Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1884-10-11

locate permanently in this county.
Mrs. T. M. Mcconnell, after an
absence of several weeks, returned
home the first Of this week, accompa.
MED by her sister, Mrs, Campbell, of
Franklin.
G. S. Newcomb has opened up in
the southeast corner room of the
Mountain City Hotel, for the purchase
of produce, and Is now paying the
highest market price in cash for Eggs.
In another column of this paper
will be found an advertisement of the
administrators sale Of all the personal
property Of the late John G. Brown,
decd. Look it up.
The list of the parties appointed
by the sheriff to hold the approaching
election in the different districts of
Warren county, will be found in an
other column, under the head of "Elec-
ton Notice"
j. H. French and j. F. Morford
have received commissions as Assistant
Commissioners for Warren county in
Worlds Fair at New Orleans. They
are efficient workers, and we may ex-
pect good work from them in getting
up fine exhibit for Warren county.
Best Indigo Blue Prints at H. l..
Stanley's at Sc yard.
-Tullahoma Guardian The i'm
mense amount of freight business on
the Sparta branch is shown by the fact
that Mondays train from that point
was two hours late, owing to the accu>
mutation of freights along the line.
Alexander Davidson, of White
county, received the premium at the
Sparta Fair for the best acre and the
best bushel of corn. The acre yielded
60 bushels, without any fertilizer, ma
nure or extra work. 1t was grown on
the farm of H. w. Sims, three miles
from Sparta.
Some time ago a son of Thoma;
Clark, near Horse Shoe Falls, acciden
tally broke his leg while playing al
school. We are glad to know the
young man is recovering. Such acci
dents should remind boys to be careful
in their plays at school.
We are indebted to Mr.. Miles
Myers for some very fine apples, which
we intend trying to preserve for thu
Worlds Fair, but they are so very
large we can find no glass jars with {
mouth large enough to admit them,
Col. D. M. Donnell, formerly o
this place, but now a citizen of Florida
spent several days of this and last weel
in McMinnvlle. He left "Wednesday
morning to visit Nashville and Louis
vile on business and will probably re
turn again before he leaves for home
We had the pleasure of meeting
H. G. Evans, of Chattanooga, while a
this place last Tuesday. He is the Re
publican candidate for Congress iron
this district, very pleasant gentleman
and no doubt one of the best men tn
Republicans could have nominated.
Tullahoma Guardian From infor
nation gathered from various portion
of the county at Manchester, on Mon
day, we find that the dry weather ha
set the farmers back greatly in thei
preparations for putting in their wheat
: No blowing can be done until it rain:
The County Court, on last Nor
day, declined to make an appropriate
to aid Warren county in making an e,
hibit of her mineral, timber, agricultu
5 raj and manufacturing resources at til
Worlds Fair at New Orleans. W
have safe, economical County Cour
{ so much so that we would not be a
{ tonished if they were at sometime
t refuse to vote themselves compensate
b for their services.
' Mr.. D. C. Hodges, living nei
: Sparta had two fine gray mares stole
: from his pasture last Tuesday nigh
;. and Mr.. r. H. Hudson, the jailor
h White county, recaptured them fro