Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-01-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

uhuOi thO SUPERVISION VI DlsnOp Alcihnu'
Provisions and supplies have peen sent from
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
A BERLIN dispatch reports that many
Jewish families are preparing to emigrate to
Belgium, France or England.
Mr.. LIE Duo, Commissioner of Agri-
culture, is establishing an experimental tea
farm twenty miles from Charleston, on the
line Of the South Carolina Railroad.
JOHN j. MEcHI, the well-known En-
glish agriculturist, is dead.
oEPHL /, PIKE, a prominent stock
man Of pnaway City, Iowa, committed sui
eide on account Of financial reverses.
The boilers in Dodge & Co.'s shoe
factory at Newburyport, Mass, exploded at
noon on the 9th, killing instantly John Har-
rington, engineer, and John II. Basley, fire.
man, and fatally injuring John Teel and 0s-
car Satkins, all OF whom were in the
boiler-room at the time Of the eXplo-
sion. The disaster occurred, fortunately.
during the dinner hour, or the loss of
life among the 800 operatives must have been
fearful to contemplate, as the boiler house
was blown to atoms and the debris scattered
In all directions, while one Of the boilers was
landed 200 yards away, crushing everything
in its path. The cause of the explosion is
not known, as the boilers are said to have
been nearly new and of the best quality.
A MOVEMENT is making in Northern
Dakota to have the Territory divided into
two parts.
RAILWAY employees in Great Britain
have begun a movement for reduction of
working hours.
A COLLISION of trains on the Mobile
and Ohio Railroad occurred on the morning
of the Goth at the State line, sixty-three miles
from Mobile, causing the death of both en-
gineers and firemen and the injury Of several
other employees as well as passengers. The
names Of the killed are Savage, Heuchey and
Moody, one not being given.
THE annual session of the Western
Commercial Travellers Association was held
at st. Louis on the 2Sth.
THE steamer City of Peking from
China brings an account of the burning Of q
theater in Nomhoitner, Province of Yuchun
on the afternoon Of December IL. Some
| 1000 spectators were in the theater at the
time, and great panic ensued. There was
wild rush for the doors, and many were
mangled and killed by being trodden on
Several hundred were burned to death
among whom were number of actors.
JACOB GoGLE and wife, residing foul
miles from Bethlehem, Pa, on the morning
of the 9th were found dead in bed, thei
heads nearly severed from their bodies.
bloody AK was found in the apartment ant
the walls were spashed with blood. JOSEPH
Snyder, miner, who boarded with TIT
Goggles, was believed to he the murderer
He was caught by an infuriated mob sool
after the discovery of the crime, forced t.
confess his guilt, and hanged to the neares
tree. The Goggles leave three children.
PHILIP WHIsNANT, Charles Sellers
and three colored men, riding in caboos
were killed by a collision, nine miles iron
Charlotte, on the Goth.
The lawyers of Missouri met in Stat
Convention at Kansas City, on the 18th, 70
the purpose Of suggesting some remedy 70
relieving the Supreme Court of the presen
overplus of business.
AT Martha's Vineyard, Mass, tn
wife of Edwin S. Baker went to the rescu
of her son, who had broken through the iC
on pond, and both were drowned.
THE recent nominations by Presider
! Hayes of Mr.. Daniels for Collector at Buffal
and Mr. Haskell for Postmaster at Albany
/, n. Y, both strong anti-Conkling men, al
, creating no little talk in political circles, es
pecially in connection with the rumor, whic
it by no means verified, however, that bot
, , appointments were made with the concur
renee of President elect Garfield.
The dead body of negro, in a fla
, state of preservation, was found in hog
head of molasses recently opened at o.
! bridge, Mass. He is supposed to have bee
[ murdered and the body thus disposed Of
! conceal the evidence of the crime. Stel
will be taken to ferret out the mystery.
N. b. HARDWOOD, the well-known S
: Paul dry-goods merchant, who recent
e went into bankruptcy, has absconded. Hi
creditors are generally Of the opinion tbs
n his failure was swindle. His assets wi
not pay over % cents on the dollar.
y The recent severe cold snap, whiC
: eliminated on the Doth ult., extended gene
r ally throughout the country. At Chicago t
d mercury ranged from 20 to 90 deg. belC
B. zero, and at st. Louis 10 deg. below, wifi
: was about the average range throughout t
g Northwest. In the East there was hea
= fall of snow, and at New Orleans there W
u good skating.
. In York County, Va, Howard Dun
: white man, shot and killed three negro
y who made an attack upon him, as is elaine
. There was an old difficulty between the pa
" ties.
. By q collision on the Cincinnati, Sa
~ dusky & Cleveland Railroad, near Tiff
, VIM. Woodbury., a fireman, was instan
killed. He had but recently been MARI
lie and his wife was on board the train.
y The LOOMS Paper-mill, at Piqr
TO o., was completely wrecked on the 2Sth
H. the explosion of steam boiler. The fiji
a. man was the only person in the building
D. the time Of the explosion, and he, fortu
u ately, escaped injury.
- By the falling of the roof of chur
during Christmas services at Saillagot,
as France, seven persons were killed outril
20 and fully fifty injured.
at THE President, at the request of Cat
@. Whitaker, will order court-msrtial in
b. case.
o. HERMAN HAARFEICHER, aged fifty
k, member OF the Chicago Board of Trade, co
.ly mitted suicide With chloroform. Cause