,109. Gold and silverware, 6,627. Jewelry, 1,687. Pianos,
23,055. Carriages, c., 86,937. Credits of money at interest,
722,068. Money on deposit, 148,508. Bonds, 175,207.
Grand total personal property ....................... 2,868,642
"    " land      "   ...       ................... 3,722,640.
     " city and town lots ................................... 1,928,850.
                                                    8,620,082.
    Total pounds of tobacco, 12,307,925. Corn, 1,323,108. Hay,
4,428 tons. Wheat, 147,962 bushels. Oats, 31,612.
                        COLORED LIST.
    Total personality, 44,605. Land, 47,984. City and town lots,
34,760. Grand total, 127,349.
    CITY ASSESSMENT for 1887, as reported: For city purposes,
3,963,767. Water Works, 3,725,372. Railroad, 3,973,767. School
and bond, 4,006,617.
                        COLORED LIST.
    For City, Water Works, Railroad and School, 72,705, each.
    The population of Henderson, including the Cotton Mill district
for the year 1887, is estimated between ten and eleven thousand.
   There has been established this year, 1887, a colored high school,
Rev. J. C. Templeton, President; Wm. H. Hall, Secretary; Samuel
Givens, Treasurer and George H. Bell Superintendent and Principal.
   During this year,1887,there has been, perhaps, the most protracted
and destructive drouth that has ever been known in the Ohio Valley.
There is no memory or record that reports its equal in those -respects,
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