. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. tSi^- -g<a«s. HON. JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE. Kenton county is one of the newest and smallest in the State ofKentucky and ranks as the ninetieth in order of formation. It wasorganized in 1840, out of the Western part of Campbell county, asdivided by the Licking river. Its area is small, being only from sixto twelve miles wide and twenty-five miles long. It is easy of access,with the Lexington pike on the West and the Kentucky Central rail-road along its Eastern border. Its bottom lands are rich and veryproduct
. Kentucky politicians. Sketches of representative Corncrackers and other miscellany. tSi^- -g<a«s. HON. JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE. Kenton county is one of the newest and smallest in the State ofKentucky and ranks as the ninetieth in order of formation. It wasorganized in 1840, out of the Western part of Campbell county, asdivided by the Licking river. Its area is small, being only from sixto twelve miles wide and twenty-five miles long. It is easy of access,with the Lexington pike on the West and the Kentucky Central rail-road along its Eastern border. Its bottom lands are rich and veryproductive; the uplands are undulating, but grow fine wheat, corn,and tobacco. The county is dotted with well-kept gardens and manyexcellent dairy farms for the supply of Covington and Cincinnati mar-kets. The lands that lie along the Lexington turnpike are said to beof a very superior quality. The county is, indeed, excellent in everything; its people areintelligent and progressive ; its towns are well ordered and thicklypopulated, wearing that air of thrift and independence which goes handin hand with
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