Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-03-05

BY A.. M. BURNEY &
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NEWSSTAND NOTES.
a Summary Of Important Events.
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PEACE has been declared between
ChiT ana PeruC.4 4 = Y AZ -A0 y s.
ExsGox4-HENRY d. Cook, of WASH
ington, died on the 24th.
PARLrAY@4 passed the sO-called
Protection bill on the 25th, the vote stand
ing 2sl to SO.
CoLr9AsH, who killed Col. Shannon
ina duel IN South Carolina some months
ago, has been indisted for murder.
DRoz, previously Vice. President, has
been elected President of the Swiss Confed-
GRAFTON in the place Of Anderwert, deceased.
Bore, Houses OF the Tennessee Legis-
lature voted to take recess, in order to
participate in the Presidents inaugural
ceremonies.
ITsis understood that negotiations
have begun between General Colley and the
Beers, and it,isexpected a truce will soon
be arranged.
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TnE Arkansas lower House, on the
22d, by vote OF 66 to II, passed Joint res
olution proposing an amendment to the Con.
stitution prohibiting the sale Of liquor in
the sals' A.-bf
WOMEN and children will not be ex.
empt from the operation of the Irish Coer'
cion act, motion oxempting them having
been, rejected in the House of Commons byi
yoteofsao to49. { ! .[LiN (. =
GEN. 1MAHoNE, the Virginia Senator
elect, has chosen his seat on the Republican
side, and friend who is constantly in com
munication with him predicts with conf
dence that Malone will vote with the Repub
licanlpartMN4A 1.zLANgtAVa 'c
THE National I.ancers Of Boston ant
tho Cadets of Charlestown, Mass, received
an ovation at New Orleans on their arriya
there to participate in the Mardi Gras festiv
tiles. On Washington's Birthday there wa
grand parade and other festivities, par
ticipated in by the visiting and local militia
The deadlock in the Pennsylvani,
Legislature was broken on the 2Sd, John J
Mitchell, of Tioga, being elected Unite'
States Senator on the thrty-tifth ballot, re
ceiving, The solid Republican vote. Mr.
Mitchell 1has served several terms in tn
House of Representatives and is a membe
of the present Congress.
The Republican House Caucus, hell
on the night of the 23d, resulted in deter
mination to use all parliamentary tactics t
defeat the passage of the Apportionmentb
the present session. There was considerabl
diversity of opinion expressed, but it Is sal
enough Republican members will hold ou
to defeat the passage Of the bill.
,THE Yaqni Indians, a tribe having a
area OF lands in Sonora covering 25O squar
miles, are robbing all travellers who pas
through their country, and preparing for
general revolt. The Mexican Governmel
will send thither four thousand soldiers,
build posts and protect settlers. The re
men are about fifteen thousand strong.
GEORGE l. SENEY, President OF I'll
Metropolitan Bank, OF New York City, hi
put at the disposal of the Methodist Epi
copal Church $24O, 900 in money and real e
tate, the money TO be employed in the esta(
lishment and erection in Brooklyn Of no
pital, open to jew and Gentle, Protestal
and Roman Catholic, heather and infde
on the same terms.
SENATOR MATTHEW H. CARPENTEl
of Wisconsin, died at his residence in Wasl
ington on the oath, after long and paint
illness. lie was born in Moretown, VT,
1924, removed to Wisconsin in 1913, al
established himself in legal practice Aft
serving in the lower House Of Congress,
1869 he was chosen United States Senate
and in 1879 was elected to a second term.
THE vacancy in the United Stat
Senate, caused by the death Of Mr.. Carpe
tor, can not be flied before the Sth of Mare
the Constitution providing that the electi,
shall take place on the second Tuesday aft
notice of a vacancy is communicated tot
Legislature. Mr.. Carpenters death at II
juncturc gives the Democrats an undisput
majority in the reorganization of the Senat
BARON +. B. Won BECKToLsHEI,
late Austro- Hungarian Consul at Ste Lou
has absconded, leaving many fsiends in t
mrch who had granted him precuniary a
commodations, and what is much wor
having appropriated to his own use vario
sums Of money intrusted 10 him in his OF
cial capacity, the losers of which are gene
ally poor people, who have no recoul
whatever. B's
4 THERE was an extremely panic
feeling in Wall Street on the 25th, the ent
p list of stocks falling off from one 10 six |
cent, and Government bonds about One-h
of one per cent. In this emergency Secl
tary Sherman ordered the Assistant Trei
urer to buy $4,000, 900 five and six per Gel
bonds, the effect of which was at once
ease the market and check the tendency
ward panic.
A SIGNIFICANT meeting of Free Ira
Democratic members of Congress took pli
in Washington, on the evening of the .
the ostensible occasion of the gathering
ing a dinner given by Representa-
II,rl of Ohio Ahout thirtv narS,