Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-01-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


firm doing business in Portland, Me-, and
owning fifteen corn factories, five lobster
factories, and fourteen lobster and salmon
factories in the provinces, have failed for
$1S2,OOO.
REV, Z. A. CHAMBERLAIN, of East
Springfield, Erie County, Pa, dropped dead
in the Post-oiiice at that place on the 3D..
The explosion of locomotive boiler
on the Savannah, Florida & Western Rail-
way caused the death of an engineer and
fireman.
W. 7, Brock, prominent attorney
OF Elorencc, Ala, was shot to death by j.
Edgar Byrd, saloon n-keeper.
Two aged brothers, named Rose,
starved to death in a room in the Arcade
building in Buffalo, refusing all offers Of
aid. They were the architects of the build
ing in which they persisted.
TWELVE Jews were killed and sixty
three wounded in the recent riots at War
saw.
A VIENNA cablegram states that in
an encounter between six gendarmes and
sixty Krivoscians, four Of the former were
killed and horribly mutilnted.
N. M. LOWRY, leading member of
the West Virginia Legislature, became in
volyed in a quarrel with colOred servant in
Washington hotel, and the attendant
knocked him down. The gentleman from
Virginia, after recovering himself, asked
satisfaction from the proprietOrs OF the ho-
tel, and one or two of his friends took part
in the demand. The result was general
melee, in which the legislator came out
much worsted, bleeding and SCARED.
A DISPATCH from Red Wing, Mimi,
says Andrew Gunderson and Fred Matter
were drowned while skating.
ST. PETERSBURG dispatches say the
natives of the Kuldja frontier massacred the
inhabitants of two Chinese settlements in
retaliation for recent cruelty, defeating $50
Chinese troops.
&C. CLAY, ex-United States Sena
tor, is dead.
BURON, the Treasury carpenter, stick!
to his statement that he was paid out Of tn,
Treasury contingent fund for work sup
posed to be done for the Department, bu
which was in reality done upon John Sher
man house.
A DISPATCH from Gloucester, Mass.
says the crew OF wrecked schooner VIII
took to the boats were driven almost to can
nibalism. Five men were badly frozen an,
two died.
MITCHELL BROWN, Sherman Wis,
was fatally burned while attempting t,
get his team out of burning barn.
LEWIS, three-year-old son of Levi
and Hannah ROcklige, residing in lslan
Greek Township, o., was burned to deaf
on the 4th.
As an east-bound passenger train o
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Roal wa
crossing the tracks of the Pittsburg, Cir
cnnsti & st. Louis Road, near Wester
avenue, Chicago, it struck three workma
on the track, killed two of them and MOI
tally injured the other.
= CHLOE ANN VIOLET, of Washin:
. ton, D. c., die after a fast of forty-thr'
- DAYS. Her deluson was that God con
4 ] llldllpu utI W COulihll sNtlIiAS W lh7blh0'
STEWART and Diamond, the trail
: robbers recently captured in Texas Al
taken to Kansas City, pleaded guilty al
were sentenced to ten years each in the Pc
% itentiary.
o THE Pullman and Wagner car COZ
1t panes are to be consolidated.
II THE bodies of four Cinnamon, su
= posed to have been murdered, were fou
= near Seva Blanco, east of El PasO, TeXa
y the other day.
- SOMETHING of sensation has be
-, created in Washington Star-route circles
7 the wholesale arrest of members OF the rin
a. The arrests were made cautiously and quiC
II ", and the matter was profound seer
A. excepting to a few newspaper men.
no THE President has nominated Saml
ID C. Parks, of New Mexico, to be Associ
Justice Of the Supreme Court Of Wyomil
and Joseph Bell, Of New York, to be AS
u ciate Justice OF the Supreme Court of n
he Mexico.
~. DIR. E. A. ADAMS, Assistant Medi
II Superintendent OF the Michigan Asylum
ys Insane, was fatally stabbed by patient
'"l one OF the wards while he was making
hg daily rounds. The patient was hithe
y supposed harmless. The stabbing was dc
nS with a large pocket. knife recently lost
u one Of the attendants.
u'y The hangman was busy on the G
=. =, Joseph NJ. Kotovsky and Charles Ellis 4
". ored), ST. Louis, and John A. Phelps, NJ
~, shall, Mo-; Martin Kankowsky, Jer
w CITY, N. j.; Joseph Abbott, Elmira, n.
Wv Terrence Achlle and Sterling Ben, b
,d,, colored, at Franklin, La, were all suspe
w .an ed between heaven and earth.
,od REV. JAMES CAMERON, pastor of
aid Second Presbyterian Church, Oakland, {
rds died from the effects Of poison. His '
civ gave him dose of carbolic acid by mist
for medicine.
Mr.. DONOVAN, attorney for Mr.. Fl
9''' in the Frost-Sessinghaus contest case,
lnu filed protest against the depositions b'
'"iil regarded as evidence. Also, pro
lers against receiving transcript of recor
ME the United States Court, which had IL
anu been offered in evidence, but was place
~" the deposIions as if it had been.
Ol NEAR Cincinnati, Mrs. Mary MI
onn ~ committed suicide by cutting her tn
no., with razor. She had been driven in
IN. by an importunate sewing-machine a
,ros who threatened to sue for payments
eino, could not make.
boat THE railroad and express offic
,am. Glendine, 200 miles west of Bismarck, l
tain was broken open and three mail POT
ase. were rined while two watchmenwere az
res sleeping.
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