Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-09-24

Premiums amounting to $50, 200 have been
appropriated by the Association, The fourth
annual festival of the Yelled Prophets will
be celebrated Tuesday evening, October 4,
and the display and parade will be on scale
of unusual magnifcence. Railway and
steamboat lines running to st. Louis will
transport passengers at greatly reduced
rates Of fare. n,.
A SNOWFALL of several inches was
reported on the 10th in Northern Iowa and
Southern Minnesota
The value of the breadstuffs exported
from the United States during the month of
August was $25,5OO,OOO against $31, 100, 900
exported during the corresponding month
of last year. The total value of the bread
stuff exports for the eight months ending
Aug. 81, was $i57, 500 600 or Sg7, 800 600 less
than the valuation of the exports for the
corresponding eight months of last year.
MAURICE G. STELLHEIMER, aged 26,
coupon clerk in the office of J. & W. Sellg-
man &, Co., New York, is under arrest
charged with embezzling $50, ,OO0. The
money was mostly lost in stock speculations.
Stellheimer fled from the city upon the dis
coyery OF his defalcation, taking with him n
young lady companion. A detective was
placed upon his track and his arrest was
finally accomplished on alake steamer bound
for Duluth.
GEN. STONE, a Confederate soldier
in the late war, and now an officer in the
Egyptian army, was the leader of the mutt
ny reported by telegraph the other day rs
having taken place at Cairo.
AT Urton's Crossing, o., on the Little
Miami Railway, James Darrow, WELL
known farmer, received fatal injuries while
trying TO rescue q drunken man lying on the
track. -a e
DIR. w. W. GREENE, of Portland,
Me-, delegate to the International Medical
Congress at London, and graduate of Ann
Arbor Medical School, died returning home
and was buried at sea.
THREE colored children were burned
to death near Carthage, Texas. Parents
were at church, and the house caught fire.
DIPHTHERIA is epidemic in Russia.
In some parishes all the children under Ii
years have died of the dread disease. The
contagion first appeared in Bessarabia in
1872. Since then it has spread over the south
OF Russia, from whence it has spread toward
the east and northwest. In the Province OF
Pultowa, which has less than 100000 peo-
pie, there have been As, 543 persons stricken
by the disease, and of these IS, 765 have
died.
GEN. w. F. TUCKER, q well-known
resident of Okalona, Miss, was assassinated
the other evening while standing in his own
doorway, TO which he had been called by
some one outside. A young negro
named Houston Parish, with whom the Cen
eral had some difficulty few days before, is
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ed. Gen. Tucker was a Brigadier- General
in the Confederate service and won distinc-
tion as gallant soldier during the war.
Two passenger coaches and Superin-
tendent's car on the Vicksburg e Meridian
Rlilway were thrown from the track by a
broken rail near Edwards, Miss. They fell
down a declivity Of about six or eight feet.
| The passenger coaches were crowded.
Eighteen persons were injured,
REV. r. +. NJ. WALLACE, of Missouri,
was killed near South Union, Ky, by a cal
running into carriage in which he was
riding. .'
AT Oakland, Ky, P. H. Winegardner
a noted counterfeiter, was shot and danger.
ously wounded by woman named Laura
Morehead, to whom he was engaged to be
married, but for some reason the engage.
ment was broken off. lie questioned hel
fealty, and in moment Of frenzy she got I
revolver and fired two shots.