Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-09-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


somewhat in detail, but agree substantially
as to the following facts: The Sheriff,
George Michael, with a posse recently at
tempted the arrest of two brothers named
Delno, both desperate characters, who at
the head of Il. gang of disreputabc men,
/ white ana black, had long been terror to
the town. In the encounter the Sheriff was
shot and seriously wounded. The posse of
citizens, headedby the Deputy Sheriff. then
proceeded to exterminate the gang Robert
Saxon, one Of the negro ringleaders, who is
said to have shot Sheriff Michael, was
hanged, and six or eight other negroes were
shot. One of the DelnOs was captured and
lodged in jail, but the other, together with
several companions, had at last accounts not
been caught. 1t was the ayowed intention
Of the citizens to clean out the whole gang.
Business was entirely suspended in town,
and on Sunday services in the churches were
abruptly terminated and the congregations
dismissed.
UNKNOWN parties entered the Jail at
Monroe, La, on the 23d, and took out Perry
Mason and Alexander Wilson (colored),
charged with murder, and hanged them.
Two workmen, Henry Barnum and
Fitzgerald, were burned to death at Pha-
delphia. They were in the top story OF
burning warehouse at the time and failed TO
reach a place of safety before the flames
burst through the roof
A FREIGHT on the Ohio Southern Rail
way collided with q passenger train on
side-track near cambridge, Ohio. The fire.
man and passenger were killed.
IT is expected that the project of es-
tablisbng a double line of telegraph between
st. Louis and Chicago will soon be carried
into execution.
IT is rumored that general strike of
railroad employees throughout the country
is contemplated soon. The strike already
inaugurated on the Erie is said to be the
precursor of the movement, and was brought
about somewhat premalurcly by local inilu-
ences.
A DISPATCH from the City of Mexico
dated the 23d says of recent disaster at
Mazatlan: One hundred and fifty pounds of
powder blew up. First thirty cOrpses were
rcmoved; the following six days four or five
{ daily, when the authorities interdictcd the
further removal, considering the work dan
gcrous. All the windows in the town were
, demolished.
Ir is reported from Geneva that the
e Socialists have addressed a threatening let
{ ter to the Federal Tribunal in regard to
G their appeal from the decision of the Grand
Council oil Zurich prohibiting the Social
1 Congress there in September. The letter
warns the Judges Tribunal that they will
be the first to be blown up, and states that
the Socialists have enough dynamite to blow
| up half of Switzerland, and that it is in
Switzerland that connagration will begin
d that will burn up the world.
RECENT advices from st. Petersburg
: state that additional arrests Of prominent
!, persons continue to be made. Although the
I prisons are filled with persons accused Of
political crimes, very few are brought &c
; trial.
D Col. JAMES G. BENTON, of the United
j States Ordnance Department, since 1866 ii
:, charge of the Armory at Springfield, Mass.
= is dead.
u ALEXANDER II. STEPHENS has writ
ten a private letter announcing that he II
l. very busily engaged in writing book In re.
= ply to the recently published work of Jeffer.
: son Davis.
# ANDERSON PITTS, wealthy farmer
II at Rutherford County, Tenn, who recent,
c had divorce trouble, was shot and killed
r in his melon patch by some persons un
o known.
Il A CASE of yellow fever is reported
j. from Key West, Fla, and the Nationa
e Board of Health is officially informed that i
a is believed TO have originated there.
e THE American Pharmaceutical Asso
II citation met in Kansas City OH the 23d, will
: a representation of about one hundred mem
u bers.
Il EVANSVILLE, Ind, has had q 5000,
600 fire. One fireman was killed and tw,
others badly injured.
The Colored Press Association of tn,
q United States lhet at Chicago on the 23d.
d THE shops of the Galveston, Harris
l. burg ~ San Antonio Railroad at Harrisburg
g Texas, were burned on the 23d, togethe
l. with the tools, machinery three locomo
d tivcs and one passenger car. Total los
l. 300 900; insured. The fire is supposed f
. have originated from spontaneous cOmbus
u ton.
If BEN BLANTON, eX-Sheriff of Cook
County, Texas, and James Todd settled
quarrel growing out of a lawsuit by KILN
= each other. Todd was shot through the hear
:, and in the breast. The top Of Blanton'
- head was blown off.
n Mr.. and Mrs. II. Temple, residing Of
,g the farm of A. d. Mitchell, about two mile
I. south of Fulton, H., were instantly killc
D. by lightning during heavy storm on tn
|, morning Of the 18th. They had arisen dur
! ing the storm and were in the act OF re'rin
:. when the fatal stroke entered the building
An infant about four months old was be
tween them at the time they were killed, bu
t. was uninjured. -Four other children wer
he also in the same room in bed, but they like
IA wise escaped.
go A. j. WHITTON, Government In
'. spector OF Weights and Measures at Mon
ry treal, Canada, is deiaulter to a larg
ms amount and has fled to the States.
IN THE reputable citizens of Benson
% Arizona, give notice that they have drive
~ from the town 4 gang Of confidence mel
- who have long infested the place, to the dis
= comfture and pecuniary loss Of many East
ern tourists.
"a GENERAL LESLIE CooNBs, of Ker
nj lucky, who died at his home in Lexington o
ID the 2lst, in the SSth year Of his age, was tn
q last Of the Pioneer Indian warriors Of this