"Four shares of Lex. and Ohio R. R. Stock were sold at public auction on
Monday last at $101.00 per share, next dividend off being one per cent
advance. This is some evidence of the estimation in which this stock
is held. The next dividend to be struck 1st January and to which the
purchaser will not be entitled would probably have added about $5.00 per
share. We repeat that the citizens of Louisville do not duly appreciate
the importance to their city of the completion of the road from thence
to Frankfort with as little delay as possible."
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And in the same paper is an account of the sad fate of the attractive
little Villa: