Owensboro

Owensboro, capital of Daviess county, Kentucky, on the Ohio, 160 miles below Louisville (112 by rail); a steam-ferry plies to Indiana. The chief trade is in tobacco and whisky, there being over a score of tobacco-factories and nearly as many distilleries here and in the vicinity. The city has also foundries, and flour and planing mills, &c. Pop. (1880) 6231; (1890) 9837.