Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-08-20

large attendance.
THE Boer Government has been form
ally proclaimed. 1t is to be known as the
South African Republic.
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BRADLAUGHis is suffering from severe
attack Of erysipeas, said to be the indirect
result of his personal encounter in the lobby
OF the House Of Commons.
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MAUD S has again lowered the trot-
ting record by quarter Of second, having
made mile in 2:101.4 at Buffalo, on the
18th. This leaves st. Julien just All even
second behind.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH L. STEPHENS, one
of the besl. known citizens of Missouri, who
has been identified with many Of the largest
enterprises OF the day, died at his home in
BoonviDle, on the 11th, aged 30.
JOHN DILLON has been released from
Jail, and it is said nearly all other persons
arrested and imprisoned under the Coercion
vet, save those guilty of participating in
Outrages, will soon be set free.
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PRESIDENT GARFIELD, on the 10th,
performed his first official act since the I'd
Of July, signing formal reQuisition for the
eXtradition of criminal who some time
since took refuge in Canada.
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THE Memphis cotton crop report for
July shows that continued drouth has re-
tarded the growth Of the plant and caused
It 10 fruit and mature too rapidly. Worms
have appeared in few localities, but no
damage from this cause is so far reported.
GEN. GRANT has bought large and
very handsome house on the north side OF
East Sixty-sixth Street, between Fifth and
Madison Avenues, New York. The price
paid was sos, 900. 1t is understood the
General proposes TO make this his future
home.
A CONFERENCE of Civil Service Re-
formers was held in New York on the 18th,
Of which George VIM. Curtis, Carl Schur2
and DOrman b. Eaton were the principa
promoters. Senator Pendleton's bill rcgu'
latng appointments to the Civil Service was
indorsed.
Hon. 0. ii. BROWNING died at hi'
home in Quincy, H., on the 10th, aged 70
lie was Secretary OF the Interior undel
President johnson, and previously served il
the U. S. Senate, being appointed by Gov
Yates to Gil the vacancy caused by the dcatl
of StpOhen A DourInS
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THE Nebraska Supreme Court ha!
rendered decision that the high-ic
liquor law is constitutional in every particu
lar. 1t compels saloon-keepers to pay 81, 90
license, give bonds imthe sum Of 81, 900, etc.
in cities Of over 10, 600 people, and in cite
of under 10, 900 the license is $500.
THE Socialists of New York have helC
meetings to sympathize with Hartmann, tn
Nihiist, and TO protest against his eXtradi
ton. Secretary Blaine, in reply 10 a lette
of inquiry from Harmann's attorney, say
Hartmann's surrender has not been demand
ed, and he refuses to say what the State De
partment would do in hypothetical cas-
such as is propoundOd.
Two parties of hostile Indians ar
now operating along the line of the Atlanti
& Pacific Railroad in New Mexico. and thre
companies Of infantry from Fort Wingat
nave been sent out TO protect the settlers
Garcia's settlement, twelve miles from /
Rita Station, has been burned by the Indian
and five men and two boys were killed. Vol
unteers have been dispatched from Albu
qucrquc to guard the railroad line.
ADVICES from Havana received b
the National Board of Health state that dur
ng July there were ninety eight death
from yellow fever, and during the week end
ing August D, thirty-siX deaths from tn
same disease, with 200 cases reported. Dur
ing June there were 23j deaths from yello,
fever at Vera Cruz. Yellow fever also pre-
walls throughout Colombia, at Guayaquil
San Jose de Guatemala and at La Liberia
and Salvador, in the thee latter places tn
deaths averaging twenty daily. Along tn
lsthmus Canal route an average OF fly
deaths has occurred daily.
TIE Virginia Republican State Cor
veulon, as was anticipated, resulted in
clean split between the two factions. Th
Straightouts resolved to stand firmly by Re
publican party principles, chief among whiC
is declared to be the sanctity Of all publ
obligations, and to make no alliance viii
regulators in any form. 1t was declare
incXpedient, however, to make any nominG
tious for State officers. The CoaltiOnis
Squarely indorsed the platform and cand
dates Of the Readjustors, Many of Il
Straightout Republicans, it was said, woul
cast their influence, II not their votes, +,
the Democratic candidates, in preference
supporting the Malone ticket.
A TERRIFIC storm cloud burst ovt
Central City, Colo, on the Sth, and immed
ntely thereafter a volume OF water from iol
to five feet deep rushed down Nevada al
Eureka reefs, sweeping everything bcfo
it. Great powders weighing nearly a tC
were rolled around like pebblc-stoncs. In
mense quantities of debris were washt
down the gulch at an incredible spec
Roadways in the track of the flood were ei
tircly destroyed. A number OF small hous
were washed away, and at least one life W
lost. The damage is estimated at 5000
Idaho Springs, Virginia Canyon and 9th
towns similarly situated, suffered severe
from the inundation.
THE President underwent another su
gical operation on the morning of the 81
necesSitated by the partial stoppage Of t
flow Of pus from the wound, by reason Of t
gradual healing Of the original apertuI
DIR. Agnew performed the operation as b
fore. The patient was put under the inf
cnce Of ether, beside which the rigor Ii
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