Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-05-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

some way provided themselves with axes,
knives, clubs and pieces Of chain, and with |
these weapons intend to overpower and il |
necessary kill all the prison officials. Two |
negroes under sentence of forty years for
murder were the ringleaders.
FRENCH troops have occupied Tabar-
ca, and the Tunisian garrison left before the
French force l1lded.
The police of st. Petersburg continue
to seize printing presses used for seditious
purposes and arrest the workmen.
j. w. RoBB, a prominent lawyer of
Astoria, Ore, was shot dead in his Office on
the 26th. The murderer is believed to be j.
G. Robeson, with whom Robb had some
legal difficulty.
THE Minnesota and Red Rivers in
Minnesota have overfowed their banks,
causing great destruction toproperty.
A NUMBER of persons, mostly en-
ployees, were seriously injured by the burn
ing of box factory at Greenpoint, N. Y.
AN Omaha dispatch of the Goth says
All the buildings on the levee have been
abandoned, the water being twenty inches
higher than during the late flood. On the
Council Bluffs side the Chicago railroads
send their passengers two or three miles in
skiffs to the transfer depot.
WILL LITTLE and Nathan Lynn, en-
ployecs in a mower and reaper works at
Youngstown, o., were crushed to death by
a car of lumber.
ANOTHER audacious address to the
Car has been issued by the Nihiists, point
ing out that the indiscriminate execution of
those concerned in the assassination of Alex
ander II. has only served to strengthen the
ranks Of the Nihiists by driving many luke
warm macontents into the extreme faction
of the party.
THE breaking of the SnY Levee at the
head of Sand Slough, just above Hannibal,
Mo-, on the 25th, caused the inundation of
large section of the fertile bottom lands adj
jacent. Several ice-houses were carried
away.
The Texas & st. Louis Narrow-gauge
Railroad is now open for business to Corsi-
cana, 203 miles from TeXarkana.
THE steamer City of Austin, of the
Mallory Line, was wrecked on Pelican Shoals,
mile inside Fernandina bar, Florida, on the
Goth, and is a total loss. Boat and cargo both
well insured.
HATTIE MosLEY, servant girl at
Middlesex, Pa, is thought to have under
gone the supreme agony OF being buried
alive. Upon opening her coffin it was found
that she had tried to free herself, and her
countenance plainly exhibited the most in
tense suffering.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD has appointed
the following Government Directors Of the
| Union Pacific Railroad Company for the en-
suing year: S. T. Everett, Cleveland, o.;
r. II. Baller, Racine, Wis; Chas. b. Peck,
Port Huron, Mich; Geo. W. Frost, Omaha,
Neb. and A. Kountze, New York.
SEVENTEEN indictments have been
found against r. L, Lindsay, OF land fraud
notoriety. Seven are for forgery in the first
degree and seven in the fourth. Nine in
dictments were found against John Brady
and four against Herman Schuster.
Mrs. SARAH E. HOWE, President of
the Ladies' Deposit Bank at Boston, has
been convicted of the frauds with which she
stood charged.
w. L. PAYsoN, builder and contractor,
lately of the firm of Payson & Lindley, miss
ing from Hallston, Mass, is alleged to be q
forger to the amount of $4,000 Besides this
his liabilities are large.
CONTRACTS have been entered into
with steamship owners at Hull, England, for
the transportation Of 10000 emigrants from
Norway and Sweden to the United States.
LORD BEACoNsFIELD's will leaves
Hughenden Manor and all his other prop
erty to his nephew, Conyngsby Ralph Dis
raeli.
Two cadets and four sailors were
killed, nine men seriously and two officers
and seven men slightly injured by the burst
ing of shell on training ship at Wilhelms
haven, Germany.
CRAIG MITCHELL, colored voudoo
practitioner, was arrested at Louisville, Ky.
charged with an indecent assault upon 6
!, young girl at Frankfort, who diedfrom the
effects. The penalty for this crime is death
TEABoNT & VALLEAU, dealers in
stock, grain, etc, at DEBORAH, Iowa, have
failed for about 100000.
The Catholic Archbishop and Bish
ops Of Ireland have sent to Gladstone {
, series of resolutions conveying their vewi
as to the amendments to the Land bill. They
recommend perpetuity Of tenure to future
tenants, deprecate the exclusion from thu
, benefits Of the bill of lease holders and ten
ants in arrears, recommend further limita
ton OF the landlords power to object to al
intending tenant, to resume possession anC
Q to raise the rent, strongly condemn the emf
E grafton provisions and the omission Of labor
| ers from the benefits bill, and recommend
9 comprehensive scheme for the purchase ant
D reclamation Of waste lands, arterial drainage
= and liberal advances to tenants for improve
ments.
D The Girard Point Elevator at Phila
delphia was burned on the 2Sth, with all it
e contents, valued at $4,000. The elevate
was one of the largest in the country ant
$ cost 100000. Partially insured
JOHN VIM, the murderer of VIM
Moreland, was riddled with bullets while il
Jail at Paris, KY, by band of forty maske,
men, who were admitted by the Jailer'
wife, the former refusing to hand over tn
keys.
IT is rumored that Jay Gould has TO
r weeks been negotiating with the foreg
e shareholders and bondhOlders of the Ilinoi
D, Central line to New Orleans to secure con
e troll thereof.
/, THE embargo on street-car traffic i
d st. Louis, caused by the conductors an
d drivers strike, practically terminated on tn
g OSth when the nrincinal lines resumed Inns