Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-02-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

burg, o., on the 26th, seriously injuring
Louis Garnes, conductor; DR.. L. Firestone,
Columbus; Mrs. Lydia Who'll, Clinton; John
J.Deetz and wife, Berlin; John G.. Weld
ner, Cleveland: w. S. Erb, Cleveland; Mrs.
Sylvester Days and her two children, Doyles-
town. Some of the above can not recover.
Several others were badly hurt.
The President has approved the SEN
tence of Paymaster j. II. Nelson, of the
Army, for embezzement, which is dis
missal, two years at hard labor, and a fine Of
$2,5OO. btI
LIEUT.. ARCHIE GIBSON, of the Sew
enth Cavalry, died at the residence Of his
father in st. Louis, on the 26th.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed
at Dos Moines to build railway connection
between that city and the Wabash, in the
hope that 1t will be made main line to St.
Louis.
For the six months ending December
81, 1880, there were 131 900 more immigrants
arrived in the United States than during the
same period in the previous year.
MOUNT BAKER in British Columbia is
in state of active eruption.
THE frearm factories of Birming-
ham are being guarded by policemen and
soldiers to prevent their being raided by the
Fenians.
CINCINNATI capitalists are forming a
stock company, with capital of $16,OOO,OOO,
for the permanent leasing of the Southern
Railroad.
AN airline double.track steel railroad
is projected between New York and Chicago,
to be ultimately extended to Omaha. The
corporation known as the continental Rail-
way Company" has secured the necessary
franchise through the different States, has
made the entire survey, and is reported to
have expended already several millions of
dollars in preliminary work, with the inten-
tion Of pushing 1t to completion at the earli-
est possible date.
ADDITIONAL information from Indian
depredations in New Mexico is that three
miners and the driver of mail car have
been killed at Chloride Gulch. The mutat-
ed bodies Of four women and children have
been brought to San Marcal. A squad of
cavalry put band of Indians to flight after
the latter had fought party of citizens and
defeated them.
EIGHTEEN lives were lost by the
laundering of harbor boat at Cherbourg,
France.
Mrs. COLLIER, of Blandford, w. Va,
fell down and broke a kerosene lamp which
she was carrying, setting her clothing on fire
and suffering fatal injuries.
a LOCAL trading steamer capsized
near Singapore, China, causing great loss of
life. Seventy bodies had been recovered
and many more were carried away by the
current.
CooL's livery stable at Avoca, Ind,
burned on the night Of the 26th, and a
hostler, name not given, perished in the
flames, together with sixteen horses.
DURING the absence of Mrs. Bash
comb from her home at Altoona, Clinton
County, N. Y, her house caught fire and hel
four children were burned to death.
A BOILER in James II. Hall & Co.
plow works, at Maysville, KY, exploded or
the 9th, killing William j. Harris, the fire.
man, and wrecking the building.
A GRAIN ELEVATOR has been opened
at Port Royal, S. C. 1t is notable as being
the first and only one ever built on the South
Atlantic coast.
A MONSTER petition, signed by $4,000
J names, headed by Wendell Phillips, Bishop
Simpson and Rev. Joseph Cook, praying
Congress to observe the treaties made with
the Indian tribes, and in the future to dc
justice to the remnants Of that people, was
presented in the Senate on the 27th by Mr.
Dawes. TheNaval Appropriation billpassed
In the House the contested election
case Of Yeats VS.. Martin was taken up, anC
after several speeches the previous question
was demanded. The Republicans refusing
to vote left the House without quorum ant
it adjourned.
MOSES TwIGGs, Georgia murderer
expiated his crime on the gallows a
Waynesburg, on the 28th. His brothel
Frank, who was sentenced to be hanged a
the same time, was granted reprieve fo
thirty days.
II C1ilu VI SuStl
: died from hydrophobia at New Orleans
; having been bitten two weeks previously.
A FIRE at South Bend, Ind, on tn,
2Sth, destroyed seven large buildings, com
prising two dry-goods stores, one grocer
Q store, restaurant, shoe store, saloon, tn
City Library and City Clerks Office. Los
r from $50, 900 to $50, 600. The fire was started
| by kerosene explosion, and owing to tn
: hydrants being frozen the Fire Department
could do nothing until they were thawet
D out. ar- -
: A DEFALoATIoN of some $4,000 o
$50 900 has just been brought to light in tn
Detroit Savings Bank, the oldest savings in
stitution in that city. The guilty parties ar
two tellers, brothers, named Charles G. an
Herman II. Ziegler, who have long been EN-
J ployed by the bank and had its Inimite
confidence. The embezzlement has bee
: going on for ten or dozen years and hs
Just come to light. 1t is said thatbondsme
. u will make good the amount.
). AT Whitevale, Ont, Mrs. Sheppar'
: killed her two little boys, one aged thre
n years and the other seven months, the for
mer with a revolver and the latter with
butcher-knife. She then probably fatal
G stabbed herself. G
r, Two deaths from what is designate
e as ''winter cholera" occurred in Chicago o
l. the 2Sth.
,e FOUR of the burglars who robbed tn
70 safe of the Union Iron & Steel Works, {
le Chicago, of $4,000, have been captured, t.
= gether with over $4,000 of the stolen none!
y 1t is said the watchman, who is under arres
Il Surnisbod tbp Glow IN the police The me