Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-30

head of the New York Tammany organiza-
tion at the recent election failed.
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THE United States Courts it seems
have no jurisdiction in the Missouri land
fraud cases, and the accused parties will be
proceeded against by indictments in the
State Criminal Courts. Lindsay has already
been indicted, and some of the others will
probably meet with the same treatment.
{ THE unprecedented rise in the Des-
PLANES River caused the breaking of the
canal and the inundation of the entire dis
trict along Archer and Blue Island Avenues,
Chicago. A similar state Of affairs exists in
Joliet and other towns along the canal. The
losses, both to the State and to individuals,
are very serious.
THE President has nominated Richard
A. Elmer, of New York, Second Assistant
Postmaster General; W, A. NJ. Grier, of
Pennsylvania, Third Assistant Postmaster
General, vice A. ID. Hazen, appointed
Assistant Attorney General Of the Post
Office Department; George B. Everett,
United States Collector of Internal Revenue,
Fifth District of North Carolina.
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THE International Monetary Confer
ence convened in Paris on the 10th, Fifteen
States were represented Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Spain, United States,
France, England, Greece, Italy, Holland,
Portugal, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland.
The English and Italian delegates had not
arrived. On motion of Mr. Evarts, Delegate
Magnin, French Minister of Finances, was
elected President of the Conference.
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A BERLIN correspondent says that the
Car will reside at the diminutive chateau OF
Gatschinak, guarded by six cordons of SOL
diery. His Majesty is never seen outside the
inner circle Aniteschoff Palace, the town
mansion, has been intrusted to the guardian
ship of 800 men of the Pavlewsky Guards. A
Nihilst manifesto, announcing the approach
ing death of Alexander Ill, has been re-
Ceived by all the Russian Ministers and court
officials.
THE National Convention of the Land
League opened at Dublin on the2lst. One
presided. A resolution was adopted declar-
ing Davitt should be released, and thanking
Irishmen in America for their support.
The opinions expressed by delegates were
strongly adverse to the Land bill, but it
was generally considered the measure should
not be rejected until an effort is made to
amend it.
THE Secretary of the Interior has re-
Ceived circular issued by the "Freedmen' 5
Oklahoma Association" of st. Louis, j. Mil
ton Turner President, and Hannibal c. Car
ter General Manager. II promises 600
acres of land to every freedman who will 60
and occupy the public lands of Oklahoma.
Secretary Kirkwood has referred the circular
TO the Commissioner OF the General Land
Office, with Il view to ascertainng the legal
ity Of the proposed occupancy OF the Gov
ernmeut reservations in that Territory.
THE north wing of the Illinois Hospi
tai for the Insane at Anna, ILL.,, was entirel!
destroyed by fire on the night of the 18th
Estimated loss between St50,000 and $780,
600. The fire originated in bathroom, bu
in what manner is not known. The patients
were all gotten safely out of the building af-
ter the alarm was given, but one of them
an old man named N Ferkle, from Monroe
County, returned unobserved to his room
and persisted in the flames. Two fire com
panies from Cairo, dispatched by specia
train, did effective service in quenching the
flames.
THE Rock River flood has caused in
calculable losses. The lower part of Stcr
ling, Ill.,. including the Fair Grounds, i
submerged, and the distilleries, with hun
dreds of cattle, are on an island the waite
crowding dangerously on all sides. Tb
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad track 70
five miles is completely covered with waite
and much of it is washed away. Two irol
bridges at Elgin City have been swept away
the ice-gorge in the Fox River having broke
and carried away the dams at Carpenters
vile and Dundee.
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dis
patch Of the DIST says The action OF tn
President in removing Brady, Second As
sistant Postmaster. General, has revived tn
matter OF the star route service and forme
charges in that connection. Not only ha
Brady been removed, but the President ha
ordered that the star route matter be thor
oughly Investigated with view Of ascertain
ing all who had any connection with it. Post
master-General James is conducting tn
investigation, and it is given out that h
has discovered enough to warrant til
removal Of several officials in the depart
ment. 1t is stated that some of the accuse
parties will be indicted in the end. In
short time James will publish the result {
the investigation, but at present the Depart
ment only says that hundreds Of thousand
Of dollars We're unnecessarily expended
expedting routes, and that when all uselc
expenditures are cut down the Post -offi
Department will be nearly self-sustaining.
On the morning of the 2lst, as Il
night express train west-bound on the RO,
Island Division Of the Chicago, Milwauk
4 St. Paul Railway was moving at ordina
speed across the trestle-work over the Nler
dosia River, one mile south Of Albany, III
the trestle gave way, and the train witho
warning was suddenly precipitated into 9
river. The train consisted of an engin
tender, baggage car, passenger and sleepin
cars. All went down except t
sleeper, which remained suspend
over the end Of the bridge at an a
gle OF forty-fve degrees, the u
per end high in the air. Two cars float
off down stream. The passenger Goa
lodged against an island forty rods ava
and the baggago-car stuck in the middld'
the stream about the same distance. ThI