Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-03-03
II. B. Medearis came in Tbursda,

MIR. Nile Mitchell, an industrious
and prosperous farmer, of Cannon
county, was in McMinnville last Satur-
day. Mr.. Mitchell is one of our old
friends, whom we learned to esteem as
friend many years ago, and we are
always glad to see him.
Rev. W. j. Haden, the present
owner aud occupant of the celebrated
Robinson Springs on the mountain,
was in McMinnville last Friday. Bro.
Haden is good deer hunter and we
would like to spend few days with
him hunting on the mountain, if we
had the time to do SO.
The mud around our depot mas
become a nuisance, and in some places
almost impossible with loaded wagon
20 or 30 wagon loads of gravel thrown
on the worst places would help it very
much. We hope our clever r. r.
Authorizes will have this much needed
improvement attended to at once.
james and Johh Gardener, two
industrious and enterprising young men
who are not afraid to work, have sold,
and delivered to Mead & Ritchey dur
ing this and last week, several hundred
barrels of very fine apples, grown by
N. B. Stubble6eld and Hennesse.
They are doubtless as fine a lot of ap-
piles as have been shipped from Warren
couDtythis season,
-Thos. S. Myers Esq. has deliv-
cred to Mead q Ritchey about 500
barrels of nice apples during the last
three weeks. H. j. Cardwell, j. H.
Wooton, j. A. Biles, McVay, and
Others have sold to the same parties,
each several hundred barrels of fine
apples. Many other smaller lots of
equally as fine apples have been sold
to Mead q Ritcbey by other fruit
growers.
The editor of the Sparta Exposi-
tor enumerates all the work be has
done during the week as editor, printer
and devil, and then asks, lis there any
other one-hoise editor in the State that
can make as good showing ?" We
couldn't say, brother Baker. We can
only answer for ourselves-the STAND
ARD don't drive that kind of a team.
E. j. Morrison was in town last
Saturday with the skin of large wolf
which he killed on the night of the 9th
of January. 1t is doubtless the same
animal that attacked Mr.. Ben McCol.
lum's hogs sometime ago and destroyed
Mr.. Patterson's pigs. At the time it
was killed it had attacked Mr.. Owens
dogs so furiously as to brighten the
family nearly to death. Mr.. Morrison
shot it as it ran by him and broke both
its fore legs.
In another column appears the ad
vertsement of Frank Maddux, who
has purchased the stove and tin bust
ness of A. NJ. Cawthon. Frank is 8
young man of steady, industrious hab
its, thoroughly acquainted with the til
, business, and we bespeak for him lib
eral patronage. He will keep a full
e line of stoves and tinware, and is pre-
pared to do any and all kinds of tin
D sheet iron and copper work on shor
notice and in satisfactory manner
See his advertisement.
e Maj. W. j. Sykes made TEN
perance speech at the G. P. Church il
5 this place Friday night of last weei
/, which was temperate in everything bu
length. There are very few men VIII
y can keep such an audience as general!
attends temperance speeches interested
= for two hours. The Majors talk wa
a we'll received and attentively listene'
i to, but would have been better appre
If ciated had it been boiled down fit,
d per cent. We are of the opinion tina
1t preachers and public takers in genera
would have larger audiences if the
:, would learn to stop before wearyln
r, their audiences-it is better to dismis
j. them hungry than surfeited. Ate
g Major Sykes concluded his speech Sc,
eral dollars were raised toward fun
a. for circulating temperance literatur
% among the people.
is We had the pleasure last Tuesda
), of looking over the grounds of Esq
r, Asa Faulkners prospective manufa
l. turing enterprise at Caney Fork Fall
!, Mr.. Faulkner has cut an almost a