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

Fred Lutzman, asurvivor of Water
loo, died recently al Louisville, Ky,
aged eighty four years. At th} battle
Of Waterloo he received bayOlet thrust
in his side.
The drains leading fr, m the Phila-
delphia Mint yielded about $ 900 worth
Of gold and silver at the last annual
securing. The recovery of metal by that
operation has amounted TO $2l, 900 in
nineteen years.
AT Hayerfordwcst, England, the
other day, a well-dressed man, in dis
proof of charge of habitual drunken
ness, held up an umbrella, which he
ayowed he had not lost nor mislaid for
fourteen months.
On cliff near Rincon Point, in
Ventura County, Cal, the rocks are so
hot as to be unbearable to the naked
hand. Sulphur fumes are also noticea-
bic in that locality, and from all indi-
cations a fierce fire is raging below the
surface.
The sudden appearance of the COM
ct caused great CONSERVATION among
the rative population of New Mexico,
and their churches have been crowded
by frightened men, women, and chill
dren, praying that the dire calamities
they feared might be averted.
Two lovers were united in marriage
by Philadelphia clergyman, the man
promising to call at his house the next
day and pay for certificate. They de-
parted, however, without doing so, and
the clergyman prints marriage notice,
with the words: "No cards, no cake,
no cash, no certificate" This happen
ed in the City of Brotherly Love.
One man who is rightly emitted to
the name of a pioneer of the Pacific
coast region is John f. Dye, now living
in Pajaro Valley, Santa Cruz County,
Cal. He is eighty years old, and wears
his age lightly, being yet hale and Wig
orous. In 1929 he left his native State
of Kentucky, joined trapping eXpedi-
ton to the far West, and after many
wanderings arrived at the puebla of Los
Angeles in 1882.
"A society is now forming in Eng
land to introduce the participation "
system of manufacturing, in which a
share of the net profits of an undertake
ing is allotted to the workmen in addi-
ton to their wages paid at the full mar
ket rate. No less than one hundred
firms on continental Europe are now
worked on this plan, with universally
good results. This society will seek to
attain its objects by collecting and pub.
fishing detailed information on the sub
ject with which its operations are con-
cerned.
On a dispatch from the Sheriff OF
San Luis Obispo County, Cal, the Sher-
if of Los Angeles arrested young wo.
man, apparently about seventeen years
old, and a person in boys clothes about
thirteen years old, encamped in the
willows near the city, with three horses
in their possession. On placing them in
Jail it was found that both were girls,
who had run away and stolen the horses
for their journey. They had been eight
days on their journey, camping out al
the time. They gave the names of Rosa
and Emma Kearney, of San Luis Obispo
Certain features of the new Tay
bridge that shall supplant the one which
went down with such frightful loss o.
life appear to have been exactly fixed
upon. Its total length will be 10000
feet, or about two miles, and calcula
tions sse made for double the wine
pressure which the strongest gale vii
ever bring to bear upon the bolts. ThC
wind pressure is put at twenty-ont
pounds per square foot, and allowance
is made for ,fifty-six pounds. Each piel
will be entirely Independent of an ole
one, and will be placed in an opposit,
position. 1t is intended that there shall
be parapet of wrought iron, as pre-
caution in case car should leave tn
rails.