Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-03-26
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

s-servers and eighty policemen to the
Islands Littermullin and Feenish, belonging
10 the Forster magistrate. The tenantry owe
5000. Two hundred policemen have been
dispatched in all haste to Clifden District,
where disturbance has arisen between the
Catholics and Fleming relief expedition.
One man is reported killed. There is Il Bit
ter feeling in the district because large
number of processes were served. Justice
Fitzgerald, in opening the Kerry Assizes,
said 463 crimes had been reported the last
seven months, seyeh.fold of the record the
same period the previous year. r ~
THERE is deficit in the Ashuelot Saw
ings Bank Of Winchester, NJ. H.,
amounting to over 100000. The
Treasurer of the bank, Mr.. Elleroy
Albee, has assigned all his personal
property to make good the deficit. 1t is be-
lieyed the defalcations have been in progress
for years and entirely unsuspected. Tho de-
posit-bOo have been called in and show
that $3.50, 900 made to appear as drawn
have not been drawn by depositors.
A CoLoRED woman named Amy
Bradford, at Shreveport, La, was overhaul
ing trunk, and coming to a small derrin-
ger pistol therein, her little son, who
was standing beside her, wanted it to oNphy
with. The mother, not dreaming it was
loaded, picked up the pistol and playfully
pointed it at the boy, Saying, "I'l shoot
you," when 1t went off, the ball entering
just above the right eye, passing into the
brain, The wound was pronounced fatal
A SINGULAR occurrence is reported
from the vicinity Of Florence, S. G. Mr..
Jas. Best was overtaken by severe storm,
and was hurrying across a field to place OF
shelter when terrific crash came, killing
him instantly. The strangest occurrence in
connection with the affair is that the light
ming, after killing Mr.. Best, dug his grave,
tearing the earth to greatdepth, and bury
ing the body. The poor fellow had to be
dug out with a spade.
JUDGE ID. G. VENABLE, United States
Commissioner, was thrown from q wagon
and killed near his place at Denison, Tex,
on the 18th.
JOHN. O'NEIL, Secretary of loan as
sociation at Taunton, Mass, having been
detected in course of systematic embezzle-
-ment, killed himself with revolver.
WILLIAM Il. FITZGERALD, anative Of
Ireland, aged 40, well-known local politi-
clan of New Orleans, an insurance agent by
occupation, committed suicide on st. Pat.
rick's Day. He leaves wife and five chill.
dren. No cause assigned for his self-mur.
! der. Y VI -AFA
CHAs. L. GATES, son of the late Sec
retary of the Memphis Cotton Exchange
Samuel NJ. Gates, recently deceased, COM
mitted suicide on the 18th by shooting him
self through the heart. The deceased was
33 years Of age and for the past two years
has been leading very dissipated life.
Two polar expeditions are to be fit
ted out and sent north early this coming
summer under the direction OF Gen. Hazen,
the Chief Signal Officer, for purely scientific
purposes.
@. g. SHANKLIN, q well-known bust
ness man of Hopkinsyille, KY, killed him
self on account Of financial embarrassments
The Cotton Compress at jackson
Tenn, was burned on the night Of the 1Gtl
with all its contents. Total loss about $35,
600.
A GENUINE social sensation is now be
ing enjoyed by scandal lovers in Berlin
caused by the elopement OF Count Herber
Won Bismarck, son OF the Chancellor, will
the Princess Elizabeth Of Carolath- Beuthen
wife of Prince Charles of Oarolath- Beuthen
Count Of Schonarch, etc. h ,.Jt d 4
A FEUD of long standing between thu
Ludling and Stubs families of Monroe
La, eliminated on the 18th in the killing o
Fred.LudIing, son of Judge Luding, form
erly Chief Justice of Louisiana, and tn
wounding of Frank Dinkgroye, a cousin o
young Ludling, and man named Mitch
enor, Stubbs's manager The affray oc
Cured on the Stubs place, where Ludlinl
and his cousin had gone to resent an injur,
done by Stubbs's manager to some o
Ludlng's wagons which had beel
driven on the place against his orders
1t seems that Dinkgroye and MitchenOr sho
each other; who shot Ludling is not posi-
lively known, as several persons were pres
ent and number Of shots were fired. Lud
ling's revolver was taken from his body wit
all the cartridges intact, which is evidenc
that he bad no part in the shooting. Judg
Ludling was in Washington at the time o
the sad affair, and Mr.. Stubs was not di
rectly concerned in it. y
HARRY HULsE has been sentenced a
Cincinnati to imprisonment for life for com
hitting criminal assault upon youn
girl. EfI T(l
EDISON has just obtained his tire
hundred and first patent. , IL ~
A. Y. MCDONALD, of Dubuque, Iowa
was shot through the breast by a burgla
with whom he had grappled in his bed
room. There is chance Of his recovery
On the same night Richard Kirmes, a Du
buque matchmaker, was shot in the hand b
burglar who was attempting to enter hi
store.
The towboat John Means, of the 81
Louis & New Orleans Transportation Com
pany, exploded her boilers on the evening
the 18th just above Osceola, Ark. and sun
out OF sight almost Immediately. She cal
ried a crew of twenty-siX men, -four of whoi
viz, John Scales, a pilot, a .deck-han
named Morris, ard two firemen, Germans
were killed or drowned. Several others, in
, Guiding Capt. McClelland, were somewhi
; injured.
GEORGE JONES, Treasurer of tn
Grant income fund, announces through IL
, New York TimeSdhat the desired subscriI
tion OF S25O,OOO has been completed, an
nearly all paid in. The funds win be il
> vested so as to produce an annual income