Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-10-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the canal near Albion, n. Y. The post
mortem examination showed that she had
not come to her death by drowning, and a
number OF Commissions upon her head and
body gave evidence that she had been fouly
dealt with. Aman named Fred. Hopkins,
with whom she had been intimate, has been
arrested, charged with her murder. The
parents OF the girl are small farmers in the
vicinity, but for some years she had not
lived at home, but worked around at vari-
Ous:places. us.b af} "a
WHILE Ralph Durbin and wife and
daughter. aged 10, and u Miss Buck, sister
of Mrs. Durbin, and three small children
were returning from church at Danvile,
Knox County, o., they attempted to cross a
stream subject to high floods. Mrs. Durbin,
Miss Durbin and Miss Buck were drowned.
Mr.. Durbin got out by his own effort, and
Mr.. James Shellabarger rescued the chill
dren.
The graveyard insurance business in
Pennsylvania is assuming alarming proper
tons. At Wilkesbarre, within month,
four old people have died under suspicious
circumstance, all of whom were heavily in
sured by outside spectators.
The project of q National Garfield
Memorial Hospital, to be established in
Washington, and, II practicable, on the very
ground where President Garfield was striclt-
Ell down, is being canyassed in Washington,
with good prospects of its ultimate success.
GovERoR HoYT notifies the Insur-
ance Commissioners of Pennsylvania he will
not issue any more letters patent to mutual
assessment insurance companies. As the
Governor CONSTITUTES the law, the business is
not conducted legally.
Four boys were stealing ride in
frcight-car loaded with corn, when the train
ran off the track near Morrison, ILL.,, the car
they were in turned over, and all were
smOthered to death.
CALEB F. HARRIS and wife, of Provi-
dence, r. l., were drowned in Moosehcad
Lake.
Mrs. GREEN, residing on the. York
town Pike, near Muncie, Ind, was seri-
ously shot in the breast from toy pistol in
the hands Of a young son.
ORsoN PRATT, the Oldest Apostle of
the Mormon Church, is dead, aged 70.
Gov. CULLoM, of Illinois, has issued
proclamation offering 500 reward for the
arrest of the notorious Williams brothers,
whose last murderous offense was the kill
ing of Sheriff Lammy, of Calhoun County.
They are believed to be still secreted in the
vicinity. g.
JOHN and James Pickard, brothers,
were killed by boiler explosion at Carroll
ton, Mich.
A SMALL child, while standing near
mOlasses evaporation, near cambridge,
Tenn, witnessing the evaporation with
great glee, lost its foolhold and fell into the
seething mass, and was dead before its hor-
riicd relatives could rescue him.
THE German ship Hugo was burned
in the South Pacific Ocean and the Captain
with eight men floated eight hundred miles
to the coast of Chill in ninedays.
TIE insurgents in Tunis are charged
with fresh outrages. At. Wadzergha a rail-
way station was fired and ten employees
massacred. The station master, an eX-
Lieutenant in the French army and a
Chevalier OF the Legion of Honor, was
burned alive. .. rr set
CAPTAIN HowGATE returned unex-
pectedly to Washington and announced him
self ready to stand trial. He was taken to
Jail. His bondsmcn feel greatly relieved by
his presence. ..... ...I
FRANKLIN j. Moses, formerly Gov
ernor of South Carolina, has been up in the
police headquarters at New York for swind-
ling William l.. Hall out of $25. nc.
AT Richmond, Va, Marvin, the biga-
mist and forger, was sentenced to the Peni-
Tertiary for ten years.
THERE have recently arrived by
steamship at New Orleans 800 German and
800 English immigrants, for settlement in
Texas, and go italian labOrers for work up
on the New York, Texas & Mexican Rail-
way.
WILLIAM KRoEGER, aged 60, and his
wife, aged 80, residing near Vincennes, Ind,
were brutally beaten by two negroes, who
DIOht lIllO lutlI DCuIOOlll ~ wv U CluCh Ill
the morning for the purpose of robbery.
Kroeger rose up in bed and was immedi-
ately knocked back by blow on the head
His wife then raised up, with a similar re-
suit After striking the woman two blows
and KrOegeF five, rendering them sense
less, the villains searched until they found
what money was in the house, $15, and then
escaped. As soon as they were out Of the
room, Kroeger, whose reason had returned,
sprang out Of bed, grabbed his gIln and fired
both barrels after them, but his eyes were
full OF blood and his aim was poor. They
got away, but were subsequently arrested.
There is great excitement, with some talk of
lynching.
RECENT Irish news: A farmer
named Leary, living near Baltimore, on
Lord Kenmare's property, was shot by n
band of armed men, who visited his house
to warn him not to pay rent He has since
died from his wounds. A man carrying
boycotted oats in the Parish Of Doom, Coun-
ty Tipperary, was shot, and it was thought,
MORALLY wounded. Mr.. Bingham, land
lord, while riding near Erris, County Mayo,
was fired at. A girl on the car with him
was wounded. The asSailant, who was dis
guised in female clothing, escaped.
AN oil train of fifty cars on the Erie
Railway, took fire near Port Jervis, n. Y.
| Fifteen ears were cut loose from the rear OF
the train, where the fire occurred, and the
remainder OF the train was pulled off TO a
safe distance. As the burning cars eXplod-
ed volumes of flames shot hundreds Of feet
into the air, and the burning oil and frag-
ments OF tanks were thrown 900 yards. So
intense was the heat that the telegraph