Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1882-02-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ooME Tune ago German couple by
the name Of Clawson, living on farm near
Lincoln, Neb., adopted little girl, aged
. years, but instead of treating her as a
daughter, they kept her in the fields herd
ing cattle and doing other mental work
on the farm. A few days ago the girl
died very suddenly, and it was intimated
in the neighborhoOd that tine child had
been foully dealt with. Suspicion took
tangible shape, and the County Coro.
ner was summoned. This functionary
Immediately caused the body of the child to
be exhumed, and it was found to be scared
with scars and bruises, with number of
ugly cuts on the arms and lower limbs. The
evidence was so strong against the foster
parents Of the child, they were Immediately
placed under arrest. An inquest was held,
which resulted in finding the Clawsons
guilty Of the charges preferred against them.
The testimony Of the near neighbors of the
family was particularly severe, and great
indignation was manifested by the entire
community.
A LITTLE girl on her way to school in
San Francisco the other day came upon the
body of man lying in Golden Gate Park, a
bullet-hole in the head and a revolver by
his side. Among other papers found his
person was discharge from B Battery,
United States Army, 4th Regiment, Capt.
H. L. Hasbruck, dated October /, 1875, with
name and term OF service cut out, on the
back Of which was written: "The owner Of
fo ,,fa Of, ant
his name with that Of cur who purports to
have given it," Also, penciled note:
''Those Of my friends, who are so few, that
may chance to learn OF my end, hope they
will withhold their tears. To live in pov-
erty and subject to the same conditions as
Cinnamon is to die by inches; to defend
honor Of country without home is a useless
undertaking."
THOMAS C. SHEARER, Secretary of
the Wharf Company at Galveston, Texas,
committed suicide with a revolver on the
LIST. No cause could be assigned for the act.
He had fine position, and his personal and
social relations were Of the most pleasant
character. He leaves a wife, daughter
just grown, a son about 20 years of age, and
several other children.
w. T. NICKEL, a United States
Bailiff, was fatally shot at the residence OF
Martin Cox, in Elliott County, Ky, the
other night. A dance was in progress, and
Nickel and some friends, who had been
| drinking, insisted upon managing things to
suit themselves. Lee Tolliver, aged Is, re-
| piled to some insulting remark from Nickel
and was knocked down for his presumption,
wherenpOn he drew a small pistol and fired
two shots. Nickel dropped dead with a
cooked revolver in his hand. Daniel Nickel
and Fowler Harris then turned upon Tolli-
yer, wounding him in the shoulder as he es.
capped from the room.
I r. c. MCCOY, an ex-Confederate Off
Ger, who recently visited San Francisco ex-
pecting to sell Arizona mining property.
died, the other night, from hunger and eX-
posture. He found no purchaser for his
stock, and his coin dwindled until his last
dollar was spent. Having no friends and
no acquaintances in the city, and being too
proud to ask assistance of strangers, he
walked the streets by night and subsisted on
scanty meals OF bread and water obtained
at long intervals.
DE KERoMAN, said to be a French
Count, has been arrested at San Antonio
Texas, charged with assault with intent tC
murder DR.. Cuppes, his wife, Miss Shean,
step daughter, and a man named Dale, Q
coachman of the family.
WILL OWENS, aged 45, of Louisville,
Ky, was fatally shot by his brother in law
George Oylar, the other day. Owens was
beating his wife and Oylar went 10 his sis.
ter's resue. The husband made at the
brother with a club, but was stopped by
welldrected pistol ball.
AT Shelburne, Ont, on the I'd, Johr
Smith, aged 81, was convicted of the willfu
murder Of his uncle, John Smith, Sr.
HUDSON SHELDON and Geo. Letchet
both under the influence OF liquor, quar-
relied over game Of pool, near Norwalk
o., the other night. Sheldon drew a re
volver and shot Letchet in the head. ThC
ball passed into the skull just below the ear
and the wound was pronounced fatal. Shell
don was arrested.
NELSON DECKER recently started
across Crooked Lake, Barry County, Mich.
pushing an old cutter containing his wifi
and two-year- old boy. When near the mid
die of the lake the ice broke beneath tn
load, precipitating all three into the water
Some boys skating near by succeeded in res
cuing Decker; but he was so nearly froze
that his wife and child, in their struggles
slipped from his grasp and were drowned il
fifty feet Of water.
GEO. A. HILL, a car-tracer on tn
Hooking Valley Road, was run down by a
engine at Columbus, o., on the 1st, and in
stantly killed.
, NEWLY JOHNSON, aged IA, was kille
and four men were badly injured by the ex
plosion of boiler in the sawmill of c. & }
Tyler, on the Bardstown turnpike, fftee
, miles south of Louisville, Ky., recently.
> SOME New York firemen at work o
: a Twenty third street dwelling, Feb. 8, dis
| covered the dead body Of an old ma
| hanging by the neck to the transom of
4 door, badly scorched by flames. The con
tents OF a straw bed half burned up lay i
the middle of the floor, where the -carpC
=, had been torn up, and the furniture in IL
room was heaped about the straw. II
body proved to be that Of Moses Herzog, o
= insane Hebrew, who had deliberately plar
= ned his own death and cremation.
/, SIX men were burned by flying met,
= in the Bessemer Steel Works at CLEVELAND
q Ohio, on the Sd. One OF the converteri
e manipulated by hydraulic power, WI
v handled by boy new at the business, ar
;. he Let IL lin so far that a large quantity