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Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-04-19
TOWN AND COUNTY.


Gerry court at Altamont this week.
10 pounds Granulated Sugar 81
at Medearis & Cos.
"A new postofice in Washington
county, Tennessee, has been christened
Damphool, Y
Use Wintersmith's Chill Tonic.
Wintersmith's Chill Tonic for sale
by J.. B, Ritchey.
-"And still they conceive added
eight more new subscribers to our list
from Grundy county last week,
Try Wintersmiths Chill Tonic for
chills. 1t seldom fails to cure.
-Landreth's Garden Seeds for sale
by J. B. Ritchey.
IS. j. Walling, Jr., cashier of the
First National Bank of Tullahoma,
spent Sunday last among friends and
relatives here.
Irish potatoes for seed and eating
purposes for sale by j. B. Ritchey.
Nashville is to have a new opera
house. One of the sites in contempla>
ton is on Church street, Immediately
east of the G. P. Publishing House.
ID. L. Brown is now displaying
the largest and most varied stock of
poles and other fishing tackle in town.
1t will cost you nothing to examine
them.
We regret to learn that Capt.
Gloster's youngest child died of mea-
sells at Gallatin one day this week.
IS. B. Deakins, of Jasper, travel
ing for Fishel Bros, Nashville, was
in our town Monday.
John @. Marbury, after an absence
Of three years in Louisiana, returned
home last Saturday.
ID. L. Brown has Just received a
full case of bird cages, of vafious
sizes and designs, and is offering them
at Nashville prices.
Mr.. Clarence Kiger, employed as
a compositor on the STANDARD for the
past two months, went to Sparta Tues
day to take position in the Expositor
office.
We regret to learn from eur Cross
Roads correspondent, that Mr.. Arthur
Towles is very low. Mr.. Solomon
Mullican, who was stricken with palsy
some days ago, is recovering.
"A new stock of hammocks, walk
ing canes, whist brooms, and various
useful and ornamental goods just
opened this week at D. L. Rrown's.
Call and take look.
We are in receipt of pamphlet
of 33 pages and cover, containing
business directory of Weatherford,
Texas, together with number of cook.
ing recipes, useful remedies, tables, etc.
- A fresh supply Of New York
Enamel paint just received and for
sale by ]. B. Ritchey.
"A freeh supply of Clover Seed
Just received and for sale by j. B.
Ritchey.
Our Grundy county announcement
list is enlarged by the addition of Mr..
7, B. Lockhart as a candidate for
sheriff. Mr.. Lockhart is well and fa-
vorably known in Grundy, and will
make the people of that county good
sheriff.
Wintersmith's Chill Tonic is one
Of the best medicines for chills and
fever.
"A good supply of genuine Ger.
man Millet Seed for sale by j. B.
Ritchey.
We are requested to announce that
DIR. L. B. Davidson, dentist, of Hills.
boro, Tenn, will come to this place
about the first of May to locate for the
purpose of practicing his profession.
DR.. Davidson is highly spoken Of as a
dentist.
Col. j. II. Holman, of Fayette-
vile, has been invited by the execu-
tive committee of the McMinnville
Prohibition Club to deliver a 'lecture
here on prohibition in the near future,
and, if convenient, at other places in
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-04-19

IN our city last week.
w. B. Anderson, of Sparta, was
in town Tuesday of this week.
Rich McGregor returned from
Kansas Saturday, where he has been
for some months.
Prof. W. K. Patterson went to
Shelbyville Thursday as delegate to
Presbytery. D..
MIR. ard Mrs. W. H. Fleming
returned Wednesday evening from a
two weeks visit to Nashville.
Ten pounds Granulated Sugar 81
at Medearis & Co.'S.
Mead q Ritchey will buy hens to
be delivered Wednesday, April Both,
1884.
Miss Laura Murray returned home
Tuesday evening after spending several
months in Memphis.
DIR. Jno. R. Paine has been mix.
ing among his many friends here dur
ing the past week. ,- ~
&c. B. Bing of Smithville, manu-.
facturer of tobaccos, was here last
Saturday in the interest of his busi>
ness.
Mr.. Cyrus McClarty, while out
hunting Wednesday, killed horned
owl measuring four feet four inches
from tip to tip.
Land Plaster for sale by Mead &
Ritchey.
Mrs. VIM. Pepper, a successful
poultry raiser, sold to Mead & Ritchey
some very fine fat hens last Thursday.
Poultry will pay when managed prop
erly.
Mrs. Jas. Doyle, daughter of Col.
Ed. Wood, after spending several days
with her fathers family at this place,
returned to her home in Sparta last
Wednesday.
We call attention of our readers
to the advertisement of ]. M. Barbee,
merchant at Rock Island, in this issue.
Read the advertisement, and 90 and
examine his goods.
ID. Lutte Ward of Nashville, Genl.
Agent for the Victor Clover Huller
was here last Saturday and sold J. B.
Ritchey No. 8 machine. which will
hull and. clean ready for market 100
bushels clover seed per day.
In this issue we advertise Murray's
Specific, the Great English Remedy,
said to be a positive cure for nervous
debility. See advertisement in another
column.
Miss Aggie. Henderson, who has
been sojourning in Nashville for some
time, returned to McMinnville Tuesday
evening, and we understand will en-
gage in the millinery business again
with her sister, Mrs. H. III. Faulkner.
Rev. T. M. Mcconnell and wife
went to Franklin Monday last, to visit
the relatives of Mrs. McC. Mr..
Mcconnell will attend Presbytery at
Shelbyville the latter part of this week,
and return home next Monday, while
his wife will remain with her parents
at Franklin some two or three weeks.
Minnie, thirteen>year.old daugh'
ter Of Mr.. P. G. Potter, of Dibrell,
was taken severely i'll on Tuesday last,
and died at six o'clock the next morn.
ing. The stricken parents have the
heartfelt sympathy of all their friends
in their severe bereavement, this
being the second child they have lost
by death in the past twelve months.
Joe Pennington, connected with
the firm of Webb & Potter, of this
place, made flying trip to Sparta las
week in the interest of their trunk
factory. Joe was gone two days, and
says he took orders for all the trunks
ready made. "Hurrah for Joe."
| -MIssING-From a residence OF
Rebel Hill, a beautiful toilet set one
day last week. The looser has haC
detectives on the lookout for the miss
ing ornaments for the past week, an(
the latest news is, they were in ho
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-04-19

Does death end all? Well, no; but
Wilders' Stomach Bitters ends all Indi-
estion, Constipation and Billiousness. 5
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08

OLD truths are always new to us II
they come with the smell of heaven up
OH thcm.-John BunyGn.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08

20 amaze every snoozer tnat comes TINS
way on blonde plug like that
az touched up old Yaller with the
quirt, and sailed over toward the ante
lope, thinkin' I'd stir him up little.
"The antelope trotted along few
rods, and then looked back over his
shoulder and smiled n sardonic smile
that made old Yaller mad as q wet hen.
"Then he got up md got. Jewhili-
kins, how he paved the gravel Oc-
casionally the antelope would look
around and snort, and jump stiff-legged,
and laugh. Then old Yaller would con-
sumo some more space.
"The antelope turned himself loose,
and for q while all / could see was little
cloud OF dust and the white spot that is
always behind this amusin' little an
imal.
CATER while, however, 1 could see
that the white patch got bigger. Yaller
was gainin'. Ijabbed the Mexican spurs
into him to encourage him. In less than
an hour I was alongside of him. His
tongue hung out so that he stepped on
it every little while.
"He didn't laugh any more then. II
was terrible reality. He seemed to
think we had imposed on him somehow.
Every little while he'd look at old Yaller
kind of reproachful, as if we'd takeS ad.
vantage of him.
"By'n by 1 reached over and took
him by the ears and laid him across the
saddle ahead Of me and took him home.
I kept him for years, but he never
rallied.
"He seemed 70 lose all hope, and
would walk around the corral like an old
billygoat that had been betrayed some
time. Life for him seemed to be nothing
but wide, shoreless waste of bitter dis.
appointment and regret.
81 tell you, General, it takes the
hope, and Joy, and pride all out of ante.
lope to be scooped by SIS buckskin
broncho."
eyes," said the General, at should
think it would. If l was broken.
legged antelope, with foot done up in
gum overshoe, and couldn't outrun
any buckskin boss I ever saw, I'd 20
away TO some lonely spot and stick my
head into prairie. dogs hole and die Of
remorse. - Viginia (NcU.) Enterprise.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08
THE BLONDE BRoyouo.

"Did you ever see them buckskiI
bronchos of mine that used to drive
named Yellar and YallerP" asked Bucl
Bramel of Gen. Worth, while he looked
out across the green billowy divide to
ward the eternal whiteners Of the snowy
range.
"Why, no; never heard of EN-"
"Well," said Buck, rs tender light
came in his blue eye, and q three-cor
nered nugget of tin-tag tobacco was
slowed away in his check, "both o.
them same cayuse plugs could scoot
over more mountain road between sur
and sun than anything in the way OF
boss l ever see.
"Yeller was pretty middlin' rapid
but Yaller was an imported terror. You
ought to see him gather up his legs in 6
wad and vanish. One day was out on
board of Yaller, tryin' to round up ar
American COW that had strayed away
from the corral, and over west of the
divide worked up long-legged. buck
antelope.
"Imade little shassay over toward
the antelope to see him light out, but
he first pranced along kind of careless
like, as much us to say, Il guess | won
give you no 2:13 gait this morning. Life
is too brief. / can't run that way jus
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08
THE MAHOGANY TREE.

Full-grown, the mahogany tree is one
Of the monarchs Of tropical America.
Its vast trunk and massive arms, rising
to lofty height and spreading with
graceful sweep over immense spaces,
covered with beautiful foliage, bright,
glossy, light and airy, clinging SO long
to the spray as to make it almost an
evergreen, present rare combination
of loneliness and grandeur. The leaves
are very small, delicate and polished,
like those of the laurel. The flowers
are small and white, or greenish yellow.
The mahogany lumbcrmen, having SC.
lected tree, surround it with platform
about twelve feet above the ground, and
cut it above the platform. Some dozen
or fifteen feet of the largest part of the
trunk are thus lost; yet single log moi
infrequently weighs from six or seven
to fifteen tons, and sometimes measures
as much as seventeen feet in length and
four and half to five and half feet in
diameter, one tree furnishing two, three
Or four such logs. Some trees have
yielded u, 900 superficial feet.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08
AMUSING MISTAKES.

Before the Paris Exhibition was
open to the public, and when the build
ing contained only the cases which. were
being ranged for the respective exhibits,
quite crowd one Sunday hattcned their
noses against the glass entrance door to
look at the contents Of case containing
a pair OF boots, battered hat, an over
coat much the worse for wear, and II
necktie of many colors, the report being
circulated that the objects belonged to
King Dagobert, RoOespierra, or Charles
x. The enigma was solved by painter
arriving and throwing off his blouse and
slippers, and comm encing to dress him.
self amid what was puzzle to him,
loud laughter, in which the police
joined.
Referring to mistaken ideas about
relics, recalls the history in a Ger,
man paper about certain professor,
which is n parallel to the Bill Stumps
adventure of Pickwick. This German
antiquary made the delighted discovery
that stone placed over the stable-door
bore the inscription 1881. Is
81 must have this stone in my collec-
ton, cost what it may" thought the sa-
want. Calling tenant-farmer who was
the proprietor, the professor said to him
eagerly: "Did you not obtain this
stone from the castle ruin on the hill
yondcr?"
sit may be that my grandfather
fetched it thence when he built the
stable, was the reply.
The antiquary then asked what he
would take for the stone. L
"Since You appear TO have fancy
for it, said the farmer, "give me 40
guldens, and 1 will bring it to your
house."
p" Rather large sum-" said the pro-
lessor, "but bring it to my residence,
and you shall have the money"
When in due course the farmer
brought the stone upon truck, the
Jealous antiquary turned it over, to re-
fresh his eyes with sight of its veneer
able chronological inscription, not with
out anxiety that it might have been
damaged in its removal. E.
"Why," he exclaimed, "what is this
This is not the right stone. On the
stone I bought from you was the date
1851, while this bears the very modern
date 1901; which proves that the other
was 100 years older than this"
"Do not trouble about that" said the
peasant. "The masons, you see, sir,
turned the stone upside down when
they SET it in the doorway, because it
fitted better that way. You can turn it
whichever way you like, but of course I
must have the money agreed upon"
The professor, it is said, at once paid
the whole sum, and gave the man a
present beside to take away the stone
and say no more about the matter.
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Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08
IN ASxcDorE OF GLADsroNE.

An anecdote is related Of Mr.. Glad
stone which deserves to be widely known
t"r 1t is not only singularly character
i'tic of the man. but it is capable o.
being use.l as the text for many profit
able political sermon. When Mr.. Glad,
stone was in Italy no returned thanks
fIr the glowing terms in which his health
had been proposed by tho spokesman Of
the eminent Italians whose guest he
;hcn was. 1t is hardly necessary to say
That his own speech was given in the
ltIiin language, OF which lie is notably
a master; still less is it necessary to add
that lis speech did not consist in a glori.
iication of himself. He rendered m elo-
quent tribute to the progress which Italy
had made since the date Of her complete
umiication, and thS I,nlian statesmen
and authors listened with delight rs the
first OF English orators poured out a
Hood OF encouraging and sympathetic
praises, i'll their own speech, upon the
wholesome signs Of national v;gor which
he had noticed i'll this department or in
that. "Bnt," exclaimed Mr.. Gladstone,
lyon have one enemy amongst you"
The Italians looked Mt one another
significantly; they believed that they
conld easily perceive to what, or rather
to whom, the great Englishman referred
They whispered one to another: "He
means the Pope!" Meanwhile the cur
rent OF, Mr.. Glndstone's orntory went on
unbrokenly sile by side with the mods
and whispers of his audience. You
have one enemy amongst you. Its
name," he added. sis Deficit" Every
reader who keeps abreast of the contro-
versics aid difficulties OF the Italian pol.
iii Of the day, ~ drifts Of the party
conflicts in Italy find their way into oul
journals, will perceive how true pro
phet, how skilliul physician of thu
sickness in the italian body polite, the
first of living financiers then and there
proved himself to be. The eager Italian
statesmen were probably far more deeply
troubled about the Pope than about def
icit. Some of them have doubles.
learned by this time the singular wis
dom and value OF Mr.. Glalstone's char
actcristic remark. London Echo.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08
PURE FOOD.

1t is no economy to use inferior food.
1t is n saving Of money and time and
health to give higher price for what we
eat, if it be fresh and perfect, than t.
obtain it for less on account Of its being
wilted or old or partiallydecayed. Some
people prefer to make their meat tender
by keeping, which means that decom.
position is taking place; in palmer
phrase, it is rotting. Such meats re-
quirc less chewing and may appear very
tender, but it is physiological fact that
they are not digested as easily or as
quickly as solid fresh meat. When q
vegetable begins to wilt it is no longer
that vegetable, because change of par.
ticles has taken place, and in such pro-
portion it is unnatural-it is dead-and
to eat it tends to death. One of the
most horrible forms of disease is caused
by eating sausages which have been
kept long time moro common in Ger
many than elsewhere. Scarcely any
thing saddens us SO much in passing
through some of the by-streets and the
more eastern avenues rs the sight of the
long-kept meats and shriveling vegeta-
bles which are sold to the unfortunate
poor at the corner Dutch groceries
But the poverty-stricken are not the
only sufferers the richest men come III
for their share, for themselves and for
their families in proportion, as the mis-
tresses of their splendid mansions are
incompetent or inattentiye to those
household duties, the proper perform
ance or neglect OF which makes all the
difference between n true wife and n con-
tempiible doll. With all the high
sounding advantages of ligh-soumding
Young Ladies' Boarding Schools" and
Institutes" and all Tint, with all the
twaddle about learning French and Ger
man, and music and aesthetics, how
many Of these paint-like girls are any
more fit to take charge of mans
household than to navigate ship OF
calculate II par;dlax? -LaWs Journal d
Mdhh.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08
AMERICAN H0RSE-SHOES IN EN-
GLAND.

The poetical surroundings Of :" the
village blacksmith and his harmonious
anvil, says Chambers Journal, are
threatened with powerful rival, by the
introduction from the United States of a
new industry; namely, the manufacture
Ct machine-made horse-shoes. A com,
pany whose premises face the Thames
opposite Greenwich has opened its
works to supply the United Kingdom
with these machine made articles. The
iron is rolled from scrap, coming from
the rollers as a grooved bar, which is
afterward cut into lengths, punched
with the necessary holes, and finally is
bent by the machine into the horse. shoe
shape. 1t is calculated that there are
in the United Kingdom about 5000, 0OC
horses; in Europe generally more than
10000, 900; requiring annually 1900.
600 tons of shoes, So that, if the new
company turns out good work, there are
plenty of customers for its gooGs. 1t is
said that the new shoe has met with the
approval of some eminent authorities,
and is already used by several tramway
companies.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08
4 JUDGMENT OLE so1onor

In some ancient monkish manuscripts
in France occurs the following interest
ing story, which has no place in the
Bible itself, though it is in the original
prciixcd to the Proverbs of Solomon.
1t appears to have been great favorito
i'll the middle ages and was often re-
lated from the pulpit. A King, in some
domestic difference with his wife, had
been told by her that one only of her
three sons was true offspring, but
which of them was 80 she refused to dis
cover. This gave him much uneasiness
and, his death soon afterward approach
ing, he called his children together; and
declared, in the presence of witne SEES,
TINT he left ring, which had very sin
gular properties, TO him thit should be
found to be his lawful son, and that to
him, too, should belong Lis kingdom.
On his death dispute arose about the
ring between the youths-and 1t was at
length agreed to refer its decision to the
King OF Jerusalem. He Immediately
ordered that the dead body of his father
should be taken up and tied to tree /;
that each of the SONS should shoot an an
row at it, and that he who penetrated
the deepest should have the ring. The
eldest shot first, and the arrow went far
into the body the second shot, also, and
deeper than the other. The youngest
son stood at a distance and wcpt bitter
ly but the King said TO him Young
man, take your arrow and shoot as your
brothers have done" He answered /:
ear be it from me to commit so great
crime. l would not for the whole
world disfgure the body of my own
father" The King snid: Without
doubt you are his son, and the others
are changelings 10 you, therefore, lad
judge the ring"
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08
KNOWLRDGE IN A NUrsIfELL.


A cubit is two feet.
A space is three feet.
A fathom is six feet.
A span is ten and onc-half inches.
A palm is three inches.
A league is three miles.
A great cubit is eleven foot.
There arc $3.50 languages.
Oats, thirty-fivo pounds per bushcl.
Bran, thirty-fve pounds per bushol.
Barley, forty-eight pounds por bushel.
A days journey is thirty-two and one
half miles.
Two persons die every second.
Sound moves 743 miles per hour.
A square milo contains 60 acres.
A storm blows thirty-six miles per
hour. I.
Coarse salt, cighty-fve pounds per
bushel.
A tub of water weighs eighty-four
pounds. p-
Buckwheat, iifty-two pounds per
bushel. ..
The average of human life is 81 years.
A barefoot rice weighs 600 pounds.
A barrel ofpprk weiShs3 0 pounds.
An acre contains 4,SD square yards.
A barrel of four weighs 800 pounds.
Slow rivers flow five miles per hour.
A tirkin of butter Weighs ffty.slx
pounds.
Timothy seed, forty-Gve pounds per
bushel.
A hand (horsc measure) is four inches.
A hurricane moves eighty miles por
hour.
A rife ball moves l 900 miles per hour.
Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour.
The first lucifer match was made in
1929.
Gold was discovered in California in
1913.
Electricity moves 22S,OOO miles per
hour.
The first horse railroad was built in
1926.
A moderate wind blows seven miles
per hour.
The first steamboat piled tho Hudson
in 1907.
A mile is $3.50 feet, or 1,76O yards in
in length.
Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-08-08

HENS NEsT.-(A very pretty orna-
mont for table,. One half dozen eggs
malsc.a hole at one end and empty the
contents, fill up with corn starch made
stiff. When cold, strip off the shells
pare lcmonrind very thin, boil till tender,
cut in narrow strips like straw and lay
in powdered sugar; fill deep dish hall
full with either cold custard or wine
Jelly, put the eggs together IN the cen
ter, and lay TIE straw nest-like around
them.