Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-08-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

IplNtuIhl NNt- VI JlNNIllulls iuNNl bbVh |
place ut the Cathedral OF the Holy Name, in |
Chicago, on the 18th, with the usual im-
prcssive ceremonies,
The Eastern war in passenger rates
extended to Boston on the 2jth, when
through tickets to Chicago were freely sold
at $500.
A SHOCKING accident occurred at
Muir, Mich on the 2Jth. A small house
occupied by Alonzo Derrick, his wife, and
six children accidentally took fire and burned
to the ground. The fire originated in an
upper chamber, where three children, one
a deaf mute, aged eleven, and two other
boys, aged eight and five years, were sleep
ing, and it was impossible to rescue them.
The irrecosnizable rcmaiHs Ef5 Coiissg in
one coffin. Ia
Two boys, George oE'Ses, -pl2wsss - !.
Of Mr.. Gotlieb Kock, of Denver, Colo, were
poisoned by eating the heads of matches,
George, aged five years, died soon af er, and
Fred, aged three years, was believed to be
beyond the possibility Of recovery.
PREPARATIONS are being made for
Juc CoIOuutlVn VI lHc CHHI dl hoSCoN'
In Brooklyn, N. Y, Mrs. Catherine
Beher was fatally burned by the explosion
OF can of Kerosene with which she endcav.
ored to klndlc fire. The flames spread,
and a Mrs. Toole jumped from secondstory
window, sustaining serious injuries.
THE marriage is announced Of I. II.
Tibbles, the advocate of the Poncas, and
"Bright Eyes," said TO be 'sthe handsOmest
and best educated Indian woman in Amer
ica.p
A SAD accident occurred at Hillard,
o., Qp the 2Gth. As owen Clover was back
ing reaping machine out of his barn, an 49,
months-o child of ncighbor tOddlcd un-
der the machine, was run over and instantly
killed.
JOHN PATTON, aged twenty-five and
John Kutz, aged nineteen, were killed by
flying debris from blast at quarry near
Reading, Pa.
/ c. n. WALLS, editor of the Paris
Qll) RepUblicaH- Beacon, went to Chicago
! TO attend the races and has not since been
! heard OF. lie is known to have drawn II $50
from his bankers while in the city. The
only clew to his disappearance is given by Il
small boy who left two empty pocket books,
identified as belonging to Mr.. Walls, ut one
of the newspaper Offices. lie says he saw
the man faint, and his hat fall off, and he
dropped the pocket-books, but two men
supported him and removed him to some
other part of the grounds. This took place
near the poOlstan
REV. WILLIAM +. WHITCHER, pas
tor of the MathersOn Street Methodist Church
IN Providence, r. L., the most fashionable
church of that denomination in the city, has
been detected in purloining valuable old
books from various parties and has resigned
his charge and announced his intention Of
severlng his connection with the ministry.
Whitchcr is 6 years Of age, his father is
wealthy and hs wife has an independent in
come, while his own salary was $1,000 Il
year. lie generally mutilatcd the sto'cn
books in such Il way aS to destroy their idcn-
tity and then sold them, although many
were still found in his possession.
Four masked men visited the farm
house Of Robert Marvel, near Traders
Point, Marion County, Ind, II few nights
ago. They bound MARVEL and his wife,
pitched Hans wilkins, a brothor-in- law, out
of the window, and robbed the place of 5000.
wilkins and MARVEL are very old and were
incapable OF resistance.
AT Poncha Springs, Colo, on the
night of the 2Gth, Capt. Randolph Carpenter
hot nj lt- prip
Tor OF the Bank of Poncha Springs.
JOHN j. JENNINGS was taken from
Jail at TERRA Amanlla, n. NJ, and hanged
by mob. lie was charged with the mur-
der Of one Lewis, and Lews'S wife, who is
suspected of criminal intimacy with hel
husbands murderer, is held for completely
in the crime. Three fatheresS children are
left without home.
THOMAS Nj. MAYFELD, who killed
, his father-n-aw, Marshall Aday, in Stra-
horn Miss, in July, and then fled, has been
arrested at Little Rock, Ark, and taken
home for trial, Maytield admits the killing
but asserts that il was done in 4 rough-and.
tumble fight, in which Aday was the aggres.
sor.
Miss MINNIE REEVE, station agent
, and operator at Minnetonka, Mimi, was
killed by railway collision near that place
on the 2Gth. she was most estimable youns
lady, and was sister of the Master Me-
chanic on the Iron Mountain Railroad.
NINE persons recently made their eS
1 cape from the Yell County Jail at Danvile
: Ark. Two only had been recaptured at las
D accounts.
MIDHAT PAsHA, and all others con
victed Of the murder of the late Sultan, eX
ceIt the two actual assassins, have bcel
banishcd for life to Siberia.
A TELEGRAM from Tunis says 1,50t
, Arabs have advanced to Padeuss, six kilo
metres from GOletta. Four Europeans an,
. three Arabs have been murdered. There /
= great excitement. The Bey has ordered tn
removal of the bridge of boats between Go
letta and Padeuss.
. BLANCo FLORES, the Mexican mur
derer, and eX-mcmber Of the Vasquez gan
of bandits, was recently killed near Yuma
. CAL, while attempting to escape from Gus
tody.
Col. JOHN {. BURCH, Secretary o
: the United States Senate, died at Washing
u ton, D. c., on the 2Sth.
: THE death is announced of eX-GoveI
y nor Bagley, Of Michigan. The deceased wa
II visiting California for the benefit Of hi
y health lie was forty years of age.
. A CABLE dispatcEi from Glasgow
Scotland, reports the arrival there, in goo
D.. condition, of a consignment of Minnesot
wheat which had been shipped by the barg
y line to New Orleans and thence by steamer
4 Col. Z. FREI, u member of the M
Y tional Council of Switzerland, has been che
$ sen to represent that Republic in Washing
= ton.
i The hunt for the Williams brother;
q who killed the Coleman brothers. DeDut