Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-05-14
Personal AND GENERAL.

JOHN HAHN COmmlUUeu suicide aJ
Spades Depot, Ripley County, Ind, by
throwing himself into burning brush heap.
lntemperance and family troubles had rem
dered him desperate.
THE switchmen employed upon the
various railroads centering in Chicago en-
tered upon strike ON the I'd, their demand
being for general advance of wages TO $500
and 1910 per day.
M. SHILLING and j. Epstein, two
merchants Of Palestine, Texas, were drowned
in Clear Lake by the capsizing of their boat
while fishing.
A TURKISH victory over the Alban-
ians at Prisrend Is reported. The aggregate
losses in killed and wounded are placed at
1,S00.
The journeymen bakers of New York
aud Brooklyn are on a strike.
GEN. JOHN PRESTON, of Columbia, S.
c., is dead.
CoLoRow, the Ute Chief, and seventy
five lodges of the red men were recently en-
camped within three miles Of the military
post on the White River, and it looks as If
they meant to be troublesome.
JOHN w. MCCLUNY, one of the
Judges OF johnson County, NO., was struck
by lightning and killed near Warrensburg,
on the LIST. He was we'll known and highly
respected.
A SAD accident occurred at Greneda,
Miss, the other day. Capt. Fowler, drug
gist, was charging soda fountain, when the
generator exploded, fatally injuring DR..
Ray, the leading physician of the city, who
died two hours afterward. Capt Fowler's
injuries, it is thought, will also prove fatal.
A MEETING of Oklahoma colonizers
was held at Wichita, Kans., on the 3D..
Capt Payne was present and announced the
unfavorable result of his trial before the
United States Court at Fort Smith. Resolu-
tions were adopted denouncing the injustice
of the verdict and pledging renewed efforts
to effect lodgment in the Territory.
THE Executive Committee of the Ar.
kansas Democratic State Central Committee
have called meeting of the entire committee
for the oath Of May, to consider the question
of differences between Democrats in this
State on the debt question.
Two hundred bales of cotton, in tran,
sit from st. Louis to the steamer Asdruba
for the Continent, were burned at New Or.
leans on the Sd. Loss, $4,000; insured.
ARRANGEMENTS have been consum
mated for the consolidation Of the Missouri
Kansas e. Texas and Texas & Internationa
and Great Northern Railways. The ST.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern and Texas
Pacific will be consolidated the 18th inst.
A TRAIN dashed into carriage cross
ing the track at Camden, N. j., on the I'd
Mrs. Valentine Grim was killed, and he
husband and Adolphus Butler were seri
ously injured.
THERE.are over 5000 applications fol
Consulships now on file at the State Depart
ment in Washington. There are about IL
Consulates all told, and there are only abou
half n dozen vacancies.
AT banquet to Gen. Grant in tn,
City of Mexico, he was toasted by the Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs as "the great, good
and tried friend Of Mexico"
SEVERAL passenger coaches wer,
thrown down an embankment on the Troy
Boston Railway, near Eagle Bridge. n
lives lost.
WAR between Japan and China i
considered probable.
A TELEGRAM from Montevideo say
the British war sloop Doterel was blown VI
recently at Sandy Point, Straits Of Magellan
Eight officers and 1875 men were killed, onl
fifteen of the vessels complement escaping
The following is list of the kille'
and wounded in the two wrecks that occur
red on the I'd on the Texas g. Pacific Road a
Sweetwater and Katula, near the wester
terminus: Frank Lewis, engineer, and hi
brother, J. Lewis, fireman, residence Knox
vile, Tenn; j. Laugdon, brakeman, resi-
dence unknown; VIM. Dye, residence Fol-
: Worth; NJ. B. Sanders, engineer, residenc
Dallas.
THE President has nominated Elio
G. Jewett, of Missouri, Assayer in charge {
, the Assay Office at st. Louis.
A LITTLE daughter of Dennis Nc
: Cauley, of Dennison, Ohio, was met by
man named Sheets, who gave her two rail
road torpedoes, telling her they containe
! candy, and that she must open thel
with a stone. She innocently laid one {
them down on the sidewalk and tried
: burst it open with brick. After strikin
g two or three times the torpedo burst with
terrible force. The little girls eyes were er
] tirely destroyed, and she was otherwise s
: badly injured that 1t was feared she can NJ
recover.
A TRAIN on the Little Rock and Foi
Smith Railroad ran over and killed Ann
Martindale, of Alma, the other day. The cir
. who was only II years old, was crossing th
u track when the train came In sight, and WI
: paralyzed with fright and unable to get oil
u Of the way. The body was frighttully mt
tiated.
MORRIS CHENEY and Daniel Abbo
were crushed to death and several othe
were seriously injured by the falling of
: building which had been 'jacked" for n
e pairs at Littleton, N. II.
IS FIVE cases of giant powder, contain
ing 500 pounds, exploded in New York Ci
s the other day, without damage to person
u property.
= A BREAK in the levee above st. Loui
+. on the 9Th, threatened the town Of Yeni'
G with destruction and caused hundreds
Is families to abandon their dwellings. 1t al
t. interrupted grain shipments on several raj
u roads to such an extent that the elevate
:. a were obliged to shut down.
st JUSTIN MCCARTHY has given mott,
p in the House of Commons that he will mo
g, at an early day that the action of the Iri
'r Executive in arbitrarily arresting memb