1850: Jan. 13 -- Snow falls, 12 to 15 inches deep. April 4 -- Shock of an earthquake at 8:05 P.M., distinctly felt all over the state; in Louisville, many persons fled from their houses into the streets; no damage done. April 13 -- A fierce, driving snow storm in northern Kentucky. -- Population of Lexington, by a new census, 7,920. April 17 -- Rain, hail, snow, sleet, and high wind, in the morning; at night, ice forms. April 22 -- Burning of the steamboat Belle of the West; in the Ohio river, below Warsaw, Ky.; 26 lives lost. -- Large emigration from Kentucky to the California gold mines. June 3 -- Population of the state (8th in point of population) 982,405; whites 761,413; foreign-born 31,420, free colored 10,011, and slaves 210,981; of slave increase, the ratio is 15 2/3%, and, of total increase, 26%. June 14 -- John NORRIS, of Boone county, Ky., recovers a judgment in the U.S. circuit court at Indianapolis, of $2,800 and costs (about $2,000) against NEWLAN, CROCKER, and others, for runaway slaves of NORRIS which he had recaptured at South Bend, Indiana, and which they then took from him by force. July 31 -- Death from cholera since July 23, in Louisville 113, in Frankfort 23, and a few others elsewhere in the state. Aug. 15 -- Specimens of silver ore found near the Cumberland Falls. -- The Elizabethtown "Register" records the finding, among the sands of Rolling Fork, 12 miles from that place, of the thigh bone of a human being, which measures in cubic inches six times the size of the thigh bone of a common man. A physician calculates the height of the giant of other days at 12 or 13 feet. Sept. 29 -- congress passes a law granting bounty lands (from 40 to 160 acres to each) to the soldiers and non-commissioned officers of the war of 1812, and of the Indian wars since 1790, or, if dead, to the widow and minor children of such, and to the commissioned officers of the Mexican war. Oct. 8 -- Bourbon agricultural society premium for best five acres of corn awarded to Hubbard W. VARNON; his corn (a large yellow kind, known as the Mason corn), yielded 21 barrels and 3 bushels to the acre, by measurement. Nov. 19 -- Death of Col. Richard M. JOHNSON at Frankfort, while a member of the legislature. -- Capt. B. Rowan HARDIN, of Bardstown, Ky., is murdered on the isthmus of Panama.