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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
GOING NORTH.
SANDWICHES.

Lady, to small boy with dog
"Johnny, does that dog bark at night?
Johnny, who is connoisseur in dogs,
"No ma'am; he barks at cats and other
dogs"
No more doctors bills to pay for
Syphilis and all Vern al Diseases. Will
der's Sarsaparilla an d Potash cures all.
The Chicago Saturday Evening
Herald says the proportion of pure
liquor sold in that city is ridiculously
small. "Three or four thousand sa-
looms are buisily engaged every day in
the year in selling quantities of fluid
stuff composed entirely of drugs and
vicious matter.
"The Lord loves cheerful giver.
In all cases where a tonic is needed
give Wilder's Stomach Bitters. 1t is
the boss. 20
Memphis Avalanche Tennessee
wheat will be classed as No. / this
year, 1t was never before classed
higher than No. 9.
Buckets of blood made clean and
pure with Wilder's Sarsaparilla and
Potash. 30
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
Well Rewarded.

A liberal reward will be paid to any
party who will produce case of Liv>
er, Kidney or Stomach complaint that
Electric Bitters will not speedily cure.
Bring them along, it will cost you
nothing for the medicine if it fails to
cure, and you will be well rewarded
for your trouble besides. All Blood
diseases, Billiousness, Jaundice, Cons
stipation, and general debility are
quickly cured. Satisfaction guarran>
teed or money refunded. Price only
fifty cents per bottle. For sale by j.
B, Ritchey. 5
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
He Wanted Her on Trial.

There was cautious young country
man who came to town a few days
ago to get queer kind Of a marriage
license of the clerk, as the following
will explain:
"Be you the Teller which sells we'd
din license?'
81 be" said the clerk, smilingly.
"Wall Pm thinkin' about hitchin
to a gal in my neighborhood, but I've
heern so much about gals not maxim
as good wives as they look like they
would atore there married, that l
thought I'd call in and see if l couldn't
git some kind of papers out which
would allow me to take her a while on
trial, and if she'd prove up all right
I'd keep her."
.No you can't get any such a liz
cense here or anywhere else. If you
take her you must keep her."
"Why, that's kind o queer. Now
if a Teller buys mar he can make a
agreement that if she dosen't turn out
all right he can take her back agin,
and l don't see why the same thing
couldn't be done with gal. Wall, l
reckon | won't take out no papers jis'
now, anyway. Good day, SIR"
Good day."
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
LODGES.

u & A. M.-Warren, No. 125-lst Monday
L night in every month, in their hall over
the courtroom. NJ. D. SMALLMAN, w. n.
DoYAL ARCH CHAPTER-Srd Thursday
IL night in every month.
K. KENNEDY, II. p.
T o. F.-McMinnville, No. 146; every
/. Tuesday night, in their Hall over H. H.
Faulkner's, II. p. NEWTON, N. g.
KNIGHTS OF HONOR-Mountain City,
n No. lao; meets in Masonic hall I'd and
9TH Monday nights in every month.
/. A, GROSS. D.
KNIGHTS AND LADY'S HONOR-2nd
n and 4th Thursday nights in every month.
A, H. GROSS. P.
A o. u. w. meets LIST and Sd Thursday
"A. nights in each month in Odd Fellows
Hall A. II. FAULKNER. NJ. w.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
POSiSiVe Cure for Piles.

To the people of this County we
would say we have been given the
Agency Of DR.. Anarchists Italian Pile
Ointment -empbatically guaranteed to
Cure or money refunded-Internal,
External, Blind, Bleeding or Itching
Piles. Price SOC. a box. No cure,
No pay. For sale by DR.. j. B.
Ritchey, Druggist.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
You Can Have 1t.

My dear, what would I give to have
your hair ?" is often said by middle-aged
ladies to young ones. Madam, you may
have just such hair. Parker's Hair
Balsam will give it to you. 1t will
stop your hair from falling off, restore
the original color and make it long,
thick, soft and glossy. You need not
stand helplessly envying the girls. The
Balsam is not oily, not dye, but is an
elegant dressing, and is specially rec.
commended for its cleanliness and pu>
rity.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
The Devotion of a Son.

Cottage Hearth.
Next to the love of a husband, moth
ing so crowns a woman's life with
honor as the devotion of a son to her.
We never knew boy to turn out bad.
ly who began by falling liz love with
his mother. Any man may fall in
love with fresh-faced girl, and the
man who is gallant to the girl may
cruelty neglect the poor, weary wife
in after years. But the big boy who
is lover of his mother, at middle age
is true knight, who will love his
wife in the sere leaf of autumn as he
did in the dashed spring. There is
nothing SO beautifully chivalrous as
the love Of q BIZ boy for his mother.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19

Between the ages of Is and 45 a
woman can grow about seven crops of
hair. 1t averages about four ounces to
the crop, and when of the prevailing
popular color, brings a handsome price.
The total annual crop is estimated at
100 tons, gathered from 100000 heads.
A mild, delightful invigorant for
delicate females is Wilder's Stomach
Bitters. Cures costiveness and head,
ache. 90
The richest girl in the world is the
seven year old daughter of Capt. Geo.
Perkins Of the navy, She is worth
100000 in her own name, that
amount having been left her recently
by her grandfather, VIM. F. Weld, of
Boston.
No more Indigestion or Nervous De-
bility if you use Wilder's Stomach
Bitters. %
Why is rooster with a broken wing
like smoky chimney Pit has a de-
fective flew.
1t costs one dollar and it saves your
life-Wilder's Sarsaparilla and Potash
cures all diseases of the Blood and
Skin. 80
A little Rhode Island girl had been
having her teeth fixed and suffered
much pain. Her mother overheard
her at the bedside repeating her even.
ing prayer say, forgive us our debts
as we forgive our dentists"
Kill Worms in Children with Will
der's Mothers Worm Syrup. 20
Young lady: Gardner, don't make
a flower bed here; it will spoil our
croquet ground" Gardener: Cant
help it, miss them's my orders. Your
papa says he is bound to have this plat
devoted to horticulture, not husband
ry."
Millions of people die with Scrofula.
If these victims would use Wilder's
Sarsaparilla and Potash their lives
would be saved. 20
doctor, want to thank you for
your great patent medicine. "-"It
helped you, did it?" asked the doctor
very much pleased. ut helped ME
wonderfully" "How many bottles
did you find it necessary to take p
"Oh, l didn't take any of it. My
uncle took one bottle, and now l am
his sole surviving heir. New York
Sun.
For Round Worms, Tape Worms,
Spasms use nothing but Wilder's
Mothers Worm Syrup. 20 ~
Not inappropriate to the present
period is an account of certain form.
er political meeting during which sew
eral speakers were called upon the
platform. Every time a speaker clos
ed, loud.lunged man in the rear Of
the audience shouted vociferously,
"Mr, Hennery Dir. Hennery Mr..
Hennery y keeping it up each time
until some one began to speak. After
awhile, when new man had taken
the platform, the call for Mr.. Henry
still continuing, tine President of the
occasion stepped forward and said,
"Our friend in the rear will please be
quiet; this is Mr.. Henry now about to
speak," Wherupon our vociferous
shouter called out, "Ob, pshaw, Mr.,
President, that amt Mr.. Hennery
that's the little cuss that gave me five
dollars to sit back here and call Hen
merry out"
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
Black Pepper for Worms on Cabbage.

To Southern Standard. .a
Take black pepper, grind very fine,
pepper your cabbage lightly when the
dew is on, half pound of pepper will
kill or expel the worms from a thou
sand heads, l have tried it for several
years, never fail to give my cabbage
pepper-have not had a cabbage de-
stroYed by worms in years, l never
worm my cabbage any other way.
Three applications are enough, every
third day apply your pepper.
Ben RANDALs.
July 7th, 1884. Z
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
Bncklen's Arnica SalYe.

The Best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin ErupN
tons, and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refunded.
Price % cents per box. For sale by
j. B. Ritchey. maYl0.1y
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19

"Sweet are the uses of adversely"
but we will exchange large lot of
adversely, just as good as new, for half
the quantity of good luck.-MiddletOn
Transcript.
More than twenty years ago we had
chills and fever, and the recollection of
it makes us shake even now. But this
disease no longer terrifes us. Parsons
Purgative Pills are a sure preventive.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19
A Run on a Drug Store.

Never was such a rush made for any
Drug Store as is now at j. B. Ritch-
ey's for Trial Bottle of DIR. Kings
New Discovery for Consumption,
Coughs and Colds. All persons affec-
ted with Asthma, Bronchitis, Hoarse>
ness, Severe Coughs, or any affection
of the Throat and lungs, can get a
Trial Bottle of this great remedy free,
by calling at above Drug Store. Reg
ular size S1.00. 5
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-07-19

1t is said that few iron nails in a
vase of flowers will keep the water
fresh and the flowers sweet.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-03-06
Workmanship i'm the Army.

The annual returns of the marksman-
ship of the officers and men of the army
are published Lieut.. General Sheridan
expresses, in the order containing them:
his pleasure at the proficiency displayed
notes the marked improvement over the
record of prior. years. In this general
order is contained the following:
Whenever necessary ranges can be
obtained, marksmen will be advanced
in regular practice to distances of eight
hundred, nine hundred, and one thou
sand yards, using service rifles and SER
vice ammunition; second, the grade of
sharpshooter is established. To enter
this class the following percentages will
be required; lightweight per cent at
two hundred, three hundred, and six
hundred yards each, and rs per cent. at
eight hundred, nine hundred, and one
thousand yards each. Division and de-
| partment commanders in their discre-
ton will extend to sharpshooters such
| privileges as the interests of the service
will permit.
In view OF the greater amount of am
| munition now authorized and the in
creased skill attained under systematic
training in ri1e-firing, requirements
heretofore adopted and raised, hereafter
the best three scores made (having the
required percentage) will determine an
nual classification. In calculating the
| figures of merit all company officers and
regimental staff will be included.
Sharpshooters will each be given null
| tiplier of 200.
Besides those now excluded from con-
sideration all who desert or are trans
ferred or discharged during the first
month, and all who are prevented by
sickness from firing during the whole
practice season, will be disregarded.
Medical certificates will be required to
accompany exceptions claimed on ac-
count of sickness.
When supplied the following insignia
will be worn to indicate skill in marks
manship: Marksmen qualifying during
the current year will always wear one
pair marksman's buttons; those qualify
ing for the second time may wear two
pairs; after qualifying three times (not
necessarily in consecutive years)
marksman's pin will be worn on the left
breast. Those wearing marksman's
pins will not wear more than the single
pair of marksman's buttons, indicating
renewed qualification during the year.
A sharpshooter will be indicated by
small bronze cross. The cross and the
pin will be the property of the winners,
and they may be worn upon the breast
after ceasing to qualify in the CORE
spending classes. They will be issued
and sold according to present regula-
tons concerning marksmen's buttons.
Commissioned officers may wear these
insignia at their option if entitled to
them"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-03-06
Congressman Springer, of Illinois,

Congressman Springer, of Illinois,
has introduced for reference in the
House a proposed constitutional amend
ment making the Presidential term six
years and rendering the President in
eligible to reelection to the next sue
ceeding term. 1t provides for direct
vote for President in each State, and
abolishes the Electoral College. Each
State shall have q number of votes
equal to the number of its Representa-
tives and Senators in Congress, to be
given each candidate in proportion to
the total vote cast for each. The term
of Representatives in Congress is fixed
at three years, and Congress shall meet
each year the first Wednesday in Jau-
uary, the first session to convene in the
January succeeding the November cleo
ton. The above scheme for the cleo
ton of President is perfectly fair in
theory and would be in fact if the cleo
tons in the South were not farces.
Thus in Mississippi. Louisiana. and
South Carolina, where the Republicans
would be entitled to a majority of the
Electors, it is doubtful whether the
Bourbons would allow them any votes.
A free use of the shotgun. revolver,
knife. rope. whip. and tissue ballot
would deprive the Republicans of every
vote. 1t would be safer to let the party
polling plurality of the popular vote
in State have all the Electors as at
present The two other propositions
are both good--viz.: to extend and limit
the Presidential term to a single six
years. and to extend Congressman
to three years, and the members elected
to take their seats tive months after
their election instead of waiting thir-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-03-06
A Diamond Sold for q Trifia.

MILWAUKEE, February 28.-Great
excitement exists in the village of Eagle
situated on the Prairie du Chen division
of the Milwaukee and ST. Paul road.
over an alleged diamond discovery.
About New Years lady from that
village came to Milwaukee and offered
for sale brilliant. She first took it
to 5. b. Boynton, jeweler. He would
only give her 81 for the stone. After
taking it to several other places, she
brought it back and sold it to Boynton
Some weeks later Boynton took the
stone with him to Chicago and sub
mitted it to an expert in that city. The
expert at once pronounced it a sixteen
carat diamond and worth $500. Boyn-
ton brought the stone back and kept
his own counsel. He then, in company
with w. z. Merrill, of this city, whom
he let into the secret, purchased all the
land in the vicinity of the well in which
the diamond had been found. In the
meantime he has had an elegant gold
watch and chain made for the lady of
whom he bought the stone. The bril-
liant was brought to light while parties
were cleaning out an old well. Ii being
rough and uncut shows that it was not
dropped into the well by someone &C.
cidentally. Operations to develop the
alleged mine will be commenced soon,
when the question of whether or not
Eagle has diamond-feld will be set at
rest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-03-06
A WPengninnerY.N

In each nest sits one young, half
fedged bird, as the "Jack-ass pengn il
lays and matches but a single egg.
Many of the nests have old birds stand
ing beside them, each occupied in feed
ing its solitary chick, duckling, gos-
ling, or whatever the penguin offspring
may be properly called. This being OF
itself curious spectacle, the dislp-
pointed egg-h nters stop a while to
witness it; for they are still outside the
bounds of the "penguinnery, aud the
birds have as yet taken no notice of
them. by each nest is little mound,
on which the mother stands per he'd.
from time to time projecting he's h,al'
outward and upward, at same IN =.
giving forth queer, oh tie Jag noise.
half-quack, halfbray, with the air OF II
stnm!'-orator haranguing an open-ail'
audience. Meanwhile, the youngste:
stands patiently waiting below, evi
IDENTIFY with foreknow edge of wha I;
is to come. Then, after few seconds.
of the quacking and Drawing, the
motherhood suddenly ducks her head
with the mandibles of her beak vide
agape, between which the fiedgline
thrusts its head, almost ont of sight,
and SO keeps it for more than minute.
Finally withdrawing it, up again goes
the head of the mother, with neck
craned out, and oscillating from side to
side in a second spell of speech-mak-
ing. These curious actions are repeat
ed several times, the entire perform
an0e lasting for period of nearly a
quarter of an hour. When it ends,
possibly from the food-supply having
become exhausted, the mother-bird
leaves the little glutton to itself and
scuttles off seward, to replenish her
throat-larder with fresh stock OF
mollusks. Capt. Mayne iced, in 81.
Nicholas.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-03-06
Finest HarbOrs on the Globe.

San Francisco may fairly claim to
have the most capacious natural harbor
of any of the worlds great trading
marts. 1t is also one of the very safest.
1t is entered through the Golden Gate,
a passage a mile wide and thirty-five
feet deep at low tide admitting the
largest ships afoat without danger Of
grounding. The land-locked bay of
which this harbor is part is fifty miles
long and averages five miles in width.
There all the shipping of the entire
G OF Q could anchor with perfect safety.
Pc Philip Bay. the chief harbor of
Victoria, Australia, is larger than the
Bay of San Francisco, being about
thirty -eigh5 miles long by tllirty-three
broad, Int its very breadth with its
storms from cert in quarters. Port
Ja kson, on which Sydney New South
Wales, Australia, is located, is mag
niiieent !Iarbor, completely land-iocked,
extending inland in some places fully
twenty miles, and having ample depth
of water for vessels of the heaviest bur-
den. The harbors of New York city,
r Janeiro, Brazil. and Havana, Cuba,
are capacjous and secure. Next come
those of lioston. Norfolk, Va, Portland,
Me-, Halifax, N. s., Copenhagen. Con
ST. tiaople, Hong Kong, Yokohama,
and Napasaki. The gre It ports stu
atcl on the banks of rivers, snch az
Loi,lan. Liverpool, GLASGOW, Lisb,n,
Philadelphia, New Orleans Qnelcc,
Sha gi,ai, Canton, Ca.cutta, etc, are
not inclu,lcd il tli definition OF harbrs
as here considered. Inter Cream.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-03-06
Frank lanes.

The Kansas City Evening Star, has 8
letter from Frank James, the first he has
ever written for publication. The letter
is as follows:
HUNTSVILLE, Ala, Feb. 22.-I am
treated with consideration and kindness
by everyone, especially the jailer and
United States Marshal Kinds. They
seem to take pleasure in doing every
thing in their power which will add 10
my comfort. They seem to realize that
| am a human being, and not mon
strosity, as the Hon William FL. Wallace
pictured me at Gallatin. Never since
the world stood has man made a
greater effort to convict an unfortunate
being, but thank God, truth is mighty
and will prevail | know il almost
broke his heart when he made the an
nouncement on the 18th of February
that he would be forced to dismiss the
case against me. Did you ever in all
your life see such let-down? 1t was
so mean. complete. and contemplate
that the most ignorant bootblack in
Kansas City felt like exclaiming with
the old cardinal in Henry the Eighth
Farewell; long farewell to al nv
greatness, etc.
LAS to the outlook here, it is Just as
have always said. am sure to be
acquitted beyond the possibility of a
doubt should justice prevail. | do not
think l will attempt to give bond from
the fact that 1 have already put my
friends TO a vast amount of trouble aud
inconvenience since my surrender.
feel to tax them further would be un-
reasonable. as it is but short time
since court convenes at this place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-03-06
The London ssIJncle.o

One of the most curious phases OF
the English pawnbroker's business is
the Saturday night and Monday morn.
ing trade in connection with the SUNDAY
clothes OF his customers. Strange as It
may seem, it is nevertheless true that
there are thousands of workingmen in
London and other large towns whose
Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes are only
IN their possession one day week. Reg
ularly Saturday after Saturday you may
see "Uncle's" door besieged by Gro :. i
OF women and children waiting with the
patience born of experience to take
their turn to redeem the family's Sun
day clothes. They go away one after
another with their bulky packages
tightly rolled and neatly pinned; and If
you so to the same spot on Monday
morning, you may witness the same
melancholy procession returning with
the well-known parcel. The young
man behind the counter seems to be
acquainted with every bundle and
every person. Here, JOHNNY" he
will say, where's your fathers waist
coat?" or "Mary, if your father greases
his trousers like this every time. /
shant make you the same advance"
Please, sir" perhaps Mary will reply,
them spots as bin on the last three
times" 1t is sad sight for the social
economist; but it has been so for years,
and were it not for the humble class of
small regular customers the pawn
brokers' business would not be what it
is. All the poor wretches are week
behind. They have, owing to illness,
lack of work, or dissipation, once fallen
In arrears, and have never been able to
recover themselves. 1t is pitiable to
contemplate. The interest paid on
these small, frequently renewed loans
during the course of the year is as
founding. Just take a case in point.
Some fine day the head of the family
has been pressed for money, nd put
his Sunday suit in pawn, Just til
get my wages on Saturday" When
payday comes he takes out the clothes,
repaying the loan, and interest; but he
has got behindhand somehow, and the
clothes have to go in again on Monday
morning, and so on from years end to
years end. Say the clothes are worth
93. Uncle" would perhaps advance
him FL. For that accommodation he
pays sd every Saturday when the
clot .es are taken out, and Id every
mo, aing for the ticket when they are
put in again. With fifty-two weeks in
the year these payments represent Il
is per annum, out of which uncle"
has only to pay the cost of printing the
tickets and provide storage room Sup
nOsinp tho wphrnEar loo ool,. p.i0a
out in this way, he receives every week
f5 interest and tickets; the total return
for the use of the 600 being 9460, or
clear profit of ego per annum, without
any risk.