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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
From Sparta.
SPARTA, TENN, April 5, 1881.

SPARTA, TENN April s, 1881.
Editor Standard Since there is
fair prospect of an early completion of
the railroad from McMinnville to
Sparta, men of enterprise, energy and
capital are coming to our county for
the purpose of making investments in
the vast resources of this section. r.
V. Roulett (the pioneer in the lumber
business) agent for E, B. Durham q
Co., was the first to make his appear
ance among US. He is now running
five saw mills, furnishing labor for AZ
hands at these mills, 43 hands driving
teams, 10 hands hauling lumber, 30
hands chopping timber, 116 mules and
80 yokes of cattle engaged in hauling
lumber, in addition to quite number
of parties who are chopping, hauling
and rafting logs to these mills by the
job. Mr.. Roulett says, in his long ex-
perience in walnut lumber, he has not
seen any that was superior in quality
to that found in our county. He is ex.
pending over 81 900 day for timber
and labor in our county.
Another company, represented by
Geo. E. Pentecost. of Warsaw, Ind,
has made large investments in real es-
tate, water powers and lumber. He is
now preparing to put up several steam
saw mills for the purpose of cutting
walnut, poplar, ash and cherry lumber
to ship as soon as the railroad is finish
ed. We need more such men.
We have the finest white oak and hick-
DRY timber in the world in almost in
exhaustible quantities that will be a
source of wealth at no distant day.
Our coal fields are still undeveloped, a
description Of which | will give you in
my next. YACoP.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
WHICH SHALL WE TAKEG
Five Hundred to Choose From.

A Grammar of the English Language, for
Schools and Academies, with Copious
Parsing Exercises, by VIM. Bingham, A.
M, Superintendent of the Bingham
School, Mebaneville, N. c.
The above is the title of popular work
on English Grammar by one of the mos.
popular authors on grammar, and one of the
most successful teachers in the United States
Having more than five hundred books on
English Grammar to select from, ii becomes
question of no small import, as well as one
of no little difficulty for teachers to decide
which one is best suited to impart correct
knowledge of the language to the student,
Prof Bingham claims, and we think justly
too, in the preparation of this work, that he
has "kept abreast" with the progress of
pathological research" and followed "the
analogy of those languages whose forms are
fuller and more easily determined than those
of our own tongue" To this end he has, as
far as possible, given the rules and defni.
tions identical with those in the Latin Gram.
mar, which he has published and which we
noticed with unqualified appreciation in our
last issue. This identity of languages is GER
tainly the true standpoint from which both
the English and Latin student should be
taught to view the subject of philology, 9th.
erwise there is no philology, and language
has no parent stem. We congratulate the
distinguished author upon his success in
this effort, and the profession OF teachers
and the country generally upon their good
fortune in having such a work placed in oul
schools. The work is now used as text
book inmany Of the best schools in the United
States. 1t is grammar complete within it
self, and besides this it contains selections
for parsing from the finest specimens o.
English literature, both prose and poetry
thus superseding the necessity of buying q
separate book for parsing exercises. The
selections are from Irving, Scott, Bunyan
Addison, Milton, Moore, Shakespeare, Gray
Hemans, Campbell, Cowper and Poe.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
Northwest Warren.

Editor Standard Farmers behind with
their work. No corn planted yet and pros
poets unfavorable for planting soon. Wheat
very backward in making its appearance,
But little oats sown owing to the scarcity OF
seed. Fruit trees backward about blooming,
Miss Willie Webb commenced school al
Providence Monday morning. Hope she
may have good school.
Mr.. f. w. Brown, student of Short Noun
tain High School, came home last Friday on
few days visit. His frequent visits home
are thought to have more than paternal
significance,
Our young friend J. B. Jones, after three
weeks sojourn in Texas, returned home Sat.
urday, satisfied to remain in old Tennessee
The Bald Knob Sunday School is proving
success, both old and young seem to mani
fest deep interest.
Candidates for the fall public schools are
plentiful. Some of the schools have already
been contracted for. Directors should look
well to the interest of those they represent
Employ good, moral, practical men fol
teachers, men who know how to tO"oh and
who witt teach. Directors have great re
sponsibility resting on them, greater perhaps
than some of them are aware of.
No weddings lately, but prospects favora
Bile.
Nobody likes 1.-THE 1908. jim.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
Taxation is the Topic.

The new revenue law provides that
there shall be tax of 40 cents on
every 500 worth of property, 80 cents
of which shall be for State purposes,
and ten cents for schools, allowing at
the same time the county courts to levy
an annual tax for county purposes not
to exceed the State tax. 1t also re-
quires of merchants an adualorem tax
of 30 cents on the 500 of capital in
vested and 30 cents on each 500 as a
privilege tax, provided such privilege
tax shall not in any case be less than
$40; and in addition thereto 10 cents
on the capital invested, for school pur-
poses. The tax on property will then
be as follows:
For the State, 40 cents; for the
county, not over 40 cents; for i'm
provement of roads, not less than 2
cents; for schools, say 10 cents,
amounting in all to 50 cents, beyond
which it can not go unless the county
levies more than 10 cents for schools
and two cents for the roads, and it may
fall as far below the 80 cents as the
county levies less than 40 cents for its
purposes, That is, if the county should
levy only 20 cents for general purposes,
10 cents for schools and 5 cents fol
roads, this added to the State tax would
make rs cents Oh the 500 as the en-
tire tax for all purposes.
From this it will be seen that much
Of the high tax will come from tn,
county courts as well as from the Leg
islature.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
Non Resident Notice.

David Brewer ct al VS.. Solomon Banks ct al.
Tn this cause it appearing to the Clerk and
l. Master IRON complainant bill, which is
sworn to, that the defendants Solomon
Banks and wife, Sarah A. Banks, Robert
Paris, and wife, Mary A. Paris, = Edwards,
Sarah Ross and her husband - Ross, Para
lee Neal and her husband Neal, Fanny
Davis and husband John Davis, w. j, Brew
er, A. NJ. Brewer, John W. Brewer, Calvin
NJ. Brewer and John Brewer, David, Nancy
G., Rebecca j., Mary A., William, Charlotte
Thomas and Russell Brown, are non-resi-
dents of the state of Tennessee so that the
ordinary process of law cannot be served on
them. Therefore it is ordered that publica-
ton be made in the Southern Standard for
four consecutive weeks commanding the
said nonresident defendants to appear be-
fore the Chancery Court TO be held for the
county of Warren at the Courthouse in Me-
Minnville, Tenn, on the LIST Monday of May
1881, and then and there make defense to
said bill or the same will be taken for con
fessed and set for hearing ex parte as to
them. This April LIST 1881.
424 j. c. BILES c. 4 M.
W. V. Whitson solicitor.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
Useless Agitation.

We call the attention of our readers
to the useless agitation of the debt
question now sought to be inaugurated
by men and newspapers that were ST.
lent during the sittings of the Legisla-
ture and had not a word or a plan to
suggest by which this vexed question
might be removed from politics. If
they had been as busy then in trying
to harmonic the conflicting opinions of
the different factions, as they are now
to array them one against another, we
would to-day have had a settlement
very different from the 1908. 1t was
precisely this coute of factious agita-
ton begun about this time last year
that resulted in a division of the Dem
cratic party in August and its defeat in
November, and has now eliminated in
the 1908 settlement. Is not this an.
other scheme for office? Is it not to
revive faction and engender discord I
Was not this precisely the course that
defeated the 50-4 in 1879? What is
the object of this agitation?
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
A Letter ON the Situation.
NASHVILLE, April 6. 1881.

NAohNlLLhl hpIiI W iooi'
nv Dear Friend The 1908 bill is now
the law. You know that from the begin
ming have desired and worked for a diff
ferent settlement. have many, very many
affections TO the IUu.5 Dill, but anything al.
most was better than no settlement. We
warned the people in 1877 and in 1879 that
the rejection of the 500 in 1877 and of S0-4
in 1879 would result in something worse,
and sure enough it has. Even if this bill
had been rejected, and no settlement made,
Il might have been even worse in 1882 than
the 1908 settlement. We were in terrible
condition.
The only plan can see to get out of it is
40 l suggested to you, to issue $l5,0OO,OOO of
s per cent. small bonds and sell them to our
own people, and pay off the 1908 debt and
thereby reduce the debt $12,000,000, and
make Il home debt. 1t would be State
loan and would be taken rapidly by our
own people.
Agitation for the purpose Of multiplying
abe law will only make matters worse and
win result in fastening heavier burden on
ms. am for reduction of the principal OF
the debt and for having it paid within q
shorter time than SO years. This can be
dome II conservative men will unite.
WIN. J. SYKES.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
chanoery Sale.
Jobn G. Hughes vs.. J. ]. Lam

John C. Hughes VS.. J. ]. Lane.
TN obedience to decree of the Chancery
| Court at McMinnville, Tenn rendered
in the above STYLED cause, will sell at the
Courthouse door, in McMinnville, Tenn, on
Monday, 18th Day of April, 1881,
for cash to the highest and best bidder, u
tract of land lying in the 9TH civil district
of Warren county, Tenn, containing lsl
acres, more or less, bounded by ttftHnuis q
J. C. Hughes, Carroll Parks, John Parks
and -, being the same land upon which
]. ]. Lane now lives. Said land will be d.
yided and sold in two or more lots, or a spf
ficient amount will be sold to pay the de-
cree and costs in favor of the complainant,
J. C.. Hughes. A plat of the land will be
exhibited on day Of sale. This March q,
1881. ]. c. BILES Z. q NJ
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
There is no Appeal.

The Memphis Appeal has this to say
about the 1908 settlement:
A law making coupons receivable
for taxes caunot be repealed or modified
by u subsequent Legislature nor by a
new constitution of the State duly
adopted by the people of the State, for
the reason that the Federal constitution
provides that "no State shall pass a law
impairing the obligations of "a contract.
An agreement to receive the coupons
Of the State in payment of State taxes
is contract that cannot be impaired
by either legislative act or a constitu.
tional change in the organic law of the
State. Further agitation of the sub
ject would, therefore, be little short of
criminal.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
Notice.

On the list Monday in July, 1881, ] will
sell to the highest bidder for cash, at the
=sssSSVhouse door, in the town of McMinn
vile, Warren county, the following named
real estate, belong to delinquent tax payers
of said county, tO-wit:
District No. L.. District No. 8,
Hill & Isbell, Elisha Mayfeld. District No.
7, Rosamond eagle. District No. s, Mural
Nunley, Sandy Ramsey, ]. B. Johnson, Da-
vid Lane and West Savage. District No.
10, Colville 4 Womack, ]. n. York. Dis
trict No. Is, 7. H. Halcomb, Douglas Land,
Thomas Brown, B. C. Hickey. District No.
u, Isaac Jones' heirs, Edward Moore, Jane
Harvey. District No. 70, Geo. Butterball,
and W. B. Gibson, which real estate can be
seen upon my books in my Office. Sale
within lawful hours. This Goth March 1881.
424 G. B. DAVIS,
Special tax collector and agent OF the
bondsmen of Sam Brown.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
Nonresident Notice.

J. w. Poindexter ct al, vs. 0rville Poindex-
ter ct at.
IN this cause 1t appearing to the Clerk and
/ Master from complainants' bill, which is
sworn to, that Orville Poindexter and Rose
mary Poindexter are nOn-residents of the
state of Tennessee, and that the ordinary
process of law cannot be served on them.
1t is therefore ordered that publication be
made in the Southern Standard for four con-
secutive weeks commanding the said non-
resident defendants to appear before the
Chancery court to be held in McMinnville,
Tenn, on the LIST Monday in May, 1881, and
then and there make defense to said bill or
the same will be taken for confessed and
set for hearing eX parte as to them. This
April LIST, 1881. J. {. BlLES 1. q Nd.
W. V. Whitson sol. 424
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16

Tennessee has a debt of q millions,
and million and half of people to
pay it, and over five hundred millions
Of dollars to pay it with. This gives
an Indebtedness of s1S to each person,
and FIVE cents and four mills to each
dollar Of the entire wealth of the State.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16

President Garfield and Gen. Ham,,
cock have both been invited to attend
, the Nashville Exposition. This is right
and prOper; but will the managers be-
rttla themselves and their country by
leaving out JEFF Davis?
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16

There's one consolation about the
1908, since we come to think about it,
'se'H not have it all to pay.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-29

A Dakota man describes "blizzard" ~
ga gale of wind filed with snow and icy
particles - fine as rice powder. with tenn
perature of twenty degrees below zero. A
genuine blizzard ia SO fierce tfst you can
neither face it nor distinguish objects ten feet
away from you. In Dakota and Minnesota
during the prevalence Of blizzard, farmers
only venture out OF their houses with guild
ing ropes around their persons to enable
them to find their way back" And still
there are people who recommend Dakota as
a good country to emigra,e to, and swell into
eloluence when they declaim ON its agricul-
tural future.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-29
THE DODGE CITY TIMES.
DODGE CITY. SATURDAY. JAN. %.
OUR COLD WINTERS.

W SOLD
The unusual severity of the present winter
naturally ellis the remarkably cold Writers
OF the past Statistics show that this Get son
has been steadily growing milder for many
years. There seem to be no such whites now
as there were seventy or eighty yesrs sgo,
owing, 40 doubt, to the cutting down in this
coun ~ of the native forre.ts, the planning
and groEth OF towns and cities, ard the
general development OF the land. During
the -seven;eenh and eighteenth centuries,
there we're in the Old World some winters
bitterly memorable. In Britain, in 1864, the
Thames was frozen 10 the depth Of sixty-one
inches, and ne,rly all the bird, in the
United Kingdom persisted. In 1892, the
cold was 80 intense in Southern Europe, es-
pecially in Austria, that wolves we're driven
by hunger into Vienna, where they attacked
be ass Of burden and even human beings
Three yesrs later manv persons were frozen
to dsa,h in various part, Of Germany. The
Cid Winner, a. it was called fJr Distinction,
lakes 10 Europe we're compactly frozen, and
even the sea several miles from shore,
and the ear.h itself from seven to eight feet
deep. Bir,!s and beast, fell desd. and thou
sands OF men, women and children persisted
in tn .ir hous =. In Southern France cary
all the vineyards were des;r. yed, and have
not yet recovered from the disaster. The
Adii.tic was frozen, and much OF the Medi-
terrsnean 10 the neighborhood Of Genoa and
Le,horn, and tie lemon and crsrg. groves
were b GIFTED in many parts OF Italy. Durieg
ZIG person, crossed the sirai from Copper.
bage to the Province of Senia (Luden) on
the ice, and horses and wagon, lkewife.
Snow Law ten feet deep in Spa q and Portu-
gal during l7i0, the z iyder Zee was covered
with ice thick enough to bear a multitude Of
people, and four years at er snow measured
on level twenty three f.et in Portugal. In
l77l he E be was frozen TO the bottom. and
in l7.6 the Danube shove ice below Vienna
eight to ten fee, thick. The winter Of l719-
SO was very severe in this county. TIE
bi ter cold began in the middle Of Novem.
Der and continued until the lice Of Febru-
ary. The suns rsys were not warm enough
to melt the snow, which lay on the ground
almos, FIVE months, thick that il was very
hard to get from place to place. All ordin-
airy bodies OF water were ice-bound. Domes-
tic fowls and wild turkeys per shed by thou
eand., go did deer and buffalo, and wolves
and panthers, mainly from their lack q
natural food, buried under the snow. The
Northern ard Western rivers were fettsrsd
BY the frost, and the Cumberland was 70
firmly frozen. as far south as Nashville, that
emigrant trains passed securely over the
river. The Delaware opposite Philadelphis
conisined Ice Of three or fopr feet, and Long
Island Sound and the Chesapeake were fro
zen over. Scientific persons have declared
that hot and cold waves often recur eve'y
eleven year,, as in 1916, 1857 and 1868, and
the weather-wise predict that this will prove
to be one of the coolest winters known for
twenty years.-N, Y. Time.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-29
NOTICE.
U. S. LAND OFFICE,

Larned. Kansas, Jan. :, 1881. :
Complaint having been entered at this ofhce
by Paschal Ball against Allen McCswen for
abandoning his Timber Culture Entry No. 2s43.
dated January 20. Is39. TO date from October .,
ISIS, upon the Southwest quarter section .,
township y south, range % west. in Ford coun-
ty, Kansas, with view 10 the cancellation OF
"a a, ,ne =, III; on shs y.,S da q,
February, 1851, at O'Clock, n. m, to respond
and furnish testimony concerning saia alleged
abandonment.
janis CA. MORRIS, Register.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-29

That there is returning confidence in
banks is illustrated BY an Indiana farmer
Who has Just deposited in bank $4,000 that
he has had buried in the ground fer seven
osen years.
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-29

POST OFFICE HOURS:
From A. N. to o. p. u. Money Ofders
issued from "a. n. to 6P. u. Sundays
excepted. H. J. FRNG8R. p n
Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-01-29

LEE & REYNOL OS. Breeders ana Deal
ers in Pure and Grade HEREFORD and SHORT
HORN Cattle. Ranch in Oldham county, Tex
We will pay One Hundred Dollars Reward for
evidence tnat Will convict any one Tor selling.
butehering or otherwise depredating upon our
stock.
Horses branded L r or X z on len thigh or
hip.
Postoface: Fort Supply. 1T.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1881-03-26
AprRorINo AssAsslNArIox.
The Chicago Socialists Pass some
Very Strong SeSoIutiOns.

CHICAGO. March 20.-At the regular
Sunday meeting of the socialists to night
resolutions approving the killing Of the
Gar were adopted unon the ground that
he was bow)der standing in the way of
human liberty, and that the only means of
getting him out OF the way was by blast
ing lin out. The course of Secretary
Blaine in sending q dispatch of sympathy
was also severely criticised. The follow
ing resolution was also adopted with only
three dissentient votes Resolved, That
we condemn the repeated expressions,
Official and otherwise, of the friendship OF
the American people tor the despOtic gov
eminent Of Russia MS disgraceful and dan
gerous In the extreme, inRsmucb rs il en-
courages tyranny and oppression every -
where and correspondlngly discoursges
every effort Of the oppressed 10 secure Tor
themselves those rights and that freedom
OF which the American people so proudly
boast, and for the maintenance OF which
they loudly proclaim their readiness 10
sacrifice their property and their lives.
Resolved, That our only regret in the ex-
ecution OF the Car or Russia is that the
destructive force of the explosion that de-
stroyed his miserable life did not include
within Its destructive scope every tyraut
whose existerce imperils or prevents free
speech, free press, free ballot, and the
legitimate progress of human freedom and
the enjoyment Of the rights referred TO i'm
the preceding resolutions. Resolved,
That the welfare Of the human race de-
mands not only the destruction of the
Czars, Emperors, Kings, Bismarcks and
other oppressors, but also the destruction
OF the system of society that breeds them
ana makes thor tyranny possible, and
which makes the world one vast armed
corps Of butchers, organized TO DESTROY
human lie and repToss every aspiration OF
the people for liberty, equality and fra
tCruitv
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1881-03-26
THE BODT or ALEKANDEH II.I1TD
IN THE GRAVE.
Most Magnificent and Impressive
Pageant Ever Seen.

Most Magnificent and Impressive
Pageant Ever Seen.
NEW YORK, March 81. - George Au-
gustus Ssla telegraphs from St. Peters
burg regarding the funeral Of the late
Car:
l have just been the spectator Of one of
the most magnificent, most impressive.
most pathetic psgeants on which, in the
course Of my heightened career, sccus-
toned to the pomp and vanities of royal
ty, from royal bridsls and fsasts to royal
funerals, have ever been privileged to
Get eyes upon,
THE CANNON FIRRD
from the Fortress directed the various
mourners to get ready 20 take their
places. A similar salute about the mid
die Of the day gave the signal for the
start, when the sable standard, bearing
in white the initials OF the murdered
monarch, was unfurled over the Fortress.
The artillery began 20 Gre minute guns
land all the bells in the city began 70 toll
The whole route WAS lined by the troops
Of the garrison Immediately behind whom
the public we're permitted 10 stand. No
galleries or platforms were erected as the
house holders were only allowed at their
personal risk and peril 20 Jet the windsw WA
or balconies TO strangors The police had
taken exceptional measures ~ preserve
order in the maintenance Of which the
pubic by hand bills wero iDvitsd 90 coop
crate. All houses and public buildings,
TOO, showed the same amount Of sable
flags aud drapery as when tho Empress
not a year ago, was similarly conveyed
from the palace 10 the fortress The
route by which the cortegc passed was
some four miles in length.
THE PROCE.8iOs CONSISTED or TmRrRRg
sECrIoNs,
comprising 172 groups, 70 describe which
would occupy many columns. Among
the noticeable features Of the procession
was q figure which attracted much atten
ton, The Knlght OF Golden Armor.
mountcd on gorgeoucIy hsrncased steed
carrying q drawn sword and supposed to
symbalze the
BRIGHT AND srOTLEss CHARACTER
u the departed sovereign. After him
walked a man.at-arms in sable araor
with drawn sword Perhaps The most
picturesque feature in the ceremonial we're
the populations which figured for the
1rsl time 10 Russian history representing
institutions created by The late Emperor
the ZsostaiS. he Jestlces Of the Peace.
and q molly gfoup Of pcasanis, with one
al least 81 venerable and patriarchsl sp.
pcsurc", slI alfred fro their winter grab.