Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-10-15

one Of the abiest American iISihes. lie was
born in Sirabnun County Thorne, Ireland,
in the year 1914, and was consequently in
his 9th year at the time Of his death.
THE, trial of the Rev. DIR. Thomas, of
Chicago, for hercsy, was begun by the
Rock River NJ. f. Conference at Sycamore,
H., on the 9TH.
PULASKI, N. Y, burned on the 9th to
the extent Of 100000.
AT Shenandoah, Page County, Iowa,
Robert Bell was shot and Aibsd BY his wife
in fit Of insanity. She declares that she
was commanded by an angel to commit the
deed. '''s'''s-''--'r'' '''i'' -'''.'--''a.'''
HAM WHITE, Texas highwayman,
has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for
ninety nine years. .I
A FIRE at Pine Bluff, Ark, on the
morning of the 18th, destroyed about 500, 900
worth of property, including the office OF
the Press, e. l.. Taylor 81 Co.'s dry goods
store and j. II. Dellman's hardware store.
Partially insured.
The Protestant ministers OF Washing
ton called on the President on the It'll.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR will retain his
quarters at the residence of Senator Jones
until the White House repairs are completed.
The President positively declines to hear
any applicants for public offices, and thinks
the minor offices now vacant should be filed
by the heads of the various departments.
The Rose City FIGURING of Lit
tie Rock, one of the largest manufacturing
establishments of the Southwest, were to.
tally destroyed by tire enthe Con. Loss be-
tween $50, 900 and Sfo, 600, partially insured.
SEVERE frosts have occurred in the
Carolinas and Virginia, injuring tobacco
and, it is feared, killing the late growth Of
cotton. Ilif.t .!tf. %.
Miss SADIE SIMS, of Raleigh, N. c.,
was fatally poisoned by the administration
Of arsenic by mistake for quinine. Her
sister, who committed the fatal error, was
crazed with grief. - 49,
VIM. Cox Jesse Monroe and VIM.
Delaney, the three young men who robbed
the Iron Mountain Express Company and
the passengers on train No. 4, near Hope,
Ark, September %, pleaded guilty to four
teen indictments for robbery, and were each
sentenced to seventy years in the Penitcn,
tiary. tt3A .t. T..
Two robbers, known as Clark alias
Butch, and Frenchy, both formerly of the
notorious Stockton gang, were lynched at
Socorro, N. NJ. William Nicholson was
lynched at Saunders Station, N. NJ, for
murder. Church, the murderer of Miss
Thompson, Newton, N. c., was taken from
iail and hanged.
CAPTAIN HowGATE was taken before
the Criminal Court ON the It'll, in obedience
TO writ of a haheas corpus. l. District At
torney Corkhil stated the Government
would be satisfied with $4,000 additional
bail but counsel for ihelefense said -ft-would
be impossible for their client 10 obtain that
amount. v-b-.-N ''ir sd.
The Minnesota Democrats have nom-
mated the following ticket:' Governor, Gen.
r. w. Johnson Lieutenant Governor, f.
7. Barnum, of st. Cloud; Auditor, Rudolph
Lehmi,k,, OF saltwater; Secretary of State,
A. T.. LambeEton, ofSSt. Peter; Treasurer,
John f. Russell, OF Houston County; At
torney- General, George N. Baxter, of Rice
County; Railroad Commissioner, r. S. Cook,
of OwatOnna. The Convention Endorsed
Judges Clark, Dickinson and Mitchell, the
present Supreme Judges. Dickinson and
Mitchell are Republican nominees.
WIN. TOWNSEND, a dfy-goods mer.
chant of Franklin, Ind, was found dead
with a bullet hole IN his forehead, in bis
room at a Cincinnati hotel A note to his
wife shows it was suicide, though no motive
for the act can be discovered. Hr