Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-09-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

arc on his trail. Two companies of the Ninth
Cavalry have taken the field from Fort Cum
mings, and ten more companies will scout the
Black range. The band Of Indians which
have just crossed the line nre thought to be
the main force, but there are others in San
MateO Mountain who have committed some
depredations and killed several people.
Since the campaign began troops have en-
gagged the Indians in fifteen battles. The
body Of Lieut.. Smith, who was killed near
Mill Station, fell into the hands OF the In
dians and was horribly mutilated. Advlces
from Fort Cummings state that party OF
seven Mexicans travelling In wagonbetween
Cooks Canyon and Mule Springs were at
tackled by the Indians and six OF the party
killed. Twenty-one men in all, American
and Mexican workmen, have been killed in
and around Mule Springs. A young Amer
lean lady, the daughter of an artisan of Lake
Valley, was captured by the Indians on their
raid through that section, and is now held
prisoaor. Forty men from Lake Valley and
two companies of troops have started out to
rescue her. The greatest excitement pre-
walls in that part Of the Territory. Miners
are abandoning their mines, stockmen are
leaving their ranches, and they are collect
ing at different points for self-protection.
A DISASTROUS storm occurred along
the Southern Atlantic coast on Saturday, the
9th ult. Its most severe effects were felt at
Savannah, where the gale reached a velocity
OF 70 miles an hour about midnightat which
hour the Signal-service office was unroofed
and all the Instruments were swept away.
Hundreds Of buildings in the city were par
TALLY or wholly demolished or unroofed;
the parks were shorn Of some of their finest
trees and otherwise injured; in the ceme-
terieS monuments were broken down. There
is not in the whole city of Savannah street
or square unscarred by the frightful tenn
pest. So blockaded were the streets with
huge trees, great piles of tin-roofng and
bricks, that vehicles could not pass, and
even pedestrians found trouble in making
their way along the sidewalks. There
was no loss of life in the city, but
out on the plantations along the river
and on adjacent islands the killed are num-
bered by the score. At Tybee Island the
storm ragged with frightful force. The
house of Mr.. Henry solomon, on the ocean
front, which was supposed to be one of the
most substantially built houses OH the ISL
and, was blown down and the inmates bur-
led in the ruins, which almost Immediately
burst into flames. The wife and
daughter of Mr.. Joseph Wolf and Mrs.
! Wnlf'a brnf bar Iosbtta Eollyc
taken dead from the ruins. They sought
refuge at the Solomon mansion when the
storm came up as affording greater security
than their own house, which was near by.
! Whole families OF cOlored people were
! drowned. The injury to the wharvcs and
! shipping is immense, and the total damage
caused by the storm is too great for any re-
liable estimate.
HORACE MONTGOMERY and Kate
Bartholomew, of Waddington, st. Law
renee County, n. Y, were drowned in at
tempting to run the Rapid Duplatte in small
boat
The stage-coach running between
Camden and Prescott, Ark, was stopped on
the morning of the Both, about three miles
from Prescott, by two masked highwaymen.
The mail pouches were cut open and con-
tents taken out. There were no registered
letters in the pouches and it is believed the
robbery was fruitess. There was but one
passenger beside the driver on the stage, and
he was penniless.
FRANCIS G. PEAsE, aged 20, residing
in Boston, and recently from Rockland, Me.
shot dead his wife, aged IS, and then put
several bullets through his own head.
AT Youngstown, o., Rev. Gordon
Mackey, pastor of the Little Brown NJ. P
Church, was arrested, charged with shoot
ing with intent to kill Jeff. Meals
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, has been visit
ed by a most terrific thunder storm. Mrs
Snyder, farmers wife, was killed Will,
standing in her door. A dOzon houses ant
barns were struck and fired
BENJAMIN ISRAEL BUTLER, eldest sol
Of Gen. B. F. Butler, is dead, aged ~. II,
was graduated at West Point and served {
year as Lieutenant of the Ninth Cavalry, il
Texas, but subsequently resigned and enter
ed upon the profession of law. He was
young man of high promise and genial ma
ture.
Two men were killed by the explosio,
of benzne tank in fertilzing factory il
New York City on the LIST.
A PARTY of boys at Shiloh, o., were
returning from cunning expedition, whei
Lester Uhier, one Of the number, playful,
pointed his towing piece at a companion
Irwin Rase, and pulled the trigger, sending
a full charge of shot through the latter
head. He died without a struggle. 1t i
perhaps unnecessary to add that younl
I Uhler "did not know it was loaded"
A MEETING of leading distillers wa
held at Springfield, H., on the list. Tn
proceedings were secret, but it is under.
stood general understanding wa
reached that the distilleries be run on hal
time, the price OF corn being so high as t.
render il impossible for them to compel,
with the import trade when running to thei
full capacity.
THE strike on the part of the Associ
, ated Cotton Laborers of New Orleans caused
, uelHpoIdly olOPpHSC VI INC COVVoH PlVssCs
but new men were procured from Mobile
and elsewhere to supply the places Of tn
strikers, and work was partially resumed o
the 1st.
AN explosion in the gas-house of no
2 tel at Grand Haven, Mich, tore the build
3 ING to atoms and probably fatally injure
Chas. Cutler. Two others were badly hurt
WIN. NYE, of Lebanon, Conn, al
= tempted to murder his wife aud mother-in
a law, but his pistol was out Of order. II
D succeeded, however, in killing himself.
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