Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-09-17

cepting their demands and appointing Cherii
Pasha President of the Council. The troops
then cheored the Khedive and withdrew. 1t
is thought in Cairo that foreign occupation
of the country will be imperative.
A PANAMA dispatch says: In a fight
at Matagalpa, between about 5000 Indians
on one side and detachment of troops and
some 100 citizens on the other, the In
dians lost 800 killed and wounded. The 9TH
or party had twenty-eight killed and num-
Der wounded Previous to this fight the
Indians attacked Esquipals, and killed the
Captain In command, commissary, and a
young telegraph operator named Vega. The
slaughter of various individuals followed
some Of them Indians who had refused to
join the malcontents, and horrible outrages
were inflicted upon others.
The JeW{Sh World says: Russia is at
last taking active steps to suppress vigor-
ously any further outrage on the Jews.
The Pope, for prudential reasons, has
ordered postponcment Of the Italian pill
grimage, on the occasion Of the Papal jubi-
lee, until after the celebration Of the ami
versary of unifcation in Italy.
The village of Reichenbach, in the
Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, was almost
destroyed by fall of stones.
THE Memphis Cotton Exchanges
bulletin for August reports generally unfa.
vorable weather, on account Of excessive
drouth plant fruiting badly, with serious
shedding OF forms and bolls. Worms have
appeared in some localities, but no serious
damage from this cause is apparent.
A DENVER dispatch of the 9th says
The police last evening arrested five women
and three men belonging to a notorious
band of robbers, and detectives are on the
track OF other members, who are operating
in other towns. This band is mostly from
Missouri and Kansas, where they are said to
have blown open over fifty safes within two
years. Over $1,000 worth Of plunder was
recovered among them. Kid Laureas, the
supposed leader, was among the eight ar
rested.
SIDNEY LANIER, the poet, died on the
Sth at Lynn, Polk County, N. c., where he
had gone to recruit his health.
FIVE murderers were hanged at Fort
Smith, Ark, on the 9th, for crimes commit
ted in the Indian Nation. They were Amos
and Abner Manly, Creek Indians, aged re-
spectively 10 and 20, and Wm. Brown,
George w. Padgctt and Patrick MCGOWAN,
white men.
Owing to the number of recruits re-
Quired to fill the army to its authorized
strength, the standard for artillery and in
fantry is fixed at five feet four and upward,
weight 12O to 100 pounds; for cavalry, five
feet four to five feet ten, weight not to ex-
ceed lGj pounds. Recruits and officers arc
being ordered TO Arizona.
NEAR Savannah, Ga, Engineer Ed.
ward King was instantly killed and fireman
Thomas MattoX mortally wounded by an
accident caused by an open switch. The
wood-passer was seriously wounded in the
head, but will recover.
ROBERT WILLIAMS, residing neal
Whtmcll, Va, quarreled with his wife the
other day, and she complained to a magis.
trate, who issued q warrant for his arrest,
appointing Williams own son Especial con-
stable to execute the warrant. Arriving a
the house, young Williams found the dead
body of his father lying in the yard, the hea(
nearly severed from the body, and bloody
ak beside it. Two daughters, missing wher
Mrs. Williams returned, have been charged
with the crime, and warrants issued fol
! their arrest.
The Prefect of Constantine, Algeria
has received a dispatch announcing sixty
one persons burned to death in one day by
forest fires. Many persons were wounded
and GS2 dwellings destroyed. The value o
cattle, grain and other articles devoured b,
the flames is 100000 francs.