1855: Jan. 1: Ky. corporations declare semi-annual dividends as follows: Louisville Gas co. 5%, Lexington Gas co., 3%, Bank of Ky., Northern Bank of Ky., and Farmers' Bank of Ky., each 5%, Paris Deposit Bank 6%. Jan. 6: Know Nothing ticket for city officers chosen in Covington and Lexington. Jan. 6: 4,000 bushels hemp seed imported at Maysville from France and Russia, because of almost total failure of that crop last season; 30,000 bushels ordered by the agent, who visited England and France, Anthony KILLGORE, but could not be found. Jan. 8: M. Butt HEWSON, indicted by grand jury at Little Rock, Ark., for having challenged Geo. D. PRENTICE, editor Louisville Journal, to fight a duel. Jan. 8: At several sales of slaves belonging to estates of persons recently deceased, in the counties of Bourbon, Fayette, Clark, and Franklin, negro men sell for $1,260, 41,175, $1,070, $1,378, $1,295, $1,015, $1,505, to neighboring farmers who need their labor. Jan. 14: Threatened famine in portions of Scott county; public meeting at Georgetown "to devise means for the relief of the distress caused by the great scarcity and high price of provisions." Jan. 27: Death, in Breckinridge county, of Wm. SHERNHILL, a soldier of the revolutionary war, 103 years old. Feb. 3: The Ohio frozen over for 11 days. Feb. 6: The largest horse in the world now exhibiting at Louisville -- "Magnus Apollo," from Perryville, Ky., 20 hands high, and of "extraordinary grandeur and majesty of proportion and appearance." March 1: Several farmers in Clark county lose cattle from starvation; others, there and in the surrounding counties, sell their cattle at half their cost two years ago, or at very small prices. Apr.2: The Ky. horse Lexington wins the great race against time, at New Orleans -- 4 miles in 7:19 3/4, carrying 103 pounds; Arrow and Joe Blackburn ran with him, to animate him the contest: purse, $20,000. Apr. 7: Thos. D. BROWN, circuit court clerk, at Elizabethtown, shot and killed, in a personal difficulty, by W. S. ENGLISH, a merchant; the examining court "discharged Mr. E., as guilty of no crime." --- Know Nothing ticket successful at the city election in Louisville; John BARBEE received 3,070 votes for mayor; no opposing candidate. Mr. SPEED, the present mayor, declines to run, claiming that his term does not expire this year; May 9, Judge BULLOCK, in the circuit court, decided that Mr. SPEED is the legal mayor, although the other departments of the city government had recognized Mr. BARBEE. May 8: 52 colored people from Ky. leave Boston as emigrants to Liberia, Africa. --- Occasional cases of scurvy, from want of vegetable food. Flour $10.50 per barrel, and potatoes $1.50 to $2.50 per bushel. June 2: Death of Mrs. Ann JACKSON, in Montgomery county, aged 108 years. --- Frequent and violent hailstorms, in middle and northern Kentucky. June 10: Dr. David R. HAGGARD, President of the state board of internal improvements, in a report of the committee of the last legislature, receives high encomium for his indefatigable energy, wisdom, and economy in the managing the Ky. river, and Green, and Barren rivers . . . . June 16: Several deaths by cholera in Fayette co., 26th, 4 deaths at Maysville, Mason co., July 23rd, 10 deaths at Centerville, Bourbon co., Aug. 1, 40 deaths, within a week, at the Lexington lunatic asylum, and a number among the Irish laborers and negroes in Lexington; Aug. 12, 4 deaths in Paris. Aug.: Wheat crop unusually heavy and fine. Aug. 5: Death at the Galt House, in Louisville of Richard P. ROBINSON, the supposed murderer of Helen JEWETT; for several years past he was known as Richard PARMELLY. Aug. 6: (I'm just listing the names of those who ran for election) -- Chas. S. MOREHEAD, Beverley L. CLARKE, Jas. G. HARDY, Beriah MAGOFFIN, Jas. HARLAN, Robert W. WOOLLEY, Thos. S. PAGE, Jas. A. GRINSTEAD, Richard C. WINTERSMITH, Jas. H. GARRARD, Andrew McKINLEY, Thos. J. FRAZER, John D. MATTHEWS,D.D., Grant GREEN, Dr. David R. HAGGARD, Jas. M. NESBITT, Aug. 6: Terrible riot in Louisville, on election day; then designated, and still most painfully remembered, as "Bloody Monday." Fighting and disturbances between individuals or squads, in various deplorable scenes of violence, bloodshed, and houseburning, principally in the first and eighth wards. Between 7 and 1 o'clock at night, 12 houses were set fire to and burned, on the north side of Main, east of Eleventh, two adjoining on Eleventh, and two on south side Main opposite. Patrick QUINN, the owner of most of them, was shot, and his body partially consumed by the flames. Numerous shots were fired by foreigners from windows in some of those buildings, which killed or wounded Americans in the streets; this fact, with the exaggerated report that arms and powder were concealed there, excited to phrenzy (sic) a mob of Americans (another name for the Know Nothing party members) already crazed with similar excitement, shooting and bloodshed on both sides, at other points; several persons who were concealed in buildings, or fled to them for refuge from the mob, were burned to death; several were shot as they attempted to escape from the flames; AMBRUSTER'S large brick brewery and his dwelling, at the head of Jefferson, were burned; also, two Irish cooper-shops on Main above Woodland garden; frame grocery, corner Madison and Shelby; many houses were riddled or gutted. The mob which ranged through the streets and set fire to the houses was composed of Americans, part of them with a cannon at their head; the foreigners fought from their houses, and lost life and property together. About 22 were killed or died of wounds, about three-fourths of them foreigners, one fourth Americans; many more were wounded that recovered. Mayor BARBEE, Marshal KIDD, and a portion of the police, and the personal efforts of Hon. Wm. P. THOMASSON, Capt. L. H. ROUSSEAU, Geo. D. PRENTICE, Col. Wm. PRESTON (the anti-Know Nothing candidate for congress), Joseph BURTON, and others, at different times and places, stopped the effusion of blood, and saved the new Shelby street Catholic church and other valuable property from the rapacity and violence of the mob. Bad blood on both sides, aggravated and intensified for several days previous by distorted representations of preparations for serious work, culminated in a most terrible and disgraceful riot. For several days after fears of a renewal of the desperate conflict and work of destruction hung like a funeral pall over the city. A card from Rt. Rev. Bishop Martin J. SPALDING, and the steady efforts of many good citizens, gradually restored a feeling of quiet and security. Aug. 18: Death of ex-Gov. Thos. METCALFE, in Nicholas co., by cholera. Several other prominent citizens in different parts of the state, have died recently, of cholera. Sept. -- During this and next month, agricultural fairs are held at Crab Orchard, Lexington, Danville, Louisville, Eminence, Paris, Russellville, Owensboro, Bowling Green, Glasgow, near Germantown, Mason co., and near Florence, Boone county. --- A. R. ALEXANDER, of Woodford co., makes another importation of 48 fine English cattle - Durhams, Alderneys, and Ayrshires -- and 22 sheep.