Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-08-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


from Pueblo and Magdalena Mountains have
just arrived and report the presence OF large
numbers of saYages there. Business IL par
alyzed and mining is in n great measure
suspended. .. 2-t
DURING q bull fight at Marseilles,
France, several tiers of seats collapsed and
twelve persons were killed and $50 injured.
THREE negroes lay down on the rail-
road track near Tuscumbia, Ala, and fell
asleep. A freight train came along and
killed two of them and seriously injured the
third.
Two men were Instantly killed and
two Others badly mangled by nitro-glycer-
inc explosion at mining camp 2S miles from
Gunnison, Colorado.
INFORMATION has been received of
desperate duel fought in the Indian Nation
between L. o. Carpenter, ChOctaw chief,
and Col. Amos Price, prominent citizen Of
the Creek Nation. Price was killed and
Carpenter fatally wounded. Considerable
feeling exists over the affair, as both were
among the most prominent men in the Ma
ton.
Mrs. MORRIS EPLY, wife of farmer
near South Bend, Ind, aged %, was bitten
OH the ankle by n rattlesnake while gather.
iEs corn. She received prompt medical at
tendance, Notwithstanding which she only
! survived a few hours.
JOHN JENKINS, sged GO, wealthy
farmer residing near Mount TsrrS, o., was
set upon by an Infatuated bull wilch he was
leading TO water, and so horribly gored that
he lived but few moments.
WILLIAM BROOKS, well-to-do farm
or residing near Shelby, N. c., attempted to
shoot his wife, with whom he had quarreled,
and not succeeding he went and hanged
himself.
A PROMINENT physician of Cincin-
natl reports twenty weil-defined cases OF
typhoid fever among the four hundred En-
glish colonists at Rugby, Tennessee. A
corps of physicians and nurses have been dis
patched to the afflicted settlement. Bad
drinking water was the chief cause of the
epidemic. .r.
GOVERNOR PORTER declines to call
an extra session of the Legislature Of In
diana.
A BERLIN dispatch says it is feared
Breslau will shortly be declared in state Of
siege, because of the prevalence Of social ag-
itation there.
AT Bay st. Louis, Miss, negro wife
murderer was forclbly taken from Jail by a
mob of cOlored men and hanged.
Two Americans were assassinated
near Altama, Mexico, recently. Two persons
were arrested ON suspscion Of being their
murdercrs, but were shot dead while at
tempting to escape.
A. D. WHEELOCK, the absconding
clerk of Walcott & Co., the New York bank
ers, who robbed his employers of 1000
worth Of securities, was arrested at London
on board the steamer Neckar.
THE Orangemen of Liverpool and Vi
cinity have enlisted 400 laborers to reap and
harvest the crops in "boycotted" districts
of Ireland.
THE National Butter and Cheese As
socation and Dairy Fair will be held at
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in November, and will
include dairy products, machinery and i'm
plements, dairy cattle, models OF creameries
and cheese factories. The competition is
open TO the world.
A DISPATCH from Tombstone, Arizo-
ma, 18th, says: A party consisting of VIM.
Long, Dick Gray, James Crane, Charles
Snow, Thomas D. Clinton, William Berer
and Harry Ernshaw cncamped last Friday
night in Guadalupe Canon, about 10 miles
east from Tombstone and very near to the
Mexican line. Early Saturday morning the
! party was attacked By MeXicans, and Long,
) Gray, Crane, Snow and Clinton were killed.
| Berer escaped with wound in the abdO-
men, while Ernshaw ran amidst a shower Of
/ bullets. II is intimated that the Mexican
party numbered from twenty-five to thirty
men, The condition Of the camp indicated
that an attack was made Just as the muir.
. dered men were getting up. They had cvi.
IDENTITY been killed while yet lying down
, Long was driving some cattle to Tombstone
, and the others were in his employ. Apartl
has been organized at Tombstone to avengt
, the massacre.
, AT Pittsburgh, on the 18th, while s
, force Of men were engaged demolishing al
, old brewery, the floor Of the third story gave
, way, burying four men in the debris, ant
! killing John Finney instantly. Others wert
seriously but not fatally injured.
, AN Arab fanatic ran amuck through
the streets of Susa calling on Arabs to joil
t him in holy war. lie and his follower
1 were seized after they had murdered
Maltese. A British man-Of-war landed 30
men, but order was restored without thei
help.
AN Omaha servant girl lighted the fir
with kerosene. Result, house burned dow
!, and girl frightfully injured.
. MORRIS FREIBERG, of the dry-good
/ firm OF Kohn & Freiherg, Memphis, attempt
: ed to rescue young Kohn, son of his partner
I who got into deep water while the two wer
. bathing in the river. The drowning la,
= clutched his would-be rescuer about tn
r neck with dcath-lille grasp, and both wen
D.. down to watery grave,
r FRANK NYE, the alleged chief of al
, extensive gang Of horse-thieves, and said t
e be implicated in varisous swindlcs in vari
q Gus parts OF tne country, HIS peeh capture
VI at Indianapolis.
d A PARIS dispatch states yellow feve
continues to rage in the French colony o
- Senegal, South Africa.
THAT mconscionable old scoundrel
= who, under the various aliases Of Thoma
h A. Marvin, Gen. r. A. Moulton, Gen. Ken
n bingham, Arthur Merritt, etc., ETC., bo
"a within few years married dozen wome
a in various parts of the country, besid
~ swinding banks and private persons rigl