Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-12-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

flames.
AUGUSTA, the county-seat of Wood
ruff County, Ark, was almost destroyed by
fire on the night ofthe 2Sth. Nearly all the
buildings were wood and burned like finder.
The ost-ollice, flour and cotton mills, three
hotels, the Vidette printing -ofice and
score of business buildings Of various kinds
were swept away like chaf. Only three
buildings out Of as many hundreds are left
standing. A number OF persons were in
jured by falling raiters and walls, and it is
feared that many were fatally burned. The
total loss Is between $3.50, 900 and $500, 1000,
with but very small insurance.
The ninth annual session of the
American Public Health Association began
at Savannah, Ca, on the Goth, with good
attendance.
THE National Tariff Convention met
in New York City on the 10Th, with some
fifty delegates in attendance. Commissioner
Loring and Peter Cooper made addresses,
and letters were read from Secretary Blaine
and others. U. s. Senator Miller, of New
York, was chosen President Of the Conyen-
ton, with the usual number of Vice-Presi-
dents.
Mrs. MILLER, living four miles north
west of Cedar Falls, Iowa, while in a condi-
ton of temporary insanity, killed two Of her
children and tried to kill third. She was
, crazed by the death of her husband, which
occurred recently.
LEROY, the murderer of Gold, in an
English railway carriage, was hanged on
the 10Th. He was silent on his way from the
cell to the scaftold, but his expression was
CHASTITY. The drop was nine feet, and death
i was instantaneous.
S THE Wise County Courthouse, at
i Decatur, Texas, burned on the 9th, with all
Its records and other contents. Loss on
building $4,000, with no insurance. The
fire was incendiary in It's origin, and as the
s question of building new courthouse has
, been agitated considerably of late, it is be-
S lieved to have been the work OF interested
II parties.
The business portion of Kosciusko,
Miss, has been destroyed by fire. Aggre-
gate losses estimated at 500, 900, partially in
sured.
= THE Prince Edward Island Bank, the
chief financial institution on the little Cana
n dian Island OF that name, has furnished q
d rival to Baldwin In its cashier, Becker by
!. name, who lent between 500, 900 and $1,000
o 900 to unsubstantial parties and then fled to
,s avoid arrest when disclosure became in
RS evitable. The bank has suspended for three
,r months. The Directors and stakeholder,
/. will be called upon to make good the claims
90 or deposltors.
= In the recent furious storm on TIT
IN Australian coast the steamer Doisbone was
to wrecked on reef, the steamer Baleuth
is foundered between Melbourne and Sydney
and the schooner Schoolboy, with all oil
board, was lost near Jewes Bay.
in DIR. JOHN BACON, Professor of Chem
~ istry at Harvard College, is dead.
he The Irish National Convention as
t' sembled at Chicago on the 30th, with larg
g attendance. Hon. VIM. j. Hynes, Of Chi
+ cago, was chosen President.
-, A DISPATCH from Odessa says: !
~, Jew-baiting mob stoned Sarah Bernardo
:, :" carriage as she was driving home from tn
w. theater, on the ground that she was Of Jew
~ ish descent. They also stoned her hotel an
~ ~, stopped the performance at the theater.
81 THE President, Cashier and Director
of the broken Citizens Bank OF Augusti
Ga, which went to pieces last spring, hay
Ie- been indicted by the Grand Jury for fclon
cd ously continuing the business and receivin
Ie- deposits after the bank became insolyen
n These are felonies under the Georgia law
ct. with penalty attached Of not less than tW
m nor more than four years in the Penitentiar,
,ht PAPERS have been filed with I'll
NJ Clerk OF the House OF Representatives in Il
tal following Congressional election contests
on Alabama-First, Second, Fourth and Eight
re- Districts; FlOrida-Second District; Iowa
me Sixth District; Louisiana-SiXth Dstric
lei Maine-First District; Misslssippi-Sccor
nc and Sixth Districts; Missouri-Thrd Di
lie trict; South Carolina-First, Second Thil
len and Fifth Districts; Vfrginia-Fifth Al
NY Eighth Districts.
IN LOUIS BURKE and John Booker, n
~. groes, were in Jail at Oxford, N. g., charge
'in with robbing and numbering Charles Lyme
'no jeweler The other night an armed boo
ny OF fifty or sixty men visited the Jail al
Sc forced the jailer to deliver up the two mu
DN derers. They made full confession of t
w crime, after which they were carried to /
CO. outskirts of the village and hanged to
"a ~. tree.
ms ms TIE East Line and Red River Ra
hon road of Texas, at present extending fro
ono Jefferson to Greenvie, 1913 miles, has be
rty transferred to the Gould system, and W
,rnl henceiorth be designated as the Jeffers
mos Branch OF the M. X. e. Y.
,it. By the bursting of boiler in Mann
all OH Works, lazoo Clty, MISS, SIX Color
90. employees were injured some at least
lse- tally.
Eat THE infant son of George HarfranC
his at Akron, o., fell into a tub of hot wa
off while his mother was scrubbing the floor n
ar was scalded to death.
9TH. ROBERT j. DUNLAP & Co., of Jers
ton City, N. j., alleged agents of the Royal
aul, vana Lottery, have been operating large
God through the West by means OF circulars, a
'aru are said to have reaped rich harvest. I'll
the are unmitigated swinders.
nes, LATE Irish news: One thousand tt
a. ants Of Roscommon refuse to pay rent. TT
- =, declare they will not apply to the La
hod Court. Opposition to rent-paying is esl
,,"J cially marked in County Limerick.
49,, Sheriff holds 800 writs Of eviction agai
~. tenants for rent due. The CorOner's j.
80 found verdict of murder against Inspec
,.a,. Strch, in charge Of the police during an
soyo fray at Bellmullet, Ireland, when Won