1859: Mar. 16: Longest iron bridge in America (except the Victoria bridge at Montreal, Canada) erected over Green River, at Bowling Green, on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad; total length 1,000 feet, height 115 feet above low water mark, and of 5 spans. Mar. 28: Silver ore discovered on Willow creek, four miles from Falmouth, in Pendleton county. April 2 - 6: Thermometer at Paris 25 degrees and 28 degrees above zero, for four days. April 25: Death at Shippingport, near Louisville, of James PORTER, the Ky. giant, seven feet nine inches high. June 20: The Hon. Garret DAVIS challenges Capt. Wm. E. SIMMS, democratic candidate for congress (both of Paris), to fight a duel, for denunciatory words, in a speech at Ruddell's Mills, in reference to a communication in "Western Citizen" of which Mr. Davis avows himself the author. They meet in Cincinnati for the purpose; but by mediation of friends the difficulty is adjusted without a hostile meeting. July 1: Kentucky banks declare dividends out of last six months' profits: Northern and Commercial each 5, Southern 5 and 2 per cent extra, Farmers' 5 and, from the accumulated and surplus profits, 22 per cent extra. Aug. 1: The Democratic ticket for state officers elects and included: Beriah MAGOFFIN, Linn BOYD, and Alfred ALLEN. Oct. 28 - 29: Destruction, by a mob, of "The True South," an abolition newspaper published at Newport. Nov. 12: Thermometer 68 degrees during the day, but falls during the night to 12 degrees above zero -- a change of 56 degrees in less than 12 hours. Dec. 16: Legislature instructs Ky. senators and requests representatives in congress to urge upon the treaty-making power the necessity of so amending the treaty of 1842 with Great Britain in regard to fugitives from justice, as to provide for the surrender of "fugitives from service or labor." (Designed to procure the surrender and return of slaves fleeing to Canada.) Dec. 17: Death of lieutenant governor, Hon. Linn BOYD, at his residence. Dec. 21: Thos. P. PORTER unanimously elected speaker of the senate, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the lieutenant governor.