Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-07-09

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been issued paid the rent in every case, thus
preven ing eviction. Trees were placed
across several roads to delay the progress OF
the column, which as it entered town found
anurnber OF carts thrown across the streets. 4
The military and police charged the crowd
until the streets were deserted. 1t Is stated
thirty persons were injured.
JUDGE SHERMAN, the Republican
nominee for Governor Of Iowa, is brother
OF General and Senator Sherman.
EX-CHIEP JUSTICE WARREN, Of
Georgia, died on the 3Oth, aged TO- Hewas
on the bench for upward of fifty years.
A. D. BARBER, L. r. Phelps and G.
A. Edwards have been indicted by the Grand
jury at Albany, N. Y, for bribing or fur
nishing money for the purpose Of brlbing
State officers. ..lt
AYAoHT was capsized off Bridgeport,
Ct, on the 2sth, by phenomenal squall
which lifted itcompletely out Of water, and
Eve persons were drowned. A survivor de-
scribes the battle OF the elements as simply
appalling. r
THE storm of the 29th was wide
spread and severe. At Cherokee, Iowa, the
residence OF Mr.. Stevens was completely de-
molished; two children being instantly
killed and his wife receiving fatal injuries.
An old lady named Oberch, of the same
place, also was killed, her house being over
TUNED. At Meridian a Miss Pierce was
killed by lightning. AtKeller Station, Ind,
train OF fourteen freight cars was blown
from the track and down an embankment.
The cars were lifted so neatly that not a
link was broken. Near Lewiston, Pa, a
baggage truck was carried fifty yards and
dashed to pieces.
SANDERsoN's stage from Lake City
was robbed by two masked men twelve miles
west of Alamosa, COL, on the 30th There
were six passengers, five men and one
woman. The robbers secured between $500
and $500.
The President has appointed R. S.
Foster United States Marshal for the District
OF Indiana, vice Wm. w. Dudley, appointed
Commissioner of Pensions, and Robert G.
HALEY, Of Vermont, U. S. Consul at Barba,
does, vice w, H. HALLS, suspended.
THE Chicago Saengerfest began on
the Goth. The opening concert was a grand
success.
SEVERAL hundred Scandinavians who
recently went to the Sandwich Islands un-
der labor contracts, are said to be practically
held in state Of slavery, being disposed OF
| by lot among the planters and kept under
the most rigid surveillance. This report
was brought to San Francisco by a Sweda
lately arrived from Honolulu, and caused
great excitement among the scandinavian
residents, who at once took measures to
warn their countrymen against Hawaiian
emigration agents.
AARBURG, a large village of the
Canton of Berne, Switzerland, has been de-
stroyed by fire. Two or three inhabitants
were killed.
THOMAS SMALTY and VIM. Pierson,
aged eight and ten years. have been arrested
in Jersey City, n. j., for fendish cruelty to
Thomas Lawson, aged six, whom they drag
ged into an clubhouse, stripped, and abused
in various ways, including the cutting OF
his chest and back with a pocket t-knife,
The perpetrators say they only did it for fun.
The body of Martin Fennucon, an
aged citizen of Linesyille, Pa, was found
hanging to fence, dead. He disappeared
a few days ago, and the supposition is that
he became entangled in the fence and was
too feeble to eXtricate himself.
CAPT. STANLEY, of the bark Marga,
ret, reports that June II he picked up in an
open boat the captain and three men Of the
French fishing schooner Emile 0rnestine,
OF st. Petersburgh, run ino the preyiou.
day by the bark Artis'e, Of Liverpool, ant
six Of The crew were drowned,