Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-01-15

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ASamniary OF Important Events.
j. G. FAIR has received the Demo-
cratic nomination for United States Senator
from Nevada.
IHE State police claim to have discov-
ered a new secret organization Of Socialists
extending overthe whole of Germany,
JUDGE WILLIAM B. WooDs, the new
~ appointed Associate Justice, has taken
MS place on 'theSupreme Bench.
THE President has nominated General
Nathan Goif, Jr., or West Virginia, as Sec
retary of the Navy. Gen. Goff has been for
twelve years United States District Attorney
for West Virginia, and, four years ago was
the Republican, candidate for Governor in
that state. ~
THE Land League trials at Dublin are
progressing quietly. The impression pre-
walls that the trayersers will be acquitted. 1t
is reported that Enfield rifles have been for
some time regularly shipped from Birming-
ham to. Ireland. The Government has or
dered the removal of the locks from rifles in
the armories of volunteers.
The; Legislatures of California, Ne
Vada,. Tennessee and Texas met on the Sd Of
January; Delaware, Florida, Nebraska, New
York, Ohio and Pennsylvania on the 4th !;
Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Minne-
sofa, Missouri and North Carolina on the 5th |;
Indiana and Mississippi on the 9th; Con-
necticut on the 7th; Arkansas on the 10th {;
Kansas and New Jersey on the 11th; West
Virginia and Wisconsin on the 18th.
CAPTAIN EADs has returned from
Mexico, and states that the Mexican Gov
d, ernment has given him the right TO build a
ship railway across the Isthmus OF Tehuan-
tcpcc and grants him / 100000 acres of land
on the Pacific coast for harbor purposes.
The road must he completed in ten years. A
Paris telegram announces that an. expedition
of engineers has sailed from Havre to direct
operations ON De Lesseps' Panama Canal,
and machinery, provisions and labor had
been ordered forward from New Y ork and
New Orleans.
TEN lives were lost by tenement
house fire in New York City, on the morning
of the 4th. Plumbers were thawing Out
some frozen water-pipes at No. 80 Madison
Street, when can of gasoline used by then
exploded, setting fire to the surrounding
, wood work. The flames quickly cOmmuni-
Gated to the stairway, up which they rushed
with terrific volume, cutting off this means
Of escape to the occupants of th'
upper floors. The building was five
stories high and occupied by eight families
Those on the lower floors jumped from the
windows and escaped with more or les
bodily injuries. The upper floor was occu
pied by Mrs. Ellen Sheridan and her famil!
OF four children and Mrs. Cassidy and thre
children. These, together with girl name'
Egan, were all suffocated or burned to death
GENERAL WALKER, the Census Su
perintendcnt, has issued statement giyin
the population Of the various States an
Territories. In some instances the figure
, are Appropriated, but they are very nearl
correct. New York leads all the States wit
population Of 5,0S3.173. Pennsylvania fol
lows with 4, 4,2S2, 1888. Ohio comes third wit
3,l07,794, and is closely followed b
Illinois with a population of 3,07S,630
Missouri has 2, $780, ,09l; Indiana, 1,97S, ,S5s
Kentucky, 1,GlS,599; Iowa, 1924, 1853, an
Michigan, 1,63i096. Kansas has 995, ,33'
Nevada wth-G2, PCS, is the State of the small
est population, and Delaware's is the mex
smallest, being 1864. Colorado, th
youngest of the States, had 1914, ,649 peopl
when the census was taken. OF the Terr
tories, Utah, with 143, ,9O7, has the most pee
pie, and Dakota, without MOrmons, hi
134,5O2 people. The total population of ii
United States is 80, 0,152,530.
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THE Queens speech, read at the oper
ing of Parliament, says that the ordinal
powers Of law have proved insufficient
deal with the existing troubles in Irelant
and that additional powers will be immed
ately asked for. The Irish Land Act Of 1s'
has been Of great benefit, but under IL
strain of recentand calamitous years has n,
been found sufficient either in Ulster
other provinces. A further development
its principles Is recommended, with vie
to giving larger portion of the people a
opportunity TO acquire by purchase pc
manent proprietary interest in the soil, ar
this legislation viii require the r.
moval Of all obstacles arising OF
OF limitations on the ownersh
of property. As an additional security f
interests involved, ameasure will be submi
ted for the establishment of county govern
ment in Ireland, founded upon representa-
, principles, and framed with the double al
of confirming the popular control over Il
expenditures, and of supplying yet mo
serious want by extending the formation
habits of local self-government.
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A DUBLIN telegram of the 1st a
nounces that arrangements are being mat
for the organization Of flying column
to scour the country, as was do
during the Fenian rising. 1t is inten
ed to start nine columnS-two from Du
lin, two from the Currah, one fro
Athlone, one from Cork, one from Fermo
one from Limerick, and one from Belfa
Each column will consist OF a troop Of ca
airy, division OF artillery with tN
guns, four companies of infantry, t
sappers. detachment Of