Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-06-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A NUMBER of Pennsylvania blast
furnaces have suspended operations on ac-
count of the alleged depression In the iron
trade.
IN consequence of the prevalence of
yellow fever in Vera Cruz the Mexican Rail-
way Company has put on a special train to
take passengers direct to 0rizaba.
THE most careful estimates put the
cotton crop Of last year at 6,400,OOO bales, or
nearly "a million and half bales more than
the splendid crop Of 1870.
A New ALBANY & Chicago Railroad
conductor named Davis undertook TO climb
on top of a car near Pckin, Ind, and was
knocked off by the timbers OF the bridge
across Blue River, and instantly killed. His
body fell into the river, and was recovered
by the train men and taken to New Albany.
He had only been on the road few days.
AT the village of Chesaning, Michs
recently, party of roughs connected with a
circus, armed with clubs, proceeded to break
up "a dance. Augustus Emery, a policeman,
was pounded to death; Fred Wenzo was
fatally injured; j. B. Griswold, village Pres
dent, was severely wounded; Charles Ha-
mer received pistol ball in the side of the
face and dozen others were cut and bruised.
Thirteen OF the gang were arrested, and
with difficulty the people were res trained
from lynching them.
THE National Millers' Association held
their eighth annual Convention at Chicago,
beginning on the 7th. The Cochran patent
cases, representing claims for damages to
the amount of $36,0OO,00O against members
Of the Association, were settled by compro-
mise, the terms of which are private.
The completion of the Fayetteville
(Ark.) Branch Of the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco Railroad was celebrated on the Sth, al
Fayetteville, with great ceremony.
DURING a severe storm near Wheel
ing, West Va, on the Sth, family named
Straub, living on Glenn's Run, were swept
away in the night, the mother and five chill
dren being drowned and the father carried
on n log to the head of one OF the Sisters Is
lands, where he was found In an insensible
condition.
The negroes who murdered farm
er named A. f. Hall, near Lockesburg,
Sewer County, Ark, were hanged by an in
furla'ed party Of citizens
THE Department of State has issued
4 pamphlet containing the report OF Mr..
Scanlon, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics of
the Department, relative to the pork indus
tries of the United States. This report COW
ers all phases OF the pork trade, and its state
ments are substantiated by European and
American experts, dealers, packers, hog
raisers, shippers, health officers, inspectors,
railroad men, etc. The pamphlet is intend
ed for distribution in Europe, its object be-
ing to set at rest the existing prejudices
against the wholesomeness OF American pork
products-prejudicss that have in many cases
haa,A foot a-Ad snns nv those
THE city of Quebec, Canada, was
visited by most destructive confiagration
on the night of the 8 h. which originated at
the corner of st. John and Oliver Streets and
spread so rapidly that the Fire Department
was unable to check its progress until the
entire quarter of the city known as the st.
John suburbs, lying midway between ST.
Roch's and the Upper Town, had been
swept away. The greatest confusion reigned
and property spared by the flames was freely
plundered by thieves. Several persons are
known TO have perished in the flames. Prob.
ably 600 buildings were destroyed, among
them st. Johns Catholic Church, the fines
church edifice in the city. The total los'
is estimated at 81, 800, ,000 The Legislative
Assembly voted 100000 for therelief of SUI
ferers, and large private subscriptions ar
being made.
A TERRIBLE riot occurred at Cork
ireland, on the 9th, while the races were il
progress The mounted police charged tn,
mob. There were a number of casualtie
on both sides. Twenty rio ers were ar
rested.
THE centennial of the birth of Georg
Stephenson, the originator Of the railwa
locomotive, June 9,was celebrated invariou
parts of England, the chief observance. ben
at Newcastle on-Tyne, Stephenson's birth
place, where there was procession Of rail
way locomotives, nearly every railway com
pany in the United Kingdom being repre-
sented in the line by its most powerful en-
gnes. In the afternoon there was proces
sion of trade societies, hundred thOusan
persons participating. The occasion wa
= also celebrated among the railway employee
in various parts OF the Continent.
: COUNTY JUDGE HARRIS, of PER-
9 County, Ark. and John L. Mathews, editC
: of the Perryvine Times, have been forced
G leave their homes on account of threatene
violence. The trouble originated in IL
Q prosecution, by order Of Judge Harris,
Q two delinquent Deputy Sheriffs, Green Mye
d and James Isham. The Times publishe
: several articles rejecting upon the deil
It qucnts, soon after which an attempt WI
g made to burn the printing office. The Juds
y and the editor then received written nOti
: through the Post office to leave the TOW
: within fifteen days, under the penalty
d death. They left. Judge Harris arrived
e Little Rock and had en- in eryiew with d
o Governor, who promises him all the assis
IS ance needed to protect the lives of threa
l. ened parties and to maintain the law.
/ The Theater Royal, Belfast, Irelan
~ was entirely destroyed by fire on the Sth.
> THE first fifty miles of the Tula Ce
tral Railroad, Mexico, was opened on t
le 9th, to Cuantla. The Monlos Railroad has al
h. been opened.
es THE boiler of the steamboat John
rt Hanna exploded on the Sth, near New {
US leans, scalding and otherwise injuring elev
I'd employees, all colored, Five of them di
l soon afterward from their injuries, and fo
t. others were not expected to recover. 0
We was drowned. The Hanna and st. 10
of are said to have been racing at the time
ee explosion occurred.