Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-12-03
Personal AND GENERAL.

publicly announced her retirement from the
stage at the close Of her present engagement,
when she is TO be married to Mr.. I. b. Whit
ney, a Philadelphia gentleman.
GEORGE LAW, the well-known New
York capitalist, is dead. lie began life as a
hod carrier; his estate is worth several
millions.
THE Kennebec journal, Blaine's home
organ, publishes the following; ave are
authorized to state that Mr.. Blaine will not
be a candidate for Representative In Con-
gress, will not be q candidate for Governor,
and will not be candidate for the United
States Senate. When Blaine retires from
President Arthur's Cabinet, early in the
coming month, he will devote himself en-
tirely to his private affairs. The rumor Of
his going out as Minister to England has no
foundation whatever"
CHARLES DAVIS, q negro, who had
committed an aggravated assault upon wild
Ow named Luckey; residing near Athens,
o., was taken from the Jail by party Of
about twenty undisguised men and hanged
from bridge.
JAMES COOPER, City Marshal of Gov
ington, Tenn, was killed in an ARRAY with
James Slaughter, merchant Of that place.
VIM. HOEssEL, widower of some
means, living alone at North Evanston, Ill.,,
was found murdered in his bed few morn
ings since. Robbery was undoubtedly the
cause, and q bloody AK found upon the
premises was the instrument with which the
crime was committed. Some discarded
clothes, supposed to belong to the assassin,
served to identify him as a tramp who had
been lettering about the locality for some
days previous.
AT Columbus, Ca, Osborn Pitts
drank quart of whisky on wager, and
was carted home dead. Denison, the keep
er Of the saloon, has been arrested.
DAVID CRoNIN and VIM. .Dugan, tel
egraph line rcpairers, were killed near Vim
cennes, Ind, by train striking their hand
car. Several others Of the party were in.
jured.
Mr.. II. V. REDFIELD, the well-known
Washington correspondent Of the Cincinnati
Commercial, died recently Of consumption,
at the age of thirty-tive.
CAPT. PAYNE and few of his more
daring followers have safely located on the
town site Of Oklahoma City, Indian Terrific
ry, and are in occupation of the stockade
fort built by them last summer So far they
have not been molested by the Indians nor
nterfercd with by the Federal troops.
A DISPATCH from Clayton, n. Y,
says: Frank Cappcrnul, the keeper OF the
Hub House, his wife, two small children,
and Charles Wilson, the keeper of the Cliff
House, wife and two children, were drowned
in Eel Bay White going TO GuuanUque In q
small boat.
A SEVERE gale recently swept over
England, Scotland, and Southeast Ireland.
Several houses were unroofed, and much
damage was done to shipping Part Of the
Caledonia Railroad was washed away. Two
persons were killed at Glasgow. The storm
ragged on the west coast of Ireland and in the
st. Georges Channel.
TIE brush fires in Ontario during the
past season destroyed between $40 900, OOC
and SIS, 600, GOO worth Of property.
CAPT. HowGATE, against whom there
, are twelve Indie ments now pending In tn,
Washington Criminal Court-three beinl
: for forgery and the others for embezzle'
1 ment-wil apply for a reduction Of his bail
which is now $4,000.
THE Coroner's Jury in the case o
Ed. Maxwell, lynched at Durand, Wis, re
turned the following unique verdict: "De
ceased came to his death by falling from tn
1 Court house steps and breaking his neck
!, AT Columbia, Mo-, on Thanksgiving
, Day, while some skaters were amusin
themselves on pond, the ice gave way, pre-
4 ciptating five or six into deep water, thre
of whom were drowned, viz: John G
. Garth, aged 1G; Theodore Murphy, aged ID
and Miss Maggie Buckner, aged about 10.
: MRS. THOMAS CARNEs, living abou
six miles southwest from Bloomington
Ind, while building fire was burned
g death by the explosion Of an oil can.
e Two men were killed and several in
t. jured by the explosion Of a sugar-hous
o boiler on Belle Aire plantation, few mile
: below New Orleans.
It A TRAIN of cars loaded with cotto
: burned at Houston, Tex, on the oath
/ About 100 bales were totally destroyed an
e as many more partially burned.
y BAIL is refused for the Malley boy!
= held in connection with the killing Of Jenni
Cramer, at New Haven, Conn.
d A LITTLE son of Mr.. Iona, Twin
lie near Morgan, Texas, while playing with
81 gun was requested by his little sister, WI
vs. was sick in bed, to put it up. He playful
at replied, 81 will shoot YOU" pointing Il
,e gun at her, when it was discharged, Il
Y, load taking effect in her face and rcsultlr
l. in death.
le THOMAS MCKANE, Philadelphia Ii
ID spector of Election, has been sentenced
t. nine months Imprisonment and disquallifC
u from holding office, for making false r
/. turns of votes cast at the last mnnicip
n, election.
e. THE President of Mexico is alarming
Id i'll.
lis A NATIONAL convention of cotto
c. planters and manufacturers is to be held
hit Atlanta, Ga, commencing December 6.
rs, EARLHAM COLLEGE, at Richmon
n Ind, has been closed on account of sma
VI pOX.
d; A BAND of four hundred friendly CIR
nv Ventres have located in the timber on
~ Yellowstone, about twenty-five miles fro
"a Glendive, Montana, whence they bri
- tanned robes TO market. Many Of the India
speak English, and an educated memb
serves as interpreter for the band.
NO THE steamer ID. T. Lane, descendi
:, thn Ohio Rivnr cnllilnl with the nrnnnll