HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.



and in the one of destructiveness could hardly have been equaled far
beyond the memory of the oldest living. There had never been any-
think like so much farm wealth exposed to injury. It may be estimated
that the corn has been reduced 50 per cent.; grass and hay, 60 per cent.;
tobacco, 70 per cent.; and the potato yield 60 percent. There
has been no rain to amount to anything during the last six months.
     HIGH WATER MEASUREMENTS made by 0. F. Nichols,
resident engineer, in charge of building the railway bridge across the
Ohio:
     Elevation corner Fourth and Water Streets, above maximum,
high water.
     High water, 1832, 46 feet.
         "6     1867, 43.2  "
         "9     1882, 43.1  "February, 23d.
         "96    1883, 46.3 "     "    19th.
         "1     1884, 46.7 "     "    16th.
    The above estimate is accurate and shows that the water of both
1883 and '84 was higher than ever known before. The water of 1884,
it will be seen, is the highest ever known, and Henderson stood
twenty feet above that, while the cities and towns above and below
her were inundated.
   OUTLAWRY. -One of the most heartless acts of outlawry ever perpe-
trated in the county, was the whipping of Cora Walker, in June, 1862.
Mr. Walker was a miserly sort of man, and it was thought possessed a
large sum of money hidden away. Seven men appeared at his cabin
in the dead hour of night, and, taking him out, demanded his money.
He refused, and thereupon was soundly whipped, hickory withes
being used as instruments of torture. He finally gave up what he had,
but with this the gang was not satisfisd, and demanded more. Failing
to get it, the lash was again applied, and then the poor man left to
make the best of it. From this whipping a severe fever set up, and
a few days after Ar. Walker died. He was a brother-in-law of Mr.
J. T. Sandefur, of Geneva, and died at his home.
    A CHARACTERISTIC VERDICT.-At an inquest held over the
body of a free woman of color, many years ago, by Captain Henry
Dixon, Coroner, the following ingeniously humorous verdict was ren-
dered:
    " We, of the jury, think it was an act of providenceall except Walter
C. Langley, and Young E. Allison, who think it was from some other
cause, unknown to us at present." The jury was composed of Jacob
B. Hopkins, John Watson, Robert B. Sthrestly, Francis J. Hopkins



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