Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1880-03-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the concentration there of large number Of
Gen. Mcdowell, by orders from Washington.
As further measure of precaution, the
arms belonging to the militia have been re-
moved from several of the city arsenas and
placed in secure places, the reason assigned
by officials being that the arsenals and their
disorderly classes in case ofa riot. Placards
are posted about the city, signed by the
"Council of Thirteen" warning employers
Of Chinese to dircharge them. The work.
ingmen are greatly agitated by the military
movements, and their leaders charge the
authorities with trying to force an outbreak.
THE Louisiana Democratic State Con-
vention has been called for April 18th, to
select delegates to Cincinnati.
In accordance with an order of Court
the wires and property of the Atlantic and
Pacific Telegraph Company along the Union
Pacific Railway, seized by order of Jay
Gould, have been restored to their owners
and all connections re-established.
THE dissolution of Parliament has
been announced, to take place at Easter.
On account of the dissolution of Par
lament, Mr.. Parnell has returned to Ire
land, but will return in few weeks to COM
plete his engagements in this country.
THE main building of the Kansas State
Insane Asylum, at Osawatomie, was par
TALLY destroyed by fire on the evening Of the
Sth. The inmates were al safely removed.
The fire is believed to have originated from
spontaneous combustion. The loss is esti-
mated at $35, 1000, with no insurance.
JAMES ALLEN, the waiter at the St.
Nicholas Hotel, LasVegas, N MeX.,w shot
and killed James Moorehead, a commercial
traveller from st. Louis, was taken from the
custody of the Sheriff and hanged by mob.
THE Arkansas Democratic State Con-
vention will be held at Little Rock, June 9,
| to nominate candidates for State officers and
also to choose delegates to the National Con-
vention.
The Alabama State Republican Con-
Evention To-, select delegates e the E-a-
tional Convention will be held AZ selma,
May 20.
GEN. GRANT and party expected to
sail from Vera Cruz, Mexico, on the 18th, fol-
New Orleans.
M. DE LEssEPs and Capt. Eads, by
invitation, have both appeared before the
Senate Committee on Inter-oceanic Canals
and explained their respective systems.
THE Senate, by a party vote, rejected
| the nomination ofWm. r. Brown as Census
Supervisor of the Eighth District of Illinois,
upon the ground that at least one of the
eight Illinois Supervisors should have been
selected fromk Democracy.
The boiler in Lehman, Rosenthal &
Co.'s flax mill, at Frankfort, Ind, exploded
on the morning of the 1lth, just before the
usual hour for beginning work, and while
all the employees, ten in number, were
gathered around. Every one of the
ten men was instantly killed. The
building was completely demolished, and the
debris took fire and was quickly consumed
The names Of the killed are: II. Rogers, Ell
Hemlck, Scott Williams, Joseph Wise
Joseph Miller, Thos. CroXton, Pat Leasy
John Honissell, Joseph Eichenberry anC
Michael Shields.
THE Missouri Republican State Con
vention, to select delegates to the Chicago
Conventional be held at Sedalia, April IA
The House Committee on Publ,
Lands will report favorably Mr.. Ryan's bill
to graduate the price and dispose Of the res
idue Of Usage Indian Trust and Diminished
Reserve Lands, Kansas.
The House Committee on Epidemic
Diseases have agreed to recommend 70
passage the joint resolution authorizing tn
President to call an International Sanitar
Conference, to meet at Washington, d. G.
and to increase the efficiency of the Nationa
Board of Health.
THE Ohio Republican State Conven
vention has been called to meet at Columbu:
April 2S.
AN anti-third term Republican meet
ing was held at st. Louis on the evening @
, the 18th. Hon. John B. Henderson was tn
principal speaker.
MRS. AGNES BERGEsET, domesti
in the family OF DR.. J. Byrne, 23l West Ran
dolph Street, Chicago, was accidentally she
and almost instantly killed on the 11th, by
nine-year- old son Of the Doctor, with re
t volver which had been left carelessly lyin
{ around in the room of a bOarder in tn
Y house.
DENNIS KEARNEY was arrested at "a
Francisco, on the 18th, on charges OF mis-
demeanor, based upon his remarks at
workingmen's meeting. He was released o
bail.
A DETACHMENT of the Fifth 1nfantr
! recently overhauled party of Sioux VIII
l had been committing depredations near Fol
e MeKeogh and killed three Of them. Tw
! CHEYENNE scouts were killed in the fight.
, THE Post-office Department has cor
I cluded contracts for the Star Mail ServiC
= for four years in Ohio, Indiana, Kentuck!
Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina
Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi
i The total amount of awards is about SSS5,
e 600.
e II is reported from Chicago that th
4 Trade and Labor League Of that city recent
ly received a communication from the 81
Louis branch, urging their cooperation in
: trade-union strike, TO be inaugurated- App
: l, and to comprise all organizations in Il
West.
THREE negroes were hanged on tf
18th: At Washington, Ark, Sydney Nj
i Fadden, for the murder Of his wife;
: Florence, Ala, John Mayileld, for the mu
$ der Of Tobe Irvine, another colored mai